HUNGARIAN WEEKLY DESCRIBES CIA-PENTAGON STRUGGLE IN VIETNAM, CIA SCHOOL IN PANAMA ZONE

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• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
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HUNGARIAN WEEKLY DESCRIBES CIA-PENTAGON STRUGGLE IN VIETNAM, CIA
SCHOOL IN PANAMA CANAL ZONE
An article by Endre Sumegi in the 21 February 1965 issue of
Magyarorszag (an illustrated weekly newspaper specializing in
esg n affairs), Budapest, page 11, portrays the CIA as the
"invisible government" of the US beginning with a statement to this
attributed to Fred J. Cook. The Hungarian article continues:
infft-et "The center of the organization is not a
here sit more than 10,000 chief agents.. The, other center can be'
found at Fort Meade. In addition, daughter:enterprises are main-
tained in the American war ministry, the ministry of foreign
affairs, the building of the Atomic Energy Commission, and in
various West European capitals."
The article claims that the goals of Dulles and McCone are
the same but that their methods differ. For example, McCone
released a report on the unfavorable status of the Soviet economy
whereas Dulles testified to just the opposite in 1958.
The article claims that the number one battle area of the CIA
is in South East Asia. I'The hand-of the secret service
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, then the chief CIA agent in South
war
East Asia, received an or e to seek out a reliable agent who c uld
lead the South Vietnam government planned by the American secre
service. The choice fell on Diem, not least of all because the
CIA found in files taken from the Japanese secret service the
personal file of Diem, who was a special agent for Japanese
intelligence.
"But the Diem dictatorship did not come up to the hopes pl ced
in it and therefore the used up agent had to be removed from th
political stage. The liquidation took place without court proc dures
for two reasons: Diem had to be silenced because it would have
been unpleasant for the old agent to divulge various secrets ab ut
the secret service; but even more important was the fact that i
the mean time the Vietnam dictator had bound himself to another
American secret service, the spy organization of the ministry
war, McCone's rival. (This is indicated by the fact, also, th
the Pentagon did not-even want to hear about the removal of th
Diem government. McNamara himself spoke up in its interest.)
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