SOME FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300210020-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 20
• Content Type: MISC

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T::o Central I t " . 7 , 1 1 , .i rare Age 'C I.A. ;will have a recruiter
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T.,ey neec. cQuc at e ~e ,~,rOil11Fg Negroes, The pay is good; the work is
interesting; the :;at:, otic appeal is seeLl"ngiy great,
ut..,. The C.I.A. is not, as it claims, a mere secret group
for gathering information vital to the country's security.
The . ay of Pigs was not a fact-finding mission. The C.I.A.
mounted an invasion, trained the fighters, chose the leaders, set the
time, and financed the whole deal.
You might think: "TiTell, international politics is a tough game;
everybody loses a round once in a while, and violence is just one of
tae tactics. c
^he C.I.A. goes a lot further. In Burma they had a i2,000-man
guerilla force fighting the govcrnment? and U.S. Am'!,assador William
Sebald was never told the men were ours. The C.I.A. had arranged a
small w'a.r ? ;;,,r ain_St a fr icndlg ?'-Y.: .. y :r i s i v
to keep it going. offic als are supposed to clear their actions
with superiors in the Departments of State and Defense; in major mat-
ters: with the ?resident. Put. they felt that the 3urmese government be settin soy t on Communism. Therefore they acted without even
consulting the responsible American officials. (The rebels ion failed.
Burma became very angry at this interference and for years afterward
'.{e t its foreign policy close to Red China. ^;s. The government changed
from a pro-western form of republic to a socialist dictatorship.)
In Guatemala the C.I.A. created a rebellion in 1954. President
nrbenz Guzman, the legally Elected liberal Pres~d.ent of Guatamala, was
overthro;tin and killed, and afascist dictator, Castillo Armas, replaced
h:m. rrri^s, who the C.T.A. had supported. and trained, took away the
vote, the right to organize unions, and even the right to own land
i r om 70/ of his people.
The CIA tried to overthrow the government in Iran and succeded;
tried in Indonesia and failed. Both governments attacked were legal
and were theoretically friendly to the U.S.. In Iran the legitimate
premier was replaced by a Nazi sympathizer, in Vietnam the C.I.A. has
at one tine or another supported Diem, the Buddists, and various suc-
cessor governments. Even the President didn't know for sure whether
the u_~.,^_, had planned Diem's assassination.
.`-,-me after time the C.I .A~. has created American policy, has com-
our country to the support of dubious leaders, has attacked
leg-"~imate governments. It often operates in secrecy, lions or ever, colleges as camouflage; its Vietnam operations wereda-
s..ield.ed by iichigan State University until after the damage was done.
News of its actions doesn?t get out for months or years afterward.
No democracy can afford. such concealment. The people cannot debate,
a Congress and the President himself cannot approve, policies and
they arenlt even allowed to hear about.
1~ ellient, patriotic americans are needed to serve the world
cc = of nations and our own society. But not in the C.I.A.
Y-Tna-~ever talents and qualities of yours the C.I.A. is interested in,
they can be employed in many other ways that are personally rewarding
and socially constructive.
(20" sources of the above information, endorsers of the statement,
and. some further suggestior6? please turn the page over.)