BLACKMAILING THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100360052-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: January 7, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE WASHINGTON STAR lG a '1i~~~~~1
7 January 1.976
Garry-Wills
g
are
Cy! ''o accuse them by their ed Welch a ten e,
spiratorialists are t em-
selves part of the conspira-- the CIA should have recall= . only helping the. CIA. They
it - . ...
f h was re- imitatin
eo
CIA, therefore the con- proach to I. e ma r VF
h even said on television that press. These critics are not
were planned by the con-- p
spiracy. : Register - a game played; . cion that invalidates the
Apply those norms-to the by all kinds of people, espe- whole effort of Counter-Spy.
conspiratorialists' own cially foreign agents. The CIA should be exam-
scatter-gun attack on the ined.and reformed, or even
CIA. These attacks are But Tim Butz, editor eliminated, by open and
helping the CIA, therefore of Counter-Spy, took a democratic methods, not by
they were planned by the cruelly light-hearted ap-. this blackmail from a-few
le with a printing
h tter and
that favor the conspiracy homewor .
rtment's Biographic --, 4. It is this admitted Goer-
s
by accident, so 2) things name by doing some as %,L e r
kin the State De 'actions) to do their will.
Lane. tion chief - in Lima, Peru. is working on the terrorist
-The thing has a zany kind. It hardly * "`reveals" any logic of threatening one
of: poetic justice. Con- facts about Welch: His CIA group of people (men like
spiratorialists reason from post was common knowl--::,Welch, who was not'a cov-
a set of assumptions like edge. in Athens. Besides;: ert operation type) in order
these: 1) nothing happens Counter-Spy itself got the to coerce a second group .
V, i
h eat masters of -covert
their charges as iviarx Greece
./? Greece was in fact a sta- . 3. Therefore Counter-Spy
Much of the irresponsible. other Americans. - a - wrong wi
criticism of the CIA comes ` be all the harder because of 1. Sale talks of exposing
-from the same people who Norman Mailer's "Fifth Es--.--"every clandestine agent"
have been busily looking for tate," the drunken project when even editor Butz says
some secret organization, - for seeking out conspiracy, that Counter-Spy will not
any organization, to blame in all its guises. . reveal deep-cover agents,
for the murders of Presi- Counter-Spy, journal of 'only light-cover ones.
dent Kennedy and others. the "Fifth Estate," is print- - 2. But deep-cover agents
Nothing could help the CIA ing names of CIA officers are those most likely to en--
___.._a .4....,,n,.lA Tt nrinteri ....n in nntrart activities of
swarming OUt of me wuuu- -~~ .- r -
work.. killing Jack Kennedy and = _These' are many things
Th t will ` b that statement:
some of its better agents
'has also brought all the . tangle the real criticism of until- the CIA abandons its
trnnlrc, the CIA from loony talk. covert actions."_
The CIA feels it is unduly own crazy logic would be a vealed thus, in }effect,
harassed now; but in fact it fitting return for all the taking "credit" for finger-
is extraordinarily blessed in innocent people, they have ing Welch. Time magazine
its enemies. Unfortunately, been accusing through the now `quotes Kirkpatrick
the very' clandestine mys- years. Sale, an adviser to Counter-
tique which has brought it Spy.' "Our job is to expose.
It is important to disen every clandestine agent
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