REPORT MCCONE TRIED TO CENSOR BOOK ON CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001300140006-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 10, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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JUNE 10, 1964
Report McCone Tried
To Censor Book on CIA,
By The A.,Ancioted Preaa' of U. S. intelligence, includ-
MINNEAPOLIS. - ing the CIA's role in the Bay
Two top officials of. the of Pigs- invasion of Cuba.
Central Intelligence Ageney "We.asked twice that they.
have ? contacted a New .fork. (McCone and Carter) give us
publishing' house in an Rip- a list of any errors," the Ran-
parent. effort to suppress- or' don House source said. "They
censor a book due to be pub- said they would send it to us.
lisped about U. S. secret -iii- They never have."
telligence - operations, , 'The The source said Mr. Mc-
Minneapolis Tribune reported Cone and -Mr. Carter con-
yesterday. tended publication of the
In a Washington story book would be harmful to pa-
written by -correspondent - tional security,- but - did not
Charles W. Bailey, the Trib- claim that its publication
unc' said a Random House would violate any - security,
spokesman confirmed that classification of ? information.
both CIA director John Mc- Random Douse said the book
Cone and CIA Deputy Direc- names no CIA agents.
to Lt. Gen. Mashall S. Carter Paul Chretien, CIA public
complained about the book, information officer, told Mr.
"The Invisible Gevernment. Bailey the CIA would have no
The book is scheduled to go comment on the matter.
to press later this month. The story also was' carried
Mr. Bailey quoted his Ran-' in The Des Moines Register.
j dom House source, who asked
that he. not be identified, as
saying: -
"It seemed to me that the.
purposo (of McCone and Car-
ter) was either the suppres-
sion or the, altering of the
book we. were about to pub-,
?l1sh." The objections, - the,
source added, were on gener-
a1 grounds. -
Authore of the book are
Washington newsmen David
Wise and Thomas Ross. ' It
deals with - secret oper-ations-14
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