THE MYSTERIOUS DOINGS OF THE CIA: AN EXCLUSIVE REPORT ON AMERICA'S SECRET AGENTS

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CYRUS H. IC. CURTIS, President, 1883-1932
KENNETH STUART, Art Editor
BEN HIBBS, Editor
ROBERT FUOSS, Managing Editor
MARTIN SOMMERS, Foreign Editor
BEVERLY SMITH, Washington Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: E. N. BRANDT ? RICHARD THRUELSEN ? STUART ROSE ? PETE MARTIN
JACK ALEXANDER ? FREDERIC NELSON ? ARTHUR W. BAUM ? HARLEY P. COOK ?
MARIONE R. NICKLES ? WESLEY PRICE ? PEGGY DOWST REDMAN ? ERNEST 0. HAUSER ?
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IN THIS ISSUE
October 30, 1954
l'ol. 227. No. 18
4 SHORT STORIES
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THE MAN-HANDLER Williams Forrest 26
OUTCAST OF TuE FLORIDA KEYS Frank Skipp 30
TUGBOAT ANNIE'S LONG SHOT Norman Reilly Raine 34
THE ZONE OF SUDDEN DEA.T11. William Chamberlain 37
FRONTIER FRENZY John Reese 22
8 ARTICLES
America's Secret Agents: TIIE MYSTERIOUS DOINGS OF CIA
(First of three articles) Richard and.C-Iadys Harkness 19
----WILL CHINA STAY RED? .
- Joseph Alsop 24
THE-1?[XC1RiESIT-611f1; IN HOLLYWOOD Pete Martin 28
THE TRUTH ABOUT CONGRESSMEN
Martin Dies, Congressman at Large, Texas 31
CONFESSIONS OF A FOOTBALL RECRUITER . . . . Herman Hickman 32
MY OLD MAN GROUCH() (Seventh of eight articles) . . . Arthur Marx 36
TIIE TIGER DOESN'T STAND A CHANCE Robert C. Ruark 38
LOOK! MA'S DANCING THE HULA Frank J. Taylor 40
2 SERIALS ?
HOUSE OF HATE (Third of six parts) Storm Jameson 42
THE CASE OF THE RESTLESS REDIIEAD
(Conclusion)
OTHER FEATURES
LETTERS 4 POST SCRIPTS 44
EDITORIALS 10 VERSE . . 53, 90, 101, 143, 157, 165
REMEMBER WHEN? 17 KEEPING POSTED 172
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AMERICA'S SECRET AGENTS:
The Mysterious Doings of CIA
By RICHARD and GLADYS HARKNESS
The Post presents its own exclusive report on America's
"silent service"? the supersecret Central Intelligence
Agency. Here, revealed for the first time, are its methods,
how it gets its operatives and its money, and its a. ccom-
plighments?in Guatemala, Iran and behind the Iron Curtain.
PART
-MAN with the plump pink cheeks and blue
eyes of a typical middle-class German sat
on the grassy hilltop overlooking the Red
port city of Stettin on the left bank of the
Oder River in communist-held Poland. As he had
done every seasonable day of last spring, he basked
in the warm April sun while washing down his lunch
of dry bread and sausage with a liter of white wine,
and watched the birds in the nearby trees through
his field glasses. Then, rising to leave, he swept his
glasses along the piers on the river front below, where
freighters were being loaded for the thirty-mile trip
northward along the Oder and into the open Baltic
Sea.
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Returning to his small machine-tool works after
the noon hour, the businessman called in his secre-
tary to take dictation. The letter, addressed to a
French automobile-parts concern, was formal and
concise in the stiff manner of German commercial
houses. It cited precise specifications for presses his
firm was offering for sale to stamp out motorcar
fenders. The price was less than the British could
quote. The machines carried the official guarantee of
the Ministry of Machine Industry of the Polish
People's Republic. It was a letter that the local Red
commissar could approve ?and did.
