EX-C.I.A. AGENT GAINS RETRACTION BY AUTHORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000403680004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 16, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIMES
1 6 February 1986
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Ex-e.I.A. Agent Gaina,.y
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (Reuters)-
A legal action group that defends to~?
mer UNted States intelligence oftica,R
has announced its first victory - tht
full t+etractlon aZ an assartiao that a t41Pe
mer C.I.A. agent was linked to the kiiie
ings of president Kennedy and forma
Fot+elgtt Minister Orlando Letelier ~
Chile. ~-~
The group, Challenge Inc.. an Inteiilf
genre officals' legal action tuod, salil
Frida)+ that the authors of "Death ?it
Washtngton, . a book m Mr. Letelie;'s
slaying in 1978, had retracted the albs
gatiomagainst David Phillips. the fay
mer agent. in an out-ot-court sett
mmt. ~~
The president of Challenge, J. Fr
Dolan. a refired Marine Corps lntelUr
genre captain, said the group was ~
nancing a lawsuit again.9t the author a
the book "Missing" and the makers of
a popular film based on it.
'.Missing.. asserted that United
States officials took part in a coup tha!
toppled President Salvador Allentlt
Goesens of Chile in 1973.
.'Death in Washington," by Doeu~N
Freed and Fred Landis, asserted that
Mr. Phillips, using the alias "Maurice
Bishop," served as a C.I.A. case officer
for Lee Harvey Oswald, who was ar-
rested in the killing President Kennedy
in 1963.
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