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RICHMOND NEWS LEADER
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Garbo and Insults:
Relations between India and the
United - States turned sour last year
when the Nixon Administration sided
with Pakistan in the short-lived Indo-
Pakistani War. Even so, the United
States had so long supported India's
"experiment in democracy" that most
observers felt that after a reasonable
cooling-off period, the giant of the
West and the giant of South Asia
would soon be smiling at each other
once again.
Not so. Under the peace-loving,
iron-handed rule of Prime Minister In-
dira Gandhi, India has created a cult
of anti-Americanism that would do
any two-bit African or Latin American
country proud. According to Indian of-
ficials, the United States is respon-
sible for just about every ill imagi-
nable, except perhaps the circum-
stance that Mrs. Gandhi was"not born
a boy. Leading the list of American
bad guys is the Central Intelligence
Agency, that fascist-loaded organiza-
tion which preys on poor, defenseless
nations at every opportunity.
Indeed, Indian Communists now
claim that the United States will post
Ambassador Carol Laise from Nepal
to New Delhi as part of an expanded
CIA sabotage effort. Wife of that well-
known CIA operative, Ambassador to
Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker, Miss Laise
was described the other day as a
"CIA Mata Hari," whose appointment
to New Delhi would be. "another insult
to India"-an insult, no doubt,
akin to the U.S. cutoff of aid to India
following the December hostilities.
In fact, Indian anti'-Americanism
has grown in direct proportion to the
number of days during which India
has been forced to struggle on without
sugar from Uncle Sam: fewer dollars,
more charges of CIA interference. So
all the United States needs to do is to
start providing financial support
again, and Miss Laise will not have to
worry about being compared to Greta
Garbo.
Then again, Mrs. Gandhi probably
would claim, even as she stuffed her
-piggy bank, that the Nixon Adminis-
tration was trying to insult her with
money.
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For God
And Country
THE KAPLANS
One of the most bizarre accounts of covert CIA
financing, espionage, Communist activities and
murder involves Jacob Merrill Kaplan or his nephew
Joel David Kaplan.
Jacob M. Kaplan was born in Lowell, Mass. on
December 23, 1893, the son of David Kaplan and the
former Fannie Gertz (a 1938 biography refers to his
mother as Fannie Levin). After attending public
schools in Massachusetts, Kaplan spent ten years in
semi-tropical. Latin American sugar-producing
countries. On June 20, 1925 he married Alice
Manheim and they had four children: Joan Felice
(Mrs. C. Gerard Davidson), Elizabeth (Mrs. Gonzalo
Fonseca),, Richard David, and Mary Ellen.
In 1920 Jacob Kaplan organized the Oldetyme
Molasses Company and served as its president until it
was merged with Dunbar Molasses Company in 1924.
In 1928' lie sold the entire company and became
president of J.M. Kaplan and Brothers, Inc. and later
the Kaplan Holding Corp. In 1934 he established the
Molasses Products Corp. He and his half-brother,
Abrim Isaac Kaplan, became millionaires known as
the "molasses kings."
In the hearings known as Appendix IX of the
Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the
U.S. Congress, page 1085, it was revealed that J.M.
Kaplan' was affiliated with the American Committee
for the Settlement of Jews in Biro Bidjan (in the
Soviet Union). This organization was cited as a
Communist front -which had its own worldwide
propaganda campaign for the purpose of getting Jews
to emigrate to a province of the Soviet Union. The
organization was subsequently cited as subversive by
an Attorney General of the U.S.
By 1932 .Jacob Kaplan was president and chairman
of the board of Hearn Department Stores, Inc.; he
became president of the American Dry Ice Corp. the
following year, and in 1945 became president of
Welch Gra 3e Juice, Inc. of New York. He was also an
official of the Ronier Corp., Jemkap Inc.,
Southwestern Sugar and Molasses Co., Inc. Ile was a
director of the New Mexico Lumber and Timber
Company and president and director of the J.M.
Kaplan Fund, Inc., which lie originally started in
1942.
Jacob Kaplan received considerable publicity when
it was disclosed that through his J.M. Kaplan Fund,
Inc. of 55 Fifth Avenue, New York City, at least a
million dollars of CIA funds were dispensed to such
leftist organizations as the Institute of International
Labor Research, Inc. This outfit which has also been
known as Labor Research, Inc., maintains an office at
113 East 37th Street, N.Y.C. It was headed by the
late Norman Thomas, Chairman of the Socialist Party
of the United States, at the very time CIA turned
over nearly $1 million to it for the purpose of
financing what the New York TIMES of February 22,
1967, described euphemistically as "17. left-of-center
parties throughout Latin America."
Secretary-Treasurer of the Institute of Labor
Research was Sacha Volman, who set up radically
leftist "institutes" in Costa Rica and the Dominican
Republic. According to Otilia Ulate, former President
of Costa Rica, the San Jose Institute supported only
those Parties which "have the characteristic features
which make them identical in doctrine and homo-
genous in political and social attitudes with Russian
Communism." Ulate said that all democratic parties
opposed to the Marxist regime in Cuba were excluded
from this offshoot of the Norman Thomas and Sacha
Yolman Institute.
