A FRIENDLY VIEW OF THE CIA

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CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050075-0
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October 1, 1998
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March 13, 1968
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bt.Uaa.""r`?" "`" FOIAb3b . P11AR393 SanitizdQRVWffved For Release : CIA-RDP7 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 Sanitize- Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000100050075-0