U.S. AGENT SPIES--FROM AN IVORY TOWER
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CIA-RDP75-00149R000700530028-0
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RIFPUB
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K
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1
Document Creation Date:
December 16, 2016
Document Release Date:
December 27, 2004
Sequence Number:
28
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Publication Date:
November 14, 1960
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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?