WHY DO WE NEED THE CIA?

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The story of ourn"spy agency's" many-sided mission.
1.137 ELBERT S. JERROLD
7-1 ARLIER THIS YEAR, you may recall,
the:e was a big hullabaloo in the
it j press when it was revealed that
:he U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
CiA) had secretly been footing the bill
so that American students could travel
overseas to Communist "youth festivals"
an thus provide American representa-
ii,:,.. at such gatherings.
inat news caused an uproar. Some
peo7le claimed that the students had
been "corrupted"?as if they had been
turned into "spies" without knowing it.
T:,ere was insistence that the CIA be
,nvegated, censured, limited, "ex-
posed."
Because the students weren't spying
at all, and were just being themselves
without even knowing who paid for their
trip, othefs called the whole hubbub a
e.si in a teapot. Expose the
operat;ons for that? "You can't
un p y agency in Macy's window,"
toted the New York Daily News.
ne News came close to the central
question that the student uproar, or any
other ,00troversy over the CIA, must
come io grips with. There is no question
of investigating the CIA publicly without
destroying it. Secrecy is its essence. A
decision to destroy it must come before
a decision to expose its work publicly.
To destroy the CIA, on the other
hand, involves questions that are more
far-reaching than simply doing away
with a government agency headquartered
in Virginia.
The CIA is not an independent cloak-
and-dagger outfit playing James Bond on
its own hook. It is a secret tool granted
by Congress to the President of the
United States and his fellow members of
the National Security Council. They are
the Vice President, the Secretary of De-
fense, the Secretary of State and the Di-
rector of the Office of Emergency
Planning.
If the President's Council doesn't need
the CIA we can safely expose it, tell its
full story and do away with it. Somebody
might be embarrassed, but the nation
wouldn't be endangered.
If the top national security board in
the nation does need the CIA, then we
tell inside tales about it and cry for its
' "exposure" at our own risk.
Bow do we judge the need?
Today the CIA has two jobs, entirely
The seal of the CIA
separate, of which intelligence is but one.
Few people understand that it has two
distinct jobs, that its story begins with
intelligence but doesn't end there. Let's
trace its story.
We had no central intelligence agency
before WW2. The revelations about our
lack of coordinated intelligence that
came out of the Pearl Harbor investiga-
tions after WW2 shocked the whole na-
tion. President Truman made such haste
to fill the gap that he appointed a tempo-
rary Central Intelligence Group in 1946.
At the time he was still waiting for a
special commission to recommend a
more permanent intelligence setup to
remedy the' shameful conditions under
which we were surprised at Pearl Har-
bor.
Very shortly the special commission,
headed by Ferdinand Eberstadt, of New
York, made its report. It had consulted
with such experts as the late William J.
Donovan, who headed the OSS in WW2;
Allen Dulles, who later directed the CIA,
and others. Out of the Eberstadt report,
and out of the advice of leaders in Con-
gress and the Truman Administration,
both the CIA and the National Security
Council were created by the National
Security Act of 1947.
The CIA's duties were spelled out in
five points of law. In every one of them
it was to serve the President and his
Council and to account to them.
Its first three duties required it to pro-
vide intelligence reports to the President
and the Council, to advise the Council
on intelligence matters, and to coordi-
nate the intelligence work of other arms
of the Government.
Most of this is massive, sometimes
tedious, routine classified work. A lot
of it is tying together information 80%
of which, it has been estimated, is al-
ready lying around loose but uncoordi-
nated, while about 20% is fun down by
"special agent" work.
This, the great mass of the CIA's
work, is more labor than adventure, but
a kind of labor that might have pre-
vented the Pearl Harbor surprise. Every
day the President gets an intelligence
summary, while extremely detailed re-
ports are put together on the military
posture of other nations.
