"U.S. INTELLIGENCE"

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mplished in the past, and are accomplishing at present, and
wh1tlhe1ps you plan for greater accomplishments in the
future.
In.sorneinstances it is easy to measure results?a bill passed
or defeated, a'lielection won or lost. More often it is not that
simple. The blallt%and-white decisions of the electorate or
& legislature generally carry. gray overtones. For. eximpk,
active opposition to a recetitly-enacted law may have produced
concessions in the form ofkdesirable amendnients. ?
. A control mechanism shnit14, function continuously. At .its
hex are, good research and re&rting. Thus, ?the impact of
specific actions can be gauged swiftly, suggesting changes in
techniques or assignments or even4policy. What others are
doing can be anticipated, and preparect/Or, ?
Business, of course, applies this princitile elsewhere. Con-
sumer attitudes are frequently evaluated; diiiiibution systems
streamlined; production techniques refined---all In inteliti
of improving sales and outdoing the competition.,,' ...)
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?e absence of a continuing control mechanism,? "opasi-
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political activities is wasteful?of time, money andlnan vier.
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It also wastes an inventory of progress which is . -t_9?.
eliminate the "one-shot operation" character *many of these*
si. endeavors evidence. t
THI3 FUTURE/ .
Now we heat many predictions thaethe next Congress will
be less favorable to American bUsliiess' than its predecessor.
That may be the Case, antrpotentially the incoming Congress
may give rise to certain doubtethat could affe.ct the course of
orderly business growth in thse United States. However, I am
not such a pessimist as tOehilieve that American business; at a
time of relative prospsritY, will suddenly be clubbed to death.
There are many resins for my somewhat optimistic out-
look. We have a Preiident who holds the respect of most of
the American people and who does not believe in destroying
business. We have a large body of moderate and intelligent
Members of Cptigress. Above all; we have a well-educated arid
sensible publie which asks only to be informed honestly and
objectively.;
Hence4While I would regret what might be loosely termed
a drift tri' the left, I can foresee no wild debacle forthcoming
over 0 next two years, despite business' failure to enter the
realms'of politics earlier and harder. . .
Tb'at does not mean, however, that the recent drift to the
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leftward, which has, in effect, been buttressed by business'
inaction, will not continue if the American business .com-
munity sits on its hands. To do so is for business, to default.
It is hard for me to picture this happening.
A far more logical course, and one which I believe will be
followed, is a consistent and steady growth in reasonable
business activities in guasi-politiCal matters.
Of course, many managements remain to be convinced.
Many will await the outcome of projects newly underway, to
evaluate the experiences of others before committing them-
selves. As the Wail Street Journal pointed out, many business
fears must .be put to rest, among them the fear of losing
customers and the fear of harming worker morale. There is
probably some uncertainty, too, regarding the Corrupt Practices
.Act, though its interest in this .general area is primarily limited
to the prohibition of corporate contributions to parties and
candidates..
I am confident that these fears will be put to rest, and that
the pattern which is only now emerging will stand out in bold
relief as a guide to the entire business community.
My major hope is that this business effort, as it gains mo-
mentum, will never in a single Cl.Si be haphazard, organiza-
Ikaaally confused, unresearched, unplanned and ineffective.
f*ould recommend, first of ? all, 'patience. No genius at
publi?lations,?tfor anyone. elm, is going to- make 175
million Annsicans spring one way or the other 'overnight.
We musevaemember that these 175 million individuals
stretch all theway,from7Dry Tortagas off Key West to Point
Barrow in Alasktil'oome 4,200 fillies; and even with our
modern media and o3mmunications systems, getting a public
relations message to a lalidarea of 3:6-naillion square miles, or
2.3 billion acres, is no simpteniatter. ?
Given this very vastness of nor nation, and a concomitant
? proliferation in the media by WW1 information is brought
to it, the challenge to business .acfssarily calls for a far
wider use of, modern techniques: iffectlys'organization, care-
ful analysis of the?probletn, sound.planni4,forthright action,
and follow-through controls.
Withbut these five elements, business efforts sand up and
be counted as a political force may not reach full tinder's. With
these elements, business Will attain its logical and legitimate
stature as a respected partner in the political decisions charting
our democracy's dynamic future.
"U. S. Intelligence"
PRINCIPAL FOCUS UPON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM
By GENERAL C. P. C.ABELL, USAF,- Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Delivered before The Texas Law Enforcement Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas, October 10, 1958
IT IS WITH REAL PLEASURE that I join with this dis-
tinguished group of supporters of the Texas Law Enforce-
ment Foundation, to pay honor to the Texas Rangers.
