CIA: OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY- WHAT REDS ARE DOING

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• Publication Date: March 13, 1967
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ll. S. News ~ World Report
CIA: OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
WHAT REDS ARE DOING
When light is shed on the un-
dercover war the Communists
are waging against the U. S.
everywhere, you can see what
the Central Intelligence Agency
faces trying to combat them.
Soviet agents are formidable,
unscrupulous, constantly on the
offensive on many fronts. This
report on how they operate
comes from top intelligence offi-
cials, here and abroad.
Reported from
WORLD CAPITALS
One question that keeps coming up in
the latest controversy over the Central
Intelligence Agency is this:
Just whom or what is the CIA
fighting?
The answer is found in the other side
of the CIA story-the facts on what the
Communists are doing all over the world
to penetrate and grab control of organi-
zations, underwrite treason and terror-
ism, stir up strife, stage revolutions, steal
secrets.
It is the CIA's job to combat these ac-
tivities of the Reds in the cold-war strug-
gle that has been going on in the back
alleys of the world far more than 20
years.
From intelligence officials in the U. S.
and abroad come authoritative accounts
of what the CIA is fighting, how the
Communists operate and reasons for
such CIA programs as subsidization of
work in the foreign field by some stu-
dent, labor and other organizations.
Disclosure of this financing brought
the agency under fire, compromised some
of its efforts and even led to demands
that the CIA be abolished.
Reds` use of fronts. As part of its
plot to achieve world domination, Mos-
cow-directed Communism maneuvers
through international front groups.
Worldwide, U. S. intelligence experts
say, the Communists have 11 such organ-
izations-all under direct control of the
KGB, the Soviet Committee for State
Security, "operational headquarters" for
Peace Council, and there are interna-
tional fronts for labor, youth, women,
students, teachers, scientists, lawyers,
newspapermen, radio-TV workers and
"resistance movements."
The head of the KGB-who at this
time is Nikolai Anisimovich Shchelokov
-is one of the world's -most powerful
Communists because his agency controls
all of Russia's foreign and military intel-
ligence as well as Soviet internal security.
In American terms, that would be like
putting one man in charge of the CIA,
the FBI and all of the military intelli-
gence services,
The importance that the Soviet Union
places on front organizations is shown by
this example:
Alexandr Shelepin was a vice president
of the International Union of Students
when it was founded in 1946. He later
became a vice president of the World
Federation of Democratic Youth. Shele-
pin then shat up to become head of the
all-powerful KGB. He now is a top offi-
cial of the Soviet Communist Party.
Methods of operation. How do
Communist fronts operate? Here is one
way:
Fronts recruit young Africans, Asians
and Latin Americans for training in Com-
munist countries-as labor leaders or guer-
rilla fighters. The brightest are taught
HEAD OF KGB, Nikolai Shchelokov, is
one of the world`s most powerful Reds.
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how to overthrow governments and set
up Communist regimes. An ultimate aim
is to recruit young Americans.
A major objective of KGB, working
through fronts, is to draw non-Commu-
nists into unity with Communists. Such a
drive now is on the upswing in Western
Europe, spearheaded by two of the
groups, the World Federation of Trade
Unions and the International Union of
Students.
A former KGB official who defected
to the West says that 80 per cent of So-
viet personnel abroad are "trained pro-
fessional spies."
The KGB, this man says, rates the
U. S. as its No. 1 target and seeks to iso-
late America from its allies on the theory
that, when this isolation is accomplished,
the U. S. will "crumble from within."
The "unite and capture" theme runs
through all Communist-front efforts, such
as the World Youth Festivals that draw
thousands fi?om all over the world.
Costs of these events are high. The
Moscow festival in 1957, for instance, is
estimated to have cost up to 150 million
dollars. The Vienna affair in 1959 cost
50 million. The Communist outlay on the
youth festival in Helsinki in 1962 was
around 30 million.
Another one is to take place next year
in Sofia, Bulgaria-and the Russians al-
ready are blaring propaganda against the
American delegation because of the rev-
elation that CIA money financed trips
by some young Americans to previous
festivals.
Bonanza for the enemy. The "expose"
of this CIA subsidy-which, was carried
out under national policy established
years ago-is described by U. S. officials
as a windfall for the Communists. At
earlier festivals, the Americans-even
though few of them knew that CIA
money was helping to pay their expenses
-succeeded in blunting effects the Com-
munists hoped to achieve.
