CLUB TOLD SPY COSTS TREMENDOUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600390028-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: May 12, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Club Told
Spy Costs
Tremendous
lutely amazing, Rock Island Ro,
noon by Donald H. Purcell,
Rock Island, a former Intelli-
gence officer In the Air Force.
Even Congress doesn't know
how much and. how money is
spent, by the Central Intelli-
genceeny_; said. " I
knows."
Today's espionage is complexf
ana extensive. Modern elec-t
tronics and advanced photogra-
phy are major tools of the spy
profession, according, to Pur.
Electronic brains can crack,'
any code, if It is used more.'
than once. Cameras on space
satellites keep U.S. intelligence'
posted on 'activities behind
gurded borders. Instant come
m nications with agents any,
W ere in the world are routinel
today.
Purcell also told of Incidents
be encountered during his serve ,..
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the Korean Conflict.
Evaluation Problem
rernaps, the greatest prob
lem in intelligence is the actual;
evaluation of information. Pur.
cell said that the 'U.S. had
cracked the' Japanese code six
months prior to . Pearl Harbor
but 'the evaluation of Intelli-
gence failed to alert military
and naval brass hats.
Purcell warned his audience1"
never to underestimate the)
I Communists. The aim of com-'
4 munism is to destroy capital-
ism, and, lie said; the Commu
nists have lots of time and-lives
mean nothing to them. If they1
peed to, they will sacrifice 25
Million Red' Chinese liven try
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