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Show into every dark corner of the subject's life, academics back at the CIA compile anthropological and sociological data on the area in which the subject grew up. This is done in the CIA's "Geographic Office." The structure of the society, its mores and customs, are depicted. Even the type of diet adds to the portrait of the person. The "Geographic Office" report on for instance, noted that Mao he traveled as a beggar through the country in his youth, seeing firsthand the poverty and corruption. This profoundly affected the young Mao and helped ignite the revolutionary fire that caused him to help found the Chinese Communist Party in the early 1920's. Today, intelligence reports confirm that Mao is still the purest of revolutionaries. Tse-tun- g, Medical diagnosis The CIA also directs its agents to dredge up all possible medical information for the medical researchers to diagnose. Once, agents tapped into washroom pipes in one of Monte Carlo's most glamorous casinos tc get a urine h sample from the King of Saudi Arabia, who was rumored to be ailing. Inside the washroom, crouched behind a commode door, an agent waited with an electronic signaling device. The King, a heavy drinker and addicted gambler, finally entered in a swirl of white robe. The agent alerted his colleague in the plumbing closet, and the nozzle was turned on the pipe tapped into the washroom plumbing. But the greatest coup in the annals of the CIA's medical espionage oc- oil-ric- VICill UEflEHl CONTINUED his accusations with details which Pompidou was unable to refute." The world's two most celebrated women leaders, Israel's Colda Meir and India's Indira Gandhi, are reported by feud the CIA to have a brewing. According to the CIA account, Mrs. Meir regards Mrs. Gandhi as "neutral ... on the side of Egypt," while Mrs. Gandhi sees Israel as a "warmonger." The dossiers on Arab leaders are loaded with CIA tidbits. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, "when threatening Israel with an war, was bluffing," CIA. the Jordan's King Hussein reported threatened "to go on a ghazou" unless he received more American aid. A ghazou, it was explained, "is a Bedouin raid against neighbors for the purpose of looting." Syria's President Hafez-al-Asswas portrayed by the CIA as an outspoken militant who doesn't "expect too much from Egyptians." Assad uses the Arabic word "lamma" when he speaks of war with Israel. "Lamma" means "when" not "if," explained a CIA report. Spying on foreign leaders is a routine operation, involving CIA agents in the field and researchers at headquarters. Reports from diplomats and military attaches also go into the dossiers. If Wash- supported long-distan- all-o- ut ad ington suddenly wants mQre information about a certain dignitary, say in advance of a summit meeting, he becomes "targeted." Then the full resources of the clandestine agency are 10 trained upon laying his life bare. The first step in the daily spying process is known as the "library search." Researchers routinely clip newspaper and magazine articles about foreign notables and send them into the CIA's "Biographic Registry" computer. As part of the "library search," field agents are asked to fill out forms on foreign leaders, which resemble job applications. To the extent possible, relatives, friends and acquaintances are casually contacted. Information is gathwith rumor and fact ered carefully noted. It is left to the experts in Washington to assemble the jigsaw pieces and make the final distinctions. tive learned that the Chinese Communist embassy was planning to move. He quickly located the new site and rented the house next door. Bugs were placed in the new embassy before the Chinese moved in. The CIA picked up an earful before the bugs we re eventually discovered. While the field operatives are poking helter-skelte- r, 1 '?- - Nothing taken for granted Even the most rudimentary facts, however, are not taken for granted. "In many foreign societies, the leaders mask their backgrounds as much as possible," a CIA man told us. "It's not like in the United States where you have everything from FBI files to job applications to track down a personal history." An astonishing amount of information can be picked up quite legitimately by America's observers overseas. For example, a military attache in Moscow became great friends with the Soviet Defense Minister during the Khrushchev years. While the stuffy Soviet bigwigs would shuffle about at official receptions, the attache and minister would toss down vodka and swap stories about their superiors. Of course, electronic eavesdropping is often used. In Belgium a CIA opera 1 !!& ' If 3 J Agency reports say India's Indira Candhl (left) and Israel's Colda Meir are feuding. Colda thinks Indira is soft on Egypt; Mrs. Gandhi sees Israel as a "warmonger " PARADE IUNE 17. 1""3 |