PUTTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON SINGAPORE CIA SNARL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000500010005-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 14, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON -Isn't all Unfortunately, getting _ caught
this moralizing about the Con- is one of the risks of, the
`tral Intelligence Agency affair ;. espionage trade, and nobody
f in Singapore unbecoming the i,; going to give, facts and
conduct of a sophisticated na- I figures to prove that the ratio pore, even Prime Minister' Lee
tion crucially engaged, in cold !of faiures to ? success is 1,000 (who was not then interested a
and hot wars with Communist to?? 1. .,in using anti-U.S. tirades as a,
enemies who proudly proclaim stepping stone to membership'
that any means-however dirty: PUT the Singapore af- J in the Afros-Asian bloc) did
sen
-justify the end? fair in perspective, one of the I riot tal the ?affair very
Aside from the large quo mandates of the Central Intel- ously at the time and let the;'elirninatc ' an enemy ;'at tfie
tient of hypocrisy, the moral- It ligence Agency is to penetrate` arrested agent- out of jail after :leftists and thus possibly, induce.
a letter of a olo from Dean the rebels to accept compro
sizing is, doubly insufferable; foreign intelligence networks,, p 8Y
:because it gr t both in Communist areas and'i 111sc? The CIA as niereh? ?
appears'. in Rusk.
part )lased on insufficient in- in doing, as, Nkubhin-'ton vrdered:
particularly sensitive placesaI Hopefully, in' light of Lee's
formation as to what CIA- is in the world. flirtations with the`` Communist' rldR MYTH that the CIA
all about, , some other American r"ns U.S. foreign policy over- 1
Ina sense, Singapore Prime. In. 1960. Malaysia was just bloc Tvuks the fact that it is account-
Minister Lee Kuan Yew picked beginning to be organized,
I - ~ agents,have succeeded in pen- able to the President and the
Secu
this 'outburst against the CIA enetration of flit; Malay pen-' genre net even if tile first at-~, isclosel
periodically re-
even if he was sudden) reviv- sula by Red .Chinese agents tents failed. .
Y , ., tiie~tied by the Foreign Intel-e
inb g an inewent that took lace in - ~- ?? li uce Advisory Board headed
?? s p 1 r nor of Suk irnu's confrt nr'a There will probably be an- gp rY
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v4 years ngo. For the CIA bs Clark Clifford. Other watchs.1
can t on policy) As ar that date, other, outcry at the involvement cannot talk back. " th
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.. .Judging by the spate of 1 gressional committees and the
editorials across the land, and little about the cast of official persuade the Dominican Re-
..characters "if Malaysia. Since I3udet;Bureau.
indeed, around the globe, the public's military strongman. 1lie m th of CIA insubor-
Singapore affair is being used it was becoming a very sense `Gen. Wessin y Wessin to leave my 4
tive area, the U.S. government 1? .1 nation should have died longs
as a take-off point for scolding the country, especially since 'a r. like, for instance, durin
ICIA, I --nut the C-TA- decided to 6 g'
the;' d for all sorts of alleged the ninvolved a `the' Ba of 'Pigs For at that
.,dclI as acting contrary make a special intelligence negotiations' 1'
gathering effort on the, Ma- 1 certain anrdunt of cash (thi inic the CIA canceled an airs
4, to the policy of the U.S. goy.- ayau peninsula. time the C:CA offered to' buy VrAe -alrainst Castro's forces )
ernment, jeopardiiing" relations at President ;Kennedy's direr-
It can be stated on author-1 the 'gencrral s 'house and' $oiite i ion oven though the agency
with a country in defiance of ty that the decision to give property at - rather .inflated
the will of the U.S. ambassador
ipriority, CIA's, attention to the prices). ot illy. end, urgently opposed
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cool look, at the. Singapore Therefore., far from .free she U.S. government that the of the. Cuban brigade's expo- I
incident discloses' that the CIA ~klieelingr tht. ClAig:.i:nt who
ied io i.,netrale Singr~a ore's sacrifice of Wessin y; Wessin ditign to the Bay of Pigs-a l
is guilty of dust ane thing. It h
_ p' p failure that
stirred an outcry
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)S uilty of g caught Spevial Branch lntcdligence Act , might e n h an c e Dominican
I. at the CIA
getting a vas n01 , -4iing .-ntraLY.e it':would ... r...;.~.....,.
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uttino, the Record: Straid
Washington's will but was im??i
plementing' U.S. governments
policy. ' .
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