INTERVIEW WITH CORD MEYER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404610018-9
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: September 5, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM The Morton Kondracke Show STATION WRC Radio
September 5, 1981 II:08 Arid
Washington, DC
. Interview with Cord Meyer
MORTON KONDRACKE: Our subject for this hour is the CIA.
The intelligence agency is out now again recruiting bright college
graduates into our international relations and language special-
ists. Would you want your son or daughter to join the CIA? Do
you think that whatever post-Vietnam hangover there was in the
CIA's reputation is now over and it's now time to get the best
people in America again joining the CIA? Do you think it's an
honorable profession?
KONDRACKE: Our guest is Cord Meyer, syndicated colum-
nist, 26-year veteran of CIA service, former CIA station chief
in London, and author of the book "Facing Reality: From World
Federalism to the CIA."
Cord Meyer, you obviously, I assume, think that service
in the CIA is an honorable thing to do. Why?
CORD.MEYER: Well, I think that a considerable majority
in our country.. today would agree that we do need an effective
intelligence service in the United States, in view of the dangers
that exist abroad. It seems clear to me, and I think to many
other Americans, that if we do not have accurate, timely infor-
mation as to what's transpiring both as far as what the Soviets
are up to and what's going on in the Third World, which is in
turmoil, that the policies, the foreign policy of our government
can be badly mistaken, it can get us into an enormous amount of
trouble. And the most -- the really front-line necessity is to
have as accurate and timely information as possible as to what's
coming, so that a policy can be developed that can head of crisis,
a crisis if possible, and deal with It prudently and intelligently
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