ONE HEAD LESS IN THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200520012-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 2, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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AN EXTORIA1
One 14,ead, L ess: in. the C
THE CIA is to the Administration's foreign. intrigues and co
,.war strategy what the S.S. Department was to the Hitler Wehrmacht
and its grand design for world conquest. It is the super-secret'
~Governmenit agency for conducting global 'Rpara-military warfare.'!
In Latin,. America, in Africa, in Indonesia, in Southeast Asia,' its
..operatives are to be found at the center of all intrigues and cones
spiracies for counterrevolutionary actions against sovereign gov-
ernments of the new 'developin'g countries.
The CIA has in its employ a high contingent of international
bandits and cutthroats. They are practiced hands in the underworld
crimes of subversion, sabotage and assassination. They are soulless
men, hired guns, adventurers without principle or loyalty to any-
:thing but their personal sulf-indulgence, and will perform any
~hameful deed if the price is right.
Last Saturday, the obituary page of the national' press carried
th'e notice that the CIA had been reduced by a head. It seems 'that
ace operative Frank Gardiner Wisner. had, the day before, put a
20-guage shotgun to. his temple and pulled. the trigger. In one of
those "now-it-can-be-told" confessionals, the CIA proudly leaked the
disclosure, that it was none. other than Frank G. Wisner who master-
minded the overthrow of the democratically elected Arbenz govern-
.vent in Guatemala. in 1054.: That brazen act of counterrevolution
not only nullified the democratically expressed -will of the people
but it ushered in a.morrow of bloody political execution and mass'
imprisonment of Communist and democratic forces, in, Guatemala,'
The terror against the Guatemalan people. and the. total sup
.'cession of popular liberties still persist after eleven years. This was
the legacy of Frank..Wisner, CIA agent??par excellence and assassin:
-of the liberty of the Guatemalan people, a'brother nation,in Latin%
America:
Surely south of Laurel, Mississippi Wisner's home town
'there will be.no mourning at the bar, and. no tears from -freedom
hungry people on his bier either.
Indeed, in the, end, he did unto himself that which he had done-,
unto ethers.Selah.