PROGRAM: CBS MORNING NEWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100470005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 17, 1972
• Content Type: TRANS

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4435 WISCONSIN AVE. N.W.. WASHINGTON. D. C. 20016, 244-3540
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PROGRAM CBS Morning News STATION WTOP TV
CBS Network
DATE February 17, 1972 7:00 A.M. crT' Washington, D.C.
OPINION
JOHN HART: Time now for an opinion from Nicholas
von Hoffman, he's one of the people who come here with different
opinions throughout the week, and his is his own.
STAT
NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN: This morning I'd like to show
you something. What it is is a sign that.is about to gq up
on 100 Los Angeles area billboards. In case you don't get
good reception, I'll read it. It says: "The CIA put your brother
in Vietnam. CIA heroin traffic'e turned him on to smack. You
are paying the CIA six billion dollars a year for these social
services."
All of this',relates to an article in the March issue
of Earth magazine, a publication with a circulation of upwards
of a hundred thousand hip teenagers. The same publication
provides a news services to something like 300 top 40 type
radion stations. So when it accuses the Central Intelligence
Agency, or'at least some of its key personnel of being involved
in the dope traffic, a huge number of teenagers are going to
hear about it, and they're going to wonder if their government
could do such a thing. If they saw a recent TV news program
showing American agents arming eleven year old male boys in
Laos, they may think that, yes, we are capable of it.
The accusations that the CIA in cahoots with various
business and political interests, has traffic in heroin isn't
new. Parts of the story have been popping up in one publication
or another for years.. The 'rumors about the agency being compromised
by this dirty business has been kicking around Washington for
a long time now.
Despite this, despite other charges of criminal activity
against the CIA, there has been no public believable investigation
.of this outfit by Congress. Although-.there seems to be evidence
that some of these accusations are true, they-may not be.
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