Through the Dominican Institute, using CIA funds,
Volman promoted political careers for such key
Communists as the notorious Juan Bosch. Sacha
Volman had close ties with comrades throughout
Latin America and was neck-deep in the Marxist
Leninist "Center of Research in Economic and Social
Development" at Santo Domingo. This organization
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(CIDES) was financed by the CIA, the U.S. State
Department and the Ford Foundation. When his
intelligence organization infiltrated CIDES, General
Wessin y Wessin of the Dominican Republic found it
to be a Communist training and indoctrination
operation. Sacha Volman was an instructor in that
operation and was the man who, with State Depart-
ment and CIA direction, promoted Communist Juan
Bosch all the way to the Presidency of the Dominican
Republic.
Volman is suspected of being a Soviet agent
assigned to Latin American Affairs. He was born in
Russia, lived in Romania and came to the United
States as a "refugee." He is now a U.S. citizen and has
been living at 245 East 8th St., N.Y.C. In the
Hearings of the Senate Internal Security Sub-com-
mittee on "The Communist Threat to the United
States Through the Caribbean," General Wessin y
Wessin testified under oath about Volman's CIA
operation: (Quote)
Mr. SOURWINE. Now, you spoke of 40 Com-
munist indoctrination centers operating in the
Dominican Republic under Juan Bosch. Did these
centers operate openly as
a Communist operation?
General WESSIN. Openly:
Mr. SOURWINE. Did they display Communist
banners or signs?
General WESSIN. One of these schools located on
Caracas Street No. 54 displayed the Soviet flag.
Mr. SOURWINE. The Soviet flag? Not just a
Communist banner with a hammer and sickle, but the
Soviet flag?
General WESSIN. It was the
hammer and sickle.
red flag with the
Mr. SOURWINE. Now, do you know where these
centers were operated? You named the location of
one. Can you tell us where others were?
General. WESSIN. In the school Padre Villini
Calle-Mercedes. This building, in spite of the fact that
it bglonged to the Government, was turned over to
the Communist Dato Pagan Perdomo to install a
school of political science.
There was another one, which went under the
initials of'CIDES located in the farm, or Finca Jaina
Moza. In this school, the teachers were among the
others, Juan Bosch, Angel Miolan, and Sacha Volman.
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General WESSIN. Angel Miolan is a Communist,
and I say that lie is a Communist because in order to
be secretary .of Vicente Lombardo Toledano for 10
years you have to be a Communist.
Mr. SOURWINE. Vicente Lombardo Toledano was
an outstanding Communist, was he not?
General WESSIN. Yes, sir. He was, in fact, head of
all Communist political activities in Mexico ... .
Mr. SOURWINE. Now, who is Sacha Volman?
General WESSIN. Ile was a Rumanian brought there
by Juan Bosch. I don't know him.
Mr. SOURWINE. Did you consider him a Com-
munist?
, General WESSIN. In my country there is a saying
that says tell me with whom you go, and I will tell
you who you are." (End of Quote)
Also involved with the Communist-oriented CIDES
organization was Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas. The Parvin, Foundation, of which Douglas
was a member of the board of directors, joined with
the National Association of Broadcasters and CIDES
to produce "educational" films. According to the
New York TIMES of February 22, 1967, Douglas
became a member of the board of CIDES, which
administered the film project in the field. The
"educational" films and the CIDES Communist train-
ing school had to be abandoned when President
Bosch attempted an open Communist takeover and
was overthrown by a military coup late in 1963. The
CIA had been financing an effort to turn the
Dominican Republic into another Cuba.
In 1952 Jacob Kaplan became a trustee of the New
School for Social Research on West 12th Street in
New York City, well-known as a Marxist-oriented
school. In 1956 Kaplan was honored, along with two
others, when an 8-story annex of a new school
building was named for him. A 4-story building on
I 1 th Street was named for Albert A. List, president
of the Glen Alden Corp., and the main college
building on 12th Street was named for Dr. Alvin
Johnson, long a professor at the New School for
Social Research. Dr. Johnson was reported to be a
supporter of the late Communist Congressman Vito
Marcantonio, and according to published reports, was
affiliated with a long list of Communist fronts.
In 1968 ground was broken in New York City for
the construction of an apartment complex, originally
estimated to cost $10 million, to provide low income
. Mr. SOURWINE. One of those names has come up . housing for artists, writers, sculptors, musicians,
before. One# ?rQ cfeptrli@q'll@gsigeaotIf : CIAdRQR84mQO49RR.6O1Q ttI O8-21lture." The
was Angel Miolan? project was a joint venture of the J.M. Kaplan Fund
and the National Council on the Arts, both of which
made graAbfippMV 08? F `~ 9s26&)
Loans to i ance t o project were made 'R y' e
Federal Housing Administration. The property was
importer, has been a consultant to U.S. Government
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purchased from Bell Laboratories for $21/z million by
the Westbeth Corp., anon-profit organization formed
by the Kaplan Fund. Mrs. Joan Davidson, daughter of
Jacob Kaplan, told the New York TIMES "The
Federal Housing Administration has been very broad-
minded, helpful and reasonable and has waived their
usual requirements in several areas."
