THE PERISCOPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300130021-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: July 15, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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HONG KONG - Not four, but five, U.S. citizens
are in Red Chinese jails. So far, all that is
known about the fifth man is his name, Robert
Ho}vSlrn,,and that he probably lived in Australia
before going to China. Unanswered is when
Howden went to China 'and why he is in jail.
The other Americans behind Bamboo Curtain
bars, all on espionage charges: JohnDowncv, a
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U.S. Army civilian employe, and importer Hugh
Redmort4J?Jr ,:,in _for life; Richard.. ecteau, an-
other Army worker, and Roman Catholic Bishop
James,_Walsh, serving twenty-year sentences.
LONDON - Prime Minister Macmillan is act-
ing as unflappable as ever. He now plans a
trip to the U.N. this fall, to deliver a new dis-
armament plea from the General Assembly ros-
trum. His hope, according to insiders, is to
crown the New York visit with a Khrushchcv-
Kennedy-Macmillan summit meeting.
UNITED NATIONS-Pope Paul VI and U.N.
Secretary-General U Thant will take up a deli-
cate matter of peace-making when they nacet
this week in Rome. U Thant, a Buddhist, would
like the Pope to intercede with South Vietnam's
Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem to
get better treatment for the embattled Viet-
namese Buddhists.
CHICAGO-Ebony, the Negro monthly, may
soon broaden its horizons. Editor and publisher
John H. Johnson is considering a move overseas,
with perhaps a European edition and one (partly
in French, partly in English) for Africa.
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UNITED NATIONS-01)c angle puzzles the
experts about Ivan E ro ov, that Russian U.N.
official just arreste or espionage (page 21). Why
was such a high-ranking agent-he is believed
to be a colonel-risking such-chores as making
personal pickups of spy "drops"? Best guess:
Russians working for the-U.N. can move freely
' ound"the u.S: Others in the country.:. are -tightly._,..,
restricted by the State Depaiiment .;,;,..
PENTAGON-Graduates of Soviet-run Cuban
spy schools are really only semi-secret agents.
U.S. and Latin American intelligence agencies
hn-, nnmz iled rlossiers_ complete with photo-
graphs, on
of keeping
they turn out: Marine Maj. Gen. Victor H.
Krulak, head of counterinsurgency for the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
BAGHDAD - Moscow's support for the Kurdish
rebels in Iraq may have boomeranged. The Iraqi
Government promptly renewed trade pacts with
Communist China and its anti-Soviet ally, Al-
bania. Baghdad also threatens to expel the
hundreds of Soviet technicians now in Iraq.
Worllal Wire
SOFIA-It's not exactly "The Establishment,"
or "Second City," but it's political satire of a sort 'i
-for Iron Curtain audiences. The heavy-handed
curtain-raiser of one Bulgarian revue: "We are
going to have a lot' of fun here tonight talking
about things we all feel bad about. But before
we all start laughing, look at the person on your
right and on your left and be sure he isn't a
state security agent."
EMBASSY ROW-The U.S. and Canada may !
be asked to help rule strife-torn British Guiana.
U.S. officials have suggested to the British that
London might have to resume direct rule of
the colony. The word in Whitehall is that Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan is ready to -agree-
but wants Washington and Ottawa to share the
cost and responsibility.
SAN JUAN-James Hoffa's Teamst . are put-
ting their staying power to the test in Puerto
Rico. They already have dropped $1,750,000 on
far, all they have to show for this effort is 3,000
members. (The rival Seafarers International
claims 15,000.)
MIAMI - The latest U.S. intelligence tally on' Fidel Castro's air arm: more than 100 MIG's,
42 of them equipped with heat-seeking air-to-
air missiles.
EMBASSY ROW -The U.S. and Pakistan are
engaged in aerial warfare on the diplomatic
front. Despite strong protests from Washington,
Pakistan wants to go ahead with plans to route
its airliners through. Red China to Tokyo. ';
The U.S., in turn, threatens to cut off the sup-
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