LETTER TO MRS. MARION L. TALAMANTEZ FROM(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R003100200010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 16, 1952
• Content Type: LETTER

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16 October 1952
STAT
Urs- Marian L. lamantez
Dear Mrs. Tala:santez:
General Smith has asked me to acknowledge your
letter of October lath and its expression of support.
You have been quite correct however in believing
that the problems of which you -;write lie within the
Jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Moreover they lie outside the responsibility of this
Agency and we cannot therefore be of any help to you
with respect to them.
Sincerely,
STAT
Ass scant to the Director
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Spies in CIA
'General Walter Bedell Smith, director
the Central Intelligence Agency, me
sensible remarks about Communists in Gov-
ernment in the middle of a political cam-
paign. His timing might have been a mis-
take, but certainly what he said does not
deserve to be distorted into a panicky
charge that our Government suffers from
widespread infiltration by Reds.
General Smith knows from first-hand ex-
perience with Moscow of the existence of
Communist spy rings which are worldwide.
It is their business to plant their agents
where they can get valuable information;
and no department of our Government could
give them more than the CIA. General
Smith would indeed be silly if he assumed
that no Red was wily enough to try to pene-
trate into his organization.
It is sensible to recognize the fact that
the Reds may have succeeded, and to be on
guard. This the General has done by di-
viding the duties 'of his employes so that no
one of them except those at the top can put
together information that is of much value.
General Smith wishes he had some sure
and easy method of ferreting out these
spies; but none of the political orators who
talk on this theme can give him one. The
Reds would surely be smart enough to avoid
employing anyone who in the past was sus-
pected of being a Communist.
The job of hunting down dangerous Red
spies is professional one for the FBI and
those trained in espionage work. Tr" s ab-
surd to imagine that amateurs and politi-
cians can track down and catch spies who
know all the tricks of their trade. The coun-
try would have a right to be worried if the
CIA were complacent and sure of the in-
tegrity of everyone of its employes. Fortu-
nately, that is not General Smith's attitude.
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 THE PUBLIS, RS ANNOUNCE
THE MODERN MARTYR
By
MARION L. TALAMANTEZ
267 PAGES CLOTH BINDING $2.50
S THE United States, like so many other nations
today, also turning to Communism? You may not
think so, but veteran Robert (Bob) Williams, the
hero of THE MODERN MARTYR, was so firmly set
in his belief that such was the case, that he felt
inspired to set out on the mission of fighting it in his hometown-
a small industrial town in Pennsylvania. Of course, the outcome
was that his life, although spared in the war, was sacrificed for
this cause and he died the death of a martyr.
THE MODERN MARTYR is the story of a young American who,
while fighting a war, dreamed of returning to civilian life to live
in peace-the peace for which he had fought. But upon his
return, from the very beginning as he kept groping around for
it, he could only at times get the tips of his fingers on it.
He concluded to himself that the reason why no peace was
to be had, either by himself or anyone else, was because the
nation for which he had just fought a war, was being threatened
by another enemy-Communism.
The evidence was all about him. He even found some right
 in his own home. As the st of this veteran and his post war
experience progress, the evie is disclosed and this novel is
meant to be a warning to all Americans in these troubled times.
It is the story of how Communism has effected the average Amer-
ican working man. Of course, it is only a fictional novel, but so
much of the truth lies in the lines of this story that it should be
a "must" on the reading list of every American who is concerned
with the future of his beloved homeland.
THE MODERN MARTYR is bound in cloth with gold lettering.
The price is $2.50. Send your order at once to the publisher or
your favorite dealer.
MEADOR PUBLISHING COMPANY
BOSTON 15, MASSACHUSETTS
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GENTLEMEN: Date
Please send me copies of THE MODERN MARTYR by
Marion L. Talamantez. I send herewith $2.50 per copy as
payment.
Signed
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