SYLVIA PRESS INTERVIEWED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400150004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 29, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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September 29, 1966 2:10 P.M.
Washington, D. C.
SYLVIA PRESS INTERVIEWED
DAVE CAMPBELL: "Okay, let's get into this question which
has been raised, perhaps, at more Senate committee meetings than
any other when you bring up the CIA. Is the ultra-secret nature
of the CIA absolutely necessary? Do you feel that it could
function with. more information being made available to the law
making bodies?"
SYLVIA PRESS: "No, I do not. I think it either has to be
a secret agency, or not exist.
"Do you know who the head of British. Intelligence, for example,
CAMPBELL: "I'm afraid I don't."
PRESS: "I've never spoken to anyone who knew it, and I don't
know. I think I saw his name once somewhere."
PRESS: "But -- no. But I think that that is the only way
an agency -- I -- I -- I want to make this clear really. I'M not
anti-CIA per se. I think the concept is a necessary one. As
long as we live in a world where we have the kind of threat hang-
ing over all of us that we do, we want to know what everyone's doing
and thinking, even if we don't have to act on it. But I don't
think that you can operate, if you go blasting it all over the
place, and getting personal publicity while you're doing the job.
I think it has to be done discretely. I don't think it should be
done barbarously."
CAMPBELL: "In recent years the CIA has been criticized and
been pointed out as getting into additional areas of policy making --
of being instruments of policy, more than just an investigative
and intelligence gathering agency. Did this trend and this develop-
ment take place during your service with the agency?"
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