FUROR HITS CIA SOURCES, COLBY SAYS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: March 20, 1975
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William Colby, director of the Cen-
al Intelligence Agenclr, was i~erview-
1 by Washington Star Staff Writer le-
mia5 O'Leary.
Question: Clark Clifford. who as
ounsel to P..*esident Truman partici-
ated in writing the law which estab-
shed the CIA, said recently that the
round rules need [a be updated, to
e renovated. Do you concur with
sat view?
Colby: Well. I've made certain
~comraendations for changing our
ct already. A year and a half ago
Shen I was confirmed. I suggested
tat we add the word "foreign" to the
cord "intelligence" wherever it sp-
ears is our act so it's clear it's for-
ign intelligence chat's the job of this
gency and not domestic. I recom-
iended other things to clarify
xactly what the CIA ought to be able
~ do in the United States and what it
'aauld not be able to do in the United
rates.
Q: That requires an act of Con-
ress ?
A: Yes. It hasn't been passed. but
sere was legislation last year - I
~.tpparted it ~- and I'm sure these
congressional investigating) com-
tittces will get into a rather funds-
rental look at some of these ques-
ons.
Q: IVould you ever go out of the i
~trsiness e% operating in terms of
our ow?n security within the United
'rates, in places like ~Yecv fork
There the U.Y. is located, or in
laces like 3:ia:ri, where there are .
Tany Cubans?
A: ~Vell, I think, in the first place, ~
sat we ought to be able to collect for-
i?~t intelligence in America. I think
re ou~?ht to collect it voluntarily
roan Americans, and we ought to be
ble to collect it from foreigners.
Q: Interc?ietvina returned trac?el-
rs ?
A: That sort of thine, yes. We do a
neat deal of that, and there are an
wful lot of Americans who very
indly help us and support us on this.
Je do mai~:e commitments that we
;on't expose them as our sources.
'hat's goin;; to be one of the things
'm iruistin~: on -- that we not expose
gem in t: e coarse of these investi~a-
20 I~iARCH 1975
} lions. And I think I've recei~?ed a
very syn:p~thetic response from Sen.
~ Church an this. If there's a reasona-
i ble basis for uur withholding an icien-
lily or som:thin, he cerainly has
ri:?en every indication that he will
eve full consideration to that.
i
Q: Gii?cn the scrutiny 6y the
Rxkefeller commission, by several
committees of Congress, by the press
- can the CIA operate effectively as
a cla.^.westine service under these
ccnditions?
A: Well. it's having a hard time.
We have a number of individual
agents abroad who have told us that
they really don't want to work for us
anymore.
have the pre
is used as
shoutabouti
tries around
I think we h.
ous probiet
ccnsider ca
we want to
and take a
ink him in
helping hit
leaks that W
this stage,
his politics
ly.
Q: What
feet of boy
Philip Ag
names and a great numo~-
ofidentities?
Q: Elgents? ,
A: Foreigners, working foreigners. ~ A: Well. I think that's
S'Je have had a number of Americans absolutely unconscionable
who have indicated that they don't and reprehensible for an
want to work with us anymore -not officer who served with us.
employes, but Americans who have accepted our discipline.
helped us in various ways. ~Ye have a agreed with our activities.
number of foreign intelligence sere- signed a very warm and
ices that have indicated great con- fr:endIy letter on his resig-
cern about collaboration with us - _ nation indicating that he
whether this will be exposed, and valued highly his associa-
they will be subjected to intense lion with us, and that he
would forever maintain the
criticism in their country. I relationship as one of pride
chink this is a very serious and trust, that if he could
problem for our country. ever do anything for us he
We are in the process of los- would be happy to ...I've
ing some of the information got an idea or so as to what
that otherwise we would be ~ he might do. He has named
getting. every name he could think
Q: You mean that some of of that w as anyhow associ-
these other services and sled with us. There is~at
other individuals are no least one family who has
longer confident? been put under consider-
. able pressure as a result of
ihls. A girl hounded out of
A: They re beginning to school because her father's
pull back, or some of them name appears in it. ~:'e
have just stopped working have had to make rather
with us. And, of course, massive changes in our
more serious and yet not situation in that area to pre-
measurable is the number vent people being subjected
who would have agreed to to hardships because of this
work with us, but now won't ~ revelation. Aral the danger
agree to work with us. I is that ta`ris kind of tiring can
have seen a couple of cases so into. the whole action of
where individuals had indi- various terrorist move-
cated they thought they meats. ?1iir. biitrione, as you
would work with us, and know, was murdered in
then came around here very Latin America. There is a
recently and said, "I know I school of thought that says
did.agree. but I don't think I that was a patriotic act be- ,
Q: Have 3?our actual
operations overseas been
affected by the current
furor?
A: Oh, yes, I think the
current furor has laid a par-
ticular problem on us in
iliac people exaggerate CIA.
I see that in Mexico there
was an accusation this
week that we organized the
excitement at the universi-
ty, which, of course, we had
CIA officer. He was not a
CIA officer. A,d I contend
that that kind of a murder i~
totally unjustifiable. But
bit. Agee has put a number
of people under direct
threat of ex2ctty ta'tat thine
happening to them.
createu uy .,..~ - _.._
military did move against
him. If you ask whether
that was a CIA success or i
failure. I would say it was a `
failure, because the pro-
gram we had in mind did
not take place. which was
that the democratic forces
would succeed eventually
through elections in Chile.
Q: l:'as the agency aware I
that the Chilean armed .
forces intended to moti?a
crhen ~heydid?
A: ?'e had certain inielli-
sencecoverage of it and we
had a Beres of alerts indi-
catre t_`t&t it was about to
happen. They key to it was
whether several different
forces would get together to
do it, and ve had several in-
dics:ions that they would on
a ce-'s:n date and then they
di'1:: t. And then t.'tey would
oa anoth:r date, and then
t?:ey didn't. And. than that
they would in September
and they did.
Q: Did tl:e ju.~ra ask the
L'r~ced States or the CIA
c;-I:ether the new regime -
would be recagrtiaed ?
A: They certainly did not
ask the CIA. and I don't
lalow of any other requests.
Q: There have been a
number of reports that you
gave a verbal addendum to .
President Ford after sub-
mi[rng your SD-page repot[
ini ol~ ing the word "assas-
sination." Did you make
such a report?
A: I think I'll let the
President speak for himself
Q: A couple of c?ears ago, on that. Fie has spoken on it,
there ts?as a similar furor and I think it's appropriate.
and public investigation in, Oihenc?ise, I frankly think
volvin~ the agency and ITT that this is a subject that I
in G~.ile. t:"rat is [he truth, wot:Id lire to just stay in a
about the agency's role m total no comment position.
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