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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100050011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 5, 1955
• Content Type: NSPR

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IT'S LIKE THIS
By ROBERT W. AKERS
AGAIN the President of the United States
has been caught flatfooted and unwarned
when a world crisis struck.
The Middle East explosion is one more fail.
'Ire of the American Intelligence system in
t:).year series which began when the bombs
Fame thundering down on Pearl Harbor.
In 1944 it was the Rattle of the Bulge that
irrok American forces in Europe completely by
surprise.
In June Of. 1950 It W4 the Rent military
thrust into South Korea.
A few months later it was Gen. MacArthur'a
s,,,,urance to President Truman that his in-
telligence reports showed the Chinese WOULD
Nt)T enter the Korean War if MacArthur were
pennltted to drive clear to the Yalu River.
THESE are major examples of American
Intelligence failing to call the turn on
events of vital Importance to the nation. There
also have been kssel' ones
This past week President Eisenhower made
it clear he, had had no forewarning of the
elaborate scheme by which Britain, France and
Israel arranged to open war on Egypt. The sur-
M"e to our State Department was so complete
as to be humiliating.
There IS, an agency which is supposed to
keep the President, the Scats Department and
the Defense Department Informed of what goes
on the world. ft to surrounded by as much
secrecy as the cloak-and-dagger police of any
nld-style European rggime Even the congress-
men who appropriate the millions for its oper-
ation don't, know how the money is spent. It
is free from detailed questioning or investira--
tion and !t is headed by Allen Dulles. brother
of the Secretary of State. GRANTED that figuring what any nation
plans to do next is a to assignment.
Still, a record of Inability to forewarn as con-
sistent as the one get up by our various in-
telligence arms since 1940 is disconcerting, to
put It mildly.
What if an attack plan had been aimed at
the United States, insteaa of,Egyptll
It was a courteous gesture on President Els-
eithower's part, making the official Intelligence
reporter available to Adlat Stevenson during
the campaign-nut it begins to look as though
a newspaper subscription would have provided
more information.
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