THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT

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NAVY MAGAZINE
JUL 1964
THE INVISIBLE
GOVERNMENT.
By David_ W,i5e and Thomas
Ross. Random House. $5.95.
Reviewed by Jerry O'Leary
Jr.
The book is far too full of material
to attempt to recite any of the dis-
closures here, but it does purPOrt to
B..4ell a series of episodes involving CIA
;operations in Cuba, Costa Rica, Iran,
Egypt, Guatemala, Indonesia and a
;host of other places. One supposes
that the rear question is whether the
CIA operates too deeply in a shroud
of secrecy or, after reading this book,
not enough of it.
The book makes the case that the
agency is virtually a government unto
itself, but the very incidents cited by
he authors indicate- that the broad
decisions are made in the Whiter
House. Once again, one wonders11
whether the agency is to have latitudc!
in its day-to-day operations. Certain1y.1
President Eisenhower approved thei
Guatemala operation and the begin-1
fling of the Cuban invasion, althoughl
he did not plunge deeply into the
details. This has been said of hiin in!
World War II?he is known as a man;
who depends and trusts his staff.
This book is highly interesting read-1
ing, perhaps as much in Moscow as, ?
THE OFFICE of Naval Intelligence,
the Defense Intelligence Agency
and the other investigative branches
of the armed forces come under the
microscope of the autbors in this con-
troversial new book, although the
primary target is the ubiquitous CIA.
With the exception of a middling-
long essay on the National Security
Agency, technically a creature of the
Pentagon, and the cursory sketches of
the Military agencies, the label "In-
visible Government" is clearly in-
tended for the Central Intelligence
Agency. As to ON!, thc,.authors may
have kissed it off too lightly, but that
is not likely to provoke any disap-
pointment among the boys in blue.
There may well be hard feelings for
a long time to come, however, from
CIA, which has a paramilitary, seg-
ment of its own, because of the way
in which the book has flushed a good
number of the cover names used by
agents and organizations of the
agency. CIA is not commenting, but
Washington sources indicate the
agency is seething from top to bottom
over accusations and disclosures, not
to mention about 22 alleged mistakes
of significant fact
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ally, the:6ga :in 'e eastern
i and southeastern United States, which;:l
knew all about the invasion prepara- i
Hawaii's Greatest Newspaper . tions kept silent 'at the request of J
-'Washington. More ironically, had the
Wednesday, July 8, 1964 'press done its duty the country almost
..:,. Pages .. certainly:.would have been saved from .,
this fiasco.
: Published at 605 Kapiolani Vance Packard has written another;
' Boulevard book, called "The Naked Society,";
Jelephone 567-222 which presents a rather horrifying pic-1:1 ,
i ture: of just how little privacy the in-,;..i
WILLIAM H. EWING Editor dividual any longer has .in this coun-,1
, . try. Here it is not- only government
,but business itself which pries loose)
The .Strategi, every facet of the individual's per- -?-i
-lie detector test, at which the most in-1
sonal life. If he doesn't submit to :a ')
.
timate details of his behavior are 1
Of Deception ' .? ? '
,. questioned, he doesn't get the job. .::
Little by littUi the: mariner end do: More recently there was the ease of
"The Strategy of : Deception." The,
1,glee to wliieh ours, a 'free govern.' United 'States Information Agericy.!
:meat, has'copied the ways of the die.. wanted to see this book published l'or.:j
.light. distribution abroad. But the publisbe
tators are coming to r
r:
. ' would need? to sell it also at home,
; It is always a temptation to be ' a since the subsidy available to the :
little bit of a dictator if the opportu;::U.S.I.A. was limited.. At the same'
.nity arises (and one can get ? away ,: time Federal law forbids use of U.S...
, with it) and few there are who canre-
.sisVit, iI.A. funds to subsidize material for :
:domestic distribution.
. The public servant who closes a i Yet to. issue the book from the Gov- ,
; meeting at which public business is : ernment: Printing Office would imme-:
conducted is assuming one of the ' diately stamp it . as propaganda, .
; ways of a dictatorship. His salary is which, of course, it Was, so far as
:paid by the public and he is transact- -U.S.I.A. was concerned. U.S.I.A. need-
ing the public's business. But he will; ed an "authentic" book. So a deal
tell you without blinking an eye that was made with a publisher to buy
,it is in the public interest that the 2,000 copies for distribution overseas,.
i meeting should be closed: , The publisher, of course, would then '
! Father knows best, is his attitude. ' sell? all he could .at home. '
i There is;- of course, managed news. "The- ? te of Deception" is de- ,
Tew public, servants, indeed, are corn- i ser ed as a ,s u y- world-wide
.pletely frank with the people whose : Communist tactics, and it may be
business they manage and whose 'highly desirable for all Americans
:money they spend. A corporate man- : and as many foreigners as we can in-'
!ager who treated: his board of direc- ' duce to read. But the :fact is that this.,
tors or his stockholders n the way ' book would never have come into be- ,
,many 'public servants treat the tax...111g in its present form?as an inde- .
payers would : be fired out of hand..: pendent study, though the U.S.I.A. ?
.Theo why do they do it? Because they censored it. before publication?with-
'can aet away with it. . : out Federal subsidy. And there is :,
.1 DTrid Wise has written a fascinatingti nothing whatever in the book to indi-'1
book-,.called "The Invisible .Govern- A cate that 'the Federal Government hadj
which aFfgris the mannet-1711 anything to do with its publication.
,whp7:11. such organizations as the Cen- :This is just one more dabble by our'.
?-tral Intelligence Agency and the Unit-; government in 'the field of authori-'
i
rd ;,,iates Information Agency operate tarianism. The tendency seems to be
.behind the scenes. The book is pri- growing. The lethargy of the public':
warily a detailed account of the C.I.A.- toward such intrusion's on their' right.j,
*Sponsored invasion of Cuba in April, to know what their, government is do- :
.It is a story of incredibly bad 1 ing is monumental. Would it not be.:
-planning, indecisiveness and faultyl strange to discover. some day that the.
'judgment. Its principal lesson seeras;, Russians know more about their . goV-.,::
Ao be that , you 'cht ar a-w ,siii
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By'',I17AT NICHOIS., Daily 'News ,Staff Writer.
"Gentlemen do not read each Others Mail." These
, were the, words of .1-Ienry Stimson, secretary of state in
.1939 when he closed the department's ."black chamber," ;
its rather primitive decoding room. ?
It is apparent that. the United :??.\.,er, the record is ?macle-tribrai
? .0
States
has come a long waYl? lively by the logo ink? which thc
Sinee lief'. ? Alibut daily talta -authors place ;
The CIA's role in the. Bay ofl
Pigs, the overthrow of the gov-
ernment in Iran and Guatemala;
and many dealings elsewhere arej
outlined. The. fact that the ? agen-
cies has .a ctually, operatedi
armies, navies and air forces to;
carry out its. plans is a matter.
for grave Consideration by all;
citizens: . ? ?
TE H ACCOUNT of the Bay of
: in: the press,
. if read care-
fully show
-that we have
dropped that
face. of inno-.
. .cence..
I.
?
But. just i
.how great has t ? .
been the unmasking, and just
.how far we have to gob o correct
our naivete is more clearly re-?
vealed in tohe new book, ,:aite. Pigs operation is especially in-
Invisible G ,
v-m111=1.1." written! teresting. It also reveals some
by David Wise and Thomas Ross I of. the glaring-weaknesses of such
and published by Random House. secret, extensive covert opera-;
' THI'S BOOK is highly critical tons- . . .
. ?
:of the role :that the Central In. The late 'President ''!lohn F.
telligence? agency ? and other ?se--;: Kennedy ? accepted the compiet,:.,.
curity.- agencies of ? -the federal responsibility .for.?.the, 'Cuban de?? ?
',x, of
government are playing in shag.: bade. As the chief executive
ing our .current foreign policy. 1 . .??.
Reports from Washington. indi-
cate that the CIA is trying ic
buy up copies of the. book ?
otherwise suppress it. The CIA
claims that the book names -26'i
or 27 deep cover agents."
The publisher denies this and11
Bennett Cerf, president of Ran-
dom House, says, "We think thc.,
book is completely . accurate.
there are any inaccuracies, we'cli
certainly want to know about'
them As yet, they haven't told
us one."
TETAT as it may the au-
have done a good job- of:,
-t-c?)orting on. the nation's, most.
hl.tltly secret agencies. It ap-4.
pears they may have been Mg read- ? ?
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' - But most of what they write is ?
-Beer of this' nation' .tlii?-c?4i-hiS'
(doting role. , .
'But the more you read and:
learn of the CA planning for lhe
'Bay of Pigs -landing, the more -.
Amateurish it seems. The desire:
of the .CIA.,to ,o ahead, despite ?
an indication from the Joint' ?
Chiefs of Staff that chances for -
(vealed _things that the 'agencies'
success- were minimal makes; would rather have kept covered.
you .stop and :wonder if the Hut that's the way this nation
visible government" has taken works. Secrets. concerning' gov-
too much power." . ...ernmentalt policy are still abhor-
THIS IS NOT a spy book: It is 173-It '1!-') as!
the story of the updating of our i Despite this, the book does let
intelligence system?a phase of Ithe- public ?know. that in the .vital
international relations in which ;Irn4tterS of, intelligence . we are
we. were centuries behind. Not i!finally. on a 'firm footing with the
only the CIA, but the National lrest of the world. Gentlemen
Security agency and the Defense ;cmay not .read each others: mail,
Intelligence agency are examined (Unit then who ever 'claimed that
by; the author's. , , , 'international ,politics was :a' gen..