In Communist countries, fronts pay
travel costs for students, labor leaders
and others. Communist funds also have
financed travel by the Reds' American
sympathizers-including students-to
points behind the Iron Curtain and to
Red Cuba.
The KGB is said to have almost un-
limited funds at its disposal-despite Rus-
sia's shortage of foreign exchange-and
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WHEN THE "COVER
WAS BLOWN"
A veteran U. S. intelligence offi-
cial, discussing public disclosure that
CIA funds were being used secretly
to finance some American students at
international conferences, said this:
"These students were not instruct-
ed how to act, except in a very few
cases. Main reliance was on the Amer-
ican instincts and patriotism of al-
most all the students who were
financially helped to attend.
"The main arm of the Soviet Gov-
ernment's constant battle to discredit
everything American-Moscow's so-
called `Department of Disinformation'
-has been sniping at the National
Student Association for years. But it
never was able to prove anything.
"Now the Americans have given
them the ammunition-perfect ammu-
nition with which to fight any Amer-
ican delegation at any international
meeting.
The Americans have acted to `de-
vour our own children.' "
can regain the effectiveness that the -w~ae World Photo
National Student Association had. Americans at a youth festival: The main reliance was on their patriotism.
"The U. S., not just the CIA, suf-
fered asevere defeat in this thing.
"The U. S. still must fight to pre-
vent the Communists from having all
their own way in international meet-
ings of students-or teachers, or scien-
tists, journalists, labor unions, what-
ever.
"But now that the CIA cover has
been `blown,' the job will cost much
more. And it will take along time
before any U. S. organization or group
One division of the KGB-the "Depart-
ment of Disinformation," or Department
D-operates in the propaganda field. It
plants false information, including forged
documents, wherever an opportunity ex-
ists to smear and discredit the U. S. spe-
cifically and the West generally.
In this, Department D gets help from
such fionts as the World Peace Council,
the World .Federation of Trade Unions,
the International Union of Students and
the World Federation of Democratic
Youth.
An illustration: The World Peace
Council spread charges during the Ko-
rean conflict that the U. S. was using
germ warfare. And two other fronts, the
International Association of Democratic
Lawyers and the World Federation of
Scientific Workers, sent "investigating
commissions" to obtain "evidence" in
support of the charge.
What do Reds seek? What the Com-
munists are attempting to accomplish by
undercover methods in every country
was made clear in a recent public state-
ment by the chief espionage official in
the Security Ministry of Communist East
Germany. Hie was talking about Ger-
many, but he was enunciating the KGB
line for all non-Communist countries.
This top Red spy said:
"To procure information and material
is only one task of our organization.
Communist Party victorious in the whole sources say, control all but four of the
of Germany." national student federations in Latin
Like all spymasters in satellite states, America-in all countries except Costa
the East German. official is tinder KGB Rica, Bolivia, Chile and perhaps Uru-
control. guay. The Communist-front International
In every part of the world, secret Union of Students claims, in fact, that
Communist activity poses a threat. 82 of the world's national student feder-
Sometimes these activities are flushed ations are affiliated with it.
into the open. On one such occasion, in In the Middle East, the present Soviet
1cJ65,. Communist financial support for objective, as defined by U. S. officials on
terrorists in Venezuela was exposed when the scene, is to stir up enough trouble to
three Red couriers carrying $330,000 in threaten .the stability of countries in
cash were seized and jailed. which the U. S. has influence-particu-
Venezuelan officials said that the laxly those where Americans control big
tlu?ee-two women and a man-were oil reserves.
agents of the Italian Communist Party, Examples of the KGB at work in the
which Moscow had assigned the job Middle East include riots instigated by
of smuggling money to guerrillas in Communist agents in Jordan, massive
Venezuela. supplies of arms to Syria, bombings in
The Communist move failed in that Saudi Arabia and floods of Communist
instance because of counterintelligence propaganda pouring from Cairo, which
like that in which the CIA-according to is headquarters for a number of Commu-
members of other intelligence organize- nist fronts, such as the Afro-Asian Peo-
tions-excels. But Venezuelan terrorists ples' Solidarity Organization.
