MATTER OF CONSISTENCY SHOULD BE NOTED BY CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130111-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 111
• Publication Date: June 28, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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Matter Of Consistency
Should Be Noted By CIA
The televised remarks the other day
Allen W, Dulles, head of the controversial
Central Intelligence Agency, may be taken
almost in strid normal for the often be-
wildering. going -oh In Washington.
Mr. Dulles didn't' say anything impor-
tants he ri ei'ely revealed that insofar as
his CIA had learned Soviet Russia has
made much :progress in development of
inter-contipental ballistic missiles, but is
not ,yet. ahead of the U. S.
Minor,.pb~Titician's utter far more sweep-
itng remarks-,, da}i '- ,- n 'pure ork,
guesses
without making- Mine.'
Some citizens may wonder, however, at
the propriety of-this,Dulles voicing public-
iv the findings of b top-secret agency,
ot- iriounting a rostr~u o say anything o1~
such nature; hove' uely.
[The CIA clings its repute of being,'
such a husl~;-l;;ush 11cy, dealing only 'ivitl1
the president anti tmpst,'military brass
what it can get and spend big appropria
lions without accou "fting
Recent Congres 'l efforts to check on
its efficacy 'dr nel' l methods, maybe
even set,lp serene supervision for it, creak.-
e a '$t1_ and vy shelved:
osu . er,opinion that ever
other gd*brrt nt a% ney, especially the
military services, have their own efficiett
intelligence functions and staffs and do
not depend on ,t#
Evens so, if really sacnpsant
and tripo-to W. Dulles m ,yr
possibly step ter by joining
If he is as given"# .? as is hi,;
brother, he might sotim' reveal some-
thing really important Teamed by ll.ig cloak
a.nrt-ria,gger sleuths aboard, then s~ng 0111,
"misquoted."
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