CAPITOL STUFF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200410064-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: October 11, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

ByfihD `LEWIS
?, as tng on, OR. reaii en erne y 8 a
'his press conference yesterday that he thinks it is;who1i
'Agency team is operating in messed-up South Viet gam.
going on with the U.S. military
:,'s+nu diplomatic teruns in the Sai-
`t ;t-n.league, it is among the lower
` chelons that failed to get the
policy signals from those calling
the plays.
This is all a little like what
'Ralph Houk, man: ger of the New
Yank Yankees, had to say after.
his team lost the World series in'
four str..it'ht. The lingo is net the
Says Houk: "I don't think that
there is anything to be ashamed
.. r nt Says Kennedy: "Whilethe A
way have n ade mistake. as}eve
it has many succcssee'",Wnteh i'rtay
go unheralded it $s unfair to:
charged. I think b they h "c tlane 'The team is alutay+ ti;
As Iiouk and Keriried$t ppear: to react about. the name " %
Their two Clubs aye Riay in diilerent, and distant lea
i but their problems'Hre' about'the same. Both teams outwar{~ly
4100ked sour in the last big. aeries. Bad fan. reaction Wo c' t
j inevitable because of 'the size .of the money bags held by the ;rro t
!! offices. Howl. should- have been able to field the perfpcf bateb" l
t team for the very good re" on he could outbid all others for tale
Similarly, Kennedy's CIA, with $700 millions to spend each "yes.,
i was counted on to have., the best players- in the spy `gam6 ;that .
The Lineups Failed to Deliver
CPYRGHT-
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Houk has said: `'"So1 dy hae'gd ioeei somebody has gotto win''
over the' last nine 111o1 t a,",he he came,;convincedthat the CIA team
was playing the beat U could and definitely, obeying the signals trans-
For those.wh R,
ball against the NATO- tp3#1
The eaptain olx ,t 'w ~i?::Qtia?fhond
;rtrrnarusun, sou uupuEC ~ri~n [ 4 trc ~,~vr s+~'.a
ik,j*Jally after ge n a...f
_ioo?c'
newn"Ck S Am~laq fpi? " .a v~.
'Xennedy is not, if hexIai.
i?hli ~ .i ll a f Qrdaan=
rged with an errEtr at eAyt fic tleb r~ Ty' tfie
'.r nrary, team cap in Rtfhai lj~p the I a on, stag
ilJ been followin - I truCti h t tf e e iiq,
e7"dedicated public gerv1 it.: r
'Manager ou h Lo
.?To enager one
ulc~- 'e t e
'llE-_ " t; e ~: ~?~~v~~,r. ,{?-~'=a..,.~n ~~'~ . g
the yourti' first ba exilai r l~s "lie L~ us it,
y anyone on you~~ #elxr R ttgeh~ P->hr ,tlie7s
rc~u
. JYi !,P t rA nSfPT h'~,+: ._ .. ~i~*. k u?~ - Yna?i:lhc,rit st X
i"cha I ''.
Pepitone, of course, will in yr th'th"e'I~att~Ceep A,
son already had been thumbA f the CIA team tr Saigon hen, he
Pro'idi nt pi aised. him. He,warixdex?ed home "` for eoneuits,tio t't sat
Friday because he had "loll his cover," Tbie is differ t i onii'losing
a bell. Ii is spy agency ling6whieh means that when's Il4`igent's
name and street addreaa,become known, his etfelctivetlei a1n Elite a'tea
is considered lost
Richardson 'it eoverkwait the, American Embassy In Saigon
.~ , where
ctensibly he had the'joob o 'first secretary and was The Etr St to
Department. Official`,~1c wally, ;ire was the MA?vhlgf ~
-ojiy agency's payrhil
Riehardson, nnli Ee Pepirons, ennntt give. out to the tublIe witibi"
to c:.r,lanation as'te why he ran intelht encp operations the .v3ayhe
tt er?rt+:' tGeci Pct reen
rlteak up like a nor lal American citiver,
+to` ray, as F.-pit, r.t' iii, that' 'Atl 1.x~' y s vit ryk!tl~ ' a
~ itft lP `die~'Pepit ne lost that
So why shouldn't there be yelps because two teanms, one?in tile
Saigon league, the other in the American, failed to deliver Ji10'r:,
. Houk and Kennedy' are clearly a little sensitive on this bcor .
Not apologetic exactly, but they have gone out of their way to she
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