INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE UNDER MUSEUM COVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200790021-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: November 1, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE OFFICER
NOVEMBER 1982
International Intrigue
Under Museum Cover
GRU, as well as all East European spy
services and the Cuban DGI.
These operations are to be dis-
played to answer some of the biting
questions of today, such as: What are
the principal intelligence targets in
the U.S. now, what is the KGB doing
in the U.S., and how does It operate?
The Cuban DGI? What is America do-
ing to protect itself-and us?
In this section the museum will
feature known Soviet spies-the
Abels, Philbys, Burgesses, Mac-
Leans, Blunts, Blakes, Fuchs, Mays
and Rosenbergs of the postwar era.
Before and during the war there
was the Sorge Ring in Japan, which
will be portrayed. The ring warned the
Soviets of the Nazi plan to invade
Russia, a warning which Stalin re-
fused to heed. But later he did act on
Sorge's word that Japan had decided
against attacking Siberia, which
enabled the Soviets to divert their
Eastern Armies to aid in the suc-
cessful defense of Moscow.
Landmarks of American history
will be exhibited-some successes,
some failures. Included are Pearl Har-
bor, Midway, the ambush of Admiral
Yamamoto, the surprise attack on
Korea, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the
U-2 and Berlin's Tunnel and Wall.
The story of Herbert 0. Yardley's
"American Black Chamber" is to be
told in photograph and text. It
cracked the Japanese code and let
the U.S. read reports of how the
British and Japanese were in cahoots
during the 1921 naval disarmament
talks in Washington.
The section on the American Revo-
lution is to exhibit the exploits of a
whole galaxy of spies-Paul Revere,
Nathan Hale, the "Culpers," Mulli-
gan, Rivington, Aitken, Crosby, Gray,
Tallmadge, Armistead, Morgan, Lud-
wick, Salley Salter, Nancy Morgan
Hart-the list goes on and on.
E very American school child knows
George Washington was "first in
war, first in the hearts of his coun-
trymen."
But how many know he was also
America's "first spymaster?"
He was. And that is but one of the
stories planned for display in the pro-
jected National Historical In-,
telligence Museum.
Other tales to be portrayed in the
museum range from the Bible to the
modern age of nuclear and space
weapons.
Plans to set up the museum to tell
the rich story of espionage and its
role in shaping American as well as
world history are well advanced.
Already, the museum directors are
actively seeking a site, preferably in
Washington, Virginia or Maryland.
In addition, leaders of a number of
national organizations are cooperat-
ing. Included are the Reserve Of-
ficers Association (ROA), whose Ex-
ecutive Director, Maj. Gen. J. Milnor
Roberts, AUS (Ret.), is Vice-President
of the museum's board. Also in-
terested are the Association of
Former Intelligence Officers, (AFIO),
and the Veterans of .OSS (Office of
Strategic Services). The AFIO Presi-
dent is on the Advisory Board. Other
AFIO members are serving on the
museum board and others as
volunteers in advisory capacities.
A joint planning group of represen-
tatives of the William J. Donovan
Memorial Foundation and of the
Museum Board is considering how
best to combine a collection in honor
of Gen. William J. Donovan, founder
of the OSS, with other proposed con-
tent of the Museum. As planned, it
will display and describe OSS opera-
tions and irregular warfare during
World War II.
The basic concept behind the
museum is this: The United States,
which banked so heavily on es-
pionage to gain its independence,
has no museum to tell the story. The
directors want to correct this lack.
Heavy emphasis is to be placed on
American intelligence through
history, but some exhibits on es-
pionage in other parts of the world
are also to be included. Featured will
be tales from the Bible, the Chinese
master Sun Tzu, Genghis Khan,
Queen Elizabeth I, and Napoleon.
Much attention is to be paid to
spies and other intelligence stories
of both World Wars, the Cold War,
and up to the present day. In the
American sections, the role of
Washington in personally directing
agents during the Revolution is to be
prominently exhibited. Operations of
both sides in the Civil War will be
shown.
The museum will touch all bases.
There will be technology, from the
fairly primitive secret writing of the
Revolution to the lasers and photo-
graphy from space of today. Feats of
imagination and daring, of both
women and men, play a large part in
the story that is to be told. Planned
are exhibits depicting irregular war-
fare, civil and military operations,
strategic, tactical and diplomatic in-
telligence.
There will be exhibits on the
"Enigma" machine and the American
"Magic" operation which permitted
the reading of some of the most
secret Nazi and Japanese codes dur-
ing World War II.
