NEW WOES FOR AN OLD WHIPPING BOY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100060036-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: February 23, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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objective.. Nor do they bear the USIA label-since th,~c,-a
Marks put it delicately, would reduce their value in th
eyes of foreign readers.
They might also deceive the unwary at honk:. Whi]
.this is not a pleasant thought, it hardly justifies some o
money to the National Student
Association to send members to'
international student meetings. .
The presence of the Ameri
cans, so went CIA's reasolAhl.i ,
would keep the Commies f'ranm
turning said meetings into arx -
ist echo chambers.
On the word of Allen Dulles,
former CIA head, they did just,
that, He points out that Moscow
hasn't tried to rig up one of its
tame student hoedowns since 1962..
Moreover, t h e students.
weren't asked to do any cloak and
oak fir CIA. Few, .in fact, knew that the money.
.. to her tl avc , came from that sinister center of intrigue:
As far a:, anyone can determine, the same can be said
others who took CIA money under the counter. The list.;
long ad among the better known organizations. was the
::.a...ca... Newspaper Guild.
According to ANG, officers, no one in the union knew:,
the CIA was playing sugar daddy to
its international activities. So ap-
y CJ .: c rltjCS parently the money came with no?
strings attached.
Not b;r 4.:e decibel did such considerations lower the:
din created by liberals and assorted CIA-haters. To the'.
long list of 1, :' gs they hold against the agency was added';
,r pin. American students-and others-
w sy or th.,., nation abroad. Seems that for 15.
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e c f ei is community, many of whom enjoy free-time
on the cuff from some government agency.
About all 'aat was accomplished in the end was to give
and others a black eye and drag the CIA once more
into the spot light-the last place a spy outfit should be.
Which brings to mind the recent difficulties` of tho'.
...
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cy
LOOD BROTHER OF SIRE CIA
-as another dabbler in the political black arts. USIA'a
job-bluntly-is propaganda abroad. Remember, that
word abroad.
Several months ago USIA Director Leonard Marks..;.:
`?-raised hackles in Congress by admitting that some of his
a. 'ez:cy's s;,!;; ;,Ily prepared and bottled, material found its1:.
way to f ; :.ome
market.- went something like this., USIA buys a lot of bookso,.
')resent American views in other lands. When it can't:
:,uud a book on a particular subject-with the right slant--":,
At sometimes has one written;
A ors aY Once published, USIA buys n?
~~ aahs in U.,S.-,part of the output for its li-
braries overseas. But the pub
lisher, Marks said, is free to sell copies in the U. S. if he
wishei.
1. c:o more frantic cries of government thought manipulatio
that followed Marls' admissions.
More likely you can put down the occasional clumsines
and indiscretion of the CIA and USIA to lack of finesse in
A FIELD NEW TO AMERICANS
--an I one. which the American. public only reluctantly
i4\.CC'.j)li.
Perhaps what we need is a school where our ropa-
gr,ndists not only could learn to do their job effectively mt
could also be instructed in how to do it adroitly--and out
of the public eye.
The public could use some educating, too. Espionage
and propaganda are tools of statecraft as old as man. It
may pain us to use them, but.we cannot afford to'do with-
outi'Lienl.
Right in the laws that created our spy and. propaganda
.n encies are ample safeguards to see that they do not step
out of line-or to kick them.lbck in line if they do.
? Their activities will not be made, any safer-or more
effective-by periodic wrangling that puts them on
ublic
p
exhibition.
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