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"task force" once a month or
so.
He s aid he probably was
chosen for the job because of
his prior contacts with the CIA.
He recalled that he headed the
United States secret mission to
North Africa that paved the
way for the Allied invasion of
Africa in World War H.
McCarthy announced at the!
Army-McCarthy hearings June l
2 that he was studying alleged,
"Communist infiltration into''
the CIA." CIA Director Dulles'
fired back t h a t McCarthy's
"charge that the CIA is penetrated by Communists is false.';
McCarthy, who h e a d s the
Senate Permanent Investigat-
ing Subcommittee, said the final
verdict must depend on sworn
testimony. He asserted Dulles
has ordered his men not to
testify, and declared it would
be up to Congress to decide if
CIA officials are "exempt from
testifying."
Officials said that Dulles,
hacked by the White House,
took the stand that he could not
let McCarthy examine his sub-
ordinates in the free-swinging
fashion that has marked the
Senator's past inquiries.
But some officials have main-
tained that the CIA--especially
because of its necessary secrecy
-needs some kind of "watch-
dog" overseer such as the Joint
Senate - House Atomic Energy
Committee.
A "national security task
force" of the Hoover Commis-
sion, when the commission was
making its original study of
Government reorganization sev-
eral years ago, suggested the
desirability of a congressional
"watchdog" committee for the
CIA.
Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-
Mont.) has introduced a bill to
provide such a committee of 18
members, to be called the Joint
Committee on Central Intelli-
gence. It was co-sponsored by
20 other Senators.
Mansfield told the Senate
there has been no congressional
check on the Agency since it
was set up in 1947 as the Gov-
ernment's top. clearing house
for intelligence from all over
the world. Unless a special
committee is set up, Mansfield
knowing whether we have a
fine intelligence service or a
very poor one."
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By The United Press
WASHINGTON, July 4.-For-I
mer President Herbert Hoover
announced today that his Gov-
ernment Reorganization Com-
mission will study the "structure
and administration" of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency.
C. I. A. director Allen W.
Dulles, who once blocked Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy, R., Wis.,
from investigating the agency,
immediately issued a statement
saying he "welcomed" the an-
nouncement. Sen. McCarthy
has said the problem of Red in-
filtration of C. I. A. is one of
the worst in government.
Mr. Hoover said Gen. Mark
W. Clark, former United States
Far Eastern commander, will
head a commission task force
that will make recommenda-
tions on the super-secret C. I. A.
and "other kindred foreign ac-
tivities."
Mr. Hoover said "other per-
sonnel of the task force will' be
announced at a future date."
His brief announcement gave no
hint of the nature of the forth-
coming study of the C. I. A., nor
of the reasons for it. The Hoover
commission has been delegated
by Congress to make a new
study of steps to streamline and
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branch.
Gen. Clark, who now heads
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C. I. A. Set-Up To Be Studied
By Herbert Hoover's Group
Charleston, S. C., said he was
approached by Mr. Hoover, a
"close personal friend," two or
three days ago. He said he ac-
cepted "because I felt it was so
important for the welfare of
our country I could not turn it
down."
Asked whether the commis-
sion inquiry was a move to "beat t
Sen. McCarthy to the punch,"
Gen. Clark replied: "I think it
has nothing to do with McCar-
thy at all. It is merely part. of
the Hoover commission's job of
effectively reorganizing agencies
of the executive branch of the
government."
Gen. Clark said he expects to
come here in about two months
to confer with Mr. Hoover and
then start work. He said his job
will be to give guidance to a
working committee.
He said he probably . was
chosen for the job because of his
prior contacts with the C. I. A.
He recalled that he headed the
United States secret mission to
North Africa that paved the way
for the Allied invasion of Africa
in World War II.
Sen. McCarthy announced at
the Army-McCarthy hearings
June 2 that he was studying
alleged "Communist infiltration
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Sen. McCarthy, who heads the
Senate Permanent Investiga-
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tions subcommittee, said the
final verdict must depend on
sworn testimony. He asserted
Mr. Dulles has ordered his men
not to testify, and declared it
would be up to Congress to de-
cide if C. I. A. officials are "ex-
empt from testifying."
Military experts said that Mr.
Dulles, backed by the White
House, took the stand that he
could. not let Sen. McCarthy ex-
amine his subordinates. in the
free-swinging fashion that has
marked the Senator's past in-
quiries.
But some officials have main-
tained that the C. I. A.-espe-
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REMARKS: r-'
Jack:
Mr. Dulles as I return
this clipping to him/
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WASHINGTON
------ By ROSCOE DRUMMOND
The Vital Role of C. I. A.
WASHINGTON.
If you drew up a list of the ten most influential officials in
Washington, his name would probably not even occur to you.
If you looked at a chart of the .Federal government and
sought to trace the lines of largest authority, his agency would
hardly be visible.
