CIA TRAINED EUROPEANS IN HOPE OF '56 UPRISINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000500110030-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: December 1, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE 6vE1SflI G liX G1 Dect;nber 1976
By David C. Martin
r?h:,_..Cent ?riI
lease of Nikita Khr ushchev's 1956
speech denouncing Stalin, a former
vention in national uprisins it hoped for publication of the speech because.
to verify the authenticity of the docu-
ment, :Angleton said.
talitarian nation indicted by its: own 1
leadership."
December, 1974- Cline was the agen
cy's deputy director for. intelligence
The speech was published-in The, `
ew York Times in June; 1956, with'.
the approval of President Eisenhower,
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
and his brother, CIA director Allen
Dulles, Angleton said.
Angleton contended the speech was
released prematurely, sparking na-
tionalist uprisings in Poland, Hungary:
and Romania before the CIA volun--i
teers were ready to participate.
He disputed an account given in a,;.
recent book by Ray S. Cline, another
former high-ranking CIA official.
Cline said the- agency, had paid, "a'
very handsome- price" for a copy of
the speech,- -but Angleton'insisted.
"there was no payment."
The document was provided to the :
'CIA--for.-purely ideological..reasuns;i
?Angleton_ maintained. Clirie's role wan.:
volunteers, Angleton added.:.
pleted and then _.release. it..- ,anticipat-
:in it would provoke-? national upris
ings which could. be aided by the CIA
volunteers after one of his operatives value-by 'training the covert paratnili--
obtained a copy of Khrushchev's se- tary forces. ei
cret speech before- the -29th Congress At one point George F. Kenn an,
of the Soviet Communist Party at retired forcing service officer and an
which Stalin was officially denounced expert in Soviet affairs, was-consulted..
for the first time. without being told about the strcreC?
The _ Eastern Europeans, voluntf_er?s.- Kennanreplied that -the:
front Eungary, Poland and hommni ,-- advantages to be wined by keeping
,were trained. in paramilitary, opera-- the document secret would enable the.
tions at secret agency installations in. Lretcd States to use it to exploit:
Iauope,:" lnaleton said. splits within the Communist bloc.
Cnestrategy was to keep the speech "There were many talks about wh-At ..1
counterintell ience for tire CIA, said tine services,, opposed -publication un-
the agency hesan trainirta hundreds of til the CIA had time to exploit
Jaynes J. Angleton, former heat]. of G. Wisner, then director of clandes
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