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The Invisible Government, by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross. Random House, $5.95

Comes now a book called The Invisible Government, and it turns out to be not a book by an extreme right winger (as we have been taught to call them) complaining that this or that organization actually runs the affairs of the government; but a book by a couple of Liberals (as we have been taught to call them) who complain that the Invisible Government in America is our intelligence complex, the ganglion of which is the Central Intelligence Agency. The title of the book, I fear, is a giveaway to the essential cynicism of the authors, a judgment I make with considerable regret since one of them was an old pal of mine in college days. But the thesis that the CIA is an invisible government, i.e., an organization which dominates the foreign policy of the United States Government, is so palpably absurd that we must conclude that the purpose of the book, notwithstanding its sanctimonious pretensions, is simply to make a little scandal and make a little money.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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The Invisible Government, by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross. Random House, $5.95

Comes now a book called The Invisible Government, and it turns out to be not a book by an extreme right winger (as we have been taught to call them) complaining that this or that organization actually runs the affairs of the government; but a book by a couple of Liberals (as we have been taught to call them) who complain that the Invisible Government in America is our intelligence complex, the ganglion of which is the Central Intelligence Agency. The title of the book, I fear, is a giveaway to the essential cynicism of the authors, a judgment I make with considerable regret since one of them was an old pal of mine in college days. But the thesis that the CIA is an invisible government, i.e., an organization which dominates the foreign policy of the United States Government, is so palpably absurd that we must conclude that the purpose of the book, notwithstanding its sanctimonious pretensions, is simply to make a little scandal and make a little money.