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ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 18 Dec. - 8:30 AM,19 Dec.
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OSO Cont'd.
The State Dept. has reopened the question of a reply to If State decides that a
Vishinsky's charge that US officials in Athens have used reply must be made, the
an'"electrical torture device" in interrogating Greek statemirtwill be sub-
Communists. State suggested that :we admit the use of mitted in draft for CIA
the polygraph by Mr. Robert Driscoll, "an E&ibassy Attache", comment.
and offer a demonstration to the UN committee. OSO does
not object to this on security grounds'but--is of the opinion-
that any admission will merely furnish opportunity for
further Soviet charges.
According to the German Chief of ZIPPER, Hans Olobke,
Chancellor Adenauer's Assistant for Personnel,. is now
convinced that the German counterpart of OPC should be
placed under German Intelligence, not under' the. fufuxre
Defense Ministry. The ZIPPER Chief himself firmlyf believes
that activities of this type should be limited to subversion
by clandestipe propaganda and that CIA should not discuss
planning for resistance activities with the German Government.
Although State Dept. must reply formally to ,the Rumanian
note charging US sponsorship of the 2 (OSO-putch Intelligence)
agents recently captured in Rumania, State-Has not yet decided.
whether to ask CIA for any information it;'may have on the
matter. -
Gen. Umberto Broccoli, Chief of Italian Intelligence, has
accepted CIA's invitation to come to the US on 14 January:
for a two-week visit. x
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