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a Spook
by John Marks
Several times in the last f e w years, along with everyone else in the
this magazine has suggested that the embassy, knew that this particular
quickest single way to improve the political officer was actually the
conduct of American foreign poiicy Central Intelligence Agencys station
would be to get rid o f the covert chief, or principal operative in Chile.
agents and clandestine operators in Bugging his office would have indeed
the CIA. In the spirit o f practicing been a major coup for the opposition.
what we preach, we present the fol- Triumphantly, the security man
lowing article, which tells how t o ripped the microphone out of the
identify a great number of the wall-only to discover later that it had
Agency S Secret operators. Our been installed by the CIA station chief
purpose is to hasten the day when our himself.
in telligence organizations con cen tra te The reason the CIA office was
on their real work-collecting and located in the embassy-as it is in
analyzing information from open most of the other countries in the
sources-and to cut the ground away world-is that by presidential order
from the James Bonds and the the State Department is responsible
Gordon Liddys of the world before for hiding and housing the CIA. Like
they get us all in any more trouble. the intelligence services of most other
Both the Soviet and American countries, the CIA has been unwilling
intelligence establishments seem to t o set up foreign offices under its own
share the obsession that the other side name, so American embassies-and,
is always trying to bug them. Since less frequently, military bases-
the other side is, in fact, usually provide the needed cover. State
trying, our technicians and their confers respectability on the Agencys
technicians are constantly sweeping operatives, dressing them up with the
military installations and embassies to same titles and calling cards that give
make sure no enemy, real or imagined, legitimate diplomats entree into for-
has succeeded. One night about ten eign government circles. Protected by
years ago, a State Department security diplomatic immunity, the operatives
officer, prowling through the Ameri- recruit local officials as CIA agents to
can embassy in Santiago, Chile, in supply secret intelligence and, espe-
search of communist microphones, cially in the Third World, t o help in
found a listening device carefully the Agencys manipulation of a
hidden in the office of a senior countrys internal affairs.
political officer. The security man, The CIA moves its men off the
John Marks is an associate of the Center f o r diplomatic lists only in Germany,
National Security Studies and co-author of Japan, and other countries where large
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. numbers of American soldiers are
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