INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700380037-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 37
• Content Type: NSPR

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Intelligent Intelligence the" effects. on American intelligence ca
4~ .. w .~ aisc-1 ueing scrutinized agencies into a monolitlilc Defense In-
by Congress, as a by-product of the con- telligence Agency, Senator Stennis's com-
tinuing Cuban crisis. The inquiry of the mittee will presumably find out whether
Pabrhties of the recentenforced. merger
The adequacy of the nation's intelli- In- the Pentagon of +r,e th
ree
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, head- s merger
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ion or, even worse, facilitated the distor-
ed by Senator John Stennis of Mississippi,
Lion of intelligence by top policy makers
coincides by chance with the publication so that their evaluation of intelligence
of an article by Allen Dulles, former Di- would accord with their preconeeiv^d
rector of the Central Intelligence: Agent , 'policy. A Joint Congressional committee on
in which Mr. Dulles takes his f;lmiiia.r intelligence, composed of carefully selected
members stand against any further Congressional wouldpr?ovidetta c ntitnr ng coamin t es,
controls over the agency. and control of all intelli;cnec facilites,
We think--as we have often said be- something that recent history shows is
fore--that.Mr.Dulles is mistaken in this badly needed.
Stand. The establishmcut of a carefully
ac!ected joint Co,ngressiunai watchdog-
committee on intelligence (whose inac-
tions would approximate those of the
Joint Committe(: on Atomic Energy),
would Provide important control over ac-
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tivities that are rooted in secrecy and .
conducted without benefit of the normal
restraints and restrictions of democratic
government.
Intelligence is a cornerstone upon which
effective policy must be built. But intelli-
gence agencies should not themselves
innke policy --. as they haver sometimes
dime in the past. And the power they
wield, which derive;c primarily from. sec-
recy. Is so great that AL racjt be effec-
tively monitored.
Such a joint comnii,;..c rr' .nrld not be
limited to supervision ;,!. !,!c I.A. alone.
It should supervise the t at i ? intelligence
community for ode:; ? ffcetivencas
and abuse. This cunt.''! t:; li'I the more
important now, sinec 'here. 1,.t-n. glaring
gips - for whi,:ii no ',.. if Nlity has
becu publicly asse tte,I.itelligenc:e
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