2. THE READER'S DIGEST IS CONSIDERING CONDENSING THE 8 MAY 1961 STORY IN NEWSWEEK, "C.I.A.-- HOW SUPER THE SLEUTHS?", A COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED HEREWITH.

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2014
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: July 19, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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James M. Cannon
Newsweek (Ma)r 8, 161), (o) 1961 by Newsweek, Ina., 444 Madison Ave.,
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71.:!essionaire, en route to the dump, stopped to deliver this box of
:23vIet trash to a man willing to pay for it. The man was an agent for
the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
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particular type of coat hanger. At last, -the CIA had obtained one.
mL:al tests and spectroanalysis, the agency learned exactly whet
Icre being used in the wing of the plane. The formula for the
illoy wa..; the last piece in the puzzle; with that, CIA's experts in
craft ellirvaering could tell both the range and bombload of this Soviet
The little-publicized case of the Red coat hanger 1,1%typical of
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spectacular defeats. One was in Laos, where tbe CIA decided to support
Ge. Phouml Nesavan, mainly on the ground that he was strongly anti-
coxmunist. He was, but tile CIA overlooked the fact that he also was
politically unpopular and that his army was almost worthless.
.The other humiliation was in Cuba, where Wis-CIA clearly failed to
grasp the political realities of the situation. One day after the defe
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