THE ALL TOO POWERFUL CIA

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• Publication Date: July 4, 1964
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July 4, 1964
Ross l8audar~-Jfo 'e, $5.95).
By William McGaffin
HIS BOOK is well worth reading for the insight,
.~., both. fascinating and frightening, which it. provides
into the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and
the numerous other appendages of what the authors de-
scribe. as our "invisible government."
.It was written by two of' the brightest young, corre-
spondents in Washington: David ? Wise of the. New York
"from broadcasting, stations and a steamship company to
the university campus."
They readily acknowledge that some form of "invisible
government" is essential to national security as long as
the Cold War goes on. They also agree that it can never
'be made 'fully compatible with, the democratic system..
But they believe a number of things could and should be
done to place checks omits power.
THEY DEAL AT LENGTH 'with the Bay of Pigs .
invasion of Cuba in 1961 and also disclose that the CIA
in 1958 secretly. supported the rebels who attempted to
overthrow the government of Indonesia's President Su
karno. "Was it worth running the risk of permanently.,
alienating Sukarno by supporting his enemies?" they in-` ?"
quire. "Was it worth running the risk of national humilia-
tion in attempting to overthrow Chstro?" Special opera-
tions such as these, they declare, "raise the question of
how far a free society, in attempting to preserve itself, . ;~
Herald Tribune and Thomas B. Ross of The Chicago
Sun-Times. As with their first.book, "The U-2 Affair,"
there is an unmistakable ring of authenticity about the
disturbing story. they have to tell.
THEIR CENTRAL POINT is not new. This is that
a much tighter control needs to be established by Con-
gress and the President over the all too powerful CIA'
' & Co. Other books have. carried the same message. But
it . has never before been so fully developed. and docu-
mented as it has been in this comprehensive volume. It
is, moreover, a point that can hardly be over-emphasized.
Anyone who cares deeply 'about the preservation of our, .`
democratic system of government will read this book--..
with a growing sense of uneasiness.
The authors note that Congress provides money for,
the intelligence network without knowing how much it
has appropriated or how it will be spent. They estimate
that a total of 200,000 persons are employed and that
can emulate a closed society without becoming indis-
tinguishable from if." They should.be launched, in their
view, "only when the alternative of inaction carries with.
it the gravest risk to national security.'
They are concerned as well that the CIA's activities
here at home "might become in time an internal danger
to a free- society." Congress and the President should
give this problem their urgent attention, they advise.
They also counsel the academic world to "re-examine
its acceptance of hidden money from the CIA." The po-
tential danger here, they suggest, is that the universities
will' find themselves so closely allied with the CIA that
they will have lost their ability to function as inde-
pendent critics of our government and society.
Finally, they recommend that Congress should be kept
American ambassadors in overseas posts are supposed to fully and -properly informed on the "invisible govern-
have control over the government's secret agents. But the ment's" operations through the establishment of a joint
agents "maintain communications' and codes of .their House-Senate Committee similar to the Joint Committee
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more than a score of offices" in - major U.S.. cites = William McCaf fin is.a niemher of.The-Daily News'
and is, "deeply t involved" in', many : domestic ` activities Washington Bureau ?
tomic Energy. And they call for .steps to insure
own," they point out, and the ambassador's authority "has " .on
been judged by-a U.S. Senate Committe to-be a politer.:':;.` that our ambassadors wield real rather than theoretical
E INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT, V David Wise and
 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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7 (3 Armageddon. Uris
6' ;1 The Night in Lisbon. Remarque
4 4 The Spire. Golding
a r'rr- Julian. Vidal
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t/ The Group. McCarthy
? Von Ryan's Express. Westheimer
The Martyred. Kim
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An analysis, based on reports from more
than 125 bookstores in 64 communities
throughout the United States, showing
6/)i tultt-rdting.of 16I lVadhig //eiioti
and general titles. Sales through outlets
other than bookstores are not, included,
and figures which are shown in the right-
hand column do not necessarily represent
consecutive weeks appearance on the list.
