EVERYBODY'S DOING IT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400020016-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: November 5, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

American Embassy in Moscow
Associated Press, Washing-
D.C., October 26, 1959)
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signed to the Foreign Service
or who has attended govern
ter-intelligence scboolspj qny
nation' will doubt for a mo-
ment the purported state-
ment of Russell A. Langelle,
U. S. Embassy security of-
ficial, Moscow. to the effect
chat the American people in
,zeneral do not know, but
mould, is, that the govern-
mitted officially:
Denial, in fact, is anti tie
ily skele,ton,'ItU dis-
cussed publicly or e . r ad-
the weapons in the arsenal of
every nation and is in con-
stant use. But like the "fam-
and most secondary ones are
trt'ing continuously to do the
same thing.
This is standard operating
procedure, otherwise known
as "old hat" to the informed
everywhere. Spying is an es-
sential ingredient of the pres-
ent cold war and is as old'
as the nation-state s,stenl
itself. Governments not only
spy upon their "opponents."
but also upon their "friends."
The "cloak and dagger" sys-
tem is not something reserved
Appro
deny. This again is part of
the state system. And no one
hot or cold. Is truth, and al-
ways has been. It is not that
the, individuals engaged in
international subversion are
immoral themselves, but
rather that the system itself
is amoral.
HVIN H. ,
'Brig. Oen., U.,S. Army. Re t
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