ies in attendance, always with a disarming no-brains-in-the-head kind of expression, and through this device, the Red Chinese had a direct pipeline to our defense plans for the Korean peninsula.

To expand upon this system just a bit, Parade Magazine of January 7, 1962 gave this summation: "But what of the old-fashioned Mata Hari? Does she still exchange kisses for secrets? The answer is yes. Sex is the same potent ploy it always has been in the dangerous game of international espionage.

"In South Korea, a languid beauty named Kim Soo became the mistress of an American colonel. She not only slipped secrets out, but smuggled her Communist husband into the colonel's home. In Germany, a striking brunette named Irmgard Schmidt managed to keep up a romance with an Air Force colonel and an American civilian at the same time with neither man knowing about the other. She succeeded in getting from them the Western plan for defending Berlin. Also in Germany, buxom blonde Margarethe Pfeiffer, a graduate of a Communist spy school in Thuringia, Czechoslovakia, used her woman's wiles to charm military secrets from American GIS. She was caught after she picked on the wrong GI: Private Robert Eicher, who turned her, in. But the most celebrated case is of a girl with an alluring telephone voice, Urszula Discher, who caused the downfall of the first American foreign service officer ever caught in a treasonable act. For giving secret documents to the Polish Communists, Irvin Scarbeck was rushed to trial, convicted, and sentenced to 30 years in jail.”

And to finish this particular train of thought, we have an exclusive interview published in Man's Best Magazine of March 1962, which has a ring of authenticity to it. Being interviewed in Milan, Italy is Madama Lena Agrinoff, purportedly the chief of the Western Sector of the Soviet worldwide female espionage organization. She is quoted as follows:

Q-How do you keep your girls in line?

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A-That problem never arises. Our women are devoted to our causes. We have never had a single defection. (Note: This much we know to be true. All voluntary defectors from the Communist intelligence agencies have been male.)

Q-Is your operation successful?

A-Unquestionably. So long as men have repressions, we will continue

to be successful. You men in the United States are among the most repressed in the world-we have had great success with you. Our experience has shown that American men are willing to do anything to satisfy their dreams of sex.

Q-Why are you so candid? Won't the knowledge of your operations limit your usefulness?

A-Quite to the contrary. If anything, it only points up your helplessness and the inevitability of ultimate Communist victory. The sex urge cannot be weakened or inhibited. Men especially must have sex satisfaction. And by making use of this relentless drive, we can ultimately control the universe. In a capitalist economy, you have artificial laws and hypocritical morals, but there are no such limiting factors for us. Communist women are trained to give themselves to anyone at any time the party commands...

Now for a slightly different perspective, let us zero in on Okinawa, that small island south of Japan, which was so costly in American lives toward the end of World War II and which is now adminis tered by the U.S. military establishment. Reporter Brian Casey of the Honolulu Advertiser staff decided to take a look around, and made this report in September last year:

"Vice is big business on Okinawa... an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 girls actively peddle sex to servicemen...fees $1 to $10. The military looks the other way... the combination of low-cost sex and liquor figures prominently in the plans of entrepreneurs who would like to make Ọkiwho would like to make Okinawa a tourist mecca...there is little organized vice on Okinawa-just thousands of independent operators. Venereal disease is fairly prevalent. "We're very concerned about VD," reports the military... gambling is another popular pastime on Okinawa. It centers primarily around the thousands of slot-machines that are found in the military clubs... While the military ducks official comment on prostitution and gambling, veteran servicemen vigorously defend the system. "If it weren't for the easy availability of sex,"..."our troops out here would go nuts."..."Gambling, gin and gals are the three Gs that keep lonesome American GIs occupied on Okinawa during their off-duty hours," ..."Little or no attempt is made to hide prostitution on the island. It has what amounts to 'unofficial official' recognition by the U.S. military..."

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And now a brief report from Taiwan, given to me by a ranking U.S. military officer: The, Chinese Nationalists are a very hospitable people, who have created a special resort hotel outside their capital city for the exclusive enjoyment of top-ranking U.S. military officers and members of the Chinese general staff. The resort is complete unto itself, with golf-course, swimming and other luxury accomodations. Here guests may choose their dayand night-time company from a rather large selection of desirable Chinese hostesses, be wined and feted in the grandest style, and all at practically no cost to themselves. As I remember, the price is something like $1.75 a day. The deficit for this operation is no doubt budgeted under the

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