TOUGH PROBLEMS FOR THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790099-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 99
• Publication Date: May 6, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: alA7libP67-00318R000100790099-4
NEUPORT NOS, VA.
MIES?HERALD
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... FAY aabi
[Tough Problems For The CIA
The tide has turned. For so long labeled there is still a powerful movement under
"top secret," our nation's intelligence .ac- way. in Congress for the formation of .a
tivities have,4 in the wake of the Cuban "watchdog" joint committee?this is the
invasion fiasco, become the speciar.target
of presidential and congressional attelitio
In addition to the new self-exarjpi
which -these agencies miry b
have undertaken, are
ward additional ()nisi
Civilian Intelligenc
kindred groups tha
being, launched:
(1) The Senate F
mittee has, launched
of the U. S. part fn.'
uprising, with particuIar
given to the CIA.
(2) President Ken
four-man group to make'
vey into our intelligeti
other secret aspects of tilitatiorta ditpase studying that is now,. under way or about
effort. Key figu're in this, study is general to begin- can 15e carried forward Without
Maxwell D. Taylor; fornier chief of staff 4 hamstringing the CIA and other intelligence
of the Army, who will function as a one- programs.
man "task force" on 'a full time basis while At least it can be said .that there has
the other three givethirii aid. and 'advice. been remarkably little pressure for dissolu-
tion of the intelligence effort; if anything,
the Cuban fiasco seems to have heightened
public awareness as to the need for such
a. many-faceted program. The basic prob-
He has named seven highly regarded civil- lem is the same one that.this natioh, as a
ians and ex-military men to serve on this, democracy, has always faced in carrying
body, which was formed in 1956 but had out any security measures that require
. since become inactive; it has now been
sarhe proposal that has failed to gain head-
way in the past though brought up regu-
larly 4uring the relatively brief history of
?
- , to all these the select congressional
the sUbcointhittees that serve as liaison groups
the i . between the CIA and the legislators, and
re it Would seerk,that our cloak and dagger
are o g to liae to spend more
, time :nolA., a
.triefings thai
an duties. ? ?
uig'-Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.),
pinpointed the issue aptly when he said the
a. CIA needs "more scrutinizing and less
publicizing." The question now is whether
gk'and all this investigating and surveying and
ring questions and giving
carrying out their assigned
This survey should quire two months.
(3) The President hii revivified the per-
manent advisory board charged with keep-
ing tabs on U. S. intellige,nce activities.
raised to what is known in the terminology
. of the new Administration as. a "super-
agency."
(4) Despite all this investigative activity,
L--
secrecy?how to reconcile the right of the
people to know about and to control the
operations of government, with the obliga-
tion of that government to protect its
people from aggression and subversion.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790099-4