TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100890018-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: October 29, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Carla Hall
? "If you wanted to invite 12 people
to spend the rest of your life with
you on--a desert island, I wouldn't
suggest you invite spies,", muses
David Atlee Phillips, former West-
ern . Hemisphere division chief for
the CIA,. in- the .film documentary
"On Company Business " He sh ugs
and smiles. "But someone has to -do
intelligence work."
After. you. see the chilling "On
rea
y.
een
Company- Business," which opens a
one-week run today at the West End ' ' Movies
Circle, you may be reluctant 'to in-
vite a spy to dinner, let alone to your . chronicled-partially ~ in the -books
desert island. -written by the former agents inter.
Poison comes up a lot in this film. viewed in the film. But whether or
For instance, -says former CIA man not you have diligently kepvup' ith
John Stockwell,.when the CIA con- congressional hearings and newspa.
sid
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atri
e. Lumumba per and book accounts of the last 30
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of the Congo, the agency warited--to
do it indirectly. "You can't invite
him to a cocktail party and give him
a drink and -have :him die 'a . few
hours later," says Stockwell. Even
'W'ASHINGTON POST
29 October 1962
Travelogue of Torture:
A Chilling Film'
Portrait of the- CIA
tually, Stockwell contends, a CIA
station chief, talked to Joseph Mo-
butu's people, who had Lumumba.
1 riled:-
.CIA- watchers will say -that direc.
for Allan Francovich doesn't reveal
anything that hasn't- al
d
b
Castro, their alleged attempts to pre
vent Marxist Chilean President Sal- . j
vador Allende from being inaugu_
rated and then, once he vas in pow-. -
er, their attempts to get him out. -.
When the CIA wanted to effect
political change in a country, accord-
ing to the documentary, it bribed the
-country's government officials, paid
workers to strike, fed newspaper col--? .
umnists and reporters stories. and
even set up political parties.
In addition, the film alleges that
the CIA sometimes supplied torture
equipment-and lessons on how best
to use' it-to whatever side it was
supporting. The portrait of former
Indiana policeman Dan Mitrione,
.who.} t,an Agency for Intsrna-
tional-Dev 1oprnent adviser to police
forces i Brazil and Uruguay
resem-
,
years, the film presents an appalling tiles the image of Latin American
picture. tary torturers drawn by human
Throughout the film, former rights rganizations. Mitrione, who
agents :no nchalsntiy. = scuss -the " :.was killed ,m A.jruguayb- asparriaro .
CIA's attempts to assassinate Fidel
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