"U.S. INTELLIGENCE"

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• Publication Date: October 10, 1958
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"U. S, INTEIIIGENCE"
Address by
General C. P. Cabell; USAF
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
before
The Texas Law Enforcement Foundation,
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October 1958 -4- 7;00 P.Mti)
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It is with real pleasure that I join with this distinguished
group of supporters of the Texas Law Enforcement 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 Grandfather, 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 officers can not be selected at random from any
willing and available citizen o Today, the prevention and detection
of crime require highly 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
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in his work, but also a full appreciation and working knowledge of
the society and makeup of his jurisdiction. Above all, the police
official must be resp ed by the community and reeve its conbinuJng
cooperation and support.
In my business -- Intelligence -- these same requirements
exist. The Intelligence Officer must be highly motivated, trained
and skilled* Flexibility ana adaptability are primary ingredients of
his makeup. Operating under the strictest security, he must be
constantly alert to the shifting Communist tactics which it is hjs
continuing duty to expose. His work is designed to provide our
Government with maximum room to maneuver; to prevent surprises wherevar
possible; to point out and assess Intelligence indications of aggressive
activity, open or hidden; and to follow trends and developm-:nts in a
wide variety of fields of human endeavor which have bearing, direct or
indirect; on the security of the United States.
The Intelligence Officers principal focus ?is upon
International Communism directed from Moscow. This is not ,a new threat*
It has been with us something like 4o years. Sometimes it has been
clumsy and obvious, and relatively easy to combat. More often, it
has been subtle; disguised and elusive.
Take; for example, Communist propaganda. The Communist
international propaganda apparatus, for sheer magnitude, is unique in
world history. It takes many forms and assumes many disguises* There
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is the Moscow radio, broadcastintnearly 900 hours a. week in
virtually every language and dialect in the world. There are those
newspapers and periodicals and radios, in the free world) which are
controlled or influenced by the local Communist Parties. There are
the Cou unist front organizatiOns, both international and local. The
Fronts have appealingand irreproachable names like "World Peace
Council" and "World Federation of Trade Unions". Right here in the
United States there are,
on the 'Attorney Generalls
all other countries there
as you know, hundreds of Communiat fronts
list of subversive organizations. In nearly
are comparable organizations which exist
to serve the goals of International Communism.
There are other 'insidious weapons in the Communist propaganda
arsenal. For example) forgery is practiced by Moscow on a world-wide
scale. Recently, the Kremlin has used the East German-Communist
-neWspaper, NEUES DEUSCHLAND, in several eanpaiErs 13141t -upon the
fabrication and alleged "secret" discovery of U. S. documents Cue 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 Assistant ?
Defense Secretary Frank Berry to Defense Secretary McElroy, 'reporting
that two-thirds of the Strategic Air Command personnel were
psychoneurotic and alcoholic) as a result of the strain of flying
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aircraft loaded with atomic and hydrogen. weapons. That of course
is a lie.
Other Communist forgeries have purpoited to expose U, So
plans to take over French oil resources in French Africa, to fill the
paver 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. mercenaries in the Fax East, etc., etc,
Propaganda is but one type of threat being exposed and-
blunted by Intelligence. There are many moreo
I have already mentioned the Communistts insidious use of
front organizations. I am going to talk about only those Communist
front organizations in foreign ccuatries. This is because CIA is
concerned only with overscas matters. Such things in the U. S. are
in the competent hands of the FBI.
Since l945, Communistfront organizations have concentrated
to achieve greater influence in free-world areas by hiding the
evidence of their Communise character and control. This order of the
day was openly admitted by the President of the Communist-dominated
World Federation of Trade Unions back in October 1953, when he said:
Quote: "The World Federation Of Trade Unions- aims at wip-ling people
of all political beliefs, but if it Is to enlist the support of -
partisans, the middle class, peasants, and intellectuals, it must not
be labeled Communist and Soviet-run." Unquote,
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The Russians are spending, directly er indirectly, hundreds
of millions of dollars annually on their Communist front activities,
At -present, they have international front organizations in the fields
of: labor, women, youUl, students, veterans, lawyers, scientists,
journalists; teachers, broadcasters, doctors, and othars. It shoula
be interesting to this audience to know that in their labor
organizations and public service unions particularly, they seek
directly to rndermine the police fortes of the country -- the police
being among the first to recognize Communist subversive activities.