Fiction
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.,
Le Carri
Four Days. U.P.I. and American Heritage
Diplomat Among Warriors. Murphy
4 } A Day in the Life of President Kennedy.
4"< Bishop
The Naked Society. Packard
A.Tribute to John F. Kennedy.
Salinger and Vanocur
G 7 9
When the Cheering Stopped. Smith
The Green Felt Jungle. Reid and Dernaris
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MINNEAPOLIS, MINK .
TRIBUNE
in. 215j803
S. 651,844
Front Edirj Other
Page P.9 pag&
Date: JUN 16 19
out CIA Wanted'
j. WHATEVER the merits of two books government to - point out manuscript!
,dealing with the. Central Intelligence, errors. went unanswered, and officials;
Agency, some of the government corn- concede that Cuban rebels did believe;
plaints^ab'out them thus far.seem to be they were supposed to forget any
based more on fiction than fact. change of mind by 'Kennedy. A lan-
One book,, "The Invisible Govern- guage mixup is offered as an explana-a
," claims theme e usiness tion, but such boners shouldn't happen.1
is operated without adequate report- Does the government want only si-
ing to Congress or the White House. lence about the CIA? No doubt the!
The other, "The Bay of Pigs," says agency needs a cloak of secrecy to prac-{
Cuban rebels wei ht o disregard tice its trade, but that doesn't mean'
President Kennedy if he decided at the public comment on its functions and;
last minute~to halt the 1961 Cuban in- flops is out of bounds. To ignore inforal
vasion. mation available'to any foreign agent -
Some officials are upset" by both ' worth his pay is an; invitation to thej
suggestions., The first book's publish- CIA 'to put its own policies ahead of
le r, however,--says. two requests to the the nation's.
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POST-HERALD
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o that Atty. h,en "Robert F. 1{e n- ing general of Alabama Air Naj
G~'~ r nedy had laid no Americans tional Guard, and about a dozen?
!9 'cam died at the baY'c#Pigs. men from the Guard entered
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into contracts. with the CIA, thef
nn March 6. President John
BY LILLIAN FOSCUE Bay of Pigs invasion were em- peatedly refused to comment on;
"We always thought it was the CIA," said a relative of one ployes of the government or the the involved happenings of the'
of four Birmingham fliers who died April 19, 1961, flying at the CIA. death of the four and events thei
l Ile answered, _"They were lowing, yesterday again. repeat4'
ed, . "There is nothing official
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anti-Castro Cubans in touch with mother of Riley W. Shamburger
the fliers early in April. He said Jr., says:'
'he organization had requested "If any' information is ever
ts identity remain confidential. obtained on circumstances sur-
The men had been hired to rounding the loss of your son,
f1iy cargo, Carlson said. ' you will be informed immediate-
In May,' checks began arriv- ly. Unfortunately, at present
ng every two weeks for-the four neither CIA nor any other,gov-
Widows. First made out for $225 ernment' agency possesses the
apiece, 'the checks were signed slightest 'pertinent information
by Carlson, Look Magazine says. on your son's disappearance,"
Checks Increase ' wrote General McHugh.
Later the article said, the In February of last year, Sen.
checks were increased to $245 Everett M. . Dirksen,' Senate
piece and were issued by Bank- minority leader, said four
rs Trust Co. of New York. American fliers had been killed
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and bet two children have i
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Bay. of Pigs. The authors' previous marriage.:
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in ? Look said a month before) Gen.. Reid. Ddster,_ command-
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SPOKANE, WASH.
SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
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Date: J1 N '1 6 1964
'air Criticism
Two Washington, D.C., correspondents fo;
suppress or discredit a book critical of his'
agency will be viewed with concern by many':
Americans.
McCone, head of the Central Intelligence;
Agency, has been taking part in etfort.s to;
Still Esse itial
ave written a book, sod
~to be'published, aboithe CIA called "Tb.,
have been. complaining to the book publisher, v
have been making inquiries about buying up j
the entire edition and have been suggesting'.
to selected newspaper columnists that the",
pair has done something disloyal in,writing~
serts that McCone and others in the CIA;
claimed the book was inaccurate. If thisq
I 'claimed
true, then changes should be made. il,
,,Yet when asked to furnish a list of specific-'!
