FORMER CIA AGENT SAYS AGENCY PROMOTING WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201150052-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: November 30, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SUPERIOR TELEGRAM (WI)
30 November 198l
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By RON BROCHU
Telegram Staff Writer
John Stockwell, a 13-year CIA operative
wkio turned agains e a Cy'8iid- ent
public with his knowledge, told a crowd at
UWS Thursday night that intelligence
agents are needlessly killing thousands of
innocent civilians worldwide.
The highest ranking CIA case worker
ever to go public, Stockwell said America is
"almost certainly heading into a war in
Central America" before 1983.
"It will be very bloody. If we go into
Cuba, as some (U.S. government officials)
say we will, two million people could be kill-
ed before we enter the 1988 elections,"
Stockwell predicted. He said more than
20,000 American soldiers would die in com-
bat.
He blames the possibility of war in this
hemisphere on the CIA's effort to
destabilize Nicaragua's Sandinista govern-
ment.
"Thoroughly dissallusioned after I left
the CIA, I went to Cuba to see if they really
ate babies for breakfast," he said. Instead,
Stockwell said, he found the poorest one-
third.of Cuba's population is better off than
the poorest one-third of the population in
most Central American dictatorships.
Stockwell said the U.S. war in Central
America has already begun, citing the
deaths of 52,040 persons in El Salvador for
evidence.
"They were killed by forces formed or
paid by the U.S. government," he said.
Part of the U.S. destabilization effort in-
cludes sending agents to Nicaragua to rape
native women, Stockwell alleged.
"More than 8,000 Nicaraguan citizens
have been killed - mostly women and
children," he said. "Men and children are
pulled out of their houses and exploded in
front of their families with hand grenades,"
he added.
Stockwell said the U.S. is backing a
mercenary air force in Nicaragua that has
already dropped bombs on the country's
capital, Managua. The only reason the U.S.
backed off its effort to mine Nicaraguan
harbors was the fear of killing sailors from
allied countries, he claimed.
"When we mine Nicaraguan roads, the
brown man gets blown up. Mining the har-
bors, the white man is blown up and he's in-
sured by Lloyd's of London," Stockwell
said.
"President Reagan teaches us that some
people should be killed. Many of those peo-
ple are not KGB. Those killed are people of
the third world - those unable to defend
themselves."
According to Stockwell, CIA and KGB
agents associate freely with each other,
drinking and playing chess together as if in
a fral