THE CIA OCTOPUS - A SECRET SERVICE WITH UNDERWORLD METHODS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400260004-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
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Approved For Release 1999/09/17: CIA-RDP75-00001 RO
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THE CIA OCTOPUS -- A SECRET SERVICE WITH
UNDERWORLD METHODS
[Following is the translation of an article by Hans-Joachim
Mertens in the German-language periodical Neues Leben
(Now Life), Vol X. No 27 (1006), Moscow, 29 June 1966, a
publication of Pravda (Truth), reportedly reprinted from
Die Wahrheit (Truth , West Berlin, page 13.]
It was gruesome -- like a nightmare, one of the parti-
cipants said later on. The entire detachment of short and
thin, black-haired men in the black shirts and the blue
trousers of the FNL [Vietnamese National Liberation Front]
National Liberation Army attacked the village in the high-
lands of Central Vietnam like a hurricane. They raped the
women, they hanged the old men from trees, they mutilated
the children and they set fire to the straw roofs of the
poor huts. On a piece of paper which they left behind --
and which a short time afterward was found by American sold
iers and handed over to the reporters -- this action was
termed "an act of revenge of the FNL for the betrayal per-
petrated by one of the village inhabitants."
This massacre actually was a disgusting and cruel lie. The CIA had
figured out this barbaric mission; it had dressed up its own agents as FNL
fighters and it had sent them against the village. This was supposed to
give American newspaper correspondents more food for their campaign of lies
about the alleged atrocities committed by the FNL. The lives of dozens of
innocent people were wiped out in order to make this lie sound more plaus
ible.
Senator Young Spills the Beans
One of the men who carried out this mission later on reported about
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this massacre because his conscience bothered him. The witness, who is
certainly beyond suspicion, released the entire affair to the publics he
was Senator Steven Young from Ohio, who learned about this action in Sai.
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