But do the communists know even now what the
letter really was? The "East German businessman"
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Col. Castillo Arm as (IA), whose American-armed
"freedom forces" dr 3ve out Guatemala's Reds.
and his pretty Nordic-type blond 'secretary" were
plants of the United States' supersecret Central In-
telligence Agency. The innocent-appearing address
on the letter was, in reality, a CIA drop in Paris.
Once the letter from Stettin was in the hands of
America's espionage and counterespionage service, it
was rushed to a corn nonplace-looking shop in the
arty Montmartre sec 'ion, where a sign on the win-
dow read SALON DE PHOTOGRAPHIE. Behind this
front of a simple phoi ographic studio, a CIA micro-
film technician went ?Lo work. The agent, squinting
through a magnifying glass under bright lights,
scraped at each " period " on the typewritten page
with a delicate, razor-sharp instrument. Finally, one
black dot came off. There, scarcely larger than the
point of a pin, was a tiny circle of microfilm which
had been pasted on the sheet of paper at the end of a
sentence. It had been disguised by the ink of the
secretary's typewriter ribbon back in Stettin as a
period. The agent, holding his breath lest he blow
away the minute speck, used tweezers to carry the
film to a photograph c enlarger. When he emerged
from the darkroom, i he blown-up message was the
size of a tea saucer. The words could be read as easily
as the words on this printed page.
In accordance with basic intelligence security, the
message was only gibberish to the CIA microfilm
expert. (Also in accordance with security, what ac-
tually happened in Stettin and Paris has been dis-
guised in this account.) The spy team in Stettin had
employed a code prearranged with CIA headquarters
in Washington. The microfilm was a cryptogram
based on a key in the twenty-second prayer of David
in the Book of Psalms; that mournful lamentation of
David which begins?appropriately, in view of the
fate of the Poles under the Russians? "My God, my
God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"
The next step in CIA procedure was to transmit
the unintelligible scramble to Washington by short-
wave radio under the cipher address: "For AWD's
eyes only." That meant: for the sole attention of
Allen Welsh Dulles, the Government's first civilian
director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and
younger brother of Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles.
The message, decoded by a cryptographic machine
and nronsoril?ed - purplish-bluc ink, was
taken to Dulles in his office, where American and
CIA flags and a huge world stereoscopic projection
map dominate the room. Dulles worked with the
supervising case man on this Polish project, and the
full details of the report from Stettin are still classi-
fied top secret. But this much may be related: The
two agents confirmed the underground route they
planned to follow?successfully, it turned out ?in
leaving the Red port, threading their way across
eighty-four miles of communist-patrolled country-
side, and finding haven in a CIA "safe house" in
West Berlin. To this may be added: When Dulles
received the decoded message, he had information
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The Swedish freighter Alfhem, which delivered 1900 tons of Czech munitions to Red-dominated Guate.J
mala five months ago. When CIA agents reported the shipment, U.S. guns were flown to Colonel Armas.
which enabled CIA to pull off one of the most suc-
cessful intelligence coups of the entire cold war. He
was hot on the trail of proof that the communist-
dominated government of Guatemala was part and
parcel of a Red conspiracy, hatched in Moscow, to
give Russia a military toehold in Latin America hard
by the Panama Canal.
The message ? broadly paraphrased to protect
code security ? said this: A freighter named the Alf-
hem and flying the flag of Sweden had tied up at the
dock at Stettin. More than 15,000 crates and boxes
had been lowered into her hold. The rumor along the
water front was that the cargo, which arrived by rail
from Czechoslovakia, consisted of munitions from
the communists' Skoda arms works.
Dulles alerted agents in Eurppe and in Africa.
From them, replies tracing the transaction were
rushed to Washington. Stockholm: The Alfhem was
owned by the Swedish shipping line, Angbats A. B.
The line had chartered the vessel to a shipping agent
in London, E. E. Dean. London: Terms of the
charter stipulated that Dean, a financial middleman,
should recharter the freighter to Alfred Christianson
in Stockholm. Stockholm: Christianson represented
the Alfhem as carrying optical-laboratory equip-
ment and optical glass for the French West African
port of Dakar.