My Father spent a good part of his life as a Deputy United
States Marshal in the Old Indian territory, under my Grand-
father, and as Sheriff of Dallas County. He raised me to have
great respect for the peace officer, and especially for. the
Texas Rangers. My own experiences and observations during
my career have caused my original childhood respect to grow
to mature proportions. .
Today, the challenge before the citizens . and the police
officer, to assure good law enforcement, is greater than at any
time in history. Peace officer; un nor be 'selected at random
from any willing and available citizen: Today, the prevention
and detection of crime requirehighly trained officials, with a
wide range of specialized skills. It requires effective and
flexible. organization' and communications. It requires' an
understanding not only of the technical material and techniques
which the peace officer must use in his work, but also a full
appreciation and working knowledge of the society and make-
up of his jurisdiction. Above all, the police official must be
resPected by the community and receive its continuing co-
operation and support.
In my business--Intelligence--these same requirements
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mar. 'The Intelligence Officer must be highly motivated,
eshied Ind skilled. Flexibility and adaptability are primary
ineredients of his makeup. Operating under the strictest
sesurity, be must be constantly alert to the shifting Corn-
monist tactics which it is his continuing duty to expose. His ?
work is designed to provide our Government with maximum
?room to maneuver; to prevent surprises wherever possible; to
point out and assess Intelligence indications of aggressive
activity, open or hidden; and to follow trends and developments
,oluka wide variety of fields of human endeavor which have
haring, direct or indirect, on the security of the United States. ?
The Intelligence Officer's principal focus is upon .Inters
national Communism directed from Moscow. This is not a
new threat. It has been with us something like 40 years.
Sometimes it has been clumsy and obvious, and relatively .
easy to combat. More-often, it has been subtle, distMised and
elusive.
Take, for example; Communist propaganda. The CoMmunist
international propaganda apparatus, for sheer magnitude, is
unique in World history. ,It tales many forms and assumes
many disguises. "- There is the Moscow radio, broadcasting
neatly 900 hours a week in virtually every language and dialect,
in the $v-orld. There are those newspapers and 'periodicals
and 'radios, in the free world, which are controlled or lis*
fluenced by the local Communist Parties. There are the Com-
munist front organizations, both international and local. The
Fronts have appealing and irreproachable names like 'World
Peace Council" and "World Federation of Trade Unions."
Right here in the United States there are, ,as know,:
hundreds of Communist fronts on the Attorney General's -
list of subversive organizations. In nearly All other countries -
there are comparable organizations which exist ter aerie the
goals of International.Communism.
There are other. insidious weapons in the Communist
propaganda arsenal. For eXarnple, forgery is practiced 'Iny
Moscow on a world-wide scale. Recently, the Kremlin has
used the East German Communist rtewspaper, NEUES
DEUSCHLAND, in several campaigns built Upon the fabrica?
tion and alleged "secret" diSovery of U. S. documents. One
of these was a letter alleged to have been written by Nelson
Rockefeller to President Eisenhower, outlining a plan for
U. S. domination of the world through its economic and
military aid programs. No such letter was ever written.
Another forged letter was one purported to be from As-
sistant Defense Secretary Frank Berry to Defense Secretary
McElroy, reporting that two-thirds of the Strategic Air Coins
mand personnel were psychoneurotic , and alcoholic, as a
result of the strain of flying aircraft loaded with atomic and
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hydrogen weapons. That of course is a lie.
- Other Communist forgeries have purported to expose U. ?S..
plans to take over French oil resources in- French Africa, to
fill the power vacuum-in the Middle East, to overthrow the
governments Of Indonesia. and Syria, to torpedo plans for a
Summit Conference, to use, Japanese troops as` U. S. mere
cenaries in the Far East, etc., etc.
Propaganda is but one type of threat being exposed and
blunted by Intelligence. There are many-more.
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I have already mentioned the Communist's insidious use of.
front organizations. 1 am going to talk about only- those
Communist front organizations in foreign countries'. Tilts is .
because CIA is concerned only with overseas matters. Such
things in the U. S. are in the competent hands of the FBI.
