The CIA's Secret Operations - Espionage, Counterespionage and Covert Action

317 Pages·2016·18.49 MB·English

by  Harry Rositzke

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Copyright © 1977 by Harry Rositzke
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Rositzke, Harry August.
The CIA’s secret operations.
Includes index.
1. United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
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To the memory of
LOWRIE CAMPBELL
CHARLES KATEK
RICHARD WELCH
BOOKS BY HARRY ROSITZKE
The CIA’s Secret Operations
The Peterborough Chronicle
The USSR Today
Left On! The Glorious Bourgeois Cultural Revolution
I am grateful to those of my colleagues in this first genera¬
tion of American “spymasters” who were willing to share
their experiences with me even after I retired to my un¬
classified farm. I am indebted to Howard Roman, who
worked with Allen Dulles on his intelligence writings, for his
assistance in the preparation of the early chapters, and to
Nancy Kelly, my editor at Reader’s Digest Press, for the
sharp edge of her pruning shears.
Many hitherto classified facts have now been made public
in the various reports of the official Washington investiga¬
tions. I have found it useful to cite some of these now open
facts and to quote some official conclusions on matters beyond
my competence:
Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activi¬
ties within the United States, June 1975 (the Rockefel¬
ler Report).
Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, an
interim report of the Senate Select Committee on Intel¬
ligence Activities, November 1975.
Acknowledgments
Covert Action in Chile 1963—73, a staff report by the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, 1975.
Foreign and Military Intelligence, Book 1, part of the Final
Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Activities, April 1976.
Introduction xiii
Author’s Preface xix
—1 War, Hot and Cold 1
—2 To Russia by Air 18
—3 The Second Circle 39
—4 To Russia by Visa 54
—5 Recruiting Russians 66
—6 The Third Circle 84
—7 Espionage: the Global Beat 101
—8 Counterespionage 119
—9 Covert Action: Propaganda 148
—10 Covert Action: Paramilitary 166
—11 Covert Action: Political 185
—12 The CIA at Home 209
—13 The CIA at Bay 226
—14 The Future of Secret Operations 252
Index 275

“I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the
public good becomes honorable by being necessary.”
Nathan Hale