ANTI-CIA MATERIAL IN SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

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• Publication Date: October 29, 1964
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MEMORANDUM FOR FOR TBE DIRECTOR
SUBJECT: Anti-CIA. Material in SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
1. This memorandum is for information only.
2. The SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE has a circulation of over 330,000
on weekdays and over 350,000 on Sundays. It lists its political philo-
sophy as "Independent-Republican." Charles de Young Thieriot is
President, Publisher, and Editor; Scott Newhall is Executive Editor;
Gordon Pates is Managing Editor; and Templeton Peck is Editor of the
Editorial Page.
3. During the past year the paper has continued its traditional
anti-CIA policy in coverage of and comment on the news. Material in
this regaH appears in five major categories of articles in the paper:
a. Editorials
b. Columns by Arthur Hoppe, Royce Brier, and Herb Caen
c. Book Reviews
d. News Items About Local Developments
e. Headlines Over News Agency Dispatches
4. Attached are typical items in all five categories with a summary
of key quotations from each article.
Attachments:
Tabs A-E
cc: DDCI
Exec. Dir-Compt.
Paul M. Chr4tien
Assistant to the Director
for Public Affairs
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EDITORIALS
2 September on Kaplan Fund: "Normally, operations of the CIA spooks reach
the public print only after another adventure in ineptitude has embarrassed
the United States."
25 August on Matthias report: 'The disclosure that the Central Intelligence
Agency has given consideration to the possibility of 'some kind of negotiated
settlement' of the war in South Vietnam and to the possibility of neutralizing
the area raises perplexing questions for the American people."
21 June on the past week being distinguished, among other things by: "the
State Department's denial of a denial that the CIA was up to its frequently
wrung withers in the Congo."
19 June on the Congo situation (headlined: "President Ought To Curb the
CIA"): "In the extensive repertory of the Central Intelligence Agency we
are accustomed to find false-whiskered deceit, outright lying, clumsy
secretiveness and free-spending confusion. But the CIA has lately outdone
itself in the Congo by setting out to deceive, entrap, embarrass and annoy
the State Department.... It is quite intolerable that the CIA should be
alloyed to get away unreproved with the performance it has just turned
in there."
5 March on charges by Soviet defector Goleniewski: 'We dearly love to
catch the CIA in meddlesome corners."
12 January on CIA press conference on the Soviet economy: "The President
may well have been ill-advised to let this agency, most of whose operations
ought to be abolished, open the doors for self-glorification and publicity."
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SEPTEMI3ER 2, 1964 .?
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does' not,. in its 'latest public exposure, add: to its ' ?
guster or to the confidence of the public. whichl ? ?
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pays its huge and unannounced 'check.
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.: *Normally, operations of the.CIAipooks reach
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4e public' prints only after another adventure in. ?
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ineptitude - has ? embarrassed the. United. ? States, A '
This time, . however, a highly 'secret! Operation ofl :
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. ithe agency, has been uncovered by, Of all things,
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.another agency of the Government. .Since. the CIA., .:
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has :bamboozled ' ambassadors and misled. Presi,..:::4,. ';? ?
;dents, this is, in a .way, reassuring. -4 . ? ? 'i:?'. 'il
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THE CIA ? HAS NOW been revealed as ? al
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source of. funds for .a foundation. suspected by..4 '
.Representative ,Wright Patman of using Its tax..; .;
exempt monies in battles to win control of pri-!'::
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t :Nate business:. .
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The 'CIA's entry.into the foundation field' has ':: ,
'interesting implications.. It may. certainly ..Create .t
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uestions about the credentials of any Americanl
. scholar traveling anywhere on a foundation grant.::?:2
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.The bruth leaves a wide smear.- . . : :. ., '. ; ? . :,..'j ? .:
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of questionable practice should not embarrass
has often 'been found in. alliances vvith?paaners1
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:whose reputations should assure them arrest onl
!.S.ight. We have urged that its activities be limited',
'AO the essential gathering of intelligence and that:).
It be restrained.' from dallying in coups ?d'etat. ot) :1 ?
