MAYBE DULLES NEEDS PINK SLIP IN HIS PAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200130126-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 126
• Publication Date: July 15, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

TEEE MIAMI PIEBALD JULY 15. 1961
Approved For Release 1999/09/16 :CIA-RDP70-0005880002
,~~ Jack 1~ofoed Says
Maybe Dulles
Pink ,flip in~ l~~s d'ay`
If 'you goof on the job too
often, what happens? Comes. .
pay day, you. get the pink slip.
of dismissal. That doesn't al-
ways ,happen `im higher _eche-
lons , of government, tyhich
may be one of the things ~
wrong with government.:" ~.
Take the case of :'...,Allan
Du11e~S and, .the Centra`~:Intel- ~.
ligence Agency, as e, case 'in '
point; The CIA is one of-tithe
most po~yerful agencies in
Washington, and o of the
most important, bec~u em if it
erred ire 7~,s esi.imate t3! 'a' Vital.
situation, Ame~jg~,,.~. ?goose
would be cdoked:
'Lo't us :.. , as "Brown Derby
Al" Smith used. to !say- . ,..
look at'the recent record..; ,: ;~""`
THE TRAG)H.DY of the Bay
o~~~P~tu~s .was one, of_the, most
co'Tossal .blunders in ~merean
history. `I'hougli the Per`-tagop
and President ;Kennedy,'hin}-
self, ,must share the blatrie,
the concept of the' invasion
.was based, on .what intel-
ligence experts ,,guessed-to be
the attitude of the. Cuban peo-
ple toward Castro '
There was the U-2~incident,
wh'en`""a"s~ii`iiity }fir nk 3n the
CIA a p"proved" t' plane's
flight over P.u=sia a"few days
be?ore the Eisenhower-
Khrushchev summit meeting
that never came off: '
Comman~lo~ raids` on tine
Chi~aese._.zpainlaa~ri from f,~ur-
moy- ~-brought aceel`exated ar-
tillery.,bombardmeut of 1~'iat
island; _~and stirred ~tho~a" is
of war in Mao's crafty"~ind
, Shipping Chiang Kai-shek
"freedoms ~igl~ters". to Surma
was approved. About ail, those
fello vs did was et rich grow-
ing opium ..: 1~h~ee _ hlrtr,pcl
million dollars was poured j~to
Laotion i rt 1'?s"ke fh o ~~P
were blamed ~o'b tha~,'N Well
as inflation: '
AI,L THIS counts up ~, yc __~
for~nidahle... c~ll#Gtion of mis-
takes, Each was based'on'`in-
formation, , and in some
cases, the advise of, the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency. The
b
ody*a~~~_.. fine. .accomplish-
menu to its credit . , ,, but
' when so isany boobogs noted'
crop lap, how does it happen
that Dulles still rides high in
+ the CIA saddle?
Approved For Release 1999/09/16 :CIA-RDP70-000588000200130126-6