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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000300070028-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 28
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TAUC OF THE TOVN
Notes and Comment
N March 24th, Representative
-Tohn V. Tunncy, a California
Democrat who seeks his party's
nomination for United, States senator;
addressed the Wilshire Chamber of
Commerce in Los Angeles and made
some charges about our involvement in
laws that have not, as far as we have
been able to learn, previously been
Horde. We yield the floor to the Con-
gressntan
We are' today engaged...ill a secret
war in Laos, it tribal war in which the
C.I.A. has committed the United States
to support it faction of Mco tribesmen,
led by General Vang Pao, whose sole
objective is to dominate other factions of
this opium-producing Men tribe through-
out Northern Laos. The C.I.A. has in-
volved us in this covert operation, which
is being fought around the Plain of Jars,
more than one thousand miles away from
the Iio Chi Minh Trail. The Adminis-
tration has deliberately veiled in secrecy
our deepening involvement in an opium
tribal war which has the potential to
engulf all of Southeast Asia in a full-
fledged conflict which would have global,
repercussions.... Oil grounds of moral
indignation, as a defender of democracy,
we have unwittingly allowed ourselves to
become involved in a situation which, to
the i lco tribesman or Laotian warlord,
has very little to do with his major cash
crop-opium. For this tribal war has, as
one of its prizes, an area capable of pro-
ducing, on an annual basis, four to ten
tons of marketable opium. This is equal
to from to to six million dollars in Lao-
tian currency. Refined its heroin and sold
on the streets of Los Angeles, it would
bricg nearly nine hundred million dol-
lars.... The clandestine yet official opera-
tions of the United States government,
could he aiding and Whetting heroin traf-
fic here at home.
R i rvsentative Tunncy is in the
middlt. of a hard campaign, and this is,
of course, campaign oratory. It so hap-
pens, though, that his adviser on South-
vast Asian affairs is Professor John T.
\lc:\lister, Jr., of the Woodrow Wil-
son School of Public and International
A {Fairs, at Princeton, who is the author
of "Viet-Nam: The Origins of Revo-
lotion" and is probably the most cmi-
nent scholar in the Southeast Asian of the chairs when Mr. Parker came
field. Suspecting that it was on his au- ' in, dabbing his brow. "Done around
thority that the candidate made these- 1740," he said. "The style is eight-
extraordinary assertions, we checked eenth-century bastard. We don't have,
with the Professor and found that this anything very interesting in the way
was indeed the case. He would, he said, of office furniture. John Phillips', the
swear to the truth of them in any fo- chairman of the Department-of West-
rum. The next move, we should think, ern European Arts, has a grand Frlench
would be up to Senator Fulbright. chair that's a fake." Mr. Parker, a! man
Rooms
in his middle forties, wore a gray Suit,
black tic, and glasses with shiny h}-own
metal rims. After' he sat dt~wnl and
JAMES PARKER, a Curator of \VcstCrn Caught his breath, we asked him' Why
European Arts at the Metropolitan there are period rooms n museums.
Museum, oversees a remarkable collet- "Because they are an effective' way
Lion of period rooms that was expanded of recapturing the past. They give us a
this winter by the acquisition of two look at certain periods of history, and
handsome eighteenth-century interiors thereby give us some insight into our
from a Paris town house and a Vicn- own time. They arose with the growth
nese palace. We dropped in to see Mr. of public museums, in the nineteenth
Parker recently and found him wres- century, Their forerunners were the
ding with a heavy wooden railing in - animal- and human-habitat groups in
the Louis XV Alcove, lifting it off the natural-history museums and the wax-
floor and onto a dolly with the help museum tableaux in which figures were
of a workman in a white coat. As placed in domestic settings. In the
he seemed capable of emitting only an eighteen-sixties, when domestic settings
"Oof" or two at this point, we post- became of interest in themselves, period
pored conversation and went down- rooms appeared in Europe. They be-
stairs to await hint in his office. came. popular in this country in the
Shelves full of art and history books nineteen-twenties, when the Amer?can
lined the office, and more books were Wing was opened here at the Metro-
piled on his desk. On the walls above politan. Our Western European rooms
the shelves were fragments of orna- were opened in 1954, and today we
meptal wood panelling from eight- -have sixteen of them, containing furni-
centh-century rooms. The furniture tore, paintings, porcelain, rugs, silver,
consisted of a fo.ur-legged stool cov- : tapestries, and sculpture. We also have
Bred in dusty needlepoint, and two eighteen galleries that are simply dis-
chairs that appeared to he modified play areas and are not meant to he do-
Chippendale. We were looking at one {nestic settings."
took us upstairs for a tour, beginning
with a sixteenth-century French chapel.
"The panelling in this room was in-
stalled in a NewYork house before the
Museum got it-the harry Payne
\Vhitncy house, which used to he at
Sixty-eighth Street and Fifth Avenue.
The room next door-an Elizabethan
interior-was in the Morton F. Plant
house, which was at Eighty-sixth Street
and Fifth Avenue. You see, fine interi-
ors sometimes do quite a bit of travel-
ling through private looses before they
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