CIA ACTIVITIES DEFENDED, COLBY PLEDGES OPENNESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000200010011-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 11
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By Oswald Johnston his questioners was virtual- when he heatedly denied
star?News-s+arrwriter ly never acknowledged, let the 20,000 Vietnamese killed
tinning session before a ._.: _ On the subject of.govern- Chile to oppose deposed
largely hostile stile panel, Colby'; ment lying,. Colby asserted president Salvador Aiiende
evaded t"effcr b``y an hi s s, that the CIA,'once obsessed produced many questions
evaded most "efforts b yesterday but produced no
with non-accountability . a,.. MaIral~t;nne
told an unbelieving and- . attaches in Vietnam dou-
$11 ON last
friendly audience yester- bled as intelligence agents. THE REVELATION
day. Colby seemed not to have week of some S11 million in
During a two-hour ques- ,heard mosto-f the time. CIA funds pumped into
n
director William E. Colby po toy
gram or that U.S.:military.
The Central Intelligence alone responded to, in the. Phoenix_ program,
Agency still performs Panelists several times de- which he ran, were "rnur-
clandestine operations nounced as "an outrageous dered" and denounced her
around the world but will no lie," or "another lie" a applauding the assassina-
longer lie to the American Colby assertion that torture _ ton in Uruguay of U. S. for-
people about them, -CIA of Viet Cong was not U. 'S. eign service officer David
the Phoenix pro- Mitrione.
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LLULL,, WILL 110 L VLLfl- --, Rep. In d brie -prepared stag Rep. Michael arzztt~on,
them -when, calle.d.to ac.
t to #h'e panel,::spore=r Tf-Mass., who was inadvert.
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tional ISecisrtty?Studies,~:.a ly refuse to discuss them disclosure of secret Colby
" and try to keep them a se-
-grams, had over a period of drew applause with a long any direct part in the Chile
two,-days .heard numerous., denunciation of U. Sr-op- coup, "We were. looking for
pressive imperialism and. a change in government,"
papers 'denouncing such-
-operations as illegal",.. -,criminality in the underde- ' he admitted, thereby draw
immoral and unconstitu- veloped world This pro- ing another chorus of deri?
tional. voked Colby's only show of? sive laughter, ."in the 1976
TIIE INDIGNATION` of, anger of the afternoon, electansthere.,,
tricks operations " has*.. room oc. . oversees the -CIA, Colby
diminished since Cold War. laughter:. replied.
days. One panelist, Nancy Stem
The symposium, devoted.. of the North American Con- ? Colby repeated earlier
to the .CIA's .covert?`-pror~ ,- an Latin America ? denials that the agency had
e
abroad as a uservl?a 3unct.a rte
d
we can tell the American
of national policyr BiitAhe,, up to Congress to legislate
claimed the scope, oi;diriy people an untruthThe the methods by which it
ked with derisive
ave proscr
prr_ss
ei;n policy exports; Colby', admission that Con_
tried to justify. operations phrase 'plausible' denial,' ", had been insufficiently
Colby said. "I don't -believe.
d on the policy it is
' b "f
newly constituted and large.. ..testimony on ,-:the .Chu
cret, he said. .
- self=appointedgroup of for- . _:_,,I h w the operation;. tried. to win
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