CIA ASSASSINATION PLOTS NOT TRUE, SAYS DIRECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000700070056-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: January 7, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

THE DAILY OKLAHOINMA`3
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Assds7hation
Director -c t cc, r
Army Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters, mental purposes after some emigres
deputy director of the Central Intelli- from Communist countries. were
cence Agency, asserted in a speech killed in Europe by strangers who
brushed. against them in crowded
in Oklahoma City ..Tuesday that no places.
one was -ever assassinated by a CIA- The agency believed it important
agent or as the-result of CIA. plans. % to determine what kind of poisons -
Walters, speaking before the Ro- were used, how they were used and
tary . Club of Oklahoma . City, how' Americans could be protected
charged that CIA critics have treat- from such death attempts. He said
ed revelations of past ? discussions this_ occurred more than 20 years,,-
about proposed assassinations as if ago. = E 'y ,
they were accepted CIA plan. Walters explained the CIA s exper a
Attempts..'on the ` lives. of foreign Imentation with mind-altering drugs
leaders. were merely among things - as ? a reaction to publicly televised
proposed to:the CIA,. but were never confessions of such prominent Com-
adopted, he said..: >r ?'munist resistors as Cardinal a =
Walters dismissed the alleged as 'dszenty
sassination ideas. as, "ancient histo,. He said agency officials ' were con-
ry'.' in terms of how-much has hap- ...vinced that the, resistors had been
petted r,on .the international .scene . 'subjected to some form of. chemical
since. brainwashing because- some of the .-
Walters also defended the CL 4's same 'individuals. had endured se-
past experimentation in the area. of vere Nazi torture without breaking.
chemical warfare. Walters said the recent criticism
-He said the agency developed and has hurt the CIA but the agency has-1
stockpiled lethal toxins for expert- managed to maintain its function.
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