SALTONSTALL SAYS STEALTH NECESSARY IN CIA WORK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700170017-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2005
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: April 28, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Saltonstall said, "I can assure
"does get involved in some
cloak-and-dagger activity," ac-
cording to Senator Leverett Salt-
onstall a member of
the congressional CIA Review
Committee.
In his weekly newsletter re-
leased today, however, Salton-
stall cautioned that the majority
of CIA employes are not "of the
in vvariety who arious types are
engaged Bond
clandestine and subversive ac-
tivities."
Saltonstall discussed the'. CIA
because of its recent return to
`newspaper headlines by way of
a magazine article w h i c h
1 claimed the secret agency had
men participating in a Viet-
Nam activity of Michigan State
University.
Agency Silent
{ While the, CIA would not com-
meat-on the report, Saltonstall
f
R ~, ,ref 1,
with us, most willing to answer i
any question and most helpful in `;
keeping us abreast of the)
agency's activities , and. prop-
lems."
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versity project and thec,o
worked at trainin t; ; ` ^'?Y
police.
He said the men were not in.
volved in "clandestine activ.
ities."
In his general description o:
CIA work, Saltonstali pointer
out that efforts to stealth arc
"necessarily part of an effective
Intelligence operation.
"But," he added, "Lhe coveri
aspects should not be overem~
phazied because the heart of the
agency's effort is the processing
of information for the President
and his principal advisers."
Frank i alks
Although the review commit'
tee of which Saltonstall is 0
member holds frequent meet-
ings and is regularly briefed by
CIA officials, few members cif
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