LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES PAST ERRORS OF POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300600015-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: August 13, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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etters to the Editor of
Tie Times
Fast Errors of Policy
To the Editor:
o ques ion
the statement in your July 29'
editorial "This Is Really War",'
It is -fruitless at this stage to,
argue over errors of past pol-
icy ." If you mean there's
should be no public washing of l
dirty linen while our men are
dying, then I agree.
But we were led into the Bay
of Pigs disaster and the Viet-'
nam cul-de-sac by faulty infor-
mation. and poor evaluation. This..
dg itQ_ epormous sums we
spend_on the CIA-and the sev-
eral service intelligence units.
(with one ofwhich the writer
Once Se ved),
So I "suggest we should try
and determine how the highest,
executives of the ]and were
brought to these errors of past'!
policy, not with the idea of fix-
ing personal responsibility or
finding scapegoats, but because-'
the world Is full of potential
Bays of Pigs and Vietnams and
we should be reasonably sure we
Ira ;204 gulled ~%&s &%others
FLOYD C. jI nMY
,Commander, U,S.N.R. (Ret.)
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