WILL CIA EVER REACH ITS OPTIMUM?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200110150-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 150
• Publication Date: October 1, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Will CIA Ever Reach ? ' '.
Its Optiniurn? .
The anticipated retirement in No. e
This nation- appltrelttly 'hgE COrYi s'`
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Agency'. director, Allen Dulles, upon a blind spot which gbscures t}se
process of creating a mature and of.
focuser; at -fA,'Jun once again upon this 1
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-R mid-summer, the S hite House reach the orderliness and perform-
mrtter of factly reported that Duties ability of which they are capable.
w7J1d retire "in a few months. A And until this natton^a intelligence
.Julies already was grooming his sue- its people cannot afford the luxury of
cessor and would
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own as direc. i, complacenx. t?.
tor of the Intelligence agency some-
time in October. No official sources
would confirm or deny the allegation
and the matter soon moved OR the
front pages and out of the public's
mind. Unless the climate of the cold
war alters the situation, the Central
Intelligence Agency will be taken over
by John. A. McCone in November, how-
ever inopportune-the change-over may
be.
The CIA became this nation's
"cloak-and-dagger" outfit in 1947 as
il;:, lineal descendant Of the World
tva r II Office of Strategic Services. 1,
It was hoped that the CIA Would be
the answer to the unmethodical and i
often haphazard way Intelligence was '?';'~
gathered and analyzed during World
War II, which was hardly more at
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coffee cuN
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cussions. Congress went to great
lengths to provide the new organiza-
tion with enough secrecy so that it
could devvelop' into a systematic and
hJ h)v functional body to protect the
welfare of (he country.
Tl,e highly qualified Dull-,q was
appointecl director in 1953, but even
and snnn lice organization wa in hot
water and faring investigation itself
for the t-2 affair and the Chan
fiasco. It wa: also criticized for be-
Ing asleep at the switch on the Ko-
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rean :nvasir,n and for being left flat-%
footed by the Iraq coup. In compari-
son to fore:r;n intelligence organizai-
.?.arland, ours leave much to he r+,.
but it seems doubtful that i+n-
')ven,^OIS are coating through re-
!,-- r.cnt of personnel.
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