CHIEF OF CIA SAYS WE REVEAL TOO MUCH

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100090055-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 15, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

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7melicab b utitrtrhat we all succeed in that. We
said today: "We. tell Russia too
]much." '
The warning came from Allen
W. Duffles; director of 'the highly
secret Central Intelligence
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Ft -a even the ? government
furnished the Soviet Union with
information. In a cautiously
worded statement, be declared:
"Sometimes I think we go too
far in what our government gives
out officially."
The usually close-mouthed
Dulles, a brother of Secretary
of State Dulles, said in a copy-
righted interview in U. S. New
.and World Report that "I would
give a good deal if I could know
is much about the Soviet Union
as the Soviet Union. can learn
about us by merely reading the
(American) press."
are not satisfied with the cover-'
age at the present time and arc.
trying- constantly to improve it.
Dulles said getting information,
on wartime Germany was "a pipe
[ream' ream." compared to obtaining it',
on Russia, and the same held true;
or the other Communist couii
tries. But he hinted that, as in:
wartime Germany,there is today
in-Russia a helpful underground.;
Conversely, he thought the Rus-i
sians were trying to infiltrate the
CIA, but didn't think they would
be successful.
Dulles expressed the opinion:
that while Soviet propaganda does',
not have as much effect today in
Europe as it once did, "It is hav
ing substantial- effect 'in South-
east .Asia,"
He added: we Americans pub.
lished a_ great deal in our scien
tifie. and technical journals an
'ill congressoinal hearings. And
of course, in our free system o
11government, what we do in the
I field of legisiatioi for national
aO
far in what our government give
out officially and in what is pub
lished in the scientific and tech }
nical field. We tell Russia to {
much."
But Dulles conceded there wa
little that could be done abou
it. lie commented that "unde,
our system, it is hard to contr
it
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.
Dulles, whose intelligence Ivor
covered World Wars I and I,,
said the Soviet espionage systel
is the best in the world, but h
added that U. S. propaganda
having "a :cal effect" in Russia
satellites.
fro.. Curtaiii Tight
He described as "the toughe t;;
job intelligence has ever face
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