GOOD-BY TO SPOOKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300580003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 12, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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CANADA'S NATIONAL NEW:;PAPER
THUR?DAY, JANUARY 12. 1961
Is p'~hltahed e%cry weekday at
Toronto I
by Tlr!?: GLOBE AND MAIL LIMITED.
The Globe founded 1944. The Mail founded 1P72.
\uth"rized a,s semn4 class mall. , Post Office
:N yartm,-tit, Otl.,wa.
it. }4OWARI, N Etl.iTER.
Chairman of the lard.
OAKI.F.I" r)ALI:I..EtS1I.
Editor and Publliher.
Cable address--Toron0o, Telephone 1?:M. 8-78)1.
The subject who is truly loyal to the Chiet Magistrate will neither
CPYRGHT Good-by to Spooks
It is now non-U to be non-P AS,a. A
non?P is any military gentleiran (jut of
uniform but still doing a job for l;nrle Sam
for Uncle Ho or Mao or Niklta i.
General ("The Prussian") John Arnold
ileintges is non-P. He was listed in official
U.S. Army Registers from 19:55 through
1938. He vanished from official ken in 1959.
ant! 1960. like George Orwell's non-persons
'eho dropped out of Soviet encvclvprdia~
when their existence proved emban ising.
('k neral Heintges berarr.e a, non-1.Prson
?-hen lie went to Laos. (;,:die
,iuce accords, only France .as permitted
to have a military advisory group in Laos.
A. group of U.S. Army officers has been
teaching the Royal Laotian Army to fight
Communism.
All became nonpersons. laike lit?' but
('i [tcially liquidated. Their chit-f. General
Ileintges, was known to every f -reign cor
,:,sporident who Inquired about the United
States military aid programs in South East
:\sin. With a discretion astonishing to those
outside the trade, the correspondents kept
the non-seEret. Only Communist broadcasts.
groin Peking, Hanoi and Moscow persisted
in putting tht Zinger on "The Prttwsipn". _
in fact, the only person kept in the
t!ark Phout non-persons was the U S. lax-
paper niitil The New York Times blew the
>~atf 0 n, week. It even revealed that ;lie
scar on the General's cheek came
loan :nto An empty swimming pool
aims military secrets end in similar
dist1 In [.ict, modern security reguia
rim re concerned with protecting;
lit Rh. At one time As-
"A,-I': d Will non-persons. The Angi?
Saxn-; nublir began to regard them with
faint (l:staste rafter The Quiet America's,
a brc-c;i of secut:ty that doubtlgss prevented
a deeper Fubsequont embarrassment.
Tnu I the reason General Heintges and
nis coirrades became non-U was the em-
harrassraent their discovery caused their
c-n p1c,\t`rs. Like The Quiet American, and
t i like their many Communist cnunterpar's.
they ,were never sufficiently non P.
t.t..cual slacks and sports jackets,". reports
The New Yo,k Tinley. "they were a familiar
sight. at ar,,ny camps near Vicntyanc."
Only A hen Pravda and the Peking
f',~oples Daily publish similar confessions
will it be wise to declare that our non-P's
are truly non-existent.'
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