EXTRACT FROM "ANATOMY OF ANTI-COMMUNISM" (HILL AND WANG, NEW YORK 1969) - A REPORT PREPARED FOR THE PEACE EDUCATION DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100750003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2014
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: MISC

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 20
CIA-RDP73-00475R000100750003-2
14/06/04:
Extract from "Anatomy of Anti-Communism" (Hill and Wang,
New York 1969) d A Report Prepared for the Peace Education
Division of the American Friends Service Committee
Members a the Working Party:
James E. Bristol
Holland Hunter
James H. Laird
Sidney Lens
Milton Mayer
Robert E. Reuman
Athan Theoharis
Bryant Wedge
"The commitment to the machinery of war has created
a far-flung intelligence-gathering organization, the Central
Intelligence Agency. Originally limited to securing information
on foreign subversive and military activities, this agency has
spiralled in influence and function. No longer simply an intelli-
gence agency, the CIA has exercised a policy-making function.
Removed from public control, surveillance, and knowledge, its
actions have proliferated; it is reputed to have between fifteen
thousand and forty thousand employees and to spend between
$400 million and $700 million a year. It has subsidized or di-
rected revolutions, provoked labor strikes abroad, and com-
promised the independence of American professional and private
organizations. Committed to the continuance of the Cold War,
this agency has colored the intelligence it has passed on, thus
restricting the Administration's options and alternative approaches
to international problems. The CIA justified its subsidization
of the National Student Association and other private organizationa
on the grounds that Congress never would have funded these
programs knowingly. This explanation sounds harmless enough,
but the CIA used the NSA as a means of recruiting agents, and
it warned students not to take anti-Vietnam positions publicly.
Through its secrecy and stealth the CIA has partially subverted
the democratic process."
; Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/06/04:
CIA-RDP73-00475R000100750003-2