SURPRISING REPORT ON METHODS OF CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800160038-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 38
• Content Type: NSPR

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LANSING, MICA
STATE JOURNAL;
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8. 69,552
APR 12 1965
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Surprising Report
may have more knowledge of CIA Perhaps the information disclosed {
eluding some of this country's enemies,+ methods employed by the CIA.
As a result of a written report to his Young has chosen to publicize in his
constituents; many more persons, in- ' report to his constituents any of the
seas offices. What is surprising to us is that Sen.
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tor, as a rhenaber of a Senate appro- there is always the possibility that some
n,rinfinnc cnhf'nmmittnn visit.Ed virtual- of 4znrh nnorntives are really working in
propriated for the CIA, whose funds are It;.isn't surprising that the CIA
concealed in the budgets of dozens of makes use of Communists to obtain. in-
other federal agencies. formation it deems important to main-
the North Dakota sena- taining America's security even though
Last winter
know precisely how much money is ap- * *
On of CJA,
Methods Sen. Milton R. Young, ., is -no oo so -
one of the few men in Washington with- price will work for us, he said.
a lawful opportunity to have knowledge "These , operatives . are experts in
of some of. the super-secret Central In- their line of work and they find little
telligence Agency's innermost secrets. difficulty, in adapting themselves to
He is one of only six senators who any kind of. political environment."
home folks, he, said that American cy's appropriations which the govern-
spies cannot work their way up in the ment takes such great pains to conceal J
apparatus of foreign' Communist par from U.S. taxpayers and, most other
"Many of our most valuable CIA opera- any information which could possibly
tives in vatious countries throughout be of .use to the Communists.
the world are actually high-ranking The methods employed by the CIA
Communist party officials." doubtless are of far greater interest to
Elaborating on his report to the, this country's enemies; than the agen-
i North Dakota included this statement: sure by any senator or other official of
methods and operations than they had by the senator was already, known to,
previously. our Communist adversaries but that.,
Sen. Young's report to the voters in possibility doesn't justify the disclo-
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