'errors, the ? CIA did not do so, according, to.
I: reports.
Certainly there are times when it is essen'
tial that a government ask reporters to re-
frain from writing information which truly
Publishing the names of several CIA;
agents never mentioned before is reportedly`
one of the CIA's chief complaints.' Authors,.
and publisher deny this, saying that all.
names came from 1 newspapers, published.,
j'-e'ongressional testimony or'court records, ex- j
cept for a few already widely known to both
newsmen and diplomats. .
'7 It . is reported that CIA officials alsor
'their book.
between these two positions in this case, it.
should be..' decided on the basis of public in-..
res
{ affects the welfare of the nation and its peo=
ple, and rare indeed are any cases where,
reporters failed to abide by such security;,
requirements. But, just as certainly, there)
come times when fair comment and criti='?
cism of any government or its agencies are i
essential.
If there is a 'real question, to be. decided
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DES MOINES, IOWA
REGISTER
in. 229,979
S. 522,784
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Pacts Paw Paw
JUN 2.1. 1964
ering and other clandes- "? ry in tl}is country' as well as abroad.
1, 7 d deal of semi- ( d i
spying, intelligence-gathwhich it- has reached out to take, f;^ot going on.
sand-dagger" activity - ,government", iLs cost, and the ways in
us to know, at least in general,..what'sj
lems of~ American government in the Indcresia. of a : case, The need for clandestine op
ace of the cold war ? is the proper role Tbev also nrest~ut new -details on th nr,tinne i,~ tnrinv's world does not Meet
WASHINGTON, D, C. - one of the operaions in Taos anti vier AM auu- k? 4?
persistent and troublesome Arab- revs?utions'in. Latir.:~merica, Iran and have been published. Bqt it's not much?:
tine operations. ?eiC has atop a 6oo A 04
f "ofl'ijial.
rom
None but . the naive =fir ~,' an,~n~ ttut,s efciSill
.wrnnlri deny the nano it Kr;.~ ,.'~:'x.. cnnr?rrc?' aho t: ,his hook It is alleced- LOOT{
are doing-and whether sing to the CIA and other agencies and at a vastly expensive, highly important
? thing. But many, ac }P A~m~ errors of fact afid disclosures that could reason why it shoutdbe read; far more
knowledging this need, Jr f A x endanet national security, compelling is he fact that it will givei
still wonder what we d so Clearly, the book must be' emharras- i
most Americans their first good look
?s e 11 - preservation, lol V,Cllr y not ,..._ a ?t :> . nnorntinn elid in 1hp190 contest between
Governor" by David Wise
Visible R t a f?eadin of "The Invisible Gov. 'duct of a presidential cai?rtpaign-as the
troll i g-_whatwe do, - _ - .
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_.---> N___ ~rintail n numhnr nF,mnttnrs which thnse',ment operations.
e rationsl
fair'1'}iis time Illey have probed Li. S. An argument can, be constructed-n-,
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``involvement in? a t rcat nlariy other mat-. deed,
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dong ~vorx wun Care. Inc 000A 1J weu-uu~u-.A-.... ?~ ~??~
this aril Ti?ad ition the
yp~'a.mented-a first-rate piece of reporting!lcountry, even if it accepts the situation,
i tdr compelling and often disturbing . 1
Ill an area where no official cooperation ' knows about it.
evidence that the 'traditional ,organs c?f could be expected. As Wise and Ross" conclude, "The
gm c; an:riit have danncrously inade danger, of exposure is far less than the ;~
ryuatc control over this secret work The Need d nger~: of secfet,,Mower'4,, ;,;;,~. ,11; i~
P robe U. S.
