RUSSIA'S SPY SYSTEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050076-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: March 3, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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PORTLAND, MAINE
PRESS HERALD
M-56,002
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How does, the Soviet spy o,n U.S. ' operations? -- See how
a Russian network of 20,000 agents and secret, police, backed
by $2 billions a year compares to the U.S. Central Intelligence
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CPYRGHT Agency, featured here last Sunday.
By BILL CALDWELL
Headquarters of C.I.A. are a $46 million
white concrete building housing 10,000 workers
on a 125 acre estate in the rolling countryside
of Langley, Virginia.
Headquarters of Red China's 325,000 espi-
onage and police network (called the Depart-
ment of Social Affairs) is 15 Bow String' Alley,
Peking. ,
And where arp Headquarters for the feared
KGB, the'Soviet onion's spy business located?
Why, right, across the street from "Chil-
dren's World,',.'- Moscow's vast toy and depart
meat store!
Just after 1. a.m. of May 19, '1967, a sur-
prise bulletin from Moscow told the world that
Yuri V. Andropov had been named chief of the
Soviet Union's KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennol
Bezopasnosti).
What is Russia's KGB?
Allen W. Dulles, former Director of C.I.A.,
who competed against it for eight years, des-
cribed KGB in these words;- "a multipurpose,
clandestine arm of power . . . more than a
secret police organization, more than intelli-
gence and counterintelligence organization. It
is an instrument for subversion, manipulation
and violence, for secret intervention in the af-
fairs of other countries."
Arch competitors,' C.I.A d KGB are
thought to be about nec -and neck in the num-
ber of direct, full time, official employees.
Each has about 20,000 people on its payrolls;
each is thought to have about the same amount
Yuri V. Andropov, new head of KGB
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