continue to get arms and money from Africa: Agents busy. In Africa, the
the Communists. Reds are trying to keep the whole conti-
One Communist faction in Venezuela cent in turmoil.
receives weapons and training from Fi- Moscow and Red China bankroll op-
del Castro's Cuba-where, only 90 miles ponents of President Jomo Kenyatta iri
from U. S. shores, the KGB has a big Kenya. Communist influence in Tanzania
stake. Cuba is a transfer point for the has grown to the point where the Gov-
Red paymasters and spymasters in Latin ernment has undertaken to nationalize
America. most private business. The Chinese
From the inside-. Throughout South Communists used their embassy in Bu-
Communist "political action" rundi as a relay point for weapons and
America
,
to make use of the material and the agents infiltrate student groups and labor funds sent to rebels operating against
knowledge g fined far political urposes unions whip up a station among peas- the Congolese Government in Kinshasa.
-to blackm~plA~OL~i~i~,01'0~~~ 2~~d~Ilisi~il~t~l)B00338R00020083~0~?~' Congo, of which Brazza-
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ville is the capital, Communists-includ-
ing Cubans-control the military forces.
In Ghana, until they were thwarted by
the coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah,
Soviet agents hnd penetrated the Gov-
ernment to the point where they con-
trolled Nkrumah's personal army and
were building a military base to be used
for operations throughout West Africa.
The Communists regularly supply
weapons to rebels in Portuguese Angola
and Mozambique..In Somalia, the Army
is equipped and influenced by the Com-
munists. Soviet agents are fomenting
trouble in Ethiopia. In Tunisia, Commu-
nist penetration is mainly through stu-
dents. In Algeria, Soviet economic aid is
a lever used by the KGB.
North of Africa, in the Mediterranean
area, astep-up of Communism's covert
actions coincides with the growing So-
viet naval presence. All along the fringe
of the Mediterranean, KGB men are busy.
One piece of evidence: secret stockpiles
of weapons, uncovered in Greece.
Communist-front efforts are paying off
in West Germany and elsewhere in Eu-
rope. In 1966, for the first time, West
German. non-Communist unions were per-
suaded to send delegations to Poland,
Czechoslovakia and Russia. A British
trade-union group sent representatives to
Russia. A Catholic federation of trade
unions in France was induced to take
joint action with the Communist-con-
trolled French labor federation.
task of the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion. It is the CIA which has the respon-
sibility for combatting actions in the rest
of the world which are inimical to the
interests of this country.
In carrying out that mission, the CIA
must face enemies of many kinds-en-
emies masked as "do-gooders" as well as
enemies trained in the dark arts of sub-
version, espionage, blackmail and assas-
sination-all dedicated to the Communist
Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee
says this:
"Previous hearings have established
that Moscow has, in the past, distx?ib-
uted vast sums, along with its directives,
through various secret channels to sup-
port subversive activities in countries
outside Russia, including the United
States, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that this practice continues."
The CIA`s role. Countering Com-
munist activities inside the U. S. is a
-wia0 World Photo aim once stated bluntly by Nikita Khrtl-
"POLITICAL ACTION" agents spread Red propaganda throughout Latin America;
they infiltrate student and labor groups and whip up agitation among the peasants.
Some of Britain's non-Communist orga- country after country-Vietnam, Indo-
nizations have been heavily infiltrated by nesia, India, Burma and the Philippines
Communists and used to promote Soviet -received the "go" signal from trade-
propaganda against the U. S, union. centers.
One of these groups-the Campaign Although the attempted Red revolu-
for Nuclear Disarmament-mobilized tion in Indonesia in 1965 was smashed,
strong opposition to American nuclear large numbers of Communists remain.
strategy and- to British ties with the Both Moscow and Peking are trying
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The again, U. S. intelligence officials believe,
British Union of Students is now the top to rebuild for another revolt.
target for Communist penetration. In the Philippines, where suppression
How Asia is affected. In Asia, the of the Huk uprising in the early 1950s
World Federation of Trade Unions has is counted as-one of the CIA's great, but
been the principal transmission belt for largely unpublicized, victories, the Com-
Communist orders. munists again are trying to activate a
The series of Communist insnrrections Huk rebellion.
which broke out over recent years in A stafF study just released by the U. S.
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