REDS AND INCOMPETENT'S INFEST SECURITY BUREAUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090125-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 125
• Publication Date: December 28, 1951
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By FULTON LEWIS, JR. ?
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 18."
-7'T HAS been the policy of U.S.'
a military and civilian intern-,
gence agencies to go slow in hir-
ing foreign-born persons for
4, sensitive jobs. This was especial-
', IY 'true during World War II,
when- German and Japanese-
born, citizens had difficulty in
.establishing their patriotism and
finding positions commensurate.
with their skill. ?
?This would not be alarining if
there were any certainty that
; .?oviet espionage agents could
- screened and denied jobs.
But, as I related yesterdaY,
military and civilian intelligence
' services are incapable of keeping
Communists, Soviet agents and
incompetents off the payroll
,'??,)7ien today.
'
p:. In one intelligence agency of
LI. the Government an eiriploye
,*-.1a7. hired who had an arrest
record of preaching communism
at military barracks, Another
Was caught taking secret docu-
ments to New York City. without
authority. ? ?
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the
work in the murk of secrecy. I
is difficult for Congress to in-
vestigate. But, unless the Mc- ,1
Car*an Internal Security Sub- 71
cbmmittee of the Senate takes ar.
crack at it the nation may wake ?
up betrayed as badly as, or worse
than, it Was by Hiss, Gold, Fuchs
and the other Communists and
traitors.
HEN war approaches, ? every
nation expands its activ-
ity and tactics in infiltrating in-
telligence services of potential
enemies. One way is to order
agents already planted in such
secret agencies to increase their
activity either by positive -or
negative action.' A job no,t done
can be as damaging as, a secret
document :stolen from a' confi-
?
dential file. . ,
Today intelligence agencies of
this Government are 'cluttered
with incompetents and others
more closely aligned to commu-
nist ideology. These are facts
brought to me by patriotic offi-
cers and civilian employes of
those agers,ls who have been
forced into silence while th.e
competence of their secret units
withered by design or from the
fumbling of incompetent favor-
ites placed in charge by higher
authorities for political or other
reasons.
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.-The McCarran Subcommittee
I can investigate the personnel of
the nation's intelligence service
without revealing any secrets.
. This is all the military and civil-
t? len employes who are disturbed.
by. these conditions are asking.
THE complaint goes to the top ;
!. 4 ? echelon of the Pentagon,
where manpower policies are de-
? termined. The reason, for in-
stance, why a taxicab driver was
taken off the street and placed
in charge of two .skilled techni-
cians in a secret agency, should,
c, be aired. It is one of numerous
documented instances where
r.those with leaning toward Rus-
sia or with pull higher up have
been handed high paying jobs
'although they lack technical
'? skill
There is something wrong at
the. Pentagon when the heads of
certain intelligence units feel
1..prompted periodically to
late the oath of office 'among
heir employes, with the see-
ti.;a about defending the .15.;on-
!'stitution of the 'United States
1 against '!all enemies foreign and
domestic" underlined. That is
f' being done. But it is not enough:.
? Congress should step in.
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