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The Information Services of Soviet Government

the

By PAUL

be said, is the tyrant's weakness. Is the old

Our proverb still true?. epoch has produced tyrants 311010 powerful than all Ilit- those of earlier ages.

Stalin lor was one of them.

He rules. with utterly income Ivatile it would is another. a power that is absolute, or be kr Me Melolov to take his But even wife 1274

pleasant in a foreign rotoring holiday Country Mr Alice, British did this sum- Prime Ab:

OF

imagine met

Mr Andreev

of the Tebbureau, sitting alone, 10- un- Here then, is the greatest teetel and unmolested in an

ut a problem of the 20th-century open-air cafe provisast well-known political ely, as I saw M. Bidault, then dictatorship, and perhaps French For inn Minister, quietly commentator and its Achilles heel: What can the dictator know?

correspon- could one think of Stalin calo dent of the BBC in a quiet test painting link- repes as Mr

Churchill did in and The Observer Madeira?

nore than any of his his- torie predecessors he wieldis his power in almost con plete seclusion.

drinking his para of "bock in t

London Express Bervice

DOES KNOW?

Formosa

Means Trouble Island

E

XPLORERS

in the

frail craft of four cen- turies ago had never seen an island so majestic.

Sea cliffs, rising in places to 2,500 feet, faced out acrets Pacific.

the

Illa Formosa, they called it:

the BenutJiul Isle,

But with the benuty

trouble; 300 earthquakes head-hunting tribes.

year; he

Today Forms

went

each

The

In pl Troubled Isle, In this tight little island, twice the size of

Wales, Dre packed 7,000,000

people plus more than 1,000,000 refugees.

tho

But it is upon one man that Chiang centres: slory Kai-shek.

Early in

Kal 1049 Chiang shek, his ruling clique 10rn by Luissension withdrew from lenderslip of Nationalist China. But soon after, realling that he was powerless to retain u foothold in a China ruled by the victorious Mao Tse-tung and his People's Army, he re- established himself in Formosa, 100 He ferried across those

nu miles of treacherous water army of 580,000, a navy of 45,- 000, art on air force of 25,000 equipped with American planes. unother Refugees-probably 750,000-followed.

TORMOSA rew

the bessen of the ceret police and secret agents are both In-unent declared ANDERSON

What Surgbourg beer standen? or former

of-straw.

not

The first is called "External organisation that it has become Unlike the bulletin necessary to apply the principle Tolicy."

and mutura) | mstilled The International of cross-checking Position of the U.S.S.R." It is spying to the ranks of the Not prepared by the Sostet M.V.D. Hself and li is now

practice

Litter about for Part- Autry of Foreign Affairs but common

the Foreign Affairs Depart. informators and Seesots, with Chiang as living maniards And Chlang Was of the Sceret olier out knowing one another, to be slumped. MV.D. This is further preaf ordered to report on each other.growing bitter about America.

The functions of the informers A year ago the U.S. Govern- that in the Soviet hierarchy

that no Inoro To help would go to Chiang, and dan qutrank even senior party formative and provocative, 2nd Government outcials and be a soccers, the perfect Seesot that Formosa way no louger nu have a special essential outpost in her Pacific that Soviet ambassadors are, must not only

work, but defences. often than not, mere men. knack for delective

must also enjoy the reputation. of being an honest man The true representative of the interested in politics, and pre- Kremlin, the M.V.D. represen- ferably even have the reputation triive, may be a rather icon of being an "anti-Soviet ele and how much does Stalin

plus ember of the em ment bassy talk, who in fact controls know? Much of the works

the network of spies, informers and Soylet under-cover agents p.m.fate might depend upon

correct answer, if one could

operating abroad. Such things

Situation 1. "Infernal ace unthinkable. be found.

The round bulletin This is devoted under the Intriguing What, for example, does Stain And yet, the Soviet leaders, and The U.S.S.R.

to Situation within The BUT Just as nature provides 200 years. Al Cairo and Pota-

were mado really know about actual con- Stall Dimself, have never given entirety to political news and "The

publie opinion analyces.

all ilving beings with natural damn pledges Party." This, obviously, is the ditions in various parts of his any sign that they might be at to

niece de resistance of all the defences against the dangers of restore Formosa to China,

Americans lenked at it dir- vast dominer; about the sueréss all conscious of their worldly. Siquiflcantly, It is produced and

remoteness, their rued by the secret political decret sources of information for their environment, modern So- or failure of his decreed policies; Lama-1

that total ignorance of ordinary lives polios (M.V.D.).

the party elite. It is compiled iet man alse appears to have ferently. They pointed out that natural de Formosa wi reded to Japan about this industry

