THE EMBATTLED CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790086-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: May 7, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SPRINGFIELD, MASS. MAY 7 1961
REPUBLICAN
S. 112,664
MAY 7 1%1
rThe Embattled CIA
? Atka Dulles head of the Cen-
tral 'intelligence Agency, has:
testified in secret before the
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee. 'The public consequent-
ly does not know as much as it
mig' 1 in regard to highly cir-.
ttChargir-V47, ? the
reewo,efully in eval-
ua i e e eit'-ofIthe Cuban
?
pe??toward Fidel Castro and
the 't`hafiees oft:migs Atettaitions
16 the-tarred retail invad-
ers. ?? '
C1.1.a.!.....,Etaright, of the
Foreign Relations Committee,
Who heard Mr. Dulles, has de-
cried ankr, ;effort to single ,out.
olitrat and, in a state-
mir. unusual in tone for the
Arkansas senator, who has
often been severe in his own
specifie criticisnis,
ally declared that we, the
AflAtridalf: ? sbx in
The Aejligesiklity. Too much
lime Should .not be lost, it is
true, in .raking over the dead
'ashes of past mistakes.. Yet we
need some realistic pinpointing
of revensibility for those mis-
Ittitea,416 as to avoid their repe-
tIttiptsC,1 ? ,f4' ? , ?
kiitieVe. is no doubt that -there
'will,be ta. widespread feeling of
relief ? if , Mr. "DMi. el.? steps down
as First and
Vitidlift..CI.4.:
!Seen too much
realgti: to silgpectHif, indeed,
the i'' tlirect ? evi-
clegq tfidgvhirit the CIA
hak d;,again and again,
nett% ;in ?Ctiba but in other
ar.V1410peld made tense by
404 -'ef>etween freedom
qteassunted that Allen
tils findings.
v?: e'/ere, to his late
brtr,,j?hnFstr Dulles sec-
re tale.' it 'was primay-1
for the information of ? the I
prepderit- and the secretary oft
state in their condlIct of our fe-,
affairs that the CIA was
ated. When, the President'
-delegllies and entrusts our for-
egtt,stOlicy to his secretary of
Elitgg at largely as Eisenhower
di4440' Secretary Dulles, the lat-
telhAictious .must lie studied
I la.
still:Fiore closely for indications
of the degree to which they were
'affected by information or ad-
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John Foster Dulles wa a d rt _ _
s e -
icated public servant who gal-
lantly suffered great pain in his
last illness yet performed his
official duties as long as his con-
dition made it possible. But he
made what history has since
demonstrated to have been
grave mistakes. How far were
these due to information he re-
ceived from his brother? Whent
he withdrew from Abdel Nasser
our support for the Aswan Dam
on the Nile in a way deliberate-
ly intended to humiliate Nasser
it proved that, by miscalculating i
the temper of the Arab nations,
we had actually done Nasser a I
service and had .helped, ,at
lime when he needed help, tol
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make him a hero in the eye
the Arab peoples.
Another of the numerous
grave mistRIses., made by Secre-
i?titires was his. 'handling iof
?news from withintmist
China. Without regard to ,the
p&Fite recognition of Commu-
Inist China and admission to the ,
'1.Triited Nations, it has not beta i
Ii
,to our advantage that we have
had to depend oh British or
other newsmen than our own
ifor reports as ?to what has-,-ac-
'Wally been' happening within
I the borders of Communist China
v?ith special regard to such mat-
ters a* the apparent failure of
collectivist farming and threats
!of starvation.
Yet on one day Secretary
Dulles professed to believe that
our Trading With the Enemy
Act, since we are still nominal-
ly at war with Communist
China, prevented the granting of
.visas to American correspond-
ents and on the, next. day was
apparently ready to grant visas
.,to a selected group of American
,correspondents but was unwill-
ing to admit Chinose correspond-
ent s within our own borders
?when ;that wa, demanded as a
reciprocal ext?hange. The Chi-
nese correspondents, t: admit-
ted, would have !teen known
,and, so to speak, tagged. Their
'comings and going.:?,. however
free, could easily have been
Owed. They might Nee learned
;something of the successful ,op-
eration of free enterprise and.
icarried it back to China, to-our'
advantage. But again the ques-
tion arises whether all this was
made impossible by the infor-
mation or advice, given to Secre-
tary Dulles by his brother.
Tkjeast that _c?firt be said is
that public -confidence in the
CIA hs b?eeri gravely impaired.
It h? been brought Out that the
CIA. established in 1947 for a
wise and legitimate purpose in
combatting communism, is so
secret, as perhaps it should be,
that its budget and thee size of
its staff are known onli? to a
Lew members of Congrew and
that ,its headquarters 'stiff is
scattered throughout Washing-
ton in 30 or more buildings but
:will eventually move into a ma\
'building, on the Virginia side of
I
ithe F!'ominac,? almost as large as
the Defense Department's fa-
mous Pentagon, still'''referred to __ - -
as the biggest office building inijIdared to make of tawernment
the world. ,
, ' operations in the past, hut there
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1 Whatever may, have been ;the s hope of restored confidence in;
failin??gs or the virtues of All?,n 'the:t.. now tha, President Ken-,
Dult Di
es as 'head, of the CIA it is ;nedy has named . James R. ?
a fact that there; are very able 'Killian, chairman of the Cor-
men in the ttitt#11141- ' ration of the ?Niassachusettsi
1111,14. I How they have been iden- stitute.of Technology, to head I,
itified as members of the
thcpgypatunt bqard, :that will:
and have turnished confidential t atvise the President as to our
but extremely valuable back-- foreign intelligence activities.
ground information is a master It is to be, noted that this is a
for newspapers who have. had permanent 'body, distinct froM,
- the advantage of contacti with the temporary group headed by
them to reserve in ace ordance Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, ap-d,
with the best traditiorus!', of the pointed by President Kennedy',
press. There is not c?nly hope in for the special investigatic,n of I
such men and the 'confidentia, intelligence activities connected I
criticisms which they ha \ a with the Cuban landirm
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