LETTER TO HONORABLE CLARK CLIFFORD FROM W. F. RABORN

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• Publication Date: September 20, 1965
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20 September 1965
I am enclosing a package of information on how
the KGB is mounting a worldwide "undercutting"
campaign against the CIA. I thought perhaps you
would be interested in this and to know that I am
making it available to members of Congress who
normally over-see our activities.
We are looking forward to being with you this
coming Friday.
Sincerely,
(Signed),
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Honorable Clark Clifford
Chairman
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Washington, D. C.
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September 1965
The Soviet and Communist Bloc Defamation Campaign
Synopsis
1. The Soviet and Communist Bloc effort to defame and
discredit U.S. departments and agencies that have major
responsibilities for national security has been underway since
1948. A major program is aimed at the Central Intelligence
Agency and has grown markedly in quantity and intensity since.
the establishment of the KGB Department of Disinformation in
1959. This program now produces between 350 and 400 derogatory
items annually. Communist press and radio attacks against the
Agency reveal an increased, sophistication in recent years. In-
addition, many Communist-inspired books and pamphlets which
attack the existence, purposes and status of CIA, and reflect a
substantial budget for this activity, have appeared throughoLt
Southeast Asia, Africa and the Near East.
2. CIA, in its intelligence role, is feared by the Soviets
for its responsibility and ability to penetrate and unmask
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Communist conspiracies against democratic institutions. By
striking at CIA, the attack also centers on the Intelligence
Community with particular thrust against the FBI and Mr. J.
Edgar Hoover. The objective of the overall program is to achieve
the destruction, break-up and neutralization of CIA. A basic
requirement of Soviet policy and a major objective of the Soviet
Intelligence Services is the destruction of effective security
collaboration among the non-Communist countries in order to
carry out Soviet long-term strategic plans for subversion, political
upheavals, popular fronts and the eventual political isolation of the
United States.
3. Defamation and forgery operations are conceived,
directed and perpetrated by a single organization located outside
the target areas which makes use of local Communist or pro-
Communist propagandists and of cooperating Communist Bloc
intelligence and security services. Although such undertakings
are the products of the Disinformation Department of the KGB,
known as Department "D ", which is headed by General Ivan
Ivanovich Agayants, they are reviewed and passed on by the
Soviet leadership. The operations of the Soviet Disinformation
Department have been successful thus far in stimulating a wide
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:?eplay in Africa, Southeast .Asia, the Middle East, and even in
the United S4.-ate s. CIA will continue t3 be the prime target of
Soviet disinformation and defamation operations.
Soviet and Communist Disinformation
4. It is an established Soviet principle -- now embraced
by all members of the Communist Bloc -- that a large percentage
of subversive activity be devoted to the planning and conduct of
disinformation (dezinformatsiya) operations which mold, divide,
and mislead other governments or leaders, and cause them to
adopt policies and undertakings which are ultimately advantageous
only to the Soviet Union, The Soviet leadership has charged
the Soviet State Security Service., the KGB, to place very great
emphasis, both organizationally and operationally, on disinformation
activity, Communist Bloc services, in turn, are playing their part
in this work.
5. What are disinformation operations? "Dezinformatsiya",
in Soviet terminology, is false, incomplete or misleading infor-
mation that is passed, fed or confirmed to a targetted individual,
group, or country, "Pr-opaganda", as it is defined by Free World
students, may be used as a support element of dezinformatsiya,
but propaganda per se lacks the precision and bite of disinformation.
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6. Soviet disinformation activity is planned and directed
by a specialized Department of the Soviet State Security Service.
This KGB Department, which was created to intensify Soviet
disinformation activity, is headed by General Ivan Ivanovich
Agayants, a senior, professional intelligence officer with long.
experience and well-developed agent and political contacts in,
Western Europe, especially in France, where he served under
the name Ivan Ivanovich Avalov. At one time in France he
controlled the French spy Georges Paques who was sentenced
to life imprisonment on 7 July 1964.
7. The assignment of Agayants to take over the
disinformation task indicates the high priority that the then
Chairman o the Presidium, Nikita Khrushchev, gave to the campaign
against American leadership and activity. Chairman Kosygin and
First Secretary Brezhnev have made no changes in that program.
Department "D" is still directly tied into the Presidium in the
planning of its work.:,
*It will be recalled that;.Khrushchev, during his U. S. visit in
September 1959, engaged in more than one discussion at the
White House and during his tour designed to destroy confidence
in American intelligence. His statements and remarks made
during interviews, it is known, were prepared in advance in
consultation with the Department of Disinformation.