To. Know
Involvement -? And there are dozens, of places'where
? %Vise and Ross provided a glimpse of,
'the secret government when they wrote
their first book'on the lithfe~
Wise and Ross have obviously avoided
the gratuitous use of names and other:{
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STAR
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Date-JUN 21 196.4
Qk Role
By HAL NELSON
Associate Editor
so many fumbling failures appear to. have1
been racked up.
Four chapters are devoted to CIA's intri-I
cate plan for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.l
Perhaps the authors are'too inclined to critic-
ize, but we got the impression that if our na-r,
y "Primary concern of the men who drafted, tion's survival still rests with the men respons-I
the Declaration of Independence was the con;, ible for the incredible series of blunders which:
sent of the governed. By the mid-twentieth, marked the invasion we are truly in a bad way.
In fact, Ross and Wise make the Cuban;
the tprymaryeconcernr of pressures
nation's olcaders fiasco sound like a James Bond thriller gone;
completely awry.
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CIA insists that.a majority of its operations?
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on is from a recently published. have been successful, according to the auth-i
book entitled "The Invisible Government ors. Two successes are publicized-in Gua-
over which considerable con rove sy as been tamala and Iran. But if the successes outnum
3,raging. There are some who believe the book: her the sensational failures in many parts ofd
i.should be suppressed because it purports tothe world, then the CIA has managed to keep
some successes a secret.
reveal the secret role the Central, Intelligence.,- Most of the facts in "The Invisible Govern -
r Agency plays in the internal affairs of foreign,; ment" can be authenticated from newspaper=
1 governments while Washington issues officials and magazine articles as well as speeches andi
disclaimers...,. papers issued by public officials. Whether the9
as B. Ross and David Wise,
who maintain that their book
doesn't reveal any- cold war
secrets while it defines and
describes the massive, secret
"government functioning in
Washington -with the CIA in
the key role. ,;,. .,.:y.iwain~.:i; fs something else again. We're all ' for letting Y
We're inclined to agree Nelson ti, our people and the people of the world know
with them. We didn't learn much new from1 what we're doing and why. We'll stick by the
the book. It is sort of a shocker, however.`: principle that government should be with the'f
'r Not so. much because of the cloak and daggers consent of the governed. If we're going to in-
intelligence of our country with more dagger. vide Cuba or Guatamala or Laos, let it be
y than cloak in, numerous cases-but because ~ done with the approval of Congress.,.
conclusions are biased or not is something also
again. We hope our record for bumbling isn't',
as had as it sounds.
vival of our nation depends on knowledge ~of
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what
s going on in governments around the
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ly participate in revolutions in other countries j
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new book entitled "The Invisible history of the Bay of Pigs fiasco; the
Go v mint" namely tha ze gov- success of ,the..C,~A, in arranging the ;
ernment in Washington is in some re-
coups d'etat that threw out the Mos-
spects a hidden one.which the Amer-
ican people, who finance it, have a sadegh government in Iran in .1953
right to know about. Authors David and the Arbenez ' government in
.Wise and Thomas Ross, two first rate Guatemala in 1954;.the CI. .'s dis-'
1 journalists, describe the book's prem-. .astrous support of Indonesian rebels
ise as being that even in a time of in 1958 which .hardly made Sukarno
cold war, the government must rest, more sympathetic to the Western
in the words of the Declaration of nations; the equally misguided C.I.A, b
Independence, on "the consent of the support of Chinese Nationalist guer-`1
governed," and. that there can be rillas in Burma, which antagonized
no meaningful consent where those the Burmese with equally grievous..
who are governed do, not know to results; the electronic marvels .of)'
what they are consenting. photography and space satellites,
What is the invisible government? which have introduced automation to.