,
Ijndoubtedlyth a y .? have re. tlemanly:- game?, _ .
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. "a. matter of public record.?.,Hovi-' ??'
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ri ?
naer tzre
the Cantral Intelligence Agey an most secret servant, and is not responsible
lin.?tritiment of government or a goverav. to Congressionalor public pressure.
stiitself ? This can be changed, of course, and the
charges leveled against the CIA in the af.
...The. Central .Intelligence Agency, Wash.
.termath of the ? U-2. incident, and more -
ington's hush-hush 'bureau for gleaning
.vociferously:,in ? the' debris of the Bay of;
:intelligence abroad, is again under public ?
Pigs failure, would:seem' to indicate that
.indictment. Two veteran national -corres-
the CIA needs increased.? superVision: 'No
"pondents have 'dissected the'CIA as .._111Q.,
one has disputed .the agency's role in gath-
TE.1A..ble Government," and there has been
ering 'intelligence, or even in. the some. ?
Ha flurry of argument and 'counCer-argu-
times unpleasant .and. sometimes ? embar-,-
'ment over the need for congressional SU.
rassing role of undercover revolutionary.i
?pervi`Sion of the super-sleuth operatives.
But evidence exists that the CIA has on
Because of the nature of its activities and. certain? crucial occasions made policy in.!
need fon?secrecy-at lioie anti 'abroad the:
stead ;.of merely- executing it, and that in' ?
.specific Junctions and PeliCies .of th,e CIA ? more -numerous cases the line of demarca.,1'
linay.never be.macie public...Any-discussion.: ..tion? between .the -source of decision and!
1.
of now or increased congressional watch.: he instrumentation of decision has beeni
blurre.d.
:dog powers over the CIA must be clone .
. And yet the, affairs of the CIA are' so!
with dark glasses on. . .
. delicate that one might well hesitate be.:
Administration officials in. the .Whiter, fore turning then inside-out before Demo-i
Iimise, Pentagon, and'State.Departrrient are: cratic? and Republican congressmen. The:
privy to the. CIA, and a...handful .of 'key CIA, despite more heady charges, is noti:
congressmen. 'are briefed' on 'its activities, !:, autonomous.' It is responsible to the officei
but-usually 'not.munch''more 7,extensively !...of the President of .the United ?States, andl
., than is needed to'. pad. the .budget: for, CIA if it oversteps its bounds .it violates the
? ? !",..-- ?: ? -.-???'?'',?President's delegated power.; ? . ?
Realists know-that the,. CIA' 'cannot ? Many. ' observers Are distrustful of ? the!
responsible to the .Congress,in.a manner. ?,.:CIA. But there are some -points on which;
of other .Federal aencies, even though iff' the public must have confidence in thel
must, rely prr-the ,Legislature for funds. I, President and his .ability .to control his' '
is a creatureaf the ...Executive !Branch,-
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....To the E. dito'r--t-A' recent Sun......,,I;?v':'.,;:p.?, laisu.tlifspreas-s
' - f -ti,?0 book co no' 1
day 'editorial 'entitled: "Cloak.: io^n: from'. the,
;,..fet.v'examPles they have select?!,,,
athned-DpargogbelermsStuoIIfreednisducusct,ins? i ',...,ctl: tO prove their contentions. :
told in a !'
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'secret. operations in a dernoc- ,. to imply fner'a "?art1Pk3'. are
teo. the ieade.
racy.: The Materials for the, ?
raeystyle
? editorial are 'drawn- from the ,...er that the authors were right ?
book," 'The ? Inv'sible ,Govern- , f by the side of the President or.,
"ment," By Vise an '',.:?the chief ,CIA agent when the
lie major thesis of this b-Oolc? ii:. fateful, operation. took place.:
Clearly they weren't and their'.
Is that the Central Intelligence.' ;,.e'ourees 1.1e,. often gossip,!hear? .,
!Agency , is a free-pbeeling ? :,' say; arid self?'-serving ? state!
.'operation subject to?grossly in-?,If,?rnerlts after the' fact... . ' ?
adequate control by either the ,,
President or the Congress.... ? ? nent that the .?,. There _joiedisagree-,?,
you secret
i reconeilietion:of, ',
' In. your own ,editorial you'. seeret operations with a demo- ,
state '. Without, . 'qualification,... Cratie government operating in
"'Subject, to no control or ac.,'.,-, counting by Congress, it ,. (the.. cult
open society -is a very diffi.4
cult problem. But this book -
' Central...Intelligence . Agency) .appears =ore interested,'
.,
has 'been able to topple foreign ''''': ,peephole revelations then 'in..;
, governments. ? This,. is.simPlY';:', contributing, - cOnstrtictively, 4.',,
not.que. ?. ?,? :' ? ?i;?,' ? ' ? - .' . '''.:.public understanding
are' four subcemmit- . : - ? ., . ';
There'- ' May I say that I. served in.!
1 teea pi', regular standing com-,.,..OSS ' with resisteneo ?.:groups in,. ?
..mitteeS,..bf? 'Congress that ek-..',.- occupied Europe'cluring.World :
',? ercise. regular ? and continuing; War II and participated in the .'
- ; contra/ .of :CIA:-.fundS and ? ne-'..' work of two presidential co-,
'.'ivities.-J.:Chese are not, ?as the'?'. mittens concerned, with ..de- ;
'..book . 'eta:in-1S, :!'shadowy" sub-,,,. fened policies and the opera.', .
' Conimittees "controlled by the 'Lions of , the.-Nation4 Aecurity,.-,
;. most 'conservative merabers.of ? council. ,..:' :7.,:i.-c,i? ....t?..,:,'?,??".-..!...!:;.,:
:Congress.? They' are composed ? 4; , -':?t,;?;T- ..,, -. ''......./:, '''.. . v,?,.. ...:g :
,. of some of the most senior and FRAiciillsi:',11,,...t,IIIDSAY-':'.1
epoctad men; of: Congress. ?::1', -Belmont,,.i.?..1?,.".;;..1
So.n. Saltonstall Is one of them:-.,I-- - -- - -- '
'Ile. Congres,V can, never be,
?,,';occused of reticence. in carry- t
0 ing out its constitutional ftinc-,,,i
tion, 'of legislatiVe. oversight..!
:over the activities -a the .e.-,:.-.?,:
eCutiVe . branch:: .' "let .it has
' .Voted: clown eeveral:resolutiOns...,,
:Offered by individual. members .]
to setup a speCial CIAIN.veteli-',.!
dog cOmniittee. The only
sonable conclusion that can'bel i
?drawn is that es..a.'Whole Con-1
, gross believes that present 'ar. :
- rangemantS provide ...en', ade-.. !
:?quate mechanism for:control. '
.1: In the Glob' editorial. you :!
' ask.,"why are i0- ' (CIA's), sub- 1
'? versions ;of - foreign" ' :govern.. ,!
' rnents. usually4n 'the form ' ot
n palz.:ce, coup?,..' Or of the in-j,' .
" stallation Of an unpopular geV....':
ernraent2f;?, -?The' ?:/answer ,4 4 '.,
.:ilZai`a that it. isp't' so. ..:-..,z ..1.,:e.. .???_::;
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tAh,en, xpose a Poor Joke?
THE INVISIBLE GOV-:
ERNMENT, by D a i d
Wise and T h t in s E
?o,ss, 356 rip. N mo?Y or :
Random. :House. $5.95.
?
A. New York drama critic
,.'.once wrote the most cogent re-
view of a new Broadway play,
whigh was also the shortest on
record: "This," he said,. "Is
the play. lousy I"
*Actually this expose of the
CIA is more bilious than bad.
-a work conceived with
I rare and admirable imagina-
. lion and well-written in a lucid,.
breezy style, but it leaves a
? ? nausea in its wake, a maw-
kish wonder how two chrono-
logically-mature men (b o t h
authors admit to a ripe old..
34) could seriously promote
? such an absurd and ? fulsome
thesis.
IN TilE BEGINNING THE
reader is asked to believe, that
here in this most open of de-
mocracies our people live in
a state of naive political delu-
sion. They think they know the
? truth about our governmental
structure and how it functions;
they even believe they have an
important voice in what it is
and does. Governing author-
ity, they are. certain, lies in
the White House, the Congress
and the Supreme' Court ?
"Not so, 0 Deluded Ones !,"
\insinuale Our . imaginative- au-
tri rs, Underlying every ex-
cutive pronouncement every
congressional action, every ju-
dicial determination, there is
a shay, clandestine force at
work ? a "shadow govern-
ment," unseen but real; and
busily engaged In "shaping the
lives of 190 millionAmeri-
cans" and "making major de-
:
? 'cisions, sometimes involving:
peace or war . . . even with-
out the knowledge of our elect-7
representatives."
By wha t mysterious al-
chemy or blessed gift (or is
It just ithagination?) the s e
? two can see : what ordinary
'mortals. cannot, IS obscure;
? but see it they do. "There are
? two governments in the United
States today," they devine.
