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10 B WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27. 1963 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Thick Blanket of Secrecy Wrapped Around Central Intelligency Agency Editor's not: Fictional ipies accomplish the impossi bit in the nick oi tima and usually win a baautiful girl. Raal lifa apiaa ior tha United Stales oparata in secrecy and probably sea little glamor. In tha following dispatch, tha first of four. UPI national re porter Harry Ferguson begins a report on U.S. espionage activities. By HARRY FERGUSON Washington - lUPIl - Ameri ca's super spy organization lists its number in the tele phone book and once issued a road map showing how to get to its headquarters. But frank ness stops right there and no organization in Washington wraps itself in such a thick blanket of secrecy as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Con gressmen frequently complain the CIA is too se cret. They are frustrated be cause they cannot find out precisely what the organzia- tion does, now mucn money it spends and whether the charge is true that it some times exceeds its authority by dabbling in U.S. foreign policy even to the extent of helping overthrow' govern ments. Thus there were many quiet smiles in Congress when Lyt ton H. Gibson, a lawyer rep resenting some construction firms, told a story at a zon ing commission hearing in nearby Fairfax County, Va. The CIA was building its new headquarters at Langlcy, Va., and Gibson's clients plan ned an apartment project nearby. They wanted to know how many persons would be employed at CIA headquar ters. "I called several congress men and senators," Gibson said, "and was told they could not get the information. On the spur of the moment I phoned the Russian Embas sy. The second person I talk ed to told me his information was that CIA had about 3, S00 people at Langlcy and eventually would have 11, 000." Reporters attempting to check such things are likely to be handed this statement by CIA: "The Central Intelligence Agency does not confirm or deny stories of the. press whether good or bad; never explains its organization: nev er identifies its personnel ex cept for a few in the top ech clons; and will not discuss its budget, its methods of opera tion or its sources of informa tion." What the critics of CIA fail to consider is that if it didn't operate in secrecy it would be out of business with in a month. You cannot con duct espionage in the open the wav the Acricullural depart ment collects figures and is sues crop reports. But t n e fact seems to be that con gressional irritation over the CIA reflects a distaste on the part of Americans for spying. It goes all the way back to the end of World War I when Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson ordered the disband ment of the "Black Chamber," a group of experts who had been cracking enemy codes. Noting that the war was over, Stimaon explained: "Gentle men don't read each other's mail." . Until Pearl Harbor That philosophy prevailed until the Sunday morning when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Informed per sons are substantially in agreement that there was plenty of little pieces of in formation around Washington to warn of the attack. But no organization nor person was charged with the duty of fit ting the pieces together and making a picture of what was about to happen. That is now the function of CIA. It is not the only intel ligence agency in Washing ton. The Army, Nacy and Air Force have intelligence agen cies, and recently an over-all group has been set up by the Defense Department. The Federal Bureau of Investiga tion is charged with the duty of fighting Communist sub version and sabotage inside the United States. The Slate Department and the Atomic Energy Commission have in telligence units. Representatives of all these organizations meet once a week, or more often if devel opments indicate the neces sity. They must be ready on short notice to come up with The Medical Roundup vy Emerltui Cnmullant in Modlcinn ituyo emtio Emcrllui ProfegMur of Medicine AUytt Clinic (Re finer and Tribune Syndicate, Alvarez Tha Electromyogram Every so often I see a pa tient who complains of weak ness in one or more muscles. Sometimes I can get an idea as to the cause of this I from talking I to the person, while in other cases, an able n e u rologist, after his care ful examina tion, will rivp me theliagnosis. Perhaps he will find that the muscle was weakened by an old polio; or he may find the beginnings of a hereditary "amyotrophic lateral sclcro sis" (a disease of the spinal cord); or there may be some oilier nervous or muscular dis. ease. In rare cases, there may be a tumor of