CIA LOSE ALLIES 'BECAUSE OF CONGRESS INQUIRIES'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400020016-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 22, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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LONDOid i t%11,Y `1-'EL?GRAPH
22 October 1975
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_~-7. Intelligence Agenccy,-. has scathingly denounced
By RICHARD BEESTON in New York
R WILLIAM COLBY, director of the Central.
Congress for staging " TV spectaculars " and " sensa-
tional re-runs about the agenccy for the. amusement of
the people.
In his. toughest attack on
congressional exposure,: of
agency secrets, MVIr Colby con-
firmed for the -first time that
some friendly.. foreign intelli-
gence services, now felt the
risk of, co-operating with rite
C I A was .too great.
His speech.. to .,the 'United
States. Navy League in New
York was timed to coincide with
new hea.ri?ogs..
The Senate Intelligence "Com--
mittee yesterday made public
evidence. saying the CIA.
opened more than 215,000 letters,
to and from ?. Russia over' 20
years knowing Thhe operation was
illegal.- One-of: the letters. Was
sent to the com?m,ittee chairman,
Senator Frank Church, by his-
mother-i?n-law while on a visit to-
the Soviet Union.
Damage already done
In his speech'M'r Colby asked:
"Ts our `intel11gencr. to-.'become
mere theatre? Will i't ? be ex-
posed- in successive re-runs for
the amusement, or,'even amaze-
ment, -of our people rather than
being, preserved'. and niotected
for the benefit-of:'us all?".."
After,, mw the ::of quiet, co-
op erationcongressional in-
vestigations and- polite`. defence
of h.iis agency's ,record,: he took
the o[iersive- . Damage he said
li-a?dalready been done by "irre-
sponsible' exposure of - true. in.
telligence secrets" which- ieon-
ardised intelligence " high in the
sky -arrd deep,in the ocean."
The 'CYA' had.'read: mall to
and from Communist' countries
during the " threatening. days of
the cold war. ' :This had. been
revealed by theRockefeller
commission investigatimg:`AmeriA
can intelligence and 'that-' the
CIA had rparted 'the -ma?tter
to the congressional bodies in-
vestigating it;
Would there be herirngs in
1080, he asked, about why in
1975 America wage deprived of
its great intelligence capability?
Nuclear threat`
Among the threats den.nerl by
Mr.. Colby as the. C:.TA's. concern
were. -.`` the . ballistic missiles.
cocked. and aimed at_us" and:
the danger of.nuclear weapons
falling into thehands of ?" reck-
less .despots or pananoic terror-
ists."
Aq report in the Washington
Post said yesterday that during
the Kennedy Administration the
C I A - had almost as many em-
ployees -attached -to- embassies as
the State department-i.. _- , -
At one time the C.I A had 3,700
employees operating' ' abroad
under diplomatic, or other official
cover compared with 5,900 State
Department. emplayees abroad..
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