BILL ANDERSEN CIA: CRITICISM, INQUIRY, ANTAGONISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000500110048-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: February 5, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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WAS1IINGTON-Since the Day of
Picts, when the United States lost its
gamble under the Kennedy achninistra-
tion to overthrow Fidel Castro, the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency lies suffered in
malty areas of public opinion.
It has also. suffered iaernally, going
thru a successor of directors and los-
ing, other key peopie under Three Presi-
dFnts [starting with henncy] who did
not totally believe what the CIA reports
were saying;.
The CIA was created in 19 i3 by the
late president Truman [as the Central
Intelligence Group] from the skeleton
of the wartime Office of Strategic Stud-
ies. It was formed in an effort to col-
lect ill fformation [or spy] on other na-
tions as much as they did en us. From
the start, it v, as an agency cloaked in
semi-secrecy rioted for generating de-
bate.
/~A11 early director, Adnl. )l)-cot It.
1 Ilillcnkocater, had warned the Truman
administration of the than impending
Communist invasion of. Snu?ll l:oren -
and apparently was lei'.;tccd for his
accurate prod iction by Gel. \\ alter Be-
) dell Smith.
tpahb`ed h('a:':i+ll s Idu'.'in
Smith Olen
the San. Joseph B. \i( C'arth y pcrin,i I
by stating; in l-ttit',ic there ens ;i ''flor'al
certainty" that Committal t spies had
penefriderl every aecuriiti t eery in
\\'ashin^,tnn.
Smith (lid not last long at the CIA
after that and ,was ref;li.cod by the
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pipe-smoking Allen W. Dulles, brother
of John Foster Dulles, President Risen-
hewer's secretary of state. Dut':('s put
McCarthv down after the senator
charged there were double agents oper-
ating within the CIA.
])Mlles, the first civilian chief of the
CIA came off as sort of ii super'-sly
because of Ills esp'.oits in the ()SS dur-
ing World \ it, It. After sO ving off
McCarthy, he continued to build the
CIA froii a small ;;epee} [stud tint with
1,500 agents] to a worldwide tictll'vi
that began to do more than make esti-
m; test of what foreign pow cg's might
do. 1
Still, the Hoover coot mission lookerl
lido the operation, of the ag.ncy and
cleric up with a report saYiO(t it was
"Tilt iligci,cc. data
Inking in colecfll,g
front behind the Iron Curt tin." Stena-
while, the CIA squabbled with the
c+a;ahlisacd inteili, cn,^.e ::rats Of the
three militory services. In one crsc it
had enough clout to gel. i.` Allays
cllicf of intcili^.oncc IG?~~i fire .
)iv 1PM the CIA
ya.it),t;', :) G^1 a ye:n' ir0'.. it bout c' billion). A Vicar later it
teal']llod that there V "JS ;.n Tate l +.e
Comi??lmi: t drive l ' li l':Ca\' in
Aioul ica. And than the roof !lea +n t,i
fail in oil tic cn:y after its petit,
ili,x. iii,. })-:'. shot dour e?'? i
]iu,si!I. e incid,,'r,t ccuisi i', etcii :.. .
ant t}l( t'a 1eel!aticn o; it ;a;+tc:-ltu..iatt suntunit,
%%i:h a public trial of pilot Francis G.
YG',i
Tire clamor really began, the,
niter the ;;_tcnlptcd invasion of Cuba
old red ii t^c' Iaic Pre.,ic'.ent Kennedy,
the lute Itobert I'. Kennedy pcrscnally
ran an i;trc ti.::,tion of the aency as
blonde to:' the. fiasco began to fail on
ttc CIA for furnishing faulty data. Aft-
er a i:art period of grace, Dulles left
a, director to be replaced by John A.
McCune, a business executive.
Adm. \Villiarl F. [Red] Ittahorn fol-
]o,,,'d in the Johnson administration.
If .lira's 1)igges:t early flap was a ciiarslc
l the CIA got involved in an L clc-esian
government upheaval. But the imvolve-
mcnt also spread to the Con*e, Viet
Nam, and apparently to :torte domestic
IL;e+;igence activities. The deputy direc-
t,-'r then was Richard I dins, a career
o crnment rcan< ^cment cxnert.
Ilehns moved on to director curing
the Johnson crc, of 1t;,316, assuring Con-
press tint the CIA did not cr_aatc for-
eign policy. I':elms continued to feel
public heat because of the CIA finar,c-
iii of fourdatio:-; ;+r,i ,.'udcr.t activi-
ties. lie l': as (1efca_