WASHINGTON REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090100-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 100
• Publication Date: January 24, 1955
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/29 : CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090100-6
PALM BEACH TIMES
hashington, Report
By FULTON
, The hush-hush Central
Inteill-
gence Agency, long shrouded in
such super-secrecy as to defy all
attempts to investigate It. finally,
is getting a thorough going-over
-with reportedly
:surprising re-
stilts, -
Virtually noth-
;ing has Ieaktd to
:the public as to
,exaetly what the
-investigators are
;finding. However,
they have ex-
panded their
probe well be-
yond 'their origi-
nal scope and now are looking
into the National Security Council,
the top planning agency .of the
federal government, and special
representatives are en route to the
Far East to delve Into CIA opera-
tions there.
Various members of Congress
have contended that CIA is extravz-
agantly wasteful and inefficient
and has on its payrolls an unknown
number of persons of highly du-
bious security status. However,
every motion toward a congres-
,sional investigation has been
smothered before it could -get off
(he ground on the contention that
IA work is too secret an impor-
tant to permit such an inquiry.
The present study is being con-
ducted by a "task force" of the
,HrioVer Commission on Govern-
;' uTent Reorganization, set up lastly and headed by retired Can.
? Mark Clark. Originally it was
scheduled to report, on its findings
dast month, but the time was ex-
tended because of- the unrealized
Magnitude of the task and no re-
port now appears pocsible until
at the earliest.
1 -Fortner President Herbert Hoov-
ler, chairman of the full commis-
sion, said in announcing the task
?force's creation that it woula stutly
tCIA'S 'structure and atiministra-
'Akin." A few dle.s laicr Clark Said
? Primarv a4,11 would he , tO
-theek ,-the operating proCedures"
:but that "the typeof study We are
going to mike shOnid uncover any
glersoni" in CIA 'With enbversive
'tendenties.
President EisenhOwer and CIA
?Direttor .Allen W. Dulles, brother
of the Secretary of State, both
publicly promised full cooperation
;by the entire executive branch ;of
,the government end .by the CIA in
particular.
41Owever, in rnUi-tOtetober,, the
LEWIS, JR.
White House announced that a spe-
cial four-man study group had been f
established by the President to in-
quire Into CIA operations and that
it had just submitted its report---i
which, incidentally, still has not,
been made public.
This group was beaded by 're-'
tired Lt. Gen. James 1.1. Doolittle.
There was widespread belief that:
it had been set up for the spcettie,
purpose of forestalling the invegi-
gation 9* Clark's "task force,"
if the administration had thY,
jective in mind it failed. The C; ?
group has gone right ahead with
its study at if the Poolittle quartet
had never existed.
..The Wht.te.House, disclosing the
Doolittle Project, released what it;
said was a Summary of its report.
In substance, it was that. CIA was!
doing a good' job but that there
were "important areas" in whith
its organization, administration and
operations "could nd should ,be
Improved."
.No elaboration ever has been.
made an these anonymous "impor?-?
tent areas." Rumors are current,
however, that the, criticisms in the
report itself were far More serions.
,and were. given far moreemphasis t.
than. would' be gleaned from 'the
White House "turnmary..4 "
Knowledge that the Clark group
has extended its 'probe to include
the National Security Council came
as somewhat of a surprise to many
oh-servers. However, Inquiries make
Ii clear that CIA. actually is pretty
much a creature of the NSC; that
the NSC -itself does have -a sub-
stantial staff, and that ? CIA and
NSC are so closely intermingled as
to-. be virtually inextricable. Each
NSC meeting; for example, is open-.
Cd with an intelligence summary
by Dulles ?
The investigative tearn.goIng to
the Far East apparently has what",
err:mints ? to garte blanche orders'.-
to probe all facets of CIA- field.
operations in that part - of the ?i
world, including suCh points..asi:
their. efficiency and elleetisiehela4
-and the charaetor of the' personnel
tarrying fhetn?eut. ,
Comparable ' ?teams - either 'have''
.
conducted of are conducting
ler :studies- In other foreign areas-,.
.The ZIA. could ''stand -a ratheri
thorough 'iv oh uling ,In, Many re-
'ipects. if, . appears ? to be the'-
ease the clat1t grout,- it. sincere in
Its effeits td thiv?e..respects"
and' then to :get- s.einething done
about thertf, Yricrrft? roks-tr to them,
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Declassified and and Approved For Release @50-Yr 2013/10/29: CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090100-6