CLOAK AND DAGGER ASPECT OF CIA IS OVERSTATED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200200072-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: November 12, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

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Cloak and Dagger Aspect
Of CIA Is Overstated
The inspector general of the entr 1~il
n~ LX, , {i. }tuaparently has derived
onsiderabls. amusemen front the stories implying
ha.t. CIA is a cloak and dagger outfit manned by
lies sticking their heads into dal-nger spots and by
eautiful women who ferret qut tnemy secrets.
The director general brings the CIA? down to
art.h. Actually, he says, the basic work of intelligence
s the compilation, bard, painstaking and detailed
-wear( h and analysis and proper interpretation and
aluation of information from all sources on con-
iii ions outside the United States.
Distilling this great mass of data, may be drab,
unglamorous work, but it Is the stuff on which the
hi chest decisions for the security of the nation are
b,c sed.
We hope..,, s left a little of something
for our imaginations.. mely operating Intelligence
t;ency whose agents do not get themselves into im-
i,o Bible. situations Is rather hard to accept.
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