(UNTITLED)1. FOLLOWING IS VERBATIM OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF MR. COLBY'S

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: July 7, 1973
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1. FOLLOWING IS VERBATIM OFFICIAL TRHANSCRIPT 9F MR. COLBY'S
OPEN HEARING STATEMENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES ON
2 JULY 1973 RE LONDON OBSERVER ALLEGATIONS THAT CIA ENGINEERED
COUP IN GREECE:
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SENATOR SYMINGTON. THERE ARE VARIOUS MATTERS THAT WE WILL
GET INTO AND I THOUGHT I WOULD SKIM A FEW THAT HAVE COME UP
RECENTLY.
I NOTICED IN THE PAPER SUNDAY AN ARTICLE -LONDON PAPER ASSE'IRTS
CIA ENGINEERED THE COUP IN GREECE."
I WILL READ THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THAT ARTICLE IN THE NEW
'PORK TIMES ON SUNDAY, JULY 1ST.
"THE OBSERVER SAID TODAY THAT IT HAS FOUND EVIDENCE.THAT THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ENGINEERED THE 1967 MILITARY COUP IN
GREECE AND IS USING.SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF PREMIER GEROGE PAPADOPOULOS
'WAR-TIME COLLABORATION WITH THE NAZIS', TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE
DATE: ''`Requested precise testimony made by Colby if any re CIA involvement in
ORIG: En ineerin coup in Greece.
UNIT: requested any official statements or material, which ca.-). be used
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ANY JUSTIEFICATION, TO ITHE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE, OF THESE
ASSERTIONS?
MR. COLBY. I HAD THAT RESEARCHED, MR.-CHAIRMAN. THE CIA DID
?NOT ENGINEER THE COUP IN GREECE IN 1967. SECONDLY, I THINK WE ARE NOT
IN POSSESSION OF THAT KIND OF INFORMATION ABOUT MR. PAPADOPOULOS
THAT IS ALLEGED THERE.
ALLEGED U THERE.
SENATOR SYMINGTON.
AGENT FOR THE CIADD?
MR. COLBY. HE HAS
OF THE GREEK GOVERNMENT
AND WE DID NOT TRAIN HIM IN THIS COUNTRY AS
AT ANY TIME HAS MR. PAPADOPOULOS BEEN AN
NOT BEEN AN AGENT. HE HAS BEEN AN OFFICIAL
AT VARIOUS TIMES, AND IN THOSE PERIODS FROM
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TIME TO TIME WE WORKED WITH HIM IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY.
SENATOR SYMINGTON. DID WE PAY HIM ANY MONEY AT ANY TIME?
MR. COLBY. I CANNOT ANSWER THAT ONE, MR. CHAIRMAN, FOR SURE.
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I JUST DO NOT KNOW. I DO NOT BELIEVE WE DID PERSONALLY. I CAN SAY
THAT WE DID NOT PAY HIM PERSONALLY?, I AM SURE."
2. MR. COLBY IS REVISING THIS STATEMENT FOR THE FINAL
PUBLISHED TRANSCRIPT SO THAT HIS ANSWER TO SENATOR SYr1INGTON'S
QUESTION AS TO WHETHER WE PAID PAPADOPOULOS ANY MONEY AT ANY TIME
WILL READ AS FOLLOWS:.
"MR. COLBY. THE CIA NEVER PAID MR. PAPADOPOULOS ANY MONEY.
THE ONLY ASSOCIATION THE AGENCY EVER HAD WITH PAPADOPOULOS OF ANY
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