MEMORANDUM FOR DCI FROM STANLEY J.GROGAN

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Assistant to the Di1 ctor
19 August 1958
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The attached news release and accompanying
enclosure of my letter of August 8, 1958 are
directed to you as a matter of public interest.
They were prepared by me as a private citizen
solely concerned over the apparent breakdown
in the CIA and with the hope that something
constructive will be done about it.
August 11, 1958
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FROM: EDWARD JOHNSTON JR.
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FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATELY
A stinging=a lgency and a demand
for Congressional investigation of the agency's failures and omissions, particularly in
the Middle East crisis, is being widely circulated throughout both houses of Congress and
the Executive and Defense branches of the Government.
J. Edward Johnston Jr,, of Baltimore, Md., author of the letter,
charges among other things that ".,sources close to British intelligence say agents of
the Central Intelligence Agency encouraged and financed Colonel Nasser to over-throw the
Egyptian pro-Western government of General Naguib. It is freely discussed in the foreign
offices of Western Europe. We can and must discover the truth of this matter. The
Comptroller General can supply the answer, I believe."
Mr. Johnston, a former GI who saw combat service with the Third Army,
is acting independently and at his own expense in currently circulating a ten page
extenuation of what he terms "disaster pyramided on disaster with resultant humiliation
of the United States before the whole world."
Mr. Johnston's lengthy appeal for Congressional study of the CIA is
dated August 8, 1958 and follows an earlier one dated July 19, 1958.
"I received from my first letter such an impressive response from
Congressmen, government officials and businessmen and others that I felt compelled and
encouraged to follow it up in more detail," stated Mr. Johnston. "Even this relatively
little bit of known failure in the conduct of CIA should warn us that it is time we
examined those charged with our security, I am not against the blank check which the
CIA writes against the Treasury but I believe we should be getting something for our
money. Any competent investigation of our internal security would require probing
beyond the CIA and must include certain aspects of the State Department."
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The Johnston letter is a dossier of what he cites as failures and
inefficiency by the CIA. He terms the breakdown in China which gave that country to
Communism was the result of our policy being undermined by the "Four Johns": John
Carter Vincent, John Stewart Service, John Paton Davies and John K. Emerson, Facts
supporting this contention are excerpted from a Senate sub-committee report which
investigated the administration of the Internal Security Act and other internal security
laws, filed in 1956 and 1957.
In another phase of his letter Mr. Johnston, citing failures in
military strategy during World War II, hints broadly at malevolent influence in our top
military policy. Quoting Brigadier General Bonner Fellers, U.S.A. (Ret.), a top
intelligence authority, the letter relates:
"After the war another mysterious thing happened. In 1946 a Russian
staff of 186 went about Japan, making what was probably the most exhaustive study of
bombing ever made -- 66 Japanese cities had been destroyed mainly by the American B-29
bomber. On August 18, 1946, a Moscow newspaper, "The Communist Agitator", said: 'Soviet
planes must fly higher, faster and farther than those of any other power.'
"So the Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas, received a message from
Washington to destroy the means to make the B-29, then the best bomber in the world.
The Boeing people took the jigs, dies and presses that had made the B-29, put them on a
concrete ramp, ran over them with a road roller and sold 35 million dollars worth of
machine tools for junk. Russia started right away, with German technicians, indus-
trialists and equipment to build what they consider the best air force in the world. It
is the largest."
In still another aspect of what Mr. Johnston terms the "outrage of our
internal security", he cites the recent dismissal of Povl Bang-Jensen, deputy secretary
of the U.N. Commission to Investigate Russian agression which followed the Hungarian
anti-Communist revolution of 1956. He points out in the letter than the Hon. Robert
Morris, former counsel of the Senate Internal Security sub-Committee, charged that
Bang-Jensen's dismissal was engineered by an international Communist conspiracy and
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implied that two Americans in the U.N. participated.
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Mr. Johnston, who declares that he is grateful he has not only the
inclination but some means to stir public and apparent Congressional apathy over the
state of our internal security, said he knows that his first efforts are bearing fruit.
"I know for a fact that many Congressmen have had a substantial
increase in the amount of mail from constitutients alarmed over the failure of our
intelligence system in the Middle East crisis. I hope some of this agitation is due to
my own efforts but I would be happier if I knew that thousands of others are as gravely
concerned as I am and are doing something about it, Public clamor is the only way we
can get any action and action is what we need."
