Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 14

4 6 WILLIAM WHITE Secret CIA in Limelight leaks ir not through Its mm-Ists then through Hi staff employes Leaks might fatally hamper Americun designs abroad and result in death for our agenti And they might compromise the secret operations of allied Intelligence services with which CIA works hand-in-glove particularly the British Mansfield on his side rejects the theory thal a responsible Congressional committee would be any more prone to leaks than the many people in the Executive Department who handle CIA information But more importantly he speaks for the traditional rights of Congress in a free government Dulles is in the position of conceding the validity of these rights in theory but of denying them because of tlie kind of world in which we live He is compelled to take a line that Papa knows best And tKe truth seems to be that in present circumstances Papa probably does (United Feature Syndicate Inc) THE ABIIENK REPORTER-NEWS Abilene Texas Friday Evening August 15 1951 WVSHINGTUN Tlie world unrest und csiwiutly tlie churning Middle East is bringing un-welcomed attention to the most secret official organization in our history Hip Central Intelligence Agency oiwrutes in shadows so deep as to make it a sort of unknown even to the vast majority of the memliership of its creator Congress itself CIA spends many millions a year (till) million to (KM million it is said Nobody really 'knows how many millions are involved except a handful of senior metnliers of the Senate and House in the Armed Services and Appropriations sulieommittees This handful tells noliody not even those Congressional colleagues who must vise the money So far as Congress generally is concerned appropriations for unknown purposes are made in unknown amounts Hiese authorizations are hidden away under other classifications in other ap-propriutions bills Indeed in comparison with the Central Intelligence Agency such a fairly hush-hush organization as the Atumic Energy Commission functions practically in a show window CIA operates abroad in a strictly cloak-and-dagger black chamber way Expressed in television-drama lomis its main mission is to run spy and counter-spy work at both high and low levels It has once or twice been his wred (f that CIA agents have had a hand in fomenting national uprisings 1 in foreign countries specifically in helping to overturn Communist regimes hostile to the free world If such stories are not true in every detail there is no reason to suppose they are false in principle Though some of its staff members here would leave no such impression this is abroad a hard-handed and tough outfit If it to scent out the recent anti-Western coup in Iraq and a complicated tale is involved here so did the British the Israelis and even the Iraq security forces themselves CIA agents conceivably could take actions involving the United States in serious clashes with any foreign more particularly a small one The only assurance against this sort of thing lies in the discipline of the corps and its strict obedience to orders stemming from Allen Dulles the CIA director All these circumstances are again disturbing many in Congress notably the assistant Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield of Montana Mansfield has long sought the creation of a value In whom Help iis RAYMOND Thinks Brake When the conference to labor about further he invited seeing the mote eye and in his own It is true that government to for used the word the Federal in the that it again He also I j- Uiw NEA ScnK Malt lino Maybe a Bigger Suitcase? ER: Father give us a deep sense of human each human creature may we see a person loved and for whom lie died lo bring others to Christ that He may redeem them In His name nieii MOLEY" Ike Should Inflation ROBERT ALLEN REPORTS Bars Falling on Red Trade EDITORIALS If we desire to secure peace it must be known that we ere ot all times reedy for war Washington to Congress 1 793 Streets to Cel Needed Attention The lion's share of tlu $3850000 in municipal bond issues of various kinds to be voted up or down in next Tuesday's will go to street improvements The total for that purpose is $2250000 and like the airport and parks issues the street improvement bonds must he paid for out of taxes The water ($250000) and sewer il 000000) issues will be revenue bonds payable out of income from those respective departments With respect to the combined $2(10(1000 street airport and parks bonds all of which are repayable from taxes the city fathers aie hopeful that they can be without bavins to raise the tax rate next year The street improvement bonds and the uses to which the money will be put were explained in last Tuesday's evening edition in an article by Earle Walker The details are far too many to be covered and analyzed in the limited space available to this column This program includes some new paving a great deal of resurfacing and widening and otherwise doing a needed job principally on our downtown streets designed to ease or to break the serious traffic bottleneck that has developed here with the rapid growth of the city This work is absolutely essential to preservation of the downtown area as the principal tax revenue-producing element in our over-all tax structure and to prevent what threatens in time to become that dread of all cities a blight The street improvements made possible by this program would spark a construction and remodeling development in the area such as has followed the creation of Treadaway Boulevard and the widening of such streets as Butternut The new construction and remodeling work is already well