THE SPY B

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050083-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: February 25, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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t ernu Iona spying is Big Business .' Involving Billions of D
j lvyitrg Minor arnr.ies of paid Agents A special Telegram ser
my systems and Intelligelicee networks of the 'United States, Soviet
China. ' CPYRGRT
CPYRGHT EY EILL CALDWELL e i nd the door on the seventh floor num-
bered 75706 lies the coveted corner suite; and
,
Ards" -- so conspicuous are the bright b ue. 'another door marked DCI sits the $30,000 a
shuttle buses which ferry "spies" and . e. - year Director of Central Intelligence, Richard
crets"' between hush-hush, CIA?-(.Central In 1- McGarrah Helms.
ligence Agency) branch ofices, which dot tie
Silver Spoons and Secrecy. Helms six foot
? capital and s
d
g
urroun
in
suburbs and C A
, (One inch,
Headquarters at Langley .Virginia sleek and dark haired at age 55, con.
.
, .
One of these 1 trols more people (over 15,000 direct em-
"spy-shuttles" even has a r g ployees, plus sub agents)
ular stop under the nose of the Soviet Emb and more money than
s
sy and their "spies". The CIA bus stops to pi k the huge State Department. Over $4,000,000,000
a year, much of it unvouchcred and unre-
up people and packages from 1016 Sixtee h ported is spent on all U.S. intelligence opera-
Street, an eight story building where CIA c - tions including satellites and aerial recon-
ducts an, "employment agency" directly acr s
naissance.
from the Stotler-Hilton hotel
. In addition to running CIA, Helms is chair-
The "Blue-Birds" (once
aint
d
p
e
even gree ) , man of the board of the entire United States
flaunt a destination sign in their front wi -
intelligence coit Thi
mmuny.s includes CIA, The
dow which read "Langley," where all C Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Se-
operations are mistakenly thought to bq hous d curit Agency
in one headquarters. Y (even more secret than CIA, It
makes and breaks codes, controls vessels such
En route to the hideaway, Bluebird sh -? . as Pueblo and alone spends $1,000,000,000 a
ties stop at 1717 H street; at 1750 Pennsylvan a
Avenue (where CIA's Domestic Operations Di- year, or $15 for each family In the United
ision is housed, although the Agency suppose totes) Helms also watches over the Intelli-
ly operates only overseas); at Building 213 once branches of Army, Navy and Air, the
tote Department's Bureau of Intelligence and
the Naval Gun Factory in Southeast Washing-
! nd the FBI.
Drive, Arlington.
to Congress exercises exceptionally little su-
'Heading south on the George Washin
g
the Bluebird shuttles f ' envision of CIA operations or expenditures.
Memorial Parkway
,
nally turn off at a sign which reads "Fairban ', lost Congressmen seem to think that CIA does
Highway Research Station". The sign Is a re of operate within the United States.
herring. The point is important because Congress,
For there amid a 125 acre estate is th Ike American taxpayers, is wary of any vast
hush-hush headquarters of CIA a vast whit network of secret police or spy power being
? concrete building (price $46,000,000) housin eveloped within the USA by the Executive
10,000 workers. This is the "hideaway" tucke ranch of government.
away in the rolling Virginia countryside. Nevertheless CIA maintains branch offices,
ith listed telephone numbers, but unlisted ad- Continued
tresses, in the following American cities out
side of, the Washington area; --
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