OUR SECURITY AGENCIES INFILTRATED BY REDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090126-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 126
• Publication Date: December 17, 1951
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-:Yr 20-13/1-6729 : CIA-RDP.72
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Our Security. Agencies
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Ity FULTON LEWIS JR.
-,,WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.4'1
-????THE very agencies of our go d-
? ernment ? military and
? /..
?? -civilian intelligence units?that ,
'are charged with the duty of
,guarding U. S. security are be-
ing infiltrated today by Soviet .?
agents, Communists and in-
competents.
The Federal Bureau of In-
yeeigation is an exception?but
the facts apply to the Security ?
? INts Of the Defense Depart.:
Mont ? Army, Navy and ?Air
Force?and the Counter-Intelli-
gence departments of most of
. them.
This is a serious charge, par- ,
ticularly in the face of loyalty
. investigations, Congressional ,
'Tiousecleaning of Reds in the
government and ,the efforts of
I, some officers in the Military's'
i,Counter-Intelligence Corps. Yet
I the facts are plain. The Com-
nunists did not quit when the
ail doors slammed shut on
? Alger Hiss; they did not quit
when Klaus Fuchs confessed, or
when Harry Gold was caught in
t the FBI dragnet. , /
1,?'. The scandals of today' in-
volving the Internal Revenue.
;Bureau, the McCarran investi-
? gation of the Institute of Paci- ?
? fic Relations, and current ex-
? Poses of Soviet agents in the
, United Nations and the diplo-
matic corps are important in- .
? vestigations. But they are mild
in comparison to what a Con-
cressional inquiry would Un-
earth if ? an investigation of
Red infiltration into intelligence
units were sundertaken.
TN one particular branch of the
A Army, one of the most sen-
sitive intelligence units in ,the
Pentagon, a man was. put on
the Payroll who openly boasted
that .he was trying to join the
Communist Party, that he
thought' all reactionary Con-
gressmen should be killed.
. He worked for eight months
i" before it was determined that
he lacked average mental bal-
anee and was fired. One of his
closest buddies still works In the
agency.
, There are others. Some stories '
, sound impossible or -too lu-
dicrous for belief; but, unfor-
.tunatelY, they happerr to be
, true. They, are factual enough
-to.cause,Military officers to risk
. their .cpreers .to relate thern;?44;
private; factual enough for
service employes with 20 years'', ,
service to risk their jobs to pro-: -
duce documents and details to
? prove it. And I don't mean one
or two disgruntled officers or
employes. These are men of
competence, with backgrounds
- of . faithful service to their ,
country. And they are scared.
rOUNTER - INTELLIGENCE ?
,k) agents have been trans- 4
ferred out of Washington when
their investigations led them
too close to the truth.
A too persistent Army general' ?
is under orders for duty in Cal-
ifornia. He talked when higher .
. authorities in the Pentagon re-
fused to heed his warnings or fire
suspect and incompetent aides.
He remains in WaShington only
because an irate Senator de-/
manded that the Secretary of ,
the Army keep him there until
Congress returns and the prober
committee, can investigate.
A colonel has been relieved of
his intelligence duty in Wash-
ington and transferred ko
, 'Alaska. He stepped on too
many toes trying to clean Com-
munist cells out of his 'intelli-
gence unit.
- Another colonel with native
technical skill in electronics has
been ordered out of the Penta-
?gon. An intelligence officer of
lesSeil rank and his assistant are
-momentarily expecting to be
. shanghaied to troop commands
where their training in intelli-
gence will be,-Wasted.
A civiliankPemploye in highly,,"
technical work, who is rated as
a genius ih certain secret de-
iielopments, is in serious trouble ?
because his superiors refuse te
clean out Reds and incom-
petents.
. Communists have two goals ,
In infiltrating U. S. Intelligence
a,gencieS. The first is to learn"
what the various agencies are ,
doing, what they know and what
. Counter-intelligence efforts a,in
used; the second, to hamper this.
activity by slowing down paper
.? work, by endless conferences'
'and by forcing incompetents '
into- jobs where skill and conr-:-.
petence is required.
The subject is a proper 01;te.'..
for a Senatorial inquiry. The
Senate Internal Security Sub- ,
committee undoulttedly is the'
proper group to Make., ,,the
inquiry.,
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Declassified and Approved For Release ? 50-Yr 2013/10/29: CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090126-8