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WEDNESDAY. JUNE 18. 1958 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE 5 A CIA Per Draws Year, $350 Million But Answers To No One In . Spending By JOHN' SCALI WASHINGTON (API-A money conscious Congress bestows an estimated 350 million dollars a year on an agency so secret only a handful of the highest officials know how the money is spent. . The hush-hush expenditures are charged off to the high cost of spying. And the supersecret outlit is the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA operates a vast Ameri can espionage network in an atomic-space age when the merest scrap of information could mean the difference between survival and annihilation. So rigid is the secrecy that when brickbats ly. when Congress grumbles over failures, real or imaginary, the CIA takes it in silence. It says simply: "We never alibi. We never ex plain." To alibi or explain might reveal $ source and endanger the under cover legion of men and women who gather its information throughout the world. The CIA is unique among Ameri can governmental agencies. Its estimated budget of 350 mil lion dollars is little better than a reasonably good guess. No one outside the highest official circles can say for sure. But, if the estimate is correct it is 130 million dollars more than the State Department spends on its 282 diplomatic outposts around , covers the high spots of the pre- the world. , fvious 24 tours in the world's Only a handful of top exeeutives!,r,UDle sPls- in the government know exactly The report comes to the Presi how many people work for the dent as a terse 500-word sum- Hoffa Trial Nearing End NEW. YORK (UPD-The retrial of Teamster President James R Hoffa and two co-defendants or wiretap conspiracy charges reared an end today. Final witnesses for the defense were expected to complete their testimony today. Following sum mations by both prosecution and defense, the case could go to the jury Friday or early next week Hoffa along with Owen Bren- nan, president of Detroit Team ster Local 337 and Bernard Spin del, a wire-tap specialist, are ac ruscd 'Of illegally tapping tele phone lines at the Detroit head quarters of the Teamsters' Un ion. The government has charged that Hoffa was in Detroit on July 10. 1953 with Brennan to receive a demonstration of the wire-tap equipment by Spindel. Hoffa has. denied the allegation claiming that he was in Seattle at the time attending a Teamster convention. CIA. The State Department has about 16.000 American employes. It has been estimated that the CIA has almost as many. But, again, an outsider cannot say (o( sure. 'The Soviet Union Is believed to be spending six times as much as the CIA on espionage. And up to 45,000 Soviet agents are said to be directly engaged in spying.) Comparisons drawn between CIA and State are particularly apt. Each is run by a man named Dulles. CIA Director Allen Welsh Dul les, 65. brother of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, is a heavy-set man with a bushy. white walrus-type mustache. He tells friends his sole ambition in government is to stay on as intel ligence chief until he dies. He's headed the CIA (or 5'4 of its near ly 11 years of existence. Allen Dulles' iob is unique in at least one respect. He can write a check for a million dollars with out telling even the government accounting office exactly why he is spending me money. Most congressmen, who watch financial matters like a detective eyeing a pickpocket, have only a vague idea of how much the CIA spends and what it spends it for. i et eacn year the agency s budget is appropriated promptly. The exact figure is known to six senators and representatives who torm the special subcommittee that handles CIA finances. They alone of Congress see the agency's detailed budget. Why spend so much on espion age? Like everything else, the cost of apjaug uta anui up ime me auui- niks and missiles that make it urgently necessary. Only a small percentage of CIA funds goes to pay the salaries of its thousands of men and women employes, Stateside and overseas, A big chunk goes for mainte nance of its Washington nerve center housed in 35 buildings Headquarters is a gray, forbid ding quadrangle of three-story buildings on a hilltop in the capi tal's "Foggy Bottom" area. Armed guards perch at each building entrance. Privileged visitors are escorted through the buildings to keep appointments, The essence of CIA intelligence reports winds up each morning on President Eisenhower's desk. II mary. written in short, puncny sentences. It can be digested by busy President in about two minutes. The streamlined, more spright ly written report has replaced a lengthier summary previously giv en the President. The change was made shortly after the Soviet Un ion beat the United States to the satellite punch. That's only a coincidence, says Allen Dulles, whom the Soviets call "America's master spy." But administration foes say it's more than that. They say the ad ministration did not heed previous CIA warnings so the agency now is resorting to simple ABC language in its reports. What kind of record has the CIA compiled in forecasting cold war events? A newsman going to the source invariably runs into the tight sec recy jiirrounding the heart of the operation. But from other sources, includ ing congressional, it is possible to estimate the CIA record on nine important world developments of the past three years. Ihe scoreboard: Soviet satellites Excellent. The CIA warned for a year that the Soviet Union was capable of launching its first Sputnik in 1957. Missiles Good. But the agency was conservative in forecasting the size and thrust of Soviet rockets. Anti-Nixon riots in Latin Ameri caVery good. But the CIA ap parently failed to foresee the dangerous disorganization of the new Venezuelan police force. Indonesian revolt Excellent. Soviet nuclear test ban Excel lent. Bulganin - Khrushchev reshuffle Very good. The CIA not only lorecast this three months earlier but it fingered Frol Kozlov as a fast-rising Kremlin newcomer Hungarian revolt Fair. The CIA reported signs of mounting unrest in Hungary but even it was surprised when the people actual ly levuitt-u. Suez war Good. The CIA pre dicted British and French troops would invade Egypt a few days before they did. Suez Canal seizure Not good. The CIA failed to estimate fully Nasser's reaction to the withdraw al of a proposed U. S. loan for construction of the Aswan dam .t-i ,Vuf. t- t3 Mid-East Troublemakers Get Notice US Ready To Use Arms WASIMfc'GTON iVPIi Mideast troublemakers were on notice to day the United