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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100200055-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: February 16, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLEANO NEW YORK TIMES
ON PAGE 16 February 1986
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Ex-C.I.A. Agent Gainq,y
Retraction by Authosi
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (Reuters)-
A legal action group that defends fot,
mar United States Whiligenoa off cm
has announced its first victory - the
full retraction of an assertion that a felt
mar C.I.A. agent was linked to the kill,
lap of President KKeenedy and farms
Foreign Minister Orlando Letdier i
Chile. ai?
The gip. Challenge Inc., an inteiilt
genre otfloes' legal action fund, said
Friday that the authors of "Deaths
Washigton, ' a book on Mr. Let.isVs
slaying in 19rs, had retracted the aRe
sationsAgainst David Phillips, the for4
mer agent , in an out s t1
ment. ? , ?
The president of Challenge, J. Is
Dolan, a retired Marine Corp intento
gene captain, said the group was f;r
nancing a lawsuit against the author e1
the book "Missing" and the makers of
a popular film based on it.
'Missing' asserted that United
States officials took part in a coup than
toppled President Salvador Allende
Gossens of Chile in 1973.
"Death in Washington," by Donald
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 1983.
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