MORE OPEN C.I.A. SOUGHT BY COLBY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300170029-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2006
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: December 29, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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SOUGHT CY G06BY,
lnte(ligence Dii?ectar Asseris
He Has a Dirty to Explain,
irl Part, Agency's Role
.. By DAVID BINJEIt
SpectxP to The "lew fo:~TYmes
WASHINGTON, >~ec: 28-In
tale 16 months since he took
office as Director of Central
Intelligence, William. E. Colby
leas made more public appear-
ances, spoken to more reporters
and testified more often before
Congress than any of his prede-
cessors-perhaps mare than all'
of his predecessors put to-
~gether.
rift, Colby has said several
times on file record that he be-
lieves these deliberate efforts
to "go public;' thous!! seem-
ingly paradoxical for an espio-
nage chief, constitute an essen-'
tial part of his responsibility as
the head of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
7n a speech before the Los;
Angeles World Affairs Councir
la$t summer, Mr. Colby ex-~
plained his. credo as follows:;
"tVe in the intelligence profes-'
lion are a;vare that ours must-
be an intellinence effort con-'
dticted on American ?principles'
arld that it must be more open;
and responsive to our public;
than the intelligence activities'
of other nations."
Vretnatn, 'Watergate Influence
Privately, Mr. Colby and his'
press aides acknowledge that
,/ the Vietnam conflict and the
~b'atergate scandal have practi-
calry compelled the leadership
of the C.I.A. to take defensive
steps by letting the public
know a bit more about the
workings of the agency.
Certain Sectors of public
opinion held the C.LA. res~un-i
Bible for both, even though in-
fluential figures in the a~sncy
~varned in Administration coun-
cils against involcemert.
Soon after bjr. Cuihv t~ol