THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE COLD WAR

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The Role of1lntelligence in
the Cold War
man: Malthus' population theory,
by L. Fletcher Prouty
The deepest cover story of the
CIA is that it is an intelligence organ-
ization."
So said the bulletin of the Federa-
tion of American Scientists many
years ago. It was a true statement
then, and it is even truer today.
Have you ever wondered why the
CIA.was created and what it is really
supposed to be doing? Or why it is
that the "quiet intelligence arm of the
President "as President Truman called
it, and its Soviet counterpart, the
KGB, are the leading brigades on the
worldwide frontier in World War III,
also known as the Cold War?
In the real world - where more
than $6 trillion have been spent on
military manpower, materiel and facil-
ities since World War If ended in 1945
- we are discovering that the major
battles are being fought every day by
Third World countries and by terror-
ists while, at the same time, the
enormous military might of both
world powers has proven to be inef-
fectual.
The existence of the multi-megaton
hydrogen bomb has so drastically
changed the tactics of warfare that,
today and for the future, grand strat-
egy is being carried out by the invisi-
ble forces of the CIA, the KGB and
their countless lesser counterparts
around the world.
Philosophical Basis
Men in positions of great power are
forced to realize, sooner or later, that
their aspirations and responsibilities
have exceeded the horizons of their
own experience, knowledge and capa-
bility.
Because they are in charge, how-
ever, they are compelled to do some-
thing.
This overpowering necessity to do
something - although they do not
know what to do or how to do it -
creates in these men an overbearing
fear of the people. It is a fear not of
you and me as individuals, but of
populations and of the masses of
mankind.
When they reach this point, they
are influenced by the persuasive ten-
ets of a trio of the greatest propa-
ganda schemes ever put forth by
Darwin's theory of evolution as en-
hanced by the concept of the survival
of the fittest, and Heisenberg's the-
ory of indeterminacy, i.e., that God
throws the dice.
The first provides a rationalization
for the urge to somehow get rid of
large numbers of people - any peo-
ple, in any way. With Malthus they
can rationalize that this is a good
objective, because Earth, could not
support the progeny of so many peo-
ple anyway.
The second fortifies them, because
Darwin allows them to believe that
because they survive - at no matter
what cost to others and to Earth -
they must be, by Darwin's definition,
the fittest.
The third provides an excuse for
their errors and confusion. Certainly,
if science can be indeterminate, as
Heisenberg has convincingly written,
then economics can be, and so can
everything else.
From this point of view, warfare
and the preparation for war is an
absolute necessity. This is documented
by the remarkable "Report from Iron
Mountain on the Possibility and De-
sirability of Peace" by the Special
Study Group in 1966, an organiza-
tion which was so highly classified
that there is no record, to this day, of
who the men in the group were or
with what part of government they
were connected.
That war-is necessary to sustain
society, the nation and national sov-
ereignty has been the widely held
view for millennia, and totally uncon-
trolled warfare - the only kind of
real war - got bigger and "better" as
time and technology churned on, until
it culminated in World War II.
The High Cabal
At that time, the chief world lead-
ers (those of the High Cabal: a term
often used by Winston Churchill in
recognition of their existence and
their supremacy) were faced suddenly
with the reality of the Great Dilemma.
At the root of the dilemma is the
fact of the H-bomb.
The High Cabal realized that use of
the thermonuclear, fusion-type, mega-
ton-plus bomb would destroy man-
kind, nature and the earth itself.
Must they, therefore, abandon the
historic madness of all-out uncon-
trolled warfare, or, instead, could
they discover and create some alter-
native to war that would perpetuate
nationalism and maintain national
sovereignty?
Since the day, after Hiroshima, of
that first realization, the H-bomb has
been used to atomize whole islands in
the Pacific, and that lesson has been
sufficient.
The Great Dilemma is now fact.
There can no longer be wars - at
least not all-out, go-for-broke type
wars as there had previously been
through the ages..
Today, the High Cabal can see no
assured survival for themselves and
their class. Despite the record of all
those past wars of history and despite
their intensity and scope, until the
end of World War 11, the elite of the
High Cabal (who existed above the
war, it might be said, on both sides)
had always been assured of survival.