They dare not even

by a spécial branch of Stalin's developed certain research enterprise; and, above and living.

walk Incognito with the crowd. 2. "U.S.S.R. Economoy. personal secretariat which, in fences. A popular Soviet maxirn after the 1891-5 war and that the 50 years of Japanese rule all, about the people he rules?

collaborates with says: "Man has been given t ike Haroun

in the This is a statistical and general turn, closely al Rashid

had been carried out with energy Arabian Nights, *They have economic survey and appears various branches of the M.V.D. tongue so that he may conceal

his thoughts." That sums it up. and intelligence. Formosa lost the common touch,

to be the only source of "hard"

To sing the praise of Slatin and therefore, a Japanese colony information on affairs of Soviet

the Bolshevik regime has now whose disposal

must await In its economy.

statistical

become Just as much a com-

Feate Treaty. pletely instinctive redex as the reflex-actions of Prof. Pavlov's

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They appear to be conscious

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of their self-imposed isolation section it provides absolute ONLY in so far as purely poli-gures Instead of meaningless con Comparative percentages" which

ONL developments are

appears heading:

Revealing Aspect

Instinctive

Hence the spy-manis au the pages of the Sovint deals chiefly with individual famous dogs.

for

Britain went further. It re-

Mao cogalsed

Tse-tung's Government.

Mao, too, was bury. He began preparing an expedition to be cupy Formosa. The island, he claimed, was Chinese.

Geographically and historical- ly he had a care. Fortsona was part of the Manchu Empire for

Wie,

a

NLY an insensitive fool can Orealise that the Kerstin where so much power is now crracd

members, organs and branches.

The universal falsehood which not only which

a

seems 10

the possess concentrated,

machine and the press. it is prepared and issue of the party also entire but

penetrates the entire life of the HEN the Korca war began.. Service Soviet Regime:

that may citadel of drength

by a special branch of the Civil

The United Nations acted. Soviet society is its own natural gilded pri- the Berse

It in

of. pursuit of mad

"deviations." GOSPLAN (Ministry for Slate suspect

defence mechanism, and it may Preildent Truman attempted to und a hand-

malion'

information's planning).

covers the entire Soviet Union yet turn out to be the undoing neutralise Formosa by warning on where Stalin ful of advisers lead n life an

That, at and

hence the leaders' un-

and is said to record with of the Bolshevik attempt to build Mae not to attack and by urging with of monkish seclusion.

preoccupation

3. International Podtion Of meticulous care all events, the perfect mbat society; for it Chieng to stop his raids on the

Tuts is a sceret matter any rate, was my deepest im-

Inets the U.S.S.R." economic

how insignificant they All only.

other bulletin, issued by the Ministry may appear, which suggest some may well be asked if the na- mainland. pression when I visited Soviet and

Frowing Immunity! to Rusala and enjoyed tho care apreis of Juman life seem of Foreign Affairs, and covers form of disobedience, deviation spying and to the rule of fear The Amerlean Seventh Flest privilege of wandering through to have no

them, all the inore general aspects or dissidence.

will not in due course under- was ordered to enforce these 10- the

old desplie the fact that many of of Soviet foreign policy and Perhaps the most revealing mine and defeat the power of structions. the courtyards

ibr policy in Kremlin Palace City with

aspect of this new evidence dictatorship? Where everybody abt the Soviet information lies in self-defence

And then a zecond Agure en- dungeons, shrines and medievaleze other aspects may often Sovie

have far greater political signi- Nations. cathedrals-but permitted only feance.

services is the fact that nearly most totalitarian and compre-tered the Formcia story: 4. "Economy Of Capitalist all the really important secret hensive spy system may to gaze from a very respectable

berul Douglas MacArthur, Countries." This is a particu- bulletins are controlled, if not rendered useless from the rulers' distance at that part of the

Fresh Evidence rly important Infletin, reued actually compiled, by branches point of view. palace which now headquarters of Stalin and the

10

rare

ita

serves 12

All-Union Party of Bolsheviks.

Thicker and even more in-

than the sinister A

dala

reality. to

Sand walls Burrow viees of the Soviet Government.

the Kremlin

Is

Unknown Ways

United

comment.

Central Com-

tion's

the even

Not Arrested

AS this point been approach- Hands on reached? No one sub cun say

ccurrence

Mutual Spying

A recent

for the

Сод

Communism He holds that must be fought everywhere in Asi regarda Forma essential bastion.

Un

MacArther

Sing American

ny

Burrled visits

to Tokyo was reported to the regimental Mr Averell Harriman, Mr Tru- Politicommissar

un-man's special foreign affairs uđ- speakable crime of having said: viser, and later by two of the "Stalin that sonofabitch." The American Chiefs of Staff fol-

On Jowed. coldier was not arrested.