According to Wise and Ross, it con- espionage; and "black radio," which
sists'of the various secret intelligence. is secret propaganda bro4dcasting.
agencies that have multiplied in num- . Say the authors:. "The secret in-"
ber and.grown in power since the end telligence machinery of the govern.'
of World War II. These include the ment can never be reconciled with
Central Intelligence Agency, the Na- the traditions of a free republic. But:
t1onal,Security Agency, the Defense in a time of cold War, the sdlutifiri lles
Intelligence Agency, tho intoll1getiee not In diii titling tlta riwhimty butt
services of the Army, Navy and Air in bringing it, under greater control.
h'or?ce, the Atomic Energy Commis- The resultant danger of exposure is,
lion, and the State Department's Bu- far less than the danger of "secret
reau of Intelligence and Research. power. If we err as, a society, let itt
These agencies employ 200,000 people be on the side of control."
and spent .4 billion a year. As we said, rve buylraG,
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4 vet or. a ease -.3
Fr l1'u - his reMls
r.. , We go, along with the: thesis of a The book, discusses the strange 1
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t'-ably the Central. Xiitehigence. Agency, ment" virtually takes this' as'its' L the-j
is the subject of "The.Invi ' Gov sis - that these "special operations"
F.zrnment, a new botr vritten by two are srnr~afiM' rai +iari Ali wi+hn?+'fhel
tions by various secret services, not.;'.". .tended -L and "The Invisible. Govern. j
front
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'l.ne powertui ana, often'mysteri-.'?.erations," of which one was. the Bay
ous'role played in'our foreign rela- ,of Pigs effort. It has, often been con
f
;.The authors," David Wise'and Thomas 'con ntripinvnlvorf:eir avnn of 1i ii r
young 'Washington cor; e'spondents., .. knowledge of , U.S. `ambassadors in the {
4merican people,,- who finance it,
have 'a right to know about: The prey
_ . p-u se of this book is that even in a
time pf "cold war, the United . States
State Department officials in 'some in-
stances. .
This 'is given, a grim immediacy
.by the disclosure that 'American civil-.'
ian pilots have been ' flying combat
missions irk The Congo under contract
to the Congolese government.- This
;was' acknowledged by','the State De-
government: 'must rest," in the words partment under ciicumstances ' sug
of the' Declaration of ..Independence,'. ` Besting that the. U.S. Embassy in Leo-
on `the consent of the governed.' And poIdvilae really did not know what
there ;can . be 'no' meaningful' consent was going on.,
;know ..to what they "are consenting." Have., The Congo, flights been part
of a CIA special operation carried -on
The CIA ,gathers acid evaluates in- . ,
uformation. That is its primary' func-. in ' secret? It looks , much; like,-, an
'tion' as- an intelligence,sca?vice.: The example of invisible, goveinn\ent in
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complainants give them a. list' of I
any errors. Though agreeing to do `t
so, the agency has not complied.
CIA sensitivity to publicity is
well - known, but if they can not,,
establish that the book violates 7
security provisions they are clearly..4
out, of bounds in striving to sup:.:]
press or censor it. Even if the book-I.
does violate security, it seems like'
a heck of a time to have just discov.1'
ered the leak.
!again, how did the authors, two's
Washington newsmen, 'get hold of
t? ,; - -
'The book, "Ti Invisi Gov-!
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irm said they asked._twice that the,
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C1A ~'tic ini o k%; y Late, "1oD r Sho ?,
It is puzzling to learn that the
Characteristically, agency.
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Central Intelligence Agency is
`making an apparent bid to sup-
press or censor a book due to be
.published about U. S. secret intelli-
gence operations.
The agency's desire to prctect
national security is understandable,
but a burning question remains un-
answered: How did the book's au-
thors grain access to the secrets in
,the first place?
'that matter. In fact, they did trot?
claim that the book's publication;
would violate any security classifi-
;cation of information. They merely
"contended, we are told, that publi"
;cation of the book would 'prove!
-harmful to national security. How's
that . for muddy logic? -
First, the book is about "secret']
imoliigence operations, but no
claim to security- classification vio-1
latioti is made. The spokesmen-
merely contend the book would be,
"harmful" to national security.,,
.Well, does the book contain nation
al secrets or doesn't it? If so, or if
it contains "'harmful" information, ;
,why isn't the data classified? And,
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TIMES
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onto: JUN 2 01964
homas
House, $5.95.
