HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400120012-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 22, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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cased. by' some over-fastidious .critics. ,. ever, if ho: e;1e:leral err:loyes who
of inciting revolutions, fo:a:ent''ig :,Ii.. gee .
subversion it fO ,,+ . `' cave be,i spa-?ed? Inv. $'On of their.
a S a rei 'n countries ~rieS,?plot- priv^t "by Big rother eel
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mes+i pleasure along t?/it,h
v c Orga,.nizatiG:1s'and it Sil'""" '?. that , ?,a 1, - ,i t;sley _
reli~~:oUS ~CCiai, and : ~ tlZat, there is "CIA
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of w i2r tlie:r~, w~ ~5 e y
?everyth n- z fw4t ?a Sliorily
of 'L Out . tealln-g this year of ~:a. n6 `'? _
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dcpended7?o _ A Ic. g z_c1ancen doinn > Ob'Jic ' Mr.
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deal.
de.r?.ocra~ic i 1i~'~e.our trust..
but the C e n t r al intel li ence.
is well placed," MM,I'r Jolln. 'affirmed.
Just a few' days. before these so- 1?
o awry the. other day.' On September: to ;
iorous senti:ments'w'ere intoned sori":e, o icials and ernployes . Of the Ci spoil part J.s, aenators passed a bill. ;
-par In an award, crri?ernor:y at aver the o. cetial~s of the CIA by a
the oisaniz ;lion's headquarters a VOv; ;; 70 to i ,he legislation pro
Langley, Va. Apparently it was a Very .. ' Iiibits e; c-ral wok
foi:ks-; mtherinry? brirnmin~ ~r ;, enc, s from asking
~'ooa ov? wa~ax sir aa_.
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J^_Qy~ s. au't, their finances
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b Employes re.,Ceived,?' r-.~?? ^ i? f
certificates of merit for 10, 15 a; d 20 `o .. f' ``c~lv'~ic~s oi? :amity vela-'4.
?'L.G::ships. she CI : had opposed' the.
years ? of distinguished service to Hill On the r'''e .nc. itr t it would be
Pcpublic. The climax of.-the ev; .'no,. ~a '"
'Was a to the a e:lcy ieiiveid g i r^ t w11..~ gents.
by Vice President Hubert ~r~ u~_ o ?n v p eii~r tibr. by onemy agents
Y : u Ur -onr '. `'
"Tile A'meric n people:feel,;et~cr ~J.. ;pp`j~' 1,e sw:;~y of -..e 2.epubhc
cause there is a CIA," -
declared, -the t' J/y
/~/~ Dspc11ed by. the Ji : Lt; ..a1 finer
occasion was life Il C. +: yl NJ:j -?- w l.~V e LQ adl:^ji14iULr:
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