AN IMPROVED INTELLIGENCE SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200080088-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 88
• Publication Date: July 11, 1951
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/20: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200080088-1
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ArOmproved Intelligence Service
Under the direction of General W. B. Smith, America finally
is eirieiging-ivith,.a greatly improved intelligence service. This
month7Uppards of 100 honor;graduates from this nation's uhi-
'versities onen'Special training. There will be a fifth women, and
the rematin-d_ er young Men, some of whom hav-e- worked hard for
biairdegrees awarded in the' better universities. ,e
$ps:ing as it is done today departs, far afield from the old
cleatand dagger type Operator, or the beautiful women assigned
to Paris and other gay placed to ?fiF to? learn secrets at diplo-
maticand other parties. The flow of information coming into
capitalV Many, nations today is largely on the routine scien-
tific side. Engineers play an important Part in assembling eco-
nomic material.
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Intelligence Service-long has been the favorite assignment of
General Smith.-Efrierging- from World war I, as a second lieu.,
tenant, ?he:appliedfor 'duty in the intelligence. course. He was
'asked one question?what is your private income. It was as near
nothing- as posi'Sble.a,nd was not augmented much by his-lieu:
tenant's pay of about $141 a month. He was turned down be-
cause intelligence officers then were suppOsed to have'the money
-to stage and attend gay parties. The theciry was the secrets
flowed in proportion to the ambunt of liquor consumed. U