'A CREDIBLE JOB' IS VERDICT ON C.I.A.

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• Publication Date: October 20, 1954
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`A CREDITABLE JOB'
IS VERDICT ON C.I.A.
Doolittle Survey, However,
Tells President of Areas
That Need Improvement
Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19-The
Central Intelligence Agency won
"a creditable job" rating today
a special study g up act-
ing directly for President Eisen-
hower.
The group reported, however,
that there were "important areas
in which the C. I. A. organiza-
tion, administration and opera-
tions can and should' be im-
proved."
The. agency is aware of these
problems and in many cases
steps are being taken toward
their solution, the group informed
the President. .
Heading the group was Lieut.
Gen. James H. Doolittle. Other
members were , William D.
Franke, A&sistant Secretary of
the Navy; Morris Hadley, New
York attorney, and William D.
Pawley, former Ambassador to
Brazil.
The White House said the
group had been asked by the
President "to look at certain
phases of- the work of the C. I. A."
"The President feels that such
periodic reviews are conducive
to good government and serve to
give him an independent ap-
praisal of the sensitive aspects of
the agency," the White House
statement explained.
1 Hoover Study Separate
:,,.The Doolittle study," it was
stated "does not duplicate the
work- of the, task force of the
Hoover Commission under Gen.
Mark W, Clark which is par-
ticularly studying the over-al(,
organizational problems :of the
United States Intelligence
services."
The group held what General
Doolittle called its "first and
final meeting" with the President
jtoday. Certain recommendations
,were made. These will not be
made public, whether they. are
out into !effect or not.
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General Doolittle, through the
'white House, issued this state
inent 'in behalf of the study
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"With respect to the Central
Intelligence Agency in general
we conclude: (a) that its place-
ment in the over-all organization
of the Government is proper; (b)
that the laws under which it op-
erates are adequate; (cj that the
established provisions for` its
financial support are sufficiently
flexible to meet its current oper-
lational needs; (d) that in. spite
of the limitations imposed by its
relatively short life and rapid ex-
pansion it is doing a creditable
job; (e) that it is gradually im-
proving its capabilities, and (f)
that it is exercising care to in-
sure the loyalty of its personnel.
areas in which the C. I. A. or-
ganization, administration and
operations can and should be
improved. The agency is aware
of these problems and in many
cases steps are being taken
toward their solution. We are
well aware of the tremendous
irecto
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problems fa\:
staff of an organization such as 1
C. I. A. and appreciate the sin-
. cere efforts being made to solve
them,
"In an attempt to be construe-
Live and in the hope that we may
be helpful, we have made certain
recommendations to the Presi
dent: ' I
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HEADS INVESTIGATION-
Lieut. Gen. James' H. Doo-
little, who Is charged with
investigating 'operations of
Central, Intelligence Agency.
DOOLITTLE HEADS
INQUIRY INTO, CJ,A1
His Investigation Is Second
Under Way on Intelligence
-Clark Directs the Other
By HANSON W. BALDWIN
Two extensive investigations
of the Government's intelligence'
actiVitle~ are now in progress in
Washington'and' elsewhere.
One of them, .which never has
been , announced publicly, 'is
headed by Lieut. Gen. James H.
Doolittle, U. S:,'A:.r. (retired).'
General , Doolittle's group : is
pharged... with investigating the
secreti'gperationg of the Central
Intelligence Agency, arld was 'au-
thorized by the. White House.
The 'second' investigation,' al=
ready announced,' is that of the
Hoover Commission, Task.Force
oll:`Intelligence Activities, Which
is headed by Gen. Mark W.
Clark, V. S. A. (retired), Which
was authgrized by Congress and
appointed in cooperation with
Executive authority. The Hoover
Commission group will have its
first meetings in. Washington on
Monday.
The exact scope of the Doo-
little investigation and the rea-
sons for the establishment of
this group when the Hoover
Commission was. preparing to
undertake a comprehensive sur-
vey of all intelligence activities
were veiled in s? .-'ecy yesterday:
General Doolittle, who is vice
president of the Shell Oil Com-
pany, .refe red quelstions to. the
White Hose, and Allen W.
Dulles, Director of the ~ Central
Intelligence Agency, would make
no comment.
