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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
Legislative Counsel
Honorable Ike Skelton
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Skelton:
OLC 80-2158/A
27 OCT 1980
This is in response to your note of 14 October 1980 concerning
the inquiry from one of your constituents,
Though it is beyond our purview to comment on the accuracy of the
referenced articles, we do appreciate your constituent's concern.
The Central Intelligence Agency does make available to foreign
governments unclassified Agency publications in accordance with an
international exchange program authorized in Title 44 of the
U.S.C., sections 1718-1719. Please assure that any
CIA publication earmarked for the exchange program is done in total
conformance with the law and sound security practices. In fact,
prior to any Agency publication being made available for exchange,
it is reviewed by the Deputy Director of the National Foreign
Assessment Center, coordinated with the Department of State and
National Security Council to the extent that policy matters are
involved, and finally, reviewed personally by the Director of
Central Intelligence. Moreover, the exchange program does contribute
significantly to the information available to our government's
policymakers on a day-to-day basis.
second concern was in regard to the airing on
PBS of the film, "On Company Business," and the use of public funds
to support PBS. It would be most inappropriate for this Agency to
comment on the appropriations for the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting. I am enclosing for your consideration a copy of
Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald's remarks in the May 29, 1980
Congressional Record and some reviews, both pro and con, of this
particular program.
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We hope that this response will aid in alleviating
concern in regard to this Agency's participation in the international
exchange program. We trust that you will likewise find the enclosed
information useful in your own deliberations.
We appreciate your interest and that of your constituent,
Sincerely,
Frederick P. Hitz
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.EXTTNSIONS OF -REMARKS
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PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM
AIRS ANTI-CIA PROPAGANDA:
PART I
HON. LARRY McDONALD
OF GEORGIA.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, May 28, 1980
o Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, in
the battle over the proposed intelli-
gence charter for the Central Intelli-
gence Agency, the lobby of CIA
antagonists has concentrated their ef-
forts on a significant issue, that is
whether the CIA shall be permitted to
engage in covert actions against sub-
version, terrorism, and other destabili-
zation operations instigated by the
Communist totalitarian regimes
headed by the Soviet Union and often
carried out through their empire of
surrogate and satellite regimes, par-
ties. and fronts. All are willing to
permit the CIA to have as many sur-
veillance satellites as possible, to look
at photographs, to read Pravda. to
monitor radio broadcasts, and so forth.
But the CIA's antagonists do not
want the United States of America
and its principal foreign intelligence.
agency to have. a capacity for covert
actions against Soviet-backed destabi-
lization and aggression in the Third
World which is, of course, the princi-
pal arena of conflict now between the
Communists and the free world.
During this month, the Public
Broadcasting System aired in succes-
sive weeks a three-part anti-CIA film
entitled "On Company Business." The.
film's coproducer and director has
boasted that he made it "as a political
weapon" which is scarcely surprising
since it featured a number of anti-CIA
defectors who had participated in the
Cuban Government's 1978 people's tri-
bunal held in conjunction with the
11th World Youth Festival which ex-
coriated the U.S. intelligence agencies ?
for opposing Soviet-backed Marxist-
Leninist insurgencies. These defectors
included John Stockwell, responsible
for "blowing" the covert actions
against the MPLA in Angola; Jesse
Leaf; and Jim and Elsie Wilcott: Also
featured was Victor Marchetti, a
former CIA official like Stoclo,veli as-
sociated with the institute for Policy
Studies, a Marxist think tank with ties
to Soviet and Cuban intelligence. Al-
though Marchetti has also obtained
some small notoriety for his 1978
effort to influence the Norwegian elec-
tions by naming names, the film's
principal adviser, and indeed apparent-
ly originally a 20 percent partner in
this film. "On Company Business,"
Philip Agee provided a constant corn-
mentary to amplify charge?a made by
other ex-CIA agents.
Although it is obvious and a part of
the public record that a substantial
number of the CIA defector's used in
the film have links with Cuba or other
hostile Communist intelligence serv-
ices. Agee is outstanding in this
regard. Agee openly thanked agencies
of the Cuban Government and repre-
sentatives of the Communist Party of
Cuba for providing him with informa-
tion for his first CIA expose book.
"Inside the Company." and according
to CIA officials Agee made at least
five clandestine trips to Havana during
the process of writing that book. Just
Prior to his efforts in 1977 in Jamaica.
Agee was sighted in Moscow, .a curious
place to do research on alleged CIA
operations in the Caribbean. And ac-
cording to columnist Robert Moss,
writing in the London Daily Tele-
graph. Agee met with the Cuban DGI
station chief in London on at least 30
occasiens before being expelled from
that country. Agee is currently living
in Hamburg. West Germany, after
being expelled from four European.
countries on account of his continuing
intimate relationship with Cuban in-
telligence personnel.
It should be noted that a number of
veteran CIA officials appear briefly in
the film shown over the Public Broad-
casting System. In most instances,
these individuals were filmed during
or immediately after various public
speaking appearances and were not
aware of the Marxist-left backgrounds
f the f this film.
would also point out that since the
publication this month of a roman a
clef entitled "The Spike." coauthored
by Arnaud deBorche-,rave and Robert
Moss, there has be a growing aware-
ness of Soviet disinformation oper-
ations to plant stories in the Western
media from which they can be picked
up and requoted to legitimize Commu-
nist propaganda themes. One of the
more well known disinformation sto-
ries that appears in "On Company
Business" is the article by Seymour
Hersh published by the New York
Times that incorrectly alleged the CIA
supported a truckers strike in Chile
during Allende's regime. As the
Church committee reports eventually
showed, this was not true; however,
the filmmakers use that Times story
and then follow it with an identical al-
legation by Agee to reinforce in the
viewers mind this false charge.
I do not use this example to single
out Mr. Hersh for criticism. Anyone
familiar with the profession of jour-
nalism is aware of the dependence of
investigative journalists on their
sources. The Soviet strategists are also
?
aware of tria,. acc and there is a con-
siderable body of evidence, much of it
provided by defectors 'from the KGB
and other Communist secret services,
indicating that the KGB's disinforma-
tion department is directing more
than 1,000 disinformation operations
each year in the free world press and ?
that they are utilizing people under
their control or influence in govern-
ment, academia, and the media to leak
disinformation stories to reporters.
