IS ASSOCIATION WITH CIA GOOD?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300360026-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: May 11, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP80-01601 R000300360026-5
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J s ssociation
With QiLGood?
Some candidates in Nest Virginia have
made certain that their biographies in-
clude the information that they had been
employes of the Central Intelligence
`Agency.
We don't know 'why, The CIA apparent-
ly is the, world's' largest, most powerful
and most inep ionage agency.
lit was the CIA; you will recall, that'
didn't have the slightest advance knowl-
edge of the meticulously-planned 1963 Tet
offensive launched against all the major
cities in South Vietnam.
It was the same CIA, presently busy
with its own private war in Laos, that
didn't anticipate the North Vietnamese
thrust across the demilitarized zone.
The massing of troops, the stockpiling.
of supplies and other activities that pre-
cede ' large military offensives should
have been noticed by somebody on our
..side, we would think.
Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP80-01601 R000300360026-5