WASHINGTON POST BLUNDERS IN COVER-UP OF CIA STORY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300590038-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2004
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Approved For Release 2005/01/11 : CIA-RDP88-01315R0A,00590038`g-7
WASHINGTON POST BLUNDERS IN COVER-UP OF CIA STORY
NEW YORK, Jan. 23-The Washington Post: inadvertent:lYY revealed' today that
the Central Intelligence Agency's attempt: to, establish e military dicta-
t:orslhip in Great, Britain involves a top CIA o:ffical as master of opera-
t:io:ns on the spot in England'.
For the past week front-page news in Britain and' Cont.inentel press,
the CIA and' its front: org,anizst:ions are being openly touted' as the ne-
cessary international Gestapo to step in and deal with the wor'd'wicTc
capitalist breakdown crisis.
The-. Po.s~ty etttempt:irig' to cover the CIA''s Cperation Orpheus as e
""mino-r buxreaucrat:ic shift:," said Intelligence sources at:tribu-t:e the sud-
den 1uefing-up of CIA personnel in Great Britain not: to any CIA "in-
creased act:ivit,y", as such, but: only, tto the "importance of the new 'sta-
tiori chief,a"Cc.rd-'M6ycr.
R. i Smith y Int`alli-
Corc Central is
g-onco Ag'cneyuntil l~6O, rcve ls~in ghas, book y0SS o that the
one of the highest officials of the Agency' and' that, since 1954 he has
been the Chief of the' CIA's Covert: Actian Operations.
Mcy'er is- notorious as- the leader of the CIA takeover of the Nation-
al Student: Association and- penetration of various U.S. labor organiz
t'ions during the 1960s.
The Washington Post, articles was' written by Benard' No'ssit,or, id'enti';-
fied' by Swedish Government. sources, as a CIA agent:. Members of the Na-
tional Caucus of Labor Committees received' e "flat. denial" of this idont-
ificption by Phillip Fo.isio, Post: Assistant Managing' Editor for Foreign
News. Foisio asked "who in the Swed"i.s'h Government: saiA' h'c wr s CIA?" He
then blurted out, "If the Swedish Government has: i.s'sued a st:a temcnt.,
I'll go sec the Swedish Ambassador.""
The Washington Post now heinss the New York Times, in their cover-
up of known criminal activit:ios of the Central Intelligence Agency'.
While publishing last. Sunday a lengthy' front-page tirade against: the
Labor Committees, who have been exposing' Operation Orpheus' intcrnath:loml-
ly since Now Years, the Times thoreughlS' censored any refcrcnca to the
British CIA ;takeover s't,Dry, oven in the article attacking the NCLCL
On Jan. 18, the Times of London ran a story whose source was a selfadmitted CIA agent-Miles' Copeland'--st:a t:ing' that: "between 30 and' 40 extra
American intelligence man have been drafted to Britain since the present
stpt:c of emergency was' introduced',""
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be seen. that the Government: is- incapable rif g'overning'. Militant: tr