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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.
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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. The director
decides which government of
ficials must be notified imme
diately. Nobody can get the
President of the United States
on the phone so fast as the
director of the CIA.
Next: The CIA vs. the Rus
sian Colossus.
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