CIA LOSE ALLIES 'BECAUSE OF CONGRESS INQUIRIES'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100240049-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: October 22, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
22 October 1975
-C.., s, aes_ ere
e
of Cth2gre3s "ln ; l e8'
the Soviet Union.
Damage already done
Tn his. speech Mr Colby asked :
Is our' intelligence to'become
mere theatre?" WiIF it' be ex-
posed- in successive re-runs for
the amusement, or even amaze-
merit, -of our people. rather-than
being, preserved:: and protected
for the benefit of. us all?'?'.:
After.anonths- ::of ? quiet co-
oparation..with,- congressional in-
vesti.gations and- polite. defence
of hs agency's record,: he took
In his, toughest attack on
congressional -` exposure of
agency secrets, Mr Colby con-
firmedfor the,first time that
some friendly. foreign intelli-
gence -services, now felt the
risk of. co-operating-. with the
CIA was too great..
His speech... to ..the .-Und.ted i
States. Navy League in New
York was timed to coincide with
new hearings:.
The Senate Tntelligence'Com-
mittee yesterday made public
evidence . saying the CIA,
opened more.tha?n 21,000 letters
to andfrom ?. Russia over ' 20
years knowing the operation was
illegal.. One-of: tihe letters was
sent to the committee' chairman,
Senator Frank Church, by his'
mother-in-law while on a visit to
By RICHARD BEESTON'in New York - --
l
M WILLIAM ' COLBY, director of the Central
Intelli;ence Agency,. has sca:thingty denounced"
Congress.for-staging " TV spectaculars " and " sensa
tional re-runs" about the agency for the amusement of
the people. : 1
the of~rersive-.Darrrage 'he said
had alreardy been done by " irre- ,
sponsible' exposure. of true. in-
telligence secrets""' which. ieoo- {
a?rdisedintelligence "high in the
sky and deep in the ocean."
The C I-A had: `read' mail to
and from Commundst' countries
during the " threatert ng days of
the cold war." : ,.This had. been
Teyealed by ':the .. Rockefeller
commission i?nvesti;ating.' Amen -'
can intelligence and 'th?at. the'
CIA had -reported' the - matter
to the contressional. bodies in- 1
vestigat n ' it
Would there be heariTngs in
1900, he asked,: about why in
1975 America was deprived of
its great intelligence capability?
Among. the 'threw+s deuced by
iVIr. Colby ass the-CIA's concern
were. "the . ballistic : missiles
cocked. and aimed at.us" and:
th-e danger of nuclear weapons
falling into the hands of reck-
less.despots or pananoic terror-
ists."
A report in the WasFington
Post said yesterday' that during
the Kennedy Administ.:ation the
CIA ;had almost a.s icy em-
ployees attacrred.to embassies as
the. State deoertment...-?--- -
Atone time the C.I A had 3,700
employees operating ` abroad
under diplomatic, or other offiicial.
cover compared with 3,900 State
Department . employees abroad.
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