WHEN WILL IT STOP?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R001200940001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 13, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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The right hand knows not what segment of the Lass defenses
the left hand doeth. No truer being financed with American
words than these can be written if dollars.
one accepts the alleg ~t.ioihs made All of which adds up, the
by Senator Stuart Symington of senator said, to the fact that vihile
Missouri during a speech on Congress and the Air,eri~?;h
October 4, this year. He was public is beinglk.ept unnforu ec as
alluding to the withholding of to our total involver. .!t it a--i
facts by the adiniIlistration about unannounced an z III::':
American involvement in Laos. war, and dollars neecl.'~! bcry CD
Symington charged} that in the home front are b?irg spent to
addition to the linnited in- maintain mercer ;?y armies in
for Ination given Congress by military activities of quo s tit,_-labl2
President Nixon on March 6, 1371, value the Defenze Department is
many other pertinent facts s~;; ing ackitiona1 funding to
Concerning the involvement were carry on operatIoris in direct
i uncovered by his subcommittee oar ositioii to the Will of Congress.
~ln J.-S. Security Agreements and Stating that the U.S. had already
Commitments Abroad as it tools spent O/ i $1.5 billion on various
testimony from administration military operations in Laos,
officials. Symington said, that a cost "in
They discovered that most of the neigllbir};co:l of $350 million"
the war in Laos is coordinated for a si;.g1e year was admitted by
through and by the American the Secretary of State in
embassy in Vi;:tiane. testimony before, his sub=
1 They learned t_';at the United committee.
States trains, arms, and feeds the A lot of money, any way you
Laos army and air foe ce. take it. And like the senator, most
That through the Central In- citizens of the nation will agree
telligence Agency, an irregular that if similar funds were being
army of coilsidera~~le size is spent to overcome some of our
trained, advised, paid, supported, internal problems the future
and coordinated, and is deployed would look a lot more cheerful.
in at least four of the five military And it would ba ironic if future,
regions in Laos. generations could point to the fact
That the CIA is totally that in saving Laos froiii corl-
responsible fora Iar e number of munisllt
we cz i, pl:,i.l our own
Thai soldiers serving; in Laos social structure. A passibility that
through direct cooperation of the is troubling' Senator Stuart-
- Thai government, another Syngton of Missou i.
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