"One is visible. The, other is
invisible. The first is the gov-
ernment that citizens read
about in their newspapers. The
second is the interlocking, hid-
den machinery that carries
out the policies of the United
? States in the Cold War."
BEING INVISD3LE, the. out-4
lines of the second are not
clearly discernible even to onr
informants, but they are sure .
it is "a- loose, amorphous
grouping of individuals and
agencies" that make up the
? intelligence community in the
,visible, government. They know
also its GI-IQ lies in ? the Cen-
teal Intelligence Agency and
that its activities are con-
trolled by a small directorate
"the name of Which is only
Whispered . . . unknown out-
side the innermost circles of
the Invisible Government" -it-
self. The authors, however, are
not afraid to say it out loud-
it is called the "Special.
Group," or if that isn't cloak- .
and-dagger enough, the "54-12
Group."
The suspicion" grows that?
Wise and Ross are pulling the
reader's leg. It blossoms into
conviction at the next incredi-
ble revelation. Do you know,
who it was who spawned this
cancerous 'growth in our na-
tional bosom? It was Harry
S. Truman, because it was he
who signed that dastardly Ex-
ecutive Order on Jan 22, 1946,
that set up our first National
Intelligence Authority. Poor
maligned Harry ? as though
he didn't have enough unwar-
ranted scars to remember his
sojourn at 1600 Pennsylvania'
Avenue.
UP TO THIS point it has
been fairly easy, even amus-
ing, to go 'along with the gag.
But then the authors feel it.
-necessary to prove their the-
sis and the going gets sticky.
They rely on the 'tired device
of "for-the-first-time-told" ac-
..,sounts_of what REALLY hap--
pened In Guatemala, Iran, In-
donesia, Cuba and other mes-.
sy spots around the world,
complete with "evidence" to :
demonstrate it Was the Invi-
sible Government that botched.
them
them up and made them mess-
ler. They waft the reader with ;
them into privileged sanctums
of the "Special Group" with
verbatim quotes from conver-
sations ? and secret delibera-.
tions that took place in far
away places, some of which ?
occurred before Wise and Ross .t
? had learned to shave.
They stretch credibility to
the breaking point by nam-
lag.names, although as exper-? -
kneed journalists ? who kno4i7:
the sting packed in a libel
suit they preface their dis-
closures with time - tested ;
disclaimers to preclude legal
'action. They assume, specu-
late, allege, 'infer and gener- ?
? alize in order to condemn; and
suddenly the book isn't fun
anymore. It becomes clear the
? boys aren't joshing. They are
in dead earnest and they, con- 't
fidently expect the reader, to
, believe them.
It also becomes abundantly
clear that our drama critic is ,
: well worth plagiarizing.
JOHN 0. WEAVER
Col Weaver Is on the fneul?
I
ty of the American University ?i
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CIA CONTACti
U.S. TOURISTS
The Central Intelligence
Agency and other U.S. secur-
ity bureaus spend $4 billion
t a year, employ 200,000 men
" and women, sponser coups in
, foreign countries, sometimes
work at cross purposes with
our foreign policy, and mock
American political theory.
Those are the broad lines
of the charges that David
Wise and Thomas B. Ross,
newspaper reporters in Wash-
ington, lay down in
visible era," the
most co rsial
book. Although it is being'
published only today it al-
ready has been subjected to
vigorous criticism within ?the
government. ?
According to The Minneap-
olis Tribune, the CIA asked
Random Rouse, the publisher, .
to suppress or cergsor the
book. Random House admit-
ted that the CIA called parts
of the hook inaccurate but
said the CIA refused to spec-
ify how or where.
? \.
Some Theory
Jack Raymond of The New
York Times Washington Bu-
reau declared, "Officials as-
sert the Wise-Ross book's
identification of certain per-
sons with specific incidents is
believed to have done consid-
erable damage to the United
States' clandestine opera-
tions."
The CIA' apparenfly is op-
erating on the theory, diffi-
cult to believe, that two
American journalists have
been able to find out more
than Communist spies here
and abroad.
But it is not surprising that
the CIA is upset about "The
Invisible Government." For
Wise and Ross tell of CIA
ineptness as well as describ-
ing a wide range of CIA op-
erations.
CIA's sponsorship of the
.1.1-2 spy flights over Russia
from 1956 to 1960 is well
known. So is the CIA super-
vision of the ill-fated Bay of
Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961.
Quiet Facts " ?
, Less well known are these
; activities which Wise and
Ross attribute to the CIA:
?Suppression of a revolt in
Guatemala in 1960 and .sup-
port of a successful revolu-
tion there in 1954;
?The overthrow of Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh of
Iran in 1953;,
?Financing of a West Ger-
man intelligence network, op-
erated by ex-Nazis ? and infil-
trated to the highest levels
by, the Communists;
?Attempts in 1953 and 1954
to oust Jose Figueres, the
president of Costa Rica;
?The support of 12,000 Chi-
nese Nationalist troops in the
1950s within the borders of
Burma;
?The provision of aerial
support in 1958 for a revolt
against President Sukarno of
Indonesia;
?The backing of ineffective
right-wing forces in Laos dur-
ing the Eisenhower adminis-
tration against a neutralist
regime;
?Efforts to overturn the
policy of the U S. Army in
South Viet Nam.
Justification
The authors justify their
publication of details about
these and other operations
this way:
"The premise of this book
is that even in a time of Cold
War, the United States goy-.
ernment must rest, ? in ?the
words of the Declaration of
Independence, on 'the consent
of the governed." And there
can be no meaningful consent
where those who are gov-
erned do not know to what.
they are consenting.
"In the harsh conditions of
the mid-20th century, the na-
tion's leaders have increas-
ingly come to feel that certain
decisions must be made by
_them alone without popular
consent, and in secret, if the
nation is to survive. The area
,of this secret decision-making
has grown rapidly and the
size of the 'Invisible Govern-
ment' has increased propon!
tionately." ? '
In addition to the issue of
secret decision - making in a .?
"The ' Invisible govern-
ment" suggests that Marvin
.Makinen, ' of Ashburn-
hams imprisoned by the
Russians in 1961 and freed
in 1962, was an agent for
the Central Intelligence
Agency.
The book declares:
"It is not unusual for the
CIA to contact Americans zi
about to go behind the Iron
Curtain as tourists . . .
"In a similar case in 4
1961,, another American,
(Makinen), was arrested 't
while touring Russia ,
The Russians said he had ,
confessed to spying . . .
"Makinen had little to
say to reporters when he,
Stepped ore a BOAC air- .
liner at Idlewild Interna-
tional Airport . When ?
asked about. his arrest, he
replied in a low voice: 'I #1
guess it was, mainly beeause'l
of my confession.'" ? ?
free society, the hook raises
two other major questions:
?How can policy, as deter-
mined by CIA and its intel-
ligence compatriots, be har-
monized with the policy being
pursued by the Defense De-
partment, the State Depart-
ment, and the President?
?To what extent should'
CIA be allowed to operate
within this country, as in its
financial sponsorship of the
Center for International Stud-
les at the MassachuSetts In-
stitute of Technology?
Wise and Ross suggest that
U.S. ambassadors control or
at least be alerted to CIA
operations within their coun-
tries; that a blue-ribbon pan- ,
el,of Congress be established,
to supervise CIA much as the
joint atomic energy, ?commit-
tee oversees the Atomic En-
ergy Commission; that the
President look not only to the
intelligence community but }
also to other 'sources before
approving particular overseas ,
operations, and that the CIA!
stop trying to mislead ?the :
American public by i.'
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Eisenhower 'planned it;' . 'Kennedy executed it; and the'.?;
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) fumbled it.
; The abortive Bay of Pigs"' invasion of April 1961 was ? a
. .
. . direct covert action of the United States' "Invisible Govern-
,
' ineqt" to topple thepasko .governmeptin Cuba.
. ? .. . . ? . .. ..? , ...
. . ' CUBA WAS A 'LARGE -SCALE ope.ration that failed.It
. was by. no means the, first'..suCh'sortie, engaged in by the '4.
' ? CIA, but it was big enotigli and'grotoatitio enough to direcV,
2...some inquisitive eyes toward the CIA, its organization and.
...its varied operations2,'\'...,::
The facts presentect:by .Authors Wise and 'Ross for the
most, part are_not sitrprising. They have been heard before-7.:
. . out of context.
'
I'he Invisible'. Gevernment" presents the reader with a i
?
, thoroughly organized., study Of the CIA and the other room-4
? hers of this country's ,intelligence community, of whiab the,
CIA is the core. ' - ' ,. ',...-' -. .. ' ' . ' ?'/,
;. CLOAKED IN A VEIL of secrecy, the CIA is presented';.:
'? ' in this book as,an'indepejident government within a govern
? -
meat, working outside the boundaries of its parent.'' ?
; President Truman'previded a backbone for th,e Invisible
' Government through the National Security:. Act a 1947, es-.j
,-tablishing the CIA. 7.. '
the book points out. ' ' ..,-? - ?
?dimensions which Truman said he had never anticipated,"
?. "But in 1963 the intelligence apparatus hod taken otO, .
...... - 0 . .
.
-,
? . ,?, .
