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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400110012-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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headlines can be useful to dcvelopmeas.
movie startlers, professional It predicted almost the exact.
athletes, politicians, authors and date ? of Rcd China's fir {t
others whose careers flourish on nuclear explosion. II warned
publicity.: ll cli in advanr e of the Britislr-r
Hrnvever, it is not gencrally1 lranch-Israel invasion of Ezypt.
regarded as an asset for .spies,, dwTh g the Suez crisis, It
The Central Intelligence .1 en? warned-in vain-that Red Clni-;
cy (CIA) has a flair for making na would enter the I{orcan War
the front pages that a veteran if U.S. forces pushed too' close:
Broadway black mould envy,. to the 14ichuiian border.
The supposedly super-secret . 'Sometimes the CIA is blamed
spy ' organisation has been for fu.-ling, when it deserves to
wallowing in printer's ink for be praised for a brilliant stroke
the .past week; as a 'result of the of intelligence, A notable case
disclosure that it has been w?m the international flap that,
surreptitiously subsidizing Ameri- took place .'in IftIlO when CIA,
'ca's largest undergraduate or- a cnt Francis Gary Powers was?
rruuization,. the National Student shot down while photographing
,'Association. the Soviet' Union from a high
This is the latest in a long; altitude U2 plane.
:,cries of incidents that has The incident was blamed for.
rnade the CIA the 'best-known lt'reckino the 1110 su unit
and most frequently embar- conference fn Paris. But hind-
rasscd . espionage outfit in sight has made clear that the
history. _ Russians were looking for an
Without wishing to do so. the excuse to wreck the conference'
CIA' has achieved such fame- anyway
or notoriety - throughout the: From an . intelligence view- ,
world that it now can expect to l' point, the important fact is that
receive the credit or blame for . ' the U2 flights were carried on
almost any unexplained event. for four years wLtthout mishap,
Let 'a ''politician die suddenly and , resulted in incredibly
or a goverln-ment fall in any re- I. detailed aerial maps of Soviet
,mote country, and the word will missile sites and other Installa-
-.soon be out that "The CIA did Lions..
it." Thus, the CIA was widely It also was' a CIA-piloted U2.:
'claimed to have arranged the that brought bank the telltale
assassinations of ? pro?Comlml- , ,rhotos of missile launching sites
nisi Premier Patrice Luntunba . in Grua, and enabled the United
In the Congo and dictator ? St{rtes .to nip in the bud a grave'
Rafael Tnljillon in the Doniini-.,, threat 'to its security.
can Republic, when i : fact it', Bill ' to mention Cuba is to
had nothing to do with either, dredge tip the unhappy memory
j. Its .. non-involventent in these of me-' CIA's most spectacular:'
cases, however, should not be '? blunder-the Bay , of Pigs
taken, to mean that It is loath' to Invasion fiasco in 131, ' The
meddle in the internal affairs of , CIA also has, a talent bol'dcl'ing..
other nations. In the "back ' on genius for garnering unfavor
,alley war, of , international ' able publicity for relatively minor
intrigue, lie CIA has arranged incidents, '
revolutions--for ? exanplc. the Within the past year, for
-one which overthrew the leftist' example, it has been embroiled''
Arb
enz government of Guate- in three embarrassing episodes,
It also had a hand in the
upheaval that broke the Com-
,nnmist grip on Indonesia, and
;reduced President Sukarno to
this present Ineffectual status.
an elephant lumbering through
a Brisket, the CIA can on
not counting the student associ??;
anion affair:
-An Estonian refugee lodged
a $110,OOtt slander suit against a
man who defended himself by
explairnitnl ? that he was a CIA
anent and had disseminated the
alleged slanders on CIA orders.
-A CIA expert on clandestine
operations, Hails V. Torte was
occasi ,
op live to its s 'L r
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By subverting a high offic''i .. office, Tofte said tltc charges
of Soviet intelligence, Col. Ole; . resulted from a ':illy c:cr.',t anal
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