JACK GUINN SAYS: BETTER TO MAKE POOR JOKES THAN A POOR MONTH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600400009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Content Type: NSPR

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T] IERE'S anything they nged in Washington
: '.; somebody to write calm statements about
a ;i is mities and think up sneaky,. maneuvers to
-nee fnce. The way things are going Its enough
to make you hate honesty.
It was bad enough when they adii Ittod that
icon Nit. Powers, the U2 pilot,
ti.r,?a spy, but new they're-losing
heir tempers and hollering out
in,,ults at Bernon Mitchell and
William Martin, the two code
i t'rks from the National`Sedurity
A .ties wt ho' ran off to Moscow.
Prt :;iklent I?asenhower says they
a.!( !r:krtor!~ a?)d th,r. Defense I)e~
t~?i; t:r.~ at says they're liars.
Obvinusly that's the truth, but
w?h, rr does it get you. Think of the
rhor,.'.ands of homes that would he
broken today, the millions of poor
little children turned loose on the streets to break
windpw?s and, rob old ladies, if everybody insisted on
going home every night and telling the truth.
Consider what Machiavellian Instincts have
done to preserve the American way of life and
then ask yourself why we can't expect a little or,
this same thoughtful effort from out' lenders.
It's too late now and all we can do is stiffer along
with them, but just imagine what fun it would be if
Washington had used some imagination.
It would have beenyery simple to say nothing
and arrange for the Russlans to get, their hands
on -a secret message such as this from the U. S-
enlbassy in* Moscow to the CIA in Washington:
"Mitchell and Martin co great success. Next time,
China-Kremlin argument lags they, will slip old Khrusy
the poison chop suey." ?
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The Contest
First tlhing you know collecting defectors will
turn into more of a contest than the missles race
and all that's wing to do is add to the confusion.
W 'll be like Jose Jiruenez, the comic, who was
:eked if he thought we'd get to the moon before
'Well,' he said, "the moon is much farther away."
Bettgr.to Make Jokes
Than '.0 Poor Mouth
False Report
FOIAb3b
It came as a great relief out our way to lea
that it wasn't true our athletes at'the Olympics i
Route had been living it up, as was charged, o
wine, women and song. It's bad enough that pride
has to. suffer without giving everything else
bad name.
Actually, we never thought for a minute the
was any truth to the report. Even before Tug
Wilson, president- of the U. S. Olympic Committee
Issued his statement that it was a case of nmistakc
identity we had figured out that's what it was.
One of our fellows- who's done some rraveliu
himself, was quick to point out dkring our drsruss:or
that at this time of the year there are always a for o
people sitting around in Roma stjoons wearing U.S
insignia.
He said he knew right away that the change
didn't ring true because he knows It to be a to
that American tourists, suited. up or not, don'
devote a lot of time. to -song.
Besides; he saki, the whole thing was economicalt
unsound: Anything the average athlete , could affor
wouldn't just make him run second, he'd be lucky to b
Boom 'in Sight
Dr Rutherford L. Decker, the Pyohibitio
Party candidate for pt?esident; was just throug
town talking against saloons and among oth
things he said he expects prohibition to set i
again sometime between 1965 and 1970.
He may be right, although that's about the same
schedule, the space people have, picked for man launc -
ing and it doesn't seem passible they can handle th s
on tranquilizer pills alone,
Anyway, It's interesting -to speculate on whr t
this might do for the economy, particularly in t
home building ealite? Houses are -around to co! t
a are in the dry days to come because basemen's
?Aiii have to be mute elaborately equipped.
After all, you can') make gin in a shower.
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