SENATOR SAYS U.S. SPIES ARE TOP REDS ABOARD

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December 15, 1998
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April 7, 1965
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WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS Sanitized - Approved For Release : Cl . APR 7 1965 FOIAb3b AFTER WORLD TOUR CPYRGHT 0~ator gays U. S. Spies S Are lob beds Abroad Sen. Milton R. Young (R., , "Some party members - not N.D.) one of the few men in too sold on communism - for Washington privy to the Central a price MR- work for us," he Intelligence Agency's innermost said. secrets, said today that many of "These operatives are experts the best spies the U.S. has in their line of work and they abroad are top Communist find little difficulty in adapting Party officials. . themselves to any kind of Sen. Young is one of only six political environment." senators who know precisely On the other side of the fence, how much . money is Sen. Young said, e v e r y appropriated for the super- communist to some degree is an' secret CIA and for what espionage agent..He said that in purpose. The f u n d s are the U.S. they usually hide out in concealed in the budgets. of extreme left-wing groups. But dozens of other Federal they can conceal themselves- agencies for security effectively in almost any level' purposes. of society, including far-right Last winter, Sen. Young organizations. oured virtually all of the CIA's "They are fewer in number overseas offices as a member of now in the U.S. than at any time the Senate Appropriations Sub- in the past 20 years and most . committee. of them are known to the FBI," he said. "Many of our most valuable " "The agents and operatives of CIA operatives in various the Russian DGB (similar to the ountries thruout the world are CIA in scope) and their GRU actually i g_h -ranking (military espionage) are much ommunist Party officials," he more difficult to cope with. wrote in a. report to his "One of their major missions constituentsti is to seek out top secret military. Asked to elaborate, Sen. and scientific . information,". Young told United Press Young said. "'The FBI .... has International that American been able to apprehend most of spies cannot work their way up these agents _but undoubtedly in the apparatus of.. foreign. some are still, operating, and at communist parties, very high levels." (UPI) Sanitized - Approved For Release: CIA-RDP75-00149R000800160051-4