Enemy exploits are also to be
displayed. These include the Kaiser's
spies and saboteurs in World War I,
Nazi and Soviet espionage during
that conflict and afterward.
Industrial secrets have been
targets of governmental and private
organizations since the Industrial
Revolution. There will be exhibits on
this still very lively activity of spies.
S pecial attention is to be paid to
communist agents at work today.
This includes the Soviet KGB, and
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Most of the names are unfamiliar
now. But each performed notable spy
work for the Revolution, and will be
portrayed. So will very familiar names
be subjects of exhibits-Franklin,
Jefferson and others.
The exploits of the pirate Jean Laf-
fite and his brothers for Maj. Gen. An-
drew Jackson in the War of 1812 are
to be featured.
Guerilla and irregular warfare, too,
is to be shown. In World War II there
were the OSS operations and Resist-
ance forces in Burma, and through-
out Europe, and other such stories as
the exploits of Col. Wendell W. Fer-
tig, the engineering officer who
stayed behind in Mindanao to com-
mand remnants of the U.S. forces
caught. behind the lines when the
Japanese came.
The "Jolly Green Giants" heli-
coptered In to North Vietnam to
rescue downed pilots, maintaining a
tradition going back to World War 11
days, when the OSS, and other units
helped with "escape and evasion."
All these stories will be told.
Prominent in the museum will be
the words of Lincoln's Secretary of
War, Edwin H. Stanton.
Allan Pinkerton had been sacked
as chief of the clandestine service.
Lafayette Charles Baker was chosen
to succeed him.
Stanton, in chilling words, told
Baker:
"Your job is going to be the dirtiest
of this dirty war, Mr. Baker. You will
be hated as no man ever was hated,
but you will perform a service no man
ever had the chance to perform for
our great country."
"Furthermore, Mr. Baker, you will
never be permitted to disclose the
authority for your actions... You will
receive secret funds from me. You
will account to me and only me."
T hus, in very few words, Stanton
wrapped up two of the key prob-
lems of operating intelligence
organizations in a democracy,
necessary maintenance of secrecy,
and how much "accountability" can
be maintained and a nation still have
effective intelligence activities.
Advisory board members
ROA has a special interest in the
Museum, as its Executive Director,
Maj. Gen. * J. Milnor Roberts, AUS
(Ret.), serves as Vice-President of the
Board of Directors.
So far, the Advisory Board in-
cludes:
William E. Colby, ex-CIA Director,
who went behind German lines for
OSS in Norway in World War 11.
Brig. Gen. James L. Collins, Jr,
USA, Chief of Military History.
Lawrence Houston, ex-Legislative
Counsel, CIA.
Dr. David Kahn, author of 'The
Codebreakers"and other works.
. Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Brown Uni-
versity professor and ex-CIA senior
executive.
Dr. Maurice Mellott, visiting pro-
fessor of Military History, USMA, ex-
Chief Historian, Center of Military
History, DoD.
John F. "Jack" Maury, ex-Assis-
tant Secretary of Defense for Legisla-
tive Affairs, ex-CIA executive, Presi-
dent of AFIO.
Richard Dunlop, former OSS of-
ficer and author of an upcoming book
on General Donovan.
Joseph E. Persico, who wrote
"Piercing the Reich: The OSS in Ger-
many" and other books.
Lt. Gen. Eugene F. Tighe, Jr, USAF,
(Ret.), ex-DirectorDIA.
Lt. Gen. William Quinn, USA, (Ret.),
former Assistant Director of CIA and
DIA.
The Board of Directors, in addition
to General Roberts, includes:
President, Martin Cramer, Foreign
Service Officer, retired.
Secretary, Charles T. Lloyd, former
officer at ISA, DoD, and attorney.
Others on the Board include:
Capt. Roger Pineau, USNR, (Ret.),
ex-Naval intelligence, former Curator,
Navy Museum; Walter Beach, Brook-
ings Institution; Dr. Jules Davids,
Professor of Diplomatic History,
School of Foreign Service, George-
town; Howard Handleman, retired
war and foreign correspondent, Inter-
national News Service and U.S. News
& World Report; Cynthia Grabo, ex-
officer at DIA and author of the basic
study on early warning; Arden Rut-
tenberg, Sam Halpern and "Tack"
Swan, former intelligence officers,
and Lawrence McWilliams, ex-senior
FBI officer.
ROA members seeking informa-
tion on the Museum, or wanting to
volunteer aid in launching it, can
write to National Historical Intelli-
gence Museum, Suite 1000517121 St.
NW, Washington, D.C., 20006.
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