PROOF--AND INDIFFERENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200350004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 18, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

By Robert, Morris
the German failures in the Moscow!
of Richard Sorge as its wartime spy Japan might not have struck at Pearls
in Japan and the simultaneous news ?;; Harbor 90-days later, if the truce hadl
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should spell out a conclusion that is nevertheless was recommended by a
just not being drawn in, the 1964, high State Department planner as a
British diplomat is now employed by' Sorge had American confederates,
the Moscow press agency, Novosti, one of whom was Agnes Smedley, who
report that H.A.R. Philby, former been accepted.
The United States ? Senate Internal ..'. that was spiked by Lyle H. Munson,
,,','Security Subcommittee surveyed the now head of The Bookmailer,, who
activities of the Institute of Pacific was a CIA official at the. time. Agnes
I Relations in the early fifties.. It took Smedley later' mocked her govern
the testimony of Maj. Gen. Charles ,'; ? ment. defenders by willing her ashes
A. Willoughby on his return from,,, , to Chinese Communist General :Chou
`duty in Japan. General Willoughby Teh.
courageously told the Senate that H.A.R. Philby. as British M-15 inf.
tticnara gorge naa neaaea an inter' Washington, in conjunction with
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campaign in Europe. The abuse intimate security secrets and military
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