? Another area of growing significance where the Communists
threaten the free way of life, is in their program for economic
penetration and political subversion. Khrushchev has challenged the
West in the economic field, and announced that challenge. Already
Sino-Soviet Bloc economic activities in underdeveloped areas of the
free world have expanded considerably In some countries of the
Middle East and Asia the Communists haveelready.implementedemilitary
and economic assistance agreements.
As the Soviet and Chinese Communist economies grow,
increased ec;onomic competition is inevitable. Western businessmen,
need not be afraid of ,competition! That. in itself is not a dangerous
concern. Our country 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,
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advelOped Western countries, they have built the foundation for
their political subversion.
Every businessman here tonight has .a role to play in meeting
and defeating this Communist economic/political offenbive. There
is little doubt that the West has the natural resources, energy, and
know-how to do it. However, new and imaginative approaches are
needed. These approaches must marshal the full impact of private
enterprise, as well as Government. I have no solutions to offer.
You must put on your own thinking caps.
The Sino-Soviet Bloc has riot introduced any new or startling
economic techniques. The Communists condemn 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 developing
countries, and in their institutional loan practices to individuals
outside the Bloc. On the latter, for example, the Communist Bank of
China (not to be confused with the Nationalist 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 Communist
aid are visible,
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The Communist Parties throughout the world vigaixAisly 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 among the peoples of the free world. Unfortunately,
in every country there are those who are too ready to adopt such
defeatism. More often than not, they are
don't know what they are talking about.
Lest you think the threat is remote from Texas, let me focus
for a moment on some Communist subversion south of the Rio Grande.
? Essentially every country of Central and South America has a Communist
clandestine anparatus directed from Moscow. These close neighbors Of
OUTS) along. with Africa and Asia, are primary targets in a fierce Soviet
propaganda and economic offensive.
As an example, just the other day, President ales of Bolivia,
even vocal
about it when
they
was quoted as saying: Quote: "Soviet dumping of 9000 tonsof cheap tin
in the first half of 'this year deprived Bolivia of precious dollar
income. In Bolivia, Communist union leaders are fomenting mine and
railroad strikes to aggravate the internal situation." Unquote, Most
often, such practices are not even recognized as Communist efforts.
For eight years after the Second World War, trade between the
Soviet Bloc and Latin America was of no consequence. In 1953, the trade
was worth about '-(0 million. In 1954, it rose to almost f:261 million,
and in 1955, another80 million was added to that,
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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 suLjects 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 biggist drain on its dollar reserves.
1 The Soviet Bloc has recently offered to buy surplus commodities,
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 dependent upon the Soviet Bloc for spare parts for
this machinery, they have managed to get their'foot in the door. I could
go on and give you many other examples.
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 offer of oil. On
the political side, the Mexican Government has recently begun to take a
strong stand in expelling Communists from their country.
One country which I shall not name, and which the Communists
in the past several years have been trying to make more and more dependout ?
upon the SoViet Bloc, also has been the target of Soviet espionage and
a base for Operations into other countries.
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In September of this year, an officer of the Soviet Legation
left that c!:.untry 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 espiona&.,.
also a trafficker in drugs, had for a period of three years been
,photographing sensitive diplomatic documents bOund to and from that
country's
embaSsieS in the large capitals of the world.
This classic cloak-and-dagger operation even involved the
passing of' documents themselves via couriers and dead-drops, using the
Soviet Legation there. This violation of the national integrity of a
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small state is by no means an isolated circumstance. Many years of
anxious but paticnt watching of such machinations is necessary in order
to permit striking at the roots of the malignance.
At the time of Vice President Nixon's tour of South America,
it was probably more than a coincidence that ten Soviet newsmen were
travelling in 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 againwt Mr. Nixon, The
.brother of this Peruvian, also a Communist, then got on an airplane for
Prague and passed through Caracas enroute.
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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 turned 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 Rogues'Gallery.of Communi6ts to help inthis.
The .Communists are huge and 1,cveful, hostile and
unscrupulous. 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.
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