OF NO BENEFIT TO CIA LUSTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770024-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: April 27, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/07: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770024-8
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21 1961
Of No. Ben7efitilto-. CIA 'Luster- \,
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THE NEED for a thorough r4re
of the practices of the Central Ince,
gence Agency was never more clear
I demonstrated, than in ,3,5fAd ne,s4ur:ELf..1?..
the- r4: '44 r,$5./. ApnfereAce
boss Allen
ot,sg?ments `fair_
to square witlininowyrfaCts:SIW'tfie'
catastrophe in .Cupas1,.
but he did his best
to undermine the !na-
tional unity President
Kennedy has been
working so hard to
achieve.
Dulles said, ;,iin
effect, that every-
ulles
thing Kennedy D
lhai ?
said was: wrong, and besides, if Jack
says Allen is one, then nyah; nyah, r is
Jack right back.
Which is a pretty shoddy perfOrnhance
from a man charged with gathering and
evaluating intelligence reports from all
over the world.
Duls two major pointA,were, ,that
hi end/ ria,4 ,TrijAixigRiLcAstro's
. ?
might, nor had it misjudged the
Cuban,.. people's temper or Castro's cori-
ol over them. ?
,
Yet the cIA trained the troops, picked
the leaders, directed the invasion, and
even, went so far as to keep the. Cuban
4eaders locked up outside Miami. while
?the invasion was going on.
The CIA gave the 2merican people
the definite impressioti that Castro had
only half a dozen bombers and a few
aging fighters when in truth he had new
Czech-built MIGS and trdined
Then, when, the revolt failed, the CIA
? nobly allowed the Cutpan leaders to come
out of their enforced _hiding and take the
blame for thi mesg.
If,, as Dulles .said, there wats no bad
judgment by the CIA, why was the in-
vasin allowed to take place? What
made ;the invasion army expect the
_people to revolt from within except that
the CIA told them so?
This latqt major blunder, coming on
to or a record of miscaldulations about
Red China's intentions in Korea; Rus-
sia's closing of the missile gap, the
_Soviet invasion of Hungry and the
handling of the. U-rafrair last May,
hardly constitutes a record of confidence.
Yet the CIA is responsible to no one
but the President, and Dulles is ,the
only man in the government who can
spend his budget without explaining ? a
nickel of it to anyone. '
In this day we clearly need an intelli-
gence agency of tough, trained spies and
counterspies to compete with the rest of
the world. We seriously .doubt, though,
that we can afford one which not only
gathers and evaluates information, 1/4but
,also makes' and executes policy ivith little
or no authority, experience or control.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/07: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770024-8