THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY BEHIND THE C.I.A. SPOOKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68B00432R000500020010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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up-to-then unknown, and it would all be
published under the impeccable imprima-
tur of The Times, which the world did in-
deed respect. Moscow and Peking and
other capitals would read it as they chose,
take what excerpts they wished, and lam-
bast the C.I.A.-and hence the United
States-with them all over the world, and
blame every blow on The Times.
In short, our project was against the
national interest, or so likely to he as to
rule it out of the question for the agency
to cooperate.
In my best hypocritical Southern man-
ner, I hinted vaguely that we might---one
never knew what would happen, of course
-find it regrettably necessary to proceed
anyway.
I went away empty-handed, but not
unhopeful. It was surely batter for the
C.I.A. to make its own case to us than for
our story to be developed entirely from
unofficial and perhaps hostile sources.
Sure enough, over another luncheon, the
same man handed over, with official sanc-
tion, a packet of nonclassified material-
a pamphlet, for instance, used by the
C.I.A. in, recruiting, and other relatively
light-weight documents. Ultimately they
were useful for a number of what the
bureaucrats here call "nuts and bolts," if
not for any more titillating facts.
Moreover, Finney, Frankel and I found
Wise and Tom Ross, had charged-an "in- partner said, we would inevitably recount ourselves cleared for a high-level briefing
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