WHY THE WEST IS VULNERABLE TO SPYING

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2012
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 29, 1985
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ARTICLE APPEARED
ON PAGE 3
NEW YORK POST
29 August 1985
Why the West is vulnerable
to spying
By MAX LERNER
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our
far
the Jahn L,eCarret rich
and
snobbish, and we watch spy
flints ad nauseam, and than
when life imitates art in the
case of the West German
cwmterlntelligence chief
who was an Eaasstt German
spy - probably a long-term
mole - we greet it with
consternation.
For me the devastating
exploits of Have Joachim
Tiedge - along with the
damage wrought by the
Walker family complex of
alleged U.S. Navy spies -
are part of the unending in-
telligence war that the
West has had to fight
against the Soviet Union
and its satellites.
For a long time the Sovi-
ets and the Nazi intelli-
gence operations main-
tained class- ties.. which
gave Josef Stalin the ex-
cuss he wanted for the
purge of his generals in the
1930s.
At Potsdam, in July 1945,
President Harry Truman
thought he had a surprise
when he told Stalin about
the teat explosion of the
atom bomb, but Stalin was
unmoved. Truman didn't
learn until later that year,
from the Igor Gouzenko de-
fection, that Stalin's spies
had already told him.
The Soviets couldn't have
built their own bomb with.
out a network of spies, and
they are more active than
ever today, 40 years later,
in their elaborate espionage
effort to steal America's
computer, electronic and
Star Wars seasfRs; l iw ails
In many ways the West
plays into the hands of the
- Soviet spy commanders.
The mosE idiotic is the
West German rule never to
examine the background of
anyone presenting himself
as a German.
it is an invitation to the
fabrication of a false identi-
ty, as happened in several
of the current spy histories.
Another thing of wonder
is the ease with which these
bogus patriots move into
positions as advisers to
West German high officials
or as chiefs of the intelli-
gence community, and get
access to treasures of state.
This gives us, I think, a
clue to the .puzzle of why
asoi,Us. are no
ud? !jseshrsUon
by Soviet and satellite
The clue Has in the scorn
the liberal West applies to
authentic love of co
and especially to
Bogen cooperations in its own
The historic Cambridge
school of British spies, in
the 1930s and 1940s, ex-
pressed a high culture
which was pacifist and
mocked West patriGermotism.
The an spies
who toppled Willy Brandt's
government : and imperil
Helmut Kohl's, come out of
the same high culture that
gave Germany its Baader-
Meinhof syndrome of left
terrorism a decade ago.
After the horse is stolen
the West Germans are lock-
ing the barn, to suws tfut:
limit the damage
Tledze inflicted.
But, however urgent,
damage control is no an-
swer. The Soviet spy war
uses every vulnerable
chink in the armor of West-
ern society and belief.
I am saying the spies
thrive in the cultural cli-
mate of contempt for intel-
ligence systems, disdain for
country, and denial of per-
sonal responsibility for the
consequences of one's acts.
Nor does the new value
our culture places on capi-
at enter Ive the
prooblem. As the alleged
poparations of
mercenary the the Walkers show, love of
money is no substitute for
love of country.
The American culture has
a ~Og way to go in making and ~+oo i ~~
'e liigence war.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/12 : CIA-RDP90-00965R000503810005-3