launched with more in the works and the street improvements planned will touch off new developments in that line We wish here to reier to one specific project covered in this street program the underpass starting at Butternut street and leading under the railroad right of way into Hickory and Orange Streets The underpass and the widening of Orange to accommodate the new traffic it will generate is listed at $161700 This may seem like an underestimate but not when you remember that the Texas Pacific Railroad is to match the city practically dollar-for-dollar on the underpass project It is our firm conviction and obviously that of those civic forces which planned it that the $2250000 street improvement program will contribute enormously to the future growth and wellbeing of the entire city So believing we urge a favorable vote on this as well as all other bond issues involved in Tuesday's election Vote for Hamilton A runoff in the Merkel precinct for county commissioner is the only local business before the voters of Taylor County August 23 Of course only the voters in that precinct will participate But Taylor County voters do have at least one important runoff for a state office to consider and to act on It is that for associate justice of the State Supreme Court Place 1 in which the leading candidate Judge Robert Hamilton ot Midland is opposed by Edwin Smith Judge Hamilton carried Taylor County and so far as we know every county in this area as well as the state itself by a wide margin but lacked the necessary clear majority over two opponents in the state In Taylor County for example he received 6288 votes against the combined total for his two opponents of 2379 Statewide he received 476799 votes to his nearest opponent 311481 The able and popular Robert Hamilton is our neighbor in West Texas and we hope enough of our county voters particularly those in Abilene take the small trouble necessary to give him a wide margin in the runoff This is a most important office at stake and Taylor County would be if a man who got only 1314 votes in this county in the first primary should get more votes in the runoff than Judge Hamilton through the indifference and neglect of the Judge's friends and well-wishers who are legion The election's only a week and a day away so let's not forget our Midland neighbor DORIS FLEESON ed Merrow this matter Is coming up in the UN next month it seems to me our government iliculd have some plan or policy of its own instead cf waiting for soinc-one etse to produce it It dosen't make sense to me to wail for the Secretary General to say what ought to lie dune" is the State Department's policy that there should be more study on whether a permanent UN police force is practical and feasible" contended Wilcox Rep Karl LeCutnple la1 raised the question of Nasser's attitude on this issue have nothing definite on that" said Wilcox not certain what he will do" CAPITAL COLUMN Native Communists Are Midcasl Threat Ry ROBERT AlIFX WASHINGTON Hie liars are agan being let down on selling strategic goods to Iron Curtain count lies Britain is taking the lead in doing that with an impending announcement Other NATO allies will follow suit The I' is not joining in this easing of trade relations with the Reds restrictions remain unchanged Under Britain's forthcoming announcement slated in the o'xt few days some 100 items of previously-banned heavy machinery and equipment will be added to the list of goods that can be bought by Communist nations including Red China Foremost among thee new additions are transportation equipment road-building machinery electrical supplies and motor vehicles The backstage agreement to further ease East-West trade barriers was reached last month at a NATO conference in Geneva Representatives of all NATO countries were present including the No announcement was made of this latest embargo-relaxing understanding That was left to each nation to make known Prime Minister Macmillan's government has decided the time is now ripe for such an announcement This impending action is fully known to the with whom it has been discussed Tiie is making one exception in continuing to prohibit the shipment of strategic goods to Communist countries Yugoslavia is being allowed to obtain heavy machinery and equipment As reported in this column last week that is being done under the new foreign aid budget An unannounced State Department plan proposes to supply Yugoslavia with more than 9200000000 in transportation mining road-building and other heavy machinery that was to have been supplied by Russia under its abrupt- movements from one level to another tend to be permanent They wither the value of savings and bring immeasurable suffering to people who are unable to help themselves But no end of preaching even from such an eminent pulpit as the White House will avail much But a President -when Congress fails to do its duty can put a mighty hand on the presses that are right now printing new money He can take a stand against a spending spree the like of which has not been seen in peacetime Those who heedlessly say that most of the deficit is for defense are talking without the facts In this present session of Congress the President's budget requests for defense have been increased by (71)0 000000 But spending for purposes of a strictly civilian nature will be likely to be several times that amount The public assistance program school aid housing agriculture Federal pay and many other items will run into several billions One way to measure the fact that spending for nondeIense purposes has brought us to the present enormous deficit Ls by comparing expenditures for civilian