He sits in the Cabinet not by act of
Congress, as do most of the other mem-
bers, but by special direction of the
President.
I'm referring to Allen W. Dulles.
He administers the least publicized, the
least understood but the most vital arm
of the United States government, the
Central Intelligence Agency. Whether as
its director Mr. Dulles does or does not
do his job well-overwhelmingly well-
very likely determines, more than any
we are winning or losing the cold war,
whether we are or are not making the
right judgments toward averting an
atomic war.
The Dulles-operated C. I. A. Is the
intelligence instrument of the National
Security Council within which the most
important decisions of policy and action
are made.
Mr. Dulles makes no policy decisions whatsoever-and nothing
could more misleadingly measure the critical and powerful role
he plays.
What it is Mr. Dulles' duty to do is to provide the basis-
that is, the information, the appraisal, theJntelligence estimates
-on which the highest policy
decisions are made, to the service of the nation."
If the C. I. A.'s intelligence is It gave this estimate of Allen
inadequate, then American pol- Dulles: "Industrious, objective,
icy will almost inevitably be selfless, enthusiastic and imag-
inadequate. inative."
If there are serious short- But the task force report and
comings in the C. I. A.'s opera- the Hoover Commission con-
tions and. if there are serious eluded that what
is, good cane
telligence estimates-this isn't made better. Theyl believe we
something that is just regret- can get better and fuller infor-
table, this is something close to m_ation from behind the Iron
fatal. Curtain; they feel intelligence
All this is why the Gen. Mark operations should be "bolder,"
Clark task-force study and re- less diplomatically constricted
port on the C. I. A. and the and that some internal reorgani-
related intelligence agencies of zation would help to this -end.,
the government, undertaken for They advocate a Congressional
the Hoover Commission, cannot wathhdog committee and suggest
be appraised on the same basis that a specially selected, small
as other critiques of other Fed- commission of private citizens
eral operations, should look over the C. I. A.
What I am trying to say is operation periodically.
that there is no good having a The-C. I. A. has no occasion to'
second-best air force. be sensitive of this t
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orce
I am not suggesting that the criticism. The praise Is substan-
C. I. A. operation is second-best; tial and the criticism friendly,
'I am only suggesting that just
and we all ought to, appreciate
meni surveys go, from the Clark
is no reason why the C. I. A.lmuen at its disposal and that the
or Congress or the public can sit standard for judging its opera-
back comfortably amid mutual tion must be not just r.. high "A"
Gen. Clark's Investigation Realistically, the C. I. A. can,
found no foundation for Sen. perhaps, afford to be wrong once,
McCarthy's charges that the but it can't afford to be wrnne
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risks" and said the intelligence job and we have to be tough in
agencies were led "by a group judging it,
which is sincere and dedicated rnnvrwh+ ,.? ,..
 The Weather
Today-Considerable cloudiness and
cooler, with highest temperature near
80. Tuesday-Partly cloudy and a
little warmer. Sunday temperatures:
High, 88 at 1:56 p. m.; low, 72 at
4:35 a. m. (Details on page 16.)
77th Year - No. 212
CIA Study
Is Scheduled
By Hoover
'b'ask Force
Gen. Clark to Head
Group Looking Into
Agency's Structure
And Administration
By Lee Nichols
United Press
Former President Herbert
Hoover announced yesterday
that his Government Reor-
ganization Commission will
study the "structure and ad-
ministration" of the Central
Intelligence Agency.
CIA Director Allen W.
Dulles, who once blocked Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.)
from investigating the Agency,'
immediately issued a state-
ment saying he "welcomed"
the announcement. McCarthy
has said the problem of Red
tu6ltration of CIA is one of
the worst in Government.
Mr. Hoover said Gen. Mark
W. Clark, former U. S. Far
Eastern commander, will head
a Commission "task force"
that will make recommenda-
tions on the super-secret CIA
and "other kindred foreign ac-
tivities."
He said "other personnel of
Probe by McCarthy
Would Bring `Clash'
Big head-on clash with Ad-
ministration due if McCarthy
persists in plan to investigate
CIA, writes Roscoe Drum-
mond. Page 9.
the task force will be an-
nounced at a future date'."
The brief announcement
gave no hint of the nature of
the forthcoming study of the
CIA, nor of the reasons for it.
The Hoover Commission has
been delegated by Congress to
make a new study of steps to
streamline and modernize the
Federal
Executive branch.
Clark,
who now
heads
The
Citadel,
military
school
in
Charleston, S. C.,
told
the
Unite d
Press he was
ap-
proached
by Mr. Hoover, a
"close personal friend," two. or
three days ago. He said he ac
cepted "because I felt it was
so important for the welfare
of our country I could not turn
it down."
Asked if the commission in-
quiry was a move to "beat Sen.I
ator McCarthy to the punch,"
Clark replied:
"I think it has nothing to do
with McCarthy at all. It is
merely part of the Hoover Com-
mission's job of effectively re-
organizing agencies of the Ex-
ecutive branch of the Govern-
ment."
