C.I.A. COLLECTS, EVALUATES SECRET INTELLIGENCE DATA

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BALTI1 RE AXWCAN MARCH 20, 1955
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C.LA.Coilects,
Evaluates Secret
In lettigence Data
By ROBERT G..NIXON
(World eepyrlgb(, 1D55, by Isteraettos*l News Servie*.)
Washington, March 19 At 7.49 A. M. the
secret intelligence code machines chattered into
action with the official report from the U. S.
Embassy in Moscow.
The urgent dispatch from behind the Iron Curtain
confirmed in "top secret" detail earlier press service
flashes of the startling news.
Fat Georgi hialenkov was Out.
Defense Minister Marshal Ni- ! Mower know that enabled him
kolal Bulganin was Soviet Rus-' to speak with such calm as-
.: ia's new Premier. But Com- suronee-with the air of de-
tachment, as one of commen.
monist party boss Nikita S. tator noted, of a man
Khrushchev, who nominated t discussing an event on some
llulganin, appeared to be the remote planet?
real dictator. In the answer to the quest ion
Uncertainty gripped Wash- lies one of the most dramatic
ington. Only death had broken and super-secret developments
the twenty-nine-year Iran- In American Government pro.
handed rule of dictator Joseph F cesses in this century.
I + + .
Stalin; but less than two years ! EISENHOWER'S REACTION
I ate r, Stalin's successor, h to the power changes in Soviet
Malenkov, publicly "resigned" IRussia was not idle talk, nor
with an abject confession ofmere words to calm uncertain-
"guilt" and jitters in the free world.
"guilt" over failure in office. He was voicing a summation
r + . of tough, realistic U, S. Govern-.
WAS the dramatic deposing n1ent opinion based On the most I
of Malenkov, a sign of Commu- accurate information available
i ist weakness in the power from worldwide sources of Intel-
lstrugg e among Stalin's heirs? ligence gathered by the hush-'
Were the Kremlin's masters ' hush Cent r a I " Intelligence !
junking their "peaceful co- Agency,
existence" propaganda line for The President's words were
n more beliicosc. attitude toward the gist of a national intelli.
tha' free world? gence estimate rushed to the
Official Washington was White House within hours silent. A haze of conjecture after the Moscow power
switch.
and surmise hung over the It was provided by some of
nation's capital. 14t. 1, .......:...r:_ -
U. S. Government's view men whose names rarely if ever
of the momentous events in appear in public print.
l~loscow'was to be revealed the < . y
next day. It was to come from THESE dedicated men----rvho
President: Eisenhower at his ,
cnuld command salaries of $50,-
tveckDy nets s conference. 001 t
S
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a ..
.
00,000 ut xndustry but,
whose top expectancy in Gov.
ruffled, almost detached in 24 hours a day in a duel of-Wits
manner. He calmed the rush of with the leaders of Russia and
questions about Malenkov's Red China with the single oh-'
downfall with the announcement jective of insuring the free
that he was going to South I world's survival.
Georgia for a couple of days or Their chief is tiixt.y-one-year-
bird shootin+g, l old Allen Welsh Dulles, who as
Ile saw nothing in the Rii - director of the supersecret. in_
Sian Government upheaval. to telligence agency cf,mrr-and:
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Nt 'F lee1:A T TO P1 (.:i?.
Ike .Briefed CIA
On Malenkov Ouster,
(This is the.second of a series of articles by a veteran.
Washington corespondent detailing the operations of the Central
Intelligence Agency in an actual "case histdry" and describing
the men who run the CIA.)
(Continued from Sunday American.)
fly R013ERT G. NIXON
IN'oild t'nnYrtahl., 11153, by 1?trrde1tooa1 \"x sertlrr,l
Washington, March 21--When the powerful Kremlin
Politburo eased Georgi Malenkov out, of the Premiership,
two of the most unruffled men in the U. S. were Presi-
dent Eisenhower and his chief of world-wide intelligence.
Allen W. Dulles.