purposes in the present year with those in 1954 The rise has been (to billion Programs have been carelessly started by Congress which go on and on for years And indeterminate authorizations are given to Federal agencies to borrow from the Treasury without going back to Congress with fresh justifications for annual appropriations The President can put a heavy brake upon the printing presses in two ways He can exercise a veto on some of the bills before him and that will come to him before Congress adjourns And he can always exercise a 365-day veto by refusing to spend some of the money already appropriated by a vote-hungry Congress It is sheer irresponsibility for Congress to go on spending to end a recession which natural causes are trying their best to terminate (Associated Newspapers) President at his press delivered a mild lecture and management wage and price increases a reply about in the other fellow's ignoring the beam he mildly added the factors responsible inflation He also to describe deficit anticipated current year and asserted must not happen placed himself on sound ground when he pointed out that the wage earner is tlie real victim of inflation considering his pension prospects both from industry and government social security But il is going to take more than lectures to curb what is already upon us It will take action ami the President is mainly responsible for the action necessary in the period immediately As many economists have Minted out we are witnessing the unusual spectacle of rising inflation in the face of an economic decline Unemployment has been at a high rale over a year in which the dollar has lost 3 per cent of its purchasing power Hie slock market which is supposed to reflect future prospects has been having a mild boom which is due nut so much to an unmistakable pick-up in business as the prospect of mounting innation in tlie two or three years to come Economists notably Henry liar lilt point out that the big rLse in the past year in deposits as distinguished from currency outside the banks and demand deposits inside the banks both of which have remained constant i is a true mark of inflationary purchasing power not of savings as is sometimes supposed Huzlitt points out further that this situation is an exact parallel with the condition which prevailed before the great boom-before-the-bust in 1928 The devil of inflation finds work for idle funds As for inflation being caused by wage-price spirals the case can be conceded In tlie long run such CARNIVAL ly-cancelled (285000000 credits The State Department would finance this huge equipment transaction in two ways: 1 1 A 975000000 grant from the new multi-billion dollar foreign aid budget 2' Using (125000-OoO i or more if necessary) in counterpart funds resulting from previous economic aid to Yugoslavia Since 1951 that has totaled $650000000: with counterpart funds amounting to $200000-000 in Yugoslav currency An estimated 90 per cent of this heavy machinery would be pur-chared in the The remainder would come from Western European sources The State Department's plan has the backing of steel and equipment makers No new military aid is contemplated for Yugoslavia So far it has received (800000000 in such supplies Note: intelligence reports a lot of Soviet rocket activity in both Polar regions Since July 1 the Russians have fired a total of 59 rockets in these area- 14 from Hays Island in the Arctic and the ethers from a diesel ship in the Antarctic One rocket reached an altitude of mere than 250 miles RAPPED KNUCKLES Assistant Secretary Francis Wilcox had a rough time trying to explain State Department policy regarding the United Nations police force in the Middle East to the House Foreign Affairs Committee The career diplomat who is in charge cf UN affairs was sharply chided on several scores The lawmakers wanted to know particularly what tlie proposes to do about the UN police force al the regular session of the General Assembly in September That meeting will have to determine the continuance of tlie UN troops in tlie Gaza Strip and the Gulf of Aqaba But Wilcox told the House Committee the is taking no stand on this problem as yet believe it would be premature to make any recommendations at this time" he explained State Department believes it is advisable to wait and see what Secretary General Him-marxkjold recommends" That was instantly challenged by Hep A Carnahan Mo' and Chester Mpitow R-NH we to interpret that as meaning the Ilnuxc should not adopt a resolution urging the creation a permanent UN police force?" demanded Carnahan that dosen't necessarily follow" replied Wilcox we do huie such a resolution would nut lie couched in a manner lo lead to committing our government to any course of action at tins time-' wrong with that?" ask By PETER EDSOX WASHINGTON A -Goals of Communist subversion in the Middle East were laid down by the late Premier Joseph Slalin before World War II They were published in a document seized in Egypt in 1934 They have nut Iieen changed since then But they have been given a new' drive by Chairman Nikita Khrushchev Stalin's requiremenls for a first stage Communist revolution in tlie Middle East were outlined in this way: Deny western power alliances with Middle East countries Penetrate and capture nationalistic movements Foment mistrust and feuds between Arab governments Promote neutralism and foster a sense uf security in it Continue Communist cadre training and extend membership Tlie degree of success in these objectives varies from country to country and presents the West with many paradoxes Hie Communist party is legal only in Israel where there are five