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8, Agayants' Department is staffed by an estimated forty
to fifty geographical and functional specialists in Moscow alone;
it avails itself directly and peremptorily of the world-wide
resources, manpower and operations, of the Soviet security
apparatus. The purposes, broadly stated, of the Disinformation
Department are to:
a? Destroy the confidence of the Congress and
the American public in U, S, personnel and agencies
engaged in anti-Communist and Cold War activity,
bo Undermine American prestige and
Democratic institutions and denigrate American
leadership with NATO governments and other non-
Communist countries, thereby contributing directly
to the break-up of the NATO alliance,
c. Sow distrust and create grounds for
subversion and revolt against the U.S.. in the
Western Hemisphere and among the new nations
oE Africa and Asia.
These purposes and objectives, it must be emphasized, have
been established by the highest elements of Party and Govern-
ment in the Soviet Union.
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~G Personal experiences with this program have been
described by officers who have left the Soviet system and are
now in the United States. One of these -- Alexander
Kaznacheev, who served in. Burma as an Information Officer --
described the program and the process in a recent personal
memoir:
". . Articles were originated in KGB
headcuarters in Moscow - for example, about
alleged American support of the Indonesian rebels,
frequent American violations of Cambodia's
sovereignty, subversive activity of Japan in the
region, etc. The articles were received from
Moscow on microfilm and reproduced as enlarged
photo-copies at the Embassy. It was my job to
translate them into English. Some other member
of Vozny` s:: group would then arrange through local
agents for the articles to be placed in one of the
Burmese newspapers, usually pro-Communist-
oriented. The newspaper would translate the
article into Burmese, make slight changes in
style, and sign it from 'Our Special Correspondent
in Singapore, for instance. Upon publication of
such an article, the illegitimate creation of Soviet
Intelligence receives an appearance of legitimacy
and becomes a sort of document.
"But the work: was not yet finished. I then
tool the published article and checked it against
the original Russian text. I noted all the changes
and variations made by the newspaper, and wrote
town in Russian the final version of the article.
This final version was then immediately sent back
to Moscow, this time through TASS channels.
Ivan Mikhailovich Vozny, a KGB officer, was head of the
Political Intelligence Section at the Soviet Embassy in Rangoon,
Burma.
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"The last stage of this grandoise forgery
was under the special care of the Soviet infor-
mation Bureau, TASS, Radio-Moscow, the Soviet
press, and Soviet diplomatic representatives
abroad. It is their duty to see that the material
is republished and distributed in all countries of
the region as if they were genuine documents which
had appeared in the Burmese press. . . .
10. Although the KGB is able to fabricate in Moscow what-
ever material is needed for its disinformation operations, it has
been making more and more use of material published in the
West, some of which had been planted there by earlier disinfor-
mation activities. An examination of the books and articles
cited in any of the anti-CIA pamphlets reveals extensive use
of Western source material, often taken out of context. The
most recent Soviet articles on the Agency are exclusively
"documented" from Western books, articles, and newspapers.
11. In the fifty-eight pages of CIA Over Asia, a slanderous
booklet published in Kan-:pur, India, in 1962, for example,
American newspapers and magazines are cited eleven times,
periodicals of other Western or neutral countries fifteen times.
The fact that some references are made to Communist organs
_w obscured by repeated citations from reputable American
publications.
'Alexander Kaznacheev, Inside a Soviet Embassy, (New York,
1962), pp. 172-3.
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i2. study o: Soviet disinformation shows that the Soviets
are engaged in an impressive research project to collect and
process information and speculation about American intelligence
and security services that appears in Western publications and
newspapers. This study also has confirmed the deep interest
of the Soviet services in the development and "milking" of
Western journalists. Americans figure prominently among
these.
l3. The measure and depth of Department ID Is" activity
against the CIA may be judged from a single episode. A booklet
attacking the former DCI, Mr. Allen W. Dulles, entitled A Study
of a Master Spy (Allen Dulles), was printed and distributed in
London during 1961, and has since been reprinted. The ostensible
a. t nor was a prominent maverick Labor Member of Parliament,
one Bob Edwards, who was supposedly assisted in the effort by
a r itish journalist. It is now known that the manuscript was
researched in Moscow by a senior KGB disinformation officer,
Colonel Vassily S-_tnikov, and then served up for final polish
and. printing in the United Kingdom. Mr. Dulles himself
discussed this episode on a TV round-table on Z9 March 1964:
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" '/_. 1-Tanson Baldwin: Well, that brings
too, dcesn''c it, the c.ues`ion of disinformation.
'that kind of disinformation is being distributed by
the Soviets today? Can you explain this, Allen?
`Mr. Dulles: Well, I have here right in my
"Mr0 Baldwin: And what is disinformation,
anyway ?
