AGONIZING RE-APPRAISAL IS RECOMMENDED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770069-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: April 25, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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I Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/07: CIADP67-00318R000100770069-9
Pogo Pima Poge
BAKERSFIELD, CALIF.
CALIFORNIAN
EVENING 40,573
4" APR 25 IV
r/Agonizing Re-appraisal Is Recommende?cl?
President Kennedy has assigned his
brother, the attorney general, to make
an inves.agatioo. of the natio.top
intelligence agency, known -colloqui-
ally as 411e4,1146.,.which is charged
with keeping this country informed
-on movements and events everywhere
in the world and particularly in those
spots where danger to our own
security lurks. Mr. Kennedy's action
walss said to have been triggered by
the unhappy events in Cuba during
the past few days and the part assert-
edly played by the CIA in providing
erroneous intelligence estimates.
cji.nsatzu,i4li.an. accurate
pia= of the Cuban situatin, "then
its reason _for existence tats_di,sap-
appearedagrglz. The island is less
than 100 miles from our shores and
facilities for acquiring information,
legitimate or not, are not sufficiently
difficult to provide real challenge to
an able and experienced intelligence
force. But it ? difficult to la this,
charE at the do. t. e
fgt. nature of its tespOnSIbi
Cuban affair cannot be readi -*er-
mined.
It is sufficient, then, to draw the
inference from President Kennedy's
order that the infoizaaina.. accUmu-
lated and acquir.41--CIA with
respect to 'the Cuban situation was
les.,__Lthan_aszaate and tended to i
induce the United Statesto follow a
course of action that afforded com-
fort only to Castro and Khrushchev.
It is certainly evident that. something !
went wrong in the planning and
exeCiitiOn? of the, ill-fated rebellion, !
some miscalculation that has had the!
effect of adding heavy complications
to the Cuban situation.
Although it is indeed impossible,
without accurate knowledge of CIA
operations, to estimate the. value of
its work, there have been reports that
its activialre a great deaf to be
desired. Ms may be due.to the rela-
tive inexperience*of the agency, whichl
engages .07' an enterprise that hae
been traditionally abhorred by this
nation 13 evertheless is as neces-
sary i adern world as open !
military
reason for President
e for a reappraisal of !
and capabilities of CIA,
'nee ary that it be done effec-
tively and swiftly and that the effi-
ciency and reliability of this agency
be vastly improved. It is evident that
Mr. Kennedy has acquired, in the past
month,. some deep misgivings regard.
ing the important organization. _ J
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/07: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770069-9