Letters, Feb. 27, 1978

The CIA's Place

To the Editors:

President Carter and certain Congressmen, obsessed by civil rights and aided by sensation-ridden media, have restricted the FBI and CIA [Feb. 6] so severely that these agencies are crippled in warning the U.S. of impending danger.

Louis R. Delmonico

Wichita, Kans.

Your confessional on the damage done to the CIA and our intelligence community is several years late. Where was this wisdom when the injuries were being inflicted?

Frank Powell

Florence, Ala.

In the world of intelligence, it is whether you win or lose and not how you play...

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