A G-2 FOR G-2

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790113-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: May 5, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RbiD67-00318R000100790113-7
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The United States suddenly has in
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gehncies running out orns
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ears, ?
There is the Central ..intelligence
Agency, which collects the rain-
formation and feeds it to the appro-
' priate agencies of government.
There is the board headed by Gen.
Maxwell ,14xigraigappointbd just last
week tcX 'do intelligence on intelli-
gence.
And there is now activated a presi-
dential board to watch over all in-
telligence activities.
This proliferation, except for the
CIA, is directly attributable ,to the
Cuban blunder. Gen. Taylor's mis-
sion is to find out what Wait wrong,
specifically whether fauk intelli-
fence by the CIA prompted the abor-
tive Cuban "in4sion." Hi? group will
be disbanded 4iice the ,queations are
answered.
The presid lal board, however, is
to e rmat Wasicteated by
Pregident Eisenhower, but only now
has come to life?it, too, hastened
by Cuba. Its membership is of a
high caliber, including the chairman,
Dr. Jailaimagspicallian-of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and such
members as Lt. Gen. James H. Doo-
little, former Defense Secretary Rob-
ert A. Lovett and former Governor
of Virginia Colgate W. Darden.
41, pang ago as 1955, the Hoover
Government Reorganization Commit-
tee suggested that Congress exercise
a more direct control over the CIA,
perhaps by creating a joint commit-
tee similar to that which overseas
tomic energy. Others have felt the
1 job could be done by the executive
branch?and this, apparently, is the
course which most appealed to Ei-
L senhower and Kennedy.
One aspect of the Cuban failure t
was its underscoring the singular I
autonomy of the CIA?an agency so
secret that its affairs have been only
superficially screened by Congress. It
is said in awe that the CIA chief,
Allen Dulles, is the one man in Wash-
ington who can write a check for
$1,000,000 without making an account-
ing.
Some other questions may be re-
solved by the reexamination of U.S.
Intelligence activities. For example,
does the CIA .confine itself to col-
lecting information or does it, con-
trary to sound intelligence work, also
exert an influence on forming policy?
The CIA, as its leadership insists,
may not have been responsible for
.0 sending the Cuban exiles into pre-
mature and disastrous battle, but
there obviously was faulty knowl-
edge of the invasion's chances.
If the , cyr,rent reappraisals 411a7
what went wrong and result in all
intelligence agencies being brought
under more purposeful control,,Cialla
may yet prove to have been a useful
if costly? episode.
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790113-7