New York, Jan. 8—Back in 1972 when President Nixon was visiting China and Henry Kissinger was ubiquitous, Art Buchwald wrote a celebrated column the gist of which was that Soviet intelligence had filed a report saying that one member of the President’s retinue was a secret official of the United States whose identity and office no one was supposed to know. But, reported Buchwald tongue in cheek, Soviet intelligence had cracked that secret: there is in America something called “the Secretary of State.” The incumbent was a man with greyish hair, distinguished features; you could find him in the presidential entourage with the aid of a magnifying glass. He is actually very important . . .
Lev Navrozov, the distinguished Russian expatriate whose heroism and intelligence have made him conspicuous among those few who still care, closes an analysis of the CIA’s actions in the Soviet Union during the past few years by saying that serious students of its public performance before congressional committees would be driven to the conclusion that there was a secret CIA out there somewhere: that that is the body that is relaying to us the necessary information about the Soviet Union.
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