GRUMBLING ABOUT CIA INTENSIFIED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800180014-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: January 31, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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JA, N 3 1 1965
CPYRGHT
Sanitized
ith lu?
BY IiJll'AItD J. X-,CI.EL ON competence a.
den in ti'C Jo ris011 a,li iis`r;it101 ! 1lugC,'? Unvouchered sums al'e McCarthy sn s CIA is tine Only
) u (IC L for )le\t Year is a? .Cast federal agency that has not u n-1
$1 billion to be sper.1, by the cc;"- spent { dergono such a congressional "re-
teal Intelliponce & cncv. Thm in the past year, the House
view" since it was established !
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favoring t
the sum, about 1.1 per Cent 01 ail iorCCS i have in:,reascd as liberal Demo-
cnditurc; SGr Oscan
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. nlcalbcr, is s;>onsor n, a u,,.
setting up a select Senate invc -I
rgative unit to make tine i,rst
during the Truman adin',.nistra-
Lion. The only investigat oa that
resulted in overhaul was that
ordered by )'resident Kennedy
following the ;)ay of Pig:; fiasco.
Sen. McCarthy says Congress
must check out the validity of
rumors about CIA involy( mnent in
privacy.
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Saltonstall made clear in activtics far l)cyond tile or.; pal
:e agency is the iargcst G; sco of the Agency. -eresident
several comprising tae "ntcili? an in;ervicw that he will stand in Ti plan revealed in NO that he
this, his final year in public life,
Fence conlnlunity. or nearly 20 erred in approving legislation
C(A'sl
against any change in
years, it has never ocen sub stai n;. In ,c was chief sponsor setting g up the agency because he
j never intended to create a!
etted to review by c?iloress c jai
F lc siation in tilt Republican' n1'CSIigAtorS, t~ilih0l i ;ho R n ` rIG10a)~ AnCI-ds~. i fir" SON t-4.
work of the more tl',aa :5,6ii:. crit? ecn,l. c,f ccl 60th Congress setting, g
d f the T11e secret of how nlone, is
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IM, is concealed in tie budget cratc :'ot;ng Turks have offered
coinp::,lioil 'gills. They would go
is no secret,
estimates
lurtclar than tougher surveillance,
The 1 -ay ;t is concealed is
i:oweVC.. Rep. William Fitts
known only to a hand"',:) of vet
Ryan, i' Fork, w
crap ieislators. Many of \cly ould strip
tl:c
0 C(:~ of all. operations and limit
others have long resented CIA' vl` -o,e
lysis.
' , to research and ana,
its
pioyes headquartered in a huge
building in nearby Langley, Va.,
has to do merely with research
and analysis, the agency also
gets involved in cloak-aild-dagger
work.
RUHORED BLUNDERS
141iET CURIOSITY
Rumored blunders in the cloak-
and-dacccr cje;)art,mert - Cs-
y
up CIA 0.) a escen a
Wa ti 13 Office of Strategic funneled into CIA fro=lh Giaerj
Saltonstall says a great power
must have such secret intclli-
gclhec services, including covert
oi)eratiolls, because of conditions
in tilt world today. He cites
British intelligence, which goes
back t6 the Wars of the Roses in
tile; 15th Century, Funds used by
agencies is c:C 4C726,
this year. But growing criticism
of CIA promises to result in great'
er disclosure, of how is spends
phoney and under what controls.
PRIVATE
PIPELINES
Critics of the supposedly super-
sc'crct agency see remi.;:;crs ol-
cr
I piollage and govCrr.lllent-tOppiing tills organization, viuc-ni. I11 daily of its aCilvitkc:>>. Some
in the ''middle East, Cuba, the kind in the world, are known to most
private pipelines into me CIA,
Dominican Republic, Viet Nam, 1 very few government leaders. to employes Who Wor uit bills
Singapore and clscwacre -i' The name: of the director of ,
de pending in c >n?ress.
lliM1
1ti?hetted the curiosity of :on;; irate Lritis,l intelligence is never ma
corn ressnlcnr As a rc:;uit, pond- public. Newsmen also seem >n have
g ' such--pipelines. Coluninsts i:cep
in; bills to subject CIA to closer Sen. Saltonstall says "our
congressional surveillance are friends and allies would be an. reporting unfavorably on n e j
taken more seriously than in past tal;onized and the lives of brave effectiveness, of CIA's dircror,
1 , en would be jeopardized, if CIA Vice Aclm. William F. (Red) Ra- +
years. m , born, USN., Ret. He is blanked
The major bill, lwnicil would , " ,, to come out in the open, 1~ e
up a joint congresaional "Watch- would lose the benefits of the ex- for an alleged decline In morale.
dog" committee for CCI1tsal In. change Of '1t1f01'lh1at1011 we now Research' ard' analysis c'pots
n d ?d d ? 0?4, c r? j1.
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,Senate for many fears by Moll- "Every meeting I have at-
tana's 'like Mans;jcld, , now tended has brought forth frank
majority leader. answers to every q u e s t i 0 n
In the House the chief sponsor raised." Saltonstall said.
is an administration stalwart and \;cC(1:.TIiY tiVn `TS
ranlcng Forcjgn Altairs Commit- iSE,NA E REVIEW
.W
!?' tee Democrat, rep. "h..bl.lcht,of
Milwaukee. Zablocki has long felt I Sen. McCarthy, D.-Minn., a
there should be a check on the Foreign Relations Committee
e v ?~
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are sal
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mcnt of cloasc and dagger opera
lions.
It is almost a daily o:currcace
.for the pres.; to have cotters to
con at-
the editors with pro an";
titudes about CIA, or s;ti;ements
from unfricr:diy chiefs of slate
around the world, blaming C(A
for fonhentttg revolutions. A nu-
t ritional scientist who Was dis-
covered drowned under mysteri-
ous circumstances in a canal in!
Holland several weeks ago was
identified as a Washin,ton resi-
dent with C(A connections. J