AN INTERVIEW WITH CIA DIRECTOR BUSH

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF
February 15, 1976 7:00 P_'i
STATION WTOP TV
CBS Network
SU3JECT An interview with CIA Director Bush
Washington, D. C.
MIKE WALLACE: At no time in the 29 years of its existence
has the Central Intelligence Agency come under such close public
scrutiny as right now. Dirty tricks, excesses, failures, illegali-
ties -- all have been aired before congressional committees and in
the press.
Well, President Ford wants to refurbish the image of the
CIA, to restore our confidence in it. Former Director William
Colby was sacked. The new man is George Bush.
Mr. Bush has held almost as many public posts as Elliot
Richardson: congressman from Texas, Chairman of the Republican
National Committee, Ambassador to the U.N., our man in China. He
was sworn in as Director of the CIA two weeks ago. This past week
in Los Angeles he talked to 60 Minutes.
His first public act as head of the agency was to announce
the CIA would remove from its payroll all journalists working for
U.S. news-gathering organizations. But he refused to reveal the
names of re_pprter,s- who had worked for the CIA, refused to reveal
them either publicly or in confidence to Senator Frank Church's
Select Committee on intelligence.
Frank Church's committee in the Senate wants the names of
those journalists. You will not give Frank Church's committee...
DIRECTOR GEORGE BUSH: I won't, sir, no.
WALLACE: You don't trust his committee.
DIRECTOR BUSH: I trust Mr. Church and I trust his com-
mittee, but I am dedicated to the protect ion of sources...
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