THE 'NEW' CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 12, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

' CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Sanitized -Approved For Release : IA=
AUGUST 12, 19
STATINTL
THE "NEW" CIA in South Victnnm should not have been
Mr. YOUTVCi of Ohio. Mr, President, withdrawn loaf; ago. Instead, they op-
the C.~:arat`. Intelligence Agency during crate a sort of an army of their own, In
recent :, :~nrs has pcrfonned in a frighten- many instances employ.(niS Vietnamese
inf: e:c.eulcr ill the judgment of many nationals, some of wliorr~ pose aS Viet-
thoughtful Americans. Furthermore, tong and are said IA 1-,ave committed
this .~,-cncy, which wns established for dastardly acts against the civilian pop-
thc s~'te our;~ose of collecting intelligence, ulation of South Vietnam. Whether
has bccanle a vast bureaucracy, and in these latter allegations are true I do not
recent years has rucked up one hor- know. I hope they are not. There is
rendous blunder alter another. risk however when an American intel-
It is no longer simply nn h~telllgenco ligence agency employs nationals of oth-
? collecting agency, it it ever was. er nations in positions of any respons!-
Wrnpped in its cloak of secrecy, it has bility.
become a policy forming agency. Even its it is well-known and verified that CIA
defenders cannot deny that its actions officials gave the Iate General MacArthur
hove greatly influenced our foreign faulty infoi?mntion in the Korean con-
policy, and in many instances to the flict. C~enerai MacArthur disregarded
' detriment of our Nntton. The CIA was his own intelligence furnished by officers
never intended to direct file foreign policy of the intelligence section of his air force..
of our?couiitry, nor do influence 1t, but He was so foolish as to belteve the CIA?
wns organized to be nn intelligence col- regarding the possible intervention of
letting agency, not an operating or Chinese troops in the Korean war. They
policymaking brnncll of our bVernment. informed him there was no possibility
In spending taxpayers' money, it 1s out- of Chinese volunteers crossing the Yalu
spending the entire State Department and attacking us. The result was our
with our embassies and far-fltulg diplo- Armed Forces in North Korea were divid-
mntlc seiwtce and Foreign Service offs- ed with a mountain range between them,
clnls throughout the world. The CIA has and suddenly 200,000 Chinese volun-
become asort of law unto itself. If it is ;leers" crossed the Yalu, attacked, and
a watchdog for the welfare of Americans, drove back our forces despite their heroic
as some of Its otriclals and employees :resistance. General MacArthur had
acclaim, then truL?r it is a watchdog shortly before announced that the con-
running wild without a muster. flict had ended with a glorious American
What CIA operntlves have done in re- victory and that the boys would be home
cent years in the Far East has in many ~' Christmas.
instances been a distinct disservice to our There is a saying, "Experience keeps
` country. With more than 300,000 men,a dear school, but fools learn in no oth-
oi our Armed Forces in Vietnam and er." Unfortunately, our generals appar-
Thailand and with every branch of our sully have not lenl?ned the lesson of CIA
Armed Forces having their intelligence'ineptne:s and failure fn Korea, in the
sections, one wonders why the many.U-2 incident of May 1960, relative to the
? huIIdreds 0f CIA o?cisls sad aperstivea Bay of figs invasion, and in several oth-
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Mr. President, the time has definitely
come for Congress to assert a more for-
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