U.S. ORGANIZING HUGE SPY CORPS; ALL'S HUSH-HUSH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01009A000100120094-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: June 13, 1948
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/08/14: CIA-RDP80M01009A000100120094-3
? U. S. Organizing 1
Huge Spy Corps;
? Ars Hush-Hush
$y W ALTER TROltAN
e1oat and dagger organiza-
tion. paralleJing the wartime office
of strategic services. Is being se-
cretly assembled by the Truman
Administration on the recom-
mendation of the Eastern interns-
lamella bloc.
The new unit is ter be larger and
more powerful than the New Deal
spying and propaganda colossua
whose value and repute* net wear
questioned in Congress a- o the
military establishment.
Gres Grudging Approval
t The super-OSS has already won
the grudging approval of the mill-!
taxi high command and the State
department. It is receiving the
Messing of the national security
council. the new board of strategy
created by the recent law which
was designed to unify the Army.
Navy and Air Force.
The council is headed by Rear
Adm. Sidney W. Souers. Missouri
Insurance man, banker. cotton
grower and friend of President
Truman. Boners wu made an ad-
mind although he never went is
sea and was MAW the first head
of the esitral intelligence agency I
although he had never been an I
isailligence officer.
, Recommendation for the elver
Lion of the super0138 was made
' by a committee headed by Allen
1 W. Dulles. former bud of the
' ORS in Europe and as such trusted
lieutenant of William J. Donovan.
head of Oen, who has been seeking
to perpetuate his superepy or-
ganisation in Psoliongoo.
Dulles is the brother of John
Poster Dulles, Republican, New
York lawyer and collaborator in
the Roosevelt-Truman inter-ern-
waist foreign policy along with
Sen. Vandenberg I RI of Michigan,
former Gov. Stamen and other in-
ternationally minded Republicans.
Dulles Expect...1 hid
It is reported that Allan Dulles
had confidently expected to be in-
....led to head the super-088 which
would place the United States in
, secret agent operations of a cnar.
acter never engaged in by this
country in peacetime
4isisting Allen Dulles In the
,ilunittee, which am:wiled re- ?
vivid of the 088, ars Mathias P
Correa, another former rifiS of.;
ficial. and William H. Jactson. a I
!known admirer of the British in- I
telligence system.
American experts in hush-buss
operations do not believe the col- I
.1 lection of intelligence, a most
' secret undercover operation, and
agent activity, the noisiest of one-
ations. can be successfully carried
on under one roof.
Many American experts have
doubted the wisdom of putting all '
Intelligence eggs in one basket,
. where they. may he more readily
available to foreign penetration
These would continue intelligence ,
gathering through distinct Army.
? Navy and Air Force intelligence
systems with an evaluating clear-
ing house which would report not ,
only to the State department and
the White House. but back to the
military intelligence units which
.opIled the original information
,u nich the evaluations were
i based. This would provide a check.
? It is contended, on the evaluators.
Wartime Duties Outlined
The super-OSS would not only
be entrusted with gathering and
evaluating intelligence, but would
,
carry on the various 088 activi-
ties in war, which included the
inciting of rebellions, sabotage.
? I kidnapings, aseassinations, and
the gamut of spy fiction.
Nftich of the 088 now lives in
the newly created central intelli-
gence agency. Some of the cur-
rent international troubles of --
State department are traced
careerists to the swel::I.4 of its ,
ranks by the addition of OSS' I
trained sa ,oteurs. research men. i
analysts, social workers, and the
rest. Many of these are fureign
born. Some of the latter were
never cleared for loyalty be,luise
OSS was too busy during the war
to check such details.
CIA was originally designed *o
be an intelligence evaluating
ganization of 66 pels,,na. It .113
became a sprawling b eauracrarv
3,000 persons, wt gather as .
X
?
well as evaluate intelligence. The
addition of the super-065 would
enlarge it still further.
CIA has been the center of Con-
troversy since its creation.. Most
experts hold that it should con-
fine itself in an appraisal of infor-
mation gatrered by intelligence
agencies alrea.iv in existence. In-
.-.ead. CIA has been duplicating
existing facilities throughout the
world with largely untrained per-
sonnel.
0..gota Case Recalled
The failure of this government
to be advised on the imper,-"ng
uprising during the Bogota ?
-rice is regarded as a case in ,
1?.esident Truman said thF,
was as surprised as anyone
the revolt.
A congressional investigat.on ot
"-e intelligence fiasco at Bog,r,
ass opened by Rep. Brown
of Ohio, chairman of a House
expenditures subcommittee. Ad
fillenkoetter. CIA chief, place:.
the blame on the American am.
bas.sador at Bogota and State
partment officials, holding they
`? ' thhe Id information supplied
The investigation was dropped
before the State department could
answer, although it was widely
known that State depaitment of-
ficials were prepared to ?prove
that CIA reports gave no hint of
the impendinz
4 TIMES-HERALD
Washington. D . c.
ens.! BI/WIMY. Jews 13, 194g
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/08/14: CIA-RDP80M01009A000100120094-3