TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST BY FULTON LEWIS, JR.

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2004
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• Publication Date: July 24, 1958
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TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST
By
Fulton Lewis, Jr.
Station WGMS at 7-7:15 P. M.
24 July 1958
Cambodia--one of the three kingdoms into which French
Indochina was carved up--has jolted the State Department by
announcing its recognition of Communist China, stating that
it can no longer refuse to recognize the existence or the
economic importance of the Red China regime. The State De-
partment, frankly shocked, anguished and astounded, issued a
long formal statement saying that the recognition came as
a complete surprise and that this country has received as-
surances that the government of Cambodia would remain aloof
from Red China.
This, by the way, is one of the spots into which we have
poured "zillions" of dollars down the rat hole of foreign aid.
For example, untold miles of roadway that didn't even pretend
to lead anywhere. The excuse of the Foreign Aid Administra-
tion for that one is that roadways, they say, of any kind are
important in an underdeveloped country even if they don't
lead anywhere, which may seem just a little naive to you in
view of the fact that your taxes are what they are in order
to pay the bill.
The interesting angle of this, however, is the complete
surprise angle. How could it be such a complete surprise if
the CIA, under Secretary of State Dulles' younger brother
Allen, were on the job? Suez was a complete surprise. The
CIA didn't know a thing about that until it was an accom-
plished fact. The coup d'etat in Iraq was a complete sur-
prise. The CIA didn't know anything about that. Now this
highly important development in Cambodia is a complete sur-
prise, too. The CIA didn't know anything about that. In fact,
the CIA might just as well not be operating at all for all of
the intelligence information it seems to be providing.
Yet this is the organization, the Central Intelligence
Agency, which is supposed to be our secret eyes and ears over
the world. It is also the organization, as I have reminded
you before, that must not be investigated, because it is so
delicate in its operations that the slightest leak of any
kind about its personnel or its operations or its budget might
be disastrous. The truth seems to be that it is so delicate,
that it is not functioning at all if these results are any
indication,and the idea that its over-all operations cannot
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be inspected by an appropriate committee of congress is
utterly ridiculous. This is nothing more, nor less, than
the international investigative counterpart of the FBI,
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation. It
does the same work in the foreign field that the FBI does
domestically or it is supposed to. Mr. Hoover doesn't re-
sort to all this cloak and dagger stuff and all this super-
secrecy, and he has had agents in plenty of precarious
places, undoubtedly does so now, whether identity would have
been ruinous if it had been known.
He had the Communist Party so infiltrated with his
agents at one time that it was said that the party con-
tained more FBI plants than it did legitimate Communists,
and as the crowning blow, an American businessman said today
that he tried two months ago to tell Allen Dulles of the
impending bloody coup d'etat that was in the making in Iraq
and Mr. Dulles refused to see him. The individual was Salem
Badr, president of the Arab-Asian Institute, a registered
foreign agent, and he said he tried to get to both Allen
Dulles and to William Rountree, Assistant Secretary of State,
Middle Eastern Affairs, but that he was told in both cases
that no appointment could be fitted in.
You know you can't help but wonder just what this CIA
does do for the fabulous sums that it spends every year,
Here are three misses out of three; that is not a very good
batting average.
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