PROBE NEEDED FOR SPY AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780066-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: May 1, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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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
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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