ANKARA REPORTS 2,129 DEAD FROM VARTO QUAKE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200240001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 23, 1966
• Content Type: PREL

INFORMATION SERVICE.,;?
, ,;KARA REPORTS 2,129 DEAD FROM VARTO QUAKE
units are to go to Varto villages, with which no contact has yet been established.;
The report quotes the Varto district administrative officer as saying that the
'death figure for Varto rose to 2.129 and that he expects there are some 100 persona
Lburieu under the rubble of the movie theater and the mosque. The report adds that,
X17 of the 72 villages in Telman were damaged, 7 being completely destroyed. Fifteen
of t 39 villages of Cat district were damaged and 2,800 houses were destroyed?
in ,;he district; 128 died in Hinis. In Karliova and Bingol villages 23 persons
died.and 1,878 houses collapsed. An army. unit is being sent to Karliova. .,,;?:,
.tri another report the radio quotes Premier Demirel as saying that 5,006.'to 8,000"
hcraeless families will definitely be housed before winter.
.i U.S.,,CONTROLS NATIONAL SECURITY ORGANIZATION
Our radio (Clandestine) in Turkish to Turkey 1015 GMT 21 August 1966--C/L
(Talk:',. "Who Controls.theNational Security Service;? )
(Text)..The controversy over the document revealed by-Tunchanat continues. The
..controversy now has been reduced to who supplied the report to Tunckanat, to whom
Tunckanat handed it, and who submitted the report to the Americans.. The object
of this is to distract attention from the fearsome facts behind the incident.
This is what happens to the most serious current issues so that the 'facts may be
The facts behind the document revealed by Tunckanat is'the position of the National4?
Security Service and the question of who controls it. Each political party which
came to power in Turkey tried to pull the National Security Service to its side
and manipulate it as it pleased. What is more important, what is in fact the most
fearsome aspect for our national security is that the Americans have infiltrated
the organization and are running many of its sections. The Americans learn What
is gong on before our own statesmen do.. What is more, it is the Americans who.
first decide--before our own statesmen--what must be done and then they carry
.i out. There are innumerable indications. as to the degree to which the Americans.., ,
control the National Security Service. Persons who have access to top secret
information always get high-paying jobs with U.S. companies after they leave the
organization.
The-Colonel Dickson scandal once again showed the true position of the Turkish
National Security Service. It is to be recalled that Colonel Dickson received
''.the report.on how to bring Turkey into line. Soon after the report became public
(knowledge and the documents were disclosed, Dickson left Turkey. There was a
farewell cocktail party .in his honor at the U.S. Embassy.. 'It escaped nobody's
'
at this'cooktail,party a pertain., former national defense minister,
aatxentionthat.
'Vno'is.now r a member of the;*Tuatioe Party, held an intimate and secret oonvorsationt
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