'THOROUGH' HEARING ON CIA REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700550004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 7, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Affairs subcommittee that he -authoritative view of Harry' 1.
heads will "soon" hold hear- Truman, the man who created 'Ideally, he thinks, the best
ings on the report released tY e agency shortly after World solution- "was probably along
Plast week by the three-man: War of some time I have been?!. fothe , liowed--which British kept the
panel appointed by President! disturbed," the former Pros'- i. research and analysis func-
r3ohnson to investigate the;. dent said in 1963, "by the way tions in an organization sepa-
CIA's secret subsidies Of': CIA has been diverted from its rate from the secret intelli-
students. original assignment. It has gence-gathering functions, and
Since F asceli has already become an operational and at I. subordinated. the latter very
public',blessed the report times a policy-making arm of sharply to the Foreign Of-
t Y the government." Truman fice.11
'the supposition is that the, flatly stated that he had never But, as Hilsman points out,
subcommittee will be called'. intended for the agency to go such a drastic move would
I ? e le islation; ' and that,
on to confirm his advance I.,, bey9nd straight intelligence r
. require rers. g" lotion eland that,
most realistic position." nationhe said, "respected natural strength with the
It is just possible, however, for our free, institutions and , coalition of Southern Demo-?1
That the students who were for our ability to maintain a'crats and conservative Repub-
involved in these hidden free and nnnn societ? 'There i
licans that dominate Con-'!
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million QOllar . exPu11u-11I something. about the way the grass."
might have a more "realistic" CIA has been functioning that There is little doubt that the
as well as more knowledgea-.!. is casting a shadow over our hearing promised by Fascell;U
ble grasp of the situation than historic position and I feel that ? will soon make Hilsman look
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case, that 60 former officers i1npressively 'confirmed hv'
National Students Association under' both-~Kennedy and
charge that the report is a ; Johnson as director - of the
"poor substitute" for a full :`State Department's Bureau of
disclosure of the CIA's subsi- Intelligence . and Research,
dies to the NSA and similar and later as assistant
secre- tary of state for Far Fastern
a -: , Johnson panel record- affairs. In the first post he
mended terminating the was the department's chief
covert student operations, and'.;' liaison with the CIA.
suggested sofe other means There could hardly be a;
might be found to carry them',' better informed witness to the-
on openly. dominant role that intelligence
"We believe," the student has played in the last few
leaders said, "that the public years; and, in an absorbing
has a right to know more than book to be published later this
the report has told." They - spring, Hilsman brilliantly
want a thorough investigation, ? illuminates some of the obscu-,
conducted in public either by rities of recent foreign policy.
Congress or a panel of citi- (His book is not muckraking,
ze"y but fresh history. It is not an.
They are not likely to get'
their wish, for a "thorough" I , indictment of the. CIA, but a 1
investigation would almost conscientious effort to analyze
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dent matter, and get into ,j' recalls Allen Dulles, CIA's :.
areas of truly vital impor. most famous director, as,
fence, such as:
-Considering proposals to saying, "The National Securi
remove "black" operations : ty Act of 1947 has given intelli-.
from CIA management, and gence? a more influential
confine the agency to itsposition in our government',
on 7inal role of gathering and that intelligence enjoys in any
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g worldwide -inteili-
'ence; . ., other government of the
2-Determining whether the world." It was an understate,;
agency should be allowed to `,. ment.
continue making policy, as . "The basic trouble," says
well as carrying it out. Hilsman, -"was that the agen.
There has never been a cy was simply too powerful for
director of the CIA who hasn't ?; the narrow function for which,
expressly -denied . that the was _respdnsible, It com-
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