LEFT IN THE COLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100160101-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 101
• Publication Date: January 31, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST . JAN 31 1966
ND TIMES HERALD
Approved For Release 2000/09/08 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000100160101-8
nsight and Outlook
Left in the Cold
Well-founded misgiving on. the section of the State e- world as the chief testing
the role of the Central Intel- partmentthat ' heads:-ip in ground , in the struggle for.
ligence Agency has inspired Secretary Rusk Their ca- primacy Instead of having
new sentiment for a congngs-
sional ,watch-
dog commit
tpe.Bu:t that
is like pre-
scribing pills
for. au. earth
quake.'
The,. t.rou-.
ble that of
flictshe
CIA is 'the'
sam4 trouble
that,, afflicts
the military
services
munism. And when these
operations turned sour and
drew criticism, operation
self-defense came strongly
into play.
For instance, the agency'
put out stories on a Soviet
department of disinforma-
tion, thus implying that all
criticism was- merely Rus-
sian propaganda. It. fos- '
tered, if nothing more, the:';
publication of spy diaries,
stressing ' the value oP
espionage, and the danger
of peaceful contacts .with
the Soviet Union. It put out
economic statistics designed
to show that the Soviet
Union was in so much trou-
ble that it made sense not
to try to develop East-West
trade.
reers are: products of.tension to meet known and massive
W-1. (. w Uvact. vaaavaa. i"'
Comprise, a Cold War Etstab agency, in the new with on-
ment, had to cope with shad-,
lishmppt. owy movements, c a p a b l e
4ot ' ',surprisingly,.. they of turning either toward na-
have trouble adjusting , to tionalism or communism.
the change in the interna ]3ut instead of switching
to more subtle tactics, the
tional climate that has been agency in operations in In-,`;
at work since about 1958. donesia, Singapore, Cuba
Their bureaucratic interest and in the Dominican Re-';
is to not come in from the public acted as if it still
cold. Increasingly at odds faced the same old chat
and. 'with reality and with en- lenge from monolithic coin-
lightened opinion, they
more and more tend to set
up impenetrable barriers of
self-defense.
is simply the
THE[ C
t s cular example of,..
the general phenomenon. At
the-hightide of cold war,in
the 19506, -A -had a special
place in the sun. Because its
director, Allen Dulles, was
the'brother- ?of Secretary of
State 'John Foster Dulles,
the agency -had immediate,
z nformaland easy access to
the highest quarters on all
matters ofe foreign,policy..
From th universities and
law firms, Dulles. brought to
-thee agency a second wave
-of bright and dedicated
people to serve under the
'first wave that had been
washed into intelligence
work during World War II.
He carved out for the agen-
cy a special role as a fourth
sponsible for pare-military
. operations.
Several of these opera-
tions, notably. one .in ,Iran
were irilliantly
spc
es f
l
,
c
u
,
as was the development of
the U-2 reconaissnce = air
craft.
In a't least some countries,
abroa4l, the A7 :,? ton'
golden age. ._.--..' .
What is required is a far
more formidable enterprise
-a long-term confident}al
study made under an un-
doubted presidential man-
date by a panel including
representatives of the 'Exec-
utive, the Legislature and
the public, with a staff
drawn from past officials of
the agency who can ? go
through files knowing what
to look for.
To be sure, no President
likes to accord that, kind of
mandate to groups `not un-
der his control. Still, the
countervailing argument i
very strong. If the Presiders
'1s not himself the prison
of the Cold War Estab
lishment, most of the res
of us are.
Their self-defense tactic
are, a principal reason wh
it is almost impossible t
generate meaningful discu
sion, and in that way soun
opinion, on a subject
such vital public concern
the war in Vietnam.
1966, publishers Newspaper 80~ndic
v op a_g- ssimilar-,lines.
The CIAot_really, under
William- Ra~borri.' who has
proved to. -hayo no flair for
Helms, a career profession-
al, "intelligent and sophisti-
cated, but an organization
Man. who has spent 20 years
at IA headquarters, man-
more than' the. Ambassador. able ~~ self - defense mecha-
A huge , CIA ,headquarters , nisms, it is foolish to imag-
was built near Was ington. inc . that a . congressional
? All in all, for' the.CIA -,the group working part-time
Double Dulles era was a with only the most limited.
knowledge of the present to.
say, nothing of the past.
could exert any Impact on '
the agency;.. - . , -
.Communist.`pluralism and a
shift to the underde2toped
THE CHANGED interna-
tional climate' that a coin-
cided with the end of the
Double Dulles era featured