The technique is simple: They feed a
reporter several trueseoops. before
giving him the phony one.
An excellent background 'report on
the film, its producers, and its origins
with the U.S. Castroite left has been
published in the Information Digest,
the authoritative news-letter on U.S.
political and social movements, subver-
sion, and terrorism which is published
by John Rees. The article follows:.
ON COMP.-141Y BUSiNESS
The taxpayer-funded Public Broadcasting
System (PBS) on May 9 and 16, 7980, airi d
the first two hour-long segments of an anti-
CIA documentary, On Company Business,
with part three to be broadcast on May 23.
On Company Business has been described
by PBS as'"perhaps the most important
film we've ever shown"; while its director
and co-producer, Allan Prancovich, was
quoted in an editorial page article in the
Oakland Tribune (4/25/80) by former Ram-
parts magazine staffer Marina Hirsch as
saying. "I made this film as both a political
weapon and an educational too). Everything
the CIA does is secret for a very specific
reason. If the American people knew what
was really going on, they wouldn't stand for
it."
In a PBS interview, Howard Dratch, cu-
producer and producti
film, emphasized that "Part of what we--
were trying to show in the film is that
covert action has been continuing: there's
been no change from the time of the
Church Committee: that these covert ac-
tions continue and they continue to be very
dangerous ? ? *." Prancovich has empha-
sized. "You have to realize that ? ? the
CIA is not the problem. The problem is the
foreign policy of this country." And the
problem, specifically, as indicated by the
film and by writings and statements of its
producers, is U.S. intervention against
Soviet-sponsored aggression.
. Although the documentary was rushed
through to completion last year thanks to a
$60,000 grant via the TV Laboratory at
1,NINET-TV in New York from the Film
Fund, a grant from the Independent Docu-
mentary Fund supported by the Unitarian
Northshore Veatch Project which also has
heavily financed the Center for National Se-
curity Studies (CNSS): the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting: FDM Production, Inc.,
a non-profit. tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organiza-
tion; and the Ford Foundation: its produc-
ers are reticent about its initial financing.
Thi.s is of particular interest because
media sources have reported that ix 1976. a
proposal to complete "On Company Busi-
ness" subheaded "A Feature-Length Docu-
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?mentary Film or the Central Intelligence and engaging in V: ionsm in order to set up Television News and the BBC in London:
A7ency With Philip Agee." was circulated in a totalitarian system from Gaurnont-Pathei(Paris-Joiavillea and. - ?
1976 with the PBS market as its intended The 1976 project proposal 'was more dfriotiionnSaility7mthane m
Gfil,rinbperrg (uLcosersAnwgoeulleds).bAw.de- ..,
direct:
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The film credits for part one which dealt. "We are in the process of making a fea. "access to new research .froni Agee's forth-
extensively with CIA intervention in Latin ture-length color documentafy, on the CIA coming book-"o ? ? '
America and the Bay of Pigs invasion as with Philip Agee. former CIA officer and
well as assassination plots against Castro author of the best-selling book ? ? '. The
list -Additional Crew in Cuba." This may film will be the story of thirty years of CIA SECURITIES SMALL OFFERING
provide some collateral for the story from subversion, murder, bribery, and torture as IMPROVEMENTS ACT .
- media sources that they understood the pro- . told by an insider and documented with e-
ducers were planning to approach the newsreel film of actual events. ? ? ? We
Cuban government in 1976 with the propos- have already filmed 12 hours of materials in HON. MATTHEW 3:RINALDO
al for assistance in completing their anti- Canada, England and PortugaL ? ? ?
CIA documentary. . "The core of the film will be a series of hi-
OF NEW JERSEY'
It is noted that according to that proposal, tense and emotionally powerful interviews IN THE HOUSE OF HEPRZSENTATIVES.
On Company Business was produced with Agee. already filmed in Vancouver and
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through a limited partnership set up by the London. Agee is uniquely able to explain Wednesday, May 28, 1980
National Lawyers Guild (NLG) law .firm of how the CIA works. He details his training
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James Larson, Doron Weinberg and Dciiiald and indoctrination, outlines CIA operations Mr. RINALDO. Mr. Speaker. last
J. Stang. Larson and Weinberg are both in the crucial early years of the Cold War in week I introduced H.R. 7397, the Secu- -
recent past presidents of the NLG and vet- Europe, reveals CIA front organizations and rities Small Offering' Improvements .
1
erans of visits to Havana, with Larson agents, and recounts dramatic events in his Act, to increase the small offering ex-
having been a participant in the October years working for the CIA in Latin America emption of the Securities Act. of 1933 _:;.
1977 conference of the American Associ- ? ? s. Based on his past knowledge of CIA from $2 million to $5 million. : ' :. -.-- ::
ation of Jurists (AM), a regional affiliate of Practice and personnel, Agee pinpoints
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the International Association of Democratic . countries in which the CIA is presently en-
I want to call the attention of -all --.
Lawyers (IADL). in Havana. The laywers" gaged in its usual activities, unhampered by Members of the House to my bill and
retainer was a 5 percent interest in the pro-. Congressional scrutiny. to explain the reasons this change. in ? -,
duction. ? ? "? ? ? Behind events, which to the ordi- the law in needed.
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The partnership. *originally called Isl nary viewer seem as incomprehensible as
a- Inflation falls more heavily on smalf.: ''..
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Blanca Films, was located -at 2104 Acton acts of God (sic], we will show the C/A in
business than any other segment of
action. Out of this documentary material a
Street. Berkeley, CA 94702. Now, as Isla American industry. Accordingly, Capi-
consistent pattern of CIA activity will
Negra-Blanca Films. its letterhead address
emerge. A powerful cinematic blend of tal formation becomes a very expert- -
Is 5915 Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA 94608.