For 24 hours, capitals through-
out the free world speculated on
whether the removal of dictator
Joseph Stalin's heir who for two'
years had espoused "peaceful
co-existence", meant a new
threat to world peace.
Then President Eisenhower
announced he was taking the
weekend off for a little bird
shooting in South deorgla.
Tension In the U. S. and its
information, no matter how
seemingly trivial, that - had
bearing on activities inside
Russia and its satellites-Red
Army troop movements, pall-
tical actions, population mo-
rale, industrial production
status, availability of food and
other consumer goods, com-
ments of citizens and press.
CIA aides produced latest
national estimates on -capabili-
free world allies relaxed. ties and intentions of Soviet
How did the President. know Russia and Iced China, searched
the Kremlin upheaval would! files for every scrap of infor-
not precipitate a new world!mat:ion on the Kremlin leaders
r risis? and the new men at the top in
? ? the Malenkov shakeup.
THE MYSTERIOUS a n d ?** i
super-secret U. S, arm of cx-. DULLES CALLED a huddle
ternctl security, known as the of his top-drawer intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency, so aides.
advised him. These included former Air
News of the overthrow of Force Lieut.. Gen, Charles Cahell,
Malenkov triggered into motion CIA deputy director: Lieut. Gen.
well-oiled intelligence machinery Harold R. (Pinky) Hull, head of
in Washington that had it ex-.the key CIA national estimates
ikted 15 years earlier might. division, who was G-3 chief of
have saved the U. S. Fleet at.. operations on the Presid.ent's
Pearl Harbor. staff when he was Allied Com-
Here, in detail, is what went mander-In.Chief in Europe in
on behind the closely-guarded World War Two; Robert Amory,
doors of the CIA nerve-center Jr., director of the CIA intelli-
in Washington: gence division.
When The report of Malen-, Dulles and his intelligence
kov's ouster flashed on the tele- I chiefs already were certain of
types at 2430 E. st. N.W. in the one vital fact not generally
early morning of February S, known. This was that Maten-
the whole complex structure of ! kov's fall, while sudden, was
C!' went on an instant alert. , not unexpected to U. S. intel-
Flegular CIA agents and anti- ligence
Communist spies around the Ever since 'btalcnkov's ascend-
Communist per I p h e r y from.i ancy following the death of
Scandinavia to the Bering Sea,;Stalin on March 5, 1433, the
both outside and inside the Iron ! CIA had kept Its finger on Ili('
a+'d Bamboo Curtains,, were Kremlin's pulse as firmly a a
alerted. resourceful intelligence machirlc
Their Instructions were to permitted.
rush every fragment of new (To be Continued)
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THE BALTI1 RZ =JS-POST MARCH 22, 1955
CIA TAKES WORLD PULSE
U. S. `Spy Masters' Go
(This is the third of a series of articles about the Csntraf
InMllisene. Agene$,. Written by a veteran Washington eorre-
spond nt, this series desrribes the hush-hush CIA at work.)
By ROBERT G. NIXON
(World Copyrisbt, ie:.b, br Interns*enal 'sews servit%.)
Washington, March 22-The lair of the man the
Communists call "U. S. spy master" is a cluster of ten
uietly About Duties
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au-
nondescript buildings that hug a hilltop behind a high!thority on hiring or firing. The
wire fence overlooking the Potomac in the area of Wash-'duties, salaries or names of staff
ington known as "Foggy Bottom." members appear on no published
Not many Washingtonians are - ____. _k Government payrolls or publica-
tions. To disclose the identity of
d ization that engages openly In a CIA agent would instantly end
it is off the beaten paths of high- the gathering of Information, his usefulness abroad.
way and pedestrian traffic and, and covertly In espionage and A Moscow broadcast recertt-
well guarded. counter-espionage to insure ly said that "the total number
But the dedicated men and U, S. security. of active spies and saboteurs
women who work behind the The CIA is charged by the working In the U. S. Intelii-
wire fence in self-effacing ano- National Security Act of 1947 gence Service exceeds 100,000.