, IT QUOTES 'TRUMAN as saying: "'There Are, some)
.. . ' searching questions that need to be 'answered.- I ..... would '
;?-like to see, the CIA be restored to its original assigninent-'
' as the intelligence arm of the President, and whatever else',i
, ? it can properly perform in that special field --- and that its',
- -operational duties, be terminated or properly Used . else-
.?
where.' " , . .,
. ,
. . . Wise and Ross cite covert ?CIA "operations" in Burma,
. Laos, Indonegia,' Viet Nam and Guatemala, as well as Cuba.", I.
. THERE wgag-CASES, they say,? where ambassadors,
- the President's . personal representatives in foreign lands,
. were kept in the dark about': CIA ' activities, and actually ]
. tb;,varted in the performance of their duties. -
41
The autliors have pulled together'a blow?by blow descrip-,;
' tion of the tragic Bay, of Pigs fiasco, pointing out a definite ?
- lack Of adequate. planning and the lack of alternate plans 'to --
, ? ..? c
fall back on.
?They tell a story .of the widows, and families of those
. four Alabama National Guard fliers who were killed while ,
' making last ditch support flights over the beaches.
. 'UNFORTUNATELY, AT present neither CIA nor any ,
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,inlormation on your son's disappearance'," a flier's mother
was told in a letter from Ihe White House.
The book charges that misleading statements of the r
:agency's covert operation have raised havoc even with the 4
electoral process, naming the 1960 presidential campaign as
; an example.
CIA activities have played such a major role ih interna.'
.tional relations over the past few years that. the average 1
American has no basis on which to assess the activities of
t; its own government, because he doesn't know whether or not
to believe his government's statements.
TILE AUTHOItS CALL FOR a re-evaluation of the Invisi-),
'Me Government an the role it plays in the sphere of demo-
cratic government.
"Most important, the public, the President and the Con-
gress must support steps to control the intelligence establish- 1
ment, to place checks on its ?power and to make it truly
accountable, particularly in the area of special operations,"
? they say.
Wise and Ross have done an ou(standing job in pre-
senting an "almost" inside picture of the Invisible Govern- ,
. meat ? a story that must be told ?'and read. ?
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circles considerably this
.month. The Invisihle.Gov-
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- a rt? d Thomas )3.. Ross':
- charges that the CIA_
an-
ntially spends
taken from the federal -
,..htidget but concealed under
:-,?other appropriations:1n the'_
L book ,"It's Your Money:
?Waste and Mismanagement'.,.
in Covernrnent Spending,"::
? LadislaS Farago claims that ,
the Air Force 'spent
apiece, for 5-cent screws-:
and.that ,
1. went into production of a
nuclear-powered plane ,that .
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.month. The Invisihle.Gov-
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?? inment4-1-37- rrd?Irrise-14*
- a rt? d Thomas )3.. Ross':
- charges that the CIA_
an-
ntially spends
taken from the federal -
,..htidget but concealed under
:-,?other appropriations:1n the'_
L book ,"It's Your Money:
?Waste and Mismanagement'.,.
in Covernrnent Spending,"::
? LadislaS Farago claims that ,
the Air Force 'spent
apiece, for 5-cent screws-:
and.that ,
1. went into production of a
nuclear-powered plane ,that .
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ecrecy Diselos
,
dates for President are shaped (or.
:reversed). by secret opentions which th
:.voters, are not entitled to know, about,
c; something has happened to the American
c.system, and something for ill.":
... This lies close. to ? the heart of the
' Constitutional danger posed by the U. S.
intelligence and espionage apparatus as
'viewed in a detailed and sensational new
book, The Invisible Government. Its
, authors are two able, hard-nosed reporters-
..(David Wise of the New York Herald.
1 ;Tribune and Thomas ROSS of the Chicago
Sun-Tim e s) whose dtscloSures began
r,.. drawing : Washington fire long. , before;
publication. ? ?. ' , . .
: - During'., the 1960. campaign, Richard
Nixon' came out against American sup-
port for an exile invasion of Cuba even
though he favored such a policy. He
"opposed because he feared his ?advocacy
Would. endanger plans, already secretly
Under way, for just such an operation.
? Tbe Bay- of Pigs was a notso-covert:
!operation of the CIA, most powerful arm
:of the "Invisible government." Nixon's-
.'eaMpaign dilemma, say WiSe`bnd Ross;
meant the CIA .had penetrated "the very..
;:heart,'? of- democratic government," the
,.
i'-electoral ' process. ? ' : ' ?
As opposed to the visible government,
!i!Whoso 'behavior is subject tO Congres-
sional check and voter, decision, the.
- invisible government is carefully -veiled
0".from -judgment. ...Yet . the :agencies ? of
i' Which'it is composed,' say, the authors,:
1:/vend some $4 billion.a year 'and employ.
i;
about '200,000 people- with' :no., public
,'accounting. Well, 'so. be it.. 'Or tan. we.
-.1.alie that. attitude?' ' - ..'.. ? - ? ? f. : ?
his gob eminent \ does not simply.
By Donald Stanley.
THE. public positions of candi- 10"*"."4"0"*.or
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and Thomas B. Ross. Random House,: 375 t.;?
Pages' $5.93.
gather intelligence. At ;Ilse. carries ouV
policy-policy it has had an InordinatelY;'
strong band in shaping, say the'buthors,,,;'
Wise and Ross give detailed aecOurits.
of. CIA "special operations".. ..which ; (be
? sides the U-2 and Bay of Pigs programs)
tried to overthrow Sukarno 1.958;
. ?toppled governments in lean in 1953 abiii
-Guatemala in 1954, and operated; outside'
? the context ?cf,f, procia imed U. S. policy it0
. .
Laos, Vietnam. and Burma. 1
?? Not even other 'Federal branches are
immune froni ,?CIA. "penetration." One
. of the Peace 'Corps biggest problems is
trying ? to maintain its. purity by making..
;I...sure the CIA doesn't. fit an agent , with
this perfect "cover"-7,--thus: endangering:
the whole program.. .? - ? '
THERE ARE also revelatiOns of fantastic
-L developments in electronic-bge, espio-
nage: satellite' cameras "capable bf re
,
solving two objects three inches apartl
'.'from 125 miles up,".for instance. This is
obviously a book that will be on the. shelf
Of every spymaster on both bides of tluil
IrOn Curtain. , '
Given the world as it is,: few need be:
? ShOcked by the extent of our: informg,:
,tion-gathering machinery..SpieS are vital:,
Rather, it 'is the "special operations" that;
worry the, authors and they 'ask of thil
;proliferating secret' bureaucracy,. '"Has
the dagger, in.short,.become more impel'
...tant than the cloak?" ?
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Reviewed by
CHARLES W. BAILEY
One of the. persistent
and troublesome problems deal of semi-anon m
. of American government in? ? ? . 1 . ., , jy ous , reads in many places like :
criticism rorn o f t i c i a I
. the age of Cold War lithe 'sources" about ill-is- -1;o.olt."I'' SPY novel, But this is r
ilLo a;lego.,..__.z._,119pilto not the only reason why itl
1\ proper role., of what can
Aoosely be termed "cloak- . should be read; far more
neither the Central Intel-,,'?
;*and-dagger" activity ? '' compelling is the fact that
ligence Agency nor
; spying,, intelligence-g at h- ' anY '', it will give most Ameri-
other officials. will say lo : cans
? ering, and other clandes- - their firstigood look.;
publicly ? that the .book :,
? tine operations ' at a vastly expensive, high- _.
contains errors of fact and
-,., None but the naive ' ly important and eXtremely
disclosures that could en-
Would deny the need, if ? i risk . ,
g.
y sector of
only in the interests or : dan govern-
self-preservation,
national security ment operations. '
self-preservation, for the ? Clearly, the book must 1 ,,
'
United States to engage in ? he embarrassing to the ? When secret government i
.this kind of thing. But CIA ,and other agencies J activity reaches out so far
many, acknowledging this ?. .?:.
arid?irrcliViduals. involved, ' as to affect the conduct .:
i
need, still wonder what we. . since it lays out in detaq 1 of a presidential campaign',
are doing ? and whether'' a number of matters which' j---, as the ?authors con-"
we are properly controlling
those concerned would obJ ' vincinglY claim the Culian,,'?
what we do. ' viouly prefer to have if j operation did in the 1960 1
'
aor Deals
.?,
,
, . ,
hey . also present nei,i7-
ails on the structure Of! a case, The need for clan-:.!'t,
the , American i "invisiblej ddaey?sstine operations in. to.. ,
world does not cani
government," its cost, and' cel out, and rin fact in-
the Ways in which it has
-
creases
reached ,out to take root i kilnw,, thelieed for us tol
in this country as ' well as ;
? at least hi general?1
abroad. ? ? .; what's going on. .k
' "The Invisible Govern-
THERE HAS been a good ,
1
ment" e is well-written and 4
. -
Two' experienced Wash-
ington newspapermen now',
offer, in "The Invisible
? urirecorded. t t b t e Kenned ,.
he
But a reading of "T : and Nixon --- it is time .
Invisible Government" aii0 :that the country, even if it_:"
? . 1
r -- I
accepts the situation, ?r?
Government," a detailed leads the reader to con
''
-look at many, if not all,. , dude that , the auth and ors ji kno.ws_ about it M Wise.';', "
' of the things we.are doing j ? ; oss , ,conclude, -"the .4
'?'?
