CIA TRUTH VS. FICTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100110028-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: August 6, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT
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CPYRGHT
CIA Truth Vs. Ficfion
-' Cribiog o the United a es Central me i The CIA has five assigned functions: Advis.'
once Agency would have us believe that the. fng the Presidant and the National Security
IA is a dldak-and-dagger outfit operating vi-r, .,_Council on intelligence matters relating to.na.
ually on its own, even making foreign Polley., ? tional secur;'ty,' coordinating all foreign ' intel~,
This fiction enables CIA critics to arrive at ligence activities of our government, producing;
the conclusion that the CIA-:must be curbed, and disseminating finished national intelligence:
that Senator J. W. Fuibright and his fellow within the government, and performing such
doves must be given custody of the CIA "bully other services as the National Security Council
boys,".and virtue thus returned to our foreign `may direct..
policy. Senator Fuibright In attempting to gain',
As a matter of fact, the real CIA bears no partial supervision of the CIA for his Foreign
[,,n blance to the Fulbrightian version of the Relations Committee (fortunately rejected by
Its covert activities abroad are greatly,.. an overwhelming Senate vote) Indicated he . ,
ayi, comprising only a minute fraction' i wanted to probe Its activities. We have not
work ,which is, by, and large, mostly rou: seen or heard Information that would justify
ompilation and ? research. parading the inner workings of the CIA before.'
*'. * * the world.
. Wi'lliam,F. Raborn, who preceded the As Raborn pointed.' out, when the enemy
IA Director Richard Helms, . makeq it.: learns that our government has obtained cer-"
]ear in an interview, in U. S. News & World tain information, it Immediately goes after'
that.the CIA' doesn't make foreign policy''. the source, which often Is a CIA agent. Leak-
ways functions with the. knowledge of the ing of information could thus endanger the
ent, tha State Departmentits., the Defense, lives of CIA agents Ia hazardous overseas
tment and other policy-making agencies...- posts,
so enswers too appropriate comthittees Instead of 'constantly knr oldng the. CIA; ??the'
ss as to its'rr~bthods and operations. Its!; Senate doves .should be:?glad :they have, suchday operations are under the direct c
n of the National Security Council, ifs t line defense i e. I. t l' r
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