nymity and under security with responsibility to "correlate Allen Dulles will only smile
conditions more stringent than and evaluate intelligence relat- indulgently at such Communist
those at the Atomic Energy ing to the national security, and blasts. He has no Intention of
Commission are not there for provide for the appropriate dis- aiding their fishing expeditions.
the view. semination of such intelligence A better guess would be that
For here, at 2430 E street within the Government." the CIA employes between
N,W., lies the nerve-center of ? e ? 8,000 and 10,000 persons. How
one of the most vital functions IT IS the agency "which in- many anti-Communist assist-
ef U. S. Government in a world sures that the information flow- ants it has both outside and in-
imperilled by Communist aggres- Ing to. the President and his side the Iron Curtain is any-
sion. principal advisors on foreign body's guess.
A SMALL, neat sign on the 1 policy - the National Security Only the President, other'
fence! beside the entrance drive-;Council-is consistent and com- members of the National Secu-
,way reads: "Central Intelligence: plete." rity Council, and the top intelli-
Agency." Above all, the CIA exists for 1 know aides who help make them,
In a drafty old building are one big and awesome reason: know what Dulles' intelligence
the unadorned offices of CIA to bring forewarning to the P estimates on Communist capabil-
Director Allen Welsh Duties, President and his Administra. itles and Intentions contain.
whose exploits in the second tion of any contemplated sneak ? ?
World War earned him the atomic-hydrogen bomb attack BUT THE NAME of Allen
reputation of being America's on U. S. cities. Dulles and his alleged "imperi.
top intelligence agent, and his It is Dulles' responsibility toalist warmongering" exploits re-.
aides, whose, reputations are learn and keep the President in- sound throughout the Communist
hardly less glittering, direct a formed dtig-to-day of what goes world. He has been the deep-
super-secret world-wide organ- on behind the Iron Curtain, what dyed villain of every Communist'
the war-making capabilities of
Soviet Russia, Red China and
the other Communist satellites
are, and what they intend doing.
. ? s ?
UNDER PUBLIC LAW 110,
Dulles has a virtual blank check
to carry out his responsibilities.
He has
lm
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t u
d
purge trial. He has been accused
of diabolitical plots to overthrow
Communist satellite govern-
ments.
Because he was In Germany
briefly, the Communists brand-
ed him the Instigator of the
June riots In East Berlin.
(To be continued)
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THE BALTIIE RE NEWS-POST MARCH 23, 1955
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C
iA Keeps Finger (iii `Red World's' Pulse
(This is another lot a series on the Central Intelligence
ARr. ncy by a veteran Washington correspondent, describing the
hush-hush organisation and the nain who run it.)
By ROBERT C. NIXON
t rawhmgton, Mal-c1 22-(I1 S)-Ottce a week, U. S.
f n t el l igcnce (.;hicf Allen W. Dulles summons a stlpter-
.r"rtrrt cotiervnee of the nation's top bracket intelligence
c'4lrerty to (like the temperature and feel the pulse of the
('arrtlriltlntsi, wear d?
into a bare conference room the Korean armistice, the CIA
in an old Georgian building had trained its intelligence ef-
cloak - and - dagger OSS file
America's best intelligence
brains.
of high military rank
Stars
glitter on the shoulders of four
forts on Red China. It knew
that large-scale withdrawals
of Chinese troops trained in
the Korean conflict had been
made from North Korea.
all the men. They are the C>-y' buildup of Rnd fore's elan, i~urr-
1 intelligence) chief:; of the l1, S. nuirtary establishment.
M k P
THE OTHER FQUR are cia i?
{ li;an official .......the inietligoine.
chiefs of the 0.1ittaf lniPili
gcnce Age*ncy, State De p.aii
naent, Atnrnie xnergy Comnai -
ion and kill. 1"hush-hush Together, they comprise the
U. S. "intelligence
advisory committee."
Their instant ter k Is to de.
lormine the up-to-lire-miruue I
stair.i5 of Comm"nist Russia and,
Red China's threat to world
Peace.
THEY MUST know not only
the military capabilities of the
Communist world's 10,000,00ft-
man armies and one billion pop-
ulations, but, more importantly,
the Communists' intentions In-
ward the U. S. and the free
world.
