CIA REPORTS ON SOVIET FORGERIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000500070012-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 29, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

For -f a- 20
Reports
On Soviet
Forgeries
ono Representatives who over- i. SPY."
see the CIA budget.
The CIA report said both
that agency and Hoover's FBI
are prime targets of the Soviet
Union and the Communist
bloc. It said that such forger-'
les are the work of "the Dis-
information Department of the
KGB," the Soviet state se-
curity service, the work of
which is "reviewed and passed
on by the Soviet leadership."
Unspecified Project
Michael Lerner in a special!
dispatch from Rio de Janeiro
said Tribuna da impresna had
published the letter of con-
gratulation involving an un-
specified project called "over-
haul." The document quoted
Hoover as writing that "the
CIA people did their part well
and accomplished a great
deal."
The Embassy In Rio im-
mediately branded it a forg-
ery, saying it had first appear-
ed on July 23, 1964, in Propo-
sitos of Buenos Aires, then in
Ultima Hora of Santiago,
Chile, and had been quoted on
Radio Havana and Radio Pe-
king. The embassy commented,
on this and another recent
had been privately submitted newspaper Avghl recently ran
to the small group of Senators ,n article ent@tled "U.S. Mas-
such forgeries and their o newest target, the report stet-,
came to light the same day. It ed. The Greek Communist'
'350 Items Annually'
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agency "now produced be-
tween 350 and 400 derogatory
items annually," that it is
headed by Gen. Ivan Iyano-
voch Agayants and "by iteilc-
ing at the CIA, the attack also
centers on the Intelligence
community .with partla"lar
A Brazilian newspaper yes- thrust against the P'8 and
terday published what the Mr. J. Edgar Hoover."
American Embassy termed a The purpose of such alfacks
forged letter allegedly signed is to "defame - and Qi nct-
by J. Edgar Hoover, a letter U.S. departments and agencies purportedly written to con. that have major sibiti-
gratulate an agent on the sue- ties for national securit ecurity," to
cess of a large-scale secret divide.the Western allies and
to, uddermine American pres.
operation, tige around the world.
By chance, a Central Inte% The CIA's new director,
gence Agency report on jttij 4dm tVt1Ham Raborn i th
poison relations between the
Brazilian and American people
and governments, they have
long since been exposed and,
discredited."
The CIA report repeats
part of the story told at Senate
hearings in 1961 on Commun-
ist forgeries. It adds that since
the 32 forgeries then disclosed,
14 instances came to light by
this July, presumably includ.
ing the one republished in
Brazil.
"Obviously calculated toI
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