By ARLINE B. TEIIAN
PICTURE a vast and secret
octopus whose enormous ten-
tacles reach into the lives of
190 million unsuspecting Ameri-
cans = this, say the authors of
"The Invisible Government," is
our nation's intelligence opera-
tion.
So complex, they maintain.
are the workings of the Central
Intelligence Agency and its ei:-
tensive affiliates, that its right
hand is ignorant of what its left
hand does. So powerful and per-
vasive Is this enormous spy sys-
tem, including its unliiilited "se-
`cret operations" that although it
:was only created in. 1947, al-
ready "the dagger is more im-
.portant than the cloak."
u lusions. Certainly [he' au-! They describe the intri uin
g gi QFRRTATTC of nnrnnco firplass
their horrible examples, never whicli under explicit orders from purportedly p'r "?""
theless beat a hasty retreat director Robert Sargent Shriver,] inform teh the e 'American wrote ns book "tn
people on
from the great and baffling rejects immediately ' volunteers; the interlocking, hidden machin-
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question: How far can a
society, in order to preserve it-
self, emulate the methods of a
closed society without becoming
cis in the Cold War. 11 They
have so informed _us, 'adding
indistinguishable from it? as he was setting up the Peaceim
Like some strategically placed Corps: "Avoid the. three- C's-
edly shock its readers with it TI;E BOOK has its villains-
e
t
Washington~~lCIA's first civilian director Al-
are
memhers of the
Bureau of the Chicago Sun-;: len tulles and is, successor
Times and the New York Herald] Roosevelt lwCone: lCIAas, " Mr
Tribune.,respect.ively, write .ink
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terse journalese which rises at
times. to dramatic- heights.
ion
with any previous connec
whatever with the CIA; they re-
call the advice of then Vicepres-
ident Lyndon Johnson to Shriver
ran,
e cen
ra
e
am
guref
in some shadowy backstage ma-1
RELENTLESSLY, they iin !'gtiasi-heroes', ;nth as "Kim"'
cover incident afi.e`t incident. of Roosevelt, grandson of 'I'heodore
the blunders, :the excesses; thelluteion;'it has its sinister figures t
that, like some Frankenstein'S official U S !foreign policy, isI a standing position to signify an
monster, the CIA now "sets itsi ;;,> t.. w+5 r,?; , ?, impending invasion: It reads. siy~
wn policii q?~ ^'.. nresi- roultaneously like some fantas their recommendations for tight
.dential control and has,a quasi- Books on..Tria1 tic', spy story and some tragi- er presidential controls, fuller
independent power and status of comedv.of errors. congressional I n 1 o r m a tion, r
greater official frankness and
Its own." Yet they concede thei t?'`"'`? Tlie talp of f .he disastrous Ba
y
necessity of some form of In-J working. publicly in one direc-l of Pigs invasion is told in all reassessment of CIA domestic
visible Government to insure our tion, the CIA is working secret-1 f to confusion, -its frustrations, activities.
national survival. ly in the opposite one, and the"its denials
I' Thought-provoking, startling-
.r.OIiABLY FEWER. than'. al devil,. take the hindmost Ambas-' Vividly the. authors describe if even half of what it asserts
"
e ? : ,~.?.? - -: CIA 'activities in other famous is true, the nation should be-
half dozen Americans in t h sadnri 1
highest governmental posts (all trouble spots:. Laos, Burma. ware. But if you have a ten.
of, whom are too busy for casual.; Vietnam, Iran, Guatemala: ' and i deiicy . toward insomnia, avoid
.debate) are qualified to answers 'the wonder grows that,all. thel this book - 'for it is crowded
the questions raised in t is book' 1 compplex. meddling and muddling with the horror and.'excitement
'to Judge the accuracy pried For Release 2006/01/O asGl d~ f~(g3d~ O~A~p~(kp~ Bory, except that l
tatetligt't5 or _to,.eyaluate.:.j:1? ! trouble r the story is real, the ';pies are
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a troikaful besides, ,
the Soviet best-seller.,
S. 56,683 1
Five rubles wi ge , and
this book quickly scoots to the top of
list.. - . ;
It ought to do- pretty well
in the West, too.
