TOFTE: CIA FAVORS PLOTTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400390021-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: August 12, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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a Hans V. Tofte, the flamboyant.
super-operative recently
benched by the CIA here, says
"the same people who planned
and executed that disastrous
Bay of Pigs affair are still'
sitting in Langley in bigger and !
better jobs." Julian Morrison
has the story. Page 10.
'The Aviesscy Has a -e Wc*c ed ...
By JULIAN MOm JSON
Suspended CIA agent Hans V.?
Tof.e has told friends that lie
has "meticulous diaries and
private records" that can
provide inside knowledge on the
role played by top Agency
officials in the Bay of Pigs
d'iTo;?er, in the Dominican
Republic and in Viet Nam.
In a lengthy letter to a friend
in Mason City, Iowa, his former
hame? '.Mr. Tofte also said that
"the same people who planned
asses executed that disastrous
(Bay of Pigs) affair are still
sitting Langley in bigger and
better jobs.
"I do not envy them those
jobs," he wrote, "I just think
that other men should' be in
them."
SECRETS
Mr. Tofte was suspended last
week after the Agency accused
him of taking home a batch of
classified documents.
It said a young agent
accidently found them on the
third floor of Mr. Tofte's former
Georgetown home after he'd
allegedly gone there to inspect
that "the papers they found in
my 'noose represent yca,.s o`
study aimed at perfecting a plan
that would revolut'iun?ize_ (lie
entire CIA and make it do the
work it is supposed to do
bettor, more professionally and
without a colossal wa?'te in
regard to money and human
tragedy.
LITTLE PEOPLE
The latter refers to the untold
'little people' -- agents acid
[boss bamboozled families -
that go down the. drain during
inefficient ?nd callous
operations without anyone lifting
a finger. Like the Cuban exiles
that wore murdered at the Bay
.of pigs,
Referring to past criticism of
the CIA by Senate Foreign
Relations Committee chairman
J. William Fullbright, Mr. Tofte
said "I am no Fullbright man.
In fact, I am no politician at all.
"However," he said, "I do
agree with Fullbright that the
Agency has to be watched very
closely, only Fullbright's ideas
of 'watching' would not even
begin ?to do the job."
POLICE STATE ..
a basement apartment that was He said "the day this behind-
for rent. the-scenes setup, working under'
.
Mr...Tofte wrote. however, 'the-: o! off=al apaoial review boasid has been
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scercry, becomes strong enough set up to study Mr. Tofte's case
by escaping rigorous "andrecommendact-ion twhun.
con f ress?ianal controls, we will ? Mr. Tofte implied in the letter
have the beginnings of a Police that he expects attempts will be
State in America, made to discredit him, and said,
"I cannot help what is -about to
"It could be terribly misused happen now. All I can ask is for
by a ruthless politician in the my true friends to trust me 4
White House before Congress '?.the way_to,the bitt r cJ," ,;~_ ~?;?
and the American people even,"
knew it," he said.
Mr. Tofte also wrote that he!
was present "during a secret;
meeting at the White house'
early in tiie Kennedy'
Administration" and was
"jokingly asked : whether, I?
wanted to be Director of CJA."
MISTAKE
lie said he replied that "the l
worst mist-ake any President of'
the United States could possibly'
make would be to put a CIA`
professional in the top spot oaf:
the Agency."
He said "I was vastly ?relieved
when Kennedy appointed a type,
like (John A.) McCone", who:
succeeded Allen Dulles as CIA;
director.
Darior this year, , President
Johnson named Richard Helms;
as the first CIA career man I
ever to head the Agency
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