In any war with H-bombs, there
can be no assured survival for man-
kind, for all of nature, or for the earth
- much less for any select few.
Under such circumstances, since
survival is the strongest drive in man,
what form can war take, given that it
is viewed as a necessity and that the
High Cabal can actually make a choice?
The "Cold War"
Faced with this dilemma and with
their continuing belief in the mislead-
ing theories of Malthus, Darwin and
Heisenberg, world leaders turned -
even before the end of World War 11
- to an alternative, all-new type of
invisible war to be waged under the
cloak of propaganda and secrecy.
They called it the "Cold War," and
it has already cost more than $6 trillion
and many millions of lives. It is World
War III - perhaps man's last war,
because it will never end or result in
victory for anyone. It will only assure
the attrition of manpower and mate-
riel, and it will dangerously pollute
Earth.
On the other hand, it is a very real,
killing war. Its battles loom every-
where and its dead are counted in the
millions - more of them non-combat-
ants than soldiers. It is the secret war,
the invisible war, and from the point
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of view of the High Cabal, it is satis-
factory, because it consumes the prod-
uct and is reasonably controllable.
But the Cold War as an alternative
to the real thing is a failure. We have
already witnessed the deteriorization
of the concept of national sover-
eignty.
We have seen the rise of the strange,
non-military power of the small na-
tions of the Third World. The whole
scheme of warfare is being turned
upside down by. bands of terrorists
who defy the great powers. They
cannot be controlled with H-bombs;
and modern armies, if used in strength,
would create a situation which the
armies, ultimately, could not handle.
The greater the potential victory, the
closer the war would move to the
nuclear threshold.
General Douglas MacArthur had
to accept that on the south bank of
the Yalu River in Korea. General
Creighton Abrams learned that when
he proposed to capture Hanoi instead
of maintaining a perimeter around
the Cercle Sportiff in Saigon. And,
more importantly, the terrorists have
learned this, and they use that knowl-
edge to defy everyone - the big pow-
ers and their neighbors.
This is why the newly structured
bipolar world of communism vs. the
West began building enormous intel-
ligence agencies that had the power,
invisibly, to wage any warfare, any-
where, and to include methods of
warfare never before imagined.
These conflicts had to be tactically
designed to remain short of the utili-
zation of the H-bomb by either side.
There can never be victories in such
warfare, but there can be tremen-
dous loss of life, and there is the
much-desired consumption and attri-
tion of trillions of dollars - and
rubles - worth of war equipment.
This series of articles will discuss
these new forces. It will tell the whole
CIA story, from 1947 to the present,
and will provide comparisons with
the intelligence organizations - the
invisible forces - of other countries.
Modern-Day Intelligence
It is essential to note that there are
two general categories of intelligence
organizations, and that their func-
tions are determined by the charac-
teristics of the governments they
serve - not by the citizens of those
governments - but by the leaders of
those governments.
These leaders are forced to depend
upon these secret, elite forces to
remain alive and in power.
Under totalitarian or highly cen-
tralized, non-democratic regimes, the
intelligence organization is a political,
secret service with power to arrest. It
is designed primarily to protect the
personal security of those who con-
trol the authority of the state against
political opponents foreign and do-
mestic.
Such an organization operates in
deep secrecy and has the responsibil-
ity for carrying out espionage and
counter-espionage. This methodol-
ogy is as true of Chile or Jordan as it is
of the Soviet Union.
The second category of intelligence
organization is one whose agents are
limited to the gathering and report-
ing of intelligence and who have no
police functions or power to arrest
at home or abroad.
This second type is what the CIA
was created to be, but, factually, this
second type does not exist.
In the decades since the CIA was
created, the agency has acquired more
sinister functions, as all intelligence
agencies, in time, tend to do.
The CIA today is a far cry from the
agency that was created in 1947 by
the National Security Act. As Presi-
dent Harry S Truman had confided to
close friends, the greatest mistake of
his administration took place when
he signed the National Security Act
of 1947 into law.
The "Iron Curtain"
During World War Il, the four
great powers - the United States,
Great Britain, China and the Soviet
Union - opposed the Axis powers
-Germany, Italy and Japan. These
enormous military and economic
forces, on each side, were locked
together in the greatest armed con-
flict of history. The Russians alone
suffered more than 20 million cas-
ualties.
