SOVIET JOURNALIST WRITES ON CIA'S ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400220013-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: December 1, 1970
• Content Type: TRANS

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[Article by V. Berezin: "The Trail of the 'Black Stage Director''; Moscow,
Sovetskly Voi,n, Russian,. December 1970, pp 1-6 7]
In letters to the editors readers of Sovetskiy Voin
request a more detailed account of the treacherous
intrigues which are carried out in various parts of the
world by agents of America's intelligence agency -- the
notor .ous CIA. A journalist who writes on international
affairs replies to this request.
From an airplane which approaches the American capital from the
south one can see a complex of low buildings in the green of trees,
.narrow roads, and rare cars on them. With a picture of this kind
beneath him a man begins to think about idyllic serenity and quiet and
about a peaceful life on earth. But there, down below, people do not live
with concern for peace. It is the location of Langley -- headquarters of
the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. The tracks of the
"black stage director"
--~the CIA -- lead from there to all the
ends of
the worlds into all the states and colonies of the earth. They are the
tracks of m rderers and diversionists, ideological subversives, spies and
terrorist,, and of the destroyers of governments. Tens of thousands of
workers and agents work in Langley. Its budget is not precisely known;
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