CIA ON THE JOB

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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP75-00149R000800160035-2
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
Document Creation Date: 
November 11, 2016
Document Release Date: 
December 15, 1998
Sequence Number: 
35
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Publication Date: 
April 12, 1965
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NSPR
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jj NEW YQ`;K Sanitized - Appr'oovef% 0' W NCIA-R APR 12 1965 FOIAb3b CPYRGHT .CIA on the Jo ENATUR MILTON L. YOUNU . U), one of the few outside the Central Intelligence Agency who are well informed on its necessarily secretive operations, reveals that our spy system :abroad includes Communist Party officials. . Since Red leaders are not laggard in this furtive field, it may be presumed their activities have not overlooked Free World political echelons as possible channels of ihformation. Espionage is not a nice profession, but a vital one. The doable-cross and triple-cross are stock-in-trade among some of its practitioners. Thus, it may be that some of the Communist offi- cials assumed to be our undercover: agents are, in fact, plants. On the other hand, it may be they really give tongue-in-cheek loyalty to corn- munism.and do provide us the assistance we seek.' It is a confusing guessing game. The CIA 'ias shown it is alert and touches all bases. Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000800160035-2