The World: Spies: Foot Soldiers in an Endless War

  • Share
  • Read Later

(10 of 10)

data together and save money. We'd have to pay the same people only once." There is undeniable appeal in that proposal, but the world simply does not run that way. For the foreseeable future and probably forever, there will be unremarkable-looking men poking around English factories or East-bloc offices, busily ferreting out farm reports, industrial blueprints and highway maps, while British or Hungarian agents keep an eye on them. From the tons of material they gather, occasionally—but only very occasionally—something will emerge that will make the head man in Langley, Va., or Dzerzhinsky Square in Moscow reach for his direct line to the White House or the Kremlin.

* The others: The Atomic Energy Commission, for all nuclear activities; the National Security Agency, for codes, cryptographies and military communications satellites; the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, for political and economic trends abroad; the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for keeping track of foreign embassies, as does the KGB's second chief directorate; the Defense Department's Defense Intelligence Agency, for assessing the worldwide military situation; the Army's G2, the Air Force's A-2 and the Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence, which evaluate the world's land, air and /5ea forces.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. Next Page