THE SECRET SHARERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200590012-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 29, 1969
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

Approved For Relee'Se 2004/10/13: CIA-RDP88-01350
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The Secret Sharers tivities at an estimated $4 billion a year?
Some foolish things are clone and more
THE SUCEE sriFS. By Andrew 'L'olly, foolish things are said," writes Tully, "but
256 pages. Morrow. $?5.9,5? this gigantic spying machine does work."
ndccd, he points out that U.S. intelli
American espionage offici?ls seem to gcnec provided, among other things, ad-
operate on the assumption that they must vance word about the moon-circling mis
know virtually everything about nearly lion of Russia's Zond 5, the Mideast war
everybody, from hostile foreign nations of 1967, North Vietnam's Tet offensive
to trusted allies-even this colnntry's col- and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslova-
lege students. A second assumption is kia. The U.S. declined to act on the last
that nobody might to know anything: bit of information for fear that it would
afoot U.S. intelligence, Washington col- ultimately lead to a confrontation with
!wnnist Andrew 'f'ully in 1961 wrote a Russia, says Tully.
',book that exhibited some of the CIA's Rivalry: There have been, to be sure,
dirty linen. In this illuminating book, Tul- intelligence failures that have embar-
f th
h
e case o
e - /
'ly revisits the CIA and looks at the rest rassed the U.S., and in t
of the spy community: the State Depart- Cuban missile crisis nearly caused a nu- ?/
meat's Bureau of Intelligence and Re- clear war. Blunders, claims Tully, are
search (INR), the Pentagon's Defense! usually a result of "intellectual friction"
Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Nation-' and "jungle-like competition" between
al Security Agency (NSA) ? aencies. The CIA and DIA differed bit-
,,
The novels of John Le Can-6 de-roman- terlY about the intelligence obtained dur-
ticized the spy, and Tully strips still more ng the missile crisis: I-Iad [.JF.K] heeded
glamour away by claiming that, for the, the DIA-INR counsel, he could have act-
most part, the agent in the field has been eel much sooner and probably with less
superseded by technology. Take NSA, risk in calling the Russians' bluff," Tully.
the nation's largest intelligence agency, contends. Yet another example of such
for example. From its $47 million corn- fierce inter-agency rivalry was North
plex at Fort Meade, Md., the 'civilian Vietnam's murderously successful Tet of-.
agency calmly and unobtrusively per- Pensive nearly two years ago. TullYc .laims
forms its duty of finding out what every- the DIA had adequate warning about the
but the CIA-on whose advice
It conflict
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,
se.
one is saying about everyone e
does the job extremely well, thanks, in Gcn. William Westmoreland was acting'
part, to a network of spy satellites called. -did not. And "apparently. nobody from
SAMOS (Satellite and Missile Observa- the DIA told the CIA anything-and vice
Lion System). Orbiting at 17,500 miles' versa." Tully further chit1:?ges that the in
an hour 150 miles above the earth, , telligence establishment occasionally ex-.
SAMOS eavesdrops on radar, radio and cecds its bounds of helping to guide pol-
microwave telephone communications icy in order to direct foreign policy.
policy
? and transmits the findings ultimately to' That American foreign can be
'NSA where they are decoded and ana- determined by esoteric agencies and
lyzed. The messages reveal anything largely unknown men is frightening.,
onfusion=to say nothing
th
M
e c
oreover,
from the morale of Soviet jet pilots to
what an Eastern European Communist of the expense-caused by, duplication of ,
Party official thought of the musical intelligence gathering is unconscionable.
"Hair" (it was "decadent"). Besides this, bus, Tully suggests that Congress
SAMOS is equipped with cameras so-A"should launch a major examination of
phisticated enough to photograph clearly, i the intelligence community with the twin
say, Russian jets parked on an airfield. ;aim of reorganizing its structure and rea-.
, 4.iSA also operates electronic spy ships 'aligning its operations -. Certainly there
G/ : such as the ill-fated Pueblo and Liberty., would the tribal chiafsersonali were Just what sort of job are NSA and the chiefs, and ha the U.S. would get
000 spies dining for Ameri- er c perhaps
t of the 60
,
res
can taxpayers, who underwrite their ac-, into less trouble.
a:.: 5` ri-ARTHUR,COOPEF
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