BOLSTERING OUR SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780034-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: May 3, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05717 :nClii-141DP67-00318R000100780034-6
t ALBANY (Ga.) HERALD
Circ.: e. 19,377
S./ 19,078
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Date: filly 3 1969
olstering, Our Security
Few Americans will envy the well-
qualified General Maxwell DAkitstiO;is
Presidential assignment of I
the operations of the Central I telligence
Agency. For the basic proble ? atta(ithing
to his mission is not so mu whether
the ClAiL 14,4olligence" on uba was
faulty--71id it was that and re?but
whether*e CIA should be aged in
the business of helping to / military
operations at all.
Two fundamental ques, must be
? answered by General Taylo re the2
President can determine future;
course as regards the inter tructure
of his Admitistration. The f i of these
! has to do with the CIA miss t. Has it
attempted to fill a vacuum in perations
left by the State Department'? Has it, as a
? consequence, gone too fat beyond the
assignment of gathering information,
asFessing it and proceeded into the field
oftlanning as well as pursuing major
pOlicy operations? ?
Next, who exercises control over the
CIA when the President and the Security
Cotincil have approved a delicate opera-
tion involving the cloak-and-dagger
agency's .participation? Should it be the
President himself? The Cabinet? The
; NSC? Or should it be the Department of
State, the President's ? fountainhead of
poliq?
I g
! Wa
ally, General Taylor's investi-
ill have to be completed before
gton can learn if there is, in
fact, any 'extensive lack of liaison be-
tween the State Department and the
CIA. But the circumstantial evidence of
L
the Cuban',dahe tends to Indicate that this
'Was a'Mittra example Of the natidn's
left hand. not knowing what its right
hand was doing. Was the CIA at fault?
44,r Ar5
The _?.t.gehaeurtilient? Was it both. Or
was it the President solely? I3oldly, Mr.
Kennedy has taken upon himself the
full responsibility for the fiasco, and in
the final analysis this is the Constitu-
tional responsibility of the President of
the United States. But that action, man-
ful as it was, still does not resolve the .4
thorny questions of who did. what wrong'
? and why. A
The point is, of course, that remedial
action must be taken, and soon, if for7,'
no reason other than the fact that the
United States is so obviously entering a,
period of a much tougher phase in the
cold war. There will be more trouble in
Cuba. The issue of Laos will not be
easily resolved. And Soviet Premier
Khrushchev has determined, as he told
pundit Walter Lippman, to press the Ber-
lin dispute to a showdown stage at an
early date. These bleak, even grim, prosT?
pects dictate the dcision that the Presi-
dent must press hi operating procedures
into a proper wor ing order, and SOM.
To that end, 1e now has General
Taylor at work, a has offered him the
services of his m st trusted confidant,
Attorney Generals Robert Kennedy, to
speed the process. Let us hope that their
inquiry is broad comprehensive and
swift? and that it 411 lead to a? con-
structive reorganization .within the
Executive Department to bolster the na-
? tional security.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/17: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780034-6