? an address also used by the Institute for the filmed on-the-spot investigations, nev.-sfilra, sive proposition. As a matter of .fact,
Study of Latin American Affairs (ISLA), the supplementary Interviews and a. dramatic, the current statutory figure for a .
sound track will make it clear that the small offering exemption is so low --
clipping service of the North American Con-
? ? CIA's policies have resulted in the subver-
g ss . A ' A, that. it is not economically feasible to
Coast office. It will be recalled that NACLA, shwai and overthrow of legally constituted
take advantage of it. Administrative
governments and n the slander, arrest, tor-
the 'intelligence-gathering arm" of the New .
Lure and murder of hundreds of thousands costs, legal fees, and -registration ex-
Left, was given credit by Philip Agee along
of people who have dared to snuggle for a penses consume so much that relative-
with agencies of the Cuban government and
t.? better life. 6 ? ? ly little is left for substantive business .
Cuban Communist Party Central Comm!
tee members, for having aided him in "The film will be analytic, but it will not purposes.
1 : deicing his first anti-CIA book, Inside the pro-
sermonize.. . ,
* abstractions of national security, geopoli-
or allege. It will be go beyond the One constructive remedy is to raise
Company. - the ceiling of the -small offering 6:-
tias, and balance of power to show the
Thus it. is no surprise that while the Gen- is emption to a more realistic figure.
broken lives, hatred, cruelty, cynicism and
eral Partner of Isla- Blanca Films, Allan -despair which result from U.S.-CIA policy. Today that limit is $2 million. The Se- ?
Francovich, was stated In 1976 to own 30 '' ? e.Our film will show how the C/A works curities SmaU Offering Improvements ?
percent of the film. Philip Agee was listed
as owning 20 percent and other Limited and. how its activities fit into a calculated
t - Act. that I have introduced raises the
? . ? policy determined at the highest levels of exemptive level to the more realistic
Partners 45 percent.- . the U.S. government. The CIA is not, as figure of $5 million. My bill will allow
? The 1976 proposal listed an estimated two- Senator, Church contends. a 'rogue ele- ^
a business to raise as much as $5 mil- .
year income from a one-hour documentary phan" ' " .
as S386,000. The U.S. Department of JusticeThe two producers went on to catalogue
- lion in capital and still avoid the enor-
? has already intervened in a Freedom of In. the footage they had already taken during Mous expense associated with full-- ? _
i . formation Act lawsuit brought by Agee in 1975. ? scale registration and reporting. In the .'
. order to claim profits on his books produced
"In England we filmed a Member of Par- 95th Congress, we raised this limit .
In violation of his contract with the CIA. . liament revealing that a CIA-funded organi- from $1,500,000 to $2 million; inflation
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The Allan Francovich-Howard Dratch zation is training Britain's own internal::- alone necessitates that we now raise it
. . proposal makes clear the intent of the film curity forces and wondering whether Eng-.
) ? ? and reveals the "moderate" cloak of concern land could go the way of Chile. Agency offi- Eng-to $5 million. ? _
i ; for democracy they attempted to express in cials were running the normal range of stu
. In addition to the support of small .
1 't their PBS interviews. Dratch, for example, dent, labor, and rn.edia operations out of the business, my bill has the backing of
i reiterated that what was specifically being U.S. Embassy in London. ? ? ? As Washing- the SEC. It is well to note that' '
.1 I attacked was covert action, the capacity to ton debated over policy, the people of through its Office of Small Business
. , actively intervene using a great variety of London could stand outside the homes of Policy, the S'-'C has become sensitized ..
tactics against Soviet and Soviet-surrogate CIA personnel and watch them come and to the specialized needs of smaller
expansion and aggression. go. We filmed an enterprising street theatre
Said Dratch: "When yon get in the bust- group conducting a tour of the elegant businesses. It is through this relatively
ness of covertly intervening overseas to homes of members of the London station, new office that the SEC has endorsed.
overthrow elected officials, to bribe politi- "In November we were filming in Portu- this bill. ? . . _
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dans, to infiltrate labor unions, to do all ' gal. Lisbon buzzed with talk of the CIA. The'
I am also in the process of studying.
these covert action tasks without telling the New York Times revealed that the Agency another proposal which would do for '
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5 - American people?and people overseas know was channelling millions of dollars into the debt securities what this bill i does for ? ' about it. but the American people, as one Portuguese Socialist Party. Day after day .
equity securities. The threshold ceil- - -
person says in the film, are being kept in the Western press ran stories about the im-
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the dark?there, I think, you are endanger- rninence of a Communist takeover. A year_ ing level of the Trust Indenture Act of...,;
Ing the very democracy hi this country long campaign of CIA polarization and dis- 1939 needs to be revised upward as ..
which the CIA is supposed to be protect- . information was climaxing."well. ? ..
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Ing." ? . The 1976 proposal listed trips to Vancou-
I urge my colleagues to support the:
: Among the obvious omissions are men- ver. Canada (October 1975), and to England Securities . Small Offering Improve-
1 lions that the Soviet and other Marxist- Le- and Portugal (October-December. 1975) and
ments Act. o ..
-4 I- ninist parties are industriously subverting said financing was needed to purchase film
unions, blackmailing and bribing officials footage from Visnews. Pathe, International _
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in 1953,-.weth some -help. from the CIA. I
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cruel tie's.: -against inen-rind' Society -than,
Most of. the prisoners, in: their. country's'
jails. Colby; for example, was% charge of:
the "Phoenix" program in Vietnam ythich:
acCounted for....the savage execution (Ofteril
bj. *karroting:.:Ivith..piapri".wire) of 10,000
- ? .? . ? .?elie - . ? . .
medians. bved to bon:sympathetic to
the AineriCan Cc:Use...Hu:nail life rind 'free-
:don't are 'not -highly :Vu iii hi 'Langley,
? - ?
? It is the banaliti of the CIA's evil, its
ordinarines that-Franeavich catches and
. .
