BRIDGES ASKS INTELLIGENCE FORCE SHIFT

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 19, 1961
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WASININCTON?. --(AP)- Sen.
Styles Bridges, republican, New
Hampshire, called on President
Kennedy today to overhaul U.S
.intelligence forces he said had',
been caught sort by Rus,ian
military aircraft developments.
Bridges said testimony before
the Senate preparedness subcom-
mittee, of which he is a member,
irad convinced him that U. 8.
an tiitary'nfficials Were surprised
by several planes the Russians
.~ air re-
flew at a recent MosctlA
view.
"We in Congress had been led
to believe through the reports
furni+dred us that the Russians
had. made the transition -.3rom
planes ro missiles," Bridges said.
'Some of us i felt, however, that
,the day of ft manned bomber
trad not ended. Now it seems the
_ Russians ar reed with us, despite
our intellipgnce reports."
Iminr'd] .leiy after the Cuban
invaslor, Kennedy ordered
a rexplrr yi al of intelliuence. op-
erations "pcrticularly those con-
duct d hrough the Central In-``
telilCrl Agency (CIA). Intent-{
geuce s . tiv,ties at the Pentagon
were bn:.o",ideted $o some extent
but pie president has made no
publ t moco to shake up the CIA.
R ages said he thinks enough
tin (!rts been spent in surveying
{:f,/ trtuatiou and that the pres-
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