STRAIGHT FROM WASHINGTON -

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170142-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 142
• Publication Date: June 4, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

i 1 1960
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA
e .47 STATINTL
Straiaht From"
? By STEPHEN 51. iGUNt?r
(United States Senator, Ohio)
\VASHINCTO" -Iths unfortunate
t lit t the h;. h Central Intelligence
\ ', n, v official, when our tT2 plane
u'a{ fwced down, failed to remem-
w,r the p r c r c p t, "Silence is
,nldcn."
Instead, h. issued a false state-
ment, resdily disproved. lie . and
other Eisenhower administration
tifirials in panic issued conflicting
statements. Ihe;? let the 1'resident
t+wn.
'l'he?.' turn-hod Khrushchcv with
,rr excuse fur bombast, bluster and
,jncontrolled vituperation.
It is unfortunate that . one of
;`,ece appointi%e officials, princi-
p,ihy resporsihl