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conveys )vith impresfoiee: It's mit-
easy. Wei fi!rnnink?d Hold t bttention-
ifm ati?dience for three Wits "wit It': the..
most extravagant devices and outrageous:
images,.. end. much less so ...when ;ex.!.
trayagance and outrage specifically con-,
tradict: the inessage.. On Cotitpany-Busi-:.
rzes :is ' sometimes -plodding- and: 'over.:
extended:-.blit it iucc6clis.a'S a film be...
cause it is true to its thesis: that:tlie-tOtal
accumulation of::CIA activities and their.;
myriad connections_to the American
painl system must- 'be recorded and
analyzed if the meaning of the Company's
historical, role is to be understood.:'... ?
Tte movie's- technique :,is--straight.
forward: CIA actiyitieS.are recotint4117.,v-
critics such as Age,Nictor Marchetti;andj.
John PtockwellThey are-extensively
Instrated.biold and new fihn clips. of the:
U.S.-backed. attacki..ori Allende's presi-'
dentiar- headqua rteri:- St ey sori?s -
pathetic' Speech at ? the: United :Nations'
denying *.Americari:..p-articipatiOn
Bay. of Pigs invasion, the Shah rettirnini.
to Tehran with his CIA escort. And then:::.
they are rationalized,-justified, or denied
by Company men.
The -:pace is hardly fleeting, and the".
. .
process could be deadening if Francovich.;.
were not *so confident and contr011ed. in .
laying Out ins line. The record he presents
is long,: if necessarily incomplete, and --
-there is not much which is sensationally
new or strikingly revelatory to anyone who.
has fi.,11wed the CIA stories over the years:.
? But sloWly the movie began td produCe_
an effect I never expected:- it surnmons.up -
a Spring of anger I thought had dried long:
ago, exhausted .by the excessive deinarAls.:
. .
of politics in an age of turmoil. When then.
images of all the Americary presidents who
.-
used the'CIA flashed op.-the screen in a
final coda. of .official hypocrisy, I felt like.
shouting ciirses_at them aloud?the folksY.,
Truman, the herbie,Bisetihower, the self-
righteous Kennedy, the. sinister Johnson;.:
the. cleceilluI Nixon, tife?-bland Carter.
These are the villains Its Much as .their;
hired assassins and dirty trickster. and .atl
last their masks have been iemovq: 141
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C;: .FACE 3 May 1980
From Dark to Light
This is the spring of the historical docu-
mentary?here is another. On Company
Business is a three-hour job on the CIA
made by Allan Francovich and Howard.:
Drach which, after playing at Filmex in
Los Angeles, had its New York premier
in the valuable film series at the Public
Theater. Composed in the now-
standard form of interwoven newsreels
and new interviews, but well composed,
the three hours trace the formation of
the CIA after World War H and its
operations in a number of countries
since then, with heavy emphasis on the
agency's intent to influence politics in
those countries rather than to gather
intelligence. As with The Trials of Alger
Hiss, the film's ostensible tone is objec-
tivity and there certainly are spokesmen
for the CIA's point of view, like David
Atlee Phillips who is candid but firmly
loyal; but?againls with Hiss?the very
choice of subject, indeed the very
carefulness -of the balance, ironically
leaves little doubt about the filmmakers'
sympathies.: ?
? Among the ex-members of the CIA
who criticize it are Philip Agee, Victor
Marchetti, and John Stockwell, whogive
their versions of grim activities in.
several of the countries. A. J. Langguth,
former Latin-American correspondent
of the New Yo A- Times, makes pa rticula?ly
pungent comments about Dan Mitrione,
who was murdered in Uruguay by
terrorists. (Costa-Gavras treated the
subject in SE aft of Siege, but the actual
recording of Mitrione conversing with
one of his kidnappers outdoes the film.)
Edward Korry, US ainbassador to Chile
during the Allende regime, is still
bemused. by Nixon's venom on the
subject of Allende. Laurf Allende, the
sister_of the president, tpeaks of her
dead brother with touching dignity. (A
pithy supplement to Power of the People,
reviewed last week.)
Not a great deal in-On Company Business
Will be startling to those who read news-
papers and magazines and who have
done a little reading between lines. For
example, Marchetti says here that, after
' Richard Helms, the former CIA director,
.was convicted of perjury, Helms said
that if he hanged, a lot of others would
hang with him, including Nixon and
Ford. Helms was let off with a $2000
fine and a suspended sentence. The
implication was plain at the time;
Marchetti brings it forward.
Still, the film reminds and strength-
ens. Two matters?again not news?
stood out for me: the connections
between-the AFL-CIO and the CIA,
though stoutly denied by George
' Meany and others in interspliced news-
reel clips; and the statements that
decisions on major CIA moves?from
political pressure to engagement of the
.Mafia for assassination attempts?are
made by the president of the US..Over
and over again we are told that this or
that action goes back to the Oval Office,
whoever the tenant. ?
A sum of 15 or 20 minutes could have
been. snipped out of this film to its
advantage. As with Hiss, Francovich and
Drach accumulated so much material
which interested them that they
dimmed a bit on the balance between
that material and .the endurance of an
audience. After a while, the impact
weakens simply by repetition. ?
. -But the film's final effect is terribly
disqu?ieting. Like every reasonably alert
person, I've known something aboutthe
shocking actions of the CIA?some-
times shocking in their ineptnes'S?and
I've shared the widespread reaction of
outrage, not least that an espionage
system should be used as a terrorist-
political instrument. It's not hard to
understand Iran's present feelings
toward the US after seeing the torture
:rooms of the shah's secret police and
after hearing an ex-official of the CIA,
who dealt principally with Iran, state
that the shah was pretty much a mouth-
piece for US decisions. But isn't my
outrage pharisaical? Isn't it a global
amplification of New York City's
? feelings about the Woman's House of
Detention that used to be in Greenwich
Village? That women's prison was torn
down because it was in the middle of i
town and we all had to lcok at it. What--;
ever went on there still goes on else- t
where, some place where we. don't have -
to look at the building every day arid be '
reminded of it. Isn't what we want a less
visible, smarter, cleaner CIA that does
what it has to do?in favor of
progressive foreign governments rather ;
than reactionary ones? Are we objecting
to. the CIA or its inefficiencies and ?
choices of support?
B.MCERPriTE.
