CIA'S SECRET HISTORY LOSES ITS INVISIBILTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300030075-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 1999
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: June 28, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Date: JUN 2 8 1964
oses `,Its
'CFA's Secre
THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT. By David Wise and
Thomas B. Ross. (375 pages. Random House. $5,95.)
By Maurir_w fl- l -, Ar
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CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
through their failure) to fairly
widespread public notice: the
Cuban invasion, for instance;.
others that are generally un
familiar.
There are accounts of the.
coup that overthrew Iran's.
weepy Premier Mossadegh and:
the role.he played, as a CIA
agent, by a grandson of Pres-.
ident Theodore Roosevelt; the
"banana. revolt" in Guate-`
mala; the CIA support for the
rebels who sought to overthroiv-
~
Indonesia's Sukarno; the CI Vs
triumph in securing the secret
speech of Khrushchev attack-
ing Stalinism at the 20th Con,-
munist party congress; the
activities of CIA agents in;
Burma and Laos and Vietnam..: ,, the The public. suggest that,
They describe in some detail r the President and,
a matter Almost completely un-the Conrii tr must support;
familiar to the Amnecaa pub- steps to control the intelligencei
lie: the activities of the CIA establishment, to place checks
in the U. S. itself. They open tr its power and to make it=
to general knowledge a sub-,truly , accountable" - which;
ject that is "little known out. ira. other questions: Whose,
side the Government, and is;steps: What steps? Whose,
almost never talked about=jcoutrol? Would there,- one
the uneasiness felt in other; Wonders, have been much pub
Government agencies over the er lie and,
protesta.
role of the CIA"-and illustrate tion er executive discomfort,
this with Sargent Shriver s'? at the CIA's role in the Bay'
Pigs affair if the invasion had
d
successful attempt to "divorce been successful)
the Peace Corps from even the; No perfect solutions to the`
work.$t smell of intelligence problem may be possible, but
The dangers to democracy to make the problem and its;
of the power And quasi-rode-many 'ramifications a matter
pendent status of such an in :,or public knowledge and dis-,
visible government are' obvi ussion must continue to be the'
us; so are the dangers ofluty of good (and, to official
ur lon1, good and annoyingly'
eakeaing or. over!exposing;aquisitive) newsmen like Wise
intelligence agencies and mnd Ross:
methods. ,.)-.............. .......... ~. '
"A full account of America's intelligence and espionage
apparatus," says the jacket, but of course the book isn't
quite that. It doesn't.' list the'names and present addresses
of our'-agents,, and the cur-,1_
{ rent status of their opera Our intelligence network, the
tions. authors say, employs about
However, -it certainly is the 200,000 persons and spends sev-
most extensive and revealing' oral billions of dollars a year
study of our intelligence and (the how, where, and why of
espionage system (and, in par- the spending is neatly and,
ticular, of the role p'lat'ed by many will say, necessarily con-
the CIA) that, has ever ap- cealed from public, and even
peared'in print so extensive from Congressional, view),
and revealing that its appear- They, ,quote Allen Dulles
ance has drawn protests from (whose authority in these mat-
; some govermmrietal,? and. invis ters is unassailable): "The Na-
ible-governmental quarters. tional Security Act of 1947 , ..
Its authors . Are responsible has given Intelligence a more'
newspapermen-Wise is chief ?influential position in our gov-
of the Now York Herald Trib- ernment than Intelligence en-,
one's Washington Bureau, Ross joys in any other government
is A member of the Washington in the world."
bureau of the Chicago' Sun- This book describes the con
Times-.-and this is their sec- I ditions under-which the invis
end collaboration on a book ible government has grown to;
such- mammoth proportions
intended to inform the Amer. and the conditions (or, at least,
,ican people about matters that some of them) under which it:
they are entitled, but rarely operates today.: But most of,
invited, to know. (The first, the mhterial in .the book deals.
with actions in which it has
published in 1962, was "The )-been engaged in many parts
U-2 Affair," and it didn't in- ! of the world--actions some of
spire any exclamations 'of joy 1which have come (usually
in official Washington . _circIes.) i .
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