SENATE OK ON CIA ROLE IN VIET NAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700440006-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 11, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON.
i;,.,pa.f1 suffQ> eel since it., in-
The super-secret Central In- vQiyQAont 1t -the '1'961'3; of
clli^_er:ae Agency yesterday got pigs invasion fiasco.
its ecccr:d clean bill of health A key incident inspirin,, the
within 24 hours on its not-so- criticism was the raidu of
secret operations in embattled Buddhist pagodas Iasi :.ug.
South Viet Nam. 21 by Vietnamese rn-
After CIA director 7ghn A. ment forces, including s: rcial
McC a; , ri .d Scc;r a zz .e.d in forces" units bossed by c.:oun-
private for __41) re e..ai1ct a-half selor Ngo Dinh Nhu, brot:_:: of
hours by the Senate Foreign President Ngo Dinh Diem. The
Relations Committee, three key 7A-,.hid helped organize the
committee members dismissed ,, special forces" as a ack
charges that the agency had counter-guerilla unit.
strayed from the U. S. Policy
line in Viet Nam's Buddhist- Mr. Nhu, whose fiery 1. e is
government clash. now in New York, fs .:>l s a,
Their findings backed up tough policy againsr, tlje
firm defense of the CIAs Buddhists, who have b r .t re-
sisting alleged religious ., rs: -
operations by resident Ken- cution by the Diem gcverr;::ent,
nedy >5conference The clash presented a d 1. ; tn-.a
T~trsday' The President r?e- for the U. S., which w 5 mnt-
lectcd as `wholly untrue" itted to backing the c r:l-
charges that the CIA had acted mmeet against the Corn w isis
in conflict with other U. S? but deplored the repre: i of
agencies in Viet Nam an d the Buddhists.
with Washington's policy. He.
praised the outgoing CIA. chief
in Viet Nam, John H. Richard
son-now stripped of his dip-
lomatic cover and transferred
-as a "dedicated public ser-
vant."
The committee chairman,
Sen. J. William eht, D.,
Ark., said yesterday that a -
thrineh "there have been some
mistakes" the C?A had been
"no"1 fairly criticized."
ire wes snrnnrted t,v F^>
gnarl, avni.ino'tnn. 11.. M?.. ~arhn~
vrw>v. vws~,.?r .
rsl1'', -n cTiar"es against th"
r+allimence as nev " tof..al1vr
,.':~hnit former-tine." S-11.I
Yruva, chimed" f f-fliai t r~i e~" td
"not a shred of reliable evi-
rlence" that the CIA had over-
stennr'd its assigned role in
Virt Nam.
As the S'nators probed and
aonio;e~ the Aeerr't agency's
now wirlr'1p' p11b11cised One1?a-
1lntls. search nartins pllshin''
7"n11.nh the Vietnan c'se inn-1n
:-('covered t.h" bodies of 12
American servicemen who died
in two helicopter crashes Tues-
day.
The dead were nine. Marines I
including Corn. Charles F. Tut-
hill of Uniondale L I Find
,...1.hrea Navy men. A U. S. Air
Force pilot whom the helicnn-
trrs had been searching for
after his T-28 fighter bomber
crashed was also dead.
Investigators APPItOMMad iFj
determine whether the helic^p-