THE BIG SHAKE-UP IN A

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100190050-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: April 30, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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In !/orrg Kong, a-t aLrnt of fire U.S.
Ce?tral Intelli;;cnce Agency slips into
u railroad )?urd and checks the trecrr o?
hull hccrrin~;s nJ Jrc?i,~ht curs cu?rirtg i?
Dram Clrinu u, try hr.cpot ?rtusrud troop
-novcnu?n-s. Aleuntvlrilc, unotlrcr agent
goes to the //one Kong central nrarkel
and hu)?s a large or?dcr of cull's liver
Jronr curinurfs ruisec! in China to rrut u
lab lest Jor ra,lincrclivc Jullout.
/n Eastern I-_'ru?opc, a CL1 teunt tries
to olitcrin a sample of a Corrrnt?nisr par-
ty chief's ?rinc. f'urpose?: to drter?nrinc
his state of hc?altl+. '1'hc eta did this s?c-
zessJ?N)? -t?itlr 1'gypt's lute fang Farouk
but Jailed recently with Yttgoslcn?iu's
President Tito.
`~'HESE arc only a few of myriad mis-
d sions that the ctn has performed
around the world. The agency is also
constantly accused of fantastic James
Bondian exploits that more often than
not it has nothing to do with. The fact
is that no nation can any longer accept
Secretary of State Henry Stimson's
bland. dictum of 1929 that "gentlemen
do not read other people's mail." In a
nuclear-rin,ect globe, intelligence is
more vital than ever. Nor can a world
power automatically limit itself to such
a passive role as mere information gath-
ering; trying to inliucncc events may at
times he necessary. 13ut it can no long-
er be done with the crudity and arro-
gance displayed in the 13ay of Pigs in-
vasion of 1961, or the attempt with the
International "Tetephonc and Telegraph
I Corp. to sow economic chaos in Chile.
in 1970. To harness the C'L~'s excesses
' and yci utilize its inuttcnse capabilities
j for keeping the U.S. abreast of world de-
velopments, the Nixon Administration
has ordered the greatest reorganization
in the agency's 2~-year histor}'.
Ceo; crate. F;cports Tt~tE's Diplo-
matic l~ditor Jcnoid Snc~ctcr, who has
been keeping a watch on the ct~: "L'or
the first time since its founding the Ct:~
is undergoing a thorou,:h shakeup of
personnel and redirection of misian.
'I'hc two main l:u~gct, of U.S. intclli-
gence activities continue to be the So-
victUnion and China. 13ut a rapidly dc-
vcluping rlrtc~,ur with those countries
has created ciitTrrcnt drr.uuuls on the in-
tcllirencc c,t;tf~li,hmcnt. Alon;; with
traditional c,tinrctcs cif the missile and
militar}' capabilitic, of Conununisl
countries, the. \\'hi:e Ilrn+,c is in,iain,~
on :c new emhh;nic on a?c>smm~ts of
their 1x,litiral and su,+te~~ir intentions.
'l he entire int:lli^cnrr r,tinta+im_ hru-
cc,s is hcin,; mtinrd tc, inclu:Ic nu~rc
stmt, on ,itch dr~rlc~{~ntrnts as tiuvict
and Chincu 1,rain outlxtts arut comput-
er advance,.,
~f~o chart ibis new direction, I'rrs-
idenl Ninon has turned lu a twrcd~?,
/ pil~c tiuwkini, c~~,n~,rni,t and nrilit;rry
sUatci;i,t,.lanu's K. ~ihl.~,in~;t:r, ?1 -!,who
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"operational men:' or spies in the field,
over the cerebral analysts, who ponder
the intelligence and make policy rec-
ommendations. These two sides of the
agency, traditionally separated, have or-
ders to coop?:;atc more.
Paramilitary operations are being
scaled down. [n South Viet Nam, the
Ctn's role in the "Phoenix"-or coun-
terterror-program has already been
phased out. The program used Cln
agents to advise the South Vietnamese
in the "neutralization," or killing, of
Viet Cong otiicials. Such covert activ-
ities are under the Cln's deputy direc-
tor of operations, currently \T~'illiam
t/ Colby, 53, a former ambassador who
was in charge of pacification in Viet
Nam from 1969 to mid-1971.
Often called the agency's "dirty
tricks department," Colby's section con-
trols field agents ~+ho are involved in
clandestine activities, including keeping
a watch on the t:~tt (Soviet intclli,;cnce)
and working whit intelligence crgani-
zations in \\'cstern countries. 13ut Col-
by's group is now placing new empha-
sis on such activities as getting early
for analyzing strategic mili-
tary intelligence. "I'o the em-
barrassntcnt o!military Icad-
ers, he concccfed that in the
past the Pcntas;on's.estimates
of Communist military po-
tential wire vastly overstat-
ed, and that th,: n:rtiun's de-
cision makers ri,htly regarct-
cd those estim_tte. as "self-
scn?in^,. bud!~el-oriented and
:;cncrally inliatcd." i:ut, he
wrote, the Ponta+:~~n h:rs so
greatly refonued and im-
provcd its anal},i` itt recent
yr:+rs that thctc ~~cl? I,r no
ntnrc "bad o'+crc,+ita;ttcs.'
lilac "hc~uth~r ~;.+,~':" 'ltu,tilc:
ft:tlr; ? :end "nt??;~.alc,tt ~~,+1>, ..
Aidcil by Ur;~!t,utt, t~ho
will he th.: primary link he-
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--`!'--- ~.----------.-----__._t___f__c'ti'lrrr~')y Utttlcr the ;+I~Ic I: i.h,ir.t
Defense Intelligence Agency, w tc
provides intelligence for the armed
forces, and the National Security Agen-
cy, which directs spy planes, satellites
and a vast communications-monitoring
apparatus that cracks codes and ~ath-
ersdata from other countries.
Schlesinger, as chairman of the ~[n-
telligence Resources Advisory Commit-
tee, will be taking a hard look at the
combined $6.2 billion (sonic estimates
put it as high as S8 billion) spent by the
three agencies. Nearly half o[ the mon-
ey goes for satellite reconnaissance and
spy planes; about $750 million is bud-
geted to the c-n.
Schlesinger also must watch out for
a smoldering rivalry between the ctn
and the ntn. The rivalry broke out in
the open recently in the form of an ar-
ticle in the small (circ. 75,000) month-
ly magazine Arnty, written by A'lajor t~
General Daniel O. Graham last Decem-
ber-before he was picked by Schle-
singer to be a member of his five-man
Intclligcncc Resources Advisory Com-
mittee.Graham's article contended that
the Pentagon should win back from the
ctn primary responsibilih
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