THE CIA SUCCESS A SURPRISE FAILURE

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October 18, 2004
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October 3, 1974
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Approved For Release 200~4/10~2r8fQ1+A-RDP88-01314R0003 John Chamberlain THE CIA,. WHICH was started by President harry Truman to counter the wiles of the Soviet "spywar" aparat- chi'ms in promoting international sub- version, may have had its successes [in Guatemala, for example], but, insofar as the American public can judge from the part of the ice erg that shows above the water, it has never been noteworthy for its ability to carry off a really im- portant covert operation. It messed things up in Albania, in Indonesia, and at.the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. But now we are being told, by jour- P,lists who never minded its failures, that it has accomplished something ter- rible by its success in "destabilizing" the regime of Marxist President Salva- dor Allende in' Chile. I find this an odd commentary on the journalists invoived. If you are a patristic American who remembers that we once meant business about keeping E u.ropean powers from obtain g sinis- ter beachheads in the Western Herrmi- sahere, you might think, that the CIA, at Iona last, merits a little public praise. But if this is the way you do happen to think, it merei~ labels you as a rooss- back who still believes there was a good t-aason for the Monroe Doctrine. UT-U, s almost succeeded in his policy of eating out the substance of his opposition by closing in on their methods of earning their livelihoods. The middle class and the Chilean trade unions reacted just in time to save their necks. If the CIA really managed to give po d_rab:e aid to Chilean believers in '-nci. dual freedom in a' ' fight against Marxist collectivism, then' all honor it. But the present Washington cli- mate, can distinguish. between a good covert' operation aimed at sustaining our friends in the outer- world and a bad covert operation undertaken against Americans at home?'?Every?thing has been confused by Watergate, with the effect that we are now being rendered helpless against the continuing Marxist . campaign to? isolate Western Europe and the. U. S. and take over the world. Ed Hunter, the astute editor of a little magazine called Tactics, has recently reminded us of the CIA's long history of failure. Because it could not cope with superior Communist espionage, it sent men to their deaths in Albania and at the Bay of Pigs. Skipping over the CIA's~ one - great success in Guatemala, Hunter lists what he calls "Watergate-ITT" as another CIA bungling. We didn't act on the ITT WHAT TIME anti-CI.- claque is try- offer to fend of.f Allende in the first lag to tell us is that the day of the Mon- . Place. Tile Reds, he says, pulled off a r.oe Doctrine has cone forever. It is no PrcPa.;anhist ten-strike when they man- loriaer our bushoess to give help to Latin aged to link a felonious domestic Water- ?.merica^s who want to fight back gate with the ITT's wholly legitimate a,a st Marxist conspiracies dominated concern for the fate of its proper- as by Moscow or Peking whose aims are in Chile. to clc. e in on t: e United States and the SAYS IIUNTER: "Our Central In- Panama Canal from the southern part telllgence Agency and the International of the hemisphere. Telephone and T l e egraph Company The New York Time's Tone Wicker should be rebuked fen failure to act on tells l.s that it is nonsense to o believe the Allende gnveroment was. anything other than ieg:?t. It did not try, So Y/'icker li:SiC`S, to destroy opposition oa:t;ls or newspapers. An innocent of innocents, \ :ckcr has never read the late Caret Garrett on the subject of evol :ion ,;'thi t the fpms.? t'` nor Alle".CC, a Marxist v..-ho cane to }:'JCre- iS a r:;_::oriCy president with -10 _al : a idoio io push Chile into Co,r:: Ln-ns , had n cessar'ly to r?:oceed by behalf of free Peonies everv',v ;ere, v ;here ties coincides with the survival of our o.vn country. This is one price we are paying for Water ate, and it is time that we be- come clear about it in our own minds. o-'?--in ie ApProved*For Relase 2004/10/28: CIA-RDP88-01314R000300130006-3