The Secret of the Devious Freighter
ilTHER reports came into Dulles' office. Two
drys out of Dakar, the captain received radio
orders to change his course for Trujillo, Honduras.
Two days out of Trujillo, the captain's orders were
countermanded again. The Alfhem was to proceed
and unload at Puerto Barrios, the Caribbean port
city of Red Guatemala.
For optical-laboratory equipment and optical
glass, the shipment received extraordinary atten-
tion. The Guatemalan Minister of Defense was on
hand to direct unloading of the cargo at Puerto
Barrios. Cordons of army troops sealed off the entire
dock area. Details of soldiers guarded the special
military trains which sped the freight to arsenals in
Guatemala City. Despite a junior-sized Iron Cur-
tain, Dulles again received a message: The 15,000
unmarked wooden boxes and (Totag were of 2 size
and weight to contain 1900 tons of small arms and
small-arms ammunition, plus light-artillery pieces.
Dulles called an emergency session of the Intelli-
gence Advisory Committee behind sealed doors in
CIA headquarters. Seated around the table were the
intelligence brains of the Federal Government ? the
heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force intelligence,
the intelligence officers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
the State Department and Atomic Energy Commis-
sion, and a representative of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
The committee, making the hours count, produced
a quick crash estimate of the Guatemalan situation.
Those 1900 tons of arms represented enough militarY
might in Latin America to enable the Guatemalan
Army to crush her neighbors, Honduras and El Sal-
vador, and to march across Nicaragua and Costa
Rica, to the Panama Canal.
Immediately, with no recommendation as to a
specific line of action, but with an emphatic warnin
that action was urgent, Dulles laid the crash esti-.
mate before the National Security Council. The first
evident result came two days later, on May seven-
teenth, when Secretary of State Dulles stripped the
communist arms plot bare for all the world to see.
The United States Government viewed the muni-
tions shipment with gravity, he said, because of its
origin and quantity.
Then Washington lapsed into official silence for
a week. But, during the period ending May twenty-
fourth, the Department of Defense dispatched two
Air .Force Globemasters over the Gulf of Mexico:
Each plane ferried twenty-five tons of rifles, pistols;
machine guns and ammunition to Honduras and
Nicaragua. Now events ? some public, some veiled? ?
were moving rapidly.
Co]. Carlos Castillo Armas, former officer of the ?
Guatemalan Army who was in exile in Honduras,
obtained sufficient guns and munitions to equip!
each man in a force of fellow anticommunist refugees!
with a burp gun, a pistol and a machete. As he sent
his troops across the Honduran-Guatemalan border
.with an ultimatum to communist puppet Jacob?
Arbenz Guzman to capitulate, Castillo dispatched
his "air force" of two old World War II P-38 fighter
planes to buzz Guatemala City. The Arbenz air
force was the first to defect. The Guatemalan Army,
fearing that the 1900 tons of Red arms from Stettin
were actually intended for use by the communist-
dominated labor unions, refused to fight. An anti)._
communist junta took over the country, and a
overt Russian threat to the Western Hemisphe '
was averted, at least for the present.
Some American citizens may find it disturbing
and even noxious for their Government?to engage in
such clandestine activity in faraway Stettin and
Puerto Barrios. In the live-and-let-live days after
World War I, the late Henry L. Stimson disbanded
the "Black Chamber" of State Department code
exports, because "gentlemen don't read other peo-
ple's mail." Today, in this .period of cold war arter
World War II, our Government is deeply involved
countering Red espionage as it threatens the West-
ern democracies.
On assignment by The Saturday Evening Post
these two Washington correspondents set out twelve
months ago to cover the Central Intelligence Agency
from every angle consistent with national security
and the public interest. Our every interview, includ-
ing talks with Government officials concerned with
intelligence operations, and congressional leaders,
plus exhaustive research, has had the aim of answer-
ing the question: "What is the CIA up to?"
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Px-CIA boss Walter Bedell Smith with Sen. Joe
- - McCarthy, who has said the CIA is Red-infiltrated.