Kaplan's daughter, Joan, had married Crow Girard
Davidson on. December 20, 1953 and they were
divorced in March of 1967. Davidson was a member
of the Democratic National Committee and had been
Assistant Secretary of the Interior from 1946 to
1950. On page 5291 of the Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee hearings on the Institute of Pacific
Relations, exhibit 1294 is a letter to Davidson from.
Edward Carter, President of the IPR, indicating a
close. relationship.
On May 20, 1970, the New York TIMES reported
thb formal opening of Westbeth, the world's largest
housing project for artists which has cost $13 million
so far. Speaking on the occasion, in addition to
Mayor John Lindsay, was Rev. Howard L. Moody of
the Judson Memorial Church, long a supporter of
leftist causes.
Jacob M. Kaplan and his half-brother, Abrim Isaac,
made millions in sugar and molasses, principally in
Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Abrim died in
1959 and his wife, Mrs. Ray Kempner Kaplan of
N.Y., died in May, 1965. Joel,David Kaplan, age 45,
the son of Abrim and Ray, became a partner in the
Kaplan interests in Central and South America.
Kaplan had been living at 215 E. 75th St., N.Y.C.,
and married a New York model, Bonnie Sharie, on
October 14, 1956. The marriage was a stormy one
and was terminated after Bonnie charged her husband
with cruelty and told N.Y. Supreme Court Justice
Thomas Aurelio that in one year of married life her
husband had beaten her 20 times. Eventually she was
awarded $200 a week alimony but Kaplan was
constantly in arrears.
-Joel Kaplan established an independent molasses
business in Peru and trucking firms in Texas and
Oklahoma. He subsequently entered into an official
partnership with 'Luis M. Vidal, Jr., the godson. of
the late General Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican
Republic. Vidal, Jr. was the personal unofficial
representative or business agent for the Dominican
Republic during a number of years while Trujillo
headed the government. Luis Melchoir Vidal, Sr., an
During the .1950's Vidal teamed up with Joel
Kaplan and, under cover of either the Paint Company
of America or the American Sucrose Company, they
operated throughout Latin America reportedly as
agents of the CIA, supplying arms to anti-Communist
governments and movements. Joel Kaplan, however,
was on the left and reportedly also supplied guns for
Communist guerrillas in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Hon-
duras, and Cuba, while Vidal was selling arms to anti-
Communists and anti-Castro Cubans..It was also re-
ported that Kaplan had even shortchanged the guerrilla
leaders by supplying less arms than were paid for.
The business partnership ended abruptly with the
murder of Vidal.
It is believed that Vidal learned of his partner's
dealings with the Communist guerrillas and there was
a falling out. On November 18, 1961 the decomposed
and bullet-torn body of a man, subsequently identi-
fied as that of Luis M. Vidal, Jr., was found in a
shallow grave off a lonely road between Mexico City
and Cuernavaca.
Kaplan, who had been in Mexico, returned to New
York where he learned that Mexican authorities
wished to question him concerning the death of his
partner. Kaplan left the U.S. and went to Madrid,
Spain where he was arrested in the spring of 1962 by
Louis, Pozo, the Spanish Chief of Interpol (inter-
national police agency). After a week in a Madrid jail,.
Kaplan was returned to Mexico to face trial for
premeditated murder. Kaplan was represented at the
trial by Victor Velasquez, a prominent Mexican at-
torney and associate of Louis Nizer of New York.
The defense claimed that the body of the murdered
man was not Vidal but the Mexican authorities
produced Vidal's wife who identified the deceased as
her husband. Tremendous pressures were brought to
bear on both sides and and attempt had allegedly.
been made to obtain $200,000 from Kaplan as the
price for quashing the case. It was revealed that just
before the murder, Kaplan had entered Mexico with a
false passport issued to Albert Richard Yates, age 30,
a British seaman, and that two other men accom-
panied him. One was a Russian-born naturalized
American, Evsai Petrushansky; the other, who claimed
-Israeli citizenship, had a passport issued to Earl Scott.
He later identified himself as Harry Kopelson, a
merchant. from Tel Aviv. He also was charged with
the murder but was acquitted. Petrushansky was not
brought to trial. Kaplan was convicted in Mexico City
of premeditated murder and was sentenced to serve
,28 years in prison. A number of appeals were filed
beginning in' 1965, until finally his last appeal was,
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turned down by the Mexican Supreme Court in 1968. though he was an escaped convict. It was subse-
In the meantime, in May of 1965 Kaplan's lawyers
had revealed to authorities that he had acquired a
new wife, 25-year old Irma Vasquez Calderon, and
that they were married by proxy. Under Mexican law,
wives are permitted conjugal visits with prisoners.
While the appeals were fizzling out, Joel Kaplan's
divorced sister, Judy Kaplan Dowis, age 40, of
Sausalito, Calif., undertook a series of attempts, both
legal and extra-legal, to get her brother out of the
Mexican Prison. These included attempting to bribe
high Mexican Government officials, planning escapes
and even producing a defrocked Roman Catholic
priest who claimed that the murdered man, Luis
Vidal, was alive and that he had married Vidal to a
woman named Lucia Magana. This and numerous
other plans and plots were unsuccessful. Judy then
made contact with Victor D. Stadtcr, reportedly a
big-time smuggler, who lives in a 16-room house on a
10-acre estate in Glendora, Calif. Stadter, now 52
years old, had spent five years in the federal
penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. after being convicted in
the U. S. District Court in Brooklyn in connection
with a narcotics conspiracy case.