Stales is prepare to take swift military aclion in Lebanon if the I'nited Nations is unable to preve the indepen dence of that revolt-torn country. HEADS supersecret outfit Allen Welsh Dulles, 65, di rector of the Central Intel ligence Agency, the gov ernment's supersecret out fit, is shown at his desk in his Washington office. A money - conscious Congress bestows an estimated 350 million dollars a year on the CIA yet only a handful of the highest officials know how the money is spent. Allen Dulles is the brother of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. (AP Wirephoto) Atom Workers Under Watch OAK JUDGE, Tenn. (UPI) live of eight atomic plant workers exposed In excessive radiation arc being held in a hospital for ob servation. Plant and Atomic Energy Com mission officials said they are launching an investigation into the incident which was the first of its kind in the plant's 14 years of operation. Officials said the accident oc curred when a workman in the uranium recovery room of the huge plant dumped a con tainer of enriched uranium into a larger drum. A nuclear reaction tnnk place which raised the radiation level in the plant. Officials would not release names of those exposed, but said thev arc receiving the best of medical attention hy leading spe cialists in the field of radiation medicine. Labor litf Backers Hope For Victory WASHINGTON. UPH Back ers' of the Senate's "moderate" labor reform bill hoped today its overwhelming 88-1 victory in the Senate would spur a reluctant House to act on the measure this year. The bill, aimed at ending labor- management abuses turned up by the Senate Backets Committee, sent to the House Tuesday night after five days of debate with the blessing, of Democratic leaders, the administration and Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland who had sought a stiff- er measure. House Democratic leaders had no immediate comment. They were expected to confer soon with Rep. Graham Harden (D N.C.), chairman of the House La bor Committee who has heen re luctant to act on any labor legis lation in an election year. Barden told United Press Inter national he had not read the Senate bill and "could guess the weather wilh as much accuracy" as the outlook for the measure in his committee. Rep. Ralph W. Gwinn iR-N.Y.) senior GOP member of the com mittee and advocate of a much tougher union-control bill, predict ed the committee will not act on broad labor reform legislation. "Not that I wouldn't like to see a good, honest labor bill hut we just don't have the votes," he said. American officials emphasized the hope that presence of U.N. ohservers will help restore order and prevent the infiltration of leaders and arms for the rebels Irom neighboring Svria. a part of the VnMed Arab Republic lUAR). Bui they made it clear the I'nited Slates, with its powerful Sixth rleet cruising Ihe east SI1AKELP MANILA API Informed sources in the Foreign Office say Hrig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo soon I give up his post as Philippine ambassador in Wasnington to con centrate on representing his country at the United Nations. He reportedly will be replaced Washington by former Sen Francisco Delgado. once the Phil ippine commonwealth commis sioner to Washington and U.S. Philippine war damage commis sioner. The changes are said to be part ot a major shakeup in the Philip pine diplomatic service. ern Mediterranean, wilt not idly by and watch the tides of chaos engulf Ihe government of pro-Western Lebanese President Camille Chamoun. Disclosure of the lirm Ameri can position came after Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told news conference Tuesday there were possible contingencies in which U.S. Marines would be sent into Lebanon apart from any U.N. action. Dulles said he was "aware of Ihe fact" that the Sixth Fleet has elements close to Lebanon with Marines aboard who could "if need be, respond to appropri ate invitations. Later in the day Dulles went to the Pentagon where he con ferred with Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy. Authoritative sources, "inter preting Dulles' remarks, said he intended to serve notice on UAR President Gamal Abdel Nasser and any others aiding the Leban ese rebels that the United States sit i would act to preserve the integ rity of Lebanon if it became ap parent U.N. efforts were doomed to failure. Officials said any American ac tion would have to be based on a direct appeal from Chamoun, ac companied by evidence the U.N. could not act fast enough to sal vage the situation. Given these conditions, the contingencies" under which the United States would act would in clude 1 1 1 the necessity to rescue imperiled American nationals and- i2i the need to prevent final domination of Lebanon hy leftists. CAVE-IN LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) A tun- nel cave-in at the atomic test site north of Las Vegas killed one man and injured another. A crew was installing air condi tioning vents when the ceiling col lapsed 500 feet from the tunnel entrance yesterday. Dennis B. Goins, 4fi, was killed by a falling boulder. Raymond Roberts, 46, . suffered a broken leg. Six other workers scrambled to safety. George Washington presented a fire engine to Alexandria, Virginia. in 1775. He bought the engine in pniladelphia for $400. ft Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt ACCLAIMS NEW HEARING MIRACLE FOR THE HARD OF HEARING! " . '-V- : ; , . . "VI EXCLUSIVELY AT COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. 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An umbrella might have been handy, but hardly practical in iieh a soot as Bandera County. Tex. yesterday. The 24-hour rainfall there was measured at 20 inches. Utopia, a small town on the Sa- binal River, got a dig storm mat dumped 11 inches on the commu nity and washed out telephone lines. Storm-wary Texans got so edgy near Dallas that they reported clearly seeing a tornado funnel. But the Weather Bureau said it was a miraee caused by a cloud fragment dangling in front of the letting sun. Forecasters said two major areas expected to be free of wet weather today are sections of the Pacific Coast and tne Atlantic Coastal strip. Greek Movie House Burned NICOSIA. Cyprus (AP Anoth r nronir nrnnertv was burned to dav and the British government again blamed Turkish Cypriols op posing union of the island colony The blaze in the Greek-owned Pallas movie house was tne tourm fire attack on Greek holdings in v. in 9i hniirc. Damage to the movie house was estimated al 1,000 pounds i$2.800i. 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