CLOAK AND DAGGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200090153-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 153
• Publication Date: February 23, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

Su FEB 2 3 1963
Approved For Release 2-000/05/24: CIA-RDP70-,00058R000
loak and Dagger'_ I STATINTL
Cent Inte i~gencce Agency, claims
Americans talk too much about mat-
ters that ought to be secret. It is not
hard to believe. Never before, for in-
stance, have Americans heard or
talked so much about the Central In-
Agency,, and if there's any-
thing in the country that ought-to be
'
s 'it...
secret, that
Americans have a hard time under-
standing that. They are guided by the
principle that the Government's busi-
ness is the public's business, and where
secrecy is involved there is going to be
hanky-panky, too: the way to avoid
hanky-panky is to conduct the public
business in the public spotlight. It's a
fine argument-the only one-when the
business is money or contracts or
housing or awards -for sewers or archi-
tectural designs. When the security of
the country is at stake, however, all
of us must be prepared to sacrifice
some carefully-defined part of our right
to know in order that the enemy won't
know, either.
There can be no doubt that the
enemy is trying to find out, right now.
Mr, Dulles tells is that "in the Soviet
Union, we are faced with an antagonist',
that has raised the art of espionage
to unprecedented height, while develop- ;
ing the collateral techniques of sub. 1
version, deception and penetration into
a formidable political instrument of
attack. No other country has ever be- +
fore attempted espionage on such a
scale." Obviously, the only way to
meet Soviet espionage is to have an
intelligence operation of our own. And
the only way it can work is in secret.
Since.t~ban affair began the CIA
has had entirely too much publicity,
and it is time for it to crawl back into
its hideout and go about its shadowy
business. It still will have to go to
Congress for money, and to the Presi-
dent for authority and for policy: not
least among the many things wrong
with the Bay of Pigs misadventure
was the CIA's improper policy-mak-
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CIA in public , the better.