SENATOR SAYS U.S. SPIES ARE TOP REDS ABOARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800160051-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: April 7, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON DAILY
NEWS
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. APR 7 1965
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AFTER WORLD TOUR
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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)
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