BUSINESSLIKE MEN FROM LISS SIGH FROM A SPY: HONEST MEN ARE RARE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000301560001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 30, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 15, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

TAT-VY VAIN.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for RAelase 2.61Z67/30 CIA-RDP73-00475R000301560001-2
SEP 15 1965
Businesslike Men From LISS'
By William G. Wing .
1* .
Y
one's- t-...Pi en, Are Itar. e. ,
:.,., . . ,
. ,
? ? Mr,\? Sp.reng said the League had been started in %
? % Of The Herald Tribune Staff, ?? ! ..
' -
. ..,1%. business:standards high.' The League was exclusively Euro... Switzerland in 1934 as a'means of mutual help and to keep i
The word was ?out: the Ligue ?Internationale des ?,? pean at first, but the meinbers kept their eyes on the United ???;
?? Societes de Surveillance is gathering for the first time in. , . states where Pinkerton's,:'the first, oldest and%biggest dace- .4
. this country, reason enougli, to. travel by devious routes to ." ? tive agency In the world,. furnished the model. 4
.? the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday to ,see.if the Men from LISS . -..,:.:
Nearby as he spoke was Robert A. Pinkerton II, presi-i
? ..
. look like the Man from UNCLE: .
??? .. 'dent of Pinkerton's' Inc., a nd great-grandson of Allan 4..
They don't. The Ken fro, LISS don't even like' to talk' ';. :
Pinkerton, who founded the company in 1850. Pinkerton's '
i.s. ,bout UNCLE, James Bond; or RIM- : .. ? .. .
.? 4
Juvenile delinquents see ififi.and picture like tat , gave the world the term "private eye." but Mr. Pinkerton:
... ; "s h...,
said that 95 pel cent; Of the company's business (expecte
crimes," the president of the Leagu said disapprovingly. d.'?
., and it teaches them how to \st*1 things .and comibit......, to be' worth $60 million. this year) was industrial securitio `l
i e'
The president is Giuseppe Crenionte-Pastorello. He is
?? also director general of Cittadini Dell'Ordine. of Turin, a
private security agency. Private agencies coMprise .the
. '? membership of the League?one agency from each country.
?? Thirty of the managers of these companies are here for the
week as guests of the United States member, Pinkerton's.
? It turned out, though, that despite the sinister sound
:.? ' of Surveillance, the principal business of these agencies is?
'guard duty?protecting factories- and Payroll shipments
' and jewelry shops. The only agencies engaged in any inveS-
.
?
? not detective work.
Mr. Bednarz said: the cOnpany also, has a divisim.
working on research and the manufacture of automOld'!,
...%? protective devices. Machines can only summon:gUards
he said, but the day is in sight when they will not onii,
detect the burglar but deal with him as well.. ? ? .1
However, the head of Europe's largest security agency
..%. said Pinkerton's is ,known in the international security.
world not for .electronics but for "the proper selection of ?,
?*-- responsible personnel." ? ,
? tigative work, the James Bond branch of the business, are ,.? ? Picking the right people to be :watchguards is the hard-
pinkerton's and .Cittadini Dell'ordine. ?? .
'P est part of the business, said Eric Philip-Sorensen, head' of. ?
??,? "Watching .has become big busine.is," Mt. Cremonte-.? :1;.: the .Securitas group of Sweden. ? ? ? . ?: ;?
c.:pastgtello said. He was speaking in traz4tion through the ?,?;:. ? "IiIcnesty is the most Important part of our 'business..1
'01,rsecretary. general; Manuel.Spifirith who is director whichris looking after other people's pxoperty," he *LC
? i:genei,I..of is very difficult finding 6,000 men who are honest"
?
, ? ,
im,,,-.1,ecifiarl in Part - Sanitized CODV Approved for Release 2014/01/30 CIA-RDP73-00475R000301560001-2