OUTMODED CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600390021-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: January 19, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON"fired - Approvec5lA of MR
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Letters to the di-tor
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n
made about. your Jan. 1 edito-
ial "How Idiotic." That is.
ormer President Truman's
comment, "I established the
CIA for a purpose and now I
think it ought to be disband-
ed."
The fact Is the CIA is
giving this 'country a. had
name abroad, rightly :?or
wrongly. Too many peoplo in
Latin America and Asia are
now afraid. not of the United
tates Government but of the
IA. What they used to think
if the Checka 'and the Gesta-
o they now are thinking of
he CIA. Few people, of
ourse, have the facts for a
udgment on the matter, but
n International affairs a bad
iame is as bad as a bad
ction. I do not believe the
inited States can continue to
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or
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rue or false. I believe Pres-
dent Truman is right. Let us
JOSEPH 1. PUENTE.
Washington.
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