Nowhere else does it seem
possible for - the average
browser to . sneak a better
inside look at the U.S.A.'s
governmental intelligence
community.
' One can certainly appre-
ciate why the top two offi-
cials of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency pleaded, un-
1
successfully with Random
, House, to either suppress or
"sanitize". press runs.,
By naming intelligence of--
ficials, by reporting. on mat-
ters which ordinarily never
,!get into print until a gen-
t eration later, newspapermen
Vise and Ross touch. a most
sensitive nerve.
Power Packed Pyramid
This country's table of in-
telligence organization is
JOURNAL I
bination isn't clinical in its
entirety; the authors still go
.into considerable small de-
tail in their fascinating docu-',
mentary.
Diplomats in the Dark
CIA's operations in covert
ly trying to shape, the course
of destiny in Burma, Cuba,,
Indonesia, Iran, Egypt, Gua-
.tamala, Germany-you name
it - make pretty graphic,,
reading.
What is somewhat sadden-
ing is that these operations
often were conducted with- i
out the knowledge of normal
U.S. diplomatic chiefs.
Even today, after Presi-
dent Kennedy sought to tight-
en up control, the CIA still
wields a relatively free hand,
the authors contend, exer-
eising authority independent ti
of our ambassadors,
spread 'flat, pyramiding up In 1956, Sen. Mansfield
in what the authors 'call the..,failed in a resolution asking
Invisible Government. Their- `closer congressional scrutiny
thesis is this government, ` of the intelligence communi- t
nourished by $4 bill;on year-, ty. He argued the intelligence
Jy, is increasingly escaping agencies were drifting out t
from popular control.. from traditional checks. 3
Save for the President, au- A spokesman for the Sen-3
thority is fully vested in the` ate's inner club, Russell of
'so-called 54-12 group, over Georgia, rebutted: "It would
which John McCone, direc- be more desirable to abolish
for of, the CIA, presides. the CIA and close it up, lock, t
stock and barrel, t h'e n ? to
CIA hates ,,a ;rowing rival, adopt any such theory that
Cvc "Le"arn, in the x7. IA (Dc- all members of Congress are.'
fense Intelligence Agency), entitled to knoly the details."
both of which need data pro-, Wise and Ross do not dis-
duccd by the NSA (National pute the need-for a massive
Security Agency), a really . intelligence structure; e v e n
.;;per-secret outfit, w i t h though its innate secrecy is
many matters coming to the abhorrent to the open tradi-
.1
USIB (United States Intelli- tions of American life. "
.
gence Board). What they worry about is I
the dagger overcoming the
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ployment of sophisticated eaves- Publication of "The Invisible Government" has.l
dropping and 'photographing space ;. ; made some members of the intelligence community.?
satellites through the systematic :+;' unhappy. CIA Director John A. McCone and CIA Dep-
study of alien publications to kid- uty Director Marshall S. Carter approached Random
napping and torture (and murder House, according to a news story by Charles W. Bailey
after the subject has talked). of The Minneapolis Tribune and Des Moines Register,.
Further, the craft of intelli- in an apparent effort to suppress or censor the book.
gence, as former Central Intelli- bhey complained that the study contains errors and.,l
Dulles has called it, is not con-
fined to the collection and analysis
of information. It includes the prep-
aration a n d dissemination of I before mentioned publicly and disclosure in detail of
propaganda, counterespionage and '.; . four covert 'CIA operations which are still active.
the sub
e
i
d
v
rs
on a n
. overthrow
of unfriendly governments in be-
half of the national interest.
reaches of security.
Columnist Marquis Childs reported on May 20 thats
Intelligence officials allege 112 breaches of security, .
Newsweek's sharp-eyed reviewer found several
errors in the text, said CIA alleges 120 security vio-
lations and turned u
som
S
i
p
e
ov
et intelligence exThe United States is involved deeply in the flour- perts who "state unequivocally that much of [the]"
ishina Cold War hu it vino .T?ct hn,x, ci r.nh, infnr,vm.,F;>., r..,...r.