"1\/Ir. Dulles: Well, this is it. Here's A Study
of a Master Spy. Here's a booklet that was written
about me. Now, it bears on the outside here - you
see - A Study of a Master Spy. I won't give you the
names of the authors, but one of them is a member
of the legislature of a very great friendly country.
But the real author of this. . I am the 'master spy' -
have found out recently after certain research has
been done, that the real author of this pamphlet is a
Colonel Sitnikov whom I believe you know, or know of.
He is the real author,,
"Mr. Deryabin*: Sitnikov? I used to work
with Sitnikov in Vienna when he was Deputy Chief of
ti.-he Soviet spy force and he was the Chief of an
merican desk, i mean working against Americans.
I la was trained as an intelligence officer. One
ime he was a spy chief in Berlin and Potsdam,
another time he was in Vienna. To my knowledge
last time he was in Bonn as a Counsellor to the
:Embassy, but I mentioned him in my book and in
the articles in Life in 1959 and it is my belief that
he is at home now.
:.;:?eter Deryabin is a former KGB officer, now in the United
States. His personal memoir, The Secret World, (New York,
1959) is probably the most authoritative public account of KGB
organization and activity.
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Dulles: He has a whole dossier on me,
ve read some things there about myself that even I
didn-t know. . . . I'
Continuing Attack on the DCI
14. The resignation of Mr. Allen Dulles and the appoint-
r lent of Mr. John McCone necessitated a shift in the Communist
attack on the Director of Central Intelligence. The Soviet
propaganda transition from one Director of Central Intelligence
to another was accomplished by June 1963 with the publication
o a pamphlet entitled, Spy No. 1 Issued by the State Publishing
House for Political Literature in Moscow (June 1963), the
substance of the book is summarized on the title page:
John Alex McCone is the Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency of the United States.
Behind the exterior of a respectable gentleman is
hidden the seasoned spy, the organizer of dirty
political intrigues and criminal conspiracies.
This pamphlet tells of the past of the chief
of American intelligence, of the methods by which
he amassed his millions and became the servant of
the uncrowned kings of America, the Rockefellers,
and of the influence which McCone exerts on the
policies of the US government, particularly in the
Cuban affair. . . . I[
15. In November 1.964, the Soviet newspaper Komsomol'skaya
Pravda published a further attack on Mr. McCone entitled, The
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Spy With the Slide Rule". Referrinn to Mr' McCone's activities
Lo Director of CIA, the article added, "Under the leadership of
M .Cone, the CIA was transformed from just an invisible govern-
ment to a government of US oil monopolies, mainly Standard Oil
and its owners, the Rockefeller group. All of the military
z:.dventures in Lebanon, in Southeast Asia, Aden, and Brazil,
were carried out with the participation of emissaries of the
man with the slide rule. "
16. On 8 December 1964, Moscow domestic radio stated,
' Th American newspaper New York Herald Tribune had reported.
tAAa t.
''U.S. Central Intelligence Agency boss John
V. eCone has secretly approached President Johnson
with a resignation request. . . ,the American press
prefers for the moment not to speak about the actual
reason for McCone's resignation. The reason for it
consists, in the first instance, in. the serious collapse
of American foreign policy, which, to a considerable
degree, is formulated on the data provided by the CIA.
3asing its activity on. defense of the interests of the
Largest monopolistic groups based on the ideology of
anti-Communism and. militarism, the CIA is proving
incapable of a more or less objective correct
~r.: i sal of the balance of power in the world arena
;, . The American journalists, David White /sic/
Thomas Ross, drawing attention to the subversive
Lctivity of the CIA, just call it 'The Invisible Govern-
ment-*. . . .There is a basis to suspect., White and
tios s write, that frequently the foreign policy of the
*Reference is to the book by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross,
he Invisible Government, New York, Random House, 1964.
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United States as made public in the speeches of the
-ta:e officials, acts in one direction, while secretly,
through the Invisible Government, it acts in the
opposite direction. i'
7. President Johnson's appointment of Admiral William
F. Raborn on 11 April 1965 gave the Soviet press another
opportunity to review and renew its attack on the DCI. Moscow
domestic radio announced the next day that the appointment
signified the fu::ther strengthening of cooperation between the
espionage apparatus and the military and military industrial
monopolies. TT
13. An editorial published on 14 April 1965 in the
Tanzanian newspaper, The Nationalist, which was replayed by
the New China News Agency, claimed that Admiral Raborn's
appointment implied an "attempt to save the face of the U. S.
over accusations of interference in the internal affairs of newly
independent- states in particular. "
19. Krasnaya Zvezda in Moscow asserted (18 April 1965)
that the departure of Mr. McCone and General Marshall S.
