THE CI[ ] THROUGH NOT[ ] SPYGLAS

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THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
27 June 1978
Honorable Men, My Life in the CIA, by. William Colby. New
York: Simon & Schuster. $12.95.
Decent interval, by .Frank,. Snepp. -'New: York:: -Random
House. 514.95.
In Search of Enemies,by=John Stockwell." New York:
W: W. Norton & Co. $1195:
By Dan ii Southerland .. -:
Staff correspondent of The Christian Science. Monitor
Washington-=
Books :about. the -LUnited:- States, Central: -Intelligence
Agency and other secret organizations have poured forth in
such profusion over the past three or four years that it's
hard to keep up.. .r ..._...
But there-now-Ls a. chance that part of the: flow will di
minish; ... thk coming from former...CIA "insiders.": If sus
tamed. in-the. appeals process the government's initial sue
cess in. its book-publishing, trial against former: CIA analyst
Frank Snepp may inhibit. further publication: of memoirs by.
other-ex-CIA employees;-..;,;, .: := ~_; ...; ?_... _:
Whatever .the ultimate outcome', of the: Sneipg:case, John
D.. Marks, co-author of .one of the most-incportaat.books in -
this field- The CIA and: the : Cult of Intelligence,".1974, "
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Knopf, predicts ?a trend' in the *next few years away from
books by foritter-insiders to aniincreasing number of: books.-.
on secret intelligence activities by_historians and::other re-
searchers-, v a :- ?
The publishing. world thinks the market is falling out a
little bits" .said Mr.. Marks who is= ae mowledgedd as.. a? full-
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boredom has set in. ? ;4
- "But I think the outpouring of information will, continue,"
said the former foreign service officer, who is writing a
book on. CIA experiments with mind-control drugs.-"Histo-
rians have ignored CIA activities over the years,..and now
they're going to want to find out, what happened in any
number of countries around the world." x:... ~:
A. J. Langguth, author of "The Truth about .U.S. Eolice
Operations in Latin America," 1978, Pantheon, a. new book
on U.S. advisers to police networks in Latin America WE
provides further detail on CIA activities in Brazil, notes
that there have been only three recent "defectors" from
the CIA itself - Philip Agee: Frank Snepp, and John Stock.
well - who have come in from the. cold to tell their stories.
Mr. Langguth suggests, in a commentary for the New York
Times, that tt?would take at least 300 more -to tell the full
story.
That large a`number of former CIA people seems un-
likely to"'sing'', especially if the Iegal actions against Mr.-1
Snepp are'sustained. But who knows bow many of the 300 tor'
400 employees being fired under current CIA efficiency !
measures will take the risks involved and-break their vowO
of-secrecy?_ A number of these veterazt.CIA employees are
known to be extremely bitter over the treatment. they have-4
received.
Mr. Snepp, : author of "Decent. Interval," the story of
the collapsew and evacuation of South Vietnam, believes that
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