Stad ter worked out a plan for Kaplan's escape. He
purchased a Bell Aircraft model 47 helicopter in
Casper, Wyoming for $65,000; he also acquired a fast
single engine Cessna 210 aircraft and had both of
them registered in the name of M. Milandra..On
August 18, 1971 at 6:37 P.M., the helicopter, piloted
by Roger Guy Hershner, age 29, formerly of Glen-
dora ~,nd now of Ontario, California, was set down in
the prison courtyard. Within 20 seconds it was aloft
with Kaplan and his cellmate, Carlos Antonio Con-
treras Castro, age 36, who was serving a sentence for
counterfeiting and forgery. The helicopter flew ap-
proximately 100 miles away where a plan piloted by
Stadter was waiting to take them to Brownsville,
Texas where they boarded another shall plane which
took them to Sausalito, Calif. where sister Judy lived.
Through Victor Stadter it was learned that Kaplan
spent. three months in Stadter's Glendora home after
the escapee
In a dispatch from. Mexico City, dated August 20,
1971, the U.P.I. reported that the Mexican police
asked the U.S. F.B.I. to seek and arrest a New Yorker
who had escaped by helicopter from the Mexican
federal penitentiary. The dispatch stated that Victor
Valesquez, Kaplan's defense attorney, claimed that
his client was an agent of the CIA. On September 6,
1971 the New York TIMES reported that a spokes-
man for the U.S. Department of Justice said that
Kaplan was NOT sought by the F131 and that little
quently learned' that Kaplan's two friends, who
entered Mexico with him prior to the murder, had
been involved previously in European espionage'
activities (not on behalf of the U.S.). Reporters who
interviewed members of the Kaplan family after his
escape obtained little information. His sister, Mrs.
Dowis, refused all information and referred ques-
tioners to. her attorney, Vasilios Choulos of San
Francisco. Kaplan and his Mexican-born second wife
are reportedly living in the vicinity of Sante Fe, N.M.
where the Kaplan family is said to have property and
business interests.
The CIA involvement in the death of General
Trujillo has been documented. Arturo Espaillat ex-
plains in "Trujillo: The Last Caesar" that "The
arrival of weapons from the Government of the,
United States was, for the plotters, tangible evidence
that the might of the United States was behind then.
Without that support there would simply have been
no conspiracy. Trujillo had put together a powerful
political-military machine which could only have
been destroyed by intervention from the outside
world." And the State Department had decreed that
Rafael. Trujullo, our most reliable anti-Communist
ally in the Caribbean, must die. The CIA did the job.
Luis Vidal, godson of General Trujillo, was also
murdered by the CIA.
On the other hand, Joel Kaplan lives comfortably
on his inherited fortune, unmolested by the U.S.
Department of Justice in spite of his involvement in
supplying arms to Communist guerrillas and revolu-
tionaries. His illegal smuggling of arms, use of false
passports, murder conviction and finally his escape
from the Mexican prison are seemingly of no interest
to U.S. authorities. The CIA works in mysterious
ways its murders to perform and
protect.
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Hurroo, Hurroo...
Hurroo, Hurroo guns
Vith your guns and drums and drums and gun
By Kenneth P. O'Donnell
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tates aga
nst a sm
te
A few minutes before President
shoes and hit him over the head with
independent government.
Kennedy was shot in Dallas nine
it?
"I'll take all the blame fpr
years ago today, two of his traveling
Kennedy, and all of the Boston
told the generals.
companions, Dave Powers and myself,
Irishmen on his White House staff,
Publicly the President took
in the motorcade close behind his
were surprised when Henry Cabot
responsibility for the Bay of P
limousine, were saying how happy he
Lodge, our old Yankee Brahmin polit-
aster. But later he learned t
seemed that morning. As longtime
ical adversary from Massachusetts,
C.I.A. had assured the Cuba
aides to. the President, Dave and I
was suggested by Dean Rusk for the
leaders that they would be
had seen him through many memora-
Ambassador's post in. Saigon. The
strong U.S. military support. T
ble days but we never saw him in a
President told us that he decided to
him to a bitter conclusion.
better mood than on that trip to Texas.
approve the appointment partly be-
. The big worry of his first two years
Dave Powers remembers th
cause the idea of getting Lodge mixed
in the White House-the threat of
ident saying at the time, whi
up in such a hopeless mess as the
nuclear war with Russia-was safely
were swimming one day in th
big one in Vietnam was irsresistible.
behind him. He had decided to pull
house pool, "They couldn't
Lodge was a bit too stiffly patrician
out of Vietnam. A few days before we
I wouldn't panic and try to s
for Kennedy's taste and Richard Nixon
went to Texas, Dave and I were talk-
own, face. Well, they had me
was not . classy enough. When we wrong.
ing with him about Vietnam. We
"
watched Lodge with Nixon on tele-
asked how he could make a military
The Bay of Pigs experienc
vision, accepting the Vice,Presidentiai
withdrawal without losing American
President Kennedy leery of
nomination at the 1960 Republican
prestige in Southeast Asia. His reply,
advice for the rest of his tim
Convention, Kennedy said to us,
in view of today's withdrawal pains
fice. "If it wasn't for the Bay o
That's the last Nixon will see of
in Saigon, was interesting. "That's
he said to us later, "I might ha
Lodge. If Nixon ever tries to visit the
he said. "Put a government
Marines into Laos in 1961, as
Lodges at their house in Beverly, they
in there that will ask us to withdraw."
people around here wanted me
won't let him in the door."
