USSR STILL A POLICE STATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100410003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 12, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 199F1'q~b
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. JAN 12 1964
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Date: JAS!
?CPYRGHT By InE1,RE, J. ITUSS
Frearst Headline Service
a expe tents like the nuc ear; minor capacity of counsellor.1
C PY~G-
est ban treaty and nebulous' Those who remember this fop
rledges not to annex the and small time chiseler; who'
noun. never missed a free drink or
A WARNINGtfh
. meal a any o te U. N. re-
Back in_Moscow, however, I ceptiolis, dismiss 11ir11. with
ihr?ushclrev arrested Yale, contempt.
Professor Frederick Barg- His "confession" cited al-
r;ineairs of warning the peo-
ioorn because be learned too
nuch about thp?8oviet Union,
vbich 'cannot be tolerated.
lso. It served I{hrushchev.as
occasions over recent months that beneath all the; i
superficial cordiality and co-operation extended byi
the Soviet Union there remains the ugly fact that;
Russia is a totalitarian police it
state and rules those it has
i conquered or seized outside
its own borders strictly by
direct military and Commit-
Party control.
Inside the Soviet Union and
bellied the Iron Curtain, the
foreign resident' diplomat'
and visitor continue to be
secret police suspects - or
r : spies. ..
By the same 'token, the
soviet Union considers it nee-
e s a r y to treat. the free FREDERICK 13ARGHOORN.
,woNd areas as its private:' Knew loo much about Soviet
i-poaching grounds for espio-'?
Wage, sabotage and subver- f bound to the known', and 'r
sign. known Soviet police surveil- 1
FALSE GOSPEL lance as any of the Moscow r
'A Soviet or Iron. Curtest diplomats posted abroad. For national is allowed abroad all. of them, "Big Brother" N''
"only in thG service: of that still breathes down then. .? 11 4~worldwide es
e nn+n_ nceks.
iona
p
g
gory, be t11at in lane guise or
Nikita Khrushchev about t11e, t e
diplomats
trade negotiators
,
,
United States and the toned=
journalists; c u t t,u r a t and
! ` f
dwn Communist popganda
ora theater groups or exchange v
;'students. on Imperialist" .',war plots' h ?
'spout Christmas In Ohio to :,stripped of the Cold. War, sit1 t e
of their nat]otl's daily?~life,;i_ftle rosy;fog,> pread by.poli4h>
since the S t a' l t n. terror;
i:preached "p c a c e, peace,;
hpeace','. and ,. is.; ; ,'?, tightly
Spacial to The Examiner
pprove or? a ease 1,99910911, T,
that foreigners are cne-
es of the Soviet Union, re-
Lit "peaceful co-exist-
and friendship propa.
da foisted upon white and
ck masses abroad.
son in - captive lands, he
ineered the staging of a
garian show trial in which
ain and shopworn "diplo-
t" abjectly "confessed
t he was an American spy.
the sickening trappings of
Stalin purge trials 'of 30,
rs ago were brought into.'
y, even to the point of a
osophy very cheerfully
tthed by the accused, Ivan
rgiev.
bviously with'the aim of
htening? East Europeans
Soviet "liberalists" from
tug too chummy with the
t, and to b'acken U.' S.
tige abroad, the spy trial
entrated on evidence so
trived that 'riots against
American Embassy in
a,had to be unleashed to
rt attention and coffee-
eorgieV was a 'member Off
C
leged spy activity that was
of : the flimsiest nature, in-
cludurg New York addresses
that do not exist. lie involved
'the name of a leading expert
on Eastern` Europe, Prof.
Cyril Black of Princeton, as
the man who Is supposed to
have inveigled him In the spy
'let.
UTTER CONTEMPT
'Professor Black showed his
utter contempt for this arti-
ficial trial device. But ltere+
again, Khrushchev pu]letl the
strings on a stage play by
which he warns Iron Curtain'
nationals against assoc]atingll
with foreigners and by which;
he can keep anti-Am(rican'
sentiment strong.
'Then there, is the Other skh
of the cuill in relation to tlie'
I'lar"lioorn arrest and the
Sofia show trial. '.They are'
the excuse and the smoke-4
screen for l'hc vast Soviet
espionage and sabotage oper-'
ations infesting all free na-
tions..
.
. These arrests and trials let
you know that the poor old
Soviet Union must defend
and protect itself against
Western . illwill and plots.
They are intended to have
k
you win
an eye each time.;
another Soviet espionage ring;
Is uncovered in your country:
and brush it off with the re-
mark that Vie f'.iA an 1 Brit-i
fish-intelligence are just ~as
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