MILWAUKEE JOURNAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600210009-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 1, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
VERY few people know what the Central
Intelligence Agency is up to around the
world. But every now and then the public gets
a glimpse of.C.1A activities. When the U-2 was
} shot down over Russia, the CIA suffered mo-
mentary exposure. When the Bay of Pigs in-
vasion it planned turned into a tragic failure,
the CIA was seen to blush. It surfaced a bit in
South Viet Nam when its people got into a
dispute with State Department personnel over
the degree to Which they conspired in local
politics and policies.
Now the CIA has been uncovered in an in-
triguing situation - by, of all. things a con-
gressional subcommittee looking into the tax
exempt status of private foundations. The
com- mutes found to its surprise that the CIA was
channeling some of its funds through the J. M.
Kaplan, Foundation for unrevealed purposes.
The committee, dropped the whole business as }
it would a hot potato.
IT shouldn't be surprising. that the CIA uses
such vehicles as a private fodndation to. do
sotne~ of its secret work. This is a cloak and
dagger operation which deals in such nasty
business as bribery, espionage and similar ac-
tivities. It uses private groups and individuals
as well as universities and other institutions
in its myriad undercover works.
The foundation discovery does, how-
ever, raise again the question of whether this
country should tolerate invisible government
to such a degree. Some committee of Congress
should be privy to the CIA's major activities
as a protection for the public.
CONGRESS could set. up a group similar
to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy,
which has managed to keep an eye on that
area of secret government activity without '
hurting our security.
The CIA has made enough blunders to justi-
fy Congress in trying to make sure that they
won't be repeated. It has gotten into policy
areas where it has no legitimate business. It
has spent huge sums of money with no public
accounting. Undoubtedly it has done much that
is important to our nation and its security..
But why should it escape the gaze of a con-
gressional watchdog? Several c o no r e s s-
committee of Congress to keep watch on i
A. It is time one of them passed.
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