Thinking of his unnerved second
Nov. 22, 1963 began as a wo
During the same convention, Ken-
term, I often remember a hand-lettered
day for all of us but by 12:30
nedy watched Nixon accepting ac-
sign of farewell, held up by somebody
lives were darkened.
claim from the delegates, turned
in the crowd at Shannon Airport
away from the TV screen with a
when President Kennedy was ending - - -
grimace, and said, "If I have to stand
his memorable visit to Ireland in 1963.
Kenneth P. O'Donnell, a me
up before a crowd and wave both of
The sign said, "Johnny, We Hardly
President Kennedy's staff, is co
my arms above my head like that in
'Knew Ye," a line from the old Irish
with David P. Powers and J
order to become President of the
folk song. We borrowed the title when
Carthy of "Johnny, We Hardl
United States, I'll never make it,"
Ye."
we wrote our memories about him.
President Kennedy made his most
Those memories are filled with his
courageous decision when he received
wry humor. We recall him being
the news of the failure of the C.I.A.-
questioned by a loyal worker dis-
sponsored
invasion of Cuba by a force
'mayed by his choice of Lyndon John-
of Cuban rebels at the Bay of )Pigs.
son as his Vice-Presidential running-
He had approved the plan with one
mate.
stipulation - under no circumstances
? "What will I say to all my friends
could any U.S, military forces join
in Boston," the lady asked, "when
in combat.
they ask me why you picked Johnson?"
Both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
Kennedy smiled, and said, "Pretend
the C.I.A. then urged him to send in
you know something they don't know."
U.S. Marines and Navy jets from the
During the summit meeting in Vi-
carrier Essex to help the out-
enna, we sat at a window in the nearby
numbered invaders. He said that he
American Embassy -residence, watch-
ing Khrushchev argue with Kennedy preferred the embarrassment of defeat
In'the garden below. Khrushchev was
snapping at him like a terrier, while
the President remained unperturbed.
Powers said to the President later,
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From Irish folk song, "Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye."
"What did you expect me to do?"
Kennedy said. "Take off one of m
y
to ordering a military attack by the
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all and.
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THE WASHINGTON POST
B 6 Tuesday, Nov. 21,1972
LEISURE
The other book, "Nights
Are Longest There," de-
scribes the writer's back-
ground in World War II So-
viet Intelligence. "A.I. Ro-
manov," a pseudonym, men-
tions names and organiza-
tional affiliations that are
essentially meaningless to
general readers, and he fails
to provide dates for events
of interest or importance,
such as when "Beria was put
in charge of a new Soviet in-
dustry whose job was to
make an atom bomb." His
,clearest memories, in this
generally tedious account,
are of his girl friends.
"Romanov" does answer a
question which holds a high
place in spy lore. President
Kennedy, based on his read-
ing of the James Bond nov-
els, is reputed to have asked
Allen Dulles whether there
really was a counterintelli-
gence agency known as
SMERSH, "Romanov" served
in it until after the war
when, through reorganiza-
tion, "SMERSH as such was
no more." The name had
been selected by Stalin as
an acronyn for the Russian
word "death to spies."
"Romanov" also defected
(in Vienna), he says, because
of growing disenchantment
with postwar intelligence
work and with the callous-
ness and brutality shown to
Russians repatriated from
the West. Perhaps another
reason for his break is
found in this description of
Beria:
"Two things he could not
bear were wordiness and
vagueness of expression on
the part of his subordinates.
This, by the way, went for
the whole top leadership of
the State Security Serv-
ice .."
")tomanov's" bosses must
have read his reports.
Play 007 for Keeps
Reviewed by
George H. Siehl
The reviewer, who served
in the intelligence community
for what he calls a "brief but
interesting period," writes
for Library Journal.
It is no longer uncommon
to get a glimpse past a
'briefly opened door at the
CIA, but the workings of So-
viet bloc intelligence agen-
cies are generally more
heavily veiled. Now, two
promising books by former
agents of those organiza-
tions-Czech and Russian-
have been published. Unfor-
tunately their revelations
turn out to be fragmentary,
at best.
Ladislav Bittman's "The
Deception Game" is by far
the better of the two. It cen-
ters on one aspect of the
Czech intelligence service,
the work of Department
Eight, or, as it is sometimes
known, the Department of
Dirty Tricks. The author
was deputy chief of the de-
partment from 1964 to 1966
and defected following the
Soviet Invasion in 1968.