?- have done. their work with .
in this area. . : ? care. The book is well-.1* * ' danger of exposureis ? .'.
?-
i . documented ? a' first-rate l' far less than the , danger
:
IN ADDITION, they pro- piece of reporting in an j?of secret power," ?
, .
... vide compelling and often . , area- where no official co- ; - ' ? . ?*
, v 1-
peration whatever ' could . CHARLES W. BAILE
. disturbing evidence that. ?, , Y is
' the traditional organs of ?? be expected. And there are ''?? a staff ; writer Or 'the,
government have danger- ' dozens of places where ; Minneapolis . T r is.b a n il.
., ously inadequate control '.' Wise and Ross have oh-
? over this secret. work. ?-? vibusly aVoided the gratui- ?
Wise and Ross provided,: toes use of names and
a 'glimpse of the secret
? government when they
wrote their first book on
the U2 spy, plane affair.
This time they have
probed U.S. involvement in
a great many other mat-
ters, including ? the 1961
Cuban invasion, operations to suppress the book ?? to
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4' other specifics that might
have spiced up their ac-
count. ?
r, AN ARGUMENT :c a n
..be constructed ? indeed,
'
:this was the thrust of the
under - the k table efforts
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Readers'Roranclup
0 STANTON P.EC,K1iA111
WO most talked-about books in the book trade these
days are "The Invisible Government" (reviewed here
today) and a sickening, salacious opus about a long-de-
ceased m8vie star, who and which shall be nameless. There
Is general agreement. that the book 'about the late actress
never should have been written in the first place, nor pub-
lished in the second. (Here is another instance in which a
modicum of self-censo sli o epaFto( the publishers
might not have beeiyut of order.)
The case of '7the Invisible Government" is quite differ-
cut. The authors ve...clope a goo it. It contains in-
formation on the operations of the CIA, the National Se-
curity Agency, and "an even .morl"e`loirrlecret central Co-
?
? grdinating. group.", Unnamed "high government. officials"
. .The Good and Bad of :ItL
have howled, that the book contains 112 breaches of security,
some so bad that the usefulness of certain agents is de-1
stroyed by their disclosure. They wanted the government toi
. buy up all 20,000 of the first printing, and the book revised.:i
. Any "high government officials" making such a sugges-
tion must be off their, rockers. The security was. breachedl
when the authors got their information, not when they pub-;!
listed it, and it must be assumed that any unfriendly govern-
ment agents wild be equally clever 4n going After infor-
mation really vital to them. Furthermore, the publisher of '
the book attests that all the information it contains .has-
' been published in one form or another, so there is no point:
In not . collecting it for the information of the general pub.:
' lie. since "the enemy," The is interested,'already has it. 't
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By MALCOLM BAUER
? Associale Editor, The Oregonian
"THERE ARE two govern-
ments in the United States to-
Ing parts of a disquieting book;
are to be found in the unde-
niable quotations of high of-I
ficials who ,knew at the time
day," two reputable Washing- they were lying to protect,
ton. D.C., newspapermen con-- -
secret operations. Some ex-
amples: 1
"The American people are
entitled to know whether we
are intervening in Cuba or in-
tend to do so in the future. The
tend in The Invisible Govern-
ment (Random House, $5.95).
"Ono is visible. The other
.Js invisible."
The latter, obviously, is' the
subject of this well assembled answer to that question is no." ,
documentary by David Wise ?Secretary, of State Dean
and Thomas 13. Ross. It.is not, Rusk
in the true sense, a govern-. "There was absolutely no ?
ment. Rather, it is a loose N-0 ? no deliberate attempt
grouping of execntive agencies to violate Soviet airspace.
known as "the intelligence There never has been." Lin-
communitY," composed of the coin White, State Department
National Security Council, the spokesman, on the U-2 incl.
Defense Intelligence Agency,:
the National Security Agency,! dent.
There is evidence here that
Army - Navy - Air Force In- both Richard...Nixon and John
telligence, State Department
Intelligence, the Atomic Ener- Kennedy knew of Cuban inva-;-
gy Commission, the Federal sion plans during the cam-
Bureau of Investigation, and? paign of 1960 and that both 1
at its heart?the Qentral In- deliberately misled their aucli-.1
tclligence Agencr.-?? ences on the subject.
Wise and Ross replay the , "The secret intelligence ma-
tragi-comedy of the Bay of chinery of the government can
Pigs with the shadowy intelli- never be totally reconciled;
gence agents calling the turns., with the traditions of a free I ,
And they fortify their warn-s republic," the authors con-
ing with other U.S. spy dra- dude persuasively. "But in a
mas less known. time of Cold War, the solution '
"There is no doubt at all,"
they write, "that the CIA (led
by Kermit Roosevelt, grandson
of Teddy) organized and di-
rected the 1953 coup that over-
lies not in dismantling this ,
machinery but in bringing it I
under greater control. The re-
sultant danger of exposure is I.
far less than the danger of se.
threw Premier Mohammed cret pow9r.
Mossadegh (in 1953 in Iran)." ? ?
And they cite other secret
and sinister operations in Viet
Nam, Guatemala, Egypt, etc.
?aAd within the United States.,
The. premise of the authorsi
Is not that there should be no.
? intelligence community, , but ,
that It .should be under, great;:
er'contrel and scrutiny,
.)?
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"THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT," b David '
, ?
ise and Thomas B. R In ldOM ? .95).
. nue zone mix-up deprived Cuban ing'' raid, . the authors
'exile bombers of needed jet fighter. COVer during the charge that 'four .Ameri-';
All-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, according to. .cans?Riley W, Shambur--
? Washington newsmen David Wise and. Thomas R. Pos.s. ger Jr., Thomas 'W. Ray, :.
l. The book ? is already al ' T H E AUTHORS cited /', Leo F. Baker and Wade C.
subject of Controversy in` .
the Bay of Pigs error as.l.' Gray, all of the Burning-
the capital, with allega- i an example ;,,or the Ii 0 -: ''" ham, Ala., area --?-? were
,tions .that the Central In- fluent failure of liaiSon : killed. ?
:telligence--Irgo'iTerirrA) i within the CIA.' r . ? Wise and Ross claim \
attempted to have portions : They said the Trite Pres i that- neither the CIA nor
of it suppressed or, failing ent John F Kennedy o!-
, dr F. 4-- :'
any other government .de-
that, to; buy. up all the dered the Navy to provide 'I partment has ever admit- ,
:1
copies in print. I fighter cover when itap-2 ted that th
?? e four were ,
The pe
! are piloting ' the Cuban exile '
WISE IS chief ? of '
d that Fidel Castro's :
planes, .nor has ever told.
. 1 air force had gained Inas- .
New York Herald - I ru ihe widows of the four men
: tery the skies over he i ;
une's Washington Bureau, 1 of ' ,
and Ross is on The Cbica- ! invasion site,. endang Jtow they met deatlu All
ering ?
i
;go Sun-Times capital staff. the Cuban - exile - hr d of the widows receive moreigae ,
or less regular ponsion-1
visile Government" of top
The claim that an "In-
:I fighting on the heaches. :
type payments, however. :
. hUnder ' Kennedy's order, '
'b f
-37_ ' ' 'cl ' '
... ? W ise and Ross concluded
..!
'secret intelligence 'igen /--one hour of -tighter cover ithat:
cies, with the CIA at its . .
on the morning of April 19,, ';,. '"The' secret intelligence-I
/
center has grown in power : three days after the itiva- Machinery of the govern-
during the .United States' ; sion had begun. ? , merit ean never be recon-
the Communist world.
long twilight struggle with ' But by the time the exile ci led with the traditions of ,!
They chaygo that this
- bombers ;showed ?up; the i, a. free republic. But in at
-
. shadowy 'structure spends'NaVy jets had come and 1 inu-!.. a Cow War, the:,
'
gone, : /solution lies not. ill tlis,
' about $t billion a year and "HoW this happened may' " Illiirit 1 i ng thre mach incry.'2/
,cmploys'inore than 200,000 neVer be entirely unseram- ? but In brkiging. it under I.
' persons, but is subject to. bled ... . but the evidence gri!ii tor sipikol.'The ro;fu It-
few controls or checks :.pointed directly to the in- :ant flatiger of exposure is!
: from either ? .Congress or credible conclusion that: for less than the danger of.'
' the White House. : the mix-up had occurred . secret 'power. ? ; ,/
The book documents./ because of -confusion 6Ver"--777-
If we err as a society,
that get out of control of ,
I
. the dangers of . operations ; dine zones, .
' :-. ..? ...? ' l let it be op the side of con-'. : . . . . '
/ trol."?/-U.P.L
,
' the President and of U.S. j, IT :WAS . on : this. homb-! . .., I
.,
; ambassadors on the scene..
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?An Invisible Government That Hakes Our Laws
By Caleb J. king Jr.
? Just off the press under the Ran- Sought by congressmen in draftink:
dom House label is ?a`book about one legislation.
of the most controversial establish- Lobbyists are so active that don-1
? ments in the federal government, the , gressmen find it hard to get a night
Central Intelligence Agency. Titled off from parties staged for their bene-
TThe Invisible Government," the vol- fit. Lobbyists in Washington are said
ume Ts sald-6,have been Criticized by to outnumber members'. of Congress
pa the charge that it was in- three to one.
