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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000600030014-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: August 12, 1969
• Content Type: CABLE

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(Saigon Post story of 12 August highlights
press interview of attorney George Gregory.)
1. STORIES BASED ON STATEMENTS BY GEORGE GREGORY (MAJOR
MIDDLETON'S CIVILIAN LAWYER) APPEAR ON FRONT PAGE OF 12 AUGUST
NEW YORK TIMES AND WASI-'NGTON POST. STORIES ALSO BEING CARRIED
ON AP AND UPI WIRES. NOTHING WE HAVE YET. SEEN GIVES FULL TEXT
OF GREGORY STATEMENTS, BUT STORIES ALL CONSISTENT IN HOLDING
THAT GREGO ,.Y' 1~1.ADE FOLLOWING ALLEGATIONS:
A. VICTIM (I. E., CHUYEN, WHOSE NAME NOT MENTIONED) WAS
DOUBLE AGENT EMPLOYED BY BOTH CIA AND NORTH VIETNAM. CLEAR
IMPLICATION OF STATEMENTS IS THAT HE WAS.1\NOT SPECIAL FORCES
AGENT, THOUGH THIS EXPLICITLY STATED. BOTH TIMES AND POST QUOTE
PORTIONS OF FOLLOWING GREGORY COMMENT (STITCHED TOGETHER FROM
THESE OVERLAPPING PARTIAL QUOTATIONS) "IF IT IS PROVEN THAT
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SOMEONE REACHED HIS DEMISE- (IN THIS CASE) I BELIEVE YOU WILL FIND
THAT ... (HE) WILL BE A DANGEROUS COMMUNIST DOUBLE AGENT HIRED
BY THE BEST. FINANCED.AGENCY OF THE UNITED STATES,.THE CIA. LET'S
PUT THE FINGER RIGHT WHERE IT SHOULD BE. TO GATHER FACTS. THE
AGENT WAS WORKING FOR THE..CIA WHEN IT WAS DISCOVERED -- THANK
GOD IT WAS DISCOVERED SO THAT THE LIVES OF AGENTS AND FIGHTING
PEOPT F COULD BEfSAVED -- THAT HE WAS NOT REALLY IN THE EMPLOY
OF OU-P. FORCES BUT IN, aH E EMPLOY OF THE NORTH VIETNAMESE. 01
r NEW YORK'TIMES PLAYS UP CHARGE THAT AGENT LIQUIDATED
ON CIA.-ORDE21S (POST DOES NOT PLAY THIS ANGLE). IN SAIGON FILED
STORY UNDER TERRENCE SMITH BYLINE, TIMES CLAIMS "AN INFORMED
SOURCE IN NHATRANG ... SAID THAT IT WAS THE CIA THAT HAD DIRECTED
` ' IA.T `:"11E AGENT BE DISPOSED Or, U STORY NOTES AGENT'S ALLEGED USE
IN INDIG.ENO,YS ROADWATCH TEAM OPERATING ON BOTH SIDES, CAMBODIAN
BORDER, AND REPORT THAT AGENT BETRAYED TO NORTH VIETNAMESE
IN LATE MAY OR JUNE.'.: TIMES THEN ADDS: "SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE
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TEAM WERE REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED AND THE SPECIAL FORCES
SUBSEQUENTLY TURNED .UP INFORMATION SAID TO IMPLICATE THE AGENT.
HE WAS THEN REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN QUESTIONED BY THE SPECIAL
FORCES AND ACCORDING TO RELIABLE SOURCES, BY THE CIA. THE
DECISION WAS THEN SAID TO. HAVE BEEN MADE TO ELIMINATE THE AGENT.
THOUGH THE DECISION WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE CIA,
MEMBERS OF THE SPECIAL FORCES WERE REPORTED TO HAVE CARRIED
OUT THE ORDER. "
C, TIMES SAIGON STORY DOES HAVE BRACKETED (PRESUMABLY
NEW YORK) INSERT SAYING '.'RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT SOURCES" IN
WASHINGTON "DENIED THAT THE CIA HAD ANY CONNECTION WHATSOEVER
WITH THE CASE. THEY WERE. COMMENTING ON REPORTS THAT THE CIA
IIAD BOTH O IDERED THE; EXECUTION AND FOR AN UNEXPLAINED REASON
HAD REVOKED THE ORDER A FEW DAYS AFTER JUNE 20, THE DAY IT HAD
ALREADY BEEN CARRIED OUT."
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