MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 19, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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19 October 1955
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR:
The NEW YORK TINES today renews its supp rt of the Mansfield bill for
STAT a Congressional watchdog committee for CIA. tn editorial, "ControlbItor/
CIA", says Mansfield is trying to achieve "some kind of Congressional con-
trol over CIA." The TIMES wants that.
Congress now has "some kind of control" through its Appropriations and
Armed Services Committees and very particularly through the Russell-Oeorge,
Saltonstall-4Wiley group. The TIMES wants "closer contact with the legislative
authority" because CIA is "virtually beyond the law"--which is not true since
CIA is a creature of Congress. The TINES states that "no one in the legis-
lative branch knows whether it (CIA) is doing a good, bad or indifferent job",
but of course Congress does know from the President within whose executive
authority the CIA functions and it reports to and takes directions from the
NSC. Congress should not invade the executive function here but accept the
Chief Executive's report as to the CIA's effectiveness.
The TIMES states unequivocally that "nobody in Congress knows whether
CIA competes with the work of other agencies, whether it is building up a
bureaucratic empire, whether it wastes money needlessly, gets into operations
where it has no business to function and whether it takes foreign policy
into its own hands." That's the whole and complete case. The TIMES quickly
disclaims that these are charges?they are possibilities; the TIMES is
suspicious. Then, oddly, the TINES admits that CIA has loosely carried on
relations with the Congress but again says that the Congress has little
understanding of CIA's work.
This is Henson Baldwin writing. He was a member of a Task Force for the
first Hoover Commission inquiry into CIA several years ago. He has been
outspoken in his belief that the Agency has too many employees, compared
to Britain and Israel--he never mentions the Soviet strength--and that it
has too many "'clucks" in its employ. He is the Shining Knight in Armor for
the military and reflects anti-CIA feeling from the Pentagon; not only from
0-2, he told me, but from "higher up." It would appear that no time should
be lost by CIA in building up a more correct atmosphere because of the far-
flung influence of the TINES. The Washington POST and TIMES HERALD can be
expected to take the sans position.
A chat by the DCI with Arthur Hays Sulzberger might be fruitful. I
might invite Mt. Stone of the Editorial Research Reports in to meet the
Director and in the course of the conference our position in relation to
the Congress could be emphasized. The ERR covers more newspapers than any
other editorial service. We could let Stone know that there are more than
two sides to this question and the TIMES editorial is certainly contradictory
and misleading. It makes allegations and then says that these are merely
possibilities and may or may not exist.
ISTAT wants to get a group together for an off-the-record
dinner with the DCI. A dinner early in November could be a vehicle for
re-emphasizing the CIA viewpoint.
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Walter Trehan has been very friendly. The CHICAGO MEM did not
use the Trudeau story and so informed ma. Walter told me last week that
he thinks Mr. Allen Dulles is doing pretty good and that Trohan is seeing
more of John roster Dulles and he, too, is doing a good job. ?Guess
getting soft," Welter said. He asked me for luncheon this week. It might
be helpful to bring Walter over to have a chat with the Director. The
TRIBUNE has changed very much since Colonel McCormick's death.
Nov. //5-..c"
Dick /holdall, of ABC, will be coming in TEEPAPWINIRIC to meet the DCI. He
is a strong CIA backer. We can get results from him.
It is regrettable that we do not have a group of people who would write
letters to the editor of the TINES disagreeing with the editorial. Twelve
such letters has a big effect; twenty means a top level staff conference.
Spotted from different parts of the East, they wouldbe effective if done
without delay.
STANLEY J. GROGAN
Enclosure - Editorial
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