HEBERT IS PROUD OF CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300570007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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PROGRAM The Sound of the. News
STATION WWDC Radio`
GATE February 21, 1967 8:00 AM CITY Washington, DC
HEBERT IS PROUD OF 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 furtheri s heard from them, when they fiat the
CIA is accused of meddling and bungling.
"Since'the revelation that the CIA has been secretly sudsi--
dizing students and other groups for years, Vice-President
Humphrey says he is disappointed, Senator Frank Church of Idaho
said.. 11
CHURCH: "I'm shocked at the extent.to which a .deception is
being plastered. There seems to be.no limit to the penetration#.
the covert penetration of our academic Ii.fe, our journalistic
life, our business life -_ it makes me think we may be halfway:
to 1.984.11
NEWSCASTER: "Another Senator, Robert Kennedy of New York
disagrees with Church and other critics. Re says the decision
to subsidize privat groups Was made in the executive branch during
the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson admi.ni.strattons.
"Loui.si.ana Representative F. Edward Hebert also speaks for
the defense, he says." :
HEBERT: "I never heard that they were in the business of
training altar boys. I always thought they were in the business,
of spying, everybody knew?they were spying.. Well, how,do you spy?
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anyt4ing at your command. I'm proud of the way they operate.
m not proud of the critisim that has come their way, but wiat-
Uo we want to do, turn everything over to the enemy, enough is
wing turned over in this country today to the enemy. You can't
capture criminal.s,anymore, or policemen have handcuffs on. The,
niceties of life are not the niceties for survival.."
NEWSCASTER: "A%s it has in the past, the CIA will probab1 y
come through the present up "roar, lick its wounds ? tn. private, and
glo on to other things."
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