EX-DIRECTOR DULLES DISCUSSES THE CIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: July 22, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Ex-Director Dulles
Discusses the C/A
By DON BACON '
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subcommittees whatever they
wanted to'know. He found that
' `sometimes they don't want to
know too much." '
He said he was never pressed
to reveal information that would
endanger a CIA operative or
close up a source of informa-
tion.
"The members were very
careful;" he 'noted. "I would say
I don't, think I should answer
that , . . (and) that would be the
end of it."
..THE RECENT publicity and
debate over the CIA does not
diAurb the former director.
"That's got to be expected in our
society," he said.
Neither does he subscribe to
the idea that it was a mistake
when the agency was formed in
1948 to put the word `+n eli?
genre" in its name Some hay e
suggested that "central nrdnrniia
tion agency" or home ir ;nus
cover name would have th-Cter
public acceptance.
i1 .luding the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-have a right
nd a responsibility to know what's going on inside the Central In-
?
elligence Agency, s ormer,
say
'JUL 22 1966
But Congress should not, he for the surrender of a millini
adds, press the agency to reveals Nazis in Northern Italy. In hi
its sources of information. account, Dulles describes sonic
of the clandestine maneuvers
..THE 73-YEAS-OLD former including the placing of a radi
director said in an interview operator in the office of an S,
the CIA "should not be com f general, that were forerunner.
Of modern spying and Intel
0.pletely secretive," and isn't.`_ligenee.
The President and the National Dulle" said in the intervie
.Security, punc%1, he said-, are that as CIA director he testifie
before the Senate Foreign Re
always fully informed as to the lations and House Foreign Af
agency's activities, and the fairs Committees "many times.'
agency is always responsive to
;their directo>'$. . JWFORF; APPEARING, how.
"That wouldn't he any good,
Dulles said. "Everybody would
know who you ?,ere anyway,
and the result would be the
same."
"You'd be' $tirprised about the es r, he would seek the pe
amount of influence the Press i of the chairman of t
'dent has" over the CIA: Dulle> House or Senate CIA subcommi
-said. "I .don't believe the CIA tees - towhich he was prima
can do anything the President 11 responsible. There are fou r'
DULLES, who retired from
_the CIA in 1961 after nine years
as director, was closely asso-
ciated with some of the organi-
7atiat$5s _iiost successful opera-
tions, as,'well as a few of its
notable failures, In, true CIA
fashion, he accepted in sillence
much of the criticism for the
failure in 1961 of the Cuban in-
vasion, which had been planned
and partially executed by his
.agency. He ' resigned shortly
After the Bay of Pigs disaster.
President. John F. Kennedy's
desire to revise CIA administra-
tion , In 1961 coincided with
Dulles' desire to retire and de-
vote more time to his personal
endeavors, which include book
writing.
..IN 196' he published "The
,Craft of Intelligence," and this
October will publish "The Secre,
Surrender," an account of his
House and Senate-which ove
see administrative and financi 1:
aspects of the CIA.
The Senate recently debate
a controversial' resolution to it -
elude the Foreign Relation;
Committee in the CIA ' overse
group on the theory that the CI
is involved in shaping and ex
cuting United States foreig
policy.
..THE RESOLUTION Iva
stopped by opponents on a pr
cedural vote last week, but For
eign Relations Chairman J. Wi
hams Fuibright (D-Ark.) ha
indicated he will attempt agai
to pet a vote on the resolutio
it-e!i.
Dulles 'hile emphasizing tha
his .separat;or from the Cl :
liim. not. necessarily fain
bar the current s;tuatioi
,;~,r,ilt?cl +l'at as director he ha
na stlwl:cntial oro61c+m in hi
.exploits with the Office of Stra- `-'f with f'; n?ross.
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