SOVIET REPORTS TO DISCREDIT U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES SEN. THOMAS DODD.

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 1999
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• Publication Date: November 10, 1965
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SOVIET EFFORTS TO DISCREDIT U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES on. oma d.
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BROADCAST DATES NOVEMBER 10, 1965
ANNOUNCERS This is the American Security Council WASHINGTON
REPORT. Speaking from Washington, hero is our co-
editor, Senator Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut.
SEN. DODDs The world-wide effort to discredit our security
agencies - the CIA and the FBI - has top priority
in the Kremlin. Since 1948, the Soviet State Se-
curity Service - KGB - has had in operation a special
Department of Disinformation. In this regard, every
department and agency of the U.S. government is con-
siderod a target for attack, the ultimate objective
being to isolate and destroy what the KGB calls the
of the Department of Disinformation tolls why the
CIA heads the list of Soviet targets (and I quote)x
"Glavni Vrag," the main enemy - the United States-
A recent U.S. government report detailing the efforts
CIA, in its intelligence role, is feared by the So-;
?.vieta for its responsibility and ability to penetrate
and unmask Communist conspiracies against democratic
institutions...The objective of the overall program
is to achieve the destruction, breakup and neutrali-
zation'of CIA. A basic requirement of Soviet policy
...is the destruction of effective security collabo-
ration among the non-Communist countries in order to
carry out Soviet long-term strategic plans for sub-
version, political upheavals, popular fronts, and the
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