CIA FORTUNES MADE ON SATELLITE PHOTOS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100520018-9
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Content Type: NSPR

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Made on Satellite Photos
Detrdit/s Weekly Alternative Newspaper
1-7 MAY
VOL. 10 NO. 23
.CIA Fortunes
. (ZNS) One possible scandal about
the CIA which has not yet surfaced is
how operatives for the agency have re-
portedly been able to use inside infor-
mation to make financial killings on the
world commodity markets.
The Village Voice reports that "high-
ly trained and highly paid analysts in the
national security agency and the CIA
(have) made fortunes for themselves in-
terpreting satellite photographs."
The Voice says that analysts studied
the data sent back by satellites about
the Russian countryside and detected
early signs of a disastrous Soviet wheat
crop.
These individuals then allegedly
rushed to the world commodity market
and invested their own money in Am-
erican wheat. The Voice says that
when the Soviet grain failures later
come to worldwide attention, the price
of American wheat soared-and the in-
telligence analysts with inside informa-
tion-made small fortunes.
A similar practice has reportedly.
been followed by the agency itself in
its handling of mutual funds. The CIA
is reported to operate a funds company
-known as either "WV Mutual" or
"WH Mutual"-whose profits are used
to pay pensions to injured agents.
The Voice says that the Mutual
fund's assets have been increased to
$20 million in recent years mainly be-
cause-of stock market purchases based
on the CIA's inside knowledge of world
politics and economic events.
Your Government
If you haven't-read anything of much
personal interest lately, here's a sugges-
tion - write to the FBI or the CIA and
ask for your file.
Of course, you may not have a personal
file with either of these agencies, but
then again, thousands and thousands of
Americans who participated in anti-war
activities do. And ever since February
19, when the amendments to the D
Freedom of Information Act went into
effect, those files are available upon
request.
FBI Director Clarence Kelly says
that prior to February 19, the Bureau
received only about five or six Freedom
of Information requests a month. Since
then, the requests have shot up to
around 15 a day.
So if you think you may be a statistic
in a Washington DC file cabinet, all you
have to do is to write to the Deputy
Attorney General, Department of Justice,
Washington DC. Mark your envelope
and letter "Freedom of Information
Request," and include your name,
birthdate and birthplace. If you think
you've been snooped on by the CIA,
write to the Freedom of Information
Coordinator, CIA, Washington DC,
the same information and whatever
activity you've engaged in that may
have aroused the interest of the agency.
Both agencies are required to r--spond
to all requests within ten days. ii'
thousands of people ;am .diem, with
mail, they'll go bananas.
evaitinu~d
STAT
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The Highland Park Ford plant reflects off the glass of the side entrance to the
Manufacturers National Bank. Inside is the entrance to the secret CIA office.
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Paints r City-CIA
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The Fifth Estate stencilled CIA signs
on the door of the agency's local office as part of a service to make federal .
agencies more accessible to the public.
Until the FE performed the free paint
job on the doors, located in a Manufac-
turers' National Bank building at the
comer of Woodward and Manchester in
Highland Park, the average Detroiter had
no idea where his friendly neighborhood
CIA agent hung out, collecting rumor,
innuendo and the odd out-of-context
fact.
The painting was done at no, last
Saturday, first on the outer glass doors fessional job themselves. After all, .
of the bank's side lobby and then on they're experts at labelling people and
the wood door located just inside cdm- things; though'tisitally?h'ot very
accurately.
plete with peephole. The outer glass
doors are always open to provide access
to a cash machine for bank credit card
holders, but unfortunately the inside
door was locked so we couldn't go in-
side and stencil their filing cabinets too.
When we returned at 4:30 that same
afternoon the signs had been removed
and two clean-cut looking dudes in
suits were standing in the lobby with
their hands in their pockets. Maybe
the Agency has rules against advertising.
or perhaps, now that we have given
them the idea, they will do a more pro-
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