Briefly, the answer must be stated like this: We
are too prone to view our conflict with Russia in
terms of the worry, "When will the Reds attack us
militarily?" We strain to arm ourselves, thinking
only in terms of communist atomic bombs hurtling
down on the democratic West from supersonic
lanes. The Russians hold that fear over us while
?,...4ey craftily go about their business of taking over
tqrget countries from within. We plan to defend our-
selves on land, on sea and in the air, when what we
must also do is combat the communist enemy un-
derground, where he uses the fourth dimension of
war ?infiltration, subversion and conspiracy.
The free world saw Poland engulfed by commu-
nism. That easy Russian conquest was gained, at
Yalta, by deceit. Czechoslovakia lived briefly, after
the war, in the illusion of peaceful coexistence with
communism. But Czechoslovakia suddenly found
her free people submerged under Russian infiltra-
tion. American military aid to the French in Indo-
china far outstripped in amount, cost and quality
the armed support given the Vietminh rebels by the
Chinese communists. But the Reds enveloped a vast
area containing 12,000,000 people, the city of Hanoi
and the rich rice fields of Northern Vietnam largely
by infiltrating, softening up and swallowing.
So it was ? in Guatemala. Communist
agitators, operating in the role of reformers, began
infiltrating the public and private organizations of
Guatemala as long as ten years ago. Agents indoc-
trinated in such institutions as the Marx-Engels-
Lenin School in Moscow, organized the peasants and
workers on the banana plantations. Once in control
of such mass groups, Reds soon took over the
official press and radio of the Guatemalan Govern-
ment. Through the technique of the political popular
front, they dictated to the Guatemalan congress
/ '4 president. Most alarming was the fact that the
nmunists had not simply oozed across a frontier
into a contiguous territory, but they were able to
leapfrog their subversion and infiltration across the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans to Latin America and
its vital Panama Canal. The CIA, working with
"freedom forces" of Guatemalans, met the Reds
early enough to hand Russia its defeat in Guatemala.
As of today, the intelligence experts who attempt
to gauge Russia's long-term intentions predict that
the communists are not now prepared for military
global conflict. That cautious assessment is based on
information from behind the Iron Curtain which
may be reported here only in bare-bone outline:
Inside Russia: Despite the hard outer shell of
Russia's military might ?a 4,000,000-man army,
20,000-plane air force and nuclear weapons esti-
mated in four figures?all is not rosy within the
U.S.S.R. Communist industry is progressing reason-
ably well, spurred by an intensive program to train
young scientists and engineers. This drive threatens
to outstrip us in the live-or-die field of technology.
Food?an all-important weapon in total war?is a
UNITED PRESS
The CIA gets some of its best information from ex-Reds?like Mrs. Vladimir Petrov, shown being
hustled to a plane in Australia by Russian guards. Later, she was rescued and granted political asylum.
vexing problem, due to a breakdown in the commu-
nist collective-farming system. The Soviet recently
was forced to divert 100,000 workers from industry
to agriculture. Premier Malenkov is in control, but
he ordered the liquidation of Secret Police Chief
L. P. Beria because Beria was plotting the ?eradica-
tion of Malenkov "in two or three days." On the day
Beria was seized, Red Army tanks rumbled into the
outskirts of Moscow, as they did the night that
Stalin died. So Russia's committee form of govern-
ment, with its divided power, is not an easy form to
maintain in a dictatorship.
Conclusion: The Politburo is quite satisfied with
the gains communism is making with, the present
Red technique of subvert and conquer. The men in
the Kremlin cannot be certain, even if they launched
open military warfare and won a global conflict,
that their regime could survive the retaliatory wreck-
age and misery sure to be inflicted on the Russian
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population. The Red rulers have no thought of win-
ning a war for someone else. The U.S.S.R. is worried
lest her major ally, communist China, get a little out
of hand. Russia does not want to be dragooned into
armed combat with the West by Mao Tse-tung, but
prefers, if and when she wages war, to choose the
time and place herself ?probably not before 1957 or
1958 at the earliest.
