QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS BY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100110021-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 35
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: September 13, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Special Report: Center for National Security
Studies Seminar on U.S. Intelligence Agencies
WETA FM Radio, PJPR Network
September 13, 1974
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SENATOR JAM"tS ABOUREZK: Thank you, Mr. Colby.
Before I call on ~4r. Borosage, I have a question I would
like to ask you. Your statement is that covert action reflects
national policy. Now since all covert action is done in
secret, and when it is revealed it is denied by the CIA,
and since it's neither disclosed nor acknowledged to the
public, how can it reflect national policy?
DIRECTOR WILLIAM COLBY: Because, h1r. Chairman,
it is given to us by the established elected authorities
of the United States Government -- the President and the
National Security Council -- and is reported to the Congress.
It is ...
SENATOR ABOUREZK: I might say it's not reported
DIRECTOR COLEY: That may be true, h;r. Chairman,
and as I have indicated, I believe that these matters should
be re parted to the Congress in the manner that the Congress
establishes, and that is up to the Congress to determine
how it shall be done.
You are correct that these covert actions, by definition,
are secret, but they are not denied. Some years ago there
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