the spinal cord or some Injury to the cord. There may be a ruptured spinal In-tcr-vertcbral disc, or there may be a severe arthritis of the vertebral column with pressure on one or more nerves. Or a nerve may have been injured in a wound, or in a fracture line: or there may be a "crutch-paralysis" due to pressure from a crutch, or a nerve may have been caught in some scar tissue. There may be a beginning myasthenia gravis (B heredi. Iry form of muscle weak ness). There may be a rare Inflammation of the skin and the muscle together (a derma tomyositis), or a toxic goiter! or rarely, nerves may have been poisoned bv somr rhi,i. cal, such as too much alcohol or looacco, j But sometimes even an able neurologist Is puzzled as to the diagnosis, and thru he Is likely to make an electromyo gram an electric record of what goes on in a weakened muscle as It contracts. Often, with this, a definite diagnosis can be made, and an expert can say whether the disease causing the weakness Is in the nerve or in the muscle, or In the very important "end plate" between the nerve and the muscle. Also, the expert may learn that the person with what looks like a paralysis is a malingerer, or he is suffering from hysteria. The myogram may help greatly to clear up a medico legal problem, such as comes up all the time in Insurance medicine! The person who has had an accident may feel sure he has been badly Injured, when really all that has hap pened Is that he has lost con fidence In some of his muscles. Pains in the joints may be caused by some form of ar thritis. To understand its forms better, send for Dr. Al varez' booklet about arthritis by enclosing 2b cents and a self-addressed, stamped enve lope with your request. Ad dress Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. HMT, Box 057,, Dcs Moines 4, Iowa. ' Cheney Only Bidder For Forest Timber Cheney Forest Products. Central Point, was the only bidder Monday for 1,2(10,01)0 board feet of national forest timber in the Neil Creek Roadside area, Ashlnnd Rang er district. Rogue River Na tional forest. Forest Supervisor C. E. Brown reported the bid total ed $10,034.40, the forest serv ice appraised price. The limber in this unit con sisted of 890.000 board feet of Doiigliis-fir bid at $18.15 per thousand board feet; h'O, 000 hoard feet of pondcrnsa pine bid at $18.80 per thou sand board feet; 40,00(1 board feet of sugar pine bid at $14 45 per thousand board feci, and 470,000 board feet of while (ir and other specios bid at $9 per thousand board feel. Erno Smith, First Pacific flier, Dies San Francisco - Wl' - Ernie Smith. 70, retired Air Force major who was the first civilian to fly the Pacific 38 years ago. died Tuesday at his home here. His historic flight from Oakland. Calif., to Hawaii was completed on July 15. 1027, alter 25 hours and 38 minutes in the air. Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do fall tffth drop Mlv or wohhli 'hf ll you tails lauli or siifrr ' lXm't tw nn.Vfi ana r:t:i ,ni bv Mich rmmllcpa III mt itlh.illlir mon-H( id' ji-.wd.r to ,nn. kit on your pUlr, krro, i1m iomu niorr firmly pt inrs rontid'-iil ItiK of secvirlty itml nddrd i-omtorl. Noguinniv. H'Ky. pmlv imp or (rrl Inn. On PAfiTKKTII today t arm counters everywhtre, facts that will help the Na tional Security Council and the President formulate poli cy. It is the responsibility of the director of the CIA to as semble and evaluate the infor mation collected by all these intelligence groups. He also must prepare a daily "intel ligence bulletin which is placed on the desk of t h e President every morning and contains the latest information from all parts of the world. Remain Anonymous Except for the men in the lop jobs, agents of all these intelligence units remain as anonymous as possible. Charles Corddry, UPI De fense Department correspond ent who knows his way around the Pentagon better than most major generals, had never seen or heard of t h e young man who conducted the nationally televised briefing on Russian weapons in Cuba on Feb. 6. . , He was John T. Hughes, 34, a special assistant in the De fense Department's intelli gence unit. Apparently he is a specialist in briefing gener als and admirals, but he nev er has been available to Pen tagon reporters and now that his brief hour as a national television celebrity is over he has again retired into the shadows. One phrase that Hughes kept repeating - "the intelligence community" puzzled many persons. He was referring to all the intelli gence groups that gather weekly with the CIA to trade and evaluate information. The CIA keeps "watch of ficers" on duty around the clock under orders to call the director if something signifi cant comes in. 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