Disinformation is the
game and the most frequent
loser is the United States
which is regarded as the
principal target. The aim of
these special operations, ac-
cording to Bittman, is "to
deceive the enemy or victim
by feeding him false infor-
mation, the assumption
being that he will then use
Book World
THE DECEPTION GAME: Czechoslovak Intelli.
gence in Soviet Political Warfare. By Ladislav
Bittman.
(Syracuse University Research Corp. 246 pp. $9.95)
NIGHTS ARE LONGEST THERE: A Memoir of the
Soviet Security Services. By A. I. Romanov. Trans.
lated by Gerald Brooke.
(Little, Brown. 256 pp. $7.95)
It as a basis for reaching
conclusions the initiator
wishes him to reach." Just
any old disinformation won't
do. As Bittman explains,
"For disinformation opera-
tions to be successful, they
must at least partially corre-
spond to reality or generally
accepted views."
He cites several cases, In-
cluding one in which forged
documents implicated an
American ambassador in a
plot to overthrow the gov-
ernment of Tanzania. The
African press had a field
day in circulating and em-
bellishing accounts of the
"plot":
"The fact that the forger-
ies were accepted, despite
obvious linguistic, adminis-
trative, and logical errors,
implied that the victims-in
this case the young leftist
government-would be will-
ing to go beyond rational
boundaries if the deception
conformed to their own po-
litical beliefs."
Bittman describes in con-
siderable detail Operation
Neptune, the "discovery" by
Czech divers of crates of
Nazi documents in Black
Lake near the West German
border. The object was to
pressure the West German
government into extending
the time limit for the prose-
cution of war crimes (it was
successful; in 1965 the limit
was extended to 1969).
The deception game is ad-
mitted to be one of the
plodding, three-yards-and-a-
cloud-of-dust variety. Seldom
is any immediate spectacular
result anticipated from a sin-
gle operators; thus, many
projects are underway at a
time. Bittman estimates that
about 300 to 400 are staged
annually throughout the So-
viet bloc.
"The Deception Game" is
an intriguing book which
will contribute to the cli-
mate of suspicion and disbe-
lief which now su1"rtlitrids
us. It offers docuMe tart'
proof that you can't believe
everything you read or hear
-if the book itself is genu-
ine.
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Washington Post, Sunday 12 Nov. 72 "Parade Mag.Section'
CIA Recruiting
The War in Vietnam has caused
more problems than it has re-
solved. One of these is the prob-
lem of recruiting competent
university graduates for the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency.
Despite its honorable and bril-
liant director Richard Helms, the
CIA has suffered a tarnished rep-
utation among some students, not
only because of its past infiltra-
tion of campus groups but also
RUSSIAN
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tions in Southeast Asia as well as
its cloak-and-dagger ambience, all
of which is anathema to many
young people.
Still, the agency needs recruits.
How does it get them? One meth-
od is through open solicitation,.
and another is through covert
means.
The open method is best ex-
emplified in a recent interview in
The Daily Texan with William B.
Wood, the Southwest personnel
representative for the agency.
Called upon and questioned by
Danny Douglas, a young Univer-
sity of Texas journalism student,
Wood is quoted as having said:
"I want to make it clear that we
do not run a clandestine organi-
zation, and there is no cloak-and-
dagger purpose, in our hiring stu-
dents."
Wood, according to the inter-
view, then went on to point out
that professional opportunities ex-
isted in the CIA for seniors and
graduate students of almost any
discipline-journalism, physics,
political science.
"We are also interested," he
explained, "in students with for-
eign language knowledge, espe-
cially unusual languages like
Laotian and Swahili."
Wood's pitch for young recruits
was frank and forthright.
Now, consider another CIA ap-
proach. It is best described in the
following letter recently sent to
this department.
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HEADQUARTERS
U.S. ARMY RESEARCH TRANSLATION GROUP
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20510
Thank you for your letter dated
to our Mr. Roberts.
-
Our organization is currently searching for linguists with
native or near-nativo fluency in the Russian language for
transcription, translation, and research work both here in the
Washington. D.C. area and abroad. Experience indicates, how-
ever, that only a very low U.B. born and non-native speakers
are able to pass our rather difficult transcription test.
You may be interested to know that a rolleago and I will
be in the San Francisco area during the week of : to
tent and interview several candidates who replied to our adver-
tisement in the San Francisco Chronicle. If you are interested
in seeing me ande"spToring tc einf#or, 7urther, you may call me
collect at Code 202 965-0247 during the ,tick of - between
tai W- ors of 0900 and 1600 (Eastern Standard Time), so we can
arrange , mutually agreeable time to moot in San Francisco.
Sincerely yours, ALEXANDER STRATTON
Lieutenant Colonel, tut.
Commanding, Detachment 5
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CIAeporting Urged
Journal Washington Bureau
Washington, A. C. - Legisla-
t i o n that would require the
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) and other government
intelligence operations to re-
port.to congressional commit-
i e e s was recommended last
week. by a House foreign af-
fairs subcommittee.
The recommendation, in-
tended to help Congress reaf-
f i r m its role in developing
American foreign policy, was
among several that stemmed
from a series of hearings and
symposiums held last summer
by t he subcommittee on na-
tional security policy and sci-
e n t i f i c developments. Rep.
