STOP PROBING CIA OR ABOLISH IT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400170003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 3, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

.7 . 3 1961
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00
CPYRGHT
Stop Probing CIA'
.)OrAbolishIt
Editor of the Press Herald'.
When David Brinkley, on an SW
broadcast. referred to the Central in-
teldgence Agency as the best ppuubltdised
secret organization in the wosit he not
only t4$ a. simple fact but analysed
one of :pr intelligence problems. INd
stathelmtmtt atbyou canno 1 ave ln~l-
ligenoe ' id ?publicity at the same time.
Since blsCity will undoubtedly con-
tlnue',', however, Congress might do
wor' - than to consider abolishing the
Ce ,,1*ttl Intelligence Agency altogether.
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irked -The fault ilea deeper - in the
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prey
n ~. -..-
tipresentea in Congress) that an
anlUgence agency can be treated as if origin. No one would 104401
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it were just another arm of the Oov- comp
For this is the way --'
to the in-
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ertment, open at all
. sp,iction of those who foot the bills. ? mately the way " in which
ations have steal's 1S
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The reason why such an agency cannot. Bence, op .--
e that
rompts tied on Where they have
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people not to play poker with
cards face up. Admirable as SUC! ion- But given the shf
poker is not ^ game that American. people will ttl1 L Ci
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promiscuous scrutiny are'again' der before. )t bad a Central
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its present mood, Congress may very
with congressional aid and direction,
it so, CIA's contribution to world.oo-m-
ing funnier, and grimmer, than ever;
Meanwhile, the President is !seined
to have appointed an investigating
committee. In other lines Qf !)t
ycara, and has failed each time' Will
ex-given pedient. p Not favor
so with in estigations of
CIA. These are like a ritual: agency
under fire- investigation. follows, It
then Wcomeu Vv, av .
gation did not succeed beeaui~' sooft
the same sort of trouble invoices anoth'-
er investigations. . his time acrrrding
to the papers, Mr. Killian will h.'.rd the,
record of the past ,tW
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