GARRULOUS OFFICIALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130106-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 106
• Publication Date: June 30, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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Wa)ufoGus' t ficials
The tendency of a lot 'llf
people to pop off when they
get before a television micro-
phone apparently also afflicts
officials in highly sensitive
government posts.
Allen Dulles, head of the
central intelligence agency,
appeared recently on a TV
program in which he freely
discussed the relative posi-
tions of the United States and
Russia in respect to the de-
velopment' of intercontinen-
tal missiles.
What seemed strange to
Senators Clinton B. Ander-
son of New Mexico and Hen-
ry M., Jackson of Washing-
ton, and rightly so, is that
Dulles bad declined to discuss
the same subject before the
joint atomic energy commit-
tee because it was too secret
to be talked about in public.
Either Dulles assumed the
program on which he ap-
peared has a zero Hooper rat-
ing or he contracted a case of
arrulity which seems to af-
flict some people upon being
merely exposed to a micro-
hone.
Or, perhaps, he is like a
onner California governor
vho prefaced a radio remark
v saying:
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