PROFESSOR DISCLOSES CIA SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 22, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Wednesday, February 22,1967
Letters to. the Ice Box
Profe'ssor Disc@oseS CIA Service
February 21, 1967
To the Ice Box:
This is a CIA type surfacing
-because I find the outcry of my
friend Dan McIntosh nauseating.
My service with CIA extended
from the beginning of 1951 to the
summer of 1953. During that time
I learned about activities such as
the subsidizing of the NSA. My
initial reaction was strongly neg-
ative. Slowly I became convinced
that the international activities ol
organizations such as the NSA
were essential and that these ac-
tivities could not be carried out
except by subsidy from CIA.
It is not difficult to demonstrate
that in the years 1951-53 the acti-
ties were necessary; the alterna-
O lye was to leave the field of inter-
o rational youth activities to com-
munist and communist-front or.
ganizations, which were well fi-
nanced. What was true of the
NSA was true of other CIA-
CPYRGHT
supported projects; without sub-
sidy, they would collapse. And
subsidy from private sources was
not forthcoming.
My next argument is a tougher
one to sell: CIA was the only gov-
ernment agency which could sub-
sidize organizations such as the
NSA without restricting or even
ending their independence. Let
me illustrate. Suppose the subsidy
came from Health, Education and
Welfare. Given the very vigorous
civil rights and similar activities
of NSA, what would have hap-
pened to a HEW budget which
included funds for NSA?
Only CIA can subsidize without
controlling, because only CIA has
a budget which is not scrutinized,
line by line, by congress. There-
fore if anyone in the government,
up to a cabinet member or even
the president, wants to encourage
some activity without impairing
the independence of the activity,
his method is subsidy by the CIA.
Now let us look at the students
involved. Dan McIntosh says: "It
is terrifying to know that the
CIA duped students and used
them as spies." Isn't this rough
on Mr. McIntosh's colleagues? I
have known many young men
who entered the service of CIA,
men whose intelligence and moral
strength was as great as that of
Mr. McIntosh. They simply be-
lieved that their country was
worth serving, and that they
could serve their country by
working in CIA.' Many of the
young men who worked with me
in the agency in 1951, now occupy
high posts in academic `life, in
other professions, and in policy-
making branches of the govern-
ment. They were not then, and
they are not now, either dupes or
morally depraved. Neither, I sus-
pect, were the NSA officers.
When he was president, Her
er Hoover o a renc p o-
mat that the United States should
be in the world but not of it, and
Secretary Stinson abolished the
intelligence unit of the Depart-
ment of State, remarking that
gentlemen do not open other gen-
tlemen's mail. All that is long ago.
Since then there have been many
CPYRGHT
impressive, indeed vital, triumphs
for American intelligence. And
there have been some horrible
messes, many of them, like this
one, proceeding from the assump-
tion that American democracy
can operate like British democ-
racy. We can't. In Britain, if yo
(Continued on page.~6)
Letters to !ce Box,
(evathlOud flul" Past: !3)
publish official secrets you go to
jail. Here you make the front
page and can pass for a great
moralist.
Oh well, we can't keep official
secrets, but we've had few defec-
tors. And we have many young
men with brains and strong char-
acter who are proud to serve
their country, in the intelligence
field. Fortunately, for our coun-
trv's w'lfarP
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