NEW CIA DIRECTOR GEORGE BUSH AND WIFE BARBARA

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TIfl Bush,
new director
of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency, is problem-
laden. One of his major
problems concerns the ex-
posure of CIA agents
throughout the world.
In the past few months
lists of alleged CIA
agents, in many cases
with their addresses,
-nhone numbers, and cover
titles, have been pub-
lished in France, England,.
Spain, The. Netherlands,
Italy, Germany, Sweden,
'1orway' and Finland.
In Bonn, a little-known
weekly newspaper, "Infor-
mation Service," published
the names of 15 persons it
said are CIA agents. In
Athens, it was the publica-
tion of the name of Rich-
ard Welch, CIA station
chief at the American Em-
bassy, that led to his
senseless assassination.
In Italy, "Expresso," the
newsmagazine, listed 28
names, including nine
women; In The Hague, the
weekly "Vrij Nederland"
printed seven names, in-
cluding one woman. In
France, "Liberation," the
left-wing daily founded by
Jean-Paul. Sartre, blew the
cover of the CIA station
chief and others. In Lon-
don, CIA personnel at the
U.S. Embassy have been
widely publicized for some
time. - .. ..
Why aie so many people
in so many countries
against the CIA?
Largely because for
years the CIA has inter-
fered in their govern-
ments. Take Italy. Since
1948 the CIA has paid ap-
proximately $74 million tc
Italian politicians, most
of it to Premier Aldo
Moro's Christian Demo-
crats. All Italian pre-
miers have been Christian
NEW CIA DIRECTOR GEORGE BUSH AND WIFE BARBARA
Democrats since 1945. In
the 1972 general election,
the CIA paid out $9 mil-
lion to various Italian
center-left parties on the
insistence of Graham Mar-
tin, U.S. Ambassador to
Rome, althcugh the then CIA
station chief-in Rome
strongly objected.
In short,one job of the
CIA has been to support
governments-the U.S. liked
and help destroy govern-meats the U.S. did not.
What right has the CIA
got to do this? How would
we like it if the Shah of
Iran contributed millions
of dollars to electPon-
ald Reagan President of
the U.S. and additional
millions to defeat Gerald
Ford or vice versa?
The CIA is absolutely
necessary to collect in-
telligence, but bribing
politicians in a foreign.
country in order to negate
the will of the voters --
that may very well be
classified as dirty pool,
a game prompting anger,
revenge and exposure by
the victims. .
to
George Bush is
find it tough to restruc-
ture the cover apparatus
of his CIA agents_ How
many will have to be
transferred, how many will
have to be givem new iden-
tities, how many will have
to be "buried" in borpora-
tions--all of these are
his problems.
Most of all, how is he
going to prevent terror-
ists, patriots,. Social-
ists, Communists,
nationalists, friends as
well as enemies-from pub
lishing future lists of
CIA agents abroad?
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