KENNEDY HAILS ROLE OF CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400340037-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: October 10, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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j agreed policies in South Viet they have done a Boos ion:"
Nam, ?+?r. Kennedy reported.i No new congressional watch-
the emphasized. "it attempts tO!kcep an eye on the CIA, I.n the'
es cnt s ,lbuitv," i
T:ie Nation flat assurance that Moreover, the CIA director, doing an adequate job.
i,he Central Intelligence Agency't,he United States Ambassador.l The President also assured,
i;as ,,ot carried out indepen-;henry Cabot Lodge, and the the Nation that the United',
States continues to oppose mil
lent activities in South Vietl Secretaries of State and De
Nlam. Ifenee are now in agreement on1itarY coups in Latin America.
John H. Richardson, C I Ai policy in Viet Nam. If there isl Coups ,are "s ?l f-defeating;
chief in Saigon, r e c a 11 e d re- disa.reement at lower levels, he and defeating for the Hemi-
', o r t e dl y under some sort of speculated, this would be be. sphere" he said.
cloud last week end. is "a very cause "they are not wholly In. Both the Dominican Repub-i
dedicated public servant," Mr. formed of what actions we are lie and Honduran governments
Kennedy told his news confer- taking. some of them are nec- have recently been overturned-,
ence last evening. He operated essarily confidential." by coups.
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