General Doolittle has two or
three men, whose names have
not been made public, working
with him, and his investigation
has been under way for some
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3 NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY OCTORFR 1$, 1954.
DOOLITTLE HEADS
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arrest of Joseph S. Petersen Jr.,
discharged employe of the Gov-
ernment's. ultra-secret communi-
cations intelligence unit, the Na-
tional Security Agency, with the
Doolittle investigation, but there
was absolutely no substantiation
of this and some informed quar-
ters denied there was any con-
nection.
Speculation on Scope
Other sources indicated that
some secret ventures in the intel-
ligence field that "went wrong",
or in which funds were wasted,
,including the preclusive purchase
of tungsten ore and the charter
of shipping, were among the ac-
?tivities- under investigation.
Most authoritative sources,
however,; believed that General
Doolittle , and his group , were
making a broad survey of all the
secret operations of the Central
Intelligence Agency in order to
measure them against a yard-
sen, U.S.A. (retired), is the staf
director for the group and heads
about a dozen staff specialists,
who will do much of the investi-
gative spade work for the task
A preliminary report to Con-
gress probably will be made in
January, but the committee does
not expect to complete its inves-
tigation until some time In 1955.
Final reports may have to be
completed before May 3, when
the present legislative charter of
the (Hoover) Commission on Or-
ganization of the Executive
Branch of the Government ex-
pires..
Reasons of Inquiries Discussed
There was some feeling among
intelligence circles yesterday yes-
terday that the two investiga-
tions represented some duplica-
tion and overlapping, and that
some friction had developed, or
might develop. This was said to
be partly because one investiga-
tion, that of General Clark,
stemmed, from legislative, or Con-
gressional authorization, whereas
the other-that of General Doo-
little-represented the executive
branch of Government: '
In any case informed' circles
agreed that the investigations
probably meant that both Con=
gress andthe Executive Depart-
stick of adequacy and effective-
-
ness.
There was no indication yester-
day now the two current inquiries
would it together. The Hoover
Commission task forces are in-
terested primarily in Government
organization. But these groups
have found in the past that it is
impossible to recommend im-
proved organization without
studying the functions and ac-
tivities of tie. agency concerned,
General Clark, who is president
of The `Citadel, a military college
in Charleston, S. C., said his task
force would study not only the
C.I.A. but also intelligence ac-
tivities of the Government.
These would include Army,
Navy and Air Force intelligence
units; the National Security
Agency, a unified armed forces
agency that monitors and when
possible breaks foreign. codes;
and perhaps the counterespion-
age agencies, including the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation
ment were determined to improve
the Government's Intelligence op-
erations and evaluations.
Experts believe much prograss
has been made in the develop-
ment of global intelligence serve
ices but some "leaks" and fail.
ures-some of which gre- inevit-
able in any intelligence service-
and recent events have caused
some anxiety.
These include the arrest of Mr.
Petersen, who handled what was
known in World War II as
"Magic" - the. information gath-
ered by breaking the codes of
foreign nations; the defection to
the Communists of Dr. Otto John,
head of Western Germany's secret
service; the earlier but possibly
not related defections of the
British diplomats, Guy F. De
Money Burgess and Donald D.
MacLean; - the case of British
atomic physicist, Dr. Klaus Fuchs
The exact scope of the invests- espionage and counter-espionage
gation will be determined, it was recently revealed in high places
said at th Pi
, e rst meeting of the
full committee Monday. Other
members of the committee, in ad-
dition to General Clark, are Ed-
ward V.. Rickenbacker, chairman
f the board, Eastern Air Lines;
dmiral Richard L. Conolly,
S.N. (retired), president of
ong Island University; Donald
ussell, president of the Univer-
ity of South Carolina, and Er-
est Frederick Hollings, Lieuten-
nt Governor-elect of South Caro-
in a.
Maj. Gen. James G. Christian-
Some experts believe that all
these events are somehow inter-
related. There have been, more-
over, some sharp recent criticisms
of overlapping, duplicating and
uncoordinated activities of vari-
ous United States sponsored in-
telligence agencies in Germany.
For all these reasons the two
investigations now in progress
are likely to be conducted with
considerable care, and intelli-
gence specialists are awaiting
their results wih much interest.
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