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him a new identity and kept him in a house in New England, guarded by a dog. Two "lawyers" who lived next
door were actually CIA bodyguards almost constantly at Hayhanen's side.

But Hayhanen the defector was no drier than Hayhanen the secret agent. He continued to imbibe heavily, which
made the task of the CIA bodyguards an unenviable one.

After the Bay of Pigs invasion, Attorney General Robert Kennedy wondered if there might not be some way to
improve the CIA's then sagging public image. When the National Broadcasting Company suggested a television
program, the Attorney General liked the idea and ordered Hayhanen temporarily released to appear on the show.*

The Hayhanen interview was filmed about July, 1961, but was not shown until the following November. In the
interim, word spread around the intelligence community that Reino Hayhanen was dead; the CIA's prize defector
had been killed in a mysterious "accident" on the New Jersey or the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Nevertheless, the
filmed NBC program was telecast, as scheduled, on November 8. Hayhanen's face was "kept dark for his own
protection," David Brinkley, the narrator, said. At the close of the program, Brinkley explained that after Abel
went to prison, by contrast Hayhanen "was set up in a comfortable house in the northeastern United States under
the care and protection of the CIA. He came out of the security briefly for this interview and went back ... That's
the end of this spy story, but we are authorized to say, indeed asked to say, that if any others like Eugene
Maki [Hayhanen] care to step forward any time they will be guaranteed security, physical and financial."

The CIA definitely did not ask NBC, however, to tell its millions of viewers that they had just watched an
interview with a dead man.

Like any intelligence agency, the CIA employs methods and techniques that are not normally the subject of
polite drawing-room chit-chat. These techniques include sex, money, wiretapping and the use of hidden
microphones.

Allen Dulles may be cited as an authority on the subject of sex-and-spying. When he appeared on ABC's
Issues and Answers in June, 1963, the scandal over Britain's Secretary of State for War John D. Profumo and call-
girl Christine Keeler was at its height. It had also been disclosed that Profumo and the Soviet naval attache,
Captain Yevgeni Ivanov, shared Miss Keeler's favors.

Dulles offered one professional observation about the use of Miss Keeler: "I must say the question they apparently
gave the young lady to ask as to when the Germans were going to get the atomic bomb was not a very penetrating
intelligence question to ask."

Then this exchange took place on the television panel:

Q. Whether or not it is involved in the Profumo case, the Soviets have been known to use sex as a lure in
espionage. How widespread is this? Is this something we meet repeatedly in counter-espionage work
around the world?

A. I think it is world-wide. As long as there is sex, it is going to be used.

Q. Does American intelligence ever use sex as a bait to get information?

A. I don't discuss those matters very much.

Q. We at least don't use it as widely as the Soviets do?