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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000500110045-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: May 15, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEWS AMERICAN
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One of the inevitable conclusions that
he reached by the public, ,....11(11 and if Wat-
ergate is ever fully unraveled, is whetheir it
is I eally worthwhile to spend so much of he
public's hard-von 111011ey (01 certain .govetrti-
. ment operations which were exposed as
hopelessly corrupt or inefficient:
J. Edgar Hoover longed to live until Ie
colossal new FRI headquaners was com-
pleted ill Washington. Ile didn't make it. EMT
now that it is about complete at a cost oI
tens cif millions of dollars a lot of people whot
put up the dough will tend to wonder ,,vhoth,
et* it is worth a tinker's darn. Hoover's sac-?
rosanct strong-box wijs rifled of highly clas-0
sified documents ?chile rb \Yis still
and his temporary successor was stupid.j.
enough to destroy, unread files that might :
have further pinpointed Water,ate
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Then there's the (IA, which always has:,
been a hit retarded. It has a new home out-
side of Washington which Washmgron
George, that is, who had three spies at
most) could never have understood. It cost.
many millions, is regarded as more securi-
ty-conscious than Fort Knox, is loaded with
thousands of v ell-paid spies. programmers
oil oracles who divine what the clandes-
tinely-gathered information really means,
and many society fellows who are too proud
to work for a living.
CIA foulyd up the Bay of Pigs invasion,
as a result ot which we were nearly thrust
into it t ri ( /11 :ICJ C1;1 1' V ii. It 1 (A.1 !NI 1111 h1-,'
(11 (-' 1'1 11 I"( ) iii South V1("1 t 1 1 t 11 'S )1'( 51 (I('1 1 1
Dicm. Now it is revealed th it ii violated its
charter. went into the domesiT spying busi-
ness. and had its nutty hawkshaws search-
ing through the Ides of Or. Ellsberg's head
shrinket.
Did ft piece years ago- about the CIA ? --
around the time Castro was dern,inding U.
S. trachns a; ransom for IL.. poor Cuban
slobs Li had roti:?,ded up ill the Ilav of i'igs
fiasco. 'Die ('IA pahlic r,-t;i viiio fellov; acci-
dentally liAlt'led me too early Mr() 1110 (111!Ce
.' 1110 111(':1 (111i clOr, pip--smoking, party-
Ahn ot h sycremry
of i.,hite ccli vas i?-nc'ptised that the world
Snam:k I. John
ie.1-,(d. "Why is cveiyhodv
F"cOps, scitud(IVCI aIHCC.0 Of iron in the
sliy?"',1,
But, getting hack to Alan Dulles. I was
shown into his ()trice prematurely. He was
on the phone and plaintively asking some-
body on the other end of the line, "But how
ramch does a tractor cost'?" lie spoke in the
voice of a man who had never seen a trac-
of.
Alan Dulles' pipe sputtered volcanic
sparks at a reception he attended in Wash-
ington for Nikita Ehrushehev, when the Liner
paid ii visit to Presickint Eisenhower. Mirus-
i cheY, who probably knew more about Dulles
than Dulles himself did. cornered lum at the
reception, and suggested to him jovially that
each big power fire half of its spies.
"They're all double agent," 1