The CIA'S mettle has been
tested repeatedly in the fierce
cold war struggle between the
East and West.
One of these critical occasions
came during the third week of
,lanuary when, after an a ra y
rrronths of feints and threaat?,,'
the Chinese Cornmunislss curl-
denly laitnelred a wretI-orgtin-
izezd amphibious attack on Yi-
llvangshan, one. of the smaller oC:~
the many offshore islands held`
liy Chiang Raj-Shek's Nation-
ilist forces. The srnall Nation-
aii?st garrison was quickly over-
come.
j{ ? r e
THE ACTION called for a
major U. S. policy decision. Was
the U. S. ready to go to war.
if necessary, to prevent Com-
rmuni:st se.iptrir of the Natiori-
dreds of Miles of the China Bence estimate to the President
Coast bordering the Formosa and National Security CoutjF, i
straits, New Red airfields were !on the President's second arini-
It was against this background
that the President made his 6--
cision to ask Congress for a
RUSSIAN-BUILT jets were
rnoved in. huge concentrations
of troops Were built up in the' i
prows' of a policy of warrrur.
Annoy and Foochow areas. In-, Red China the U. S. would fight,
vasion craft of all hypes kvere if necessary, to pr?event Corrr-
being asscmhied at China ports.mttnist posses coin of Forrrior?,n..
Armor, artillery and atnmunc
lion ciuin s were being massed (To l3P Continued)
Dulles summoned his Intel-
ligence advisory committee in-
to session. from their delib-
erations and studies emerged
the nuational intelligence esti-
mate of the situation, essen-
tigl to the President's policy
decision.
Dulles presented his itilelli-
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'Reds Told Too Much, CIA Director .Declares
(This is the fifth of six articles on the Control lntelli&enco
.Agency; how it operates and who runs it.)
By ROBERT G..NIXON
(World copyright, laths, by lateraatlnnel Flew service.)
Washington, March 24--CIA Director Allen Dulles
would pay millions for information about, the Soviet
Union that the Communists learn about U. S. defense
plans just by buying a newspaper.
The American intelligence----
chief says that our frankness
puts the U. S. behind the eight-
ball in the perilous struggle for
the free world
and Communist systems.
Bluntly, the U. S. tells the
Reds too much for its own
good, In the opinion of the
man who is charged with the
awesome task of saving the
munists spend an estimated $2 Itrating the Russian enigma isl
billion annually for "front" the toughest job intelligence ex-
organizations alone to cover perts have ever had.
their espionage and subver. ff And yet informed government
sion activities. officials privately attest thrrt f,
I Dulles and his central intelli-,
By comparison, the task of gence organization is doing t
the IT. S. intelligence arm in, first-rate job in keeping tabs or:
obtaining the simplest. informa. !the military, economic and tech- I
lion about what goes on behind nological capabilities and in-
Government Printing Office, and itrerncndous.
there are few U. S. secrets left e * s
unreported or that cannat be in-
ferred.
YET, DULLES is100 per cent
? for a free press and all that
freedom of man and his institu-
tions mean to Americans.
And, until recently, the Soviet
Union di lam t-
f
TRAVELING BACK and forth
across the iron Curtain is not
much less difficult than making
a rocket journey to the moon,.
and in Red China today an An-:
Iglo-Saxon stands out with about
the same prominence as Gullivcl,
Idul In Lilliput.
During World War 11 when
Allen Du1Jes was Riaropean
chief of the U. S. Office of
Strategic Services in Switzer.
land, his genius in inteliigc,ne(,
work set up direct lines into the
German forpirrn n f f i ,. a ??,x
f pau corn-
nation from an atomic Pearl i p arc sta
Harbor. freedom of travel about
Harbor. the U. S., while American dip-
; In the Dulles view, Soviet ilomats
.. mere restricted to the
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.Iny messenger boy could do it.
