HEBERT IS PROUD OF CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100810001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: TRANS

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SAT February 21, 1967 8:00 AM CITY ':=!csh1ngton, CC
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I-,EBERT ~ S PROUD Or CIA
NEWSCASTER: The Central Intelligence Agency has over the
years been handed some assignments overt agencies of government
would not approach with a barge pole. When the operations are
successful, nothing furthe;fi s heard from them, when they fiat the
CIA Is accused of meddl.ingI and bungling.
"Since the revelation that the CIA has been secretly sudsi+6
dizing students and other groups for year's, Vice-President
Humphrey says he is disappointed, Senator Frank Church of Idaho
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CHURCH: "I'm shocked at the extent to which a deception is
being plastered. There seems to be no limit to the penetratio p.
t,a covert penetration of our academic life, our journalistic
1 fe, our business 1 1 fe -- i t makes me think we may be halfway:
to
NEWSCASTER: "Another Senator, Robert Kennedy of New York
disagrees with Church and other critics. He says the decislo
to subsidize privat groups Was made in the executive branch dur:ncg
the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
"Loui,si.ana :Representative F. Edward Hebert also speaks-for
the defense, he says. '+
:SEBERT: "I never heard that they were i..n the business o
training altar boys. I always thought they were in the business..
of spying, everybody knew'they were spying.. Well., how.eo you #py?
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