A WORRIED LOOK AT THE C.I.A.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000400080001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 1, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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Frank A. Capell is a projessiorial intelli-
gence specialise of almost thirty years'
standing. He is I~ditor and Publisher of
J the fortnightly newsletter, The herald Of
Freedom, has contributed to suclt irnpor-
tent national magazines as The Review Of
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j The News, trnrl is author of Robert P. could see State Ucpartlnent cables on
Kennedy - A Political Biography, The ;vital issues.".Halperin teas Chief of the
Untouchables, and other boola of utter- ; O.S.S. Latin American. Division at thf
est to Cvrtscrvatives. Dlr. Capcll appears i time when, as bliss Bentley has sv.~orn, }i.
frequently on radio mtd television, lectures ~ was one of her contacts in a Sovie
widely, and ~ never fears controversy.? He ;espionage ring. '
lives irr 11'ew Jersey, is art active Catlt- ~ Carl Aldo biarzani was Chief of th
la}~rrtarr, and father of seven sons. ~ Editorial Section of the O.S.S. 1`-farzar
t~ Trrt; Central Intellitence Agency was
established in 1947 after its wartime
predecessor, the Office of Strategic Serv-
ices (O.S.S.), was exposed as ihorouohly
infiltrated by the Conununists..Let us
exallline some of that O.S.S. personnel.
In 1948, former Communist spy Eliza-
beth Bentley appeared as a witness before
the I-louse CominltteL OIl' LII7?Arllel'1Ca17
Activities: On Pa~c 529 of the formal
report of those lIearings is the record of
Miss Bentley's testimony about intelli-
gence she received from Comrades inside
O.S.S. wliilc she was operating as a Soviet
courier:
All types of irtfonnation were
given, highly secret inforrnatiort on
.what the OSS was. doing, sttch as,
for example, that they were trying
t0 brake SCCr'et ne~0tlatloilS ]viler
governments in the Talkmt bloc irr
case the tivar? ended, thnt they were
parachuting people info Ilungary, '
that they were sending OSS' l;eople
_ into Turkey., to operate in _the
? 13allcarrs, and so on. The fnct that
Ccrteral Donovan [head of O.S.S.l
was interested in having an ex-
chartge betlveen the NKVI? [the
Soviet secret police and the OSS.
That's right, O.S.S, and the N.Y.V.D.
were working very close indeed.
tiVflen asked what kind of information
Conulnlnist ~~~v~~c~.v~e~~t~r~cc1
Ialperin gave l r to be orwar e o f ]e
Soviet tlnion, Miss Bentley testified:
"yell, in addition to all tllc information
which OSS was yelling on Latin America;
he had access to the cables whiich the OSS
was gelling in from its agents abroad,
worldwide information of various sorts,
.and also thv OSS had an agreement with
he also
l7CIlt whereb
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th
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has been several. times identified undt
oath as a nlcnlber of the Conuuuni
Party. Using the most higtlly classific
lllfor'lllatlofl, he supervised the making
charts on technical reports for higher eel;
lops of the AFI71}', the Navy, the Joi
Chiefs of Staff, and the U.S.S: Conira
Marzani made policy decisions and wa:
liaison officer between the Ucputy Ch~~,
of Staff of the Army and the Office of
the Undersecretary of 1ti'ar. .
tiVhen duestioned before a Congre,
sional Committee, Irving Fajans of Q.S.
took the Fifih Amendment rather tha
admit to his Communist Party membl
ship and long history of activities ~
behalf of the Soviets. Comrade Faja
was a lacy Q.S.S. opci-ati~~e despite t'
fact that he was known to have been
member of the Conlrnunist Party and
have sen?ed in t1lC Cor7unullists' Abrah~
Lincoln Brigade in Spain during the ye:
1937-1938.
IZobcrt Talbott D4iller lII was anot}~
I contact of Soviet courier Elizabeth L'ei
-__ ..
State Department, he was Assistant Ch
in the Division of IZes~,arch. On a trip
l,~ioscow, Comrade Miller married a nee
ber of the staff of the Rfosc'ow 11'ews.
Leonard E. Mins, a writer who h
worked fUr the Internatlonat .Union
P.evolutionary 1Vritcrs in Iti4oscow a
written for 11'cw Rfasses, was also on ~
staff of the 'top secret O.S.S.. Coma
Mins took the Fifth Amcndln~nt rate
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ship in the C.ominunist Party. IIe refu
to deny that he was.a Soviet agent ever.
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18 APR ~470~
~. CHINESE ~IN ALBANIA?
~Zumors ~-bou~ Roc~ce~s Stir Thoughts
By DAVID BRAATEN ' put them in Mongolia, not Al- ' years, the Yugoslavs are ac- ~ As paranoid as the next top
siu s~.n w~uo~ bania. ' knowledged experts in the in-.. Communist
Tito feared that
~~ ,
,
'~ ~ ' tcrpretive field.