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8 May ? 1980
odic
uets-:. documentary 1-
is as stv ick
? Rill Carterl
The commercial networks are doing their usual sweep-
' period handstands this month to try to get you to stay in
your living room on these lovely spring evenings. ? ?
They are trotting out the big movies, the mini-series,
the specials featuring big-name stars, all for the sake of
. building up audiences for their local affiliates, whcioeed a
break in sweep months because that's when the adver-
tisers look at the ratings to decide where they are going to
spend their money:
Just in case the prospect of another two-part run of the
remake of "King Kong' doesn't give you goesebumps .(or
aehtimps): or you don't quiver with excitement at the
lure of watching 90 minutes of the National Cheerleading
Championships; or you fall short of hyperventilating in an-
ticination of Rona Barrett interviewing Be Derek, Kristy
McNichol, Kenny Rngers?and their-.mothers or your
heart fails to palpitate with lust ever the very threight of a
TV movie about a videotape dating service called "Tee
Love Tapes," maybe you will find some more worthy di-
version in a couple of public television's somewhat more
cerebral offerings this week.
Such as the bi:ginnin?, of the three-part eta tainatiee of
the CIA which vut be the entry the nen three weeks to
onee tction Television,". the series of independently
produced doctunentaries that rune on Channels 22 and 67
Fridays at 9. .
Tomorrow night's first _part of "On Company Busi-
ness" as this documentary 13 called; 1.3k2S a look back at
the ager.cy'e history, and sets the tone for the series, a tone-
that will probably not send joy rushing into the hearts of
. -
, the those anxious to rehabilitate the CIA's image.
. That image took quite a heating during and after the
Watergate scandals, and the beating is going to be
. resumed in this comprehensive examination of some of
the agency's more outrageous activities. Those now-Jamil-
jar tales of assassination plots, conspiracies to overthrow
governments, pay-offs to more favored. tyrants, are resur-
rected tomorrow night and over the next two weeks, as.
this documentary sets out to detail the relationship of the
. CIA to American foreign policy over the past three years.
The relationship descibed in this show is intimate in--
deed. "On Company Business" is not a film that takes even
a half-hearted stab at objectivity. Its point of view is
transparent throughout. It is making a ease for the _dan-
gers of allowing an intelligence organization to exercise
its power unchecked by the government on whose behalf it
is sus:Ilk:Iv:1 to be acting. ? ? ?
The presence of some of the agency's more' vocal
. critics?including Philip Agee and Victor Marchetti, for-
mer agents who have published highly critical books about
the agency?in dicatee this is no bouquet to the CIA:
Part one has some trouble getting going. largely be-
cause the documentary takes the form of a chronological
ztudy, using old newsreel footage interspersed with triter-
-?
?
itiew4 to pilau* the agency's. beginning:s. Like other inde-
pendent documentaries, which believe the "modern" ap-
proach is to leave out all narration, this one attempts to
till in the gaps with the interviews: . ?
. It is not the best technique for this kind of docamen-
. tary. A narrator definitely Woild have helped. This kind of
film 54tY113 to presume that anybody watching already
knows plenty about the subject, a conceit that only a show
'aiming for airing in the elite world of public television
? would dare. ? ??
But 03 the slow progresses it be-cern-es much more ab-
iiorbing-:?provided you can get past the imperfect tech-
nique: There is certainly much to ponder in the skuildug-
ger,v, of the CIA over the past 3e years.
Part two will concentrate On how the CIA has at-
tempted to shape public opinion in America, epecificelly
,as regards American activity in Latin America ia the
19503. Part three examinee in detail the CIA's part in :he. ?
overthrow of the Allende regime in Chile. It also Includes ?
suggestion.3 for the future role of the CIA .from f-ot'a the
ngency critics and some supporters, such as William
Colby, a former director of central intelligence.
Obviously the eource of this film must always he I
remembered in considering its message. It is an independ-
ent him and that immediately set:, it apart from a net-
work documentary, which probably wonld never take on a
subject such as the activities of the CIA with its. point of
? view hanging out. ? ?
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-yearning for a strengthening. of theTCT.A so'
'.;.e
that it once again could have thept4er to act
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For those .74."'???W I
effectively in such places as Iran:ind Cuba,:
there is a long tedious, redundant, but pro.?
:
? vocatively effective film which should be re-''L?
quired viewbv ? - . ?? . . - ?
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TELEVISION'PREVIEWaMEZVA 7' -L.
, undercover CIA activities. .
*;?L,.. either its lemg TV fqrm orin. (one hopes) it. _ is difficult, to emerge (weary .and
? A shortened theatrical version. On Company disoriented) from a three-hour viewing of this
Business"..(PBS.?Fridays: May 9..16, Z, 9-10 'film without believing that the CIA has al-
p.m., check local listings fiis premieres and tered the way - of political life. not only of
repeats) focuses its- attention on the Central hut of the world as well.The concept
Intelligence Agency from its inception to the of deniability, feasibility, foreign policy mis-
present day, and on what the program sees as chiefs are discussed openly by ex-CIA person-
. ? its horrendous misjudgments, its atrocious ? -net and anti-CIA authors who argue both for
mischief, all of its majorfaults which the free... and against such tactics. -Are these due to
. floio of information.hrlhis country has 41?.7 misguided idealism, to paranoiarto economic
? lowed producers:;?:Howard Drach and .7 . necessity, to changing times, to new forms of
.-pr0ducer/d1r&ctor4-.Allan-.?:Francovich .? to ?-? diplomacy? Is it really in our national inter-
gather, collate, and present for.theedifitation-, - est? Do wehave it under control now? -1.
of. generations -,of4f.Americans.,with short.-.::,44 Such are the questions thisthree-hanr film
memories. ? ,7t.:?;;? ? ? '7. ? raises, "r?- while offering: no?-solutions..The
Whatever gond the CIA has accomplished viewer can formulate his own additional ques-
ts seldom,, It' ever; mentioned (assuming that-..--tions: Should thesystem be changed?'How?
the filin's creators believe- that such-actions; -7 Can we champion humaa rights at the seine ?