One would believe that such a
union of forces, welded in the heat of
war, would remain joined forever.
However, even before the surren-
derof Germany and Japan, the Office
of Strategic Services (OSS) - and
particularly its agents, Frank Wisner
in Budapest and Allen W. Dulles in
Switzerland -nurtured the idea that
,the time had come to rejoin with
selected Nazi power centers and to
split the Western alliance with the
Soviet Union.
"Rejoin" is the proper word in this
case. It was the Dulles-affiliated New
York law firm of Sullivan and Crom-
well that refused to close its offices in
Nazi Germany after the start of World
War II, even while Great Britain and
France were locked in a losing strug-
gle with Hitler's invading forces.
L
It was this covert faction and its
policies, coordinated with a similar
British faction, that encouraged the
Nazis to put forth the divisive "Iron
Curtain" concept as early as .1944.
They did it to save their own necks, to
salvage certain power centers and
their wealth, and to stir up resent-
ment against the Russians, even at
the time of Russia's greatest triumph.
As a result of a masterful propa-
ganda campaign begun by the Nazis
themselves, most of us have been led
to believe that it was the British who
first recognized the communist threat
in Eastern Europe, that it was Win-
ston Churchill himself who coined
the phrase "Iron Curtain" with refer-
ence to the communist bloc countries
of Eastern Europe, and that Churchill
did this after the end of World War Il.
The facts are otherwise. Churchill
did not coin that memorable phrase.
He only embellished it and exploited
it. The true story was as follows:
Just before the close of World War
II in Europe, when the Russian army
and the American and British armies
were rushing to meet each other over
the bodies of a defeated German
army in a devastated country, the
German foreign minister, Count Lutz
Schwerin von Krosgk, made a speech
which was reported in The Times of
London on May 3, 1945.
In this speech, von Krosgk used the
Nazi-coined propaganda phrase "Iron
Curtain" for the first time, and he
used it in precisely the same context
which was later repeated by Churchill.
On May 12, just three days after
the German surrender went into
force, Churchill wrote a letter to
Truman, who had become president
one month earlier after the sudden
death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The
purpose of the letter, he said, was to
express his concern about the future
of Europe, and to say that an "Iron
Curtain" had been lowered to conceal
everything that was going on within
.the Russian sphere of Eastern Europe.
This was a clever thrust by the old
master, along the road to widening
the tensions and splitting the alliance
between the Soviet Union and West-
ern powers. This deft move by Church-
ill planted the seed of a potent idea in
the mind of the new president, and at
a most opportune time.
Nearly one year later, on March 4
and 5, 1946, Truman and Churchill
traveled together on the president's
special train from Washington, D.C.,
to Westminster College in Fulton,
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Missouri, where Churchill delivered
those historic lines: "From Stettin in
the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,
an Iron Curtain has descended across
the Continent."
The New Propaganda Line
Most historical publications and
news media sources would have us
believe that this memorable occasion
marked the end of the wartime alliance
with the USSR and the beginning of
the Cold War, but this was not so.
The grand strategy decision to
create a new bipolar world had al-
ready been made in 1944-1945, and
the partners in this new global power
structure were to be the United
States, Great Britain, Germany and
Japan - two of the World War II vic-
tors and two of the vanquished.
The great array of forces of World
War ii were disbanded rapidly in
1945, and shortly thereafter, in 1946,
Truman disbanded the OSS and cre-
ated a new Central Intelligence Group
(CIG).
During those post-war years, a
massive, new propaganda line trum-
peted across the land: "The United
States represents free enterprise, and
we will destroy socialism!"
It was based on this propaganda
line that the new form of warfare was
born, and its continuing battles were
to be waged in Third World countries
by a secret and invisible army, with
the OSS, the CIG, and later the CIA
constituting the advance guard of
that secret army.
The vast store of unused, first-
class military weapons and heavier
materiel that had been stockpiled on
Okinawa for the expected invasion of
Japan was divided and given, in the
fall of 1945, to the South Korean
forces of Syngman Rhee and to the
Indochinese nationalist forces of Ho
Chi Minh and General Giap.