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8 August 1958
To Those Who Answered My Previous Letter - and Others:
If you read my letter of July 19 , you may suspect that the repeated
incredible bungling of U.S. intelligence, leading to massive
American defeats, cannot be due entirely to inefficiency and in-
competence.
Once we were a friendly people, proud and invulnerable. We are
still friendly, but our pride has been wiped in the dust of Korea in
the first defeat American arms ever suffered. China, where millions
of American dollars went in private gifts without strings, and half
the world on which we've lavished our billions, have turned on us
in bitterest enmity and our very safety is threatened.
It is not just that a rebellion in Iraq caught our entire governmental
establishment napping. It is a series of catastrophes, made possible
by wrong information, suppressed information or no information, or
by chronic wrong interpretation of information.
A people deprived of accurate information is blind and is being led
to its own destruction.
Should we look for an enemy within?
CIA unquestionably employs many competent people who are staunch
patriots. It seems impossible that any organization, even if it were
less well staffed, could be so disastrously and frequently wrong as
this expensive agency appears to be.
The State Department, stiff and starched with cap-and-gown patriots,
has led us to defeat after defeat.
The United Nations is supposed to lead the world to peace. Yet it
was the United Nations that prevented American arms from winning its
Korean victory and so assured freedom's disaster in the Far East. It
was the United Nations that compromised with honor in Hungary.
Is CIA merely a billionaire incompetent?
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Is the State Department nothing but an impotent collection of
university degrees?
Is the United Nations Organization only a gaggle of dreamers?
Surely no aggregations as star-studded as these could be so
consistently and disastrously wrong, unless someone planned it
that way: the people kept blind, the Congress deprived of
information and, perhaps, even the Administration kept in the dark.
I suggest the possibility of an enemy within.
In the accompanying pages I will make a few comments and give
some examples that cry out for explanation - that demand immediate
investigation, immediate remedial action if we are to continue to
live as a free people.
I want to thank the Senators, Congressmen, Generals, businessmen
and plain people such as I who answered my letter of July 19 with
words of encouragement. Perhaps I should answer a question some
of you have put to me.
Who am I?
I am an ordinary citizen in my early thirties. I was an enlisted man
in artillery in World War II. I am without distinction. I pay my own
way and send these letters at my own expense. I write as I do with
one motive only - as an ordinary citizen to rally my fellows to anger,
a people's fury that will compel an investigation to discover who has
been wrong; disclose whether we've been wronged. It is a private
citizen's small effort toward saving the country we love for your
children and mine. Only your insistence and public wrath can prevent
further crippling disasters.
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THE ANATOMY OF RESIGNATION
What does it take to wake us up?
Danger of losing our independence? Those of us who do not know that we're
on the verge of disaster, are unaware of swiftly developing crises because
known facts have been kept from them, have been sugar-coated, or have
been twisted.
Isn't it amazing that one calamity that catches our government unawares
is followed by yet another that "stuns it with surprise", without any
permanent corrective measures being taken?
Misinformation and no information contribute to the toll of failure. But how
can we, the people, suffer shock after shock with only momentary excitement
and then settle back to complacency?
Ignorance of the situation in Iraq was confirmed in the press by our Central
Intelligence Agency, the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon.
It jolted us into anger. But that's passing already. "They" count on that.
I suggest this theorem: when disgrace and dishonor are heavy enough and
frequent, when disaster is pyramided on disaster, the very enormity of the
shame dulls comprehension. We've become used to humiliation. "They"
count on that.
We will have to raise our protest and keep it up.
Already the cover-up boys are slipping their syrup into some commentaries
in the press and on radio and T.V. Already the initial insistence on
Congressional investigation is dying down. Whispered assurances that
things are not what they seem - "here's information for your ears only" - are
soothing some Congressmen. "They" count on that.
But defeats continue. One day there may be a final defeat - and there will
be, unless we, the public, raise our protest and keep it up - keep it up
until those who are responsible for negligence and incompetence - or worse -
are eliminated from positions where "They" are able to make even one more
disaster possible.
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ARCHITECTS OF DISASTER
Do we owe our continuing Mid-East failures and the coming
shocks in Africa to those who gave China to Communism and
their collaborators ?
