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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000200010054-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: July 10, 1979
• Content Type: CABLE

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1. FOLLOWING IS VERBATIM STATEMENT OF SENATOR STUART SYM:fNGTON,
ACTING CHAIRMAN, SENATE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES TO THE PRESS
AFTERNOON 10 JULY 1973:
"THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SENATE ARMED
SERVICES COMMITTEE TOOK TESTIMONY TODAY FROM MR. WILLIAM E. COLBY,
.PRESIDENT NIXON'S NOMINEE TO BE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE.
MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE QUESTIONED MR. COLBY ABOUT THE CIA
BUDGET AND ABOUT PROGRAMS EMBRACED IN THE PROPOSEDP BUDGET. HE
TESTIFIED CANDIDLY WITH RESPECT TO THESE MATTERS WHICH ARE
CLASSIFIED.
MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ALSO TOOK THE OCCASION TO FOLLOW UP
ON CERTAIN MATTERS DISCUSSED BY MR. COLBY WHEN HE TESTIFIED BEFORE
THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE AT A PUBLIC HEARING ON HIS EIUNOMINATION
ON MONDAY, JULY 2ND-
IN THAT DISCUSSION, MR. COLBY AGAIN STATED THAT THE CIA DID NOT,
AS RECENTLY REPORTED, ENGINEER THE 1967 MILITARY COUP IN GREECE.
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HE SAID COLONEL GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS WAS NOT AFFILIATED WITH CIA
IN ANY WAY.
MR. COLBY FURTHER STATED:
^'HHTHE CIA NEVER PAID MR. PAPADOPOULOS ANY MONEY. THE ONLY
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ASSOCIATION THE AGENCY EVER HAD WITH MR. PAPOADOPOULOS OF ANY KIND
WAS IN HIS CAPACITY AS AN OFFICER OF THE GREEK INTELLIGENCE SERVICE,
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25X1C MR. COLBY STATED THAT HE WILL BE HAPPY'TO TESTIFY WHENEVER THE
COMMITTEE OR THE SUBCOMMITTEE REQUESiSis\THAT HE DO SO. 25Xt .
CS COMMENT:'Station requested advise what action Hqs contemplates regarding
Mr. Colby's testimony.
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