COLBY SAYS COLD WAR OVER, KGB FOCUSING ON INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100150009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 18, 1990
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/15: CIA-RDP99-00418R000100150009-7
STAT
The wasnmgton Post
The New York Times
The Washington Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Christian Science Monitor
New York Daily News
USA Today
The Chicago Tribune
Oat* 1 y q9
STAT
Colby says Cold War over,
KGB focusing on industry
By Francis Curta
AGENCE FRANCE?PRESSE
MOSCOW - "The Cold War is
over" former CIA chief
Colby said vests v as he sat in a
hotel thKremlin.
"Of course the KGB is going to
continue its work," focusing more at-
tention on industrial espionage and
the evasion of Western restrictions
to the export of high technology, but
in the field of subversion "there has
been a drop in active Soviet in-
volvement around the world;' he told
a seminar.
He cited the Soviet Union's
greater reluctance to support na-
tional liberation movements, adding
that recently "they sat still for the
Nicaraguan affair."
But even with the end of the Cold
War between the superpowers, intel-
ligence and intelligence services
will still be needed, notably for the
purpose of providing analysis, for
the verification of agreements and
to deal with threats such as terror-
ism, he said.
"But the more comes over the ta-
ble, the less will be needed from un-
der the table;' he added.
Mr. Colby, on his first visit to the
Soviet Union, said: "The most sur-
prising thing about my trip is that I
should be here in the first place:'
The former CIA chief, who
headed the organization from 1973
to 1976 and who oversaw the agen-
cy's operations in Vietnam in the
1960's, spent two days in Leningrad
before traveling to Moscow as part
of his week-long trip to the Soviet
Union.
In Moscow to attend a seminar or-
ganized by the US. Center for War,
Peace and the News Media, he was
staying at an ordinary Soviet hotel
rather than embassy premises, add-
ing of the KGB: "I don't think they're
following me:'
He said he was glad to be able to
see the Soviet Union at first hand,
and had long advocated sending
young CIA analysts over here as
"tourists" to get a feel for the coun-
try.
He was still unsure whether he
might be meeting any KGB officials,
but stressed that in a changing "new
world" there is a possibility for some
cooperation between the CIA and
the KGB "on a very limited basis."
On President Mikhail Gorbachev,
Mr. Colby said the United States had
long "misperceived" him.
"We thought of him as an ide-
ologue, and he turns out to be a very
adroit politician," he said.
Mr. Gorbachev had managed to
consolidate his positiozt politically,
but "he hasn't dared bite the bullet
in economic terms;' he added.
The Soviet president has been
held back in his economic reforms
by fear of a popular backlash to
higher inflation and unemployment
and so, in economic terms, he "has
failed, but for sensible reasons:'
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/15: CIA-RDP99-00418R000100150009-7