By Glenn Scott
"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail," for-
Moreover, the. means of gathering information CIA Concerned ^ '
about the doings of foreign powers range from em-,:,'
mer Secretary of State Henry L.? Stimson said in 1939
as he ended the code-breaking operation of the State
Department.
S t I m s o n's gallant-if-shortsighted apothegm..,
no doubt is as widely known in intelligence circles as
.Neville Chamberlain's confident assurance of peace in
our time is to the English-speaking world, But the
sentiment is inappropriate in what often is the least'
good of all possible worlds. The contest for internation-
al supremacy has been raised to the atomic degree,
which may be the ultimate degree, and gentlemen do
read each other's mail-on a grand scale.
' -'rr- ut:en acquires by the
will come as surprise to most A 'c ans who until Soviet secret service
.
now have cked a summary of the in lligence and 1
espi tfagactivities directed by the exec tive branch (Some official suggested that the 20,000 copies of ,
the first printing be oft a federal government. P b purchased by the government on
In "Th _Ln si le Government" (Ra dom House the condition that the book be revised, but this was not"
375 p., $5.95) to be pu is e t'omorro ,David Wise. i done. Look Magazine has published excerpts from it
`
,
and the book itself is available in local bookstores. It
Ne York He>aald Tribune Washingt bureau chief,
and omas B. Ross, a member the.. Washington will be reviewed on thi~'page next week.)
In so doing-and agreement is far from total on this- sense. He said it contains no information that has not
been made public previousiy.y in newspapers, court:
they have performed a public service as necessary to rec d
or
bureau the Chicago Sun-T' s, have.` provided the , random House president Bennett Cerf has said aI
first comprehensive loa at this half-glimpsed world. ? legations that the book violates security are "non-
the continued health Qf the retc
s, congressional her filar sources.:
a secret intelligence ftcR)Eo4[s~/.. is interest tn
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Embarrassment Probable
Undoubtedly "The Invisible Government" is ca-
s-ing embarrassment. It chronicles not a few of the in ,
eptitudes of secret agents and suggests that some CIA
men have undermined the authority of U.S. ambas-
sadors in critical situations abroad.
In the sense that much of "The Invisible Govern-
ment's" material is not known widely and no doubt
carries some government security classification it
, can be said to contain security violations. But in the ei
sense that the bulk of its inform
ti
i
l
a
on
s avai
able gen
-
erally to certain sophisticated persons and to news-
hecki
---- ???a. L.
ng a oUnd (ana so, i
presumably, to America's enemies), it seems unlikely
that the book breaches security. However, few per-
sons beyond members of the top secret "54-12" special
group, which oversees "special operations" of US in-
..telligence for the President, are in a-position to know
"The Invisible Government" has some value to
.hostile powers in propaganda attacks against the
U.S. But in this regard, it ranks far, below. the down-
ing of a U-2 plane over 'Russia and the failure of a
U.S.-supported invasion at the Bay of Pigs.
The hand of the CIA rarely has been concealed I
from our friends or our adversaries in th
i
e cr
ses
, I
coups and intrigues it has engineered in Laos, Viet .?;j
Nam, Indonesia, Guatamala, Iran, Burma, Cuba... - i:.
The Ameri
'
,
l
can
eop
e ar
0
e
..0
,000 p
~, . sons and conducts the clandestine policies of the
i. note, constitute acts of war, involve our national pres-
A debate on the role the Invisible Government
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should -1- i
h
n t
e
f
o
ed e
h i
.
noug
n ol-jnation ?,
to support their suggestion that the intelligence serv-
ices, under cover of the Cold War, have achieved a
quasi-independent status of their own. If. this is so,'
"The Invisible Government" is a book that l
eaves
.
; Citizen older but wiser. It provides a sophisticating
experience and, as such, should raise the quality of
mnderstanding?of the conduct of foreign' affairs In the i
Roth Century.
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