CIA AND SOCIALISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100830006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 28, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT.,
automatically have to stop its cooper-
ation. It will be a loz'g time before the
the CIA in defense of the country will
F Every organization which has aided
licity, which the CIA. has suffered.
The problem now is how to get the
CIA operating again. No secret agency ..
can operate under the glare. of pub-
Republic affair was settled by the'
CIA quietly and efficiently.
could have been' another Dominican .
.loss of a single American.life. What
power. This was done without the
Barry Goldwater sa
has boon financing left wing causes
in this country. He would be happier
it it bad spread the money around a
bit and financed some right wing or-
ganizations. At the same time, liberal
Senator Clark stated that it, was just
terrible of the CIA to finance the left
wing groups which it seems were sub-
verted by the act. The squawks com-
ing from some of the groups subsi
dazed- do indeed 'support Senator,
Clark. It seems that some of them -
feel that they were betrayed into be-
ing of service to their country.
Both Senator Clark and Mr. Gold-
water seem to have missed the point.
There is nothing subversive about the.
CIA and no American need feel
! ? ashamed of having served it. If the
CIA did favor socialist organizations
in this country it certainly opposed
them abroad. It was in some cases
extremely successful.
The case of Communist Cheddi
Jagan in British Guinea is an exam-
ple. After Cuba it was essential to our
safety' that no more Communist bases .
be allowed on this hemisphere. Jagan
was near to taking over the colony,
and Britain was ready to throw the
whole problem away. The CIA used an
>~ : AFL-CIO union as a base for
opera- tions. Jagan couldn't keep control of
the country. He lost an election and
{ a government friendly to the free.
agency will again reach Its former
efficiency. In the meantime, it is ab-
surd to state that the CIA has "sub-
verted" any American- ? agency. It is
Communism that is the enemy not. .f
an American agency, which despite.
some blunders,' has. served the : couiN ,
try well.
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