THE TRUE SECRET SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400190023-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: May 10, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

Capitol Punishment ? , ?. ? By Are Buchtoatd?
Approved For Release 2000 i 1
MAY 10 1966
'.`Tlt,e True Secret Service
THE ciA has been get- ' keep people' frgm piylnT
. i ting so c publicity late- into the affairs of the Agri-
")v hat one. t wont
how,scerct~aur-secxe scsv11ccee
toi1lly i P.
.I quire maga-
zine devoted
i1. Issue to ? the
+~l'iA?the New
I'b r k Times
had a five=
part series on
is de-
culture Department;..
The $46 milliontlh head=,
quarters at Lhngley,"with Its
1(3,000 employes, the far-
ttutlg'spy network, the gath-
ering of information from
around the world, Is all a?
ruse that, up until now, has
worked beyond the Depart-
ment of Agriculture's wild
est dre s,
Th VCIA ;ha been blamed,'
for the:' U-2 )incident, that.".
foul-up `in'"the Dominican".
Republic, and the setting tip,
of the, Diem government ii' .
South Vietnam. What feW.
people realize Is that that Is
Estonian in
tin a slander suit In
i 'Baltimore. In another case
f .coming to court soon, a man
[Dig arms
destined
ld Mmbique' 1
Angoa anoza; ,
~ th ore things th
'
-G
You can
1A gets blamed for, the
t pick up, the news. f ? paper or magazine these less chance
there is of di
r covering without reading about 1 covering who was really boa"
the organization. hind these operations.
peple are bewil Whv
anyo- _eneer someone starts
dered over tpe..,amount of getting Inquisitive about
publicity the(CIA? is getting, what the, Department of
but I can put their minds at ' Agr ulture Is up to, the
ease. The reason the ~CIA)is /CIAimmedtately leaks a
.getting all the publ lta Is toty to. the press of some
that Lotto uajsl momentous blunder the CIAO
secret service orpagatj,o{f? committed, and everyone, In
7t"'is;'111' fticE;'a ''cover to de- . eluding the Russians, think
tract from our real central we goofed again.
1,. Intelligence agency, which
i-
r ? Is the Department of Agr
TILE 'REASON the De-
partment of Agriculture was
Yes, the Department of chosen to be our 'Intel.
' ligence organization, uperat- 'G?"`y `area wnar me ngri-;
- They,,
Ing without fanfare, rarely cu lture people do.
pers and maintaining.a dis-?
-ereet silence worthy of the
?greatest Intelligence opera.
tion in the free world,
IT CA
W be r vaaled.
U
that; the I it let up for:
ho says he worked for the e' exactly the way Orville L.
14)s being tried for smug*,. Freeman, the Secretary of
to its agents In the form ol.i t. ;
farm subsidies, and no one !
Besides this. the Depart-.'
craft,'which are really usedl!
for spying operations, and
which are supposed to be ai : ,{ .
:holding surplus commodities,,!
are, In fact, filled with the
latest and most sophisticat- l
ment of Agriculture . was'!
light was during the Biiite1' 1 %
.Sol Estes swindle. But just,'
when the heat was on, the .
CIA pulled off the Bay of
pigs caper, and everyone..
THE CIA angrily , lenled
the charges -that they were
a front forl'the Department.
of Agriculture when I called
-them. But the evidence is so
overwhelming: that their
protestations just' added,,
rather than detracted, from,
my theory.
No organization that gets
in the papers as fnuch as
the CIA could possibly be'
part of our secret service,'
and no organization that
gets In the papers as little
as the Department of Agri.'
culture could be anything
but ` : a world -wide Intel-,
ligence; network.
. Let this be a lesson to
.:those who believd the Unit-:
ed.-States ver)ment does'
not know: what ft's doing..
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