Clement J. Zablocki (D-Wis.) is
the subcommittee chairman.
The subcommittee's report
stated that an imbalance exist-
ed b e t w e e n the executive
branch of the government and
Congress in the formulation of
foreign policy. .,
This imbalance, according to
the subcommittee, "threatens
the development of a truly.suc-
cessful national security policy
for the United States in the
seventies."
The report noted that the
United States no longer pos-
sessed a national consensus on
foreign policy which, it said,
had always been a source of
strength.
"For the Congress to reaf-
firm its influence in the foreign
policy area and to help form
public opinion on the issue
would probably also go far in
offsetting rising, neo-isolation-
ist f e e l i n g s in the United
States," the report said.
Changes in world power re-
lationships have resulted in the
development of five key cen-
ters of power - the US, the
Soviet Union, China, Western ,
Europe and Japan, the report
said.
It said this h ad decreased
the danger of major nuclear
confrontations but had not re-
duced the prospect for what it
called "smaller scale proxy
wars."
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es in sKy Keep
ies
carers in balance
By DONALD R. MORRIS
Post ;Yews Analyst
,referred to as SAMOS (for "satellite organization 7+~on'~ per, you. past
the front
and missile-observation system") ; the door.)
Soviet satellites are referred to as The first generation of satellite cam-
COSMOS, and while neither country will eras a decade ago were lucky to pick up
discuss their details, they do, as the re- objects six feet across. The third gener-
All that has kept: the world from self-
destructing this last quarter of a century
has been the precarious nuclear balance
between the United States and the Soviet
Union.
For a few short years America had an
overwhelming preponderance of power.
We were certain we would never resort to
it, but our mere possession of such night-
marish power drove the Russians fo dis-
traction. Then they in their turn achieved
an edge-and regained a measure of sta-
bility-and it was our turn to taste the
fear in the phrase "missile gap."
A decade ago the balance was regained
and has since been maintained. The num-
her of missiles, their megatonnage and
their guidance systems are largely irrele-
vant; what counts is that neither power
can launch a preemptive strike with any
hope of survival, and on this balance
hangs the peace of the world.
Tiger by the tail
The balance, however, is far from stat-
ic. Both powers hold a fearsome tiger by
the tail. Research and development must
continue lest one side or the other
achieve a breakthrough. in delivery or de-
fense, which plight destroy the balance.
The expense of such a break
through-indeed the expense of maintain-
ing the current balance-is so hideous
that both powers would like to avoid it.
They are committed to a continuing
arms race not by the need to achieve a
breakthrough but only by the imperative
of not permitting the other to do so.
Both sides recognize the need for a mu-
tual effort to scale down their arsenals.
In the past, negotiations over dis-
armament foundered on a single cle~
ment-trust. The issues at stake were so
overriding that neither the U.S. nor the
Soviet Union could afford to accept the
other's word that an agreement would be
adhered to.
The recent SALT talks, however, have
achieved initial and encouraging suc-
cesses, and the key to the progress can
be found in an innocuous euphemism the
treaties employ: "National technical
means of verification". The phrase refers
to a program which supplies an accept-
able substitute for the missing ingredient
of trust, and on that program rests all
hope of reversing the arm, race,
owever,
s
stilt of a 1962 agreement, report each ation in current use will pick up objects
launch and its orbital characteristic to less than two feet across, and the resolu-
the UN.
The programs give both countries a
positive check on the nuclear activities
of the other. Neither nation can test or
deploy a major new weapons system
without timely-and highly detailed-
warning accruing to the other.
The United States launches four or five
"search-and-find" SAMOS missiles an-
ually from Vandenburg Air Force Base
the globe twice a day, once at night
(when infra-red photography, sensitive to
ormation as daytime passes) and once
back, and despite the loss in resolution,
construction work of any description is at
once apparent when photos taken a few
days apart are superimposed.
ed a month or two later by a "close-look"
satellite, which photographs the specific
areas of interest its predecessor has
spotted. These photographs are not
transmitted electronically. Instead the
satellite ejects 'the film capsule itself,
which is recovered in mid-air by special-
ly equipped planes based in Hawaii.
tion may -some day be measured in
inches. In terms of analysis, this means
that not only can new missile, sites, or
changes in old ones, he recorded, but the
precise technical construction of the mis-
sile can be reconstructed in fair detail as
well.
The Soviets launch perhaps four times
as many satellites as America does, par-
tially because theirs do not last as long,
and also because the Soviets are given to
"tactical" missions - sending a satellite
for a special "look-see" when something
of interest is going on.
The U.S. prefers to wait for its regu-
larly scheduled shots, and has sent only
one tactical satellite aloft - to check Is-
raeli claims'that the Soviets were violat-
ing the truce by installing missile sites
on the banks of the Suez Canal. Soviet
photography is good enough to allay
their fears that the U.S. is installing new
weapons systems, although the resolu-
tion of their cameras is not nearly as
good as ours.
High-altitude coverage of the Soviet
Union started in the early 1950s when bal-
loon - mounted cameras were launched,
in Europe to drift across Eurasia before
being recovered in the Pacific.
