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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040058-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: April 1, 1964
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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AMERICAN OPINION APRIL 1964
? The Washington Evening Star reports
that State Department officials are deeply
concerned that the Senate Internal Securi-
ty Subcommittee has unearthed a "secret"
list of more than 800 potential security
risks in the State Department. The memo-
,.randum, containing the lists, was signed
on June 27, 1956 by the late Scott Mc-
Leod, then Administrator of the Bureau
of Security and Consular Affairs. Mr. Mc-
Leod warned that all of the 800 individu-
als were "cleared as qualified for access to
classified information," and "about one-
half are assigned to what can be catego-
rized as critical intelligence slots in the
? Yuri I. Nossenko, who has allegedly.
defected from the U.S.S.R., is reported;
as willing to abandon' his wife and 'two
children in the Soviet Union.
? Allen W. Dulles, former Director of
,the CIA, says: "I have no use for the
extremes of McCarthyism or Birchism,
although I recognize that many well-
',meaning but,misguided, people have been
deluded by their appeals."
Department or to top level boards and
committees." (Mr. McLeod's protege, Ot- ',-- -
to Otepka, has recently ' been discharged ? Senator Thomas J. Dodd (D.-Conn.)
from the State Department for discover-' says that attacks upon the C.I.A. are "a
ing more security risks and for cooperat- highly dangerous pastime because' the
ing with the Senate Internal Security C.I.A. is one of the essential elements of
Subcommittee.) our [sic] security."
? For the third consecutive day, anti- t
United States demonstrations are carried
on in Accra, the capital of Ghana. The
Ghanaian government's radio attacks
"Yankee bloodsuckers and gun running
cowboys." The Ghanaian Times, a gov-
ernment mouthpiece, reports that: "The
C.I.A. agents and their Peace Corps sub-
versionists Have failed with their guns and
bullets." There is no indication that Peace
Corps Director Sargent Shriver will with
draw his Peace Corps personnel from
!Communist Ghana. _..___:._...
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? The State Department announces that 1
Yuri I. Nossenko, a member of the Soviet
delegation to the Geneva disarmament
conference, has defected from the U.S.S.R.
and asked for political asylum in the
United States. Nossenko claims to have
been a staff officer of the K. C. B. (Com-
mittee of State Security). The. Central
Intelligence Agency is leaking news that
Nossenko was one of its agents