TACKLING THE FOLKS WHO TACKLE THE ENEMIES OF THE STATE

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• Publication Date: November 18, 1973
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Tackling 'he folks vVho tackle the-.
The U.S. ,
inteBii ence
Community
Foreign Policy and
Domestic Activities
By Lyman B. Kirkpatrick Jr.
Hill and Wang, 212 pages, $7.95
Give Us This Day
The Inside Story of the
CIA and the Bay of Pigs
Invasion
.By Howard Hunt
Arlington House, 235 pages,
$7.95
Reviewed by
Don Rose
Within hours of the recent
overthrow and presumed.
suicide of Chile's elected'
Marxist President Sal-
vador Allende, accusations
from the left and right
around the world blamed
the coup on the United
States and its Central Intel-
ligence, Agency. Only time
will determine the accura-
_ey of the allegations, but a
reading of post-World War
II history gives them cre-
dence.
The CIA, thru its known
-op atio>y h'r? uatemala,
Viet Nam, Iran, Cuba and
other sovereign nations,
consistently has demon-
strated that it is more than
an intelligence-gathering
agency - it is an activist,
covert arm of United States
foreign policy intervening
in the life and political
processes of those states.
:=Its tools have ranged from
-.propaganda to apparent
twirder.
The offspring of the
glamorous office of
Strategic Services, it is the
Howard Hunt
the world and preeminent
in what Kirkpatrick calls
our intelligence "commu-
nity." Paralleling it is the
Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation, supposedly the or-
ganization that will keep us
free of domestic subversion
while the CIA works ab-
road. Those are only the
best known of several Un-
ited States organizations
whose roles in part are to
peer, pry, snoop and report
on the doings of enemies of
the state, here and over-
seas.
We know, of course, from
the events of Watergate,
the subversion of the Na-
tional Student Association
and recently published
documents that the CIA has
not limited itself to over-
seas operations - in viola -
tion of the laws that estab-
lished it-. and that the FBI
steps far beyond the
.evidence-gathering fune-
,best known spy ages pir loved
encniles' 'of the state,
tion into harassment and
provocation.
The facts themselves
feed a growing national
paranoia. The stepover into
hysteria is easily under-
stood.
For that reason, the pers-
pective offered by Kirkpat-
rick in his dispassionate,
scholarly -- and, to my
mind, too bloodless - de-
scription 'of the various
intelligence agencies is
especially welcome. His
excellent book is a clear
and concise outline of the
organization and roles of
the spy agencies and how
they work. He speaks with
the authenticity of a former
Army intelligence officer
and top-ranking CIA offi-
cial for 18 years.
Ile discounts the view of
the CIA as "invisible gov-
ernment," operating inde
pendently and apart from
the President, Congress,
and all rational controls.
He disapproves of using the
agency as. underground
and illegal activist in the
life of other nations, just as
he recognizes the numer-
ous?violations of civil liber-
ties and the basic threat to
democracy of domestic
witchhuntingperformed by'~
the Army, the FBI, and
others.
But he asserts, with con-
siderable justice on his
side, that all the'' intelli-
gence agencies remain re-
sponsible to Congress and
the White House. He im-
plies that their excesses
are not the result of their
own runaway power.
Rather, one can infer, Con-
gress or the President ap-
the assertion of established
legal controls and fair-
minded scrutiny is unargu-
.
able.
However, Kirkpatrick,
perhaps because he was a
career man, overlooks the
process, so well described
by scholars such as
Richard garnet, wherein
entrenched, single-minded
burocracies do wind up
pursuing their own
strategies and goals de-
spite apparent policy con-
trols administered from
the executive or legislative
branches. Witness the pub-
lie failures of such tough
men .as Robert MacNam-
ara and Melvin Laird, from
differing political posi-
tions, to bring the Pentagon
under reins.
A more far-reaching.
reevaluation of the entire
concept and role of domes-
tic and , foreign "intelli-
gence" is required.
Give Us This Day, the
second volume under re-
view, is a kind of absurdist
footnote to the intelligence
coni,i.l,uua
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His call for reform thru
 controversy, Indicating In We have here the word of
its own way why the CIA is Howard Hunt against
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clown and vampire, rile may someday slip lower
the initial interest in this than his.
story lies in the fact that its More interesting than his
author is a key Watergate message, however, is his
"plumber," there are in- style: pure third-rate Ian
gredients here that show Fleming. And why not? He
the very worst of American has published 40 spy-sex
Cold War policy and the thrillers of little distinc-
strange middle- tion.
management men who exe- Can we divorce the fan-
cute it. Disastrously. tasy from the man? Can
, Hunt's line is that the CIA he? Here is all the self-
was really not to blame for indulgent romance, the
the dismal failure of the right-wing propaganda and
Bay of Pigs invasion - an related nonsense that one.
action in which he played a associates with the CIA
major organizing role. He caricature. But Hunt him-
claims the CIA did not give self is nonfiction. He was
President Kennedy the entrusted with one of the
misleading information major CIA missions of the
that counted on a mass decade ~ to say nothing of
uprising against Fidel Cas- his assignments of more
tro by the Cuban people, recent notoriety. ,
Instead, he says, Kennedy Hunt exemplifies a de-
simply halted a plan to feet interest in the Intellig-
stage a full-scale invasion ence Community that even
and independent follow-up the rational and forthright
- virtually total war - Kirkpatrick fails to come to
then blamed the CIA un- grips with in his call for
fairly. reform.
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