TILTING AT WINDMILLS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000604990004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 1, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000604990004-3
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TILTING AT -WINDMILLS
everal years ago, in
response to the intelligence
community's case for
assassinations-that it's better
to kill a Hitler than to fight
a World War II-I said it
was my belief that, had the
CIA existed in the 1930s and
had it been in the
assassination business, it
would have chosen as its
targets Tito, de Gaulle, and
Count von Stauffenberg. I
should have added that it
would have been slipping
funds to the Fuhrer through
a Swiss bank. If you think
that I'm being a bit extreme,
consider something I learned
only last.month and that I
think very few people are
aware of: the CIA was
behind Idi Amin's rise to
power. This information was
not given to me by some left-
wing fruitcake but by a
trusted friend of 20 years
who learned it from a former
deputy director of the
CIA....
As much as I admire the
lawyers of the American Civil
Liberties Union, sometimes I
want to throttle them. Take
what they're doing in
California, where the state 1
established a system of
highway checkpoints to
combat drunk driving. The
ACLU has filed a suit to stop
the program, calling it a
"substantial invasion of
fundamental constitutional
rights" I want the police to
check up on drunk drivers.
Punish the cops if they beat
up some motorist or arrest
him unjustly, but give them a
fair chance to identify drunks
and get them off the d
road....
-- Charles Peters
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000604990004-3