THROUGH THE WORLD OF CLOAK AND DAGGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050057-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: March 29, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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Through -The World-1, of C
GREAT TRUE SPY
STORIES, Edited 'by Allen
Dulles. 393 pages. Harper. &
now. $6.95.
Reviewed by
If you came in late on the
'onderful world of spies and
ounterspies, of codes and
.iphcrs and deceptions on an
nternational scale, here is a.
ood way to get caught up
)n what has happened in the
ast 2,000 years.
Allen W. Dulles, a
pymastcr himself of con-
iderable attainments and un-
il recently the director of
he Central Intelligence Agen-
provides illumin-a-7ing com-
nentary and brief in-
roductions to the stories that
lave been collected from
oks and magazines.
It is somewhat surprising
o find an excerpt from The
4emoirs. of Jacques Casanova
ntil one remembers that
asanova, in addition, to his
tter-known % activities, oar-
ied on secret missions when
Casanova's account of his
isit to the English fleet at
unkirk during the Seven
ears' War shows that he had
perator. Dulles points out
f espionage by making
een displaying e x p e r t
sychology,' Dulles acknowl-
Spying didn't begin with
asanova 'but is as old as
Dulles has separated his 'c-
ounts in divisions represei t--'
irst, there , is "penetration,"
far instance, the story of
Cicero, the Albanian who was
valet for the British am-
bassador in Ankara and who
sold British dispatches to the
Germans. (The Germans
didn't believe him and paid
him in counterfeit pound
notes.) Dulles himself, then
operating in Berne, had a
hand in uncovering Cicero.
'There is too an excerpt from
The Penkovskiy Papers, sup-
posedly the output of Col. Oleg
Penkovskiy, a Russian who
was recruited by the West.
The papers have been
somewhat tarnished since
their publication by the dis-
closure of the almost certain
involvement in their publica-
tion of the CIA. In fact, Dulles
uses the "iy". spelling of the
Russian's name, a spelling
employed by the CIA.
The section on the organi.
zation of espionage contains
who from Tokyo provided by Ewen Montagu , certainly
Russia with information of . one* of -the most fascinating
great value, of the Rote espionage tales to come out
Capelle that spied for Russia. of World War H.
In Germany and of the atom Some of the excerpts are
spy ring that was active in short, hardly enough to give
the United States. the reader a taste of the total
Double agents - Col. Stig story- such as thMontague
Wennerstrom of the Swedish . piece on the dece tion set up
Air Force was one - and to throw the Ger ans off the-4
defectors are here. There are truth before the vasion of
accounts of setting a spy to Europe in 1944 and some
catch a spy, for coup- are considerably longer - 9
terespionage goes arm in arm there. is, for insta (e, the ac-
with espionage. ' ' count of the des rately in-
Then there are % Constance efficient underground opera-
Babington-Smith's fascinating . tion in Holland which the Ger-
account of photo interpretation mans took over and ran for
and Lewis L. Strauss' descrip- months without the head-
the explosion of a ' Russian. wiser out au. in all the
nuclear bomb. . book provides ; for 'the
The deception of an ad- newcomer something of a road
versary , Is covered by map through the world of es-
Herodotus' tale of the horrible - plonage and a tourist's ac-
and costly but successful pro- count of the- wonders that
cedure that led ?tn the fall more time and interest can
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