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I - 7 - "are becoming more and more e x c l u s ~ v e l y the bUslness oi' the C I A - underwritten heavlly by unvmchered C I A funds. (This is only the inevltabl.. r e s u l t c'f the structure, system and personalities concerned wq ti; t h e In1 t i a t l o n ana conduct of such operations.) Tht: CIA, busy, monied and privileged , likes its 'King Making1 responsibility ( t h e intrigue is fascinating - considzrable scIf-sat3s- faction, sometimes with applaus?, derives from 'successes1 . mn,hzrge is made f o r ' f a i l u r e s ' - an;; the whole I)usinecs I s very much simpler than collecting covert intel:i&ence on the USSR through the usual C I A methods!). "Although these extremely s e n s i t j ve, costly opera- t i o n s are j u s t i f i a b l e only insofar as they are i n support of U.S. military an3 foreign policies, t h e responsible long-range planning and sus+,ained guldance f o r these, which should be forthcoming from botk t h e Defense and State Departments, appear too often t o be lacking. There are always, of course, on recore the twin, well-worn purposes of 'frustrating t h e Soviets' and keeping others 'pro-western' oriented. Under these almost any PP action can be and is being j u s t i f i e d . 1 - - I "Initiative, and continuing impetvs for PP operations, for the most part, reside I n C I A . Apd, once having been conceived, the f i n a l approval glven to any project; ( a t informal luncheon meetings of t h e OCP Snner group) can, at best, be descrlbed as proforma. 11 Upon approval, projects In most instances, pass t o t h e management of the CIA and remain there t o conclusion. Since these operations are so inextricably Interwoven wi t h (and, on occasion, dictate t h e tours.? o f ) our other foreign policy operations, it would appear they should have not only the p r i o r approval of t h e NSC (rather than Oca) itself, but a l s o the continuous surveillance of t h a t body . any new project would appear t o comprise simply the in- dorsemmt of a DCI proposal, usually without demurrer, from Individuals preoccupied with o t l e r important matters of t h e i r own. O f course there I s a preliminary ( C I A pro- p r i e t a r y s t a f f i n g of each project and an eventual (after t h e f a c t 1 reporting of its r e s u l t s ti) t h e NSC - but even t h i s reFort is rendered o r a l l y by thcb D C I on an 'off the record' - and on a naturally-undemtandable, biased basis. "As a matter of f a c t , i n most instances, approval of ! '