mum Feb 21 1967 Guidance 0n CIA Complex harder lunch with State official Asst Sec'y level Ruminations Church-State area of CIA relationships which even few insiders know about could be extremely explosive if they blow but so far they haven't although German and Italian ress are starting to sniff at the edges of I this Th 3 is the area of covert support to Christian Democratic parties and the like My source wouldn't go into this very far except to say that Bobby Kennedy who moved in to sit on interhagency CIA coordinating group and Ralph Dungsn particularly- were pushing this kind of cove aid The question of supplying funds-is by no means the sole interest of CIA What CIA was getting out of the operation was critical entree into top layers of national life which are vital to its version of its spas operations The difference between intelligznce operations in Britain and France for example and is that in those countries people are for intelligence careers In the U S CIA can attract the cream of intellectuals such as half the graduating class of Princeton on basis that they will only be working on the intelligence analysis side of CIA and can go on from there into State into White House into lath anything else public or private with no lasting i Bobby Kennedy is right in saying responsibility is was across top of government and not Just 8k CIA concoction But he is wrong in saying State had the problem came to CIA and CIA simply provided the funding It was CIA my source insists that did the motivating as well as the operation because it saw the opportunity cited above CIAJs attitude ring virtually amounts to concept that everybody should haxe a snap couple of years of CIA experience under his belt McGeorge Bundy is left in an especially ironic positiinon he was chairman of intersagency committee on CIA work and now head of the biggest foundation Sit But at least when Bundy and Tommy Thompson were here they were the two people who at least would make from time to time the issue of propriety about a particular operation even though it usually was glossed over in the end Alex Johnson always went along with whatever CIA wanted Now with Rostow at the White House and Fay Kohler at State nobody is likely to question anything Another paradox is to see Mendel Rivers assuming however that CIA worked only the right-wing side of the street The fact is that much CIA money went to further causes questionin as CIA covertly did U S operations in Dominican epublic and in Vietnam My source's great concern is the cons uences now created for liberal anti-Communist left es al in Latin America Asia Europe It is $3 in politically- damaging pool on by taint of nds                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu