THERE'S A CIA IN YOUR FUTURE

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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about us," explained Mother. ~J J now when some congressman. or news- enormousl1e past few years have helped
Until the top people at CIA started a erma k Y ("anything those creeps are
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Forgive him, Mother, for Miles Copeland has undertaken
to tell us what CIA is all about; why 'intelligence'
and 'espionage' are different, -what the term 'agent' W? ' ~UuJ`~ h1 ,~' ~~e
really means, and why thins may just be ooki ^ ,,,. C (d1 ``f Gt i t
r p n spec s of our employees. as against, I'm for," a Columbia law. stu-
rcadirig What the outside world'thought' .:`agents'-we know -h-
about spies and spying they had to face
don't'
we on t fight i
their critics in bewildered silence, not
having the faintest idea what they were
talking about. "Is it true," some senator
nonce asked Frank Wisner when he was
t. But it does incon- to karate chop his way through au jeer
venience our image." ing crowd to make the interview), but
A "convenient" image, it appears, is the constant har
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CIA'
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all the Agency seeks. Angus Thucrmer, leged misdemeanors by supposedly re-
the CIA's public relations officer, de- sponsible adults does plant doubts in
spite all his Shelley Berman chatter is the minds of young people, of the sort
a very tough hombre
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an
s the only th Ad S
egency nees.enator Church may
at least one agent?" Frank thought the official in the Administration I have not be a great statesman, but he is a
senator was implying that. the CIA spied met who' doesn't feel he has to apolo- _ senator, and when he flailed out at the
on the State Department. "No, sell- gize for the Agent
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MILES COPELAND
LAS.
ESIDES THE Encyclopedia Bri- /)Q ea-s, ?a`/
tannica, a complete set of the _---, the general public an, understanding
1 which will silence those critics who
works of Dickens, and autographed 7- iTo_
copies of The Jeweler's Eye, The Four 4W ; play to the galleries, and to young peo
-~ ple a picture of Agency work which
Quartets, and On Being a Real Person,
IN Y III I I j I I I ~' lil will make them suspect that the CIA
I
Mother's floor-to-ceiling bookshelves:`'. contain every known book on spies '9? ~_ =..'a might not be such a bad place to be
employed.
and counterspies, with the latest ones
especially in evidence-from Wise and
Ross's The Invisible Government to a Recruiting Good Guys
book, by somebody named Fletcher - - '`
Proutty propounding a theory that, the. So long as the Agency can hold onto
President of the United States the its best personnel and recruit high
' quality replacements, say 'its top ofli-
Secretary of. Defense, the Secretary of e t '`' - +
= ,_*` tens, it can ride out the post-Watergate
State, and the Director of CIA tom R,.t, ri ?
storm and then put itself through the
prise a "secret team' which runs the rt,-
~
affairs of the country. Why such 'a li- organizational overhaul it has long
brary? We have to read . needed.. Recruitment, they say, is the
all this stuff
4~
head of the CIA's.covert services, "that
in every American embassy you have
y? CIA -because its officers had actually
ator," he said, "We only put agents in He can defend the Agency's actions. talked to ITT executives some of the
.embassies' of.Communist?countries." ' iii'Vietnuni, Laos; and elsewhete'in'sttch Agency's rceruits waiting' "security
a way as to convince almost anyone clearances dropped out befoi-c the clear-
Image Problem whose mind is not totally closed. 1311t, antes were completed. ?
aside from the fact that none of the On the face of. it, the Agency's con-
Then he realized that the senator was newsmen he sees feels inclined to re- cern over ITI"s problems was 'clear
talking about regular employees, not port what he says ("It's had taste these enough. A Soviet-hacked candidate was
agents, and he had to explain that he days to go around saying nice things about to become President of Chile, to
would promptly fire any of his employ- about the CIA," it Washington col- confiscate all American assets in the
des who got themselves directly in- umnist told me), (lie Agency itself
volved in "a
"
gent
work iei hld hi
,.., spyng.osnl back. His job is not to give
The senator, whose information came the CIA it happy-making institutional
from popular books on spies, didn't image such as is sought by-Coca-Cola
believe him. "Okay," said Mother, "so or General Motors, but to pass on to
dlr. Cope?lurid's Spies and Counter-spies
will be brought out in the spring by
Simon and Schuster,
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