CIA CHIEF COLBY FACING CONFRONTATION ON CHILE OPERATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: September 12, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
1 2 SEP 1974
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By Laurence Stern
:V::Post Staff writer
Central Intelligence
Agency Director William E.
Colby. the nation's pre-emi-
nent spy, will come out of
the cold into the heat of al-
most certain confrontation
Friday over the issue of co-
vert U.S. political operations
in Chile.
Colby has agreed to ap-
pear at an unusual two-clay
conference of former
agents, government officials
and journalists on the sub-
ject of "The Central Intelli-
gence Agency and Covert
Actions."
The C4 director's ap-
pearance was scheduled be-
fore the disclosure Sunday
of his executive session tes-
timony, on Congress last
April that some S11 million
in covert action funds were
authorized by the "Forty
Committee" of the National'
Security Council and tar-
geted against the late Chi-
Nezvs Analysis
lean President Salvador Al-
lende.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
(D-Mass.) cranked up_ the
Chile controversy another
turn yesterday with a letter
to Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger asking on what
authorization the programs
were carried out without no-
tification to Congress. Ken-
nedy also called State De-
partment testimony denying
U.S. intervention against the
Allende government "mis-
leading" and "deceptive" in
the letter to Kissinger.
Colby, who rose through
the ranks of the CIA's co-
vert operations service to
command of the agency, un-
dertakes a daring public re?
lations gamble in facing the
audience of specialists on in-
telligence practices-most
of them critical of the co-
vert programs with which
Colby has been associated
through his ' professional
lifetime.
During his year-and-a-half
tenure as director, Colby
has sought to improve con-
tacts with Congress and the,
press in the aftermath of
the . battering the agenu
took during the unfolding of
the V atergate scandal.
But the two day confer-
ence, sponsored by'the Cen-
ter for National Security
Studies, will subject Colby
to one of the most informed
and critical audiences to
which he has been so far ex'
posed.
Covert operations are car-
ried out under general pol-
icy guidelines approved by
the Forty committee, a sen-
ior inter-departmental corn
mittee over vMich. the Presi-
dent's national securiyt ad-
viser, Kissinger, presides.
Colby is a member of the
powerful but informal com-
mittee which meets under
the auspices of the White
House.
In recent statements the
CIA director.. has empha
sized the agency's subordi
hate role to the l hite
House and the senior polic,
group whose name, until
last year, was Haver in print
and unknown to members of
the agency's oversight com-
mictees on Capitol Hill.
file existence of the Fort y
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Committee surfaced in con-
nection with the Senate For-
eign Relations Corr nittee's
'I.Iul tinational Subcommittee
in connection with role
of tine CI. and the interna-
ttonal Telephone Tele-
graph Corp. in Chile.
Aside from the Chile case,
the CIA faces the p'espects
of new revelations on the
scone of covert U.S. opera-
tions under the nianaeme nt
of the Forty Committee.
Former New York Times
correspondent Tad Szulc,
writing in the new issue of
Esquire, gives an account of
the CIA's role in support of
South Africa's white supre-
macist regime. The New
Yorker Magazine is coming
out with an account of the
CIA role in supporting the
ousting of Cheddi Jean,
leader of Guyana's inde-
pendence movement.
In England, former CIA
operations . officer Philip
B.F. Agee has completed a
manuscript detailing his
day-to-day operations as a
clandestine operaive in
three Latin-American, coun-
tries-Ecuador. Uruguay
and -Mexico. Agee's book is
under contract with British
Penguin and is expected to
be published early next
year.
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