I accurate. ? Nor is lobbying carried on by pri-
, vate enterpilse alone. The government
Officiais of the publishing house, , constitutes one .of the most effective
in turn have asked for a list of the : lobbies in the world. This is obvious
inaccuracies, at the same time deny- from the number. of ,public relations I
ing that CIA had tried to suppress or employees on the federal payrolls.
censor the book, which is authored , The Senate Investigating CoMm?it--'?
f, by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross. ' tee which early-in 1950 rebuked Maj.-
Created largely as a result of , Gen. Harry Vaughan, presidential )
?'blunders in the intelligence process aide, for accepting freezers from a
durihg World War II, CIA: is a central concern that obviously was using the
depository for., information about po- gifts to purchase White House influ-
tential enemies from all sources. It/ ence, put its finger .on one of the
is aimed at avoiding the "over-the- , most unwholesome practices in the 4
coffee cups method of afriving at ' :American system of government The '1
.the enemy's capabilities. The agency, reader can bring himself up to date ,
has been under fire since the inva- by reading stories about the Bobby
.sion debacle engineered by the late _Baker scandal. ?'
,President Kennedy to liberate Cuba. , '
e ? ? Said the author of the book, "The
About a decade ago an ex-news- ; Lobbyists":
? pa.perman drew on his experience ,as ? "Lobbying as it IS carried on An;
a reporter to give a picture of a dif-., Washington' today is,, the (Buchanan).
,ferent kind of "invisible government."A. committee asserts?and all evidence
? Karl Schriftgiesser, who wrote the ,tends, to support .the assertion?bast:
book, "The Lobbyists," described the, ; cally ?a reflection pf our economy."'
Influence business , in the nation's And he quoted the committee: "As '
capital. ' ? ? ? - . the management of this economy has
? ' ' drifted into 'fqwer and fewer hands,
Congress gives legal countenance , so too has,? pressure on the, legisla-
to lobbying. it permits repretentatives tive front been sharply accelerated ,
of various establishments use to for all' may be a sacred
stratagems to get legislation'. they . right but it is a right which some
want paned. Some 'lobbyists undeni-:.. menscan make more meaningful than
ably serve in quite a legitimate 'ca- others. It is said, for example, .that ,
? pacity. Representing .complex the individual consumer and the bil-
tries or far-flung trade associations, lion ' dollar corporation have equal.'l
they provide valuable sources of in- rights before the law, but are they
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IN REVIEWING "The
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,..vrtk-&-ni?telligence establishment by
authors whom he calls "two of the
(brightest young men of the i Washing-
ton news corps," one 'reviewer notes
,that the policy of secrecy, .on intelli-
gence work clearly forded the ;book's
, writers to labor mightily to piece their
account. together...And he noted, too,,
?that the absence 'of i official sources
"naturally raises the question of how
accurate the book is."
.: In bits and pieces, and often
through criticisnis . of legislators dis,
:turbed by untoward international
?events to which the Central. Intelli-
gence Agency was linked, the Ameri-
can public has been given a smattering
.of impressions about the CIA which the:
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, The repeated allegations of :,the,
CIA's undercover interVention in ..the;
'internal affairs of? other countries beT,
come a sonrce of, special concern when
,there is the suspicion that this agency,
is not only doing far more than normal.
intelligence gathering but that it op-
crates 'without adequate supervision.
Ifrom top responsible officials in 'our.
!"open government." ? .
Such suspicions would be impossii;
ble to dissipate by public revelations,
'because those. revelations , Would de-
stray ,an apparatus 'whose .effectiveness?
ii serving the national 'security de-.'
, pends in large part upon the very se-i
.crecy that may cloak both mistakes.
;and improper activities. But the public'
; could be reassured that the secret in-.
elligence establishment is under effec-
tive .supervision?and the basic .derno--.,
cratic controls over government policy..
; and action protected against erosion?
if a' blue-ribbon joint Senate-House
committee like the,one on secret atom-
ic energy matters were established to'
.check 'on American intelligence activi-:
?
This was what the authors of "The
Invisible Government" argued for: And
the formation of such a committee has
been supported by this newspaper for
years past. If the book about CIA, and
associated toddies, is inaccurate or over-
drawn, then the best ?and only ? ree;.
:buttal possible ? to its contentions and:,
zharges are in private before a tight-
:hipped and. trustworthy committee of
Conghss..'
' Suolva Committee really is possible'
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THE INVISIBLE GOV-
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d Thomas 13. Rai
disturbed ICY the..bboWs revel
ations of ?? secret operations
and by "112 breaches of ? se-
? curity."
These charges. are, of
course, vigorously ? and no
?doubt happily -= o denied-. by
f, 356 pp., notes an inc
.K ando nt House, New
York. $5.95.
By MAI-9( ll:OBB
. 'A TANTALIZING back- '
:ground to this discussion of
the. intelligence and espionage?
,organii a-. r????Ipm.vo,r
tions of the
, United States at
is found in a
paragraph on.
Page 49 of
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_ors' W.e ekly
for June 8.
Certain;r"
"Iii g h ? officl-:
? als" are said .
o l?q,...graVely *open? ?
the publishers. '
Dangerous or not, "The-In-
visible. Government" is cer-
tainly.an enthralling but
chaotically organized calico-
,tion of facts . and incidents
supporting the thesis that the
United ; States "intelligence
community" is hideously ex-
ensive, frequently inept and
Yond control , by any con;
stituted authority. .
The heaviest attack is di.
meted against the Central in-
telligence Agency (CIA) as
the organization most ? re-
sponsible for unwarranted in-
trusions into the political af-
fairs of.ofher nations and for
Onkel ? raids",':' iTon? naive
American, taipayers. '
'The melancholy'' proces'-`,:'?!
SOn?Ineludes the :Bay of.
. nit r in a, Indonesia, ? '
..14io:?(, Vietnam and ?Guate- .
;i ? main, among. others. ? ' ?
In all instaheeS two. points
are ,stressed: -flirst' that CIA.
actions were a?varta'nce with,-, ?
if.- not -directly'. 'opposed 'to of..
''Sicial led ' -Slat es ? .'poficy-;':
:and second, 'list le:nova/lee of
;what . 'the CIA ' Was :doing
, usually led to einh3rras'sment:,?
.1for ah2ointed thpbo
'Imats, com-f,rossMen and 'eabk.
I net meinhers---a.nd in lfitiO for
? the presidential candidate
, With their belaying pm ox-'
?';.hausted on the CIA, ,Wir. Wise:
:and Mr. Ross devote the
i.ontd half. of their hook to, a.;
!detailed deseription... of the
,"intelligence? 'community" .
'self, of which the CIA; heade'd
'John McCone, .? is, 'merely.
the -'cloak-and-dagger depart.' ;
intent. ? "; ? ??t
!?Writtrs EYaluated ? . of his. chpsen roresentativjes.
'deep'
.cent-appearing ,budget' items
The people involved are every i.
-
where: The tools 'used
aive-inspiring.. And all
Since 1947! ? '
The question which must
'concern' every reader is, of. :!
Course, how ,fair an apprzoiSal
this is. There is Some donU
mentl.tion, but many !inner-
taut!. statements are made
without support. ? ' ,
The writers 'are abhi, and:
they tell their story well;. but,
they are full of a deep
cern which must be taken into.
account. 4
?
Only an expccrt an say
:whether "The Invisible (7,ov-
eparient"'is the whole truth.
serves a- purpose'
persuades the innocent reader
to cock a questioning eyebrow
at ? certain kinds' of news .and
to ask more careful questions ?
i. ? . . -.1 . , . ..
1 To prepare readers for ' ... ?Costs. are astronomical..and
'these conclusions, - tile author's; .. - - - " ''', - -----?'?-? s-"'
. .,
two experienced -Washington ,o'i
. -,
...
newsmen; Set' forth 'a series'T oi
of . situations . in . which, theY .!-I-? '? _
think, the CIA demonstrated .:.,1
'either poor 'planning. or totarl
.,
disregard . of. the Kcal . desires ...1
,
ler the people with whose gowo
!.criurients it.'Wkts..interfering.'-?
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A recently published book, "gke Invisible Goverik.---
ment," by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, is an'
expose of the Central Intelligence Agency. Its work:
of espionage makes it "invisible" if it is to function!,
siccessfully. But the authors build up a case that.!
Vie CIA is not only invisible, it is "irresponsible."\
That is, it is an action agency as well as a fact-gath-
ering and weighing agency, and as an action agency 1
; it operates without restraint from congress, often,'
v,ithout the knowledge of this body, and apparently t,
with marked freedom from the executive branch of there werereports that the
government. ' CIA was active in Viet Nam,
Another recent book giving a detailed narrative ? a parallel if not a competing
of the Bay of Pigs affair reveals the active role
paid in that debdcle by thIA.?.There was the
mysterious "Frank" who remains unidentified to the
public, who served as a liaison between the CIA and
the Cuban exiles. He seems to have had a lot to do
with organizing the invasion, supplying it, and build-
ing up their hopes of ample U.S. support, particularly
?
air cover.
factor to the U.S. embassy
and the U.S. military com-
mand. ?
