U.S. INTELLIGENCE IN TIMELY REVIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300090022-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: October 26, 1958
• Content Type: NSPR

7A IN LAN POST
OCT 2 6 1958
AND Tres ni ized - Approved For Release : CIA-
. _.T.., . - -~---~-~.,:-
Some Cracks in the Wall , .
A lieutenant colonel in ME Y Intelligence Reserve, Mr. Davis was tin
CENTRAL INTLLL CE AND' NATIONAL SL CU'I ITY.,,
By Harry Howe Ransom. Harvard, $4.75.
I IF ~Mlls BOOK nee e e ,
they came in news dispatches for Oct. 16 and 17 when, in
Bonn. a West German, naval officer was arrested on
charges of spying for the Russians, and in Washington, the
!Army alleged that its Redstone Arsenal staff was being
"raided by the new Space Administration. In Other words,
there are cracks in our wall and some discord behind it.
Ransom's "detailed descriptive analysis of the con-
temporary intelligence community" is an assessment of
the intelligence-gathering: Though 6ccasioliail.y re ?
!agencies of this Governmentdundant,' Ransom is always]
and of their' inter-relation-4, clear, and his style exhibits al.
morciful `minimum of those:?
ships. He numbers the princi-! ?hloroform clauses that too
ern
na
e go
,-
often conta
the secondary as at leastf mental English. pis? a?I ~,