NEW CHIEF OF CIA CRACKS DOWN ON UNVOUCHERED$$

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200320027-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: November 29, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved- For Release 1999/09/07 : OA-I DP7v.-b00O1
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By ROBERT L. ALLEN laid PAUL SCOTT
WMPEDIOWN ;she r am h4@4 at f1be
Central Intelllgencq Agency, is to IIRhteb
pi ng Another lime Bomb l3gl~ttaed'
-the reins on the way his super-secret agency upends
its money. >toae also is 1~httey met thM ttM arfgl.
He is asking Cord Meyer Jr. who'wew up to t2k (M&
Bayslde. L I. and who handles the CIA's, untvoueh- *a a stirvey eg sA> 's,
erect f gals --- to mike a full report on the 6" atil -00"w divie~on, tr~iiic2l is headed b!' hrear~#n
lion that he doled out during the past 12 Mon
for covert operations and Intelligence gitaaiia= &c- parts The to da new CIA m Rector accuracy Is -lookft and t over t~beM ha,
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ti.lues. F ' that thus 'riatsoalal lnts!ltii~raee estimates have en'
Returning from a first-hand aurveyot the a -i U. s. foreign policy -- especWaX. U. 8.-SoVift ie~>i
cy'a foreign operations earlier this monint
Ums
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decided on this move after discovering that the CIA' '
Aire O. the unexpected ttiove by McOme bit;
had financed dozens louch" off a serer of secret buOles betwem =A
crotheups, world. and other w uns of questionable quest o nablt nables officials and members of the State Department ent peliel-
planning staff. Theue officials. who work together inI
UOn Many Questionable Activities drafting ppapers,. Vt. concerned that they will
For instance, mccont was shocked to learn In, lose control over the "estimates" on which their pot-t
based U McCbne decides to shape-up tbei
Europe that the CIA promoted or financedeuar1r Icy is being
try malor international socialist conference bale on " 40014 happen the continent during the put 10 years. If .
on stage
s toward ohal
U. S. polickttf
e a new Gires!Tzaun ermine whether] ?. for si comptete'i imp" at
these conferences were arralnped as intelligence; SgovWL-Chin - rnrwtr&t bloc and why these go -
efts have YI1I l to sWrn the . tide of Interaatia Sal;
dicates.
McCone is also looking Into the advisability of
another questionable CIA activity. This Is the unpub-
lisbed practice of giving large fees to U. S. law firms
and fouudaUons for making Intelligence studies and
furnishing the agency operational "advice". none of,
which has been of visible help In Improving the CIA.1
In one case. a New York law firm Was paid more than I
a million dollars In "consultant fees" with no evi-
dence of positive results.
Meyer. who handles these unvouchered funds, Is,
name has never been listed In a government di'1?ee-I
tory sires be joined the agency early in the 'SOs. Only
a handful of persons know of Meer or his position
and none of these will discuss IV
Before joining the CIA, Meyer was nj.Uoaal pros-
vocate of world government. His father was a State
Department official and his uncle was president of
the Cord Meyer Development Co. in Forest Hills. L I.
He is a friend of William Bundy. deputy to Assts-
tant Defense Secretary Paul $leae. Meyer, Bandy,
and Nitze have worked as a team In shaping and sup-i
porting the pbilcy of supplying U. S. military and,
economic aid to Yugoslavias Communist r dictator
Tito. Approved For Release 1999/09/07 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000200320027-2