SCHOOL FOR SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003100110004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 18, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Col. Grogan
SUBJECT: School for Spies
Hutton.
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2. Hutton has written two earlier books, Frogman Extraordinary,
which purports to be the "inside story" of the British frogman Lionel Crabb;
and Danger From Moscow. The latter is based on the device of a "secret
instruction". Both of these books are classical mixtures of fabrication and
previously published facts. A review of these books in Studies In Intelligence
(Vol. 5, No. 3, Summer 1961, at page A35) points out that they may be "a
pecuniary speculation by an exile fabrication mill, or they may be something
more sophisticated, a product of Moscow's cold warriors; a case can be made
for either view. ""
18 April 1962
1. Attached herewith is a copy of School for Spies by J. Bernard
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Walter Pf zhei
4. Specialists in SR Division have read the book and consider it
to be largely spurious. It does not comport with CIA information on RIS
training, and it is their opinion that the book should be labeled "fiction".
There may be some truth in the knowledge that Hutton gained before
World War II in his Moscow schooling, but by and large no credence
whatsoever should be placed in the book.
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The attached book "School for Spies," by J.
Bernard Hutton is very interesting
reading, notwithstanding an opinion that he is
unreliable, as indicated in the attached SECRET/
ST 'Y J. GAN
Assistant to the irector
18 April 1962
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