CIA POPS UP AGAIN IN A STRANGE PLACE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600210034-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: September 2, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Date: SEP 2
1964
ops Up Again
In a Strange Place
THE.. CENTRAL Intelligence Agency (CIA)
...does not; in its latest public exposure, add to its
luster or. to the confidence of the public, which
pays its huge and unannounced check.
Normally, operations of the CIA spooks reach
the public prints only after another adventure in
ineptitude has embarrassed the United States.
This time, however, a highly secret operation of
the agency has been uncovered by, of all things,
another agency of the Government. Since the CIA
has bamboozled ambassadors and misled Presi
dents, this is, in a way, reassuring.,
THE CIA HAS NOW ' been revealed as a
source of funds for a foundation suspected by
Representative Wright Patman of using its tax-
exempt monies in battles to win control of pri-
vate business.
The CIA's entry into the foundation field has
interesting implications. It may certainly create
questions about the credentials of any American
scholar traveling anywhere on a foundation grant.
The brush leaves a wide smear.
That the CIA.was involved with a foundation
of questionable practice should not embarrass it.
-It has often been found in alliances with partners
whose reputations should assure them arrest on
sight. We have urged that its activities be limited
to the essential gathering of intelligence and that'
it be restrained from dallying in coups d'etat. or
sponsorship of bombing runs on native villages
in Asia, Africa and Latin America. We don't think,.,
the CIA should play wa,-cnpt foundations,
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