ON THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100950008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 6, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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In cn age 01 1ULUWWD1c.%L I la. tor from Egypt who had been
fare it is :,;,portant to com entertained by 'a Washington
i c ardun
over CIA support of the Na-
tional Student Association
and your editorial (Feb. 15), I
must say that I am one of
those who is neither "disgust-
ed, dismayed or distressed"
by what has been revealed. If
anything distresses me it is,
the fact that the whole affair
has been revealed.
The attitude which dis-
played by your ncw:;; :.cr and
others ( ?lu(lin;, ,,)parently
sonic mcrabc.'s of . Congress)
'towards the CIA is really a
,.curious one. I feel that it Is
necessary to remind you that
the CIA is on our side, that
the Director of the CIA has
been appointed by the Pres-
ident, who in turn has been
elected by the people, and
that the CIA is watched over
by a committee of Congress,
whose members have also
been elected by the people.
Reading some of the com-
ments I might have gained
the impression ? that the CI
was appointed and directly
financed by the Kremlin.
Should tine American people
through their elected repre-
sentatives decide that. we do
not need a CIA, then they
will be no CIA. Until such
time I would suggest that you
let the agency gather informa-
tion wherever it can. The
.'American students who wen
abroad, after all, were Ameri
cans and they did nothing but
help their country.
People who work for the
CIA are civil servants like the
people working for any other
agency of the Federal Govern
ment. Contrary to the impres
sion which you try to create
they are not out to destroy
the United States. As for you
continually repeated demand
that there should be no secre
cy would you suggcst.,that w
open the meetings of the
1 Joint Chiefs of Staff? to news
paper and television reporter
and naturally invite also rep
resentatives of the North Viet
GEORGE K. SCHUELLER.
Silver Spying.
ctia
What is so shocking about[
our Nation's intelligence agen-
cy, or any espionage agency
.for that matter, engaging in
undercover operations? If CIA
officials publically announced
everything they did or operat-
ed above board in all their
transactions, they should be'
fired as incompetent.. ' ?
pete in world dialogue. Thi : family at Thanksgiving, and is
may be difficult in an Opel
society. The battle for all
giance of men's minds mus
be adequately faced by th
American people and it
government.
The controversy can, howe
er, spur Congress to approv
some Government- supporte
instrument to promote the N NSA ? Staff For Spying";
tion's interest and share ou "Newspaper Guild's Work
ideological heritage with of - Program Operated on Cu
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CHARLES DEMERE.
Washington.
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In one of , your letters
(Feb. 19), a writer states In
error that the CIA, the bul-
wark of this Nation (what a
romance), to function properly
and protect the U.S. from
being infiltrated by subver-
sives, has to rely on help
wherever it safely can.
Many well-intentioned, pa-
triotic Americans who are in
the ranks of the literate and
articulate, really have' a very
weak conception, If any, of the
defined duties of our various
agencies.
An act of Congress has de-
fined the scope of the CIA's
activities at the time It was
set up to ,akc over the Office
of . Strategic Services. The
sphere of its function and In-
States and insular possessions.
The. protection of this coun-
try from infiltration by sub-
versives is, according to law,
supposed to be accomplished
by both the Department of Jus.
tice (FBI) and the Bureau of
Immigration with adequate
day-to-day liaison and. con-
tact with the CIA. when
fruitful in given situations.
Moreover, protection from
subversion coming from with-
in the United States is not the
affair of the CIA but is entire-
ly the province of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
All of these agencies are, or
should be, properly coordi-
nated through the Office oir
the President alone. I would
add that no single agency
should be classed as a bul-
WALTER J. SHANK.
Washington.
CPYRGH,
Effect upon me was the family
hese were a cure to me from
icing away from my count
. What a wonderful spirt
quoted in the "Doorway to the
U.S.A." booklet sent us by the
Meridian House Foundation,
because we also volunteered
to share our lives with visitors
from other lands.
With the headlines, "Busi-
ness Leaders Are Tied' to
CIA's Operations"; "CIA Used
on
Funds Since 1969 , a
front page. of the Feb. 1
Washington Post, I Wonder
how many other of the bun
dreds of "host" families in the
'area are now suspected b
'the foreign friends they made
!of having been agents for the
CIA?
Just how does one explai
ones sincerity not only to th
friends, but to our childre
who found the personal intro
duction to other cultures sue
a rewarding one, and wit
tio
t
o ques
now have reason
I HELEN GARDNER-
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I read your paper every day.,
o get current events for
nderstand everything and
ometimes you just get me
fixed up. I am only 13 years
ld and I don't presume to
now as much as you do so'
lease explain to me what did'
IA do wrong.
When I read your headlines
feel like they did something:
errible and then I read the;
stories and you explain all
around it but you still don't
say exactly what they did so
bad only that it was real
awful.
The President gives CIA a'
bunch of money to go opt and
spy, and save our country.
CIA gets college kids and?
pays them money to be spies'
in, foreign countries. Your
paper says this is terrible..
The only thing I see terrible.
is that somebody has to be
paid to help their country,.
and that somebody tells the
newspapers about it.
There were a lot of good
Americans in history and I.
am sure that there are a lot of,
good Americans today. What 1<
don't understand ' is why so.
many newspapers and TV pro-.
grams make them out to be:
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RON T. CORREA.',
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