ON THE RECORD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000601240015-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 29, 1954
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/11/08: CIA-RDP74-00297R000601240015-6
Dorothy Thompson
1 On The Recond
What Can Be 'Supersecret' About the United States?
?
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New York.?Several people, it
seems to us, have recently ?becn
speaking out of tui'n. We don't
know what possessed Sir'Winston
Churchill to recall at this date
his order in 1945. not to destroy.
but to stack German- arms
cause one might, need them
.against the Russiaits..Whether he
was right or wrong then, his
airing of the order new raises,
hob in Great Britain ,and lends
some substance to Soviet charges.
;that not they but the Western,0
Allies started preparing World
iWar III!
!. We don't see why'former Presi-
:dent Herbert HOov.er felt it
;necessary to say in Bonn. that the
;function of Germany is to pro- !
Ivide a bulwark against the "Asi-
atic Hordes," by which he Must
tmean' Russians and the Slays,
who can hardly be ; called
"Asians."
1 What They Confirm
I More serious are the articles
GladVs llaikne
' iii'llre--0-etZB-e?l7;'"-AYenther 6
'and November 13 issues of The
SaturdayEvesning
i"The Mysterious Doings of the
CIA" (America's "Supersecret"
Central intelligence Agency.)
;Tbly_p_robably tell the Commu-,
nists nothing they?Alieady
know ?( tb??cOUrp,1_Cit U g e s
ithe ,Communists..kre-perp.etnally
mjj4--that the -United States
is engaged in conspiracies to
overthrow Communist or unsatis-
factory governments by force,
;is spending "hundreds of mil-
;lions? on underground activities
all over the globe;, that "about
one. out of three of the people
;arrested by Communist govern-
ments" actually is a spy; and
that American agents are re- ,
sponsible for blowing -up bridges,
,derailing trains, and other acts.:
of sabotage.
Sinm,a4?Rubli c on, written
an Crelease,d_wl,11?.t,c,L,
triin
("an riiii,e:be,eit
Lchiti4..as.spies, )
States has protest-
ed that the men, missing since!
the Korean struggle, are prisoners,
'of war, and their trial an in-', 1,
iringernent of International Law, i
as it is if the Chinese charges;
are untrue. But are ti exAmtrue?:-
'After reading le Post artiCies ?
'notattretY64-tectiT'''''''"'
?
Tne,articleS-re-Vat just" about:
everything except, names, ad-'
resses, and codes: How agents ,
-e recruited and .trained; how
l'any buildings CIA occupies MI
Washington; how many em-
tloyees it has?half as many as
',lie State Department?and how,
ew members of Congress know"
,vhat "black" expenditures , they
' re voting for. .
Even more serious is the pub-i
ish-Cd?a-d-mixstm17of-,-emarteering
,
AP 4-tee-CIA financed, engineered,'
and armed the forces that over-
threw the pro-Communist Gov-,
ernment of Guatemala.
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l and
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leers.
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1 It was directly responSible for--
verthrowing .Mossadegh in Iran.'
i Participants are directly named,
ncluding the 'American Ambas- i
actor.' I.
i American Puppets
!, Here is published evidence
r ema'ffif ttnr',a,4"iirthe Ci X 'itself
I 1.1.4at'-''tifeln'infegiiii-A,TOT :
1 EgYP't,.4.-.1rini','.-' a ii47;g,ii a te*-:i.&
A i-6e?ti egri 'piiiii.37,et, , ',rust ? ce?:ziaijT ;
.hoA' will.:7' - ihi'''''1.ia mission help
these regimes, who are dealing
with Communist and non-Com-
munist opponents? In Iran, oust-
ed Mossadegn still has' an enor-
mous underground following. Za.:
hedi, the new Premier, is not
I widely popular. Will Hie 'CIA's.
story, circulated among his op-
ponents, inspire increased' popu-
lar confidence? Or will it. cell-
firm the charges of the Tudeh
! (pro - Communist) Party that
:America iS Great .Britain's less
i adept successor in Persia?
And how will 'this account
..read in Pravda?
Such "Secret" activities can
'blow- us into kingdom come as a
world Power, if they are publi-
cized. in such a fashion. Either
'they are "supersecret" or not
-.secret at all. Enough has already'
:been revealed to lend. substance'
'to every Communist charge, and ,
:justification, to the arrest of any!
IAmerican or suspected native ?
citizen anywhere.
(Released, by BO SYndiCala. Inc.)
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