MR. PATRICK J. MCGARVEY

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CIA-RDP75B00380R000600020005-3
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December 12, 2016
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October 19, 2001
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MISC
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FOIAb6 Approved For Release 2001/11/16 : CIA-RDP75600380R000600020005-3 Approved For Release 2001/11/16 : CIA-RDP75600380R000600020005-3 NEW YORK TIMES DATE 2.60C-4-17. PAGE 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 former.,,?,Central Intolligaence A'7("ney otticiat'S'aaf:in: liar cok h.oct1:60:Fy:tliarra ir Force bombed a North-1TR- _.leosir?..c.o to ny:iii-196`6 Jer Air y_orce photo Ii'nalygts coneluded?tharthe 1,:lliidInfE,S?surroundecr brnvo *.ows or?barbeii::Wife?feiferl- ay :Tea...1460.n ,Yietzaule,TgZvi- ion headouprters. rine tomer ige?it, Patrick J. l',IcGarvey, spent 14 years with the C.I.A. the Defense Intelli- gence Agency and Air Force intelligence before resigning in 1969. ,In? his hook, "C.I.A., the Mtnesa."pubiid bytho Saturoay 1.6,71cW Press, r.r,,,c6arVey_chameSifiat'de- ,: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." :6p.lionfit_psytr4yal of what jatell igen?ce,Js a:11ab6it?iffCst anRlude thg_the,, x ass with, Iittle ,p,T, no central direplion,s-orely needing drastic change," mr,,iyfotrirpey:wieite. A spokesman for the -C.T.A. caffittair, that:TM Mcnr'ej y had __worked_ thcrC, btit?.refn d SIQmmenton_theJiQok. The 'noo,k was sent_tothe agency for re- vieW3R.Ore Piablicatioo;NCM caarsey_said,..arid,.,only A few minor segr_nept_s were delete. 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- proye,s_Kont: hook or co-11171'ns the accuracy Of -any Inforiffa- tien'aintiinedlieroLtFibrZin, it WiLL-be?afficially deed? Sputnik Reported Stolen .61SID PAL...VA 91c'tie deals with the bulk Ztaaiaictai.ayf.i arazAn dac.s...araaira, wn ?ix= his alan2-1Var. As5oclated Press Patrick J. McGarvey 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 hr.olc,Mr._IVrepprvey 4rilso, reports, that C.I.A. :y.2ats sh.(1111Y?.aft ita?.?11qce s qui ioQi:am- photo- s.jdetcctcdlie td. 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, e 41.5_ ightly,..3y1 lia_p ars onnj ex=eace-s-i134iac..tdo.k. Z.hts..book-asaaat...attAtternat to expose 11111.1).Q2Li S to shed some light a:a...the os roIniagin'g7pe r's gt- enLip TtliTiifF_OLCcidaTST 415 ) ilt.'th e iteAt, machiaes?caPANS: of aluxast_3114-act of trislerAr or iarlgue." Approved For Release 2001/11/16 : CIA-RDP75600380R000600020005-3 L,