NO BUSINESS LIKE SPY BUSINESS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600240004-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 17, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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"Ana NoSe3 sent 'them (12
-men) to Spy out the land of
Cancan," telling them to 'See
thte land, what it ts;,and the
people that dwelleth 'therein,
.whether they be strong or
weak; few or many; and
what the land is .,that they
dwell -in . . . whether it be
tat or lean... ,"
Numbers (King James Ver.
lion) 12;1'7-20.
fly TOM LAMBERT
Gn Annl,w Tim? Nn.. 10""r?
WASHINGTON - If spying Is
13 old as Moses, Its basic pur.
se is unchanged; find alit Ali
uch es possible about Canaan.
If Moses started It, every-
y's doing it now. And, given
D appetite of states for in-
ation on their friends as
11 as their foes, nobody
25X1A9a
shows any sign of giving up the
intelligence business.
Intelligence - gathering Is on
of the world's prime Industrl
today.
Billions of dollars, ruble,-,
francs, pounds, -yuan, yen and
other moneys are devoted yea
ly to Intelligence - gathering,
la James Bond or via. such pr
'eaic procedures as buying
road map or a telephone book.
AND, GIVEN THE upsid
down nature of some. Intell
gence work, thousands of !'nos
dollars and other moneys ? or
spent creating and distributin
false or misleading Intarmatio
for the "opposition. '
more precise, elaborate -ana?I his
tions are comparable. I l1 for
Two of the most striking de-
elopments In espionage t h e
ast few years have been the
? ecognition of some spies, and
ome agents' turns toward the
en.
THUS, THE Soviet Union has
cknowledged publicly a n d
ratefully the work of Its late
ar Eastern spy Richard Sorge,
nd the exploits of Rudolph
bel, once based in Brooklyn.
The Russians permitted Gor-
on Lonsdale, once headquar.
I t red In London, to publish his
And they seem willing to per.
It British double-agent Harold,
hilby, now comfortably bedded.
wn in Moscow, to detail for'
(world his incredible. e:
site - Provided 8e^ceu^find t
fuPhtstypewrlter, as the eco-
n
t It dlt-- AL.- --I- _#
pu
his `memoirs owhow he tricked!
the' British` Intelligence service;
for 30 years .. .
"Today, the master spy Is
more likely to meet a literary
agent than a firing. squad," the
Economist commented.
But ? the unpredictabilltles of
recognition and writing have
been more than matched re-
cently by some other foibles of:'
humankind in spies - as wit-
ness the Runge Smith affair.
Soviet Intelligence Lieut. Col.
Yevgeny Runge recently packed
up a bundle on. his records as
a spy in West Germany, gath-
ered up his wife and small an,
and turned himself over to Wet~
a - they may be the only
olleagues may be told to learn
that they can about another
ountry's military strepgth, or
i s factories' output, or its polit.
I al alms, or the morale of Its
ople.
ODAY'S SPIES also are
astly better equipped for some
f their work than Moses' dozen
gents, who had little m o r e
an their eyes and Ingenuity to
j1 am about Canaan and Its pea
le.
Today's spies have picture-
king satellites, computers,
I opying cameras, their co d e a
nd other devices which would
affle even agent Bond.
In some cases, t h e s e are
erely the tools of the spy. In
ther cases-as with American
nd Russian satellites p h o t o-
raphing closed -areas of the'.
I nited states USSR and R e d'
omed as significant intelligence
sta.
I Instead, today's spy and his
me cases they might be wel- uff deposits for the analysts.
B usine'ss
ut a satellite or a spy's pho 1n the United States, former
f an intriguing new factory
an accessible city or a r e a l
y not satisfy an Intelligence
ctor, who wants to k mo w r
t is being manufactured
e even though It is closed . regaled . with some of . the do-
e public. fags and reflections of Russian
ai elligence Col. Cleo Penkov-
ND THUS A spy in person ' sky, executed as an American-
y be called on to learn what;' British agent.
an about the factory. How?
y- recruiting a workman,
for published Itiforlliatlpn
t the Installation,
erhaps by strolling across
adjacent field In the hope
trouser cuff or shoes will
up deposits left on t h e
nd or grass from the fac-
's chimneys, for analysis
he spy's chemists;
Central Intelligence Agency ' Di-
rector Allen Dulles has pub-
lished some carefully winnowed
details of his work as a spy.
And Western readers have been
I
"SPYING WAS once a reticent
profession, Its practicloners
scarcely ever putting pen to
prtper except In seers! Ink 11
the London Economist remarked
wryly recently. -
The comment followed a re-",,
port that Philby was warming
his master the cluster 'of Perhaps by wading in a river
rapes, the pomegranates or ownstream from the factory,
gs which Moses' agents ? re- n hope any waste emptied Into
rned to him - although In ~ he river will provide trouser
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