OSS units with both of these Asian
leaders coordinated the enormous
supply movement into those Japanese-
devastated countries.
It is no chance happening that it has
been in these locales that the two
greatest conflicts of the Cold War to
date have been fought, and that both
were fought to no victorious conclu-
sion. If and when other such conflicts
occur, they will' have to follow the
same pattern and will reach a similar
conclusion.
By the end of World War II, the
great financial powers of the Western
World, aided by their omnipotent
Wall Street lawyers, had decided it
was time to create a new power cen-
ter of transnational corporations and,
in the process, to destroy the Soviet
Union and socialism. To achieve this
enormous objective, they chose as
their principal force the invisible
power and might of the CIA.
They began this move cautiously.
Peacetime Intelligence Agency
During 1947, Congress worked on
the legislative language that would
establish a new National Security
Council (NSC) and a new Depart-
ment of Defense (DOD), with a joint
Chiefs of Staff (JCS) structure and
separate departments of the Army,
Navy and Air Force.
Almost as an afterthought, the
National Security Act.of 1947 pro-
vided for the creation of a central
intelligence agency.
There was much opposition to this
concept.
The United States had never before
had, in peacetime, a full-fledged intel-
ligence agency operating in the inter-
national arena. There had been intel-
ligence organizations in the Army,
Navy, FBI, Treasury and State depart-
ments, but these were all specialist
staffs designed to perform the work
required for the functional support of
their various masters.
Furthermore, the work of these tra-
ditional intelligence organizations had
almost always been limited to pure
intelligence, and did not intrude into
the area of "fun and games," as clan-
destine operations are known within
the intelligence community.
"Calm the Waters"
Therefore, when the language of
the National Security Act of 1947
was drafted - primarily written by a
most gifted lawyer, Clark Clifford -
it was designed to calm the waters.
It was the intent of the sponsors of
this legislation to have the CIA created
and brought into existence no matter
what the language of the law had to
contain - or not contain - in order
to get over the threshold. They knew
that no matter what was written into
the law, the CIA, under the cloak of
secrecy, could then be manipulated to
do everything that was requested of
it later.
The law that was passed by Con-
gress and signed by President Tru-
man created the Central Intelligence
Agency and placed it under the direc-
tion of the National Security Council
(NSC).
The agency's statutory authority is
contained in Title 50 U.S.C. Section
403(d). To facilitate the creation of
the agency, its expressed legal duties
were limited to "coordinating the in-
telligence activities of the several
departments and agencies in the
interest of national security."
The modest language of the law
was chosen specifically to overcome
the objections expressed by such
members of Congress as Rep. Clar-
enceBrown (R-Ohio), who said:
"I am very much interested in see-
ing the United States have as fine a
foreign military and naval intelligence
as they can Possibly have, but I am
not interested in setting up here in
the United States any particular cen-
tral policy agency under any presi-
dent - i do not care what his name
may be -and just allow him to have a
Gestapo of his own if he wants to have
it. Every now and then you get a man
that comes up in power and that has
an imperialist idea." A
Maior Prouty wrote the first text on "Rockets
and Missiles" for the U.S. Air Force in
1949, while assigned to the Continental Air
Command headquarters as a writer of official
Air Force textbooks.
L. Fletcher Prouty has a long background
in the business of clandestine operations and
their military support.
During the latter part of 1943, he was at
the Cairo and Teheran conferences. During
1944, he flew into the Soviet Union on a
special mission and made a number of flights
into Turkey, then a neutral country, assisting
with the aiscovery and break-up of a ring
-including American military personnel -
that was smuggling German gold via Turkey
to Argentina. He also assisted in the setting
up of a special air pickup of hundreds of
American and Allied prisoners of war from
the Balkan states. Among these hundreds, the
O5S had infiltrated pro-Nazi sympathizers,
an action which grew to much greater propor-
tions after the war and was administrated
from Frankfurt, Germany.
From 1955 through 1963, Prouty was
Chief of Special Operations for the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, served in a similar capacity
with the Office of Special Operations in the
Office of the Secretary of Defense, and headed
the Special Operations Office for the U.S.
Air Force. All of these were charged with "the
military support of the clandestine operations
of the CIA."
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