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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700560041-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: November 22, 1952
• Content Type: NSPR

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N'EW ''O;,Ic:''?. 2IRLA'L T?IBUNT.'2, u.LTU DA', NOVE BEfl 22, 1952
wanted information he had tolthe most powerful oiitce that has
t. `: r
Ili send to two or three departments ever existed in the history of this
a ,i^ iio get it and then he woofer have Zrcat world of ours," he said
::GO11;liis Kahn, Au,u;;tus 'Caesar;
`'i` 4f (-' '~, - f~' ~~ "r =? `9 to have somebody do a little dio
_d i t) / . L ~;! J' Z, .L. eat i\anoleon Bonaparte or!
ging to get it,' 1
Louis qTV, or airy ocher of tile
r, ~,~ r % 3 iv::tits to Cateh Up
great leaders and executives ofd
-' ' c-SLD The President said he had to the world can't even Compare with'
read a huge stack of documents what the President of the United.
w //}~ a ~] r ~wi.en he took ofizcet, and that "it States himself is responsible for,'
YYc Calls Ge--AA i cwi.?al Ji. ?.:(Z L:..ie 1
toc me three months to get when he maces a - decision; It is,
13qyoa1se:t' ?.)y SIZe o:: !O..:'Caught up." an Ofllce that is without parallel
"O l 1 1 d the~'n?tho history of the world,
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e
continuing propositiozl, 'Ind that
d.ra .. c? Ll crnotvei was rather Admiral William D, Leahy, chief the successor to me and the uc-
21p; aLcd aL his White house
b rieimg .here Tuesday at the snag- Of staff to the 1?'re$id.Ent) alhd cCS5 1 to him can carry on as if
""'? no C1eC6]Dlh had ever taken place,t
r,cude o toe job of chief execu-? ,.own, naval aide to President That is the prospect we are faced
President Truman said today, "` prospect
to about 200;.,cmploy- T oosevelt and to Mz. Truman dur- with now. I am giving this Presi-
ink the early days of his cLdrniuis- dent-this r^ President=more
tees of 'uhe Central Ina telligence
c c; in the .,,ricuiture'Dcpalt_ tration), I would talk to then
,,, information than any other Presi-
every morning and try to get all dent ever had when he went, into
ali;llt %-oclitorium-a closed meet- tile information T could. And office."
Ili[, ana a seer t speech later put -;iially one morning Y had a con-
the record-l%/Ir. Truman said: v,,,,.., This list theme was a repetition
sation with Adm. Leahy and
"I don't think anyone realizes of Mr. Truman's news conference
r suggested to him tha there should
the immensity of the problems that1, remarks yesterday, when the Presi-
e a Central Intelligence Agency,
face a President. of the United or the benefit of the whole e nov- dent said he was making a prece-
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States. it was my privilege a few dent by having representatives of
er?nment as well as for the benefit
days ago to brief the General who of the President, so he could be the new administration here to
is going to take over the office on . effect a smooth transfer of govern-
the 20th 'day ,of January, and he informed. ment responsibilities, and is one
was rather appalled at, all that Lauds C. '.. A. Wort which Mr. Truman has emphasized
President needs to know in "And the admiral and I pro- since Gen. Eisenhower's victory
~the
order to,reach decisions-even.do- ceeded to try to work out a pro- became certain election night.
mestic decisions, gram," the President continued." ?-?
"Tremendous rvesponsibility" "It has worked very successfully.
"No must know exactly what is We have an intelligence informa
irzplied by what he does. The tion service now that I think is
President 'makes a decision every not inferior to any in the world."
da ytlhat can affect anywhere from The United States now is "at the
100,000,000 to 1,500;000,000 people. top-the leader of the free world,"
It is a`trehiendous responsibility." la responsibility which should have
Mr. Truman remarked thltt it been assumed in 1920, Mr. Truman
is the C. I. A. which provides in- "thrust" upon it, And it is the
telligcnce morn all-`pe,z is : cif the duty of this country, he said, "to
ivoi ld Sol "ri..5 nifo m'sti 'a ,:each continue that leadership in the .
ziioznzzi said he w'as most_appi'c- manner that will prevent a tliircl
cititivo of th ("work of the-;t eney,lworld war which could mean the.
a on its employces to ;give el> of civilization," Thus' it is
the same loyal most important that the Executive
,service you, have given ine.' The kept fully. and promptly in-
1 Tie recaaleu 'that ivhen he be-'forlned, in order that he can make
proper decisions, the President : ? ?
carne President there was (.no -
concentrt.tion of information forlsaid.
., _tI " ' T xas dential ~_ -T.
the bEnc l"It of,thz Presictoffice isi,
~11iLt , ?? - -_ ?,?. ??,~-_? . _ _._
each department had its own in-
formation service "walled off from
every other'service," with the re- -
Esult that when, tile' President
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op e .,
at ~l.~lae otzse rie n n f Lw
c,V:lite .rouse really knew what was Seeks to Aid Continuity
r r. going on in the military affairs (,That principal reason
y amen ,.. Wanner is the d.^.partnlent,' ~?Ir. Truzn.~n said.
WASTT tiCTON, Nov. 21.-Pzzsi- why I a;n so anxious that it be a
money were Admiral Leahy C Fleet