The foregoing estimate of Russian plans and
intentions is reported as no tidbit of gossip from the
capital's cocktail-party circuit. It represents the
warp and woof of our Government's foreign and
domestic policy as patterned by the National Se-
curity Council. If our leaders had thought open war
was imminent, the Administration would have spon-
sored no $7,400,000,000 reduction in Federal taxes
at the recent session of Congress. Secretary of the
Treasury George M. Humphrey would not be
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'spending, in the 1955 fir,: t' year. I buildings in the capital, maintains tions, names,. official titles, salaries, or 1
? Evidence points f 0 ??,-,. a shifting of twenty-five domestic offices across the numbers of personnel employed by the
0 ? emphasis from a " do.,ar-,;:efe. " ? in^. country on a twenty-four-hour basis, .agency." He may assign employees
based solely on developing am? Stock- and ? finances unnumbered covert r for. special. instruction, research or ?
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piling more and more military weapons, branches around the world to beg, buy trammg, at or with domestic or foreign , .? ?
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to a strategy of countering the 'corn- or steal information cm 1 he Reds' war public or private institutions; trade,
, ??? ,. labor, agricultural, or scientific associa-
munists underground, where real Soviet potential and inttni-tons. '
conquests are being scored. This was, CIA employees number betWeen ltions; courses or training programs .
the strategy in -Guatemala, where we . 6000 d 12,000'? ? ., 0 - d , under the National Military,.,
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then able to drive the Reds to the sur- ? names never ' appear ? on published ? ? Dulles has the right, with, the ap- i.. , ,
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face 'and hand them 'a 'sound proval of the Attorney General and the
defeat. If Government payrolls. The total cost '
,the' communists had been permitted 4' of CIA operations runs severailnindred .1 Commissioner of Immigration, to bring
-another year of unbridled subversion million dollars a year. Dulles declines i as many as 100 aliens a year into the I .,
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of, the ; Guatemalan people, we might 16 discuss details of agency periannel United States if he finds their entry
:have 'faced the necessity of, sending and his budget, but' if 'CIA ernploys 1, 'in the interest of national security,' or
marines to reinforce the Panama Canal 10,000 persons, the payroll is 'half as - essential to the furtherance of the !
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and to, save Latin America. The subse- large as the entire DepartmeiSt 'of national intelligence mission.
State. t .,,-: ? ? ,? ? t . ? ? , I Millions of dollars to finance black ,?''
quent propaganda windfall for Russia
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in her trumped-up diatribes against The CIA'Will not, 'as it may not, con- ?activities ?are camouflaged in routine ,
Yankee imperialism can easily be im- cede publicly that its employees and appropriation bills for regular Federal I . ,
agined. Such, strategy, evolved from appropriations are used in what are departments sent to Congress ,by the .1,
CIA's revelations of Soviet Maneuvers, popularly , known as cloak-and-dagger Biireau Of Ihilget. No more -thri. 1
meets the( communists in their own operations.. But. it is significant, thattten or twelve congressmen, including
kind of subversive underground cold while. Allen Dulles is not nearly So well :Senators Saltonstall, of Massachusetts, .
war, where. a timely bit of American :known in this country as his brother, ;and Russell, 'of Georgia, and Represen- . ??', .
I counterespionage may prevent a hot john, Foster Dulles, he is 'probably tives Taber, of New York, and Short, '?
? I War. ; , ,; l, ? ? , much better known behind the Iron of Missouri-members of the Armed
CIA's nerve center is not housed in Curtain. His alleged exploits and' dire Services and Appropriations subcom-
one of the ' imposing, Ineo-Hellenic. deeds as an imperialist warmonker fill :mittees whom Dulles briefs personally '
? 3 .buildings which , line Washington's the columns of Pravda and the satellite and privately-even realize that they '
.1 Constitution Avenue from the White- 'press. Radio Moscow has 'linked him are approving CIA funds when they .-
House to Capitol :Hill. The 'locale is 'with 'every 'unfortunate comniunist cast their 'votes. So if size, , cost and -..
