RED SPIES ORDERED TO GET IN US INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200030016-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 22, 1955
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Date: ':'srP 2 (4 1955
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Uiitd ',Tress Staff ,,Corze?pomient,miahists lud multi ted Smitn't saial,vernmtliiists &were , so
iWASFIINGTON ? I ? cleer,tit InfiltratiotiAhat he' had
ter .edell Smith ottn take ii`? deep'
1361?i ,on that shocking apbrasalof
CotruMinist espionage hack ',there
1952 Which caused snail, ru,41tY
in 'Ale Elienhower-Truirian prek:i`
dntia1.,cariif,aign;t .
Smith_testified ,on Sept':20, 1952
every security .oritanizatiOn?:of
government, Inclitding the Cant,ral
Smith
CIA ,chtet at that time,
political ,,, storm by 'explatinrig h
ktieW of 'MU& fire74.
to 'assume he had"a
.?We1l'4on the target
nat. Wertiays previously:, Sept. 27,
19i MoScow dispatched, hurry-ups
spec)al or1erat1 (Internal
affilik:toiparatent) spy,,.ineoters
abrolictltO* bore into. United States
r ,and counter-es-
pionage' organizations.
The 'report of' 'the:AtIhtrhfliii
Royal bistroissiOn oii COmrnunist
,Evionage just .published bits"
copies - Of this and other similar
dirk:hits' t,eeived in Canberra- by
Vladimir ?lgi 'Petrov, the IVIVID.'eny-
master ? who :Changed sitleiiiii-the
spring 'of 1954. .me :co./trait/4102i ie.:
pprtd ? that: these, diredtiVes
had beeng?duplicated to dam-
niUnist agenth tbrougliotit .the free
world;L ;i ; 0;"?1 ;." t 1-/-e
*scow, tirpPiiientiyb44 I i v e!ci
World war 111 was ;riditliinPrOliabis
in :1952 ? bidit.*:,of the ind6chlria
and iKocan' ? iiititatiOnisi !land 'VW
acting' aecordingly -with .t*o
tives. The7firstwitri to. set ?:.iip4:11PY
rine independent
world :;aabitals?betialSe
these ,iniglit continue to function In
eitne.? of war awe& the. etnbissieit:
was to 'infiltrate the
tilise;slas the 10Old ituied-kcounter-ii
espionage services!' !4.
Supports .Siterth's, Estimate
The ? , comapission's ? ? report ten&
to bring the official 'word on 'COM-
nitinistrispionage more nearly, wi
to date than any other retoit pret-'
tt'S factual' soccanit
PPorti. Smith's ?eitirnlite 61 the
tuaiti6n in '1952 with.; stabbing
/.3 ir;
In ? a Mosoo* I letter dated,Jaine
..1252? Alistralian?and;* evidently, ,
Corarttuniat age n, ,t , everyWhere,'
w;te Orderil'''to get bus) ,on..tpen-
etration of free world counter-Ip-,
velligerice,"Thisi being a new, but 2
xtefitforially 'Important line If o.r
?the 'report nOt -only ,reflecte .4he
g iresSiVe "'espionage orftered \ ?Ati ,
y Ei itiloscow as .recently as 952,.:-....
utseggepts. that U.S: count
r-in-
elligence ?-"Was gaining , sufficient.
tature - to be. feared In IvioseOvi.,.
lie ,"reporV?Proved, -Of course, .that, .
Snlith'i.iiiii correct 2iii ', belieVing
ilescow was making.. a ,poilege 'try :
ILA infiltrate CIA. ? . . ,
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