MR. PATRICK J. MCGARVEY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000600020005-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2001
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NEW YORK TIMES DATE 2.60C-4-17.
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Ex-Aide of C.I.A. Says U.S. Bombed Leper Colony
By SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19--4
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l',IcGarvey, spent 14 years with
the C.I.A. the Defense Intelli-
gence Agency and Air Force
intelligence before resigning in
1969.
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,:ense agency and
were overwheirnIngly n-
cernect with mov.iding, what he
and would oftqL?distort facts
t.?.e....cis2 so.
In some cases, he contended,
vital information was withheld
I from the White House by bu-
reaucrats anxious to avoid crit-
icism.
The leper-colony incident be-
gan, Mr. McGarvey wrote, after
the Air Force reported that it
had spotted a division head-
quarters in reconnaissance pho-
.:1.ographs. At the time, the serv-
ice was eager to destroy the
fighting capability of the North
Vietnamese Army, then largely
still in the north.
"They spotted a huge, heavily
guarded compound at a village
called Quynh Loc," Mr. Mc-
official said. "No public men-
tion was ever made of the in-
cident."
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In a letter to?MiTIVIcGarWy
clearing the book for publica-
tion, an agency official noted
that if any claim is made that
the C.I.A. "111..,kr_IY ,,yay ap-
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Garvey said. "The compound
was isolated and ringed with
barbed wire. Inside were areas
shut off from each other with
more barbed wire."
Both the Air Force operation
personnel and the officers at-
tached to the Joint Chiefs of
Staff "concluded that this
had to be a division head-
quarters," Mr. McGarvey wrote.
The initial defense agency anal-
ysis did not support that con-
clusion, he added, and it was
officially reported that there
was "no information to support
the existence of a division
headquarters at that location."
Mr. McGarvey, who was serv-
ing with the Defense Intel-
ligence Agency at the time,
noted that it had previously
been determined that the North
Vietnamese Army had aban-
doned all of its identifiable
garrison areas and military
camps shortly after the air war
began in 1965 "and took to the
hills and caves."
Nonetheless, he wrote, the
Joint Chiefs "insisted that
D.I.A. label the facility a pos-
sible military headquarters
site." His account went on:
"D.I.A. acceded to this demand.
On May 6, 1966, a heavy bomb-
ing raid was mounted against
the facility."
'No Public Mention Made'
"A few days later," Mr. Mc-
Gravey wrote, "the North Viet-
namese charged that the United
States had bombed a leper col-
ony at Quynh Loc, killing 30
patients and wounding 34.
D.I.A. examined the photos and
compared them with those on
which they had based the mis-
sion.',cy proved to be the pos-
ible military headQuarters
site,'" the former intelligence
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4rilso, reports, that C.I.A. :y.2ats
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Mr. McGarvey, now a resident
of suburban Washington, is
known to have spent someyears
working under cover as a
clandestine C.I.A. agent in South
Vietnam and elsewhere,
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