From such crude beginnings we ad-
vanced to the U-2 aircraft, which worked
What photos show like a charm until the Soviets finally de-
veloped a missile that could bring it down
The pictures are analyzed at the Na- - with disastrous results for American
tional Photographic Interpretation Center diplomacy. President Eisenhower had ap-
(known as "En-pick" to the intelligence proved the U-2 program only after Pre-
community), a little-known joint project mier Nikita Khrushchev had rejected his
located in Washington under the aegis of suggestion of "open skies" inspections.
the Central Intelligence Agency. The gap between the U-2 flights and the
The sophisticated interpretation of
these photographs provides the vast bulk
of what America knows about the Soviet
Union, the Eastern bloc countries and the
People's Republic of China.
The photos reveal not only major con-
struction - from transportation nets
through shipyard activity to all manner
of missile facilities - but an astonishing
wealth of technical detail as well.
While the U.S. will not talk about the
SA110S program any more than the So-
viet Union will discuss the details of
COSMOS,, the general details of both
programs are more or less open secrets.
America's most closely guarded secret,
the exact resolution of the
i
h
inception of the SAMOS program was for
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Now that the Soviets have their own
COSMOS program, they are, apparently,
willing to reconsider "open skies". To be-
gin with, there isn't much they could do
about the satellites, and, if they do have a
"killer" satellite which can destroy
SAMOS satellites, the U.S. undoubtedly
has something up its sleeve to destroy
COSMOS shots.
Both countries, however, prefer to lea-
ve the other's program alone. The So-
viets even wrote into the SALT treaty
a clause barring attempts to hide activ-
ities from "national technical means of
verification"-a long way from Khrush-
chev's original attitude toward "open
skies."
For both America and the Soviet Union,
"national technical means of veri-
fication" insure that the balance will be
kept, and enable negotiators to get on
with the complicated task of dismantling
the nuclear arsenals with a greatly re-
duced risk of detonating the world in the
process.
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ndia Seekin9 - Resumption
f II.S. Surveillance
By Lewis M. Simons
Washington Post Foreign Service
NEW DELIII, Oct. 13-The
United States and India are
discussing the possibility of
resuming a project for an elec-
tronic surveillance system
along the China border, in-
formed Indian government
sources said today.
The project, dubbed "peace
indigo," was being carried out
by the Indian government and
private American companies
and involved electronic detec-
tion components manufac-
tured in the United States.
When India and Pakistan went
to war last December, the
Nixon administration sus-
pended arms sales to both'
countries. This embargo in-
cluded so-called nonlethal mil-
itary equipment, including de-
vices of the type being used in
"peace indigo."
According to informed gov-
ernment sources, however,
India had contracts with dy-
namics corp. of. America, of
New York City, as well as sev-
eral other American compa-
nies, and the U.S. government
was therefore breaking a legit-
imate business agreement.
These sources disclosed that
discussions were under way
between American diplomat:-
in New Delhi and officials of
,the foreign ministry. "We
have made no threats," one of
the sources said. "But we have
told the Americans that by
their actions they have caused
the contract to be violated."
However, the sources indi-
cated that the fact that talks
between the two governments
were going on was a cause for
roject
It is -understood that the
radar equipment would pro-
vide an electronic link be-
tween India's exhisting for-
ward surveillance system
among its northern frontier
with China and inland mili-
tary command areas, perhaps
as far away as New Delhi.
Broader Implications
Whether the current talks:
between U.S. and Indian offi-
cials rcault in "peace indigo"
being" resumed or not. could
have implications for Indo-A-
merican relations-now at low
ebb-as well as for a broader
sphere on the entire Subconti-
nent.
Many Radians have exessed
bitter irony over what they
call the "new friendship" be-
tween the United' States and
China, Many believe, in fact;
that President Nixon has will-
ingly sacrificed U.S. relations
with India in order to gain de-
tente with China.
Therefore, if the United
States blocked resumption of
The sources refused to dis- the project one conclusion i
close the amount of money in- almost certain to be drawn in
volved in the contracts. How- New Dehli would be that the
ever, it was understood they Nixon administration (lid not
call for payment in U.S. dol- want to strengthen India's
Jars, precious to India because ability to spy on America's
it is short of foreign exchange. "new friend."
U.S. embassy sources re- On the other hand, by al-
fused to comment when asked lowing even "nonlethal" mill-
about the "peace indigo" prof- tary communications equip-
ect. They did not even admit ment into India, the United
that such a project exhisted. States would surely be inviting
Deny Termination protests and demands from
Indian sources denied a new.
agency report which stated
that India was threatening to
terminate the agreement if
the United States did not re-
sume its arms sales. "We do
not fool ourselves," said one
highly informed source. "We
are not in a position to twist
the arm of Mr. Nixon on this
matter. And by terminating
the contract we woul d be cut-
ting off our nose to spite, our
face."
According to these sources,
the contract with Dynamics
was for radar equipment and
"certain services" None of the
radar gear has arrived in
India, although the contract
was signed on March 18, 1971.
"But we have received some of
the services," one source
stated.
Pakistan.
The Indian government is
well aware of the U.S. position
and as a result seems to be
going out of its way to irritate
the. Nixon administration and
place the "peace indigo" proj-
ect in further jeopardy.
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