That the CIA is still operat;,'
log as a "secret and quasi-in-
dependent arm of the govern-
ment is the conclusion drawn'
from what happened recently
in the Congo. A rebel group,
'. The 'failure of \ the CIA properly to appraise said to be under leadership of
( Castr0 vulneTaNlity to invasion was freely dis-._ 1
. * a Communist, 'has been buffet-
I cussed after the failure at Bay ! ing the troops of the central ,
of Pigs. Allen Dulles, the then, ,1 Congo government in parts of !
director, offered to resign, But ,1Katanga province. Then came
i there was never an official and 1 word that some U.S. T28 corn- I
1 public accounting. The Amen- . i bat planes had reached the
= can people do not know to . 'Congo. It was reported that
'.' what degree the CIA was de- ',a few American civilians were
1 ficient in its forecast or in its ; being employed by the Congo t
organization of the attempt to government on training mis- ;
overthrow Castro. President :sions. When news came that i
' Kennedy manfully assumed the , they were flying combat mis- ,
blame; but that did not give 'sions against the rebels the
the public any assessment of . ;State" Department denied the '
the failure of the agencies on report. A few days ago State 1,
whom he relied., ,,confessed it had been in er-
! Likewise . there has. never !:ror, that .Americans had been
!: been any accounting of the :engaged in combat missions !
role of the CIA in Viet Nam. in the Congo. State claimed it
1 About the time of the Budd- !i had i been deceived in the af- ;
l hist demonstrations against '; fair and that the flights would
1 'the Diem, regime, and the en- il stop. When the spokesman for i
' suing coup which overthrew it.,: the department was. askett.lf,;
thefl CIA Tiad recruited' the-
fliers and supervised the op-
I oration he responded, 11No'!
comment.", ,
The inference is ? left that ;
j,agaili the CIA is functioning
as an actionist body, Me-
1
.i?pendent of the established
; agencies. Its previouFr perfor-
mance pretty well disproves
its qualifications to function ,
.? in this manner. And anyway
we ought not .to be assuming
. any policing duty in the Congo,
Just who . is minding the
j. store if the CIA has free rein? =
Congress dutifully appropri-
ates hundreds of 'millions of
dollars to finance the Central 1
intelligence Agency. But Con- 1
gress is kept in the dark over .1
the ramifications of CIA op-
erations., It gets no accounting
for the way the funds are used.
Spying of course is a highly
secret We enterprise; b u t
there should be some way tot
,keep the CIA'. from supersed-
ing the State department,
. shouldering out of the way the
:Department of Defense and
trying both to define' and to
carry out a foreign policy of
its ,.own devising.
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re ,Spies Too Influential?
House. $5.95. ?
r, The sloganeering title "The Invisible Gov-
ernment" with its sinister undertone is, fortu-
,nately, .an overstatement, but this book's
exciting contents may serve a very useful
purpose.
They may alert the public to the danger
. Othat the U.S. Government's apparatus for
? '',.spying on other countries?the Central In-
telligence Agency?could become too incle-
;pendent, too secret, and too powerful.
Washington neWsmen Ross (the Chicago
Sun-Times) and Wise (the New York, Her-
ald-Tribune) write with alarm and acer-
bity. Some of their tales of intrigue are
;indeed startling when encountered for the
;'first time.
Those who have kept up with the running
'debate over the CIA, however, will recog-
nize the accounts of operations in ? such
..countries as Guatemala, Burma Iran, In-
:.donesia, .Laos, South .Vietnam, and Cuba.
! Naming CIA agents and organizational
1 fronts, ? as ,this book does, does not. seem
r, particularly wise or necessary, but other
countries would have te have very dull-
witted espionage not to know much of what
Invisible Government" contains.
What spying projects and "preventive
/-ineasures,' ether than those discussed by
t'Mr. Wise and Mr. Ross, has the CIA at-
tempted in .the nearly two ? decades of its
). existence? Clearly the authors have told
,us almost all they know in their skillful
'. correlation of bits and pieces. lost Con-
; gressinen probably knoiv less.
:_.?? Yet Many key facts obviously are absent
from all public accounts of CIA activities. The
CIA occasionally defends itself against at-
tack, but it ean!t 'do. much crowing about its
triumphs 'without ccimpromising its agents
!. and their sources.' - ? . ? ?
' Among the serious questions raised by "The
:Invisible Government".. are whether the CIA.
is sufficiently accountable to 'elected officials
of government and whether these officials.
Appr?v?FitirReled'e? 2005/12/
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.c___:?and-__Thomas B. Ross. New York; do
,eeto7S,
&elf
.... ? . . By Courtney She1don:7,
e kept well enough" informed on CIA pro-
grams in. advance to make intelligent judg-
ments.
The first question can be answ!ared in the ,
affirmative, especially as it pert is to White?
House control of the CIA. The l tries of statu-
tory authority are clear enough and evidence'
indicates that presidents have had the de- I
? cisive say.
The second question is not as easily dis-
missed. But the president has the undisputed:A
reponsibility .of making certain the CIA
;tells him all, and in time. .
"The Invisible Government") makes much.'
of the cases where CIA operators have not
kept other governmental agencies abreast !
of their dealings. The' charge iS less easy to
establish that the White House was also ill-
informed.
? In fact, it could be said in defense of the
CIA' that last minute,presiclential, interference
? ? in CIA plans car; be as injurious as any so-
called, independent action.
. President Kennedy, ,for example, canceled..,:
a second air strike in the Bay of Pigs fiasco., ;
AS matters turned out the air Strike was
critical to the Cuban exile invasion ?and the .
t.S. was already too deeply involved for the
Kennedy gesture of, estraint t'o be creditable.
The overriding 'philosophical question':
touched on by Mr. Wise and Mr. Ross is this:
How lasting is the value of CIA paramilitary,;
operations in countries, that either resent
this interference or are so ill-suited and ill-,
prepared for democratic governments that :
? they quickly Sall out of line again?
Unless the U.S. is to embark at this late date
on forms of imperialism it has condemned
in .others, it must carefully restrict offensive,. ?
CIA operational activities in other countries.-
This i not easy in a world where small"
events can affect the security of even so large,
' and poWerful a country as the United States. *;
. Regardless of what decision is made, it
must be the president's. As long as it is the
president's decision and it is in. accordance 1
with the guidelines set up by Congress, and)
the Constitution, there need ? be no invisible
government worthy of the name;. ? ?..
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7te Invisible Governnient Probes Behind
ers-of ndercover. A.gents
Tirs INVISIBLE GOVERN-
MENT. By David Wise
Thomas Ross.
use..,, .95.
f?fr1 HIS 356-page book is an
excellent bet to be best-
seller of the year in Wash-
ington?and deserves, to be read
'-with thoughtful attention by
1 many people there.
-?????????
and "special operations" agen,
? cies?the "Invisible govern-
ment."
They have a serious point to
make in doing this: namely that
these agencies have grown to
vast proportions in recent years
?an educated guess is that they
employ 200,000 people, spend $.4
billion a year?wield vast in-
fluence on both our own nation
and others, friendly and hostile; ?
yet no one in Washington is
really keeping tabs on them in
any meaningful way.
Congress, wl)iGh supposedly
holds the pui?sestrings, !s not, ,
doing it, the authors claim; nor
is the General ..Aceouning Of-
fice, the congressional 'agency
which audits the spending of all
c,l.her governmental agencies, .?
Nor are' the two executive .
._br-sneh agencies which most .
-',Viashinitonlans assume do this
/-,ltional Security .,..
'Council anq the U.S. Intelli-.
.genee Boar4
---,The resulting lack of control
.and coordinatior. is most notice-
able: in the .covert special prej-
; ects of the Central Intelligence
t, Agency: So the authors have .
!- pulled together accounts, some
1.?incredibly detailed,. some rather
'sketchy, of CIA operations all
over the world. These stories
will not otrtitillate the James
Bond fans; some of them shed'
t. startling new light on events
V obscure at the time.
: HERE ARE , STORIES of the
'CIA's subversive successes: the
1 near comic-opera overthrow of
? the pro-Communist Arbenz
!Iregime. in Guatemala; the oust-
, 1.er of the leftist Mossadegh
regime in .Tran. In incredible de-
tail, here is the story of the
1 CIA's worst. failure, the Bay of
;Pigs invasion attempt in Cuba.
.(Some? of the material came
from public' sources,- but much
I
of it must have come' from CIA
, and other insiders.) agement here, and this book '1'1
And here are stories?all too' presents it superbly..
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t, It also will be read with zest
by many spy-story addict's, and
Iwith mixed feelings?of worry ?
and malicious glee, perhaps?in"
the chancelleries and spy-shops
of other nations,
:? For Wise and Ross, two first-
rate Washington reporters, have
, written a book eminently read-
able on two levels.'
; First, they have laid 'out' in
icrisp, clean prose the whole.
; shadowy Array of U.S. intelli,
, gence, counter-intelligence,
code-making, code-breaking .
cross-purpoSes with the- State )?.
.Department and other- U.S. ?
' agencies. . .
Here is the incident in Bur-I.
ma, where the CIA was support-
lag thousands of Chinese Na-
tionalist soldiers for months
while the U.S. ambassador 1n-1
nocently assured the Burmese
government we were. doing
best to get those Chinese out of
-Burma. ' ?
And of more topical interest,"
here are similar stories of thel
right hand of the U.S. govern-
meat not knowing, or caring,!
whist the left hand was doingIn
Laos and South Viet Nam.
