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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800160027-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: December 16, 1964
• Content Type: PREL

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WASHINGTON--CENTRAL INTELLIGE NCE AGENCY PERSONNEL ARE 'MJIN' c, `:'T?'E'T
.JOB ABROAD THAN THEIR RUS.SInN COUNTERPARTS DESPITE BEING
OUTNUMBERED MORE THAN TWO TC ''NE, SEN. MILTON YOUNG SA I r' 'UI)AY~
THE NORTH DAKOTA REPUBLICAN, JUST BACK FROM A WORLD TOJW', Sr
HE BASED HIS CONCLUSION ON VISITS TO CIA POSTS IN 14 NAT!OtJS.
THEM WERE SOUTH VIET 4AM, SPAIN, JO'ZDAN,.EGYPT, THAILA ?+), JAPA
FORMOSA,
"RESULTS ARE BETTER THAN THOSE OF THE RUSSIAN KJ+:3, ' I ' ! : I ' . :;O\ I t I
COUNTERPART, . EVEN THOUGH THE RUSSIANS HAVE MORE THAN T ,' iC.: AS Y
PERSONNEL," YOUNG SAID.
HE SAID HE WAS IMPRESSED BY "INTELLIGENT, PERSONABLE A`. EX}',
CIA OFFICIALS WHO BRIEFED HIM. AND HE SAID THE U.S. CLOOSi. 'R : ?I
THE DATE OF COMMUNIST CHINA'S FIRST ATOM BOMB EXPLOSIOt' WE' S` P
THEIR OUTSTANDING WORK,"
YOUNG MADE THE TRIP AS A MEMBER OF THE SPECIAL SENATE SLBCO'v I
AUTHORIZED TO EXAMINE IN DETAIL THE CIA'S MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR
IT.~' ':CTUAL AMOUNT IS HIDDEN IN BUDGETS OF; OTHER AGENCIES.
?`7 WAS NOT QUITE SATISFIED THAT. I WAS VOTING INTELLIGENTLY'
TH?_Iti APPROPRIATION REQUESTS," YOUNG .TQLD. UNITED PRESS INTERN; _
IN I:`.XPLAI;NING THE PURPOSE OF HIS TRIP.
HE SAID HE WAS TREMENDOUSLY IMPRESSED BY OPERATIONS OF CIA A
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. "THEIR WORK IS FAR MORE EFFF TIVL THAN i.
PUBLIC GENERALLY GIVES THEM CREDIT FOR, HE SAID.
SOME PREVIOUS CRITICISM OF CIA. MAY HAVE BEEN JLi TIFIE0, HE
BUT ADDED, "IT IS A FAR BETTER ORGANIZATION NOI ' THAN IN TjiE Y4:
PAST."
YOUNG PRAISED THE ADMINISTRATION OF CIA DIRECTOR JOHN'' A. MC :..
"'HE IS AS GOOD A MAN AS WE COUJLD;HAVE," YOUNG SAID. "IT wGULD
UNFORTUNATE IF HE WERE REPLACED."
THE SENATOR ALSO SAID HE FOUND U *S* MILITARY INSTALLA;'IDRaS OV} j
..AT A HIGH STATE OF PREPAREDNESS, *READY TO FIGHT ALMOST IMi4 DIATELY IF
THEY HAVE TO."
A HELICOPTER FLIGHT OVE'RR cOIITH VIET NAM PERSUADED HIM THAT TI!I:
PROPOSAL TO BOMB SUPPLY LINES OF THE NORTH VIETNAMESE MIGHT DO Fit_
GOOD, YOUNG SAID.,
"HUT IT'S NOT AS IMPORTANT AS ".MANY' P}.RSONS THINK IT IS," HE t" A
"T}1 VIET CONG GUERRILLAS LIVE ALMOST ENTIRELY ON THE ECONOMY
s0Ut H VIET NAM, STEALINU AND CAPTURING WHAT THEY NEED."
YOUNG WA' HIGH IN.PRAISE OF U.S. MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC Or: IC i ,
THERE,, AND SAID HE BELIEVED THIS COUNTRY,;IUST CONTINUE TO PPDVIDE M:_
TO SOUTH VIET NAM.
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