MR. DULLES'S CLOAK AND DAGGER BOYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01009A000701010069-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: February 4, 1955
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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somas the first time in history that the
# House, or ?Senatehad been ,called
-upon ;to 4 pass ? a?gproposed - statute'
"without having full and detailed
information of the .provisions of the
'bill",
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The Washington Post. in an
1"1editorial on January 9, 1953. cited
4 instances of exploits ,of ?the C.I.A.
" which, have been the subject of
many whispered complaints
/ It alleges that one C.I.A. activity
consists of subsidizing a " nco-Nazi
'organisation " in Germany which had
imarked leaders of the Social Demo-
cratic . Party for "liquidation".
Examples were also cited of the,
C.I.A. supporting, according -to Viet:
namese, -. Siamese- -and Burmese
'sources, the activities of the Chinese'
1 Nationalist forces - operating . in
Burma. -
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by BERNARD DIX
CIA., the American 'intelligence
agency headed by Mr: Allen
Dulles, brother of the Secretary of
State, is not content with helping'
to overthrow the Guatemalan'
Government, blowing ? up "Red "
railway 'lines,' and other counter-
revolutionary activities (Tribune,,
December 24th). ?
It has also?so' it appears-rbeen
snooping around at home in the
United States. ,And its activities are
to a large extent beyond the control
'of Congress. (
Section 10(b) of the-Central Intelli-
gence Agency Act of 1949 says: "The
sums made available to the Agency
may be expended without due regard
Jo the provisions of - law and . the
regulations relating to the expenditure
of government funds; and for the
objects of a confidential, .extra-
ordinary, or emergency nature
'A Senator from Colorado said then
that this was the most sweeping
legislation that the Congress had
been asked to pass and he expressed
fears of " military Fascism" and the
fl
?establishment of a "military
Gestapo". 1;1
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Playing ,,with' fire. '
,And Senator Langer said,. that this
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m Americans also seem ?n
1,1 cerna over its ,activities within the
/ United States ? itself.- Last March
1Scnator Mansfield quoted the case of
two C.I.A. agents who spread false
reports -that Owen .Lattimore- was
;about to flee the country and refused
IIto testify-when subpoenaed. ,.? ?
'Worried Senators -11'
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" Does this incident." Mansfield
!asked. "mcan that , the - C.I.A. is
!getting into the internal security field
lin competition with the F.B.I.? Does
1it mean .that officials of .this govern'.
meat agency can defy ,the courts
- Senator. Mansfield _warned: We
cannot permit CI.A.E, any more than1
we 'lean - permit ....any ? government,
agency, to have free rein to do any-
thing it wants anywhere :in the
world. - If its agents play carelessly'
with fire, the ,whole world might, get-
burned .. ." _ .
I s- The estimates of staff controlled by
Allen .W.'? Dulles vary widely from
8.000 to 30,000, and estimates of
annual expenditure from 500 million
to 800 million dollars. The 'figures
, 'are dangerously vague. But them-arc
clearly a , lot of men and a lot of'
money engaged in this nasty business
?and it ? is apparently beyond the
control s of the elected American
representatives. 4 ?
' Senator Mansfield is not the only
'man to be worried by the cloak-and-
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dagger crew.
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