SOVIET RUN-DOWN ON THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100160002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 23, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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SOVI t ON-DO' 3 ON
A. Pylypenko
Literaturna ',Jkrayina (Literary Ukraine), No. 55, 15 July 1966, p. 4.
When the newspapers carry atones about the mysterious murder of
?soxe progressive national figure who played a part in the liberation
struggle, or the flights of American U-2 spy planes over foreign torrito
or attacks rzade against ships bound for Cuba, thoro is no question of what
is happening: behind all of these evil doings are the agents of the United
States Central Intelligence Agency. In his book The Art,cif espionage,
Allen Dulles writes that the CIA "rnaintains listening posts in every part
of the world. The arena of our battle is the globe itself."
The Central Intelligence Agency was created on 18 September 1.947,
when the then President Harry Truman signed the National Security Law. A
first glance it would appear that the CIA's functions were limited to
o:i;anizing and coordinating, the work of the other spy agencies in their
collection of intelligence data, and to au -arizinZ that information for
the President. But after a few years even Harry Truman was forced to aa-
knowlcdge that` "...the President's intelligence organ has gone far beyond
the role originally assigned it, and has now becomo the symbol of oadnoue,
adventurous intrigues abroad."
The role of the CIA in the imperialist policy of the United Status
has since greatly increased. The well-known American Journalists, D.. Wise
and T. Ross, scarcely exaggerated when they wrote in Tha Invisible Govern-
rent (New York, 1964) that "There are two governments in the United Statoi
today. One is visible. The other is inviable. The first is the govern-
lent that citizens read about in their newspapers and children read about
in their civics books. The second is the interlocking, hidden machinery
that carries out the..polieiss of the United States in the-Cold War."
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