EX-CIA CHIEF LINING UP JOB WITH A JAPANESE PR CONCERN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002000100092-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 92
• Publication Date: May 4, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON POST PAGE
DATEW
Job
with a Japanese PR Concern
former Central Intelligence Director
William E. Colby was in the business
of gathering intelligence abroad and
bringing it home to Washington.
Now, following a well-established
Washington tradition, Colby is negoti-
ating with a Tokyo-based public rela-
tions firm to monitor the Washington
political scene for a group of Japa-
rlese business-interests.
Colby, who is now in private law
practice here, was approached by the
newly formed Center for Political
Public Relations in Tokyo. The firm is
headed by publisher Takayoshi Miya-
gawa, who last year published a crit-
ical book by a Japanese journalist on
the exploits of the CIA. Colby was
one of those interviewed for the book.
Colby said that when the current
negotiations are concluded he will
register with the Justice Department
under the Foreign Agents Registra-
tion Act.
His predecessor as CIA director,
Richard M. Helms, earlier set up a
firm to work in behalf of Iranian com-
panies after leaving his position as
U.S. Ambassador to Iran last year.
The rolls of the Foreign Registration
Section at Justice are replete with for-
mer high-ranking government offi-
cials whose expertise and contacts
have been hired by foreign principals.
Miyagawa, who accompanied Japa-
nese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda on
his current trip and is a close political
ssogglate of the prime minister, said
be tipped th t Colby would help him
#nd his clients evaluate "important po-
litical and economic Issues in Wash-
WILLIAM E. COLBY
... follows an established tradition
ington, but not lobby for Japanese in-
terests in the U.S. government.
A public controversy has arisen in
the Japanese press over large fees
paid both by the government and pri-
vate business groups in Japan to
Washington lawyers and public rela-
tions advisers.
Miyagawa suggested that one of
Colby's missions may be to find out
what the Japanese principals were
getting for their dollars to satisfy
their yen for influence in Washington.
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