HEADS IN THE SAND ON CIA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400100013-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 2, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN

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Heads in the Sand "on CIA?
(wa,P,In .n -on According to John Chancellor, ment" that is wielding. lti1
" HE LIFT; of spies'-Is:to narrator of the program,. spying ''power, the visible government .
Tknow,' not to be 'ki-bwn,' now means "using tanks and the' Congress-must certainly
. George Herbert wrote'tn .}690; ., planes and men.:to promote our carry a heavy share ' of the.
and for over 300, year's
't':held policies and sometimes to over blame. Con ressmen, It seems
true-with some notable excep throw governments which we ~ "don't wan,to know" what the
Lions, most of whom made the don't like." , . CIA is doing.
mistake of being caught, and ; . To illustrate the point, of Such a head-in-the-sand atti-
executed. former U. S. 'air attache to , tude may protect an Individual
But as the Cold War ' has Gguatemala told of becoming conscience or reputation, bub
become more- and more an party to a plot to pire gang'sters? claims of Ignorance do little to
accepted fact 'of life, so has' to kilt or assassinate Commu- preserve the United States':
spying, and so have the men . nists - there, and a British reputation abroad when the CIA:,
who ply this distasteful craft, freighter was said to Maus been is implicated In plots or coups.
As a result we find the . accidentally sunk . by a CIA- ' With Communist. pressure;
Russians' honoring their spy, ? plane. :'upon the Free World showing no
Col. Rudolf Abel, on a television These and other, incidents are . 'signs of slackening, with Con-'program; ' U-2 pilot Fraucis ., ascribed aboard to the U. S. A.;'?,' gress exercising less Influence
Gary Powers has been given a within t h e United States, if, - upon foreign policy and with
secret medal with a secret - they' become known, 'they are ' continued erosion of the assume-
citation in a secret ceremony by " ascribed to _ the CIA. Yet Allen tion that "we on't' do that',
the CIA; and former CIA'- Dulles says "at no time has. the kind of thing," it Is morn urgent'
t, executives Allen Dulles':, and CIA engaged.In any political ae than ever that. Congress ample.
Richard Bissell recently ,dis' tivity',or -intelligence that was-ment'the 1956 Hoover Cammis-
cussed and firmly defended. "the', not approved 'at the ' highest slon recommendation;' by .estab~
eclence of spying'' on a network ; level"' ' ? llshing `a. Joint Committee
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