The fourth of the five CIA functions
spelled out in the 1947 act empowered
the Nationa. Security Council to call on
the CIA for such "additional services"
as the Pidcnt and his Council should
determ By all accounts, these are
also intelligence services. The CIA pub-
licly desc;:bes some of them as such cut-
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`;.It flushes.out-Missiles a spies on enemies.
it maps the ocean's floor, Catches robbers and
upgrades sports. lt studies fires and drunks and
pigs and psychiatric patients, streamlines indus
and stores massive knowledge in a tiny space-
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hotography . today is evolving
into a superservant in man's struggle at m
to master his environment. It has .
caught criminals, upgraded compet-
itive performance on ?the playing
field and on the battlefield, revolu- ment with photography, has found
',lionized library and research pro- '. that when catatonic patients are
cedures, and rewritten the course of shown pictures of themselves, a dra-
, : modern history and diplomacy. It has matic transformation takes place;
mapped the ocean floor and shown normally oblivious of their appear-
man where to land on the moon..:. , ance, they suddenly begin to wash,
And beyond all this is an almost in- comb their hair and take pride in
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finite variety of newer uses. their grooming. Anthropology pro-
Infrared aerials take the tempera- - fessors accept films in lieu of term
ture inside volcanoes to help forecast papers. One student at Queens Col-
eruptions. The Atomic Energy Com- lege in New York submitted an 8-mm
mission has used cameras that oper- movie on his brother's bar mitzvah
ate at speeds up to 200 million frames to document the Jewish puberty rite
per second to record the effects of in the U.S. Not only did the student
nuclear explosions. The enlarged pic- .get a good grade, but he caught a
ture of a baby's palm print, disclos- crook. His film clearly showed a wait-
ing the tiny abnormalities which are ' er rifling women's purses at the ta-
clues to birth defects, alerts doctors bles and lifting men's wallets on the
to the need for early treatment. crowded dance floor.
.4sychiatry, beginning to experi- _ . Airlines wrap their jets in film?
?more than a mile of it per plane?
and X-ray them to spot tiny cracks
which could fracture a fuselage.
1, To make miniaturized electrical
circuits, technicians take a picture
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The View from Albania
Translated from LAIKO VIMA, Glinokatter
The fierce and simplistic Stalinists of Albania still
regard the United States as an implacable foe to be
bludgeoned relentlessly with any weapons at hand.
Since the only weapons at hand are words, their
propaganda is a very blunt instrument, as these
three articles from recent issues of the Creek-lan-
guage daily, Laiko Vima, evince. The newspaper cir-
culates in the prefecture of Gjinohaster, a commu-
nity of 150,000 in Albania's Pindus Mountains.
THE C.I.A.! MOST MYSTERIOUSI
IN THE mysterious section of Washington known as
Foggy Bottom, there is an unusual building. It cost
$50 million, and its architecture inspires dread: win-
dows with iron bars, iron doors, labyrinthine corridors,
astounding automatic devices. In this building, the
C.I.A. has its headr uarters. There arc another fifty
villas in Washington, and about thirty in New York
of this governmental espionage organization..
C.I.A. is cloaked in deep mystery. Nobody knows
how it operates. Its personnel includes 100,000 un-
identified agents, and its budget is neither announced
nor discussed. It is known that $5 billion from the
budget go to C.I.A. But there are also other billions of
dollars which flow like a river into special projects un-
dertaken by the C.I.A. The American government has
given special attention to this organization, which is
linked to an endless series of conspiracies, coups
ci'dtats, aggressions, provocations and bestial murders.
The black hand of the C.I.A. spreads terror every-
where and depresses the peoples. Allen Dulles, the
brother of john Foster Dulles, said once that C.I.A.
is "a great school of a silent art which guides the
policies of the U.S.A." This means that C.I.A. is the
architect of sabotage and of disgusting and brazen in-
terventions. It employs airplanes like the U-2 and
RB-47, which spy over the Socialist countries. Let us.
not go back very far, but ten years ago C.I.A. engi-
neered a coup d'Ctat which brought down Mossadegh
and resulted in the.annihilation of thousands of Irani-
an democrats and Communists. The countnievolu-
tion in Hungary in 1956 was also organized by &LA,
The World Looks at tlw .A.
together with the Yugoslav revisionists. The first air-
planes that reached Budapest were aircraft cmpl,;:.;cd
by C.I.A., and Marked as Red Cs planes. CIA
organized revolution in the Congo, killed
Lumumba and overthrew other African governments.
