OAKTON MAN STILL FIGHTING THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: April 11, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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1r1L' ULUDD (P'IcLean)
1 1 APR 1974
4 by Joseph Gatins
Has the Central
Intelligence Agency tapped
the telephones. chocked and
intercepted he mail, and
followed the movements of
a 45-year old ex-
Scoutmaster and church-
going Oakton resident for
the past five years?
Victor L. Marchetti, now a
Vienna youth soccer league
coach, says it has.
Why should the CIA want
to watch over Marchetti, an
apparently unobtrusive
homebody?
He says it's because he
was a CIA agent himself and
has co-authored a 'book on
the agency which he hopes
will be published this May
but which the CIA has bottl-
ed up in litigation since the
first outline was drafted over
18 months ago.
The book, "The CIA and
t/The Cult of Intelligence," is
rumored to be the biggest
piece of "whistle-blowing"
non-fiction to be vitten on
C. C the intelligence agency to
date.
Marchetti is also the
highest ranking ox-CIA of-
ficer to possibly come forth
with information on the
CIA's clandestine
operations. He resigend in
1969 with top marks on his
latest efficiency rating, after
a 14-year stint in the agen-
cy. He rose from the position
of junior officer trainee in
clandestine operations to
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executive assistant to the Marchetti says the book
CIA's deputy director. I does, however, name some
While Marchetti was at foreign officials tied to th
one time enjoined by the CIA, talks of "what happen
'
CIA not to talk about his
manuscript, he says that the
litigation is now at the stage
where publication will occur,
with or without the deletions
which the agency has re-
quested in court.
The CIA which originally
sought to halt publication of
the book, has now requested
340 deletions . which
Marchetti says would cut 15
to 20 per cent of the book.
These deletions, ranging
from one word to three page
cuts, requested under
various security regulations
have now been whittled
down to 162, 140 of which
were recently denied by a
federal court. The CIA is
appealing that decision.
Marchetti says the book
has a goal of reform; is not
an appeal to the "lunatics."
He contends that both he
and co-author John Marks, a
former foreign service of-
ficer, "believe in some
legitimate areas" of the
CIA's intelligence collection
and analysis, The book,
Marchetti says, does not dis-
cuss names of agents whose
disclosure would jeopardize
life, nor does it discuss or
reveal techniques and
analytical methods which he
thinks are legitimate.
ad in Chile." the - CIA
relations with the press, an
refers to the gamut . o
clandestine operation!
which Marchetti says in
elude acquisition of private
airlines abroad, manipulative
coup d'etats, shoring up dic
tatorships, propaganda, ani
penetration of cultura
organizations in foreigi
countries.
of the agency's clandestin
operations division after
traininq session at Cam
Peary near Williamsburg an
worked for ten years as a
Soviet military intelligence
analyst. He says his decision
to leave came after he spent
three years in "the executive
suite" in the Langley office
where he saw how the CIA
.fits into the U.S. intelligence
comm1:.ity and how much
emphasis was placed on
clandestine
Although the CIA had
many rationalizations for do-
ing so. Marchetti says, it
was the "ominous develop-
ment of a growing
domestic operations section
in the CIA - which came to
full flower in the late 1960's
- which also made him -
question his role and the
CIA role in general..
"Dgmestic operations is the
,single most secret compo-
nent of,the CiA," Marchetti
says. "I couldn't find out a
;'thing on it."
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