Buy copies of the metropolitan
daily newspapers, the news mag-
azines, 'scientific and technical
Journals, industrial trade maga-
zirles, copies of the congressionnl
mer
-
hea ings and reports frnm the can free system, the Com-
lie acjtnowlerl.ges that prne
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have the staffs of all the Red in Berlin, yy~ ~y? 4CJ~ K~ l~s
satellites to help them here, j, Duties says today that this
commercial representatives and almost fantastic achievement
Communist Party members, was child's play compared to
D
i
esp
te all these advtk
anages cracing the wall a r o u n d
that accrue under the A
i
Soviet Russia.
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To BAL=I '1R= N i&' POST M$ R 25, 1955
TOP SECRET
CIA Director Open TO All Data Sources
(thi is the last of six articles on the Central lnteiligence lest the State Department and portant secrets, unfolded to
Agency; how it operates and who runs it.) spent more than a decade in the Dulles the elaborate plot that
iNew York legal firm of Sulli- was under way to assassinate
By ROBERT G. NIXON van and Cromwell, of which his Hitler with a bomb planted iar
Dulles, %vas
(World ropXNSNt, .I034, by Xeternxeloenl 1'r+ar service.) brother, partner. John Foster his Eastern front headquar-
ters
Washington, March 26-The big door that leads into, Back in his old Swiss stamp- Amopg the plotters was Meld
the office of U. S. Intelligence Chief Allen Dulles is fig- ing ground of cloak-and-dagger Marshal Erwin Rommel, hero nP
uratively never closed despite the fantastic 'security' pre-j intrigue, Dulles set up offices in the Afrika Korps, and a host o
Bern's Herrengasse in an ancient top generals, admirals and othe
cautions that surround the Central Intelligence Agency. Fifteenth Century building. leaders who believed that lll( 5
And if Soviet Foreign An unoste/ttatious card on Hitler was destroyed he ,could
ter C. At. Molotov walked told him not to waste time with the door announced. "Allen destroy Germany.
through the door one day and the fellow. W. Dulles, special assistant to The plotters wanted I.J. S. a:;-
handcd hini a batch of secret A short lime later revolution the United States Minister." surancc:s that, once Ilitler
broke out in Czarist Russia, and ,Dulles' real mission---to set up removed and the Nazi Gov: rn-
I{rcmlin'docunients, Dullesprob- IImperial Germany was able to meat purged, the new German
intelligence contacts in Nazi
ably would not bat an eyelash. rush reinforcement:. to the We-it', Germany and the occupied coup- (Government would get reasona-
For the head of America's ern front that almost lost tile;
tries --wale, of course, a dark se- hle peace tea a"`.
mysterious, vitally important war for the Allies. cret. Although it was the hot-
intelligence organization The Russian refugee was bed of espionage agents of rill
back in his homeland. His countries, Switzerland was new.
learned In two world wars name was Nikolai Lenin. tral, and spying illegal. Neaa'r-
that anything can happen in Dulles was never again to turn theless, it was carried on by : i I I
the shadowy world of espio- his hack on a possible informa- the belligerents under one guise
nape-and usually does. tion source. And the decision or another.
Dulles learned his first lee paid big dividends for the whole
sort the hard way when he was Allied world when Brig. Gen' crrn-
cuttirrg his teeth on lass lligenc William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan tacts HE QUICKLY established with the anti-biller trdcr-
work as a young State Depart organized the cloak-and-dagger.
ground in Gcr-n:uay.
talent Foreign SertiiP, oft leer in'Office of Strategic St.rviees in,
Switzerland. in the fir-wt.World World War II and asked Dulles Oddly enough, one of thew
War, to return to Switzerland as Euro-, agents turned out to be liaans
bean chief of OSS to spy on liif- Bernd Gisevius, German Vice-
A WILD-EYED i uw ion relit- lcr Germany. Consul in Zurich and a member
gee who wore a spade heard .arid 4 * * of the Abwehr, Germany's a:e?
Canted about Marxism asked toy IN THE YEARS between the,cret intelligences service.
see Dulles, but Dulles' superior twvo world wars, Allen Dulles j Gisevius, among other im-
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