, are a reasonable part of the record.)-..-i?e-,.??-7.. 4.i.tirne as we abridge them in other parts of the;
_ ?
lows the pattern of such.a..,..recent Cuba,-.1razi:.?and "..
Ophul opus ast'The Sorrow:and the Pity:;.iti-i...-:!Angola reflect thedirector's special interests
Jerspersing ? talking , head:.)nterviews,: with,,,s--:-7.-but. it is apparent. that evidence of other
?newsreel shots and location-establishing foot--5rzCIA:!'mischief" could be uncovered ;? if there -
'age.- There is nn.Commentarypther.than-ther.;,i.islhewill..The film discovers what it consid-
jepetitiously one-note attitudes of suc.h-wit4,-ers our.own amoral, unethical, undemocratic;
messes -as Philip Agee;Milliam autocratic, maniacal, criminal activities, but
ard Helms, James Wilcott.- yictor.Narchetti.-:!::: never once does it take an honest look at the ?
David Phillips. and. John. StockwellJt is- rest: of the world and what it is doing along
paranoid film which ascribes just about every-, .':similar lines. Seldom does it find any viable
? anti-Soviet event of the past few decades to'..-ralternatives..":":.:.-_-,:7;:
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8 Nay 1980 wie%
By Arthur Unser
New York
Producer-director ? -Allan Francovich
doesn't flinch for a moment when his inter-
viewer opens the discussion by telling him his
three-hour film is too long and should be cut to
90 minutes. ? ?-; ? *- e,
: He seats himself carefully in. a comfori-
able-chair in the interviewer's home and says'
calmly: "Well, it has already won prizes and
much acclaim in foreign film festivals in its
three-hour length. . .." That Seems to end his
consideration of the idea of cutting a- work
which is obviously a labor of love. a- Le Se
? INTERVIEW
eZeezeaneeen
Mr: Francovich Francovich looks and sounds like a
19SOs campus activist finally getting revenge
for the way-out accusations he once aimed at
? the CI& which were:laughed: off as 0-Ura-
1 gecius then, but laterproved to be mostly true.
However, he insists that he was not a college:
activist. lie lived and was educated in Latin
America, attended college in Lima, Peru, and
Paris. Well, throw in a few years at Notre
Dame and the. University Of California at
Berkeley and you may find a little campus
? ?
? Do we need the CIA at all? 7-??? .
"I think there's a need for intelligence. But
a lot of what the CIA has been doing is not in-
telligence. ? . ? . _
It is actively involved in intervening in
these countries, penetrating all kinds of insti-
tutions of power. There is rea reason to think
that the same people who are doing this won't
use the same methods here in the US sooner
or later. The cases are becoming more and
more frequent. This kind of manipulation
simply does not work in the long run."
? But isn't Russia doing the same kind of po-
litical mischief and manipulation? ? .
, "I don't know. I've asked people in the CIA
and I've been told that, at least in Latin Amer-
? ica, the Russians operate in a different way.
If you look at the historical record, the CIA
has been essentially running Iran for the last
30 years despite the fact that the country bor-
ders on the Soviet Union. There would be ev-
ery reason for the Soviet Union to dominate
Iran as touch as.. the eUS dominates
,!Guatemala... ."
Or Cuba? What about the Soviet attempt to
dominate Cuba?
Mr. Francovich looks a bit embarrassed.
'Well, you have to ask yourself: The Rus,
acovesne . .
? Why is there not air Interview in the film
with the current head of the CIA? .
."People won't make-factual statements on
current situations. People like Colby and Phil-
lips and Agee talk openly because they are not
in the establishment like Stansfield Turner,
who will- never talk in any- detail about any-
thing of substance." - se: s:-. -.- e ? ---: -
i Is INI.n Francovich a leftist politicallyn"--
I. "Left; liberal. But that has little to do with
the film. An enormous effort went into testing
everything that is in the film. There is nothing
that could not be backed up by a Ipt of other
information:A lot a the CIA intervention dure,
lag the early years was a natural response to
Stalin. e ? onh the ...:? ? ? .. .7:4
? "I made a deliberate effort to make sure
that this would not be the kind of film that
those student activists would make: I think if
you do have a certain perspective on things. it
as to be tested against e historical record:
For instance; it's quite different to interview
some student activist who'si: been involved
against the current regime in+Chile and have
him tell you something and then to sit down
with the former ambassador to-Chile or Laure-
:Altende. You get.real perspective that way..a?:::
Mans are helping Cuba but do they have con-
trol oyer the Cuban government?" . ? ?
"Well, in my film Victor Mar&ietti, whZ)
was a high-ranking CIA official at the time
that Castro came to power, .believes- to this
day that Castro was Cuban nationalist until
Nixon and the CIA started a whole campaign
of destabilization, attacks, assassination at-
tempts; etce against the :Cuban ::regime.,
Marchetti believes it was our policies at that
stage-which pushed _Castro into the, arms of.4
the Soviets. ? ? ' ''??? .
? "If you start intervening in a-country like
Cuba or Iran, what you are doing is gradually
pushing them until they will get help from
wherever they can get it usuaik-y-ifie
ets. You are polarizing the world rather-than
treating these countries with some respect
:and accepting that these countries have every
-right to take the position which they think
? they should in the world. If you run sabotage
missions, burn cane fields, poison livestock,
try to murder leaders as we did in Cuba for
many years, you Can't expect those people to
loveyou.. .." . ? .e.e.e.e? ee.ere:;zee. ?
the CIA is allowed to proceed in the
hiext 20 years the vay they have proceeded in
the past 20. it is simply going to force those
? countries into closer contact with Russia and
But what makes Mr. Francovich so certain
that Russia and .China are not doing very
similar things? e ? ?
"I think they are obviously involved in fur-
thering their national ends. but I think their
way of operating. is different. For instance,
Russia provides a_ lot of help to countries in
Africa. They had a long-standing relationship ,
with the Angolans before the Portuguese were;
kicked out. And what they were doing was
providing training and arms. . SS"- -""
Is that so different from what we were do-
ing? Mightn't a filmmaker find the same kind
of atrocity stories about the KGB which this '
movie uncovers about the CIA? _
"R'S hard forme to say." ,e
Wouldn't it be hard for you to gather infor-
mation? Wouldn't you lack the freedom which
?allows yOu to do this kind of film here? - ?
