KISSINGER TRUSTS CIA-ON A LEASH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300530007-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 22, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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bars' .Dee. h Plots
Kissinger said he strong-
iy' favors congressional
oversight of covert CIA ac-
tivities and a closer rela-
tionship between the legis
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lative oversight bodies and
the executive branch com-
mittees charged with
controlling secret CIA
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Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger said yesterday
he is uositive the Central
Intelligence Agency can be
stopped from plotting
assassinations, but recom-
mended that the agency
continue other covert
operations under stronger
controls.
A White House spokes-
man said President Ford
"abhors government offi-
cials being involved" in any
such plots and "has in mind
his own plans" to keep it
from happening again.
The comments came in
response to the Senate
I
Critics claim the existing
congressional oversight
panels have not done their
jobs. There have also been
suggestions the CIA should
be taken out of the "dirt
y
tricks" business entirely
and left to collect and
evaluate intelligence.
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Nessen noted that files on
U.S. involvement in plotting=
foreign assassinations, had
been turned over to the Jus
tice Department for
whatever action it. consid-
ers necessary.
Kissinger testified at a
closed session of the Senate
committee-on the need for
covert operations as a com-
plement to foreign policy.
He spoke briefly with re-
porters aitertvards.
Asked whether CIA
assassination plots -- such
as the attempts outlined in
the report to murder Fidel
Castro and Congo Premier
Patrice j unsurnba - could
be stopped,-) he - replied:
"I'm positive it can.be stop-
ped.
Intelligence Committee's said three such CIA covert
reportThursday disclosing operations -- in the Do-
implicatiion of U.S. govern- minican Republic, South
fnent officials in plots to kill : Vietnam and Chile -- led to'
foreign leaders. the murder of national
leaders even where the
KISSINGER insisted the United States had not
United States played no sought their deaths.
part in the 1973 coup. that It also said that Nixon
killed Chile's Preside-r ordered a massive CIA ef-
Salvador Allende. but he-' fort to block Allende's rise
declined to discuss publicly, , to power in 1970 and. that
the Senate committee re- Kissinger - who has told
port that President Richard Congress the CIA played
M. Nixon ordered the CIA,. only "a minorrole" in Chile
in Kissinger's presence, to, that year - was present
stop Allende from coming-: when Nixon. gave that
-to power in i97o. order:.
White House press secre-
tary Ronald Nessen said; THE REPORT said the
Ford saw no reason to fire`:, 1970 plot led to the murder
Kissin"er or Ambassador to -of Chile's commander in
Iran Richard- Helms, for chief, Gen. Rene Schneider,
per' CIA director, because by CIA-backed insurgents
of anything disclosed in the . acting independently, but
report of CIA assassination Kissinger declined yester-
and coup plots, He said the .day. to give reporters his
President "has forbidden version of the affair: I
officials iii his administra- "I have testified at great
_ tion" from being involved length before the commi-
in those kindsof things." teehe said. "They have
the full' record of these
operations and I don't think
it appropriate for me to get
into more public discus-j
Mori!'
' . _ .
HE SAID he briefed the
intelligence panel yester-
day 'on "the general prob-
lem of the control of covert
actions, their purpose- and
relation to,. national
policy
TO us1ees at INA5,
EAST LANSING, Mich.
(AP) -- The regular meet-. .
ing of the Michigan State
University Beard of Trust-
ees was disrupted yester-
day by students protesting
a possible tuition increase
and CIA recruiting on cam-
pus, witnesses said,
The meeting, which nor-
maliy lasts up to three
hours, was cut short after
about -10 minutes when
trustees could not conduct
business above the heckling
of some of the 75-100
protestors, witnesses said.
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