STATE OF THE CIA - GEORGE BUSH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100020149-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2007
• Sequence Number: 149
• Publication Date: September 16, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC. W%OIA
4435 WISCONSIN AVENUE, N.
CBS Evening News
September 16, 1976 7:00 PM
STATION WTOP TV
CBS Network
CITY
WALTER CRONKITE: For several years now there's been
an almost steady barrage of revelations about allegedly illegal
activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Well today CIA Director George Bush assured the
people who spent their careers with the Agency that the worst
how serious it was -- but it has been weathered. There is not that
kind of irrational discussion going on anymore.
CIA DIRECTOR GEORGE BUSH: I think there was some rash
of proposals not so many months ago towards the dismantling of
the Central Intelligence Agency. And that storm -- I don't know
intelligence officers that the backlash of severe criticism that
followed Watergate and other spy shop abuses has run its
course. He said even college students are once again looking"
toward careers in intelligence work.
Jim McManus reports.
JIM MCMANUS: The CIA Director told the retired
Recruitment is up. And the cynics will say to you,
you know, people will-work anywhere if unemployment is seven
percent or something like that. But they also have a way of
measuring quality. We got experts in this personnel thing and
they have a way of measuring quality. And the quality of
applicants is up.
MCMANUS: Bush said worldwide publicity oflintelligence
community troubles hurt cooperative relationsips with some foreign
agencies, but even that problem is passing.
Cd'.Pl'V~C.OFFICES IN: NEW YORK ? LOS ANGELES ? CHICAGO ? DETROIT ? AND OTHER PRINCIPAL CITIES
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DIRECTOR BUSH: The people upon whom we depend for the
most cooperation around-the world continue to work closely with
us. But there has been a pulling back in some ways, I think it's
getting better.
MCMANUS: Bush said he has faith in sharpened congres-
sional oversight, and the Capitol Hill is no longer looking for
a CIA corruption, but now asks, how can we help make things work
better?
Jim McManus, CBS News, Reston, Virginia.
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