? sponsorship of !bombing' runs on. native ? villagesi
tin Asia, Africa and Latin America. We don't thinki
,the 'Cr4.phOyld play.with a,x-theempt*..foundatio.n4i
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THE DISCLOSURE that the Central, Intelli!.1
:?ge.nce Agency haS.given consideration- to the pos,'.:3
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'sibility of "some?-?kincl:of. negotiited settlement". '.'.,.'
;orthe war. in South Vietnam and .to the possibility
'o/ieutralizing. the area raises.. perplexing ques..A
,. .t.i(.),s ,for the American people.
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Administration sources have been. quick to
!iabel. the -CIA 'paper one of *study. but not at all
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indicative of policy. This ,i.S an election year and.
.? 'divulgence of the paper was doubtlessly pOlitically
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;inspired. The instant dismissal of the paper's status
,srrigst be . considered in :tering of the vote seeker.,, ?
. iCandidates do not -cherish ?the apPeaser's.. label..
r ? - ? BE?THIS. AS IT.::.:MAY, . the paper says to thei .
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'American people. tilaf.".there ireniains serious doubt. ,
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- '?:that the struggle can be won" and warns that "the ti
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.: counter-guerrilla 'effort Continues to flounder.','-s!
... IThe 'report blames the ineptitude of the Diem. re!.,4 .
. ? '.'ginie and of its two. SuCcesiors. The CIA,. we . be..:.
? ",..lie...ife, speaks here with. authority for it is dealing....; .
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-The. report is a-' reasonably precise tqstate.,,9,f,
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ment of the views of French President Charles de .7.i -?
i.'agille, who Says flatly. that the :United States .cap..:,' '
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t not win .the struggle against the jungle shadows?!, .
'Fr.ance .suffered 172,000 caSualtiei in its owzi, .
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?- .:1,' ' De .Gaiille'S views and this CIA study. flatly:
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:;contradict the ?repeated assurances of Administrall
? 1,.tion spokesmen that Victory is. just around the next i
trice paddy :They also bring into question the entire 4
policy of .commitment in a country where missive!
;American' aid;?;reportedly misused and inefficient
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if ,not downright. corrupt-L-haS?resulted in continu-.:
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? :mrstreet riots,/repeateci American casualties and at?
,pqpnlatiOn not visibly .sympathetic with V. S.:aimsej
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Founded 11:65 by Charles.and M. H. de Young )
PAGE 22 June12.1, 1964 CCCCAI
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The Wonder Eal
Week That Was
THE WEEK OF JUNE 12-20, A.D. 1964 1
?the week just ended?could move into his-. .
.tory as a week that shook the world, or any-:''
: Vray jiggled it %little, here and there.
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It was a week whose criss-cross of events
severely tried the fabric of American civili- .1
..zation, warp and. woof?the Supreme Court
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? having warped California's legislative system .
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? 'There was also a brisk under-the-countee,
? irreparably out of shape, and dependable
*sale of babies in Los Angeles, with this news- !;?'
? Dr. Max Rafferty having woofed again that .paper presciently reporting that in San Fran,;';
? there must be Communists, Communists, just cisco? the production if illegitimate babies is*?',?:
? about everywhere. : '..far. ahead of the .demand. Something new
"California is two States," said Gayer
popped up in ladies' bathing suits, scandal:
nor Brown as the Stipreme Court implicitly '.:
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jzingthe clergy and giving many a press agent.:
ordered California's Senate to go straight--:.--,..'1211(1 professional stripper a day in the sun.:.*::.
: straightinto the packet of Los Angeles politi- !,?McCoveY pinch-hit a ninth-inning homer.
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cos, where the Assembly has long .resided. Knowland cemented Republican unity by.;:
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Dr. Rafferty's ominous caveat.against the in- *!threatening to kick Senator Kuchel loose from
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? filtrating, boring crypto-Communists sent the: Jlis job if Ku'chel didn't suppOrt Goldwater..
State Board of Education .scrambling to the who.:was ? promoting Republican unity by vot..,
,"An;g 'against. the. *civil. rights': bill. Governor.:summit of MoUnt Whitney?a climb they had .
to-make because he wasn't there.. Rockefeller further promoted unity by thiow7.'.:!
