WHEN THE COMICS KEPT US SAFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300310044-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2004
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: August 29, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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Look111t back, it was almost nnev'ita_ ccived." rip-to-dalc` iglues as drug abuse a11d
filet As the, dark. mood of America 1W under s:_ ys lie hasn't been asked sti lent protest.
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lt only see,~ls a few Sundays alto is a lieutenant. colonel in the Air fol:ril briefly Oct. too greet his old
when they were all 011 laud, ill the slay I''crce, 11c says. "But I hntcnt bean boss, Gen. I i igree at Inc Pontgoli.
Then he will be off at'a.in rn mufti_
or on the cca, kcepill Ainerica safe. doing stories alonzf this lint:. 1 have cha ing opiturt pe111y farll,ers ho
Up in the Iii ci 13111^ Yonder were been doing those that talc place
Col. Side Carl on, ` ~'al Cnl,lr. Buz ~.fteau}pt to elude Turkish police: by
J when lie is on lencc or on assit,n111cnt inovilllr over the border to grow their
y,awycl and Lt. Col. 'i i ry Lm and his ~1 here the story 1f If is not con-
satellite Coroulie country,
Pirates. At ea crops in a
one of the most balne- corned with inilitals; duty."
some nasal officers of them all Don / 't'he Air Force, he says, under
Roy Crane, v ho Duce scooped the stands the reaction a~ ainst the uni
Winslo;v was 'ka,ping flho fleet slip U
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And on the ulot?. d th:: r;1es' Vietnam when v.ar Correspo.:dcrds
Capt.. Yla, and the A n; s C ten ho- after c,15' recltudrlg poster. But they
could not, reveal the f : CI sl ;s rt v; a:, unciarsta,'1d why. 'T11cy've bean
>ets wore c,pa1~ 1 1 thlou ,n tilt boon- guile a relic" to get away fr0111 the
do 'ks r t ets the cu i~1i Y ]hordes of en- cnliflncn:ent. of havil;g Buz in f1iC 1t1i1- throut,hi this ).lore.
cn ics - all to oite 1 with sinister it ? 13111, says Moll Walkcr,?creator of
smiles and Asi an features. ary. the hugely successful Ilea tle Bailey
Crane' adds, ho ever, that he lost (t- 201 plu; papers)
Ove>'t.ge some of his i;do cLent papoo1 s liciore "f haven't really seen any reaction.
But now Steve Ce>.nyon has gone as Buz changed into civvies: - I really expected. to have to take hin~.
far as'he can. lie didn't finisu college, i:mianapoIis, Louisville, Copan- out of u111forzn and put him in a rla-
so his client es of being promoted to hagea, Stockholm, Buenos Aires --- I chine shop.
general are slim. And he's too old to damn near lost 22 or 2S Canadian pa- "I don't know what the reason is,
fly jets Ile has sls ft scl to Air Force pers. I only saved then because, I. but I think it's because a lot of people
intelligence --- in pI ,irr cloth^s. talked pers orally wills the 11e.
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a, e not going to be favorably re- u, appears often to shuv/ease such
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