CALL THE CIA TO ACCOUNT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200730006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 3, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved. For Release 1999/09/17: CIA-RDP75-601
Approved For Release 1999/09/17: CIA-RDP75-00149R00D200730006-7
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The shabby and inortiWint episode in.4' ;foreign policy by gumshoe methods falls)
volving an alleged effort to bribe the prime". woefully. Short of meeting the need. If any-.'
minister of Singapore poses, a question de-, .'thing will win' for the United States, it is.,~
manding a decisive 'answer from President . %, the generation of faith in this nation-
,Johnson: Why is the Central jn elh'genc`e'"" .'.,faith in its principles, ,its character, its
tined to run a. large part of `;'integrity. And, if anything will lose for the3'
U.S. foreign policy?. United States it is the destruction of,that
This is 'surely what it was doing if, as faith.
charged, an agent, offered the chief of . a' ?.;. There is strong evidence than the CIA,
,
friendly state $3,300,000 to cover-,,up -a ..;,.,does .not understand this. It' methodically,
.1960 CIA effort to buy information from ""..tries to,' lie- its way out of embarrassing'
Singapore intelligence officials: / positions, even when in the nature of things`
It is quite true that major and minor, its lies are bound to, be?found out. ? ',-
nations play the cloak-and-da_ger 'game Again, we do not mean to be,naive.as'to
constantly, all over the world. ,Pcrhap$'.an the facts of international life: The essence
effort to trade dollars for important in of espionage ' is deception, and, doubtless4
it has to o on.
formation can be pragmatically justified as g
a dirty but necessary business. But ,when . the State Department itself
is painfully embarrassed by ignorance of,i
But the attempcd bribery to hush up
Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew goes far. a piece of business that shakes the foun
dation of this nation's relationship' with-,!...
beyond .the limits of excusable, hanky-
panky. It is a brazen, stupid insult to a an important ally-then both the bumbling
sovereign ally, demeaning to' him and 'to,," and its cover-up 'have passed the limits of-i
is nation-but far more ,demeaning to,tolerability.. If Prime Minister Lee,' 'hav-
; .
he United States. , ing just broken away from the Malaysian
Federation, now turns to Communist China'!
Beyond that, it discloses a fantastic as a more reliable friend, he will be one'.,
orance of the nature of the people ,the:. 'of .a parade' including the chiefs of state
United States has looked to for 'under-` ' ' of Indonesia, Cambodia and Burma., In!'
tanding and support in a critical quarter....
each case the 'CIA has been cited ' as' a ti
f the world. If the. word "'intelligence",,'.
.' principal cause, of 'the einbitterment.. Thee
n the CIA's title 'does not embrace that, , stakes remain colossal in that area-far
udimenta ind of sensitivity and under ':I too great, surely, to permit the making of,'
Landing, then in the name! itself, is some- U.S. policy by any except those',rvho bear
in of a fraud
pint;of the cold war.that the conduct. of :icalled'steriily'foaecdunt.,``"
g r ,: the 'final responsibility, he 'CIA has been
,It should hardly need to be said. at this" ' "untouchable" for far too long.; It ;should;