? ?' ? his' support . to ? Governor Scranton, who `..!
? THE WEEK was further distinguished .s'"\entered in. the race after.; withdrawine"
by the joyful wedding of Judy Garland*whicht:'rfrom'a? on President Eisenhower's injunction. 'f'?
? didn't take place at all; ?by the resignation of ?..
ItO:. stay 'Out 'and preserve unity, ? .; ? . .
Henry Cabot Lodge_ which wasn't submitted ? ? ? ? .??? ? . ? . ? .?
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or even considered, and by the State Depart'', :??.' President Vohnsoneame to San Fran.,:
? nient's *denial of a denial that the CIA was up roisao, smilingbroadly, :oven though the Co-,:
to its frequently:wrung vvithers' in the .Congo.', federate Flag ? lien*, ;over. the ,.Civie'?
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? IN iniE EXTENSIVE repertOry of the Central
intelligence Agency, we are accustomed to find, .
false-whiskeed deceit, outright ?Iying,; clumsy' se-?
cretiveness and free-spending confusion. ? ,
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But thc CIA has lately 'outdone' itself in the?'.i
Congo by settint:,5 out to deceive, entrap, embarrass
and annoy the State Department. This department
is not only the antherized co-ordinator of.our for-
eign-policy but it also is, of course, the represent- ?
ative of the President of the United States in the;
Congo, as elsewhere abroad'. It is quite intolerable;
;that the CIA should be allowed to get away unre-,.
' proved with the performance it has just turned
in' there. .? ? ? ?
? As close readers of the dispatches' will recall,:
? the State Department a few days ago explicitly
denied a report that American citizens were flying
American T-28 aircraft in attacks on rebellious!
tribesmen in the Eastern Congo. The next day'the,..
department had 1,o reverse itself by saying it was:,
"now informed" differently; American citizens, it;
acknowledged, were flying U. S. aircraft agaiiist::
the Bafulero tribes. ?
. s?.? We have 'in the CIA what is well called "the,
invisible government"; because of this, no one
Jells the American people exactly what is being
. done in their name and by whom. But from every
indication it is clear that American "civilian"
..pilols were hired by the CIA for the Congo and
that they. have been flying the same propeller-
driven trainer-fighter ;airplane there that has been
Used in South Vietnam and Laos. Their air strikes
?have been in violation of U. N. Security Council
resolutions for which, incidentally; the United
States' voted, and we are relieved, to .say the. least,
that the- State DepartMent has seen to getting the.,
American flyers called off. ?? ?
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The employment of Belgian, mercenaries to'
fight for Kata.nga and Noise Tshombe against the;
forces of the U. N. was righteously 'and properly.;
:decried by the State Department back in 1961 and
1962. For'.the U. S. Government to permit thel
Cl A to get us similarly involved: in a mercenaryi.
the Congolese government is the true contractual.
employer of the `!civilian" pilots who flew out to.,
strafe the rebels in the Eastern Congo? ,
WE DO NOT BELIEVE the State Department
was lying the first time out; 'we believe it was
; being deceived, deliberately and characteristically,.
by the cloak and dagger branch. The New Yorkl.
. Times reported that the State' Department.spokes-1
man was barely able to disguise his embarrass-:-
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' nient and annoyance.
'operation is contemptible.
IS ANYONE. SO NAIVE as to suppose ?that
? Cannot anyone in authority, beginning with
Lyndon B.? 'Johnson.:anything to control and
curb 'these anonymoi.N. unapproachable. , pipe-Smok
tablecloth?plotters the CIA? ? ? " ?
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE MAR 5 1964
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THE VOICE Of THE WEST
Charles de Young Thieriot, Editor and Publisher
George T. Cameron, Publisher pzq I. 1955
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PAGE 42 'Thursday, March 5, 1964
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' WE HAVE LATELY been regaled another.
taI of high?emprise in the rarefied.sphere of inter- ?
imationaLespionage, this one involving a first-cho'p ?
Polish agent of Soviet intelligence, who finked to
:wily agents of American counterintelligence, and ?
:spilled some beans that were smashers. He is re-
ported to have said that official American posts ;
abroad are crawling with infiltrated Soviet, agents.
