INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700310002-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 12, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved 0or Releas, e'2005/01/05; C1AwRDP75-0Q149
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To Tha Christion Scienc. Monitor:
The disclosure of.,;G.IA attempts to bribe
Singapore Prime Minister Lee, highli.ghted'.j
:.by Le Polley's cartoon of little Willie (CIA)
with his 'hand in the Singapore cookie jar,
was a distressing illustration of misman?..i
agement of the intelligence function.
Anyone with the slightest knowledge of the
Lee government knows it nkes a beacon
corruption free-standing out l
J. in this respect among all other Asian govern-.
"mcnts; How could an intelligence agenCy of
the United States Ggvernment (whose job
after all is to know such facts) be so unaware;::
as to attempt cussions bylMonitor correspondents on
the general problem of trying to run a secret !
"intelligence activity within the framework of V
a democratic government were very,helpful.. 1,
As a former`ioreign Service Officer, I am in
a position to` confirm the statement reported ,j
by your correspondent that ambassadors'.
overseas are sometimes unaware of CIA ac
tivities in their country, although this situa
tion is probably much less frequent now than.
a few years ago. My own feeling has been for
i'some years that a : special congressional
;.watchdog committee should be set up. to
check on CIA activities. I hope that Congress-",
man Zablocki will carry through'his plan to
hold hearings on the,Singapore bribe 'case ;'and to try to set up such a committee,
Berkeley Calif. ' Nancy L. Snider
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