CLEARING UP CIA'S ROLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790034-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: May 12, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

61 Declassified and A proved For Release 2013/05/29 : CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790034-5
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? MAY 12 igeol
r! CLEARING. UP CIA'S ROL
An unnamed :top Central Inte
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I gence Ag.encz; caLc.141 --6:537-a group
! of ae..wspape,,r,editors at a Washington ,
briefing: that .1404?,..cpaggrja,:? &ported i
' on the, Castro yeA.4. ' military power
i
and its. cont rr01.ov - "f?he Cuban popu-
lace:Ipefore- theall;Hateg invasion. This I
ties in with the stateMent' of one of ?
our columnists triat 'CIA is taking the
position "more or ler. openly"' that '
the estimates it furnished President
Kennedy .on the-,4ituation in Cuba
?'were accurate, It is a defensive . move
on the agency's, part. -
President Ken-nay, of course, ..has
taken full reopoitsibllity foc any part i
' the United ,Stato..- played in the inva-
sion failure. But CIA is 'tvidelyblamed
in a controversfth-grtrelywiaTO-con-.
tir . at. imro[yes a criticar area
pf national ?security. CIA is a princi-
pal in the Administration, study now
being made of intelligence and guer-
rilla war tatics, It is the target of pro-
posed far-reach ihg inquiries. Certainly
it role:needs clearing up. More is in, '
Ivolvdd.,. than. whether it passed along
correct information, for the agency is
also creciit0 with Sponsorship of the ?
. , ?,? ? ,
cub4.'n invasion. ' ? .
The in4elggeuce4eryice of any gov-
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ernment loses its value .f. it, loses its
Secrecy: That is all the 'fnore reason,
it seems to us,. why a strong ?policy
control should be exercised over. such
a service to insure that it is kept care-
fully in check and skillfully direded.?
Our Government has come late tg.a.
so-called "cloak. and (twee service
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p#04ellaV..e.:_ignorett .titra.:11abn- -- - 1
al eAtITtisiasrti? for the :glamorous. and
grandiose, some of the lessons they i
Ion a o learned. . ?
There are indications th-at we havel
permitted CIA to grow in the dark
i with the same exuberance shown by I
other federal agencies operating in
the open. It seems to have become
;almost' a: separate branch of govern-
ment which, under abroad mandate,
'could, 'easily lap over into areas from i
;which it ?might well be excluded.
Militar 0 erations, apart from sup-
p1yT4g in orniatiOn, should be but of +
+CIA' S Yon-lain. They-ire 'aria-her:kind
ofTpteialty. And if this line has n,
'been ? clearly drawn in the past, it
'should-be in the. future.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29 : CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790034-5