AFRICA RESEARCH GROUP (ARG) CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000300020012-8
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 17
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 13, 2005
• Sequence Number: 12
• Content Type: REPORT

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In1 iii ;cr,cc Agency has long
ir,u d the of mass eapostn?c
that befell Soviet intelligence in
Britain la,;[ week, a cottficlential
rt per l rliscloeed Monday.
Tile report shv',cs that the CIA
has been trying for several years
to shift its espionage operations
affray from tw, S. cntbassles and
offices to "unofficial cover"
Private arp aai?zatioas and
".J .ham 1.., 1J'.
businesses and "non-U. S. na Suit-'limes, is based on a dis-
Ilona S. E P'ART' C(PA11:5 included
" fll Icussic,n among several former Allen Di lies, the late director of
It acknowledges that toi,';it hi;lrranl;ing intelligence officials the CIA; Roi rt Amory Jr., a
Russian security has forced the conducted by the Council on former deputy CIA director of the CIA;
to collect intelligence on lt,? oreign Relations ill New York on Eugene F'ubin, former assistant
soviet Union through "thin]- Jan. S, 1 uS. secretary of defense in the an :a Of
country" operations-- just as it, Richard M. Bissell, former electionicintelligence; Thomas 1,.
Russians apparently were see]:inf, deputy director of the CIA and Hughes, former director of the
intelligence on the United States nioderator'of the discussion, has State Departm nt's Bureau of In-
thrott h its spy apparatus in confirmed the authenticity of the telligottcc and Research, and
Britain.. r
f1 Vrl` ep cottonhi h is headed"Coll- Theodore Sorensen, special
1.'JII; ti P i OIh'i', it copy of which
has been obtained by The Chicago
only. Not to he rluoted?or cited."
"If the agency is to be cffcc-
tive," the' report declares at one
point, "it Will hat?c to take use of
private institulinns on all expatul-
ing scale ... CIA's interface fault
the rest of the t,orld needs to b0 *1
better protected,"
THE IIl,:POt,calls for "deep"r
cover" and "irclcascd attention to
.tile use of 'cut-cuts' " definer] in a
footnote as ''pt-Jects hitched by
the CIA which cannot be trued
back to the CIA."
The report con erles 1itat tir.re
are "powerful ma:-ons" for con-
cealing CIA agents within U. S.
embassies. principally to provitle
safe means of eonn-nunicatien to
Washington.
"Nonetheless," it goes on, ,it possible and dcsiraalthou~rb
difficult and
build overseas timaen -coarppuamrbattu~s , r-
f
unofficial cover. Tits would re-
quire the use or creation of
private organizations, many of the
personnel of tvbic:t would be non-
U. S. nationals, with freer entry!
into the local society and less ill]-I
plication for the official U. S. pos-
nitre."
'filE Tit?POI, i? sua eosted link;
ai(!t U, S. corporations which
could make the), own linos of
Coll nnunication mailable to CIA
agents, ?
All 105 of the Russian officials
expelled by Britain h,,;t I?'rirtay
were under "official cover,"
operating out of the Soviet em?
bassy or trace ni ssion. As such
they were much more sttsecpiil le
to British couuiiel'tt'teti ;;once. than
"unofficial cover" agents such as
those sue gelled in, the Bissell'
report.
Although the report does not
identify the source of various opin-
ionS' and conwirlls, Di.ssctt
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