CLOAK, DUST JACKET, AND DAGGER

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• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
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• Publication Date: October 15, 1972
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LIBRARY JOURNAL
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Recent literature on that 20th-Century
phenomenon, the espionage industry
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by GEORGE
ESPIONAGE ENJOYS a reputation for
seeking a subterranean profile in terms of
visibility. Yet spying has spiked to
Everest-like peaks of public awareness on
numerous occasions over the past dec-
ade. From the U-2 downing in the So-
viet Union in 1960 through the wholesale
removal of the heavily manned Soviet
trade delegation in London last year, the
world has seen briefly but repeatedly into
the shadowy world of international espio-
nage. Meanwhile, James Bond and a
dozen poor carbon copies papered the
bookshelves with mock serious revela-
tions which gave credulity to the last es-
pionage headline and prepared us for the
next. And a surprisingly extensive litera-
ture presents a detailed view of world
espionage establishments that lacks only
a bit of violence and much sex in match-
ing Fleming's imaginative schemes.
With these factors, the moral stigma
implied in the comment attributed to
former Secretary of State Henry Stini-
son, "Gentlemen do not read each other's
mail," has lost force. It is, perhaps, no
longer a world of ,gentlemen in w high we
live.
Domestically, we have discovered to
our dismay that our intelligence appara-
tus is turned on ourselves. With federal
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agents monitoring the borrowing lists of
public libraries and the military infiltrat-
ing national political campaigns, we are
ourselves using techniques long asso-
ciated with the "other side."
Some accounts have estimated that
millions of Americans have been subject
to surveillance or investigation as pos-
sible threats to national security. Such
disturbingly extensive violation of priva-
cy may itself seem as much of a threat to
our sense of personal security as the ac-
tivities of those investigated. The troubles
which face the nation today from politi-
cal, racial, and ethnic fringe groups
would loom far larger if they were the
work of millions of hard core anti-
Americans. Reason and experience make
clear that the numbers are much smaller
and the recent extent of' surveillance un-
necessary.
Although the case for privacy of the
individual seems clear, there is a similar
case which must he made for the right to
privacy for the. national government. The
leaking of nuclear secrets to the Russians
during World \Var i I and the recent front
page flaunting of the minutes of the Na-
tional Security Council are instances of
the abridgement of governmental privacy
which work to the disadvantage of the
merican people It is qucsti6nab1L?
'high of the two instances represents the
neatest long-term damage, The R us-
ians might well have developed their
tomic bomb from the work of their ow n
nd captured German scientists. But our
bility to assure other national leaders of
lie confidentiality of their remarks re-
iains, for the time being, much more
ncertain.
The abuse of government's mechanism
f privacy-the security classification of
nformation-presents a problem, al-
hough an effort is now being made to
everely reduce the number of individuals
uthorized to apply security classifica-
ions. Additional funding is being re-
l uested from Congress to speed the de-
assification n of much material. sonic of
high dates back to World War 11.
The sanctity of a librarian's records
nd a bureaucrat's rubber. stamp are
ardly so glamorous as James Bond
kindiving in the Caribbean in search of a
issing atomic weapon. Nevertheless,
he prosaic conies much closer to the real
sues-and operations-of intelligence
ork as they touch the average citizen.
Espionage, as befits the "second oldest
rofession," has evolved a multifaceted
tructure which shows considerable
imilarity in nations around the globe.
Espionage is frequently used to refer to
verything associated with the global
raffle in national secrets. The strict def-
ition of the word restricts it to the use
f spies or agents to obtain and transmit
formation. This phase is only a small
art of the overall process which requires
alidation, interpretation, and integra-
ion of the information before it becomes
seful. The spy himself is faced with a
roblem common to other sectors of
anpower: the threat of displacement
hrough technology and automation.
-1tus, it seems entirely improper to name
he entire process after a small and de-
reasingly important portion of the
hole. The term of preference is intelli-
ence, or, more properly, intelligence
perations, Not only is the term more
omprehensive; it is free from the nasty
mplications of "espionage."
The 1955 1-loover Commission Task
orce report on Intelligence .-activities
GPO, 1955) contained two definitions.
he first:
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Intelligence deals with all the things which
should be knowrn in advance of initiating a
course of action.
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