Rumors o[ Chinese rocket ' Why the hullabaloo, then. ~. the U.S. Central Intelligence
bases In Albania are being' Simply because arecent ar- ~ Vicwcd as a Sham Agency was behind the rocks!
waited around Intelligence cir- title in the Soviet weekly New Their view of the Soviet anx- ~ rumors of 1967, and the Rus-
,cles here and while nobod Times stated that there are fist fs that it is nothing fiat a ' aians behind toda 's.
y~ now 500 Chinese rocket sped ' sham. The Russians they say, , y
apparently, is taking the possi- ciaiists in Albania supervising }mow as well as anybody that More Fear of Rassla
bility of Sino-Albanian rockets 'the construction of missile their Chinese rivals have no As between the two Commu-
seriously, the rumors them- bases. ~ missiles in Albania. Their par- nist superpowers, the Yvgo-
selves are being pondered with The Russian periodical said ose in raisin this ex losive stays fi are the have a lot
utter seriousness. d e l i v e r y of medium-range p g P g y
This seeming contradiction ~ rockets was imminent, and bugbear is to justify-if the more to fear from the Rus-
:~ makes sense only if you can that the intention was to give aced arises-intervention in aians on their doorstep, than
'view the situation with the Albania and its Chinese all Alban[a on the grounds of . from the Chinese.
y ~. siElf'-defense, or freedom of the Best of all from the Yugo-
R-ray vision brought to the . control of the Adriatic. ~ `seas or whatever. ~
'task by professional interpret- This might reasonably be ~ ~ -slay viewpoint would be an Al-
I era of Communist-bloc tun= ~ supposed to be none of the ; It is, in the Yugoslav view, a banian neighbor committed to
'ring. Soviet Union's business, since'' replay of the situation two or neither China nor Russia. And
1 E ui d with this insi ht the Adriatic is hardl a Rus- three years ago, wbea NATO this may be one reason the
howevcr~ it is possiblo to ar- scan lake. If there were indeed circles were spreading the ru- Y u g o s I a v s have suddenly
rive at the conclusion that the some hostile mid-range rock- ~ mor that 2,000 Chinese special- .struck the pose of Albania's
rocket rumors are pointing to eta in Albania, only about 500 fists were setting up missile 'defender against threatened
a possible rapprochement be- ~, miles from the Soviet border bases in Albania. The purpose ' .Soviet encroachment.
tween Albania and , Yugo- as the rocket flies, Russian then, the Yugoslavs say, was .Supporting this lnterpreta-
' slavia, which have been es? concern would ~ be justified on ? to give the West an excuse to ' tion was the recent exchange -
tranged on one ideological ex-' grounds of self-defense. -move in on Albania if the Mid-~ of pleasantries in the Tirana
But if one sticks to the basic -die East crisis spread to the ~ and Bel cads teas offerin
.case or another since ? Yugo- ~? assum tion that there are in .,
slavia's break with the Com- P $alkans. ~~ mutual congratulations on the
inform in 1948. ! ~ fact no Chinese missiles on the ~? Behind the Yugoslavs' a~ixi- anniversaries 4f the two caun-
The route to such a conclu- Adriatic, where ,does one turn sty in both instances, accord- tries' struggle against Nazis
,scoff is as devious as an for an explanation of the Rus- ing to one expert here, lay ,and Fascists in World War II.
y 'aians' apparent anxiety? President Marshal Tito's sear The articles glossed over the
guessing game involving Com- ; ~ .One turns to the Yugoslavs. ?, that rivals within his country often bittef `' d-fferences that
n0.unist intentions. ~ Having been on both the giw were plotting to'. overthrow .have characterized the two na-
Two Undisputed Facts ing and t+eceiying ends of Com_ , him with the, aW~.? of outaide,~ bons' relations ih the interrea-
There are a number of Im-
ponderables, but appraisals of
the Chinese rocket status in
Albania usually depend for
.their persuasiveness on two ,
undisputed facts.
There are Chinese techni-
clans of some variety in At- ,
bania, and the tiny, mountain-
ous country on the Adriatic
Sea is considered ficndishly?
'~ difficult for intelligence agents
4or any outsiders, for that
matter) to penetrate.
Armed with these basic, al-
belt mysterious, assumptions,
it is ssible for anterpre~ers
to ride off in virtually any
,
',direction.
` "The interesting thing," as
one U.S. official put it, " is to.
..try to puzzle out what the'
' comments-and the comments
on the comments-mean."
Like other. students of tho
area, he !a convinced that ii
.the Red Chinese had aannpp--
, missiles to spare, they r-oukil.
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