THE BASIC DOUBT CONCERNING CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100300044-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: May 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Pogo Pogo Paao
LOUISVILLE, KY.
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E-172,934
MAY 6 1966
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he Basic .Doubt Concerning
In his column on this page, Clayton
Fritchey poses an interesting ques-
tion: Is the Central Intelligence
Agency penetrating or even "seduc-
ing" the intellectual community of
;the United States?
The question arises from dis-
closures that the agency has had
clandestine relationships with at least
two universities, and that an article
recently published in a respected jour-
nal on foreign affairs was written by
? a CIA official and thus reflected CIA
policy on the subject, The Faceless
Viet Cong.
Meanwhile, reports from Washing-
ton indicate that committees in both
the Senate and House are concerned
.over CIA activities, and that there is
some (but probably not enough)
sentiment In the Senate to debate
expansion of the "watchdog commit-
tee" that supposedly oversees CIA
activities.
It seems to this newspaper that the
basic point of controversy over the
CIA is one of policy. If the CIA were
only what its name implies, a Central
Intelligence Agency for collection and
evaluation of worldwide data, there
could be no possible cause for con-
cern. If it is an action agency in
addition, if it attempts not only to
report but clandestinely to cause
events, if it undertakes thought con-
trol abroad and at home, then there
is very great cause for concern.
If it is an action agency, as seems
evident, then there is serious doubt
that any kind of Senate surveillance
would be' effective.' An agency that,
originates and carries out secret
foreign policy is an anachronism in
free and open society:
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