Clark said he expects to come
here in about two months to
confer with Mr. Hoover and
then start work. He said his job
will be to give guidance to a
working committee, and he'
probably will meet with the
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BY 1100 VFJ 610llP;
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Former Far East Commander
Denies Attempt to Beat
McCarthy to the Punch
Task Force Aiso Will Survey
`Other Kindred Foreign
Intelligence Activities'
EyThe United Press.
WASHINGTON, July 4-For-
mer President Hoover announced
today that a study of the "struc-
ture and administration" of the
top-secret Central Intelligence
Agency would be made,
Allen W. Dulles, C. I. A. direc-
tor, who once blocked Senator
Joseph R. McCarthy, Republican
of Wisconsin, from investigating
the agency, immediately issued a
statement saying that he "wel-
comed" the announcement, Mr.
McCarthy has said that the prob-
lem of Communist infiltration of
the agency is one of the worst in
the Government.
Mr.Hoover said that Gen, Mark
W. Clark, former Far Eastern
Commander, would head a "task
. force" of the Commission on
Organization of the Executive
Branch of the Government that
would make recommendations on
the agency and "other kindred
foreign intelligence activities."
The former President, who is
chairman of the commission,
added that "other personnel of
the task force will be announced
at a future date."
The announcement gave. no in-
dication of the nature of the
study or the reasons for it. The
Hoover Commission has been del-
egated by Congress to make a
new study of steps to modernizes
the Executive Branch.
General Clark, who now heads)
The Citadel, military school in
Charleston, S. C., said that he
was approached by Mr. Hoover,
a "close personal friend," two or
three days ago. He accepted, he
added, "because I felt it was se
important for the welfare of our
country I could not turn it
down."
Link to McCarthy Denied
Asked if the commission in-
quiry was a move to "beat Sena-
tor McCarthy to the punch,"
General Clark replied:
"I think it has nothing to d
with McCarthy at all. It is mere-
ly part of the Hoover Commis-
slot's job of effectively reorga-
nizing agencies of the Executives
Branch of the Government."
The General said that he ex-'
petted to come here in about two
months to confer with Mr. Hoo-
ver, then start work. He added
that his job would be to give
guidance to a working commit-
tee, and that he probably would
meet with the task force once a
month or so,
General Clark said that he
probably had been chosen for the
job because of his previous con-
tacts with the intelligence agen-
cy. He recalled that he had
headed a secret mission to North
Africa that paved the way for the
Allied invasion of Africa in World
War II.
Mr, McCarthy said at the
Army-McCarthy hearings June 2
that he was studying alleged
"Communist infiltration into the
C. I. A." Mr. Dulles, who blocked
a McCarthy attempt to investi-
gate the agency last year, replied,
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Post Office, New York, N. Y,
The New York Times Studio
TO STUDY C. I. A.: Gen.
Mark W. Clark, who will i
head a commission task
force that will make recom-
mendations on the Central
Intelligence Agency.
Irk im.e~.
Copyright, 1954, by The New York Times Company.
NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1954,
Times Square, N
Telephone LAS
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OF C. I. A. SET
BY. HOOVER GROUP
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that the Senator's "charge that
the C?I A. is penetrated by Com-
munists is false."
Mr,; McCarthy, who .heads the
Senate Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations, 'said that the
final verdict. would 'have to de-
pend on sworn testimony. He as-
serted that Mr. Dulles 'had or-
dered his men not to testify, then
declared that it.would be up to
Congress to decide if the agency
officials were "exempt from tes-
tifying."
'Watchdog' Group Urged,
Military experts said that Mr.
Dulles, backed by the Wpite
House, took the stand that he
could not let Mr. McCarthy exam-
ine his subordinates in? the free-
swinging fashion. that- had
marked the Senator's past in-
quiries.
However, some officials have
maintained that the agency, es-
pecially because of its necessary
secrecy, needed some kind of
"watchdog" overseer, such as the
Joint Congressional , Committee
on Atomic Energy.
A national security task force
of the Hoover Commission, when
the group was making its origi.
nal study of Government re-
organization several years ago,
suggested the . desirability,; of a
Congressional "Watchdog" com-
mittee for the C. L: A
Senator Mike : Mansfield,,Demo-
crat of Montana, has introduced
a bill to, provide such a'commit~
tee of ; eighteen 'members, tq,, bel
called 'the, Joint Committee on
Central Intelligence. Twenty
other Senators are co-sponsors of
the measure;
Mr. Mansfield told .the Senate
that there had been no Congress
sional check on the agency':sirnce
it was set up in 1947 as the ?Gov-
ernmet's top clearing house for
intelligence from all over' the
world. ,'Unless a special commit-
tee is; set. up, lie-said , "we will
have no way of knowing whether
we have a fine intelligence, berv,
ice or a very poor one."
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