CLOAK-AND-DAGGAR CASH-2 MCCARTHY'S BILL AIMS AT FIRST CIA PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100120069-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: February 4, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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' By EDWARD J. MICHELSON
this year. But the growing crib. bills pending in Congress. The suicide of a former depu
cism of CIA promises to result Newsmen also seem to hay
ti1'ASfIYNGTON (NANA)
ty chief" of CM some month
In greater disclosure of how it such pipelines. Some coh~mnist
ago prompted one Washingto
spends money and under What report unfavorably on the of
Alinn., a Foreign Relatio s controls. festiveness of
newspaper to eulogize the offi
C~ lrector
Committee member, is spons r
cial editorially as a man wh
Vice &,dm, ?~V'i . illam? F. (ft -W ~-- __
of a bill setting up a select Se Rumors Continue .
had given his life for his coun
Raborn, USN,, ret....He is Mani
ate investigative unit to ma Critics of the supposedly su? fo
try, having incurred two ner
r~a n,.;alleged...de.cline. in'nor
the first' review of CIA in I persecret agency see reminders 'a
vous breakdowns in undertakin
m. Research and analysis"'eii
history, and to report back t almost daily of its activities, pens, are said to desire?.the,cu
major Cold War tasks.
the end of next January wi
Some , have private pipelines tailment of, cloak .,ao
? 1t'Ts-ail i st'-a "daily occur
conclusions and recommend - into CU to, employes who favor operations,
,
rence for the press to have let
lions for overhaul.
tens to the editors with .pro an
McCarthy says CIA is tl 1
con attitudes about (CIA, o
only federal agency that has n t CP'YR.GHT `We're,Being Tailed' -statements from uInfriendl
undergone such a congression I
o a aroun the world
"review" since it was est r 11' ~t J cd chiefs f t t d th
\for fomenting re
re
blished during the Trutrian a ? t blaming' CIA
,- .l 4 tl^` ~~ .t ,
volutioutritfonal scientis
ministration. The only invest ? who was discovered drownei
gallon that resulted in overha i ~~~ ,;.;~ ;"1 ( 1 v, +~~ ., ,~`' ,.?,
undet mysterious circumstance
Was that ordered by Preside t
l In a canal in Holland severa
John F. Iccnncdy following t
weeks ago was identified as
Bad' of Pigs fiasco.
Washington resident with CL
McCarthy says Congress mu t ; ;i?connectioni.
t hr'e, ~ls'~if
chock out the validity of rumor c 4",
Image Problems
about CIA involvement in acti
itics far beyond the origin I ,_'`~ ti~y?'y 1%l,'' '"?
scope of the agency. Presidet ' '? The imminent transfer of th
U.S, ambassador in Santo Dom
Ti uan revealed in. 1963 (in )4kr
4, Z
Ingo to another assignmen
signed article for NANA) th t 01A
tions as to whethe
lie ci red in approving legisi t ty, r* ques
q.., r t1r
till is the chief intelligenc
tion setting up the agency b %r ! F
in the Caribbean. It l
cause he never intended t
known that the Federal Burea
create a cloak-and-daggeY'.,.,'!?~.?~ r '` 1t~fiir; ~~x~ ?i!`d1,!, of Investigation h 1 b
o as long been
service. st. "t ~' } ? t tt ~,~s,; t ~
t,' , ~I f C r F , iht, 1~ t
major source of information i
Truman Ended OSS G ti r)ti~ r ++ t , ` t '~'J !' ur!
the area for the White House
But Congress willingly approve
It was Truman who o
appropriations for FBI wor
dered the Bureau of the Budg r.~';+r? ~yrrfy'
that are kept secret insofar a
o shut down the Office y~ ;
the record is concerned an
Strategic Services late iii 194
..' r
rtharlt complaint.
.by cutting off funds. The the
CIA !has tried J.hrQugh pres
president was irked by "now-i
c n rehces ant other means t
can-he-told" tales of OSS 'de ring-der in .the press,' a prop tt' 0 3``' ; ,
Improve' Its "Image." It ha
counterattacked the Soviet /1de
Fanda e(fat't launched to sa ''`
partment of disinformation" fo
vage the wartime agency as th
circulating forged documents i
basis fora permanent secret i
many countries. A best-sellin
leiligence service, ' :?.? ?* ~~~ ,~r ?,oiJ~:its1~
hook about CIA as "an invisibl
The secret of how money I
government" has been de
funneled into CIA ? from othe
agencles is expected to be ke d t.
Meuidtn to the *t? LoUra P~at?OIepeIdi averaartr