SAME DAGGER, LESS CLOAK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100120039-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: March 11, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Same Dagger, Less
man othe rthan the " direotor
ecret Central Intelligence '. ilnself.
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By WILLIAM S. WHITE
11 barch 1966
egress, with
n scientists
n industry.
eorganized its whole inner
r before so widely available
CIA.
The production of scien-
tific and technical intelli-
gence, in consequence, has
been Immensely. increased.
This has resulted princi.;
tion of world-famous' Ameri.
can men of science who have
consultants.
Some American industrial
concerns have made large
direct contributions of their
That R?aborn, though a 'pro-.
ie chief of the CIA in order
of without its irony. When {
e took over "the agency"
ere was 'much expressed
ar that with a '"miliibary
ys.
pproved For Releas
THE SIMPLE truth is "that; ' One' of his creations, a new
his has not happened. Nor has form of special intelligence
'aborn put in some G.I. sys-, t a s k ~ f o r c e for "special
em requiring' endless sal?ut:ng needs,"' involving senior op-
f the boss. He has gone to erations officers from all
ie reverse. arms of American intelli-
CIA was never so far from f. -gence, is on 24-hour watch
eing a one-man operation as in every' critical area of the
is now. The admiral has ' earth. The busiest at the
given to the professional opera- r, moment is Task Force Viet
ve who is ,his deputy, Rich- ! Nam-but Task Force Viet
rd Helms, a degree of author-. ~' Nam is not alone
.
' y never 'before held;by, any.,;.These special forces serve
. Helms, in truth, actually , with far more coldly objective
conducts the day-by-day op- min' Is - as does the CIA 6l-
erations of the agency. He lectively - than is commonly
silts as the CIA representa- ?' thought by eager critics.
tive on the United States '. * * *
Combined. Intelligence' Board. 1 STILL, NOBODY is so naive
He, as well as Raborn, briefs j as to suppose that the best pos'
members of Congress. si'ble work will totally free CIA
The Admiral, iri short, of the instinctive skeptioism.
c h e e r f u I I y acknowledges and, sometimes outright hosti'l-
Helms' superior savvy as a ity of a public which has a
career intelligence operative, healthy suspicion of secret es-':
Raborn'ssimple purpose has tabl'ishments and an immense
been to merge his own ex. appetite for melodramatic spy
ecptive and managerial ex- f'icti'on.
perience w i t h the ' intelli- ! One of Raborn's central ef-
gcnce expertise of Richard forts. is to reduce this, skepti.
Helms. cism, this hostility, by what
The intelligence community in 'CIA language would be
s a small 'and et heart a closed'' called the optimum possible.
ommunity, 'and the introduc
ion Unto. 'CIA of as ,soadog out='
ider undoubtedly did, not sit,
ell' at first within the 1ranks.1
ut the best informationavail-1
ble now is that professional
orate is high. This, at any;
ate, is the estimate of men..
not involved in 'the agency but;
ho have certain supervisory;
owers over it. .
THE ADMIRAL seems to,,,
aye found a way of running a_
ut ship without making it
]so a martial 'one-a'nd a ship,
oreover, whijoh can take on
wrely civilian passengers oc- I
~asiona'Ily with no harm to.;
em or to the professional
rew.
One other fact is perhaps
orth noting: Not once in Ra-
onn's regime has CIA been
aught napping in any major''
ut'break of trouble for us
rood -tbe.worj,
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