ALLEN DULLES WARNED AGAINST CIA 'OCTOPUS'

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 21, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
21 December 1982
L:: DULLES WARNED AGAINST CIA 'OCTOPUS'
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`'Ou oi~oht to keep it small,'' he said. ' ' If this
- - =. _.` ou_d r? ,t n ion well.'' gets to be a great big
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~A s predecessor agency,
.' - `:-= Such :nfoornation, he said, included the first Clues''
_`.+?El^p ii_nt of guided missiles and led the wa to
_~ y to the bombing of
-----= Oases at Peenemunde.
r=` Yei'-a1ed years ago:, those providing the OSS with information included
Lhe ES o` the AOWE hr, Adm. Wilhelm Canaris who was
of h_ parti cipatior, in a 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler. ecuted in 1945 because
D~ ' =es also told House
members that the CIA should be free to seek
o - cE;==Illons who send their people *t,`; s coutpt'ila?rc;
rough the world.
'They collect a tremendous amount of information, l' 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
ranc:sco, " he said,
The only remaining transcript of the secret 1947 testimony was found in- the
Cit files. and released chiefly through the efforts of Rep. Robert McClery,
who said he felt it should be made public because of its ''historical
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!ones , w'ho later became director of the CIA
a?9ea 1fl the
of =S='its abroad Should be ''Scores rather than hundreds, Dulles
e_led to testify because of his successful operation of a small
o; Sw r and luring World War Ii.
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f::E of Stra C Services operation, which was cut off from iuof
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cartoc. w the r; ted States r all but radio
after Ge many occupied France.
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of rnuw=hr, the G2ri't3;i t?Ir'i':
Euenc, provided the OcS one
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