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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400170003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 3
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WASHINGTON PCST (POTOMAC)
28 DECEMB 1975
By Rudy Maxa
AFTERMATH: THE FIFTH U WE "We must see how far our paranoia is justified,"
mumbled a "hint too drunk" Norman Mailer at a
raucous Manhattan party nearly two years ago. The
occasion: the macho scribe's 50th birthday and the
birth of a new organization, the F'rfTh Esteta, which
would uncover the extent of - the intelligence com-
munity's role in America. In fact, despite its shaky
beginning, Fifth Estate did headquarter in Wash-
ington and did begin a quarterly magazine that
only stopped publishing this year when funds ran low. Then the research arm of the group formed a }
separate non-profit group, the Intelligence Docu-
mentation Center, which has--through successful
Freedom- of Information Act requests---brought
you news recently of Navy Intelligence's spying on
civilians and the military's quiet role handling the
siege at Wounded Knee,--__-... -
Footnote: Fifth Estate's finances have improved
and Porter says its magazine will reappear next
month. On the group's board: Intelligence hounds:
Victor Marchetti, retired Col. Fletcher Prouty,
Philip Agee, Marcus Raskin, Mark Lane and Wil-
liaxn Turner.
And you thought he was famous: at the Pacemf
In Terris conference a few weeks ago, a dinner
table partner asked the CIA's high spy: "And Mr.
Colby, what do you do, for a living?"
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