The same kind of people who influenced America's disastrous policy in
China are gathering in the Middle East. You watch - something is going
to happen. This is the context of a statement made in 1953 to a nationally-
known public figure.
I do not accuse anyone. But in conversations with men who know their
subject, and in reading the sworn testimony of respected persons in
Congressional hearings, I see, as I believe you will, a pattern in disaster
so strange as to demand instant and complete investigation.
The following excerpted facts are drawn from "Report of the Committee on
the judiciary, United States Senate made by its Sub-committee to Investigate
the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security
Laws" for 1956, and Section VII of the 1957 Report of the same sub-committee.
Policy Perversion. Who are the makers of American policy?
Congressman Walter Judd, testifying under oath, said: "On the law of
averages, a mere moron once in a while would make a decision that would
be favorable to the United States. When policies are advocated by any
group which consistently work out to the Communists' advantage, that
couldn't be happenstance".
Congressman Judd testified that there were "The Four Johns" who were leaders
in undermining the policy laid down by the President. He said they were,
John Carter Vincent, John Stewart Service, John Paton Davies and John K.
Emmerson.
Mr. Angus Ward, former American Consul at Mukden, Manchuria, was
kidnaped by the Chinese Communists in 1946 and held under arrest for 14
months. Mr. Ward testified that when he reported in 1945 to his State
Department superiors that Moscow would "follow expansionist ideals and
would be content with nothing short of a line running from the Baltic to the
Adriatic", he was rebuked by his State Department superiors. He was called
a disloyal American for speaking so of "one of our allies".
Admiral Charles Maynard Cooke, wartime Chief of Staff to Admiral Ernest
King, "attended all the international conferences held by the heads of
leading governments beginning with Casablanca and ending with Potsdam".
Admiral Cooke testified as to American responsibility for the victory of Soviet-
backed Chinese Communists over the pro-West Nationalist Government of
China. He testified that, after the fall of the Nationalist Chinese and their
retreat to Formosa, false intelligence reports were sent from Formosa to
Washington. He said that they caused "a very serious adverse effect
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on the United States policy and action". . . that, when he presented the
idea that we should help the Nationalist Chinese hold Formosa, he did
not at that time know that "our State Department was getting ready to warn
all diplomatic personnel throughout the world to be ready to explain the
fall of Formosa... "
Admiral Cooke visited Formosa. He found that no intelligence representative
from MacArthur's staff, from the War Department, from the Navy Department
or from the Central Intelligence Agency was on Formosa. As far as he knew,
they were not permitted to serve on Formosa. The only intelligence represent-
atives there were Army, Navy and Air Force attaches under Mr. Robert Strong,
the State Department representative.
Mr. Strong refused a request for General Fortier of General MacArthur's staff
to visit Formosa. But on a trip to Southeast Asia, General Fortier's plane
-sat do-w-n-on--Formosa--for--a--few -days. --Mr. Strong-protested, - -
Admiral Cooke testified that he found that false intelligence emanated from
Formosa, making "facts" to fit pro-Red policy, that "... there was a policy
that had been set up in Washington...... being followed by State Department
representatives in Formosa, which required that intelligence facts should
conform to the policy rather than have a change of policy that would be
guided by the facts".
"Assistant military attache, Captain (later Lt. Colonel) J. R. Manning, had
wished to report facts which did not fit in with the character of reports
apparently desired by the State Department representative, who therefore
made a direct report to the War Department. " Admiral Cooke said that
Captain Manning was summarily dismissed and transferred to Tokyo.
Captain (now, Lt. Colonel) Manning confirmed Admiral Cooke in a letter
addressed to the Department of the Army on November 5, 1957. (Senate
Sub-Committee on Internal Security, Section VII, 1957.) Colonel Manning
wrote that, when his orders relieving him of duty from Mr. Robert Strong's
staff on Formosa came, members of Mr. Strong's staff remarked: "Bob
finally got you".
Colonel Manning also wrote that a Mr. Krentz, of the State Department,
arrived on a "fishing trip". Mr. Krentz told Colonel Manning "that it was
not desirable to have both a Nationalist and Chinese Communist Government",
that ECA help to the Nationalist Chinese would continue because of political
pressure by Senators Knowland and Alexander Smith, but that it was "wasted
money, that the State Department wanted to recognize the Communist
government as soon as it was prudent to do so".
