'SPY' SPECIAL SLATED ON NBC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100250058-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: May 1, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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"The Science of Spying," an
NBC News special report on the
clandestine and highly
technogolical practice of
espionage carried on by the U.S.
and other world powers, will be
presented Tuesday night at 10.
The program will examine the
"covert operations that nations
feel are required today if they
are to survive .in a brutally
competitive world," according
to Ted Yates, who is producing
the report.
Films and interviews will
recall some of the past
operations of the- Central
Intelligence Agency. Included
will be the toppling of
Guatemala's leftist Arbenz
regime in 1954; the Bay of Pigs
invasion ,in 1961; and the
current activity in Northern
Laos.
Mr. Yates has filmed
interviews with espionage
agents active in Washington,
Hong Kong, .Formosa, Okinawa,
Japan and Central America. .
In Washington, John
Chancellor, narrator of the
report, will 'Interview . Allen
Dulles, former CIA head, and
Richard Bissell, former CIA
Director of Plans.
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Describing the functions and
powers of the CIA, Yates says,
"it is housed in one of the
biggest buildings in Washington,
employs 1187 people, is at once
the most important, the most,
controversial and the most
misunderstood. agency in the
capital. Its job is no longer
restricted to gathering
information, but has burgeoned
into the tast of influencing.
events abroad to make . them
consonant with our own foreign. policy."
The program will examine the ~
ethics of spying, particularly A
within the context of a free and
open society.
It raises the frequently asked]
.,
question: If, to survive and
remain free, we must adopt}
many of the ruthless tactics of :';
our enemies, are we ultimately.
the victors or the vanquished?
The special will also weigh.
the charges that the CIA,
because of its escalating powers'
and the secrecy - . of its
operations, has been carrying
on a second foreign policy,
apparently independent . of . the
State Department..
It will also be concerned with
the question of whether spies
are granted too much latitude
without proper government.,
supervision.
Sen.. 'Eugene McCarthy (D.,
Minn.), severe critic of CIA,
will be interviewed.
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