HARD TO TRACK CIA ACTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400040016-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 1, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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natnre,`tl~e CIA tries to staff;,.
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thin.: that occasionally our;
ieader< tend to disregard
this mtormation either be-'
~?au~c vur top ntil(tury brass'
tratiitional(y distrusts civit?;
ran interference. (' n n ~ e-?
~lu,?ntly lichen i< 'blunder oc
t?ura and out' adrnlttistrati+,ti
I~ln'15 lbnl)f3nCC or II11g111IOf-.
lnation on facts, the 'CIA is
hardly in a position to de-'
lend itself.
Recently Allen Dulles (for-:
nler head of the CIA) stated;.
in a television interview that:
long; before the atom bomb:.
our top administrators were.,
in[arnted that Japan was de-~
feated and looking for ?ad,
honorable way to surrender;
and yet sonteonc or some, _.
ones'' made tl+e decision to;'.
ch'ult the bumh anyway.
with th~~ rc5ourccs at its
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