RED PROPAGANDA STRIKES AT CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100030015-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 28, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON (AP)' -The
Central Intelligence Agency is
circulating among 'an inner.
group of congressmen a report
describing a Soviet.prgpaganda
campaign_.aimed at the CIA but
also striking at the FBI.
The activity, says the CIA
report, Is chiefly planned and
directed by a special "Depart-
ment of Disinformation" estab-
ished in the KGB, the Soviet
state security service.
The CIA says the KGB do-
artmentwas set up by former
remier Nikita Khrushchev,
and is headed by Gen. Ivan
vauovich Agayants, "a senior,
rofessional intelligence officer
ith long experience and well.
eveloped d agent and political
ontacts in Western Europe."
The. objective of the cam.
sign, the report states, "is to
chieve the destruction, break.
p and neutralization of CIA"
ith an ultimate goal 'to Isolate
nd destroy what the KGB des
nates' as 'glavni vrag' (main
nemy), the United States." .
11."By'striking:at CIA," the re-
rt said "the attack also' con.
ers on the intelligence commao
ity., with ".pnrticuiar, thrust
gainst.the: l?'BI. "and .Mr,,J. Ed-
gar Hoover." Hoover is.director
of the FBI.
The CIA, often under' attack
both at home and abroad for
some of its reported operations
in the cold war, issued the re-
port 'to members of Congress
charged with keeping an eye on
Its operations.
The CIA says that Gen. Agay
ants" "defamation and. .forgery
operations" are reviewed and
passed on by the Soviet leader-
ship and that "Department D"
is directly tied into the Soviet
Presidium.
The KGB department, the CIA
says, makes use of "local Com-
munist or pro-Communist 'prop-
agandists and of Communist
bloc intelligence and security
services."
'A WIDE REPLAY'
"The operations of the Soviet
disinformation department have
been successful thus far in stim-
ulating a wide replay in. Africa,
Southeast Asia, the Middle
East, and even In the United
States," the CIA said.,
The CIA says that one of the
preferred Instruments,- utilized
byy the Soviets to !'disseminate
disinformation ;'is,J: the ; forged
document.!'.,rcr4