'INTELLIGENCE' IS LACKING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100810024-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: June 4, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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SECURITY regulations within back without
certain government- agencles' no- 'the miaaive.
t ably the Central Intelligence
Agency, the cloak-and-dagger de-
partment of the federal government
- are sometimes carried to ridicu-
lous extremes. Sen. Frank Churcih
(D-Idaho) called attention to an ex-
ample the other day.
The Idaho Senator had informa-
.ion which he wished to turn over
to the CIA. So he wrote a letter and
labeled. it "Personal -- For the Di-
rector." He then phoned the CIA
to tell them that the letter was
en route, called a page and dis-
patched it.
Three and one-half hours later,
the page returned with the letter,
un'pened. The CIA security police
had been questioning him all that
time and finally had turned him
SENATOR CHURCH theh de-
cided to" drop the letter in the s'nail'
for CIA Director John A. McCone,
but in relating the incident he said : j
been simpler to have telephoned
the Pre ent.,
The S84ator, o ' eodite, .td not
divulge the nature of the inform;
tion which he thought the CIA
should la,v But . it... llV*ave
been soin,tlg "trlta~porfance
to the national security.
Whether Mr. McCone has ever
received the letter is not known,
but the Senator says he has re-
ceived no such acknowledgment.
In view of the frequent lapses in
postal service, it may be that the
CIA director Is still awaiting de-
livery.
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