.ALREADY THERE ABE .1
bleats jfi?om Washington and'. -1
elsewhere that' Wise and Ress
have spilled important secrets
in this book. This seeins doubt-
ful. The most hurtful disclos-
urCs we can detect are names;
of business firMs which serve;
as "covers" CIA activities.;
'Such names are subject to over-1
night change.
?
1
While other institutions, suchi
as the Massachusetts Institute'
of Technology and Radio Free:
Europe, may be slightly em- 1
barrassed at being linked with:
CIA, the links presumably have!
been known by-any U.S. adver-
saries who 'needed to know.
And that is the prime value
of this book. Who until now has
ever heard of the "Special .1
Group"-7the rather informal
set of *pie who, the authors,
report, do what Coordination Ls:
done between the visible and in..
visible segments of our govern.;
ment? Probably the Russians
know about it, but most ?Amer-,
leans don't.
. Facts gathered together in'
this
this book, and the .point it has.;
to make, are things informed
Americans need, to know?and
to ponder. There is a sticky
problem in governmental' man-?
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The Trib'urio's Pogo for
Editorials and Opinions
Co
;3;
an we
onrnient-..as DevUs
By ROBERT W. SMITH
.of the editorial pope staff ???;.
ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO (Feb. 9), tills column
paid tribute to the usefulness of devils?as scapegoats to
'blame when things go awry in politics and foreign policy.
We should not overlook the convenience of conspirators
in the same context. "Great conspiracy" theories can be
ptit together to explain all kinds of things that go wrong.
Generally one finds the conspiracy addicts around
the outward reaches of the political spectrum. And this
is quite understandable.
For it is those who inhabit the left and right of
politics who are most deeply convinced that their ends
are morally 'right or historically inevitable. Therefore,
when those ends are frustrated, it just cannot be there-
suit of normal political give and take. It must be the
result of some fiendish conspiracy.
AS ONE APPROACHES the extremes of the political
spectrum, the fancied conspiracies become most fantastic.
Perhaps the classic conspiracy nightmare is that of the
? anti-Semites and their "Protocols of Zion" myth.
But not-so-extremists have their conspiracies, too.
( Out. some way left of center one finds believers in
"the Wall Street conspiracy," which is variously held
accountable for domestic economic ills, unpopular foreign
policies, and the general failure of ours to be the best of
all possible worlds.'
Right of center one finds the sort of thing embodied
in a little . paperback book pushed by some Goldwater
partisans at the Republican state convention.
The "great conspiracy" spun out in this book is one
: of stereotyped easterners, king-makers, etc., who pre-
sumably stole the Republican presidential nomination for
Wendell Willkie (from Dewey), frustrated the rightful
presidential hopes of Sen. Robert A. Taft, and are now
(presumably) trying to euchre Sen. Goldwater out of the
nomination.
BUT THE MOST AWESOME of the current great
conspiracies is that outlined in a new, controversial book,
' "The Invisible Government," by David Wise and Thomas
B. Ross.' ' Here are the broad dimensions of their great
conspiracy:? . .
"There are two governments in the United States
? today. One is visible. The other is invisible."
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rThe invisible government "gathers intelligenae, con-
ducts espionage, and plans and executes secret operations
,all over the globe.
i "(It) is not a formal body.'It is a loose, amorphous'
igrouping of individuals and agencies ' drawn from many
;parts of the visible government. It is not limited to the
, Central Intelligence Agency, although the CIA is at its
!heart. Nor is it confined to the nine other agencies which '
icompris what is.._iinown as the intelligence commu-;
,
!ni . . .
i "The Invisible Government in des, also; many other
'unit. it ? agencies, a s in ividuals, that appear out-
wardly to be a normal part of the conventional govern-
,
,meat. It even encompasses business firms and institutions '
that are seemingly private. . . .
"To an extent that is only beginning to be perceived,.i ?
1
;this shadow governmept is'shaping the lives of 19'0,000,-' -
[000 Americans."
I WELL, THERE YOU HAVE IT. The authors then;
I embark on a prolix, melodramatic, James-Bondish recital
i of illustrative case histories. There is, of course, the
1CIA's involvement in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs attempt to
'Olt-Ythrow Castro. Before that there were more success-
ful ventures in Iran (against Mossadegh in 1953) and
i Guatemala (against Arbenz in 1954). And others of vary-
ling degrees of success. . ,
.; But what does it all prove? Nothing much, really.,
i Anyone who has bothered to read the great volume:
;of material published on the Bay of Pigs adventure al-
ready knew that the CIA had horribly bungled the organk
zation of that affair. Even our More secretive participa-
tion in air drops over Red China had been fairly well,
ventilated.
. ,
But that all of this cloak and daiger activity?which;
is not unique to our government?constitutes an Invisible;
i Government . .. Well, Ian Fleming might sell the idea,'
' within the bounds of his special paperbacked world, but;
: for all their emulation of his style, the authors fail to,
, achieve even his level of reality.
?.? 1
' *THE INVISIBLE GO l'isTAIMENT by David Wisel
and Thomas B. Ross, Random House, 275 pages, $5.95.
' ??Tho National Security Council, the Defense Intelligence:
Agency, Army Intelligence, Navy Intelligence, Air Force Intel.'
ligence, the State Department's Bureau of intelligence and Research; .
the Atomic Energy Commission and the Federal Bureau nt Invest!.1
cation,
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' JOURNAL?STANDARD
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Date:
' Newest Book On The .CIA'
Sales of "T Govern--Ing or security breaches involVed.;
.% critical of the Control For exarnplo, part of the contro?pl
? . 'Intelligence Agency which came out versy concerns the alleged naming:
: this week, ought to be considerably of 26 or 27 CIA agents. Right-wing,?
' enhanced by the reports . that the columnist William F. Buckley
' CIA has tried to suppress, Censor or who suggests that Wise and Ross are;
: ,buy it up. Authors of the book are "close. to unpatriotism," said these!
David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, agents were in "deep cover." Yet;
Washington reporters. . the publishers insist that the booki
-Look magazine, which printed names no agents who have not beeni
excerpts from the book in advance, named publicly somewhere else--;
. ?1
' is repotted to have made a number in newspapers, printed transcript.
? of text changes at the CIA's request. of hearings, court records,. etc. , t
; The Minneapolis Tribune has ., re-' Assuming, as Cerf does, that the i
. ported that both CIA Director John .book is accurate, the CIA might;
McCone? and CIA Deputy Director find that it fares . better after the
: tt. Gen. Marshall S. Carter corn- 'book is published than, before. Since.
' plained about the book to Random , the Bay of Pigs invasion-fiasco,
House, the publisher. Bennett .Cerf, people are just about ready to be-
"-head of the firm, said Jan.. 9: "We lieve anything they're told about
.think the book is completely ac- ? the CIA..And there are plenty of
' curate, If the]Ye are any inaccura- assertions niade about the agency's '
, cies, v?e'd. certainly. want to know activities.
, about them. As yet, they haven't What should be of most concern
told us of one . . . is what is implied in the title of the
' One of . the interesting 'aspects book?that , the .CIA . is. shaping
;of the controversy is that .infor- policy . as well. as carrying it out.?
fli.ation about the agency, which is. Few would ..deny'. that espionage,
t
purposely shrouded in secrecy, was which has been. called ? a "dirty'
kvailable to the authors through business," . is 'a requirement of)
,public records. There were no 9,y- . waging, the cold war: '. f.''''' `4'-' .4,1
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P89. RY'?''? p1964,
? agazine has a provocative article':,
the current issue._ Entitled "The Strange
Case of,t4Z4.?.,,Wi&lvs," the article is adapt'
: ed from the book, "The Invisible Govern...LI
? meat," which is out this month. It is writ-
ten by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross and ,!
:published by Random House. ?
-
. The Look article deals with the death of
four American airmen and the mysterious
paychecks that arrive every two .weeks
their widows. While consistently denied by.i
the United States government, the writers ]
_charge that the ?four fliers,- killed during the
ill.fatcd Bay. of Pigs invasion, definitely were.1
under contract ,to the Central Intelligence :
? Agency..
-Since that fateful day of tile Cuban inva-
sion in 1961 the airmen's widows have re-'
ceived-benefits totaling mord than $6,000 a,
year. The checks come through an unidenti-
fied trust fund in a New York bank. The
'money, the article says, is actually coming
:from the CIA. ?
In 1960 President Eisenhower gave the
,green light to the CIA to organize Cuban
;,iles. Because The exiles would be using B-26'si
the-efik.began looking' for men who had .flowrt
these planes in wartime. Men of the Air Na-
tional Guard in Alabama, Virginia and Arkan-.'.
sas were the last state units to fly this Plane.
From these states, some two dozen airmen:
signed up through the Double-Chek Corpora-
tion, fronting for the CIA. :
'The -four fliers who 'lost their lives at the';
Bay of Pigs were all from Birmingham, Ala-
bania. Each American who 'signed ? up with
the CIA was sworn to secrecy regarding their.':
' assignments., That agency has steadily (107.
'Med any connection With the Cuban opera-i.,..
lion. The Look article will 'prompt many
...person to read all of "The Invisible .G,overn7:.:
['ment." The latter, by the way, has had some.;
i,personS in Washington apprehensively .awaittil
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