SOME 'FACTS' ABOUT CIA; WHY WE KNOW NO MORE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700150015-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 26, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Some "Facts" AAbout CIA;
Why We Know No More
Ip'y David ,Ilaruelt
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(:vt~ time the Central Intei-
ligv t- Agency gets caught
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wtlpg way on
aaftjremn read,
s:nzi iawmak-
eaws start a fu-
taie clamor for
;?u; inft a con-
p;ie;sionai hal-
tcr '? it the
t).iLfi again,
legislation has
been intro-
aiuced to cre-
.rte a joini. con-
gres sieit al committee of
House and Serrate members
to supervise the activities of
the secret agenc';.
Two years ago, the issue
was the fiasco at the Bay of
Pigs, in Castro's Cuba.
This time it's Viet Nam.
Says Senator Wayne Mor.;e
(I)em., Ore.):
"Congress has permitted
('IA to continue to exercise
what appears, in fact, to
amount tc a police power in
a democracy. A:a a member
r>f the Foreign Relations Com-
mittev, I car.not tell the Sen-
ate--uor cait any other mem-
ber of the committee-what
the facts are about CIA policy
in South Viet Nam or any-
'Where eke in the world."
Harked DIeim
:since 1954
`lere are some
chief CIA agent in the area,
however, disagreed, and per-
suaded the then chief of the
agency, Allen W. Dulles.
CIA Chief Dulles persuaded
his brother,: ecretary of State
John Foster Dulles, to back
Diem.
The agency now pays some
$3 million a year to support
"slpr r forces" of South Viet.
nat. as ..
:le nain tl ouble, says Rep-
r"ent? tive Nl illiam Fitz Ryan
u m. N. Y 1, is that "the
:s co as;stentty over-
stel^ipe. its. T )le as an intel-
lig;erir?e gathering agency by
engi;ing in policy formula-
tion ~?anv exc:-ution."
Commute n
Already
RyLn tried two years ago
to get a join: committee set
up. As so often happens, the
furor