A FRIENDLY VIEW OF THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050075-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: March 13, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE REAL CIA. By Lyman
B. Kirkpatrick, Jr. 312
pages. Macmillan. $6.95.
Intelligence Agency has re-
ceived such a poor play in the
press, but earned suchI a
glamorous mask in television.
and the movies-where spies
and spy-esses have become as
white-hatted as their counter-
parts in Cowtown-that the
public can scarcely be blamed
for having a confused impres-
sion of the nation's foreign-in-
telligence-gathering body. It
is good, therefore, to report
that an informed and temper-
ate account of that organiza-
bon has been published.'
The author's qualifications
could hardly be higher. Mr.
Kirkpat ick, who resigned his
post in the spring of 1965, had
risen to about the second or
third level before resigning to
accept a professorial position
at Brown University. In one
form or another, he had been
in intelligence for over twen-
ty-two years, starting with the
Office of Strategic Services in
World War II.
His three chapters on the
;O.S.S., progenitor of the
C.I.A., make an interesting
story (and include mention of
two well-known Marylanders
-Col., now Lt. Gen. William
W. Quinn, a native of Cris-
field, and Maj. Trafford Klots,
,now an artist resident in Bal-
timore).
After this prelude, the au-
thor devotes the rest of his
book to its stated subject, and
It is surprising how; many
pages of print can be expend.
ed upon an officially unprinta=
ble topic. It Is also pleasant to
announce that the first-person
style is readable.
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
L. B. KIRKPATRICK
r. Kirkpatrick cover-, the
I.A. from its first director,
ble exposes but many, ab-
orbing divtxlgations, ranging
icturo to appraisals of fu- '
re potential.
Bay Of Pigs
For the general reader, the'
ost beckoning chapters will
,-obably be the pair allotted
acknowledged personal com-
plicity in the latter, "the fail-
ures were primarily those of
the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy, because it had been given
the responsibility for the con-
d'.ct of the operation and the
operation was a failure."
Mr. Kirkpatrick is con-
vinced the Director of Central
Intelligence should serve as
the President's "third man,"
after the Secretaries of State
and Defense, but reminds us
that the salary was made
commensurate only in 1964.
He wishes American news-
men would steer more of their
ferreting energies toward the
Soviet K.G.B., "which is
much bigger than, wealthier
than, and more ubiquitous
than all United States Intelli-
gence, agencies combined. The
reason is simple-they can't
find out about it as easily as
they . can = about organizations
In the free world."
Mr. Kirkpatrick has pre-
sented this venture into auto-
biography In order to demon-
strate "why I believe that the
development of the world's
best intelligence service is a
necessary element to help
bring about the ultimate con-
ditions for the eliminaton of
all intelligence services." In
the interval before this uto-
pian moment, the present vol-'
ume should take its place be-
side Allen Dulles's "The Craft
of Intelligence" as an iuthori-
tative commentary on a sig-
CURTIS CARROLL DAVIS.
CPYRGHT
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