U.S. AGENT SPIES--FROM AN IVORY TOWER

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000700530028-0
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1
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December 16, 2016
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December 27, 2004
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28
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November 14, 1960
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NSPR
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Approved For Release MOM & : G' Al 75-00149R000700 30028.0 1-rr,nt Eder Qtiter PayP P,19. Nyc D C]tn U'S. Agent Spies$rbwan 'Ivory Tower': By FRANKLIN JOHNSON Ventral. Press d isociation (Jorrespondent . CHICAGO -- An .."ivdry tow- er" may he an even move stra. logic vantage point for .some United Stater espionage than a tiigh-flying 11-2 plane! That Is the reasssuiihce which the activities herein his "conning tower'' on Michigan Avenue of ipild-mannered Jacob .G,, Tolpin May he.ve for thc* who are worried lest the 'un- toward event4 surrounding the grounding of the U-2 recon- naissance plane on Russian soil have "pinned dowp" effective. American ' ountar-espionage ef- forts. To:ptn Looks like a. college prutessor-which is, natural, be- cause he really is-dace He lec- tures at Northwestern Univer- sity. He acts like a scholar.- and thi s lgo is eminently true .. chemistry and engineering from the University of Kiev in Rue- m unnma uumversmm ~~ +#t ' t . however. Literally Tolp4 oA is a "spy" of sorts, but tie 1E liVA ' what is ,cno,. n in the argot of m t.a~' c,- 1{1p ` " the espiaru.g^ as a white up- erntor," in m aeitrast with an Gte+Nn ~ ' "' Ira sae y' o f yvi "cigent overt"; In espiDn. . , . .-__, f,_a. a..2111.aa ._...a_ ., ! - . 'lance merns the more conveh- tional Lndercover cloak- ` and .dagger agent. OF'F'ICIALLY Toip in Is known also as an "agent, intelligence, overt," or one who analyzes foreign technical journals, fin.- teak to' Ru;iaian broadcasts, and intorview$ refugees, as distan- guished fromn an "agent, Intel- ligence. covert," who is more common to the usual spy legends. Those in a position to know hint that '"agents" ' like Tolpin have made ?niore solid break. througha of secrecy behind the Iron Curtain than ' the. other kind, ever' since the U, Is. de- cided "to fight fire .with fire by launching the vaunted Gen. tral Intelligence Agency. Qt course, the CIA has' "agents overt" also, and works cioaoiy Kith, tho "Ivory tower eorps," .wlopment than. coy cloak-endsdagger'type could fotharh. conventional dpy, but trdin an vita tell there shum'tly after th "agent alien an>rlyzlfg'routine rot olutlon et 1917 and pow Is repeats of radioactivity, levels. naturalized 4.. P. cilium; has of rainwate;-trappgd.In Alaska! fdr Stars, been a specialist o "White agents" studying pho- i overt :iclence and lnrJustry,em tograp s released by the R'us- slaaq. themselvest of t Sputnik?'I could .spot! 4xagtiy the stage of Soviet . ror etrry.. developnment. Rusefa,also tab i'wblte igints," of'iaouree, and 'they saw the airplane' itlodel 'makff's' .iaga- zing that gave detailed data an the ;1~-R whfo others thought it web` highly `secret, they knciw all'kibout the plane?