Foreign News: Spy Service

In the dangerous underground game of Cold War espionage, the Communists have a built-in advantage: an estimated 10 million party members in over 60 different countries, all of them potential agents. The West has many more potential friends —the oppressed inside the Communist empire—but since most of them are inaccessible or terrorized by the police, Western strategists rely most heavily on professional intelligence outfits—the U.S.'s CIA, Britain's Military Intelligence, France's Deuxième Bureau, etc. Last week West Germany covertly confirmed what had long been widely suspected: Bonn, too, has its own apparatus of anti-Communist spies. Büro Gehlen, as the Germans call...

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