TALES FROM SUPER SPY STATEMENT OF LASZLO SZABO IS AN EYE OPENER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700420009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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V. t s Sz b mad clear t k~ bein ren6wed on our in-
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the national
ing," and other East European, Foreign Relations Committee
i capit~L - 4 'Communist nations are "met- . is not unrelated to the syn-
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routine release of a thin pub-' -"""~ By R,giatlons.Cominlttee, The 01.1
lication by a congressional, EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELI'~ of its members have given
ample evidence that in the fer-
by tempestuous been followe,; to the other Soviet bloc coon- vor of their arguments they ac-
us reverberations
beneath the 3 tries as '"satellites" of the'cept practically no limitation
volcanic sur } USSR, and is basing America's that plight handicap their lm-
face o re ; policy and hence our survival ii pact. The KBG cautd . 'hardly .
on the line that there no longer ask for anything more.
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Statement of, Laszlo Szabo Is an Eye Opener,-
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tally ,a sbind 7 4 -_..."when something has been de- telligence network by Com-
ing as any Roosevelt tided at the chief's levelwith!?munist and left-wing, sources.-.
the Soviets, the other (intelli-; .Fulbright's approach to world
law, the in-
, services must stay, affairs could ensure that. such
formation and testimonies col- Renee
t strictly in line." essential data as Szabo provide,
lected by the.S~11t.Tal, Intellit ' This is merely a hint of the ed would be most unlikely, to
Bence Aoepcy have been secret tremendously important guide reach the press or the public.
;-1YcT1W ail, except for such rare- r ante that can be provided the
find agencies as the National, American voting public if the` Le"rcxtiori eCovers
Security Council and tha Ex-1 m
? raw material pro
+ a^utive offices, and then only i.. Undoctored The congressional document
nesse by Sz first-hand wit also makes incontrovertible
a selected po:lion of the data. I
Szabo were publish-
What sensational stories llesses bas y,
could become public property, (1d, instead of being buried in the fact that to he pl'st legs- ins guidi ttitudes decisively, if'
e to he Ise the
t1e CIA O files as has been the case hith? ctovercontinuwork against
terial could be made ?erto.
rrya Naturall United States. For example;
available, when not of a secure y once such a publi cording to Szabo , "there is a
ity 'nature! cation 'was made public, one according
.intelligence writ under.
A beginning has now been could be sure that the volcano secret scover called a "nder
made. Quietly, the special would burst, and lava spill all diplomatic ?
Armed Services subcommittee over the Washington scene. So ~Ientura at the United Na-
on the Central Intelligence we have the insistence by Sen. tions in New York. There. is,
also on utura" in the.
Agency of the House has just .I? William,:Fulbrights Senate a "reside aa ?,, Legation in Wash?
;or'splitting tactic 'I he Com-
released a 20-page publication orcign Relattons Committee in-ton, D C.?'
entitled "'Statement of Laszlo that it shale jurisdiction over, monists specialize in this. Sure-,
Szabo." "' ? the CTA, and partake of all RD Of special, importance in the IV the erosion of the NATO al-
knowledge. Ilunga.riantlefectnr's t.estirnony)~ance system and the animosi?
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Reports on KGB ` was the sti'rss which the c O. ties between France and the
Ivey Step. munists place on creating aiUnited States have all beenSza the congressionalssubcomnlt- Obviously, along with this propaganda climate favorable abetted by this professional-'
e2"[i the.CtA; which had been would go the tremendous op- L to their aims. Szabo told how -Red mechanism.
questy iotvng him, intensively. He , portunity for manipulation and he was assigned by Pal Hadju, Such are the high stakes for
had served. for 2.0.-years in the control of this all ..important chief of the evaluation and as- 'which the Communist appara-
Hungarian Secret Service, and agency. Perhaps more import- sessment department of the ` t tas is figplting, using for its
--was- able-to relate from his - ant: would be the opportunity I-1ungarian Intelligen.r:e Scrviee,,,. purpose the so-called "peace"
first-hand knowledge how it given the subtle enemy for to submit suggestions design- movement and naive but ob?
operates under the control of creating more effective Chan- ed "to undermine the relations sessive "opinion molders."
Soviet Russia's KGB. . nets into the heart of our gov- between the United States and.'Moscow's continuing goal is to'',,
-This is vitals heady informa- ernment. other Western ,countries-eco-.) penetrate the CIA or, to divert;
t.ion at a time when the State After all, no more vociferous nomically or. otherwise." iand paralyze its operations,',
Department has used all its in- opponents of a firm policy to. In psychological warfare this and as far as possible, to in-
i fluence to eliminatepr ~ a ~~ ~~ $ l~~~e l _ ~ ~ -~f u ~eoytj']~a it does. -,/