Representative Judd "expressed the firm opinion that pro-Communist manoeuvr-
ing is still being practised by seemingly obscure bureaucrats at remote State
Department desks. Admiral Cooke left little doubt about his opinion that
false, if not fraudulent, intelligence is still being circulated".
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Dr. E. Herbert Norman and Mr. John K. Emmerson
(Senate Sub-Committee on Internal Security Report, Section VII, 1957)
"The inescapable conclusion from this record was that Mr. Norman was a
Communist, that he had operated in the United States, and that this activity
covered a long period of time. " (Sub-Committee Report, Section VII)
"The CIA has a file on E. Herbert Norman which contains a dispatch from
Cairo dated in April... The dispatch says that the night before Norman plunged
to destruction he had dinner with a doctor. He told the doctor that he was
afraid that Prime Minister St. Laurent was not standing behind him, that he
was afraid there was going to be a Royal Commission inquiry, and that if he
were called he would have to implicate 60 or 70 Americans and Canadians
and that he couldn't face up to it and that he was going to destroy himself. "
(Senate Sub-Committee Report, Section VII)
"Mr. Emmerson had come into the picture in the course of the Sub-Committee's
inquiry into how American Foreign Service officers, by their erroneous reporting
and by promulgating mischievous official papers, have contributed greatly
into a state of confusion in our official thinking that has been most helpful
to the Communist cause... This mischievous reporting was especially marked
in connection with events in China after 1943.
". . . . . . Mr. Emmerson, writing from Yenan where he was then stationed as a
military observer for the State Department, prepared a report which reached
to the higher echelons of our Government. This report recommended that the
Japanese Peoples Emancipation League, an organization made up of and led
by Japanese Communists, in the heart of Communist territory, be used by the
United States Government for the 'widespread dissemination of democratic
ideas'. " (Senate Sub-Committee Report Section VII)
"Mr. Emmerson and Mr. Norman had been associated in Japan in actions
which former State Department Official Eugene Dooman told the Sub-Committee
had added '100, 000 members to the Communist party in Japan'. " (Senate Sub-
Committee Report Section VII)
Mr. Emmerson was assigned to the United States Embassy at Beirut, Lebanon.
Mr. Robert Strong was sent to Damascus, Syria. Dr. Norman was made
Canadian Ambassador to Egypt and Minister to Lebanon.
Did the gathering of these and others in the Middle East have any significance?
These and others were on hand in the Far East. We lost China; almost lost
Formosa. Communism in Japan increased. These and ,others were on hand in
the Middle East. We lost our position in the Middle East.
How many others were around just before disaster struck? Are the Senate
Sub-Committee indications justified? Where are these people now? The
people of the United States who pay the bills and whose security is
threatened have a right to know.
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DID CIA CREATE NASSER? IF SO, WHY?
Agents of the American Central Intelligence Agency encouraged
and financed Colonel Nasser to overthrow the Egyptian pro-
Western government of General Naguib.
This is being said in Washington. Sources close to British intelligence say
it is so, and it is freely discussed in the foreign offices of Western Europe.
We can and we must discover the truth of this matter.
The Comptroller General can supply the answer, I believe. He should be
questioned at once in secret Congressional session, because such powerful
rumors spread by responsible people contribute nothing to foreign confidence
in the Administration - or to our own.
-If the rumors-rife-in-Washington and in European--capitals-are not-tru-e-,-at ---
least one weight could be lifted from the shoulders of CIA, already staggering
under charges of having damaged American security by passing misinformation -
or no information - to officials too often "taken by surprise".
If the widespread story is correct, we must find out what the motive was
in financing Nasser to overthrow a government friendly to the United States.
Treason? Or just the "king-maker" complex of puffed-up bureaucrats?
Costly mistake and cover-up? We must carefully examine what we hear and
read. We must watch for propaganda that confuses us and saps our demands
to know the truth.
Commentators have been telling us recently: "The Iraq and other Arab revo-
lutions are fought in the spirit of 1776" and "President Nasser overthrew the
corrupt and tyrannical government of Egypt's King Farouk".
As an American, I don't care for the comparison of a revolt that includes
assassination with our ancestors' fight for independence. Independence is
the key word. Our ancestors were trying to separate from the mother country.
