THE FRESHMAN SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100090052-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: March 16, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE FRESHMAN SPY
to his ears in international intelligence, with
a more generous budget for the cloak-and-
dagger business than any other nation except
Russia. But it's a new role for the old Uncie
who has traditionally been a frank, plain-
'talking (if somewhat naive) old gentleman.
How is he doing? .
Allen Dulles, head of the Central Intelli-
gence agency and brother of the Secretary
of State, claims he is doing pretty well. In
a lengthy interview in the current U. S Nc,vs
-Dulles asserts that the chance of an enemy
pulling a new Pearl Harbor has vanished.
He says that we are now set up to evaluate
instantly any major intelligence reports. Pearl
Harbor, he points out, came about not so
much from a lack of information as a break-
clown in the process of getting that ihforma-
tion to the proper people in time.
The uncomfortable thing about the Central
Intelligence agency is that we must take
Mr. Dulles' word for how -it is doing. Its
budget is never published. No taxpayer
can get a list of the people who are on its
payroll. We have to trust Allen Dulles to
see that it is not infiltrated with enemy
agents. We cannot examine the information it
receives to judge if it is true or false.
Back in the days of wonderful optimism
between the Civil War and World War I the
American people were convinced that the
world was moving progressively and inevita-
bly toward a Christian millennium. We. rea-
soned that with physical slavery gone serfdom
would' soon. follow, that the obvious decline
of the hereditarynobility meant an inexorable
rise of pure democracy, the colonialism would
mature into freedom for all peoples, and that
expanding education would result in a close
bond of international understanding.
No one would have guessed back in 19,14 i
that in 40 years the United States would be
pouring $60 billions a year into a tremendous
war machine, including the CIA spy network
and the Atomic Energy commission. whose
work is also kept a dark secret from the
MAR 16,, 1954
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This unfortunate circumstance is the prod
uct of a terrible accident in history. There
was good cause for cautious optimism in 1914.
ut an effort by the land-locked German
mpire to catch tip with the wealth and
restige of the British Empire resulted in a
onvulsion that swept away the wealth of
oth. It also toppled the rotten Russian
ristocracy, and a tiny Bolshevik minority
rushed the unorganized middle class and
eized power.
The uneasy peace between the World. Wars
as jarred in 1933 when the rising and
mbitious Japanese nation moved into Man-
churia. Two years later Mussolini took
thiopia and in 1939 Hitler attempted once
gain to establish German power over Europe.
1 his greater convulsion completed the im-
overishment of the British Empire, ruined
t e prestige of the French and in power
acuum caused by the fall of the Axis nations
t e Communist conspiracy moved forward
Ickly.
So it's a cloak-and-dagger world, a world
t at trembles in the shadow of the H-bomb.
I is a world in which those people who are
s ill free cannot afford any more Pearl Har-
t rs.
We hope Mr. Allen Dulles knows what
I?I is talking about when he assures us that
h and his CIA boys know quite a bit. We're
g ing to have.to trust him. If we're going
t hire spies we can't ask them to fill out
q estionnaires.
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