SNIFFING AROUND U.S. SPY NETWORK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100010052-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: March 26, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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Agency, was leveled in a message 48 feet long. he
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alding an article by Berkeley professor Peter Dal
Scott about CIA involvement in heroin traffic i
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
Although Scott. does not "prove" his charges cot
elusively, his research is impressive and the bulk circumstantial evidence as, well as peculiar coil
cadence would certainly lead me, if I were a congres,
than, to ask just what the CIA is up to running Ai
America, the largest airline in Southeast Asia, an
being inconspicuously conspicuous around the opi
tans triangle. EARTI4's editor, Jim Goode. says, "Al
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beyond the reach of the law it becomes a crimina
agency." ' a waste Of time Ein([ money, says Farago. "When I
worked in naval intelligence in 1955-37, the infor-
Goode sounds shrill and unrealistic Until you resat ation published in the New York Times was super-
weird scenes like the Bay of Pigs and read a few or to what was coming through our office. The
more facts. The CIA employs 18,000 people "direct {orean invasion of June't announced to
ly," only we don't know exactly what 6.000 of then , 1950, wasn't
because they're involved in Clandestine Services resident Truman by our vast spy network; it came
The $6 billion annual budget of this organization is ver'the Associated Press wire. And, of coui;se, the
spent in ways mainly unknown by the American IA's 'secret' Bay of Pigs was one long farce. Eisen
taxpayer . . . unknown, for that matter, by chair over turned down the idea in September, 1960, but
man of the Senate Appropriations Cornmitice Allan
Ellender who says, "It never dawned on me to ast; lien Dulles (then CIA head) and Richard Bissell
about it." then chief of staff) sold it to Kennedy. It was so
My curiosity piqued, I calked to the foretn: ~,t civi- Icverly planned that virtually every major news
Tian expert on secret intelligence operations. I.adic_ , ource from the New York Times to the Nation knew
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