SPIES IN THEIR HOUSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000601240026-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: November 6, 1954
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release
si,IES IN Tii1.11,II01,JSE
NILE Dick. and%Gladys. Hark-
ness were, studying the mysteri-
as doings of America's secret agents,
mysterious doings' Went on in their ;
, own home. They dwell o' Dumbarton
Dumbarton
, Avenue ;n 'Washington,, halfway be-
1,twcOn another Post team, the broth-
ers Alsop; and 'their house .is called
1Plumber's Delight, having .been built
in 1804 Saii'd the 'plumbing, they be-
; lieve, installed at -that time. Those
s queer doings in their house included
wire tappings, discovery of code mes-
?sages in such places as the :toes of
:shoes, and a sense of being constantly
spied upon,. The ,case was cracked
when , it. was found that inierophones
had been hidden in the library and the
authors' discussions.'of secret .agentry
'Were being amplified to -their sons,
:Rick, Peter- and ' Chip, 'Up in' Rick's
: bedroom.' . ?
; For the Harknesses, researching the,
super-reticent:. CIA wa's? a violent
switcrbn-their other Post stOries from'
Washington, s city where reporters
are more apt ? to be trod upon and
disheveled by folk eager to tell all. At
CIA headquarters a reporter is turned:
? over to a historian" whose duty it is'
to keep the clandestine'ag.ency clan.,
destine?no 'mean job, Coniments?
Dick.Harkness- who then quotes Con-
gressman Celler's;4boti 7.q.op "In this
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Declassified
OLLIE ATKINS
Mr. and Mrs. I Iarkness and three spies
1 .
, town,- three men can keep a secret if
twO Of them die." Of course the Hark ,
nesses agree.- that intelligence opera- ?
? tions , must be meticulously secret;
their , current series, 'page ' .34, is re-
vealing hitherto untold data about our
wonderful agents that you can and:
should knoW.- ??? ? .. ?
About - the ,;',Ilarknesses?Dick is i
1 NBC's Washington correspondent-
you shoulcl?know 'that they do a re- .
markable husband-and-wife debate on
the lecture platform', arguing tough' ?
topics like foreign policy, then seeking !
areas where disputants can agree?
which brings to mind.an. occurrence in'
; Allentown, Pennsylvania. A mascu- '
: line chairman, introducing the lec-
turers there, quoth mournfully, "We
are now witnessing man's final ab- :
dication?when'a itian admit 4 pb-
licly I hr.- A kl'id?tAler Au1t,;h1i.1*
in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release
@ 50-Yr 2013/11/08: CIA-RDP74-00297R000601240026-4
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