Show a N E HI ac or BY released by newspaper union ATOMIC BOMB CREATES SUPER SPY SIY SYSTEM NEED washington major general wild bill don donovan ovan bowed out of the tha first real american intelligence gence sei se service I ce OSS with a somewhat cool sounding response from president truman to his idea of developing his line of effort further for peace mr truman cut up OSS sending part to the war department but most to state the donovan notion of hiring someone like sumner welles the ex diplomat to keep intimate and independent watch on the inner international world was left hanging in air somewhat foggy air general donovan has never been a glamour boy he is a rather crusty soldier lawyer those who know what ho he did in the confidential special agent part of the war say his work in the balkans particularly was excellent and could have been done by no one ona else as well into his organization however crept a number of persons who did not fit the best beat nature of the endeavor and gave gava it distaste with congress I 1 think this fairly sums up OSS it did great work but was not popular 1 I can never learn what accomplishes popularity in this era er a when aback a bank robber can possibly attain it by merely being for the 30 hour hou r week or some such social innovation in the wake of this peculiar condition congressmen are arising to shout there will be no american gestapo and I 1 assume also they mean no or indeed there will not but there is a grave danger that the first vital necessity for a secure postwar world will be ignored and shunted aside by muddleheaded political thinking about it if you thought pearl harbor a surprise and blitz warfare warfare sudden as lightning you ard are already old fashioned and obsolete in your thinking the next war will start like a flash the brilliant blinding flash of the atomic bomb if our defenses were archaic last time they will be pitiful next time unless our officials know everything going on in this world advance knowledge is ia more essential to defense in a future world than a superior air force an army armayor or fleet not the F fascists or the communist nations but the british a democratic nation have the best world intelligence it baj was built up through generations their survival dep depended ended upon it because their little islands had absolutely nothing to justify their su superior perlor position in the world except an awareness of the facts of national existences and a superior shrewdness in using them that is what we need only a better one it cannot be an army enterprise because the army covers 0 only aly one phase of world facts influencing influencing peace and security it cannot be navy avy marine corps or merely all three together be because cause diplomacy must be founded upon such information the british even move commercially from such auch realistic ground news it cannot be split or you yell will have each department performing again the coordination they showed about pearl harbor namely none INDE independent PENDENT BUREAU NEEDED consequently it must be an independent epen dent bureau covering at least these government elements and probably more justice do department part ment and FBI furthermore the head must be a man whose character and personality guarantee full pursuit of the tha business to be done and a complete completa disavowal of any political implications in the work ile ha must not bi be a leftist or right OT or even a professional democrat r republican that service must lean over backwards to ke keep ep itself politically li liti cally inviolable and beyond even t the L faintest suspicion of political use the tha british know how to do it the only limit on its ampro privations pr lations should be our need of information if we need the inform information aaion get it if the spenders want to lot let treasury money loose here Is ia one place blace where they could got get something out of it it some soma interested parties wish to limit the he scope of activity to foreign information it should be limited only by need it if it is found e in thi this s country li it requires action n no 0 political considerations side rations should hi s allowed to stand in the way of getting it it |