LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT FROM NATT B. BURBANK

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• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 2, 1963
• Content Type: LETTER

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BOULD VALLEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. Re 2, BOULDER COUNTY
P.O. BOX 186, BOULDER, COLORADO
Phone Hillcrest 2-6931
October 2, 1963
NSC REFERRAL NOT REQUIRED
The President
The White House
Washington 25, D.C.
My dear Mr. President:
If the statements in the accompanying
clipping from the Denver Rocky Mountain News
of today are even half true, I think that you
should move vigorously to correct such a ghastly
situation.
Very respectfully yours,
Natt B. Burbank
Superintendent of Schools
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it will come Troll 'hd served w istinction in the CIA
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A urprising number of the
tidal commented caustically. s
ooks are known to be involved
("Seven Days in May" is a tic- in their ghostly trade and some
tional account of a military coup make no secret of it.
that took over the U.S. Govern- "More Spooks'
rent.)
CIA "spooks" (a universal term "There are spooks in the U.S.
for secret agents here) have peri- [reformation Service (USISi, iri
etrated every branch of the Amer- the U.S. Operations Mission
(USOM),
ican community in Saigon, until (USOrcan M) offici everY
y cspe trc Of
non-spook Americans here almost Alme seem to be suffering a CIA psy- life here," one official-presum-
chosis. - ably a non-spook-said.
icer "They represent a tremendous
Angry G ff power and total unaccountability
An American field officer with to anyone," he added.
a distinguished combat career Coupled with the ubiquitous
speaks angrily about "that man at secret police of Ngo Dinh Nhu, a
headquarters in Saigon wearing a i surfeit of spooks has given Saigon
colonel's uniform." He means the an oppressive police state atmos-
Iunderstand 'what he is doing aL
LU.S. military headquarters here,
unless it is spying on other Amer-
icans.
Another American officer, talk-
ing about the CIA acidly com-
mented: "You'd think they'd have
I learned something from Cuba but
i apparently they didn't."
I Few people other than Rich-
ardson and his close aides know
the actual CIA strength here,
but a widely used figure is 600.
Many are clandestine agents
known only to a few of their
fellow sR.
n
Even Richaichardson is a maia
ship is a subject of lively
speculation. The CIA continues
to pay the special forces which
conducted brutal raids on
Buddhist temples A u g . 21,
although in fairness it should be
pointed out that the CIA is pay-
ing these goons for the war
against Communist guerrillas,
not Buddhist bonzes (priests).
Nevertheless, on the first of
every month, the "CIA dutifully
hands over a quuarter million
American dollars to pay tlh.ese
special forces.
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CIA Spooks w
Naunt Saigon
By RICHARD STARNES
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
SAIGON, Oct. 1 - The
story of the Central In-
telligence Agency's role in
South Viet Nam is a dismal
chronicle of bureaucratic
arrogance, obstinate disre-
gard of orders, and unre-
strained thirst for power.
Twice the CIA flatly re-
fused to carry out instruc-
tions f r o m Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge, ac-
cording to a high U.S.
source here.
Lodge Blocked
In one of these instances
the CIA frustrated a plan
of action Lodge brought
with him from Washing-
ton, because the agency
disagreed with it.
This led to a dramatic
confrontation between
Lodge and John Richard-
son, chief of the huge CIA
apparatus here. Lodge
failed to move Richardson,
and the dispute was bucked
back to Washington. State
Sec. Dean Rusk and CIA
Chief John McCone were
unable to resolve the con-
flict, and the matter is now
reported to be awaiting
settlement by Pre s i d e n t
Kennedy.
Report to JFK
Defense Sec. Robert Mc-
Namara and Gen. Maxwell
Taylor, chairman of the
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff,
ended their inspection tour
and flew homeward Tues-
day to report to the Presi-
dent.
The CIA development is
expected to be covered in
McNamara's report to Mr.
Kennedy.
Other American agencies
here are incredibly bitter
about the CIA.
"If the U.S. ever experi-
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