WHAT IS CIA, WHAT DOES IT DO?
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CIA-RDP75-00149R000400200037-9
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Document Creation Date:
November 11, 2016
Document Release Date:
December 15, 1998
Sequence Number:
37
Case Number:
Publication Date:
December 4, 1965
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NSPR
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What 'is CIA,
What Doe It1 o?
Editor, Independent-Journal:
Who and what is the CIA
Many millions have bee
pent in many transaction
ho knows what they do an
hy?
We know, from an address
y Senator Fulbright, chair-
an of foreign affairs, last
eptember, that the CIA so-
cited a rump military Junta
o request that U.S. troops be
ent in: this in April 1965.
Our troops were sent to
anto Domingo. The adminis-
ration, throughout the episode
CPYRGHT bowed lack of candor.
Agents of the CIA spent mil-
ions in 16 months, prior to
he revolt, attempting to
olster the civilian regime of
)onald Reid Cabral. They
elped build and train a police
orce of 8,000 men.
Polls were taken to find how
nuch support he had. Unfor-
unately for the pollsters, it:
vas zero. They worked to
hwart the plan of formei
resident Juan Bosch to re
urn to the Dominicon Re
Public, scorning him as
'pot - reformer" type.
By April, 1965, the Adminis
rebel force should not be al
lowed to, spgeeed.
s,,Ihes cIA, anyyr ot ti
e rtt pe e- ublic po cry, of
he u nited States?
Is it not the sole right of
he President to determine the
ublic policy of the United
fates, especially in public
affairs?
Who chooses the members,
who names the chairman, o
the CIA?
Can congressmen or sena
tors help us?
We are aware that we hav
ice is employed by the U.S
Treasury, which departmen
is familiar to the public.
But who can tell us what I
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