Moscow-led Nasser is trying to deprive the Arab states of their newly gained
independence. Nor is it true that Nasser won his dictatorship by overthrow-
ing King Farouk. He overthrew Naguib, the friend of the West.
Is such misinformation being spread through ignorance?
It's the same "line" as "Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin overthrew the corrupt
rule of the Czars". False l They overthrew the democratic Kerensky who
had already toppled the Czar of Russia.
This time we must know. Congress must investigate CIA, beginning with
an executive-session examination of the cloak-and-dagger books in the
hands of the Comptroller General.
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HAS AN INVISIBLE HAND INFLUENCED TOP MILITARY POLICY?
Digest of a Speech made by Brigadier General Bonner Fellers, U.S.A. Ret.
(General Fellers is rated as one of America's top intelligence authorities)
The United States is fortunate in having won all its wars, except Korea,
though in many instances victory was won despite gross and costly error.
Hitler invaded Poland only after making a deal with Stalin. Stalin made a
non-aggression pact with Japan. Germany, however, turned on Soviet Russia.
We came into the war.
The German army was deep in Russia. In cooperation with the Royal Air Force,
General Fellers worked out a plan for American B-24's to bomb from Turkish
bases the four railways supplying Hitler's armies. General Fellers was called
to discuss the plan with the President - but was prevented from doing so.
Who derived benefit from the dropping of this plan? The war was prolonged
and our costly invasion of the Continent from the British Isles was made
necessary. Soviet Russia was enabled to come back all the way to Berlin -
and Stalin was thereby given the satellite states.
The Emperor of Japan wanted to surrender and asked Russia to mediate with
the United States. From their actions, it seemed that Washington couldn't
possibly have known of this, but when General Fellers returned home in
1946 he discovered that "all the while our own top officials in our own
Government knew that Japan was endeavoring to discuss surrender terms".
But we decided to continue the war so that Russia could come in. If Russia
had not thus belatedly joined a war already won, these things would not have
happened:
"... China would not have gone Red; there would have been no war in Korea;
there would be peace in the Pacific today. Some 150, 000 American
casualties would have been avoided... " The Yalta Agreement gave Russia
rights in the Pacific which have led to most of the trouble that confronts us
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-in-the Far- East today.
After the war, another mysterious thing happened. In 1946 a Russian staff of
186 went about Japan, making what was probably the most exhaustive study
of bombing ever made... 66 Japanese cities had been destroyed mainly by the
American B-29 bomber. On August 18, a Moscow newspaper, "The Communist
Agitator", said, "Soviet planes must fly higher, faster and farther than those
of any other power... "
So the Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas, received a message from Washington
to destroy the means to make the B-29, then the best bomber in the world.
The Boeing people took the jigs, dies and presses that had made the B-29,
put them on a concrete ramp, ran them over with a road roller - and sold 35
million dollars worth of machine tools for junk.
Russia started right away - with German technicians, industrialists and
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equipment - to build what they consider the best air force in the world. It is
the largest.
While this was going on, we reduced our 250 wings to 2 and destroyed our
ability to make the B-29.
General Fellers also tells the story of the Red Army's entry into Manchuria,
the capture of a million Japanese soldiers and the arming of the Red Chinese
with captured Japanese weapons. He tells how we slapped an embargo on
weapons en route to the non-Communist Chinese - even dumping millions
of dollars worth of essential munitions into the Indian Ocean rather than
permit our Chinese allies to defend themselves against the Moscow-led Red
Chinese.
General Fellers tells how Harry Dexter White and the Treasury Department
-tried to-get-our Government-to lend Russia 10- billion dollars to develop
Russian natural resources on which we should depend for our defensive
production.
The State Department liked the principle. So, under the pretext that we need
strategic materials we were to tax ourselves silly to develop sources of
strategic materials all over the world, pumping vast fortunes into those
European countries that had colonies - whether or not these colonies were
to become free and able to turn to Moscow or actually to fall into the hands
of an enemy.
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THE U.N. CRUCIFIES AN HONEST MAN
The Hon. Robert Morris, former counsel of the Senate Internal Security
Sub-Committee, charges that the United Nations' dismissal of Pov1 Bang-
Jensen was engineered by an international Communist conspiracy. He said
that two important Americans in the U.N. participated.
