(UNTITLED)1. FOLLOWING IS VERBATIM OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF MR. COLBY'S

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• Case Number: F-2018-01728
• Publication Date: July 7, 1973

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1. FOLLOWING IS VERBATIM OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT 9F HR. COLBY'S
OPEN HEARING STATEMENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES ON
2 JULY 1973 RE LONDON OBSERVER ALLEGATIONS THAT CIA ENGINEERED
COUP IN GREECE:
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SENATOR SYMINGTON. THERE ARE VARIOUS MATTERS THAT WE WILL
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GET INTO AND I THOUGHT I WOULD SKIM A FEW THAT HAVE COME UP
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I NOTICED IN THE PAPER SUNDAY AN ARTICLE "LONDON PAPER ASSERTS
CIA ENGINEERED THE COUP IN GREECE."
I WILL READ THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THAT ARTICLE IN THE NEW
YORK TIMES ON SUNDAY, JULY 1ST.
"THE OBSERVER SAID TODAY THAT IT HAS FOUND EVIDENCE THAT THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ENGINEERED THE 1967 MILITARY COUP IN
GREECE AND IS USING.SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF PREMIER GEROGE PAPADOPOULOS
'WAR�TIME COLLABORATION WITH THE NAZIS', TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE
*Requested precise testimony made by Colby if any re CIA involvement in
En ineerin coup in Greece.
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I WOULD ASK YOU, AND ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT OUR POLICY TO PLACE
WITNESSES WHO COME UP FOR CONFIRMATION UNDER OATH, I AM SURE WE CAN
CONSIDER YOU AS BEING CAREFUL TO GIVE US ALL THE FACT. IS THERE
ANY JUSTIFICATION, TO 'THE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGL, OF THESE
ASSERTIONS?
MR. COLBY. I HAD THAT RESEARCHED, MR. CHAIRMAN. THE CIA DID
NOT ENGINEER THE COUP IN GREECE IN 1967. SECONDLY, I THINK WE ARE NOT
IN POSSESSION OF THAT KIND OF INFORMATION ABOUT MR. PAPADOPOULOS
THAT IS ALLEGED THERE. AND WE DID NOT TRAIN HIM IN THIS COUNTRY AS
ALLEGED NITHERE.
SENATOR SYMINGTON. AT ANY TIME HAS MR. PAPADOPOULOS BEEN AN
AGENT FOR THE (IAMB?
MR. COLBY. HE HAS NOT BEEN AN AGENT. HE HAS BEEN AN OFFICIAL
OF THE GREEK GOVERNMENT AT VARIOUS TIMES, AND IN THOSE PERIODS FROM
TIME TO TIME WE WORKED WITH HIM IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY.
- SENATOR SYMINGTON. DID WE PAY HIM ANY MONEY AT ANY TIME?
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MR. COLBY. I CANNOT ANSWER THAT ONE, MR. CHAIRMAN, FOR SURE.
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I DO NOT BELIEVE WE DID PERSONALLY. I CAN SAY
THAT WE DID NOT PAY HIM PERSONALLY, I AM SURE."
2. MR. COLBY IS REVISING THIS STATEMENT FOR THE FINAL
PUBLISHED TRANSCRIPT SO THAT HIS ANSWER TO SENATOR SYMINGTON'S
QUESTION AS TO WHETHER WE PAID PAPADOPOULOS ANY MONEY AT ANY TIME
WILL READ AS FOLLOWS:. .
"MR. COLBY. THE CIA NEVER PAID MR. PAPADOPOULOS ANY MONEY.
THE ONLY ASSOCIATION THE AGENCY EVER HAD WITH PAPADOPOULOS OF ANY
KIND WAS IN HIS CAPACITY AS AU OFFICER OF THE GREEK INTELLIGENCE
SERVICE,
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AND ANY OTHER GREEK OFFICIALS
HOWEVER, THIS SHOULD BE FOR THEIR INFORMATION AND
AUTHORIZED SURFACE THE FOREGOING TO
HE DEEMS ADVISABLE.;
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