"ON THE CIA'S BACK"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100100001-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 20, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PRJGRAM WAVA Editorial STATION WAVA Radio
DATE February 20, 1964 2:30 P.M. CITY Arlington, Vi:-gia4,
"ON THE CIA's BACK"
ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL (President, WAVA): "One of the more
fashionable new national pastimes has in recent years become
what can be called 'CIA baiting. This is for the proposition
whereby whenever anything bad happens in our foreign operations
which can't be entirely understood; then charge it up to-the
bungling of the Central Intelligence Agency.
"It is rather tragic since these charges -- always good news
copy -- are characteristically spawned in the crass ignorance of
publicity hunters against whom this top level intelligenoo agency
cannot and indeed should not defend itself. This has come up
again with proposals to set up a congressional watchdog committee
over the CIA.-- a move which simply fails to recognize the
co=etance of House and Senate members already assigned to q-,ziatly
oversee the agency.
"A grim irony of the sporadic, but hard-hitting attacks on the
CIA is that the Russian secret police runs a special bureau in
Moscow, whose task it is to do exactly this job -- discredit the
American Intelligence Agency both overseas and in this country in
order, to force limitations on its operations.
"What must be accepted by the responsible press and legislative
branch is that for every Bay of Pigs failure, the CIA probably has
a thousand smaller and some larger successes -- If we knew what
those were, then the CIA would not be doing its job -- indeed could
not do its job.
"The overriding fact is that over the past 18 years the Central
Intelligence Agency has pulled together probably the single
toughest, most brilliant and dedicated group of people in tra U. So
government agency. Uniquely, they work without recognition of
achievement even from their families, and often at immense personal
risk.. There are few rewards, no White House award ceremonies to
recognize great success.
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"This is is not to excuse failures but simply to acknowledge
the nature of CIA's work, the ultimate demand for silence and to
grant confidence in the President to be the best judge of the
Agency's effectiveness. No one's interest but that of the oppo-
sition is going to be served by new Congressional watchdog groups.
Let CIL alone to concentrate on its job."
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