Since 1945, Communist front -organizations have concen-
trated to achieve greater influence in free-world areas by
hiding the evidence of their Communist character and controL
This order of the day was openly admitted by the President
of the Communist-dominated World Federaticip 'of Trade'
Unions back in October 1953, when he said: Quote! "The
World Federation of Trade Unions aims at winning people
of all political beliefs, but if it is t.o enlist the support of
partisans, the middle class, peasants, and intellectuals, it
must not be labeled Communist and Soviet-run." Unquote.
The RusSiana are spending, directly or indirectly, hundreds
of millions of dollars annually on their -Cominunist front
activities. At present, they have international front organiza-
tions in the fields of: labor, women,. youth, students, veterans,
lawyers, scientists, journalists, teachers, 'broadcaster, doctors,
and others. It should be interesting to this. audience to know
that in their labor organizations and public service unions
particularly, they seek directly to undermine thepolice forces
of the country?the police being among the first to recognize
Communist subversive activities.
Another area of growing signifitiatice where the Corn-
inunista threaten the free wayof life, is in their program for
economic penetration 'and political .subversion. 'Xhrushchev
has challenged the West in the economic field; and announced
that challenge. Already SPno-Soviet 13Itic" economic activities
in underdeveloped areas of the ftee world have expanded.
considerably. Ia some countries elf the Middle East and Asia,
the Communists have already implemented military and
economic assistance agreements. ? 7
? As the Soviet and Chinese Cominunist economies grow,
increased economic competition is inevitable. Western busi-
nessmen need not be afraid of competition: that in itself is
not a dangerous concern. 'Our cotintry has grown great in the.
face of competition. But, the Communists link with their
? economic competition, their program of political subversion.
If they can successfully achieve economic inroads in newly
developing -areas, or even in the larger and more developed
Westerri countries, they have built the foundation- for their,
political subversion. '?
Every businessman kere 'tcipight ktis a tole to play in meet-
ing and defeating this Communist economic/political offen-
sive. There is littleasaloubt that the West his the natural
resources, energy, 'and know-howi M do it. However :new and
imaginative approaches are needed. These apprtia.' ches must
marshal' the full impact or &lime 'enterprise, as well. as
Government. I have no solutions to: er. You Must put on
your own thinking caps. ?
The Sin6-Soviet Bloc has "ma introduced any new or startling
economic techniques. The Cornnutnists.condeinn capitalistic
techniques of business .at home, but -they make liberal and
skillful use of them abroad in their economic expansion': For
example, take commercial credit -Commercial credit was
fundamental to the development of our own great country.
We are the experts. in the field. The Communists are using
this device in both their government loans to newly develop-
ing countries, and in their institutional loan practices to in-
dividuals outside the Bloc. On the latter, for example, the Com-
munist Bank of China (not to be confused with the National-
isf 'Bank of China), is a primary source of funds to twelve
million Chinese in Southeast Asia. The loans controlled from
Peiping,- of course, require appropriate gestures -of:support
to the Communist regime in China. To the Intelligence Officer?
the, political strings attached to such COnniannist aid are
visible.
? The Communist; Parties throughout, the. world vigorously
broadcast Soviet peace moves, publicize the horrors of modern
war, and sow distrust among Western allies. They are trying
hard to develop a "defeatist" attitude Onong the peoples of
the free world. Unfortunately, in every country there are those
who are top ready to ado t such defeatism. More often than
not, they are even vocal about it when they don't know what
they are talking about.
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Lest you think the threat is remote from Texas, let me
-Netts for a moment on some Communist subversions south of
the Rio Grande. Essentially every country of Central and
South America has a Communist clandestine apparatus di-
rected from Moscow. These close neighbors of our, along with
Africa and Asia, are primary targets in a fierce Soviet propa-
ganda and economic offensive.
As an example, just the other day, President Siks of Bolivia,
wes quoted as saying: Quote: "Soviet dumping of .9000 tons
of cheap tin in the first half of this year deprived Bolivia of
precious dollar income. In Bolivia, Communist =ion leaders
are fomenting mine and railroad strikes to' aggravate the in-
ternal situation." Unquote. Most often, such practices are not
even recognized as Communist efforts.
For eight years after the Second World Was, trade between
the Soviet Bloc and Latin America wsts of no consequence.
In 1953, the trade was worth about $70 million. In 1954, it
rose to almost $261 million, and in 1955, another $80 million
was added to that.
Today, the Soviets are offering to buy surplus commodities
from Latin America such as copper and coffee. They are
offering higher prices than those of the current world market.