C.I.A.'s activities are multifarious and well camou-
flaged. The Peace Corps is an instrument of espionage,
because under the name of the engineer, doctor and
veterinarian who goes to help an underdeveloped
country, in reality hides an American spy. This is the
reason why Ghana, the Sudan, Indonesia, Ceylon and
Mexico have thrown out the Peace Corps. Another
'C.I.A. project is the "Food for Peace Program" orga-
nized by Eisenhower. And former President Kennedy
established the Alliance for Progress not to help Latin
America but to spy on them. Who organized the coup
d'dtat in Brazil? Who provoked the American inter-
vention in the Dominican Republic, the blood baths
in Panama, Bolivia and Uruguay? The C.I.A.
Now let us learn a bit about the No. 1 personality
of this organization. Allen Dulles started his career at
the age of twenty-three, serving all subsequent Ameri-
can presidents as a spy. When in 1953 Dulles became
C.I.A.'s chief, he gathered around him sixty billion-
aires and millionaires, so that espionage would be ele-
vated to the highest spheres of politics and economics.
The present chief of the C.I.A. is John McCone, an
engineer and millionaire industrialist, former Under-
Secretary of the Air Force. Between 1958 and 1961,
McCone w:-.s chairman of the Atomic Energy Com-
mission, and he is a major speculator in military in-
vestments in airplanes, automobiles, etc. Some of the
investments of billionaire McCone are in the Standard
Oil Company of California and Standard Oil of New
Jersey, which own oil fields in Latin America and the
Middle East. McCone's investment in this monopoly
is well over $1,028,965, and he is the second stock-
holder among the millionaires of the company. He has
infinite connections with shipyards and with indus-
trialists who produce guided missiles and jets. 'This is
the man who beads C.I.A.!
A clique of millionaires and politicians are acting on
the basis of the orders of C.I.A., which is the real
power behind the American government, and its chief
is a dexterous spy.
THE CLOSED SCHOOL DOORS
MILLIONS of people in the capitalist countries are
thirsty for knowledge and education. Yet, their desire
cannot be satisfied. In a bourgeois society education is
the property of a minority which oppresses and ex-
ploits the working people.
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The World Looks at the USA.
:he View from Albania
Tron,loiod from LAIKO VIMA, GjinokailOr
The /ierce and simplistic Stalinists of Albania still
regard the United States as an implacable foe to be
bludgeoned relentlessly with any weapons at hand.
Since the only weapons at hand arc words, their
propaganda is a very blunt instrument, as these
three articles from recent issues of the Creek-lan-
guage daily, Laiko Vima, evince. The newspaper cir-
culates in the prefecture of Gjinoltaster, a commu-
nity of 150,000 in Albania's Pindus Mountains.
THE C.I.A.t MOST MYSTERIOUSI
IN TI IF, mysterious section of Washington known as
Foggy Bottom, there is an unusual building. It cost
$50 million, and its architecture inspires dread: win-
dows with iron bars, iron doors, labyrinthine corridors,
astounding automatic devices. In this building, the
C.I.A. has its headquarters. There arc another fifty
villas in Washington, and about thirty in New York
of this governmental espionage organization.
C.I.A. is cloaked in deep mystery. Nobody knows
how it operates. Its personnel includes 100,000 un-
identified agents, and its budget is neither announced
nor discussed. It is known that $5 billion from the
budget go to C.I.A. But there arc also other billions of
dollars which flow like a river into special projccts un-
dertaken by the C.I.A. The American government has
given special attention to this organization, which is
linked to an endless series of conspiracies, coups
d'6tats, aggressions, provocations and bestial murders.
The black hand of the 'C.I.A. spreads terror every-
where and depresses the peoples. Allen Dulles, the
brother of John Foster Dulles, said once that C.I.A.
is "a great school of a silent art which guides the
policies of the U.S.A." This means that C.I.A. is the
architect of sabotage and of disgusting and brazen in-
terventions. It employs airplanes like the U-2 and
RB-47, which spy over the Socialist countries. Let us
not go back very far, but ten years ago C.I.A. engi-
neered a coup d'dtat which brought down Mossadegh
and resulted in the annihilation of thousands of Irani-
an democrats and Communists. The countnjevolu-
tion in Hungary in 1956 was also organized by W.A.,
together with the Yugoslav revisionists. The first air-
planes that reached Budapest were aircraft employed
by C.I.A., and marked as Red Cross planes. C.I.A. also
organized revolution in the Congo, killed Patrice
. Lumumba and overthrew other African governments.
