INVESTIGATION OF CIA THOUGHT OVERDUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300610004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 30, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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JAN 3 0 1966
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To the Editor: ? Sen. Eu-
gene McCarthy has called
for an investigation of the
Central Intelligence Agen-
cy. Such an investigation
is long overdue. The total
bankruptcy of our present
policies has never ;'been
clearer than in our present
nightmare in Viet Nam. It
is time the American peo-
pie and Congress learn
who is responsible for our
predicament.
IT 15 NOW clear that our
government brought to
power and perpetuated in
power a power-drunk ty-
rant, Diem; his paranoid
brother, Nhu; his narcissus
sister-in-law, Madame Nhu,
and the rest of Diem's fam-
ily who plundered Viet
Nam and bribed, murdered
or exiled all anti-Commu-
nist leadership who'were
also anti-Diem.
CPYRGHT
Thought Overdue
jority of the Vietnamese
people opposed them.
Through a rigged elec-
tion, we had him elected
president and'. destroyed
the former emperor, B a o
Dai, the one man the Com-
munist Ho Chi Minh feared
and the one man the people
of this Asian nations had
been taught to revere and
who could have united his
country. against Communist
aggreiiion.
For nine long years our..
government kept this fam
ily in power, with bribes
reported as high as $3.6
million, while a vast ma-
Is it any wonder we ve
lost the support of the peo-,
ple of Viet Nam?
IT IS time not only that
the CIA was investigated,
but also the U.S. Infornma-
lion Service, the Agency
for International Develop-
ment and other govern-
ment agencies whose poli-
cies have brought us to the
brink of world war and the
brink of disaster.--John
A. Herman, Willmar, Minn,
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