HE IS THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS SPY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100080045-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 1999
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: April 22, 1965
• Content Type: TRANS

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"HE IS THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS SPY"
By Ulf Nilson
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New York, (Expressen) - No, that business about James Bond is only.
nonsense: The world's most dangerous spy is not 007 but William F.
Raborn, 59, a cold, reticent and almost totally unknown admiral in
retirement.
The other week Raborn became the chief of CIA, U.S.A.'s Central
Intelligence Service, so powerful that it sometimes is called "the
invisible government."
The CIA, which came into being'when the experiences from the
second World War were being digested and it was found that the Ameri-
can espionage system as a rule was deficient, has grown-into a ter-
rific colossus.
It has more than 20,000 employees, of which of course the major-
ity are quite ordinary clerks and secretaries.
From agents all over the globe (Sweden included) it receives
more than 2,000 top secret messages per 24 hours. Spy-satellites
are sending pictures of Russian rocket-sites directly from space to
CIA's "subsidiary" the NIA outside Washington.
The central archives include more than 50 million documents, and
one of the world's largest data processing machines has been "hired.!'
The retiring Chief was John McCone, a thick-skinned New York
banker, who had run-ins with too many of the 00's within the CIA to
be able to remain. Before him the spy-central was ruled for many
years by Allen Dulle.s, a legendary master spy, who for instance holds
admiration (professionally) for a certain Colonel Wennerstrom.
FLOW OF-INFORMATION
Raborn was chosen to his post of spy-chief mainly because-he is
an enterprising boss. The modern spy does not go looking for secrets:
he organizes, compares, and analyses. It is far more important to the
U.S. to have good enough experts on the capacity of Russian production
than it is to know the name of Kosygin's mistress (though it is en-
deavored to have current knowledge of both). It is more important to
be sure of a constant uninterrupted flow of information than it is to
succeed in single brilliant coups. Looking only superficially at the
business of espionage then, it seems to be a job for men behind dusty.,-,
desks - a rather commonplace occupation.
The retired admiral was chosen exactly for this reason. He is no
a Romanticist, not colorful;, he is an organizer. His, biggest military
achievement has nothing to o with battle; he.was the one who organize
the production of the Polaris rocket. He came to the CIA from a large
company in California, where he also worked with weapons production.
The only information about his private life that so far has leaked out
is that
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Raborn's main jcb'b is to keep Lyndon Johnson informed about what
goes on in the world. At night, when the President sleeps, the admiral
is in constant contact with CIA's immense and well guarded glass- and
steel-complex outside Washington. A select group of men and women read
and work on the cirsis cables constantly arriving. One checks data,
asks for explanations, weighs the reasonableness of the conclusions
drawn. Finally the whole collation goes to one single man, who around
6 a.m. sits down behind a typewriter - yes, actually an ordinary type-
writer - and writes a report about twice the length of this article.
TO THE WHITE HOUSE _
At 7.30 he puts the report in his portfolio which he locks. A
Government car drives him over to the White House where they have been
alerted of his exact departure time and where he hands over the port-
folio to General Chester V. Clifton, the President's personal military
advisor. The General carries the report up to the-President's bedroom.
"We try to give it to him before eight," says General Clifton to
Expressen. "We want him to read it before he listens to the morning
news." It is the retired admiral's duty to see that the report is
correct, and that it is written in a language that the President likes
and understands. Johnson is impulsive, intolerant and complaining
about details. If Raborn's almost legendary organizational ability
does not soon spruce up the intelligence service - which has been in-
adequate, particularly in Viet Nam - he will not last long as the Chief
of the "Double Noughts."
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APRIL 22, 1965 CPYRGHT
:4v ULF NILSON
xpressen - : lNej, Oct dar me
James Bond ar bara trams: Vairldens farligaste
spion Hr inte 007 utan William F Raborn, 59, en
kylig,.tillbakadragen och nastan totalt.okand ami-
ral i pension,,
Raborn blev hiiromveckan chef for
CIA, USA:s centrala ur.dorriittelse-
tjiinst, sA maktig att den J l nd kal-
lar. sig "den o.ynliga re c ri tp;en".
