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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100160054-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: January 23, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/09/08 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000100160054-1
In indan,uj and Burma,forir---- etaries of??State ?sre almost
exxamyle- there were occasions Secr ,when the CIA was always informed of major under-
rebel activities at cross- p urposes cover activities in their juove
tt dictions, and if they disapproves
wit Mate Department po ,icy. N they can carry the matter to
President Dwight D. Eisenhow-11 higher authority.
er knew all about the U-2 flights L om taints continue ? however,
over the Soviet Union, and Pres-,;'because six hor mate ores ei n serv-1
6dent John F. Kennedy knew all ice o i informedl
about the Bay of Pigs invasion an sometimes assume that the'
of Cuba. But, the shooting down CA-Is of an its own a ain, be
ion
a U-2 and the collapse of the 1 cause t e co-ordination does not
!(gvasion gave further impetus to h a I ways work perfectly, and,
In public impression that the CIA y above all, because of normal ~
h
at
was a freeheelmg agency t
sometimes made policy instead
guar against encroac ment
the other.
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pears, informed officials say
sadors and area Assfstent! lie relations problem by making
frequent speeches ? and planting
e Pub-1
wv;.. Y favorable articles in newspapers'4
and magazines. ~
F,' cCon ad been more nearly,'
anonymous until he tried the re-
cent experiment in ? publicity,
tThe agency argument is that,
to vine. These occasions were
!infrequent, limited to matters of
'.public interest, and clearly in
`make public its conclusions on a?
smatter of importance from time
+CIA economists have just as~~
Itnuch right to get credit for their
rwork as do ? the employes of the,
State Department or the Depart-
~nTent of Health, Education and
Welfare.
CIA, DECIDED, with approval-)
l.of the State Department and pos-
!.sibly the President, that it would
volving only the nonsecret work-
jings of the agency. .
to critics. disagree, believ-
in that ubiic relations
lave no part in an intellipence
hr?anization, that the CIA should
ra ways avoid publicity, take the
blame for blunders that become
,.;known and avoid taking credit
tfor successes.
j` In the light of the reaction to
,the-first venture in publicity, the
)CIA is, reconsidering whether to,
try again sometime or abandon
A. source sympathetic to the,
,;CIA said: "It was right, but If
j .,the American,people don't like,
Q JAN 2 3 1964
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