COULD SOVIETS HAVE A SPY HIGH IN CIA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05T00644R000300850049-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2009
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: November 16, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'Deeply disturbed 'y; is th
c i suggest, tq many tha f either the CIA'
i gyros jlyt to",ose d 'incompetent th its;
o : ). security, .or there: is a more sinister
e >lanatton Some think both are plausi=
bf
'he ICampiles trial was `not exactly}
r4 urrn :though it did .seem to. lend
~., t to tlie;,c55e for. incompetence over
tr cheFy Atnong other, thing's; it was re t'
~v~ itd thaf 13 ,very isecret, manuals,.;.nQj
11u;one, are;missing'.,The CIA went?t}e;=ry
its standard response of ?rior
cominent':`tomake this statement: "eA' Tel
vievli of security procedures within hee
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l elrnstt ,e0one was 'not ;?? Comforte
reading t ewSpaper?..accounts of tits trial.
'`,Thera ar?,'~,:lie said,-,"enough anomalies
in chat'+daso,'tu ;.raise 'some unresolved
questions' "I-still .think there'are anomia ?
lie~'rind 4pexplau ed ,questions.' ~',
' Former Secretaryof St te.Flenry his t '
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lsinhila remarks around
tmwn:'.Kissii1 er, rt is'Satd ~Jsks the same;
uestions?that others raiser t possible,
r,thatampil'esowas somehovr a?pawn, uses
ltd ct ne60.' atotber Soviet agent, within? Is'
it plausible ~ that Amer tea's : i{itelhgence;
apparatus!' has been "somehow com ro~k5
iiied? y " y p,.
,+.1!ur w talever it ' ieans,'Kissinger. has';
lenthii riam~ to a promotional blu{b for,j,
rlew,..book'!by Bdward Jay Epstein,.,'
c 9 se1y arg ~ed da t P aneS then y a a ithe+
'.'turned'
oliosition;that\thesClA as:
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seou,neore;eapi , se.,* Epstein' embraces the view of retired
counteiintelligence officers who`.. believe;,
then: agt nett': has accepted a fake' Sovie4t
t defector aijd ther~hy buriefi; fh~~warpi.ng>~
from ap, t
singer thingg, e book:,- raises
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i4 thasl the moat,bizarre reaction is,
froin; fofiner Ditector Will,aop Loby,
wh9se,battlu with tYrd c interrntelli ence
folks over domestic spying and other mat
tefs wa ed tllt;ee years ago Colby is}
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gossips posed, with,7oblirque questions and
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