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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050047-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: April 12, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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DAILY NEWS
12 APR 1968
By TOM DONNELLY
"GREAT TRUE SPY
STORIES": edited by Al-
len Dulles (Gini er: Harp-
er & Row). There are a
few feeble items in this
collection, and some per-
functory accounts t h at
aren't what you could call
,e ... j and large this is a first.
rate effort. There are contributions by
Flora Lewis, Dame Rebecca West, Alan
Moorehead, Barbara. W. Tuchman, Hanson
W. Baldwin and numerous other experts,
.most of them . paying tribute to spies who
have changed the course of battle, or even
the course of history,. without necessarily
doing anything wildly exciting, and to spies
who have conducted themselves in ways
that are heroic or daring. (Mr. Dulles says
a "great spy" -must fit Into one group or
the other.)
Mr. Dulles has written prefaces for the
various stories. These cmimentarics by the
former CIA director are brief (sometimes
just a dozen lines or so) but they're cer-
.meat in order to get high-level inforn~alion.
Sgt: Jack E. Dunlap was a messenger In
tainly meaty. In discussing the case of
Jack Dunlap, "the playboy sergeant," Mr.
Dulles observes that a.spy doesn't have to
penetrate The highest level of in es ablish-
he National Security Agency, "the most
secret of all official bureaucracies." In the
early 60's Dunlap earned a pile of money
by photographing secret U. S. documents
for the Soviets. He committed suicide rath-
er than face an official inquiry, but Mr.
Dulles says even if Dunlap had lived long
enough to be interrogated about his tree.
sonable activities it is highly unlikely that
he could have so much as identified the
-documents he copied, "much less describe
their contents." Low-level spies don't read
the stuff they steal, and even if they had
any reason to read it they probably
wouldn't understand It.
Dunlap, who lived in Glen Burnie, old.,
drove a late-model Cadillac to work; he
had two.of them. He,also acquired a cabin
cruiser, a world's championship racing
boat, a Jaguar, and a mistress. Nobody at
NSA considered it odd that this $100.
per-week messenger could afford a Cadil-
lac, and his sudden affluence aroused no
suspicion among his neighbors. lie told
some people he had inherited a big planta-
tion In Louisiana, and others were in-
formed that he owned land where a "pre.
cious mineral powder, valuable In cosmet?
ics," had been discovered. .
Sani wA
of new
retaining his 'Job as an NSA civilian. He
was ? required to take a couple of he deter-
for tests, he flunked them, and after awhile
NSA got to thinking maybe there was
something here that ough to be looked
Into.
Some of these "great tru spy storm'
suggest that the writers of espionage fic-
tion often mirror reality. For example, the
case of a hired assassin who used a gun
containing liquid poison to knock over tar-
gets selected for him by the Soviets; he
defected because his bosses forbade him to
marry the West German girl he loved. (She
was "far below him socially," the Reds
told him.) The story contributed by Dame
Rebecca West tolls of a Soviet agent who.
was delivered by his superiors, into the.
hands of the British police "in order to.
divert attention from another, amore impor..
Cant agent.".,Mr. Dulles says this procedure'
is definitely unusual: ' -
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