Why? They are softening up their subjects for the kill; The
Communists carefully select out any weak spots in Western
economic activity. They 'then choose to make their offers in
those business fields'where the countries concerned are running
into obstacles in trading with free nations. For example, they
have offered 200,000 tons of oil to Brazil?whose oil imports
- represent the biggest drain on its dollar reserves.? ?
The Soviet Bloc has recently offered to buy' surplus com-
modities, especially coffee from Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica,
and El Salvador, in exchange for .machinery. If the Soviet
Union can in some way or other make these countries de-
pendent upon ? the Soviet Bloc for spare parts for this ma-
cnery, they have managed to' get their foot in the dm`
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could go on and give you many other examples. ? a
I do not want to suggest that the Soviet Bloc drive does
not encounter obstacles in Latin America. ? They do. For
example, the Brazilians have so far refused to allow the
establishment of a Soviet technical trade mission in connection
with the Soviet offerof oil. On the political side, the Mexican
Government has recently begun to take a strong stand in
'expelling Communists from their coentry. ?
One country which I shall not name, and which. the Com-
munists in the past several years, have been trying to make
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more and more dependent upon the Soviet- Bloc', also has been
the target of Soviet espionage and a base for operations into
other countries.
In September of this year, an officer of the Soviet Legation
left that country precipitately following the disclosure that
he had been buying official foreign office documents from a
member of that country's Government. The Soviet diplomat's
accomplice in espionage, also a trafficker in drugs, had for? a
period of three years been photographing sensitive diplomatic
documents bound to 'and from that Company's embassies in
the large capitals of theAvorld; , :
This classic cloak-andeiagger operation even involved the
passing of documents themselves via courier's and dead-drops,
using the Soviet Legation the1e. This violation of the national
integrity of a small state is bysno means an isolated circum-
stance. Many years of anxious but patient watching of such ma-
chinations is .necessary in order to permit striking at the roots
of the malignance. ?
At the time of Vice President Nixon's tour of South Ameri-
ca, it was probably more than a coincidence that ten Soviet
.newsmen were travelling ih South America at the same time.
When Mr. Nixon and the Soviet newsmen were in Buenos
Aires, a Peruvian Communist 'leader visited that city and
then hurried back to Lima in time to take a conspicuous part
in the demonstrations there against Mr. Nixon. The brother
of this Peruvian, also. a Communist, then ,got on an airplane
for Prague and passed thiongh,CaraCas enroute.
-., Some weeks later, just 'prior to Dr. Milton Eisenhower's
tour through Panama' and Central: America, the same ten
Soviet newsmen arrived in Panama bound northward, but
were stymied and waned back .because of visa troubles. A
further fact, not generally known, is that a Pravda journalist
in Mexico made an effort to 'cover the Eisenhower tour, but
was stalled when 'several of the Central American countries
refused him the necessary documentation.
Intelligence watches the movements of the Communist hard
core. We have our Rogue: Gallery of Coninaunists to help
in this.
The Communists are huge and powerful, hostile and un-
scrupulous. Intelligence has the role of reporting the facts
about them. The facts show that we cannot relax in our
awareness of the threat to the free world posed by Communist
techniques of penetration, subversion and propaganda. Eternal
vigilance is still the price of liberty.
Parole Better Proitecits,Sottiery
THE VALUE AND NATUFWAVFAROLE
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y ORGE J. REED, Chairirwpti4ed States Board of Parole
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IN THIS DAY when the total resources heNWestem to make the fullest uie of our best minds to improve our
World have been committed to theed erase of 'fiefdom products and standard of living. We have planned complex
itself, it is well for us in Am "ct In take stock not otirkAsepersonnel systems in order to get. the most good out of the
of our military strength but tsar -evaluate our total resources 'IrittReople. Over the past 20 years in my career as a,Federal
This includes a new look eliot only our supply of steel, oil, and stiteraofficial in the field of corrections, I have seen a
wheat or atomic born ?ut as well a look at our human re- parade of pelkotts_whom many look upon as the waste product
sources If we are ? emerge final victors over the power of of our society. VOIntelie field of corrections take a different
the Kremlin it i require that we make full use of not only approach however to 'tfihteernen and women who have run
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our "front e fighting men but that we shall make every afoul of Our laws We feel ey are not always waste
effort to alvage some of the less capable and less desirable material; rather that many of these people are a vast pool of
raw eriaL . untapped energy. gteate.
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B mess and industrial leaders have traditionally attempted Throughout the centuries, man has attempted ? ,find a
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