HOTTEST ROLE IN THE COLD WAR

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CIA-RDP75-00001R000100060055-1
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
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November 11, 2016
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February 8, 1999
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55
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September 1, 1957
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NSPR
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PM U tit ? COLD Ever since lie served U.S. Army Intelligence in World War 11 , Euno Ilobhing has been a fascinated student of intelligence organizations and their metlo- ods. This interest was particularly :purred when, after the war, he had the opportunity to interrogate the leading members of Hitler's spy system. His career since the war has taken him into numerous areas ridden with international intrigue; be was the editor of Die Neue Zeitung, the U.S. military gov. ernment German-language newspaper, when it was published in postwar Perlin, and lie has beat a news correspondent both abroad and in Washington I'm so good that I could suraggcr. I knoxw things that tvozrld make you stagger. Tun 90 per cent cloak ... and 10 per cent dagger. Boo-boo, baby, I'm a spy. INCEthe days in World War 11 when a puckish Istanbul orchestra played this song every time an unmistakably American intelligence Nicer entered its cafe, the U.S. intelligence business has shucked any nd all quixotic romanticism. It is cold and serious big business now, with upwards of 8,000 people employed by the pre-eminent U.S. intclli- ence organization, the Central Intelligence Agency. And CIA work, or all its partaking of many of the monotonous characteristics of corpo- 'ate enterprise, is today the pursuit where an American in peacetime upremely looks into the soul of others and his own. The CIA man is lore constantly, closely and tellingly at grips with his Communist oppo- ite number than any other American. The CIA man may penetrate hose state secrets the Reds want to hide and he conceals the American secrets the Reds seek. The CIA man may discreetly disinfect a foreign political climate poisoned by Red insinuations. Or the CIA man moves swiftly through foreign political back rooms, to rescue and revive a friendly government and a friendly people who were on the verge of being choked by Coriumutist pressure. Where he succeeds, the CIA man gets no public acclaim, but has the unmatched reward of knowing that he, in the night, massaged the heart of freedom back to life. Within the last year, the CIA men have had loaded on them the biggest ange of responsibility that they have borne in their decade of existence. The CIA was established in September, 1947, when the lessons of World War 11 made it apparent that the many disparate intelligence ctivitics of U.S. government departments needed a center and a head.) s long as Joseph Stalin ran the U.S.S.R., the East-WVest struggle was fluff and blatant, noisily black and white. With the advent of Nikita hrusltchev, it has become a much more subtle proposition. Clandestine activities in the Stalin era, it seems fair to say, had a vital tactical signifi- cance. But Khrushchev has inaugurated what may properly be called An expert's inlimale picture of the U. S.'s growing spy system and how it scored a decisire vielory over Khrushchev `the clandestine c ' 'nyUzsdclr Asp j{ /fit t i It a 1 ~' FA E.SQUJEFE gy r Sanitized - Approved For F ele IA- FOIAb3b CPYRGHT RDP75-00001 R0001 00060055-1 continued