SENATOR FINDS CIA BETTER THAN SOVIET COUNTERPART

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Senator Finds CIA Better Than Soviet Counterpart
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI)
inspection trip around -tire world
said today the Central Intelli-
gence Agency is doing a better
jnb than its Soviet counterpart,
and with fewer men.
(Rep.), North Dakota, based his'
conclusion on a top-secret tour
of CIA posts in 14 cournries and
American military it talla'bions
in 15 foreign nations.
He made the trip as a mem-
ber of the special Senate sub-
committee authorized to exam
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Senator Milton R. Young,
eplaced." r
The Senator said he found
United States military installa-,
ions overseas at a high state'
f preparedness, "ready to fight'
lmost immediately 'if they
ave to."
A helicopter flight over South
iet Nam persuaded him that
he proposal to bomb supply
ines of the North Viet Namese
night do some good, Young
"But it's not as important as
any persons think it is," he
said. "The Viet Cong guerrillas
live almost entirely on the econ-
omy of South Viet Nam, ateal-
ing and capturing what they
need."
Young praised United States'
military and diplomatic officials
there, and said he believed that
this country must contine to pro-
Vide help to Sotirth Viet Nam. t
r
ug so a ag .
"I was not quite satisfied tha
Inc in detail the G~IA's? multimii
lion-dollar budget-the: ' atftua
amount of which is hidden
S. d f _11h
encies
I was voting intelligently o
their appropriation requests,' I
Young said in an, interview.
Young said he was i,mpresse
by operations of CIA agent
throughout the world. 'Thei
those of the Russian KGB, th
work is far more effective than
the public generally gives the
credit for," he said.
"Their results are better that
gl
Soviet -cot rnterpart, even thou
the. Russians have more tha
twice as many personnel."
Young said that some previ
ous or9ticism of CIA may ha
been justified, but "it is a fa
'better organization. now than i
the years past." ,
He praised the ednthnistrao '
of CIA Director John A. M
Cone. "He is as good a man a
we cold have," Young said. "
are going to have to win the
war," he said. "They can 'if 4Ihey
have the will and the leadership.
Otherwise, it's a lost cause."
Young said that the would sup-
port arts. in foreign add to some
countries, notably - Indonesia.
However, he would vote for in-
creased m4litasy assistance tO
others, he said, including Spain
and Formosa which he t de-
scribed as "stanch ails, bitter'.
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