CIA CHIEF NEXT TO KENNEDY IN POWER

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2013
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• Publication Date: January 29, 1962
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The Washington Post
29 January 1962
tCIA-Chief Next to Kennedy in Power
By Drew Pearson'
Some people may wonder
why I have been writing so
much about John .McCone,
now .up for Senate confirma-
tion as head of
Central Intern-
'gene e. They
may wonder
whether I have
a personal
grudge against
.Mc-Cone. The
fact is I have
nothing against
.MeCone per-
sonally, don't
believe I've
even met him:
But the most important per-
son molding U. S. foreign pol-
icy, next to the President, is
prabably the head of Central
I MeV !gene?. The public
doesn't realize this, but it's
true. More than even the
Secretary of State, the head
of CIA can depube kings or
presidents, foment revolu-
tion, take us close to war.
Furthermore, he doesn't have
to report to Congress, or even
to the General Accounting Of-
fice for the money he spends.
He is thronly Government of-
ficial with this exemption.
His power results from two
Pearson
facts:
?
1. lie can tine money end
agents to subvert and under-
mine a foreign government
and nobody in Congress knows
about it.
2. He reports to the Presi-
dent And the man who re-
ports the facts on a foreign
situation to be a certain way
has the power to make de-
cisions.
Let's take some examples.
These are not mythital ex-
amples, but concrete facts
Which can be Proved.
The Cuban fiasco?In April
1961, following the tragic
failure at the Bay of Pigs,
Secretary of State Rusk in-
formed a seminar of editors
in Washington that "the in-
telligence from Cuba was in-
accurate and very poor." Rog-
er Hilsman Jr., Chief of State
Department Intelligence, In-
formed a newsman, "our in-
formation on Cuba was quite
different from CIA's but we
were not consulted."
Business Finances CIA
In brief, CIA had informed
President Kennedy that condi-
tions inside Cuba were ripe
for revolution, that the Cuban
people would rise up to join
the freedom fighters. Mr.
Kennedy believed these facts
to be accurate and made the
wrong decision. Thus the Pow-
er to report actually gave the
CIA the virtual power to
make the decision-
Business Money Behind CIA
?After the Bay of Pigs fiasco,
I reported that certain U. S.
business firms, one of them a
big oil company, had put up
several hundred thousand dol-
lars to finance the Cuban free-
dom fighters.
This meant that foreign pol-
icy was further divorced from
the constitutional channels of
government and financed by
private corporations with a
property stake in Cuba. This
can be one of the best ways
to drag PIO million People into
war for the benefit of a hand-
ful.
However, this is the way
CIA operates. Corporation
heads are given the privilege
of looking through CIA files.
Corporation officials abroad
Influence and cooperate with
CIA agents.
CIA Chief McCone admits
he owns $1 million of Stand-
ard Oil of California stock
and is not going to sell that
stock. Wasajing companies
make several millions dollars
for 'various corporations. How
can he possibly divorce his
judgment from decisions that
the amazing network of intelli-
gence and espionage opera-
affect his companies is a ques-
Lions which will come under
Lion some Senators are asking. the man who heads CIA and
OPERATIONS IN SPAIN? who, because of his power,
After Prof. Jesus de Galindez must be examined for con-
was kidnaped from New York filets of interest and other
in 1956, Allen Dulles phoned qualifications.
District Attorney Frank Hogan Conrrleht, 1962, Hell Syndicate, Inc.
in New York asking that a CIA
agent be permitted to look over .......
the Galindez papers. It then
became known that CIA had I
put up $1,016,000 for Galindez
to operate a Basque network in
Spain. The Basques hate ?
Franco. so this network could
only have worked. against
Franco, who has given the
United ,States military bases.
The State Departinent knew
nothing about this.
OPERATIONS IN COSTA
RICA?In 19.53-54, President
Figueres of ,Costa Rica dis-
covered that a CIA agent was
tapping his telephone. The
agent was caught. Figuercs
was probably the most pro-
American of the duly elected
Central American presidents,
and the discovery of a phone
tap didn't help our relations.
The State Department knew
nothing about this CIA job.
It was suspected that either
Gen. Somoza -in Nicaragua,
who hated Figueres, or U. S.
business interests inspired
CIA to top the Figueres phone.
OPERATIONS IN IRAN?
When Mossadegh was in pow-
er in Iran, the CIA offered
Mohamed Ossein Ghashghai
a prominent' Iranian leader,
$4 million in cash if he would
lead a revolt. The money was
to be deposited in a Swiss
bank.
The offer was turned down,
but later Allen Dulles flew
to Rome and worked with the
Shah's sister, Princess Ashraf,
in starting a revolution which
succeeded. ?
annually shipping ore and oil This is a cross-section of
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