Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1963 — Page 8

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Reports On Nation's Espionage Activities

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy once told the Centra) Intelligence Agency (CIA) that “your successes are unheralded, your failures are trumpeted.” It is a rare day when the Presitent or any other high official in the executive branch of the government admits that the CIA ever fails at anything. But America’s super-spy organization has suffered enough setbacks that it is under heavy fire by some congressmen who want it brought under closer supervision. The CIA has had some stunning successes, too. It correctly predicted the outbreak of the Hungarian revolt in 1956; it forecast the British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt before the Suez crisis; it gave the U.S. armed forces ample warning that the Chinese Reds were going to intervene in the Korean War. In some of these cases the ClA’s information was discounted or ignored. What the CIA is still trying to live with and live down is the disastrous blow to American prestige when anti-Castro forces attempting to invade Cuba were overwhelmed and forced to surrender at the Bay of Pigs. The CIA was in on the planning all the way. The theory was that if 1,500 Cuban exiles landed on the island, the population would rise in revolt against Fidel Castro. It was a massive failure of intelligence and espionage on the part of the United States. Hie criticism has continued so hot that the other day Allen W. Dulles, recently retired director of the CIA, broke erne of his own long-standing rules and wrote this: "I know of no estimate that a spontaneous uprising of the unarmed population of Cuba would ensue.” < What he probably means is that the CIA made no such estimate, but the fact remains that if the Cuban masses did not rise the whole project was doomed from the start. A force of 1,500 Cuban exiles cannot defeat Castro troops totalling 200,000. Somebody in the government convinced somebody ’ else that a small spark would light the fires of revolt. Dulles’ statement was unusual in that the fixed policy of the CIA is never to deny nor confirm any story. Thus there has been no comment on some other charges involving the CIA and the Bay of Pigs landing. Andrew Tully, in a recent book called ‘‘CIA: The Inside Story,” says the CIA bungled the job on several counts: The Cuban underground was not notified of the invasion until too late; the CIA chose to do business with the extreme right-wing faction of the Cuban exiles thereby shunting aside men better equipped for a military adventure; the CIA informed Kennedy after the landing that Castro’s air force had been knocked out, ap estimate that turned out to be 100 per cent wrong. » ► After the debacle Kennedy re- ’ * fused to single out any person or > agency as being responsible, but merely said “there is blame enough for aIL” But it is significant that he ordered an inquiry into the ClA’s part in the adventure. Whether there is any coh- „ nection or not, Dulles subsequently resigned as CIA director and was succeeded by John A. McCone. Many persons still criticize the CIA for the fact that pilot Francis G. Powers Crashed onto Russian soil in his U 2 plane and was captured. The facts seem to be that the only thing the CIA can be criticized for is that it suffered a blinding stroke of bad luck. The flight of U 2 planes over Russia had been going on for almost four years. Most of the time Dulles has been a brilliant espion-

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age man, and this was one of his top achievements. Information about the Soviet Union that could have been obtained in no other way poured into CIA headquarters month after month. A high British intelligence officer who was aware of the rich harvest the U 2 planes were reaping was frank in his admiration: “Ulis is something we can never hope to do; it is espionage on a production line basis.” The bad luck was that Powers was forced down and that it happened shortly before President Eisenhower was to meet Nikita Khrushchev in Paris. There was plenty of American fumbling, all right, but it was done in the State Department and the White House which put out at least four different statements in four days. Khrushchev had set a trap by letting out only a little bit of information about Powers at a time, and then waiting for American officials to stick their foot into it. Espionage experts say the worst mistake the U.S. officials made was ever to admit that Powers was a spy. They should have stuck to their original story that he was a weather survey pilot, accidentally blown off his course. Persons who should know say Dulles argued in favor of that all through the crisis. What concerns congressional critics is the possibility that the CIA dabbles in foreign policy. It is accepted as a fact in Washingmier Mohammed Mossadegh in overthrowing the regime of Premie Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and put a pro-Communist government in Guatemala out of business. The thought that an American force, responsible only to the President and the National Security Council, may be operating abroad and intervening in the affairs of nations is the basis for much of the criticism. Many congressmen want the CIA to operate in the same fashion that British military intelligence (M. 1.-5 does. M. 1.-5 collects the information, evaluates it for the British cabinet and then steps out of the picture while policy is being decided. But so far all congressional attempts to restrain the CIA have failed, and by large votes. Elks To Nominate. Officers Tonight Nomination Os officers for next year will be opened at the regular meeting of the Decatur Elks lodge this evening at 8 o’clock at the lodge home on North Second street. . Folowing the meeting a lunch of homemade chicken noodle soup, homemade bread and homemade butter will be served to the members. It was erroneously announced earlier in the week that a dinner would be served.

