MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090099-9
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 99
• Publication Date: January 25, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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25 January 1955
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR:
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Fulton Lewis's syndicated column is not carried by any papers that I
know of in the East except, and then only rarely, the New York JOURNAL AMERICAN.
This particular column was not carried by the JOURNAL AMERICAN. The Hearst
people, of course, own King Features as well as the JOURNAL AMERICAN.
In the article herewith Fulton clearly shows his -MO Carthy friendship,
but he is careful in All but one instance to qualify his statements and to make
no allegations on his own authority. The one exception is in the last para-
graph where he says, "The CIA could stand a rather thorough overhauling in many
respects."
His statement that the Clark group has extended its probe to include the
National Security Council is not completely accurate. I asked Jim Christian-
sen and he said that they are only looking into the intelligence activities of
NSC, and they have no charter that permits them to go beyond that area.
His statement about the Clark group and the Far East "including such
points as their efficiency and effectiveness and the characters of the
personnel carrying them out" is About what General Clark has reportedly stated
of CIA personnel in the Far East, with whom he reputedly was not happy, and
whose operations he has reportedly characterized as being inefficient.
Lewis also picked up from the Doolittle release the statement that there
are in CIA "important areas" in which organization, administration, and opera-
tions can and should be improved. He did not, of course, take the following
sentence of the release, which said that CIA was aware of these deficiencies
and in some cases was improving them. The Doolittle report gave to anybody
who wants to take a crack at CIA a good big handle by that statement, and in
my opinion it gives the Clark group a challenge to expand on that statement
and prove not only that it is correct, but that it is an understatement. I
think it ranks in evil to the CIA with Scotty Reston's terminology of "Depart-
ment of Dirty Tricks." It was not constructive.
When next I see Fulton or he calls here (which he does from time to time),
I will express my surprise at his article and the one-sidedness of his view-
point, but I do not think that we should go out of our way to take issue with
him now, and certainly we should not write to him regarding this report.
Copy to IG
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/29:
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