THE CIA SUCCESS A SURPRISE FAILURE
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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
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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
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