CIA SCUTTLED, SAYS EX-OFFICIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100170018-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: February 27, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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U. S. Immaturity Charged
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Mr. Amory, a former CIA the program,- Eugene Groves, conservative - groups were., left,
deputy director of intelligence, 1 President of NSA,,and Richard but. tUPD .:,' . ??: .;, :.:
A former top official of the Issues and Answers) Mi
Central Intelligence Agency }yob former NSA fund raiser Vice President, denied l&iow-
claims that continuing press and the one who initially ledge of any such ease.
exposure _ of the, agency's
activities is "destroying a an exposed the CIA, asserted that` Former GOP presidential-f
a
important part of the nation's the CIA had tried to intimidate candidate' Barry M. Goldwater j
?... security:' an NSA official by threatening ? (CBS - Face- . The Nation)
"The gentlemen of the Fourth to forge spychiatric records and accused the CIA of financing
Estate might as well be place them in the government to ' socialism in America" by,
subsidizing education and labor
scuttling carriers in the Tonkin discredit his employment ?'.
? Gulf," said Robert Amory Jr.,' opportunities, organizations for international ,
referring to the recent conferences. He said. he ?? was
disclosures of CIA financing of Mr. Wood declined to reveal disturbed because "all this
the source of ' his information money went 'to ? left-wing r
private organizations
p r i v a t e organizations and
groups receiving financial aid
from the agency. He said that.
disclosing them could go on and
on-like unraveling a sweater."
COUNTER '
He defended the CIA
subsidization of the National
Student Association. and other
similar organizations as
necessary to counter extensive.
communist penetration 'of youth
groups around the world. .
Mr. Amory, who was
interviewed ' on TV yesterday
(NBC - Meet The Press),
denied the CIA initiated
operations on its own.:He said
each president since the CIA
was established under Harry S.
Truman has' assigned a top aide
to keep tabs on. the agency's
operations. President Johnson's
CIA liaison. is Walt W. Rostow,
he said.
Mr. Amory said the-current.
f-flap was "a commentary on the
't immaturity of our society." )
England, ~ he said, has had a
secret'service since the time of i
the first Queen Elizabeth "and `.~?
they just don't talk about it...
"If something, comes out like
this, that is ua mistake; J
.everybody shushes ' up in the i
interests of their . national;
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