STATE OF THE NATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100020007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 24, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CHRISTIAN SC.1ENC2
MONITOR
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Of Spies and Spying
By Joseph C. I-Iarsch
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Special Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
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inc exchange of Greville not, of course, show w le
Wynne for Gordon, Lonsdale'&Ir. Wynne ever brought or
in Berlin has one interest-,sent home any useful secret
ing feature in common with: information. He may Have
the other most celebrated picked up a minor tidbit
recent case of the same kind here ,or there. But he almost
--- the exchange of Francis certainly was not in the big-
Gary Powers for Rudolf time branch of the business.
Abel. Messrs. Lonsdale and Abel
In each case the West gave were in the big time. They
up an important Soviet spy were professionals who had
for a person who in such, been through all the highest
terms is extremely unimpor- postgraduate branches of
tart. Soviet spy training. They CPYRGHT
I do not mean to belittle knew the art from invisible
Mr. Powers as a pilot by: ink to double agents and
calling rum unimportant. I propaganda.
am sure he is one of the best.: Therefore neither 6x-
But by the standards of change was equal. The West' In les two cases, Wash-
measurement used in `the: in each case gave up areall.v ingto] aid London suffered
spy business, Mr. Powers-:,.prize catch for a person of the same constant pressure
Small spy-business value. f from re s and public to get
WaS just another technician ,>:,_.__""_ __a n-.,,,?.,,_,. _ ihn ,?i rn+ 7 a A
!Abels and Lonsdales. 1 In his sort of thing the
In each case the West' West l' ys of necessity is
,.found itself boxed into the. at a d sa vantage.
unequal exchange for a rea f f
son which operates in the But th re is another side
,.:..'West but not in Cornmu]list to th c in. Moscow could
co[ntries. In a Communist ___
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~-- T^ -?~, . even know that the ]nCd] Decau o the humanitarian
G LSE vidual has disappeared. Even'a]igle, ut they badly' anted
~,?~-f-; - if the public did know, it to get th r own boys home
manding a repatriation. tiseme it or their spies to
In the West the public; be la] gui king in Western
knows. It knew that Mr.:Jails. I r- inds people that
Powers was shot down an; big-ti a oviet spies have
promptly demanded, in been c ug t.
The same goes for Greville 'f The British public knew that that ' ill.
he spy-catching
Wynne. By Soviet standards Mr. Wynne had " been ar- busineI,: e West has been-N,.
he was a spy but he appar- rested and sent to . jail. It, doing ator better of late .'
ently was an amateur -, not l too, demanded ' ransoming,:than t e viets. They have,
publickand ' the publiclost sever real est
.a true pro. The best infor- 'ination available about him story Press
of Jan es. and. The West is that he was a salesman 4conscious,and agitated, ,loses ss nger boys.
who perhaps enjoyed, the
thrill of doing some spying
on the side. It probably gave
him a sensq of : importance. ^;
Caught Any
Cloak-and-Dagger Mc]] Lately?
who knew how to drive
.fast, high-flying airplanes.
He would never give, a James
'Lend any competition.
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