VIEW OF MR. JUSTICE WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001600030029-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: March 10, 1967
• Content Type: MF

10 March 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR : Director of Central Intelligence
Approved For Release 2003/03/28 : CIA-RDP80BO1676R0016000300
SUBJECT : View of Mr. Justice William. U. Douglas
1. In the light of Mr. Justice Douglas' announced appearance
on the CBS television show on CIA scheduled for Monday evening,
13 March,, I would like to invite your attention to the Justice's comments
on the Agency contained in his book Freedom of the Mind, published in
1964..
"The press does not cover the operations of the
Pentagon adequately. Nor can it report truthfully on
the Central Intelligence Agency. This agency has
been more responsible than any other agency for
foreign policy in the Middle East. Its movements are
not known. The manner in which it intercedes in
foreign elections with its moneybags is never reported,
The reasons why it supports feudal regimes. the results
of its policiess, the dangers that it generates are not
known even to many of the Informed press,
"Secrecy of C. L A. and Pentagon operations is
defended on grounds of national security; and obviously
matters of espionage and counterespionage, as well as
many matters of defense, cannot be successful if they
are news Items. Yet why should the C. I. A, efforts to
influence elections abroad be a secret to the American
people when they are notorious in the foreign nation?
"This matter ol secrecy of government information
is a never ending controversy,, a* o " (p, 8)
2. These thoughts probably reflect the line Mr. Justice Douglas
will take on the television show.
HU is
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