WHO MISLED THE PEOPLE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130089-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 89
• Publication Date: July 6, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHWho.Misled the People?
Men Geaeral ?than _F.. Twining, air force chief
of staff. returned ,from Moscow on July 4 he - indicated
that his vjevvs of Soviet air power had not changed--
in sum-thit tba-Soviet Union has more military air.
craft than the United States and is catching up fast
on quality. ,.
It-is Ilitportant to remem-
ber that he made that state-
ment not only but zany
times befort lie Ent to the
Soviet Union. He repeated it
when he returned and before
he reported to President Eisen-
hower and his 'superiors, in-
cluding Defense Secretary Wil-
Secretary Wilwp has been
given the mot . r !the means
of speeding tip production of
the B-52 intercontinental bomb-
era, of which the United States has only ONE opera-
tional wing. 'The net of our intercontinental bombers
are B-36's, designed 10 years ago. If 16 years Is av-
erage for.. btu . aut=obile it is ancient for a military
aircraft. P .. ,
it
Wilson now defies the expressed will
of and stirs the additional $900 million ap-
proptidt~d or,B-5 i Into the'.air force over-all budget
without pri, Ming the extra-TI-52's demanded by J on-
gr 1 .'or it v4we4imates by his military chiefs of
m1U ulre is srp at fault, either Wilson or
h* y( t9` chief, ve grossly deceived the American
K e? t z a
The facts should be lather plain by this time. }
W&M underestimated ? thel situation despite accurate
teI nee., repot on RLfan progress which were Now GdsSeral T~+in# . is bad Moscow.
President
the
'to hint 111953. 'That's the key year. It was 4'0m Geavzbj ME -ad (r?. apparent `SA'om tine record that Admiral Rad- was htut3~d to 1x~rta'd to
We, c kai'man of the Joint chiefs of staff, tried to save on what he saw. But he had already reaffirmed the views
'"d*or/ hed1h s it stirAt probing of Senators Syming- that he`liield before he Went to Moscow T e Soviet
,n r,; J pleading that the matter couldn't air force is htuneiicai '&x W. and getting better, all
open ,.Mason. What is so secret? Is It the time, than ~n U. Sr''all' force:
fcntls S llso is blundering? General Twining and his opposite numbers in the
other s vtc aW` s m bt nl tes have testified under
The facts n Inn be nailed down. Allen Vl . Dulles,
math, ,y Wilson and his subordinate secre-
rvd of Central l lnteitigence- Agency, should not have .
a take the rap fcu' ladlty intelligence. He provided all t&iIA ed under oafh? One set of witnesses
he facts that Wilson needed as far back as 1933. The fiaO 'tPatri the other. One or the other set of
telligence reports of the buildup of . Russian air witnesses `hasn't been truthful. On the bails of what
trength were` ignored by the Defense Secretary. ' One .both sets of witnesses knoyv the truth to be, one group
ust assume that the President also Ignored the intelli- or thq,other has deliberately deceived and exposed the
once reports in order to persuade the people that "more American pe;ple to danger. And it is becoming more
efense" 'coula be provided "for less money." and nlore,apparer}t that It isn't the professional airmen.
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