USSR ACCESS TO US FILES DESPAIRS NATO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300200031-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: October 30, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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Security Officers
Hint For
FBI Assistance
Disaster appears to have overtaken
the American and the NATO
intelligence services in Europe and
hundreds of special investigators are
combing personnel files to prevent a
public scandal, a source close to the
top Central Intelligence Agency in-
vestigator revealed to THE EX.
CHANGE on October 25.
The situation has become so
serious that many security officers at
the CIA are at the "point of despair",
the source revealed.
"Although we would have to
suffer disgrace for years to come, we
are about to ask the FBI to bail us
out", he confessed.
The series of "disasters" has not
yet been indicated in the public
press, the source claimed. Even so,
the European public is'alreudy very
worried and pressure . ifas developed
within Germany for a thorough
cleaning of Allied intelligence
agencies. Already compromised are
Italian, German, French, Turkish and
Belgian government officials and
military officers.
There are now indications that a
possible Soviet agent has been
working successfully within the U.S.
component of NATO. Both the
Pentagon and the CIA are extremely
worried about public reaction when
the disclosures are made, the source
revealed. Present plans call for
"hushing up" the facts until after the
Presidential elections are over, he
revealed.
Asked whether he was not
exposing himself to reprisals by
revealing this information to THE
EXCHANGE, the source replied that
"he was almost being driven crazy by
the thought of the great danf,er in
which the United States now is. '
He received assurances from THE
EXCHANGE that his identity would
not be disclosed.
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