CIA PROBE OVERDUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170044-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: November 29, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA Probe Overdue
4rrjfl7T'r i l Minister Lee correct and that Secretary of State
Ktaan Yew is fighting mad about the Dean Rusk had in fact written a
American Central Intelligence personal letter of apology," the Mon-
Agency's attempt to buy intelli ? itor laid. "By now this story of the
(EDITORIALS
gence from a senior Singapore polio. CIA's attempt to buy intelligence is
officer, according to the Christian, well known. It is particularly ;jell.
Science Monitor. known throughout Asia where in
He isn't alone in charging the CIA. many Asian eyes the CIA-justly'
with meddling in his country's of or unjustly-is seen as the coo; of
fairs. Prince Sihanouk, of Cambodia, all American evil."
President Sukarno of Indonesia, and Sen. Stephen Young, D-Ohio, has
admission that Mr. Lee's verslon`was Is up to.
"American Embarrassment was'
compounded by an initial denial
from Washington, then an abject
the CIA has made a nuisance out, of
itself, too.
In Singapore, the CIA. was caught
red-handed. Lee made the facts pub-
lic in circumstances calculated to
underline CIA obtuseness.
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had the courage to call for an inves-
tigation,of the. CIA's operations. lie
wants to trim this agency down to
size, and put the brakes on,its free-
handed spending. ,
Disclosures about the CIA's inter-
national bungling, and questionable j
methods point up the need for just
such a deep-spade probe. The public
has a right to know what the CIA