SYD STAPLETON DEBATES WILLIAM COLBY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400450013-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 6, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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AUGUST
On April 11 some 1,000 students at Southern
Illinois Uniueisity at Carbondale attended a
"Debate on the C.IA"sponsored by the Graduate
Student Council.
On one side was William Colby, former director
of the Central Intelligence Agency.
On the other was Syd Stapleton, national
secretary of the Political Rights Defense Fund
and a member of the Socialist Workers party
National Committee. The PRDF is a civil
-liberties organization publicizing the multi-
million-dollar suit filed.by the socialists ~ %i ihst
government spying and harassment.
The event was originally scheduled to be a
ic?,~ture by Colby. but after prole.,ts by ar ad hoc
:`r.>L'p?, the: Crt'-dante Student c'o.uncil and Colby
c.,-reed to change the format to a debate.
Colby and ;tapleton had previously debated at
Cornell University in. Ithaca, New }eark, March
dli'' o'ebc:te FIrgLn with p.'C'pc 'd ?.._rl:' by
both ~eaeers.
ol:v, io- are e:crcrpts frvr.n the rebuttals and
p:rtori tirat ~r,1i LCC`Cl tl f
retna,-vi were trans-
ric,cd and cc!itecl for gr?eninmatical ;moothness.
Ntoiiher ? peakc Maas had the opportunity to
r.'t ise Isis comments for publication.
Colby. With respect to some of the specific
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