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, leader who has gone to the gOlOw's for secrecy were the sole criteria for gaug.-...;, , ' ? . .
spy thriller. -,The ? main' office is : a "co-operation with -the 'capitalistie ing the success of CIA, the' 'country 1
colonial-type structure of red brick in West." He was paid a iingular cOmpli. coulesleep, soundly tonight in the as-.
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'the rundown Foggy Bottom section of merit by Ilya Ehrenburg,' the. sharp_ surance that we have the right'answera .
pseudo castle ' if -ilie-spy, All-en-b-u-11-es, should arrive.i' But during the recent session-of-'11, .
the city. To the west, a brewery.raises tongued Kremlin propagandist. ?Even ,to Russian scheming. ,
the turretlike towers of a p or
'on the banks of the Potomac.' A in heaven throUgh somebody's absent- ; gress, Sen. Mike Mansfield, a fair-' ..??
honky-tonk organ grinds out jazz in af mindedness," Ehrenburg 'Wrote, ,' " he ' minded Democrat from Mon tana,stood '
nearby roller-skating rink.--.The view would begin to blow' up the 'clouds, i on the 'Senate floor to cite *what he
rumors to the east is blocked by the shabby mine' the ',, stars and slaughter the; called CIA exploits which have been),
hack sides of an array of State Depart- angels."' ? ? II the subject of' many whispered corn-
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that-
grimy shell of an abandoned gas works i 'Celestial' depredations:" Dulles un-1 CIA had, ifibsidized a Nazi-type or-
. ? casts weird. shadows on the surround- i doubtedlY Could find authority in Pub- I ganization in West Germany which had
ing slums: ? ' lic Law 110, the act passed by Congress; marked leaders of the Social' Demo- -, ?
.1
..' The main CIA 'building was dis- . and signed by President' 'Truman on] cratic political party for liquidation. ,
' ment of State, Printing Office. Dulles effective weapon to protect free nationsl :
4
June 20, 1949, to-make the CIA 'a more
not vouch for his information, but he
h Washington The senator admitted that he could '
guised until recently as the Depart-
;discovered that the. asington tele-
. from subversion- Under this virtiiallyi voiced suspicion that CIA was main-
phone directory. listed: "Central In- 'unbounded grant of Personal authority,' ' taming the tatterdemalion remains of a"
, telligence Agency, 2430 E. Se., EXecu- I Dulles need not voucher his' multi- Nationalist Chinese Army in Burma,
tive 3-6115." He found Washington
? million-dollar appropriations. ActUally; despite Burmese protests to the United
sight-seeing guides halting then loaded the director' files routine Federal ex- Nations to make forays into Red
buses on the street' to point outto pense accounts 'for all '". white " ? CIA China. i ? ' . .,
tourists that "there is the building operations, such as research..Dulles?re- Mansfield concluded his speech to a
where .spies work."-;Dulles ordered a I ports to the Bureau of the Budget and hushed and attentive Senate by introLit
discreet .sign posted? CENTRAL INTEL- Ito a small group of members of Con- .51u,cing a resolution to establish a special i
. A mesh-wire secret, or "black," expenditures-but watchdog committee to-, lieeii a con-
Publicity ends there...;
- ?
LICENCE AGENCY. '??? !* :i', gress on an off-the-record basis for his
gressional eye, on Dulles', operations.
fence, eight feet high and topped by' ? on a lump-sum area basis of so many , .
,
, dollars spent, say, in the Far' EaSt or Dulles adhered to his usual closed- t
,around the clipped green lawn. Inside, .Latin America.' Siiice - he has been denying sec
mouth polic;i of neither ,Co'nfirining nor '
three strands' of, ?barbed ? wire, runs
, when the Intelligence Advisory Com- director, Dulles-ha s'' returned an 'un- 'zen or published re- ..
inittee meets, the doors are barred and ports. To do so v. o .d Offer attractive '
, locked. The typewriter ribbons and ? bait for Soviet fishio? ? expeditions into'
?1
- ..,pent ,balance 'of his appropriation to .
carbon papers used by stenographers .` Dulles may hire, pay and fire ,CIA our intelligence secrets. So the Mans- t
: 'the T e . ?
ersOnnel,' under the law, without re field speech vient unanswered. The i:e- : ?
overnight in safes. The wastebasketst------- . ? --- - - IT -------- - _ ? suit was that nineteen other DemoC,rats ?
