ROLE OF SECRET 'SPECIAL GROUP C.I.'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000300670001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 6, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Role of .Secret .`Special Group Cd.
Washington ? One of the , , .1 forces operating in Soutlii
most controversial subjects in
EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELT
' By . ' American, Asian and African)
countries.
,.. ? official circles- nowadays is '
___._ ...._ _. This correspondent asked ,
? that of '.'counterinsurgency." - . ?
-de-iiiial Robert, F. Kennedy, ; Mr. Engle to cite his agency's I
: 'Much is heard for and against
it behind the Deputy Secretary of Defense . "successes." He pointed out.:
'scenes. The
program ? in.
volves the en-
. ... tire scope of
? actions?mill-
: -? tary, police,
'. economic and
?psychological
'?taken to aid
: existing gov-
ernments L,..,...., that the police are shown how,,1
? ations by an organized oppo-
Carl Rowan, head of the U. S. :
against oper- Miss Roosevelt sentative of the President; and I
o. nip potential riots and dis-:i
sition. I
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Information Service. \t '
rbances in the bud. An NBC. . si
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Obviously, when the Free i br
.A number of these d' .d.,` - ? - -
i oadcast by Ed Arno fron'0
? World is confronted by a Corn- uals are not especially known, Bolivia, after student rim; !.
n ivi
munist enemy using every type
for their anti-Communist ef- . pages in May and June, Would
,
' of action from a hand grenade forts. appear to confirm the role of ,
: tossed by a guerilla to hand-
. Seen from the vantage point the police in keeping order'
bills distributed by trained agi- of officials more immediately } ,the
bloodshed. .i
involved in the program in ?
Some Sore' Points ..:1
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tators, appropriate counterac-
Washington, the list sounds I So t
0 tions are needed at this lower ?
spectrum of violence. The point' convincing.. One of the newer I
of departure lies, however, in
programs is the Interdational I However, the training of po-
the matter of Which foreign''
'
Police Academy here in the. lice under Marxist Sukarno, of
political groups and which
District which graduated its 1 Indonesia, is a sore point with ?
.
governments are to be
first class in the senior course I some members of Congress...
:ported under such a countei
; sup-
on Feb. 28, 1964. I Furthermore, United Arab Re-:
I
,,'?
I pub)ic officers, also trained at' ! ; ,
1 insurgency program. Though
the counterinsurgency pro
Mission of Academy '
i the Academy, would presum-;
ts.i
gram is submerged under lay- The purpose of thelacad _ernY, ! ably be able to cooperate more:
? efficiently in suppressing any .
I ers of documents stamped "se,-. dramatically depicted ?
. cret" this correspondent has fine trainingfilm, ' In an I revolt against "neutralist" ?
is to train ? Nasser.'
I discovered some clues to its at a central location police in ..
,
The disturbing question of .
i operations. . less developed countries in the direction of the counter-'
1
? ways to cope with riot and sub- insurgency program ' would '
' Chaired by Harriman ' version. The program operates I i
.. a so apply to the "civic action"
i? Responsibility for counter- under the Office of Public Safe- ' program operated by the Pen-
! insurgency doctrine and ac- bt, AID, in the State Depart: tagon. The term "civic action"
?? tions at the White House level ment. Byron Engle, police ad-
,
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1 rests with the Special Group ministrator in Japan (1946-1 emphasizes a wide range of.;
projects using indigenous mill-'
. chaired by Averell Harriman. gram. His agency's staff of!, .
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CI. (for counterinsurgency) 1950), is director of the pro- I staryfnrces, often aided by U.
te,aip.d..tpplie:51,.tolhell:I) . The other members of the CI. 300 people supply training, ad-.!...?civailinvni
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Cyrus Vance; General Earle G. I that the Office of Pubic Safe.;
Wheeler, chairman of the Joint . tY had helped the Venezuelan.;
Chiefs of Staff; John A. mc, ' police plan a unified commu!???
Cone, director of the Central Inications system so as to cope). . . .
Intelligence Agency; McGeorge 'with the campaign of organ- i
Bundy, sP-Mal assistant to the ,;ized ?terrorism waged by thel
President, National pecurity !Communists. Certainly, no one]
Affairs; David E. Bell, head of .; can deny :that in the ? recenV ?
the Agency for International./ elections, power passed in an/ '
Development (AID); Michael orderly fashion into the hands't
V. Forrestal personal repre- I of Raul Leoni. The theory
l? ?
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