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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130116-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 116
• Publication Date: May 25, 1956
• Content Type: OPEN

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE JUN 25 1956
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ER+RN FIF-SBY THOAS J. FOLEY
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WASHINGTON, JUNE 25--(INS)--SEN. HENRY R. JACKSON (D.) WASH.,
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY CHIEF ALLEN W. DULLES TODAY OF PLAYING
POLITICS IN CLAIMING THE U.S. IS AHEAD OF RUSSIA IN THE DEVELOPTSFNT OF
OCEAN-SPANNING MISSILES.
SEN. STUART SYMINGTON (D) MO., SAID DULLES, STATEMENT, MADE ON
TELEVISION PROGRAM CONDUCTED BY REP. HAROLD OSTERTAG (R) N.Y., WAS
OT CORRECT IN VIEW OF WHAT THE CIA CHIEF TOLD SYMINGTON'S
SUBCOMMITTEE STUDYING THE ADEQUACY OF U. S. AIR POWER.
JACKSON'S CHARGE CAME DURING A PARTISAN WRANGLE AMONG SUBCOMMITTEE
MEMBERS OVER WHETHER THE U.S. IS AHEAD OR BEHIND RUSSIA IN DEVELOPING
MILITARY WEAPONS.
SEN. JAMES DUFF (R) PA., SAID HE WAS "GETTING SICK OF LISTENING
TO THIS BUSINESS" OF RUSSIA'S ALLEGED SUPERIORITY. HE SAID THE
SUBCOMMITTEE HAS HEARD SCIENTISTS TELL "PERFECTLY FABULOUS THINGS"
IN CLOSED SESSION ABOUT WHAT THE U.S. IS DOING.
"THE AMERICAN PEOPLE," DUFF SAID, "ARE NOT GETTING THE REAL
PICTURE IN PROPER PERSPECTIVE."
HOWEVER, SYMINGTON SAID THAT THE TESTIMONY OF THE NATION'S
MILITARY CHIEFS CONCERNING AMERICA'S ARMED MIGHT "IS A GREAT DEAL
HORSE THAN I THOUGHT IT WAS WHEN THESE HEARINGS STARTED."
DUFF SHOT BACK: "I THOROUGHLY DISAGREE WITH YOU."
JACKSON SAID DULLES, STATEMENT "SHOCKED ME NO END." HE SAID HE
OBJECTED NOT ONLY TO WHAT DULLES SAID ABOUT THE INTERCONTI-
ENTAL BALLISTICS MISSILE BUT ALSO TO THE FACT THAT THE INTELLIGENCE
CHIEF'HAD ESTABLISHED A PRECEDENT BY DISCUSSING SUCH HIGHLY CONFIDENTAL
INFORMATION -- AND IN AN ELECTION YEAR."
SEN. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL (R) MASS., SAID HE BELIEVES DULLES HAS
ALWAYS TRIED TO KEEP POLITICS OUT OF THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
JACKSON REPLIED: "ONE WAY TO CORRECT THE SITUATION WOULD BE FOR
DULLES TO TELL THE WHOLE STORY RIGHT HERE."
HE SAID HE WAS DISAPPOINTED IN DULLES, APPEARANCE ON THE OSTERTAG
PROGRAM " BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE TO SEE POLITICS IN THE CIA."
JACKSON PUT THE ENTIRE DULLES-OSTERTAG INTERVIEW IN THE SUBCOMMITTEE
RECORD. IN THE INTERVIEW, DULLES WAS QUOTED AS SAYING "OVERALL IN THE
ATOMIC FIELD, I FEEL QUITE SURE THEY (THE RUSSIANS) ARE NOT AHEAD OF
HE WAS THEN ASKED BY OSTERTAG WHETHER RUSSIA WAS AHEAD OR BEHIND THE
U. S. IN DEVELOPING THE INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE. DULLES
EPLIED: "I DON'T WANT TC MAKE A COMPARISON, BUT I HAVE NO EVIDENCE
THEY ARE AHEAD OF US."
JM150PED
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