CIA ACTION IS DEFENDED BY HUMPHREY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400120022-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 28, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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-MiAMI Vice President II u m p h r e y1
vigorously defended the CIA;
today, saying it."has done:
nothing but follow the policies
of higher authority."
Humphrey spoke at a news
conference after addressing a'
,closed session of the AFL.-CIO
Executive Council,
The Vice President said the
"CIA has been criticized far
too. much, most of it unjust,
The' CIA has, in' the main,
served our interests very well.
Our Government must have,
the ways and means to for-
ward our interests. You need
a CIA."
Humphrey had said last
week at Stanford University
that ho'was "not at all happy"
abo,-.t the CIA's secret involve-
i e ,.... , ,,a;;ant organizations.
said "this is one of the!
s .ddest times our Government:
has had .in relation to publid!
policy, a
ent before the White House
ssued a preliminary report on
in investigation of CIA aetivi
ics, which said the agency's,
landestine support of educa?+
Tonal, labor and churchl
roups was in keeping with
ational security policies ap-j
roved by President Truman,'
Eisenhower, Kennedy and!
ohnson. '
In another development, it~
as learned that Alan Boyd,i
ecretary of the new Depart-'
ent of Transporation made
nannounced visits to leaders'
f maritime unions here about!
he possibility of placing: the'+
raritime Administration inl
he new department.
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