CIA, soon till'tom nar in -v bOrja-
de smiilta erfa renheterm. av andra
dsrldskriget, dir det edeerikanska
sp-onaget som re.gel var itndermAligt,
hcir,vuxit?till art fruktansviird koloss.
? Den liar over 20 000 are til llda, av
vilka de fiesta naturligt,9.t lie helt
vanliga kontorir>ter ocli ';t(kretcrare.
? Fran agenter over help jordklotet
(even Sverige) mottar man over 2000
toppheinliga meddelander, per dygn.
Spionsatelliter sunder bilk r av rys-
ka raketanlaggningar tlirekt fran
rymden till CIA:s "dotterbolag"
50 miljoner dokument, och man har
"anstallt" en av viirldens storsta da-
tabehandlingsmaskiher.
Den avgAngne chefen var John
McCone, en hfirdhudad. Now York-
bankir, som stotte sig med litet for
manga av dubbelnbllorna inom CIA
for att kunna yard kva . Fore ho-
nom regerades . isplonc tralen I
mAnga Ar av Allen, Dulles, en legen-
darisk masterspioni som bl a (yrkes-
0 Inf ormhtions-
flade
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gschef. Den mor7erne storspionen CIA kom han fran ett stort foretag.
okar inte efter hemligheter: han
ganiserar, sammanstaller och ana-
serar. Det it mycket viktigare for
SA att underrattelsetjansten her
uktionskapacitet An att man vet
amnet pA Kosygins Alskarinna (fast
information an att man gor en-
ka, briljanta kupper. Ser man' yt-
precis den enledningen. Han Or
e romaniker, inte fiirgstark; han
'organisator. Hans storsta militara
med vapenproduktion. Den enda
uppgift om hans privatliv, som hit
tills sipprat ut, Or att han. -spelar-
hammondorgel. FavoritlAt:' "The.
Yellow Rose of Texas".
Raborns framsta uppgift Or att hAl-'
la Lyndon Johnson underrattad. om,
vad . som hander i varlden. Om 'nat-
terna, nar presidenten sover, stAr
amiralen i standig kontakt med
CIA:s valdiga, valbevakade glas-
och stAlkomplex utanfor Washington.
En utvald grupp man och kvinnor
laser och bearbetar de kristelegram',
som 'kommer in. Man'kollOr data,
ber om forklaringar, prover rimlig-
heten av de slutledningar som gore.
Till silt gAr hela sammanstallnings-
uppgiften till en ensam man, som
vid 6-tiden ph morgonen slitter sig
bakom en skrivmaskin - ja, faktiskt
en alldeles vanlig skrivmaskin - oth
skriver en rapport ungefOr dubbelt
sA lAng som den Mir artikeln.
'[] Till Vita huset
Klockan halv 8 lagger han rappor-
ten I en )Portfolj, som hen IAser. Han
tar en tjanstebil Over till Vita huset,
som underrattats per telefon om
exakta avgAngstiden, och lamnar
portfoljen till general Chester V
Clifton, presidentens personlige mi
litare rAdgivare. Generalen bar rap-
porten upp till presidentens sovrum
- Vi brukar forsOka ge honom den'
fore Atta, sager general Clifton till
Expressen. Vi viii att han skull lase
den innan han hor morgonnyheter
na. Det Or nu den pensignerade ami:.
ralens uppgift att se till att rappor
ten Or korrekt, att den Or sicriven
pi ett' sprAk som - presidenten gillar
och forstAr. Johnson Or haftig, into-
lerant och grinig med smAAsaker. Om.
Raborns nastan legendariska organi-.
sationsfgrmAga inte mart setter spratt
PA undcrrattelsetj5nsten, som vetdt.
otillfredsstallande into minst i Viet-'
nam - blir han into gammal sqm'