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Show FF CALIFORNIA’S coast, a plane with a long net attached to its tail circles slowly once a week until it catches a capsule that is parachuted from America’s orbiting SAMOSsatellite. The capsule’s contents? Photos and electronic readings on Russia’s and Communist China’s vital military and atomic secrets! In the North Atlantic, a British frogman recently eased through his ship's secret exit to inspect the underwater electronic equipment on a nearby Russian “fishing” trawler. Henever returned. Soviet spies, doing similar work, cut the frogman’s oxygen hose, In Germany, a young agent for KGB (a Soviet intelligence outfit), equipped with a pistol that sprays an undetectable poison, as- A top Russian missile-agency official, Oleg Penkovsky, stands trial in Moscow for serving as a spy for the U. S. There’s No Business Like the Spy Business “Help wanted”ads for spies! Eavesdropping in orbit! “Bugs” with built-in lie detectors! The truth about the cloak-and-dagger business is stranger than James Bond fiction By BILL SURFACE Author of “Inside Internal Revenue” sassinated two Ukrainian nationalist leaders. The caper was so ingenious that both men were thought to have died of heart attacks—until the agent defected to the U.S. Intelligence Center. in West Berlin and divulged the murders. Throughout the world, an unprecedented boom exists in spying, cloak-and-dagger plots, and the use of actual gadgets much more so- phisticated than those seemingly used in James Bond movies. Espi- onage has become such an immense industry that there are more job opportunities for would-be spies than, say, librarians. In fact, some spy organizations are advertising in “help wanted” columns. Just to meet its obligations, for example, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency regularly buys ads promoting its “career opportuni- ties,” even though it has received enormous free publicity from disclosures that it subsidized some student organizations. = Furthermore, CIA personnel officers often appear—withattractive recruiting brochures—at dozens of colleges from Grinnell to, Tulane seeking individuals to (1) do “the vital work of gathering information to protect national security” Outside Washington, V. A. Revin, @ Soviet diplomat, checks a phone book for a messageleft by his American contact. This photo, taken by the FBI, helped lead to Revin's expulsion from the U.S. Family Weekly, July 2, 1967 and (2) specialize in crafts such as lip reading, translation, photoanalysis, and “special op” (secret operations). Communist spy ads have a less direct approach. Consider this solicitation appearing among innu- |