THE REORGANIZATION OF THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE

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• Publication Date: April 1, 1972
• Content Type: TRANS

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No. 4 April 1972
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.[Article`by Yu. A. Shvedkov and B. G. Rodanov; Moscow,'?USA.: Economics
Politics, Ideology, Russian, No 4, April 1972, pp 51-55)
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Behind the scenes of the Washingtongovernment departments, disputes
on the reorganization of the ramified system of U.S. intelligence organs
and particularly of the system of their leadership, have been proceeding
for almost a whole year. As far back as May 1971, according to The New
York Times, a plan for such reorganization was prepared by?ass'istants of
the National Security Council and the Administrative and Budget'Office
and placed on the President's table.[l) However, the taking of a decision
on the. plan was severely delayed and only on 5 November was a White House
statement on the reconstruction of the management of the intelligence
sexvices?made public. This makes one suppose that the Administration's
attempts. to introduce changes to the work of the cumbersome U.S. intelli-
gence?service, unaccustomed to control, ran into-certain difficulties.
The U.S. intelligence service has always laid claim to extensive
rights and "global" powers. The working doctrine of the U.S. intelligence
servicp, formulated by one, of its founders, Allen Dulles, sets as its aim
penetration into the affairs of various states of the world and into those
spheres where the hand of the diplomatic service or any other departments
does not reach. "Today," Dulles wrote in the book The Craft of Int?el'li-
ence, which has acquired the nature of a political behest, "the intelli-
gence service must stand permanent watch over all parts of the world,
irrespective of what the minds of diplomats and soldiers are engaged in at
a given moment, our vital 'interest's could be struck at any moment in al-
most any part of the world."[2) Expenditures on technical and agent
espionage and on the holding of secret subversive operations and "paramili-
tary" actions in various countries have steadily increased. According to
by no means complete data from the U.S. press, they recently reached 5-6
billion dollars a year.[3] The numbers of U.S. intelligence service
employees, not counting the broad body of agents within'the United States
and abroad, has exceeded 200,000 people.[4) About ten, federal departments
and agencies have acquired their own intelligence subdivisions and several
other agencies have turned out to be engaged in intelligence operations
kept secret from the public. According to informed U.S. researchers, the
State Department and the'U.S. Information Agency in particular take part
In such operations. The latter, for instance, has its own secret sub-
division engaged in sending air balloons with leaflets of subversive con-
tent into the socialist countries.[5)
The broad scope of their intelligence and subversive activity has
in no way 'preserved the U.S. Intelligence Service organs and primarily the
main organs -- the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency -- from errors
inui?nformation and political failures. According to opinion now being
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