? to record the proceedings are locked p:
7--.' and seven Republicans joined the sen- t
- ? ?
?
.. ?, ' 'Stor as co-sponsors of his bill., ..,,,./,_._,
are marked classified, their contents i:::
shredded and burned by special se- . ? ?.
curity officers. Meetins of this groii,p -, , . .
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Because of the bush-hush air surround-
ing the agency, they were voicing nat-
? ,
ural? doubts over the efficiency of the I/
? _1 administration of CIA, a political.. ?.
.?
curiosity as to the number of jobholders' ,. ?
?
i on its unpublished payroll, and a ques-
tioning of the reliability of CIA's
? ," national estimates."
,
More recently, a direct attack on
CIA came from Sen., Joseph. R. Mc- ?? ? .
? Carthy, who charged that the agency f? ?s.?
. had been infiltrated by communists.
, The senator called the situation "even
, more dangerous than Red penetration
?' ? ":-1 of the Army Signal Corps' radar labora-
?' tories" at Fort Monmouth, New Jer- ?
?
,.t sey. He announced that he would make
? ? CIA the next target of his Special In-?; -
??-?
, vestigating subcommittee. Flaunting
his disregard of the presidential order
safeguarding such executive secrets,
McCarthy renewed his call on Federal
employees 'to furnish -him with confi- ? ?
? ? ?dential information from restricted and
;
,delicate agency files.
? . +. Dulles issued one of his rare public,
..
. ':statements. He called the senator's ;
? : charges false. He revealed .,that he had'
t- ? written McCarthy almost a year ago; ?
. jasking for any specific allegations Mc-
. I earthy. had to offer on communists
- ? within the CIA, but the senator, had
.r??-.-. not even acknowledged, his letter:1
?
1 Dulles, expressing no doubt that Mc-';
?
.'Carthy was seeking information from'
.
: Inside CIA, addressed a CIA orienta-
tion session with this ultimatum: "Any-1..
one giving Senator McCarthy CIA in- .
t formation will be fired." .._ ,
McCarthy went ahead with his ii-i I,
.,1 quiry, assigning the preliminary inves- I,.
:. .tigation to Donald A. Surine, even'
though the then McCarthy committee::
? ' aide had been refused clearance by the .
Defense- Department to see classified
Imaterial. McCarthy announced later I
that he had conferred with a "high.'
I
? elected official" of the Administra a ;
and agreed that public hearings on CIA
? would not be in the public interest, but
.- . he left for a vacation in Mexico, de-
. ,
- , claring his determination to probe our
' intelligence system.
i While McCarthy vacationed, the;
Administration cannily froze him out;
? of new Red-hunting headlines. The ,'
? Hoover Government-reorganization
commission announced that' a special
task force would examine 'CIA. The'
,
' i-survey, beginning in the fall' of, 1954,
. I was placed under the directiOn:of re-
tired Gen. Mark W. Clark. '
-V, ?A previous Hoover survey,(made in'
I 1949, when CIA was two years old, heldi
/
t that the agency "had not yet achieved
is the desired degree of ,proficiency and
? dependability in its estimates" for the
?i National Security Council--so Mc-
1.? Carthy could not charge "whitewash."
i, During the hearing into his controversy
1 with the Army, the senator had singled
. ' out General Clark for special praise?
. so he could not cry "hand-picked judge."
1. The senator gave up arid pledged thatt
he would transmit his information on
' CIA to General Clark; . I
tr...,
, Tfileri4 the first of Mime artivitw au the CIA.!
, Next weE1-., thiS tuFt.t.,?,V11 ceport revele the truth
? .gthti; Forra;:uxuat enorte to Infiltrate. the ,f4,7.ency.
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