Mr. Bang-Jensen was deputy-secretary of the U.N. Committee to Investigate
the Russian Aggression that followed the Hungarian anti-Communist
revolution in 1956. 81 anti-Communist witnesses appeared before the U.N.
Special Committee on Hungary. Under Mr. Bang-Jensen's pledge that he
would not disclose their names because of fear of reprisal, the witnesses
documented the charges of unprovoked Soviet aggression against Hungary.
The Bang-Jensen report delivered a devastating blow against Soviet
reputation and caused defections in Communist parties throughout the world.
judge Morris says that the Communists have been conspiring to destroy
Bang-Jensen on the theory that if you destroy the symbol, you destroy the
effectiveness of the report.
U.N. Secretary-General Hammarskjold demanded the surrender of the 81
names. Mr. Bang-Jensen, true to his pledge, refused. He was fired.
Charges were filed against Mr. Bang-Jensen. He was not allowed to see
the relevant documents. He was forbidden to talk to the press. In the
meantime, Communists, pro-Communists and anti-anti-Communists, in
true Communist fashion, have conducted a reprehensible smear campaign.
Judge Morris said Mr. Bang-Jensen's dismissal "without the semblance of
due process" is "an outrage against everything for which we here in the
United States stand". (See Mr. Bang-Jensen's devastating 30-page
Memorandum (with annexes) to the Secretary-General of the U.N.)
Unfortunately-f -there--is -not space on the-se pages to give more than--the -
above broad outline, but that is enough to convince me and, I am sure,
every honest citizen, that the time has come when we must make our outrage
heard.
How much longer can we, the people of the United States, remain silent
over the possibility of the existence of enemies within?
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WHAT CAN WE DO?
You, the people and the Congress of the United States, were so aroused
by the public disclosure of the "stunned surprise" of Washington over
Middle Eastern crises that a number of resolutions to investigate the
presumed failure of our intelligence system were presented to the Congress.
Already, there are signs that the resolutions are being bottled up.
Unless we, the people and the Congress of the United States, are capable
of sustained anger, this flurry will pass like all the others and, once again,
my theorem will be proved:
When disgrace and dishonor are heavy enough and frequent,
when disaster is pyramided on disaster, the very enormity
of the shame dulls comprehension.
We must keep this in mind: the Iraqi intelligence fiasco may or may not
have been due to CIA field operations; it may or may not have been due to
failure in transmission; it may or may not have been due to misinterpre-
tation, planned or otherwise; it may or may not have been due to other
incompetence.
At all events, it was not the first fiasco. It will not be the last - unless
we, the people and the Congress, sustain our angry demand for a full and
immediate investigation. Already, since my letter to you of July 19, new
though less dramatic surprises have been confessed - surprises that didn't
surprise those who read the private intelligence reports mentioned in my
first letter.
We must insist on a far-reaching investigation of our intelligence services
and of the State Department. The active investigators should be men who
know where to look and should include such outstanding patriots as Generals
Wedemeyer and Fellers and, perhaps, J. Edgar Hoover and Harry Anslinger.
We can't afford to have this investigation bottled up. Our very national
security cannot permit it to be a whitewash.
To assure success, public clamor must be aroused and sustained. I agree
with your answers to my previous letter. We can help by:
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Writing and getting all our friends to write to Congress. Most Senators
and Representatives will welcome the heartening sign that we back them
Working through the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and local
luncheon and service clubs.
- Speaking to assembled groups; writing to our local newspapers.
- Above all, staying angry and showing cause for anger to our friends;
it is our safety, yours and mine, and our honor that are being compromised;
it is our money that is being wasted.
We should insist, insist and insist on an investigation in depth. In each
political and military defeat, who was responsible? Who made the wrong
moves? Who advised those in charge to make the wrong moves?
We must ask, ask and ask until we get satisfactory answers.
Were any of the culprits involved in more than one blunder? Are any of them
in a position to lead us to new disasters? Cannot we catalogue the names
of the few who seem always to be in a position of authority when disaster
strikes? Is there an enemy within? We must find out.
Let us beware of those who smear the witnesses who are willing to testify
against our grievous multiple mistakes - those who always picture the
patriot as "more dangerous than the Communists he exposes" .
This is our country. It is being lost. Our angry insistence can save it.
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