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# 14-00000Important that they've made their secret jote obvious-which has not only douet hom cary, Jealousy, and distrust, but has made it very hard for them to do their job of intelligence gathering property."Do you know that CLA people are pald double salari to serve abroad?" the new polical over in Stageporn sald to me when I showed أحد قلة to family around the Singapore Swimming Club of the Sunday after he arttred. "They got paid twice as much as you or I do They get paid for their cover jobs and then paid again for their banky panky worl That's why they live better tasa we da"I felt flattered that I was holding my cover well enough to be told his secret, and I only wished what he was saying were trita.But it was an Impression that was understandable, if erroneous CIA officers did serre la covers that were lower In rank than their real jobs, and both on the job and off, they didn't live lives consistent with the rank they were pretending to have. For reasons of their jote, agents cultivate contacta la the local government and other diplomatte mbetons In circles far higher than people of their cover rank ever have a chance to meet And they least on reating the kind of houses to which their CLA rank entities them, as well as demanding and receiving a lot of speelal perqubily new friend was wrong about the double salaries, but all the CLA officers he had seen abroad would certainly have given him the impression that he had about that a of compensationIn particular, most CIA staden chiefs are not content to Uve la quarters much less and than the ambasador's offlclal residence. In many countries, this makes sense - the CIA bas liaison responsibilities that are officially recognized by the ambassador and the State Department Butthis is not appreciated by the lowerlevel employees of the embassy, it it's told to them at all. Resentment of the chief of station's Maryle bubbles upLa the past, many chlets of state made no attempt to hide thetr preference for dealing with the CLA station chiet rather than the ambasador sometices bamuse Vigy owed a great deo to : CL mich nay have stolen the election for them or financed the coup that hat put then in pajover. In any case, CIA starton chiets have always felt they could tot entertain Were rera in hovels. It would be dett menul to we prestige and tursu of the United States, they arque, if they did not have the rank and accoutrements accolt of the forelmes with whom they deal One station chieft knew In the 13309 80 to prada promotions by tits gambit It has rerved many a CLA thread well la regard to the hous לבבות Sapa Lab Dewat laterval gives a virid account of the permites y personal enjoyed in Vietnam They had their own hotel clas, swimming pool, and cara la the 1500 14 Ana it da it was customary for CIA eff cers to baro chauffeurs tones the rationale that you incedel somebody around to guard CLA care agalast looting Since the cars were gorprenent property, the gar and oll and maintenance costs, as well as the chauffeur, were paid for out of the station's housekeeping funds People who were listed as lowly attaches were often seen drivingi around in die unmarked, chauffeured cars, which drove the Foreign Service Officers tato freadies of envy.## "We'll Entertain Ourselves"EVEN WORSE, perhaps, than using perquisites to fend off the pangs of status anniety is CLA people's tendency to huddle together. If the rest of the world thought we were nondescript Army officers and the like, well, we knew who was and want who and could play the game with each other. The other.embassy personnes won't invite us to their parties? We're too low on the diplomatic list to get lovited to the Important functions given by other embassies and by officials of the local government! Well entertain oursedres.Conscientious CLA officers try hard to curb this practice, which after all is a breach of nearty overy tenet of good security, but they fall more often than they succeed.In the days when our national purpose was more clearty delmed, when we would, la the words of John F. Kennedy, pay any price and bear any burden la defense of the free world, it dida't matter so mach if the cover of CIA personnel was a littlo in la some countries, the prestige of tho agency was even higher than h i was at home, enormously higher than it has been at home for the last three years In the Philippines in the late 1909, the CLA was so well regarded that members of the Army Counter Intelligence Corps used to try to recruit Filipinos by passing themselves oftas CIA agents. Today, the open life style of a station chief can lead to his death, as it did for Hichard Welch in AthensWelch was killed by the gun of an anti-American assasala but the giua was put into the main's band by all the defenses against the dilerama of covert life that fra described Welch lived in a house inherited from past station chiets everyone in the embassy kure his true position علظلمة blography appeared in the Biographic Register, which could be found la any library.Alee Wetch died the robster was crercinlly clasified but that doesn't mean mean an end to the problem CLA personnel will always feed a strain from having to pretend to be nucb Jess succester than they really are even if they love their work and believe in it deeply, they'll still feet pangs That's human nature, and wille we ought to curb the obviousness of CIA agententides, to some extent we're just got to deal with itOn way to de a de that is to treat CIA agents sympathetically. Those are obviously people who have sacrificed something to work for the agency, and who depend to an inordinate extent on having stable relationships with their co workers, since they can't have stable relationship with anyone else The main thing is sa agenta ile - practally the caly thing, for many how he's treated at Langley, whare de stands there.CONTINUED