ENCLOSED IS A CLIP OF MY STORY AS IT APPEARED IN OUR ST. PAUL PAPER.

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
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• Publication Date: October 21, 1965
• Content Type: LETTER

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Enclosed is a map 'clip of my story as it
appeared in our St. Paul paper.
I haven't gotten copies of the California and
Dakota papers, but I understand that it got good play in
many of them.
Thank you for your help.
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(St. Paul, Minnesota)
October 17, 1965
.froopqgan
or
iscr.e it-
With such legal means , for ,
implementing foreign policy..
as diplomacy."
'-.. The chapter in Dulles'
? book referred to by Kom-
munist says nothing of the
, kind: The chapter deals
? .with 'Dulles' belief that '
.'there should be greater co-
: .
operation in security mat-
ters among the various gov-
ernment agencies, congress.
and news media.
The Kommunist para-
phrasing of Dulles's work
not only alters the entire
thought of the chapter but
; also drops in words such as
By Baxter Omohundro ?
Pioneer Press Washington Bureau
' WASHINGTON ?? Within sight of the'
.Kremlin,. an . elite corps of 'writers is.
practicing the blackest of the 'literary
. arts, the calculated t?kiisting.and misuse'
of, other people's words.
Their aim: discredit American se-
curity, intelligence and infamation ser-
vices.
.
Their raw material: articles a n d
broadcasts originating in the United
States. ? - ,
Soviet use of free . world journalism
to Russian ends is a focal point in a
recently revealed report prepared by
the Communist propagandists' chief tar-
get, the U. S. central intelligence agency..
The CIA report :says . the Soviet
verbiage : benders are organized into.
a department of disinformation, which
reports directly to top brass in the Rus-
sian government and is an arm of
the KGB, the notorious Russian secret'.
police. '
? ORGANIZED IN 1959 the disinfor-
mation department's experts pore over
thousands of publications and broadcast
transcripts from the free world and
turn out material carefully designed to
-discredit not only CIA', but the FBI and
the U. S. information agency both over7
seas and in the United States.?
The department, headed by ? a long-,
time master, spy named.Ivan Ivanovich
Agayants and located in infamous Luby-
anka prison, has shown . "increased'
. sophistication in recent years," accord-
ing to the CIA report. ?
A good share of this sophistication
articles cited in 'any of the anti-CIA': "criminal" and "subvser-
' pamphlets reveals extensive use of West- sive" which never appear in
ern source material, often taken out of
context.
"The most recent Soviet articles on
? the agency a r e exclusively 'docu-
mented' from Western books, articles
and newspapers." ?
. seems to be in the adroitness with which
the department pretzels honest Ameri-.
) can and other free world writings into
the original text.
Kommunist even changed
the chapter title from Se-
'curityy in a Free Society 'to
The Need for Intelligence in
' a Free Society.
Such , Soviet plagiarisms
'of free world material long:
has 'troubled responsible
U. S. publishers, whose
; hands are tied legally be-
cause the Russians refuse
to sign international copy-
.'
. right agreements.
, That the disinformation
.1 department's plagiari s m s
are getting under CIA's,
skin is indicated by the fact.
that the agency made its
i?eport public, although in
the rather oblique way of
. having it pop up in the con-
gressional record.
It was inserted in the rec-
ord, with little comment, by
Rep. Melvin Price, D-Ill.
A favorite source, .indicates CIA, is Most of the U. S. sources
a best-selling book about the agency, cited by the CIA in its re-
The Invisible Government, , by David port and in the samplei
Wise and Thomas B.' Ross. , ? are reputable U. S. authors..
Reputable American newspapers and
magazines are cited n times in an anti-
CIA pamphlet published in India, the
report declares, and these citations were
used to obscure the origins of propagan-
distic statements taken from Commu-
nist organs. , ? ?
. THE REPORT AND a list of samples
provided the Pioneer Press by) CIA
shows Russian use of attributions from
' such', respected American sources as
Stewart Alsop, Newsweek, the Wash-
ington Star, the department of state'
bulletin, U. S. News & World report,
the New York Times and senator Earl
? Warren..
Their writings cited are
The unkindest cut of all for CIA is mainly responsible ques-
:extensive out-of-context twistings of ma-, tionings or criticisms of
, terial from a book ',entitled. The Craft CIA policies and activities.
,
of Intelligence. - . The report leaves the faint
.?
The author is Allen Dulles; former' but unmistakable impres-
CIA th '1
head of CIA, whose book formed the,) sion that believes ere
'is one sure way U. S.
basis for a lengthy article in the May., writers could avoid being
1965, issue of the Russian Magazine patsies for the Russians:
Kommunist.Abandonment of American
. .
? The Kommunist 'article cleverly in- journalism's traditional role:
tertwines legitimate quotations from the. as watchdog of government:
Dulles book with blatantly inaccurate': 'agencies so far. as :CIA ?is
paraphrasings. ?....concerned.
? An example: of the latter: "Dulles.
?
places the' criminal Methods of intelli-
L*n.ce'11.93.9'.01!' work PP. the same 1ve
' articles making CIA and the FBI appear,
as organizations of imperialistic,' blood-
thirsty arch-villians. ?
Says the report .
.4n :sxan*ation of the books and;
? ?. .
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