'SPY' SPECIAL SLATED ON NBC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300020065-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: May 1, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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TV OUTLOOK
'any' Speck'!
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Director,ot mans.
Chancellor, narrator 'of the
report, '.will 'interview Allen
Dulles, former CIA head, and.
Richard Bissell, former CIA
In Washington, John
Mr. Yates has filmed It will also be concerned with
interviews with es p i o n a g e the question of :: whether spies
agents active in Washington, are too much latitude's
Hong Kong, Formosa, Okinawa, granted
Japan and Central America. wit4out proper government.
i supervision
current activity, in Northern apparently independent, of the
Laos. State Department..
are to survive in a brutally it raises the frequently asked
competitive world," according question: If, to survive and
to Ted Yates, who is producing remain free, we must adopt"!
the report. many of the ruthless tactics of
Films and interviews will our enemies, are we ultimately,;
recall some of the past the victors or the vanquished?
operations of the- Central The special will also' weigh'l
Intelligence Agency. Included the charges that the CIA,
will be the toppling of because of its escalating powers'
Guatemala's leftist Arbenz and the secrecy of its:1
regime in 1954; the Bay of Pigs
I invasion in 1961; and they operations, has been carrying
on a second foreign policy,
Describing the functions and
powers of the CIA, Yates says,
"it is housed in one of the
biggest buildings in Washington,
employs 1187 people, is at once
the most , important, the most.
controversial and the most
misunderstood . agency in the
capital. Its job is no longer
restricted' to gathering
information, but has burgeoned
NBC News special report on the
:clandestine and highly
technogolical practice of
espionage carried on by the U.S.
and other world powers, will be
presented Tuesday night at 10.
The program will examine the
"covert operations that nations.,
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into the tast of influencing,l
events abroad to make . them
consonant with. our own foreign.
policy."
The program will examine the I
ethics of spying, particularly 1
Minn.), severe critic of _CIA'I
will be interviewed.