ALLEN DULLES WARNED AGAINST CIA 'OCTOPUS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000202220001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 21, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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21 December 1982
Dt:L.E; ':C NED AGAINST CIA 'OCTOPU'S'
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hearings on the Ntiational Security Act of 1947
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setting up of the CIA, Dulles said, 'I do not believe in a
YOU ought to keep it small, '' he said. If this gets to be a crest big
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_=eoic ServiCE5 operation, Rich was cut off from all but radio
Sta :es after Germany occupied France.
a:::t 1 pe~Ce`.t of the Ab ehlr ttlP German
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_ Lr y provided the OSS `he C'
L A's predecessor agency,
^ _ ~4? is ;lforITat1on, he s io, included file first clues' ` to
_S LE El0n~Mer-it of guided missiles and led the i `
wa}' to the bombing of
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-` years a^C!, those providirlg the On-S) with information included
L,`lt ;3 of :ne r-.uwehr, Adm. Wilhelm Canaris, who was executed in41945 occause
of h: _` par__ cation in a 1944 plot t0 kill Adolf Hitler.
also told House members that the CIA should be f"eo to soak,
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C car who SEnd their people throughout the world.' '
'They collect a tremendous amount of information, '' he said. "There ought
to a way of collecting that in the United States. "
Such information could be collected by ''a couple of dozen people throughout
the United States ... two in New York, one in Chicago and one in San
Franc. co, ' ' hE said.
The only remaining transcript of the secret 1947 testimony was found in. the
CIS `ilex and released Chiefly through the efforts of Rep. Robert McClory,
R-Ill., who said he felt it should be made public because of its ' 'historical
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