Canter was "connected with new failures in assessing those
forces against which American imperialism in aiming its
aggressive blows." The article concluded, "The American
imperialists probably assume that Raborn will be a more
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successful accomplice for them in the struggle against the peoples
of the -ocialist countries and other freedom-loving peoples. These
hopes are hardly justified, however, since in our era the course of
historical events is not being determined by the Raborns and not
even by their Wall Street bosses.
20. On 5 June 1965, the Greek Communist newspaper Av;_;'-i,
in an article entitled, "U.S. Is Master Spy, William Raborn",
alleged that the appointment of Admiral Raborn was intended "to
lessen the enmity between the C.I.A. and the Defense Department
Intelligence Service. " The article continued, "The main reason
is the fact that the key posts in the American administration are
now being taken over by representatives of the top and overt form
of monopolist capital, the most reactionary force that leans toward
dangerous adventurism. At least that is what the events in Indo-
china, Dominican Republic;, Congo and elsewhere show."
The Communist Charges Against CIA
ZI. The themes exploited by the campaign of the Communist
Bloc against CIA, its Director, and its operations have remained
generally the sarne since the beginning of the attack. Nevertheless,
slants and replays have been constantly adjusted to changing world
and regional political developments and to the vulnerabilities of
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target audiences and indiviuals, particularly in the newly emerging
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a:, --as, T'-'.,e basic anti-C.C,., themes in use as of mid-summer 19/5
are:
ao Cyr` is an instrument of American
~: erialism. It is racist, and a direct threat to
n -'-ional liberation movements.
bG In its work against national liberation
movements, C1, engages in espionage, economic?
and political subversion., sabotage, assassination
errorism; it trai~~s and supports counter-
revolutionary forces,
c. CI', is an instrument of American
aggression and gathers intelligence for aggressive
2fans against peace-.loving socialist states. Diplomats,
tourists, and scientists are used by CIA for these
~u _ oses,;
a. CA dominates and generates American
foreign policy.
CIA engages In psychological warfare,
utilizing falsehoods to undermine the international
authority of the USSR.
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f. CIA is fighting the Cc -. w list Party of the
USA and the Communist and Parties of other
capitalist countries.
g. CIA spies on the allies of the United States
and overthrows its henchmen who are unable to suppress
national liberation movements.
21. The increasing weight of the attack on CIA becomes
evident when an examination is made of the periodicals
lnterzationaal Affairs, New Times, and Kommunist, all three of
which are issued in Moscow in English and other languages.
International Affairs carried one major article on American
intelligence in 1960 and another in 1962. Since March 1964,
there have been five articles devoted to that theme. These
articles have alleged in general that intelligence controls U. S.
foreign policy and big business controls intelligence. The New
i~ _es published one article on CIA in 1961, and one in 1963.
*T=:~e articles were entitled "Imperialist Intelligence and Foreign
Policy" (March 1964), "CIA. Intrigues in Latin America" (June
1c)641, "An imperialist Spy Consortium" (September 1964), "U.S.
Intelligence and Foreign Policy" (October 1964), "U.S. Intelli-
gence and the Monopolies" (January 1965). There were short
references to CIA in articles dealing with other topics in its
is sues . of July and August 1965.
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`` !-.L r~,e~. ' articles concer ing CIA were ,~published by ~
, this mu_ti-
ngual magazine durin 1964. In May 1965, Kommunist
published an article with the title, "The American Intelligence
Service is a Weapon of Adventurism and Provocation".
23. The assassination of President Kennedy was the
uoject of a book by Joachim Joesten entitled, Oswald -
>_ssasL-n or Fall Guy? (1964) published by Marzani and
~/MunselL Publishers, Inc. of New York, in which Joesten
ayes that there is no cuestion in his mind that Oswald was a
minor CIA agent. Marzani, a known Communist, was co-
author of a pamphlet, Cuba vs. CIA, published in 1961.
,oesten is revealed in a German Security Police memorandum,
dated 8 November 1937, to have been an active member of the
Cerrnan Communist Party (KPD) since 12 May 1932; he was
iV>;ued Communist Party membership card (Mitgliedsbuch)
-rummer 532315.
24-. r_ primary aim of Soviet disinformation is to sow
ds;ru among the Western allies by discrediting the policies
*"American Cassandra" (January 22, 1964), "Soviet Gold" and
"The Espionage Jungle" (August 12, 1964). There have been two
-' feces on CIA in the magazine to date in 1965.
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nd, motives of the United States and American methods of
u-n-:) emen'.ing those nolicies;. Considerable attention is devoted
to creating apprehension, uncertainty and antagonism toward
the United States among the uncommitted and underdeveloped
n ations;z Thus, the Soviets reiterate the long-standing Communist
charge that the United States is imperialistic and seeks world
Gomina