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The CIA cover firm was listed this way in the 1963-64 telephone book:

Zenith Technical Enterprises, Inc., Univ. of Miami South Campus Perrine 238-3311

In true Ian Fleming fashion, the CIA cover office listed no precise address -- the university south campus is a big
place. It can be revealed, however, without imperiling national security, that the CIA has been operating from
Building 25. (Perrine, incidentally, is the home town of Allen Lawrence Pope, the pilot who flew for the CIA in
Indonesia. )

The CIA has operated under at least three other commercial cover umbrellas in Miami -- the Double-Chek
Corporation, previously mentioned, the Gibraltar Steamship Corporation and the Vanguard Service
Corporation, which will be dealt with separately in another chapter.

The point of all this is that the CIA is not simply an agency that gathers foreign intelligence for the United
States in far-off corners of the globe.* It is deeply involved in many diverse, clandestine activities right here
in the United States in at least twenty metropolitan areas. It can and does appear in many guises and under
many names -- Zenith, Double-Chek, Gibraltar Steamship and Vanguard in one city alone.

On university campuses and in the great urban centers of America, the foundation, the cultural committee, the
emigre group, the Cuban exile organization, the foreign-affairs research center, the distinguished publishing house
specializing in books about Russia, the steamship company, the freedom radio soliciting public contributions, the
innocent-looking consulting firm -- all may in reality be arms of the Invisible Government. And these examples
are not idly chosen.

Whether this state of affairs was intended by Congress when it passed the National Security Act of 1947, or,
indeed, whether the Congress is even aware of those facts, is another matter entirely.

The CIA's internal, domestic activities have only rarely surfaced to cause it embarrassment. One noteworthy
episode took place in Seattle in 1952. A Federal grand jury indicted a travel agent on charges that he had willfully
given false information to the government to the effect that Owen Lattimore, the Johns Hopkins University Far
Eastern expert, was planning a trip behind the Iron Curtain. At the time, Lattimore was under attack by Senator
Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin.

The Finnish-born defendant in the case, Harry A. Jarvinen, worked for the Where-to-Go Travel Agency in Seattle.
Jarvinen's attorney, Gerald Shucklin, explained that his client "did make some statement at a social
gathering when he was a bit tipsy and a Central Intelligence agent was there."

Jarvinen's tip to the CIA reached the State Department on May 26, 1952, and on June 11 the department
issued a "stop order" barring Lattimore from leaving the country. After Jarvinen was indicted, the State
Department apologized profusely to Lattimore.

But three months later the two CIA agents involved, Wayne Richardson and Miller Holland, refused on
security grounds to testify in Federal Court at Jarvinen's trial. Jarvinen was acquitted.

Federal Judge William J. Lindberg sentenced the two CIA men to fifteen days in prison for contempt of
court. The government, the judge noted tartly, had initiated a prosecution against a citizen with one hand
and thwarted it with the other.