CIA OFFICIAL TELLS SUCCESS INSIDE RUSSIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200200049-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: May 8, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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The CIA operations are
secret that not even Congr S
is told its size, scope or
penditu e.
Kirkpatrick's star -
ments were particularly
nificant, coming bn the e
the Geneva emit to s
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;fir ier Nikita Khrnshcbev'14
lied to say whether he had' Even though our intelli-
,I o w 1 e d g e that Powers gene sources within the So-
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to commit suicide. - aL,,,
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fhinn like. this must come
we would like them to be."
He would not expand that'
statement nor was he respon-
sive to specifit? questions
about the ability of American
agents to detect Soviet nu
clear tests.
He refused to answer ques-
tions about the number of
American intelligence agents
abroad or the sire of the CIA
budget.
Ile told the more than
1000 persons from 31 nations
who are attending this three-
day cg Terence that the Com-
munis have chosen Africa
as t11.hext major cold war
battle "ield.
"We should be under no
delusions about their capa--
hilities' or intent," he said,
sdding that the Communists
are building a forceful 'in-
derground network to bring
the Africans over to their
side.
The conference, sponsored
Ipt North-re
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