'These tingling revelations are made public in ,
a copyright article .by 'a. New York newsaper (not
the Times) with a long tradition of .gee-whiz re-
Portage, and this circumstance multiplies and.
gravates our uncertainty and. confusion as we
reflect on them.. We are bored .by defectors whose..
spillage is surely going to blow the whole ,Soviet,
spy machine into bits; we dearly love to catch the
CIA in meddlesome, corners, and we are annoyed?
by newspapers that inflate vague reports and. thinl
rumors into a .semblance,of world-wide crisis...'
In this case, therefore, we .are still exarpining
our. Dosition.
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THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE Agency
last week dropped its mask; removed its cloak
and held a press conference without:prece:,:-
.. dent. ? ? .
: The CIA operatives who ?held the "con-
? .ference were intelligence analysts; expressing
- their findings about the state of the ? Soviet
economy. Their evaluation?is that the. Soviet
Union has fallen into a sharp decline and ?is?
falling behind rather, than catching up 'with..
the. United States. .
The impressive Soviet growth ,?rate of.
from 6 to 10 ney cent'. annually !recorded in..
the past decaue has slipped ? to 'around 2.5
per cent,in the last two years, the CIA men
said, and that isn't all. 'Agricultural -produc-
tion figures for 1963 are 10 per cent below ?
those of 1958. ? ?..?
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These figures are- so disparaging of the
SovicLcconomic performance that a number .
of nongovernment specialists, mostly Kok's-
..sors at United States universities, have
pressed their skepticism in', such phrases as
"it's fantastic" and '"I. just. can't believe, it
.and "'it is impossible." The. professors are
willing to accept an estimate-that the Soviets
have slipped down to ,maybe ? 4 percent, but ?
I' not as low as 2.5 per cent.. ? ?
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JAN i 2 1964
AN ORDINARY American citizen, unac-
. eustomed to be .told anything by or about the.
CIA unti.1 one of its high-flying .espionage".
plAes has been shut down or' one of its.inva?
sion expeditions has failed; is left rather
baffled by these disclosures. .What is the CIA.
. *up to in sucldei4 opening its double-guarded
goips and 'inviting .the press in?
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. ? .01w supposition is that' the agency is
tired of being known 'only for its mistakes
arIG incp'itudes udmiants to improve' its pub-
licApo( her explanation was given out,
by a CIA spokesman, who said PresidentJohn-
son. gave approval for the news conference
because Ile believed the true picture of the
'Soviet economy should be made knOwn. Still
another version reveals that the State Depart-
ment was upset by .the CIA's making its find?
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The State Department probably is right.
The President may well have been ill-advised
to let this agency. most *Of whose operations
?ought to be abolishpd.'Open the doors :for self-
. glorification:and publicity. That kind of thing
could go to their heads; which. at best .are
none too level.. .
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Arthur Hoppe 3 September on Kaplan Fund: "If our CIA wishes to get involved
in our charitable organizations, it should do so openly to avoid confusion.
And we could organize a nice Mother's March for Espionage, Plots and Counter-
revolutions."
Royce Brier 26 August on Matthias report (headlined: "CIA Gloom About
Vietnam"): "The surprising thing about the Central Intelligence Agency's
estimate that the war in Vietnam probably can't be won is that it was drawn
up in the first place and became public in the second place."
Arthur Hoppe 9 August on his visit to Cuba: "So I say our CIA must work to
form an underground of diving board lovers, pipe smokers and lemonade haters
among the Cuban people. For, after much consideration, I feel they represent
as great a hope as any of a successful uprising against Mr. Castro at the
moment."
Arthur Hoppe 26 June on assignment of Allen Dulles to study Mississippi
killings: "As an old CIA man, Mr. Dulles will, I assume, promptly overthrow
the present government of Mississippi."
Royce Brier 22 June on Congo developments: "CIA has driven three Presidents
into embarrassing corners with its bumbling machinations."
Royce Brier 14 January on CIA press conference on the Soviet economy: "Ps
everybody knows, CIA is a spy outfit swollen to thousand of operatives and
evaluators, who have functioned a mite this side of brilliant in the
international maze of the past decade."
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