.
"'Yes.-But I would leave that kind of show'
to CBS or NBC or ABC." ? s ? ? --
- Does Mr. Francovich feel the CIA is now
under control? It-is a. question asked in the,
third hour of the-ffirn. . ? ?
"I think it has. always been under control..
If I wanted to summarize what the film says. I
think it says that the CIA really is not the
problem. You have to look deeper, ask your-
self what the foreign policy of this country is.
And you have to look at the CIA as an instru-
ment for serving this policy. Why is it that
over the years this country has seen tit to sup-
port all kinds of people who are being hated?"
So, does Mr. F. believe there is a secret cabal
Leading our relations with foreign countries?
"No. .? There. are: certain goals, dynamics
that are inherent in or economy_ If you were
president of Bell Helicopter, you are not going
to let them take-away $300 million that you
are making out of the Sbah's regime just be-
cause some guy in the State Department or
even the CIA says that in the long range thh
will be counterproducUve...."- ? -
Does Mr. F. want the CIA to be dissolved?
"No. I think it is part of government. But
the very nature of this beast is to do things it
such a way that the US government itself car
disclaim responsibility. I think that has tr
change."- -
But hasn't ? - all diplomacy changed'.
Mightn't it be that the age of top-hat-and-tail:
'diplomacy is over. that CIA "mischief diplo
macy" is the way all the major powers will b?
handling foreign relations from now on? Per
haps what Mr. F. is yearning for is a return t
an era that will never come hack? .- - -
"No, I don't think so. That is always the ra
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ON
9 May 1980
1. .*-4?1; ?? ? -
"On Codiria'ny-"Business," a ? three-
ciitical- history of-the CIA and
4:the.;world.,;?beginS tonight at- IO.:bn
f-
Channel .2f1 .with an overview *o-the .
in
- ageneifrO its post World War II be-
-on7thrOngh such deba-
- the Barior. -Pigs invasion in
;.;
- -'Thefilth, biHeiviaidliratch-rid Al-
:?lari ? FrancoVich; 'Hits- :clef eefor
? Philipt Age consult.
....:. .
ant' and --be,.,-.ii....t.:extensiVely. -.inter.;
viewed on. carnia. Grateful acknowl-
'e4gement.l.i.mde to something called
'The. FOtizidatiOrklfni; Open Company
Ind Hence there is little pretense of
. . .
this being an objectiVe- report Anyone
:.- ? ? . ...b .
bpproachirig:.it? without that reall-za-
Hon ts.iill .foe.a2sle_igh ride....
' "iiiit.ii..faCk.;PietitZality.aos iltif?itt-
?-tematically. inean.-ii lacks .value, how-
ever' and .the .filmmakers manage to
raise disturbing ? questions about the
CIA and how it -ew and grew, and
grew, not; so much .like .Topsy as. The
'Binh:. Biwa* it -"tile TthiciSt nf .COld4ar
. . .. ... .... .. ... ?
antl-Comnimus' t fervor,. the.. agency
. . .
lwa.1,? charged with:.: increased .. .global
_housecleanirm;choresr.unt14 says for-
mer CIA officer. David Atlee.Phillips,.
?it ,reachedlaustate ,int.w1-410-,"intepi-
- gence. was 'asked 4a:dor:what . armies
..should- hive donet."-- on ti.:.f-Zse.f-P:'. '..t..71:." "'' -
1:: ;:.l.ill.e..hi.S,t0.rS .....-ftii.d; Sethi-aliOnOlOgi
1.'illii!...-withottt. narration 'but.:with the
l'ilmning ConamentarYnf OlstnewSreels
'.settint.therscenes.fo?..y.arious.culti-
:-.ti-igueg--itid "adventures: 'Ain't' ' from'.
? the ce ntralAntelligence;cit Itte:filmri
,?-?the.-newsreel--annotnicer.s-come.boom?-
-c"*0-opl.Yestiry'r?:,..aistiti*' are i;:ti !
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Pj.. Inds,$)-.4Alci.-0'.*.krigsti&.int-eriiretatio i
'la-Visaed' eventg:Thti-viaS a time-When "1
.6-irwal:iii--a?g-a.iri-st:tlieri-Carict- there was i
1
. to donbt about us. .s ?TIti:thi;',.. 1
Thus . a 1943 Movietone newsreel
about elections. in Italy speaks of
"Italian Reds" and a "Communist
peril." A later newsreel conjures a
Commie takeover of art American
town: "First, the mayor is hustled off
to .jail." Even.. the . Bay of Pigs goes
through the laundry, as-charges that
the -United .States-'was involved are
"quickly,' forcefully" denied by- Adlai
E. Stevenson at.the. United Nations.
And ? the aftermath of ? this ?botched
rniSsiononaequalled irr-our history-tn-.
ti ithmy:- Carter's--.abortive ...Irani in
rescue .is the
"eagidlepilOgto.a gallantiventtuse:?':?.----
-..Thefighre-ofphistortpe:atirig
self doe's.haunt tht'Prngrini:.whicti -rn-
cludei'early.:.footage'. of the shah of;
Iran beiri?SrbiraCqlonsly reposed after`
being briefly deposed:
more cogently documented 'irt --anATBG!
News report on the Mideast-last-year:n5
: President Eisenhower's press :seare...:..
tary, James Hagerty, also. Solinds..
eerily contemporary when in newsreel
footage he declares, 'There is a limit
to what the United States can, in self-
respect, endure." Alas, .that limit
seems to -have been raised in 'direct
proportion to the degree to ..which the
CIA has been exposed and "restrained
in recent years. ? . . ?
The documentary is more impres-
sionistic than methodical,. and its view
.of the CIA. as a-runaway train, or. at
least a runaway caboose, does not
seem tempered by 'world realities.- A
recitation of American espionage dis?:.
graces at this precise moment is cer-
tainly .discomforting.. though not nec-
essarily in a veryusefurway..
