HAIL NATHAN HALE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200720010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 8, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TITS
8 June 1985
WASHINGTON TALK
Briefing
Hail Nathan Hale
ntelligence with a capital I is al-
ways analyzed one more time
when a good spy story is unavei-
ing in the capital. Investigators round
up their usual sources for tips and try
to set up secret meetings with retired
spies. Anyonaintbeintelligm busi-
ness is worth a call, if not a drink in
the English Pub at the Hay-Adams
Hotel. But so far the hunters have
missed at least one professional intel-
ligence operation. It is the Nathan
Hale Institute, a serious outfit that
works out of a single room near the
Capitol with one lull-time employee,
Mary Calhoun, working as Control.
Just recently, she said, the institute
produced a study of couffeTntelli-
gence by an expert named Francis
McNamara. Not much more can be
expected from an organization with a
budget under $200,000 a year, Miss
Calhoun said. Still, the means were
found to celebrate the 230th murtver-
sary of the birth of Hale, this nation's
first spy, at a reception in the Senate
Caucus Room on Thursday. Someone
who attended the reception said, not
for attribution, that the conversations
were of such low volume that it was
difficult enough eavesdropping,
never mind bugging.
James F. Clarity
Francis X. Clines
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