COMMUNIST CHINA INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 'DIRTYTRICKS' CIA'S STOCK IN TRADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R000100070031-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: April 23, 1959
• Content Type: PREL

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C O M M U N I S T C H I N A
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Apr. 23, 1959
'DIRTY TRICKS' CIA'S STOCK IN TRADE
Peking, NCNA, Radioteletype in English to West and North Europe,
Apr. 22, 1959, 1435 GMT--W
(Text) Peking, Apr. 22--Spying has become a multimillion dollar
business for the U.S. Government, Frank Bellamy writes in a series
of three articles in the latest issues of NATIONAL GUARDIAN, an
American weekly. The biggest of these spy groups, the Central
Intelligence Agency, Bellamy says, gives no public accounting of
its 500 million dollar annual budget. "Dirty tricks," he writes,
"remain its stock in trade."
In detailing the CIA's use of spies, he says it provides them
with counterfeit money, arms, ammunition,'forged documents and even,
in some cases, explosives. He cites the case of Berlin in 1956 when
the CIA dug a tunnel a third of a mile into East Berlin to tap telephone
and telegraph lines. Western reporters'were shown by the Soviet
authorities how the tunnel led directly to a U.S. sentry-guarded
installation 550 yards on the western side of the border.
Today, the president of the West German Federal Intelligence Agency,
Reinhard Gehlen, who directed Nazi espionage on the Soviet front
during World War II, is working for both the U.S. and West Germany,
Bellamy writes. American taxpayers, without knowing it, have been
giving Gehlen between five and eight million dollars a year. Gehlen
agents were caught in East Germany in 1953 with plans to blast railroad
bridges and stations, burn factories and assassinate government officials.
In 1955 the East German Government reported it had arrested 521 Gehlen
agents and contacts, seized 19 American-made radio receivers and
transmitters, plus arms and ammunition, poison, incendiary sets, special
cameras, bogus ration cards and forged passes.
Bellamy says the best estimates place the little-known top-secret
CIA's total domestic payroll at 14,000 plus thousands of foreign-born
personnel. The agency's director, Allen Welsh Dulles, is not responsible
"to the taxpayers whose money he spends," Bellamy writes.
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"Allen Dulles," he continues, "can write a million-dollar check
without explaining the expenditure to anyone. He is the only man in
Washington, including the President, with such a power.','
Besides the CIA, Bellamy says, there are eight other cloak-and-dagger
outfits employing 20,000 to 30,000 full-time spies for clandestine
intrigue on a worldwide basis.
CHANG WEN-TIEN HEADS WARSAW DELEGATION
Peking, NCNA, in English Hellschreiber to East Asia, Apr. 22, 1959,
1353 GMT--W
(Text) Peking, Apr. 22--Vice Foreign Minister Chang Wen-tien and his
party will leave here for Warsaw tomorrow to attend the foreign
ministers meeting of the Warsaw treaty countries and China.
U.S. PLANS TO INTERVENE IN CUBA SCORED
Peking, NCNA, in English Hellschreiber to East Asia, Apr. 23, 1959,
1010 GMT--W
(Text) Havana, Apr. 22--There are clear indications that enemies
abroad are preparing intervention in Cuba, said Guevara, one of'
the leaders of the Cuban revolutionary forces and commander of the
Cabana fortress, in an interview with NCNA.
He said, those faked leaders of democracy had their own schemes.
Firstly, they launched a political offensive and propaganda -campaign;
saying. that communism was menacing the. Cuban people and:that'.the
United States is in its vicinity. At the same time they tried to
create difficulties in Cuba's economy. Later they would try to create
conflicts so that they could utilize a certain international organization
under their control to carry out intervention against the Cuban people.
Guevara pointed out that "attack upon us will come not from the small
neighboring dictatorships but from a great neighboring country which
will use certain international organizations and create some kind of
pretext to intervene in Cuba and undermine the Cuban revolution."
However, the commander added, the united forces of the Cuban people
would not allow this. "We shall denounce this sort of scheme to create
conflicts among us so that they can have nothing to exploit," he said.
Guevara declared that if the enemy endeavored to invade Cuba, the
entire Cuban people would unite and fight them to the end.
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