Communists in the 120-mem her parliament Two are Arabs and three are Jews but 75 per cent of the 4000 to 5000 party members are Arabs Communist newspapers are published in both Hebrew and Arabic But Moscow supports the Arabs not Israel Hie Communist party is outlawed in most Arab countries though there are Soviet embassies in Egyiit Syria Iran Iraq Lebanon Best estimates put the number of Communists in the whole area at a minimum of 35000 to 45000 Time are half a dozen or more front organizations in each country with unknown membership There are between eight and 10 thousand party members in Egypt Syria and Lebanon three to five thousand in Iraq one to three thousand in Jordan Sudan and Turkey Hiere are an unknown number of Communists among the 90000 Arab refugees in Jordan Hiev have not yet been organized into an effective political force but are a constant threat When the State Department presented its case of inlil-tritirn in Lebanon after Marines were ordered into that little country a list of 115 incidents of Communist subversion was given to Congress and made public There are similar detailed intelligence reports on Communist activities in other Middle East countries These lists are now held classified pending presentation to the United Nations to document US charges of Russian aggression But some of the principal cases can be given in brief outline In Iran Communists under Moscow-trained Jefar Pishaveri built up the Tudeh party to 50000 members during the war They almost succeeded in turning Azerbaijan into a Soviet satellite The Tudeh party formed an alliance with nationalists in 1950 and supported old Premier Mossadegh in his seizure of the oil fields The party was banned after an attempted assassination of the Shah Iranian authorities now claim the party hRs been broken up but it probably has a strong underground In Iraq tlie Communists likewise threw their support to tlie nationalists In 1954 they placed four fellow travelers in the 142-member parliament To wipe out the party the recently murdered Premier Nuri av Said persuaded the late King Faisal to stixpend parliament and declare martial law Secret trials were held Leaders were hanged and hundreds thrown into jail Most of these political prisoners are supposed to have Iieen released after the recent revolution But a year ago when King Faisal had offered support to young King Hussein of Jordan in quelling a palace revolt Russia had threatened to invade Iraq to prevent this action The revolt had started when pro-Russian Premier Nablus: an-nnuoccd plans to establish diplomatic relations with Russia Later there was a plot to annex Jordan to Syria Communist leaders were put on trial and many were thrown into prison Nixon Strategically Silent By Dick Turner THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS temptation of such an invitation would tie great But that era ui good feeling toward the Knsians during which Mike" wa a social lion and repeatedly paid his respects to the Vice-President has iieen dissipated by the Middle East crisis Tlie increa-ing harshness now attached to all foreign alfairs i ImiuiwI by Usell to rui-e I roh doubts too alxxit the wisdom of any purely ceremonial trips abroad by the United Slates Vice-President At heme Nixon hn a rampaigii itinerary and techniiiie In uuk out lor he is inevitably the VlminMralinn liurdeii lieaicr in ht pmmiM-s to an acrimonious uphill Repuli-luan effort lo regain control of Congress This is mt tir k'nd battle to which the Pie-ident' (aim's are liest suited even if lie weir not aging and liect with situations of great danger abreud It is a fact also thal many KepuMran candidates doubt that the Eisenhower coattails arc any goud for the rough rule they aiilcipde tins fall when they miNt discuss paradox of recpsinn and in-tldtun plus I ni'i-d Stu'ca Marines on foreign soil Their best deiensive will tie an uilensive the Democratic Congress What they really need is hatchet men They know Nixon's nliihtips of this nature from old they will fie disappointed if they get him at less than the top of hn form WASHINGTON The loudest thunders of silence in the capital today are coming from one of its most fluent politicians Vice-President Richard Nixon Nobody can leap faster into situations productive to helpful headlines The fact that he is presently self-effacing indicates the true measure of operational difliculties confronting him Obviously this is no time to allow the slightest show of difference with the President to arise Even Democrats who re sure they could do a much better job see that and are shnv-ing extreme caution Nixon is ot course much more deeply and delicately involved Alxo' all he permits himself Is discreet had-shaking and assurances that he does indrM realize the giavitv of the position Thai is his long-range problem Immediately to lie decided are troublesome que-tieu ni tiieel foreign and domestic Put over from last fall to this Scpicnilwr tie European trip he is determined to take vrli stopovers in areas behind the Iimi viewed with deep emotion and anxietv by K'jhsituntial Ameiican voting blocs in it'du-driil farm an a Now another complicating factor is reported fioni Capitol cloakrooms Senators are told that Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov has urged the Vice-President to include Moscow in his To a politician seif-confident as Nixon the kp Ik full llail- r-r-pt liar SmuSM BINlKIta el BLHHIVin C'O efeaM OB Hfll PaklnM Karts Vrnl A 1-pKM Tnu I IITI I El)-( I HCIL AT 7 AIhIw APTwrUT-Nrm la i membtr IS I hint in IS I inul'iimn a imIhmui nrniniwlKi kk carlilit Ik cireuiatioa of 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