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Soviet Union In New Slap At Red China MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet 1 Union, in an apparent new ideological slap at Communist China, today condemned extreme "dogmatists” who favor war over peaceful coexistence to promote communism. The condemnation was contained in an editorial in the official communist party newspaper Pravda marking the 45th anniversary of the seventh Soviet Party Congress. The editorial praised Vladimir I. Lenin, one of the fathers of the Communist movement, for successfully beating back efforts by “left-wing” Communists and Leon Trotsky to continue the war against Germany in 1918. Although the editorial made no direct mention of Communist China, it appeared clearly aimed at the Peking regime and its “hard line” rejection of Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s policy of peaceful coexistence with capitalism. The Chinese Reds do not exclude nuclear war as a means of spreading communism. The editorial was the first major Soviet statement related to the ideological rift with Peking since the Chinese published a 100,000word defense of their position last weekend.

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Named Chairmen On Banquet Tickets Delmas (Mike) Bollenbachet, county commissioner, and MlsS Rosemary Spangler, county recorder, have been named co-chairmen for the 1963 Jefferson-Jackson day banquet ticket sales, Dr. Harry H. Hebble, Democratic county chairman, announced today. The banquet, to be held In the manufacturer’s building at the Indiana state fairgrounds, will be held the evening of Saturday, April 6. Sen.* Birch Bayh, Gov. Matthew E. Welsh, and Sen. R. Vance Hartke will be the featured speakers, honoring the birthdays of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jacksec. Tickets wil be available at SIOO and $25 each from the two chairmen, and from party headquarters, Dr. Hebble stated. Red Flag, China’s party theoretical journal, attacked Khrushchev and said “those who fear the enemy and dare not seize victory can be nothing otherfhan cowards...” Pravda said the seventh congress “confirmed by an overwhelming majority the correctness of Lenin’s tactics” in recognizing the necessity of signing the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty. “The experience of this struggle generalized by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is most important and topical in present circumstances as well,” Pravda said. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

Flood Situation is Easing In Indiana By United Press International Swollen White River was falling today at Columbus and Spencer, the two worst danger points in the first Indiana flood of 1963, and the Absence of rain the past 24 hours improved the situation. At Columbus, the east fork of the White measured 14.4 feet this morning, nearly two feet below the 16.15 foot crest reached' Wednesday afternoon when scores, of families were evacuated in an eight-mile area and two elementary schools were closed. The level was the highest since the 1913 flood. „ At Spencer, the west fork of the same stream crested at 22.5 feet late Wednesday afternoon, slightly below forecasts, and had dropped only a few inches by this morning. Nevertheless, it was falling, and the situation was eased with only about a dozer families evacuated from their homes in the town. The Wabash Liver continued to rise below Lafayette, where a crest of 22.63 feet, nearly 12 feet above flood stage, was reached Wednesday night. The stream level was 223 feet and falling at Lafayette this morning. Forecasts called for a few snow flurries today, tonight and Friday in parts of the northern two-thirds the state, and scattered light showers today in the south with snow flurries there Friday.

St Mary's River Continues To Rise The St. Mary’s river continued to rise today, reaching a depth of 18.07 feet at 11 o’clock this morning. The 18.07 reading reported by Louis L. Landrum, is nearly one foot higher than was reported at the same time ■ Wednesday, when 17.28 feet was the reading. This is considerably over the theoretical flood stage of 13 feet and not too short of the 20 feet recognized as the "trouble” point. With snow and ice around the city yet to melt, and large chunks of ice remaining in the river, the St. Mary’s in all probability will continue to raise as the warmer temperatures continue to prevail. FLOOD (Continued from Page One) waterworks pumping station quit working because of a short circuit. At Greenfield, schools in two districts were closed today and were not expected to re-open until the water situation is corrected. Police at Athens, which was isolated by the flooding Hocking River Wednesday, worked to reopen some of the inundated highways. Pennsylvania —lce at the Juniata River bridge near Duncannon backed water and ice several miles upstream. At the confluence of the Juniata and Susquehanna, ice as high as 30 feet backed up a. mile and a half and closed highways. Nineteen persons were stranded

at the WUltems" Nursing Rome c® an island in the Juniata between Duncannon and. Amity Hall. Duncannon Police Chief Allen Kepner said the ice jam may develop into “one of the worst we have had in a long time.” He said 150 families had fled their homes, many in the downtown area. Telephone poles were down and phone communication from Duncannon to the state police headquarters was cut off. Police relied on radio communication. West Virginia —A Chesapeake and Ohio coal train was derailed by an earth slide at Sylvester Wednesday. It was the second coal train derailment in the state in 24 hours. The Ohio River continued to rise along its West Virginia course, Wheeling Mayor John Gast

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declafed a state of emergency for the Wheeling Creek Valley Wednesday. Kentucky —The upper Cumberland River edged toward flood stage at Williamsburg and the Ohio River was expected to spill into lowland areas later today. Schools were closed by flooding in Bell County Wednesday. Paint Removing Paint or varnish softened by a remover can be wiped from furniture surfaces very easily and quickly with an open-weave sack such as those in which oranges, onions, and potatoes are sold. The sack will not clog as readily as burlap or other cloth having a