CIA IMPACT ON FOREIGN POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010068-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2014
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: May 1, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/28: CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010068-3 STAT
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ForeetrE,
By ]Iarqni Childi.
THIS IS an ,annivemary most of us
would llitc to forget. It was just two
years ego that President Elsen'howegi
returned from Parts after being sub, -
jectod by Premier,I:lirtinchev to the
violent end humiliating attach. �that
blew up the lon-awabled summit met-
That was the afie-;:,!_lath of :the Shoot-
ing dou'n o thc(r111-21e..7ple.7age plane �
13ao miles insiel..fif!, Union. of phologIvnir eeze sovie, Unieff
Th. a:II-war of the CIA
sueccc riict naar be kezrt
secret fa httC their friitt?cr CTC.: ever-
tired th t'le world. B. C CI-is'
cannot be I-mown, Furcir itd. car
be learned from the dif,tr,ter-,7. A hoz.
just Iptfhlislie6, "The h7;t1.,
David Wi7e and Ti'. 0,Pic
throurdi reereey and the wrap-
pings el no ocieti ecrup to shay
how little the Pr.,snident or aasme else
in bin azthf�:7d`tyctaflIr cantrdlled the
operatim endho.r.7 617,1:f.aous were the 1
consequences grayri7-7 olit of the
Mingled way in the affnIP -wrs
bandied MCC': the girae t -71
The CIA's answer i.(; 1itmocalc
Ars1 the disaster fo the'.111-2,1Hwith the. pi the ycninn
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capture of the pilot; k77-__Acis Gar:.- the
Powers, FM, t/1 motion a chain of con- rElte far the�firni trt.1.7:c`.;:2,11- But cuy
sequences only dimly understood la effect tilLs tlerztk.tri inc' lve hp..4 cra
the -two year:: thzt have .pas.,...ed. roller in Imtictentr,,,bie. c-,;.c110,7,7 ,
Ever cince World War II a Mvstc: ray timt plicy.,771,%ot.3
roita elentent called "iniciEt.,-ence the top hal /ost teeeant-..-olt of, 1
has fired in American poICC�c deaf- the vropIrtu Ely no
sions. A hurc Intelligence apparatus has functionsries del'errain "funt ! ,
come into being. 'Mile part of this clic nito7ell wmv eht..7.7,,,,,;
tPP12riAlm clzPcr:c1 t1� Public vicw' the folloWing cohers-ZTreltrion:
as in the big heedquartei-s that tho
Central Intelligence Agency has built
on the Potomac flyer near Washinson.
the myFterious reports of the CIA end
military intelligence are always shroud.
ed in secrecy.
Despite -efforts to cut It hoot and
ceorditice it on the inilitay
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"THERE IS NO. entr5ter;fat!-�,..1_,11,714- :
donee e asy loon of eeaaci to
scuttle the sum-ni, t. 7314 It i;7. ,cle.au.1'11cz:irt
manyImr/o74,=art persofr, the triccl,li-
gen1.0 field were more ,cont4era.,:d �
the U-2 as volizable.� br-,.-�mme7(,,
Is a stron-e suspiciern that the � espie!large tli-en with fla
gone� tail has more often than not OI t.he SUIMS1111," '
wagged the policy dog. A loot had:. � The CIA hrs IdratrAly c�
ward at intelligence evalunti.on or .raire ftom Vialtiti-,71ton to Cm t-Loc
Which presumably major decisions have tlidfn Ilitre5e-.3 c.
been based r.-e.= suly.dential doubt ,e. cliff en. the P0'...oit-rt.-4.%
to whether this ovealencing inSluence P7--%1:rzr, rc,' hewed C'i�-ct1'c 71 '111'1
Is wise.
U. � narret. But it can tt r#r (Titst
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� :. ;building ilas one malign s= ia7r, .(.,._..,\,, '
,... ; ',,,''',.�
. THE l..SATIGIN of err.or. cecina 1 flartLi7',.-1,,,,c':', rInt-tT:311111'1t11.171`7
always to have ;leen on tht ortii-niqk- ��� 0 w"-,0-L "C 817'.'- Of he 1-PZ7t01