THE HOT, HOT LINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300030001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 9, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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DEC 9 1964
C `~(RGHT THE HOT,
V That teletype 'connec ion a ween
lie Kremlin and the White House
i not gathering dust. The operators
both ends exchange holiday greet-
i gs occasionally.. The U.S. military
.t letypists have. sent over chunks
f om the encyclopedias. The Soviet
f reign minister, Andrei Gromyko,
as told the United Nations that Rus-
s a has transmitted parts of a novel,
Totes of a Hunter" by Ivan Tur-
g nev.
In the rarified atmosphere of
s per-secret installations, the men
t ay be showing greater restraint
than do some of their counterparts
i the field who occasionally use the
a my radio transmitters to, pass a
f w dirty stories around to eager.
e red listeners. A 20-year-old Danish
s idier. is in the guardhouse .for 20
d ys. In a recent NATO field ma-
n uver he selected some excerpts
f iii Henry Miller's "Tropic of Can.
c r"and coded them presumably
a ainst eavesdroppers whose morals
.n ght be corrupted. NATO radio
st tions, of which there are many in
estern Europe, received an unex-
p rgated chapter from the contrf)-+
v rsial no''el which, 40 or so, years.
a er it was written, is still banned'
in some countries. All the elabprate
b awing equipment was diret'bd at
th illicit transmitter, but bM[ore it'
was -possible to make an ..identifica.'
ti n, the signal specialist had raised'
th temperatures and blood pre'ssure'
of his audience and then shut flown,
hi l transmission.
ne of. the remarkable things is..
th t the modern encoding :device's!
as well as. the ;secret codes, t'lien~rv
selves, can accommodate Miller.ob,1
sc nities.
ecret messages have always been'
\in iguirig. Those entrusted ? are
WgQiis. l d it is
HOT LINES.
sua ley carry _in. eir
minds or in their. briefcases the
secrets of war and peace. When '
Allen W. Dulles 'was head, of the
CL,j1e he often took great delight
in opening up his briefcase at high
level conferences. Eyes drifted to
the contents, the morning news..
paper only.
Those intelligence couriers have
carried a lot of secret papers to-
various military attaches around the
world. They have. also carried a lot
of American magazines and perhaps
a few comic books:
In view of the foregoing, we turn
back to Mr. Gromyko at the U.N.
.who described how the Americans
"from time to time.transmit resultsr
of baseball matches" on the hot line.
His hot wire 'boys' said that the
novel, "Notes of a Hunter" has
aroused "great interest toward Rus? I
Sian classical literature on the part
of American operators." Washing-
ton says these excerpts contained a
"great deal ~ of - description of na-
ture."
, Was "Lady Chatterley.'s Lover" a
hunter or. a gamekeeper?
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