C.I.A.'s activities are multifarious and well camou-
flaged. The Peace Corps is an instrument of espionage,
because under the name of the engineer, doctor and
veterinarian who goes to help an underdeveloped
country, in reality hides an American spy. This is the
reason why Ghana, the Sudan, Indonesia, Ceylon and
Mexico have thrown out the Peace Corps. Another
C.I.A. project is the "Food for Peace Program" orga-
nized by Eisenhower. And former President Kennedy
established the Alliance for Progress not to help Latin
America but to spy on them. Who organized the coup
d'6tat in Brazil? Who provoked the American inter-
vention in the Dominican Republic, the blood baths
in Panama, Bolivia and Uruguay? The C.I.A.
Now let us learn a bit about the No. 1 personality
of this organization. Allen Dulles started his career at
the age of twenty-three, serving all subsequent Ameri-
can presidents as a spy. When in 1953 Dulles became
C.I.A.'s chief, he gathered around him sixty billion-
aires and millionaires, so that espionage would be ele-
vated to the highest spheres of politics and economics.
The present chief of the C.I.A. is John McConc, an
engineer and millionaire industrialist, former 'Under-
Secretary of the Air Force. Between 1958 and 1961,
McConc was chairman of the Atomic Energy Com-
mission, and he is a major speculator in military in-
vestments in airplanes, automobiles, etc. Sonic of the
investments of billionaire McCone arc in the Standard
Oil Company of California and Standard Oil of New
Jersey, which own oil fields in Latin America and the
Middle East. IVIcCone's investment in this monopoly
is well over $1,028,965, and he is the second stock-
holder among the millionaires of the company. He has
infinite connections with shipyards and with indus-
trialists who produce guided missiles and jets.. This is
the man who heads C.I.A.!
A clique of millionaires and politicians are acting on
the basis of the orders of C.I.A., which is the real
power behind the American government, and its chief
is a dexterous spy;
THE CLOSED SCHOOL DOORS
MILLIONS of people in the capitalist countries arc
thirsty for knowledge and education. Yet, their desire
cannot be satisfied. In a bourgeois society education is
the property of a minority which oppresses and ex-
ploits the working people. ?
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Is a Tighter Rein fleeded: dagger activities is this $50-million struc-
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' are barred. From here, espionage opera- '
tions are managed which cover the U.S. and
DI Spy Agency Operatilons? an estimated 70 foreign countries.
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, ington. ernment" which is shaping U.S. foreign the most important and powerful in
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The building is plainly visible from policy when it should be merely an the U.S. Government. The decisions
' i ' ' % the road, but no tourists are admitted, instrument of such policy. They say ' he now makes will concern all Amer--
? In fact, it is off limits to everyone ex- that the inner workings and budget of'. cans. And they will be made in secret,
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? cept C.I.A. employees and visitors the C.I.A. should at least be known to known only to the President and a few
with official clearance. The agency is a select group of congressmen. . other top officials.
,i shrouded in such secrecy that nobody ? The question is again in the fore- Rep. John V. Lindsay, New York Re-
outside the C.I.A.?except President front this week as a new director for Publican, questions whether a C.I.A.
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Johnson and a special committee of the the 'agency takes over the job of run- director should have this power. "The
National Security Council?knows ning America's far-flung, complex in- shaping and implementation by secret
what it really does and how many peo- , telligence operations. The new "master processes of. some part of foreign poi-
pie are on its pap-oll. The agency's spy is William Francis Raborn,'Jr., . icy is an extremely serious-matter in a
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Congress and the General Accounting He succeeds John M. McCone, C.I.A. shrugged 01 or stamped as an ines-
Office. ' , ? , ' , ', "chief since 1961. ? ? . ? Continued
PICTURED ABOVE is The top secret label on C.I.A. ac- Admiral Rab?orn is the fifth man to
the headquarters of the tivities and spending springs from the hold the post. He was director of the
Central Intelligence secretive nature of its work. No es- Special Projects Agency which pro-
Agency, nerve center of' pionage agency can operate effective- duced the Polaris missile. He has been
described as ? a highly competent offi-
cer ... a man of sound judgment, well
acquainted in Washington and re-
America's worldwide es- ly in a glare of publicity.
pionage operations.
The seven-story, $50-million "Spy, 'Invisible Government'
'plot in Langley, Va., about ten miles bers of Congress?complain that the Capitol Hill."
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