HE CRITICIZES ANALYSIS OF CIA PROTEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700190014-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: February 8, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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It Is ironical that the . most
Criticizes i telling point in Flansburg's
"analysis," that protests end by
imitating what they protest; ap-
plies much more closely to the
~l~s~s of
i{ CIA, which was created in 1949
Protest counteract the operations of
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the Russian equivalent, than to
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"Student Protesters and Why,.~counterpart to the Communist
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action was one of disbelief and world opinion, has made the,
d United States appear a much
of he
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ng enemy
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The reasons for my participa- more conv
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tion, and from conversations, People in emerging nations'than
with other participants, for their the Soviet Union has ever
on- been....
d
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bear almost no
own, The belief that the individual l
arable' connection with Flans !- not (to quote the editorial in~
!burg's opinions.... Sunday's Register) men whose
!' The aim was to force a con- ! "reliability and judgment are
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asideration, in any quarter w
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io actively Interfere in the do-
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estic affairs,, of other nations. i protests... .
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i The >anethods used are obv
- The appalling fa}lure or The
ously distasteful and sens, Register to objectively connect
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tional, both to the public an
o.;and analyze the recent protest
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But, i must asx, now uvuN ally, other disheartening display of
j one who honestly believes that.' intellectual cowardice. -
some of our governmental ac
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nation as a free. society is to
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survive, get those questions cir- EDITOR many NOTE times, criticized CIA'op-.
culated, let alone asked or an- erations, and our columns are
swered? ... 1 open for comment from others.,
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g ;Our editorial, referred to above, aster chose to separate this-noted with approval` formation
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