HUMPHREY'S STAND ON CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400120011-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 22, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW YORK, N.Y.
TIMES
M- 767 , 239
.S-.1,473,931
SEP 221967
Humphrey's Stand on
CZ.A.
To the Editor:
Vice President Humphrey was
not being very responsive to i
the issues raised in the discus-
sion of the Central Intelligence
Agency when he reassured the
agency "if you weren't being
criticized, you wouldn't be do-
,
ing anything" (Times, Sept. 19).
One issue was whether an-
intelligence agency should se
cretly finance and influence W.
dependent organizations such
as the National Student Asso-
ciation, trade unions, publish-
ing houses, magazines. This is
standard operating procedure
in a totalitarian society, but
reprehensible in a democracy.
Another question was wheth-
er an intelligence agency should
acquire policy-making functions
(mainly by accretion and fail-
ure of the executive and legis-
lative bodies to supervise its
functions). This too was preva-
lent in both Nazi Germany and
the Soviet Union.
The issue boils down to
whether fighting totalitarianism
requires that we pay them
the tribute of imitation. Mr.
Humphrey apparently agrees
with those who say we must
fight fire with fire. He obvious-
ly doesn't agree . with Walter
Lippmann that the way'to com-
bat totalitarianism is with lib-
eral and progressive policies.