PROBE NEEDED FOR SPY AGENCY

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CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780066-1
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RIFPUB
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K
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1
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December 23, 2016
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May 17, 2013
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66
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Publication Date: 
May 1, 1961
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RE AV 1 i M Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/17: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780066-1 Fret Eat C: ,sr Pc?o Pc a Pc!s ? ? ST. PETERSSURG,.FLA. INDEPENDENT E. 33,954 S. - 28,009 MAY 1 Probe Needed For Spy Agency We are fully i accord with the demand from Sexnator t1~ trs4tha a1 Gait.-. C t al >~ne h`gence gency be n t, our e given"'` corinea.~ W-?. and there is no reason we can see to allow D}rectq , W. Dulles, or anybody else, to o,te under full fra+- Senator Smathers avors a legislative or executive committee to supervise our spying operations, and we think he is ex- actly correct in his considered opin- ion.. This agency has been running { high, wide and handsome with plenty of money and little or no } supervision. Certainly someone should know what - ih ?, are doing, how they are operatin? anFd how they are speiidii1g the i '4iii'oi 4- of taxpayer dollars in our spy' agency. Unless this agency is do a lot of fine things,. that nobod mows about to offset the agency Vdost 'unbrilliant actions. in some own areas, the taxpayer is paying for much more than he is getti . This nation is taking some. long chances with a agency. which op- erates without supervision. 'Central Intelligence, which is paid, to keep us out of trouble, might very well be the agency which gets us into trouble. Any agency with. so much power should be responsible to some supervisory committee. Our highly .secret atomic energy operations have proper supervision, We agree with our th6dghtful Senator, too, that this supersecret agency be placed er se,;rt of 1 is a or executive ' super- Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/17: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780066-1