MYSTERIES OF THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700440013-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 27, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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ng view of .i le CIA is un- ' At the very least it vv" a matter merit-
cavity cez 4iMd version of ing some discussion when John A, McCone's
V just _r lptepd by the Sen- ' nomination -as Director of the CIA we s
,tnittee. before the Senate. Since 'Symington was
on (D-MO.) 'is a major -cas lty of the C "A's "now-you-
the so-called see-it, now-yoti.don't" r4listle.gap hypothe-j
harmed the nation, sis,.,one might ' have expected Mm to have '
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or of the manipula- The Senator's, omptacency In light of this
r devious reasons. disclosure has a certain fascination too.
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;may.l6tve been a figment , been in the vanguard of those demandb:g
such a discussion. Instead he was a leader
p 'p-as created by the in discouragi debate !over the need for
t;;ency," the $enatbr added conroYt over the tIA and in hea?i
Ve with Defense Secre ing off a probe of whether McCone's biaseis,
it has been eliminated; might accentuate the existing weaknesses
.ted by the national of the Agency:
air to raise a M- osit commented.in.aummarizing CIA's reversal.
inst the CIA--either of its estimate' of Soviet missile strength.