General MacArthur, it is 5- de-sumed, was

the

Red Army

jointly by the Ministry for of the M.V.D. External Trade and the Moscow

How does the machine work? Economy. It appears that a close network LL this. then, determines the Institute of World

nced for this nature of the information ser- In

field the

of so-called Secret Political De- self- secrecy

even more

to Soviet

partments of the M.V.D. (5.P.O. evident, are those As a result the collection and de

Soviet Sekretny Politichesky Oldel) According to inside barriers which in any cellation, classification and dis Russian propaganda the econo- covers the entire Soviet Union.

of largely dictatorship must separate the tribution

employs inumerable discon- mies of capitalist countries have

CME weeks ago a state of perpetual agents rulers from the ruled. Suchi nected facts

who are described and pieces of been in

in in the Soviet-occupied sector of visited Chiang and discussed always "on

Soviet

Jargon as

coordinating Seesota Berlin may serve as a pointer,! separation, we know. an Information has been developed crisis and chaos, inevitable part of tyranny. But into a vast and Intricate system the verge of collepac." All the (Sekretny Sotruduik),or secret youn

non-commissioned forces. water, therefore, is the desire agents. although entered as the rulers' within the Soviet system.

officer of a Soviet tank regiment, of the Soviet leaders to learn protection, inevitably becomes

little Comparatively

was the true facts. Tus imprisonment.

known, until recently, about the

5. actual organisation of the Soviet

"Foreign Press Review." information

Services. But This is an uncensored summary

Pruss Lund dent

world of fresh cvidence of

exclusively for the has now been

designed revealed in the case of the Russian die- extensive memorandum, written information of toters there is a second impor- by a Sevict political refugee, mittee members. tant aspect that is all too often formerly a high-ranking official

member and party overlooked, Neither Stalin nor any of his immediate subordin years standing. munist Party Politbureau) have the top, layer of the ates (the members of the Com-

According to this Informnation

Soviet THESE Ave bulletins form the party informer). for decades known or experi hierarchy, wilch includes the

sole source of information

"Portin sane évery 19 enced what might be called 'an party and Government function avaliable to high party and Go- formator realises that he him- umocy? ordinary human life, The

kind

secretaries vernment officials. There are self is the object of observation *.

other agents. Thus, with of worry or happiness, of fun or arita, ranking from

of provincial party commllices other even more secret bulletins by

For the time being the ques- trouble, that fills the

life of members

Central of which at least two are half

or more

than

half fon remains a question. But the Far East Britain could hardly human being-

the Adult every ordinary

Committee of the All-Union published regularly, which

population free men, all over the world,

These for mem- working with or for the M.V.D.

dangers may reasonably doubt whether

may even that of an ordinary Soviet Party, draw the bulk of their exclusively reserved citizen-is almost totally un- Information

und this super-system of the Politbureau

of mutual the vast and secret hierarchy of nature. Britain's sole from fuc

accret bers known to them. Under the Tsar

Orgbureau of the Central Com- spying often defeats lia own the Soviet information services milment, apart from the news bulletins,

mittee, for members of Stalin's purpose In many respect, in supplies the men in the Kremin Communist struggle in they were hunted revolutionaries

In the order of their im- Secretariat, and for Stalin him- fact, the M.V.D. has now be with as much as a single nunco or schoolboys. And that was 30

selt.

come so vast and unwieldy an of common sense.

(Continued on Pago 5) years ago. Even more unknown portance, they are:

NANCY

Game Girl

ARE YOU A REAL

SPORTSMAN ?

of the

of

many Secret Bulletins

WHEN HUNTING ALWAYS GIVE THE ANIMAL A SPORTING

CHANCE

-TAN>F BUSHMILLER

JULY

THEY in turn rely on informa- the contrary,

urged to sce the tion supplied by part-time in psychiatrist immediately formers the tons of thousands manded that the man should be polkleil dangers of his alliance of Soviet citizens who, for fear sent for observation in one of with Charts.

of disagreeable consequences, the best mental hospitals in the

The danger is that the Mac- act ea commen Informers on Soviet Union.

Arthur polley might embroil their fellow citizens. These ore What can Stalin know of aus. in war against Chian and known 65 "Pariinformator" society built on fear and false-its Central Communist Govern-

hood and evidently unable

to ment.

And Moo has a newly distinguish between an utterly contracted alliance with Moscow

outburst of disgust and

that would bring Russia to hu sid.

arc of

Of course,

By Ernie Bushmiller

I'LL GIVE THE

FLIES A SPORTING CHANCE

In such an extension of war in

stand aside.

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