RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION DEPT.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100030005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 29, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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By David' Wise
Washington: Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON.
The Central. Intelligence
lect group of Congressmen a..
CIA report describing a Soviet
KGB "Department of Disin
;formation" said to be.engagpd'
In an elaborate effort to dis-'.
L:United States agencies,
h '
-ligence apparatus, is directing;;
its campaign against the CIA,`'
"the intelligence community,
with particular thrust against,l
.the FBI and Mr.' J. 'Edgar'
I
Hoover," the State Depart. .j
ment, the Peace Corps, and.;
the USIA. "The' ultimate ob-'j
jective is to isolate and destroy:'
what the KGB designates as
'Glavni Vrag"' (main enemy),,
tpe United States said. ; r
The text of the CIA docu-
ment,' obtained' by the, New'
York Herald Tribune, reports
the. "Department of Disin-
formation," also known 'as
a veteran intelligence officer,
and employs "an estimated 40
to 50". desk officers and ex-
perts in Moscow alone.
The CIA report described
Gen. Agayants as "a senior
professional intelligence offi-
cer with long experience and
well developed agents and po-
litical contacts in. Western
Europe, especially in France,
where he served under' the'
name of Ivan Ivanovich
Avolov,"
"The assignment of Agay-
ants to take. over. the disid,
,formation task indicates the
high priority .that the then
chairmali of the Presidium,
Nikita Khrushchev, gave to,
the,~~popaign'against Amer-'+
an leadership' and activity. party,, the ruling, body
,of th
,
hairman Kosygin and First ...Soviet Union,
o changes in that program."':,` fire in, -recent years in Corr
,The report added that "De- gross and the press, as well
residium of the Central Com result ? of,unsuccessful opera-
i
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ttee'., of
the. ?.Comariunist: tions that
efforts to. discredit the CIA.
More specifically, it. appeared
aimed. at any,' possible? new
effort in Congress to establish
-,:a Joint "watchdog" committee
Ito : oversee the CIA.
Recently, there have ' been-
'new .' controversies ' involving
. the CIA, including one revolv-'.
ing around the disclosure by'
Singapore's Prime Minister,
Lee Kuan Yew, that an agent
of the intelligence agency was
arrested five, years ,ago for
allegedly attempting to bribe
a.Singapore security officei'.
? The State Department first
denied, then admitted that
Secretary of State Dean Rusk'
had apologized in writing over
,,,this incident." Mr. Lee also
.said he tried to get $33 million
in turn for,silence about the
,affair, but claimed he ,was
'Offered only $3 million, which
lie' said he turned down as
an "insult:' '
That episode ' and another
'recent blow-up. involving, the,,
CIA in , the 'Dominican Re-
public led some lawmakers to
renew the call fora "watch-
,dog" group in Congress, which'
the CIA'opposes on the ground
that secrets would leak out. ?
According to the 20-page
'CIA report, which was pre=
seated to the key lawmakers
at a secret briefing recently,
the "Department' of Disinfor-
mation" was established in",
1859 and "now produces be.;,.
tween 350 and 400 derogatory:
items. a r~uallyr'., ' : l
Pigs in Cuba. That failure in
1961 led to a .shake=up at
the CIA.
The report circulated' to
senior members of. the House
and Senate was seen here as
'an effort to counter some of,
?...,~W::,.5. the attacks' made' on the
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