There is 'also-the. disturbing pro.;
spect that some of .the Cold?Ntiar ti--
; rades againAtthe.Soviet.T.Inio.n and.its
plans:for.. yi,orid domination. may have
hieri..Ays:(ericalii,statedin..their.time
_ but seem. not
pre-
posterous. Company Buss
,,nesCAay, be-faintich.a tannel-yision
?
documentary as'a.television documen-
tary,. . but it deserves to be shown.:....
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took 'ears.
By Torn Jory ?? ?
Asscciated Press
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? ? ? NEW YORK makers Allan ?
Franeovich? and Howard- Dratch spent
nearly five years. makinocs:"On Company.
Business..determined to produce a
? thoughtful., fully documented history of
the Central Intelligence Agency.;?.: ?
? ..: were riot trying to be another
Sey.. miiur?Hersh.7Dratch. says. referring
to the former New York Times reporter..-
who- broke. a'. number-of stories on the ? ?
CIA In the mid-1970s.,...!*Our objective
was a 30-yearoverview that would have. 7
a Cumulative power nalike the irnmedi-. ?
? -ate impact of a newspaper .expose..
? Our approach let's sir back
and look at the CIA in a careful, inte.111- -
gent way.- Their:product is a three-
hour; three-pare 'documentary to be
aired by-7WGBH-TV (Channel 21 tonight.
tomorrow and Thursday at 10:30 p.m..
Much of the motivation for the pro-
ject came during the congressional in- ?
qUiry into CIA activities that followed
Watergate. The agency revealed for the.
first time- rimong other things - inter-
ference in the domestic affairs of other
? . - ? ? .
coUntries. ??? . ? ? ?
? :?:-..??-? ? ? ? ? .
The two BIM 'makers: conducted '
about 50 interviews 'with. persOns with!:
first-hand knowledge of the agency an&- -
Its business, and spentsmonths looking
at. film in this country and abroad that ..
would support and illustrate what they
? had learned.' ?':":?.?
were- dealinki Witlt arr opa
kind of subject.7)DratehSayS:1-*.and that;
- compelled us to Z-ross-referenteanythingl
nne persork?said-th:4what,another,told_7;.
/us?' ?
-r.We
rvich. -for being extraordinarily careful:?
? with the film_A?lot of what-we did not. .
' use In -.the final:*eislciii i .ei-e to docUz.:1;
men t'what. we did tise:';.;???:.'.' .1i ? - rt
? The documentiiiiiaces?
US foreign. 'policy:: With; ,the CIA:as the:,
common thread; frOrathe end of World - -
:War IL: through. the Marshall Plan and ?-:.
the Truman Doctrine:7 the- Korean-
filet. the Cold War. thCF.,.ay PigS
sion of Cuba, Vietnam;.thecoup in Chile
? and the revolution ?
? Among those interviewed on film are
former CIA office;rs Philip Agee, Victor
Marchetti. David Mkt Phillips and John
Stockwell. . : ?
' The two filmmakers Say they encoun-
tered no official risiance to their work.
':But generally."speaking." Francovich-i.:
says. -when . someone gives, an -inter:-?,-
viesv. they give it for a reason? . . ?? - ? ?;:.
..
' -The reason a lot 'of people-ivere
public at the time.- he says. refer-'?
ring
ring to the period during and immediate.!.
ly after the congressional investigation.
-7was to protect themselves as these rev- 7.
elations about CIA activities were made.
And, of course. there .were those with
axes to grind.. .
. ???-, . . -
? . 1.Ve ?1.vere - trying, to g,et. beyond alt..:
these ax-grinders." he says. -and look at.
the history of this institution. One of the
shocking revelations- was that the CIA ?? -
was not running out of control, was not ? ."
a rogue elephant, and that some of. fhe...
things it had done with the knowledge of
the President and in the name of the
American people were pretty horrible."
The leadership of the CIA," Dratch-
says. -came across as well-trained,.
'mannered 'people with the best inten-
tions. but, with 'a definition of. national
Interest- that- seems to be turning the
world against the United States..." -
: :The fu?St-instalim-ent reviews the cre-iirt
elm-rand early bperation of:the CIA.
chiclind the *agency's. init,olverrient with
the la4;or 'movement 1n -Europe.. In- the,
tate- 19403-and-early.:.50s.:?;:::-.?
? ,--? ? ? " ???? ? ?:???:???.---..;.4.!?;?:-
:,:_?;:.-pi xamines. the-agency s-riieth-.--
ods of manipulating public opinion,
Ing CIA ?activities In. Latin America In
lustration.. The concluding chapter
siders the CIA's role in events that led up-
to the 1973 coup.in Chili.; and exiAores
CIA accountability tisk theArnerican
?? "'On Company Business-. was corn- -:
pleted with a grant, from the - indepen-?
dent Documentary Fund. which is
ministered by the Television Laboratory
at New York's public TV station, 1,/NET. ???
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THIE .WASHINGTON STAR
? 28 May 19 80
`37111TTY BEA11 .
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'Pet-plexitY: aiad: outrage. Were
being expressed by a group of
Washingtonians. who were sit--.
ens- by the pool at the Archie
Rooseveltst house Sunday after-
noon.... ; ? a ? ?
.
.The ingeF andebewilder-
ment had nothing to do with
Archie and Lucky's celebration
of their 30th Wedding anniversary which was 4
.super success. Indeed, the only astonishing
. thing was that they managed to be warm and
? hospitable at an all-day entertainment feat that
began at 1 pea. and lasted until 9 p.m. Most peo-
? ? tale were invited to come to their Peorgetown
.. house between 3 and 9 and didn't know that the
six-hour at-home had been preceded by a lunch-
eon for out-of-town guests! ? ?
The party also celebrated the engagement of
Theodore Roosevelt's great grandson and
'Archie's son, Tweed Roosevelt, to attractive
Candace MacGuigan who will be married June 7.
Tweed, who's in his mid-30s, works with a man-
agement consultant firm in Boston. - ? ?
The steady in-flow of guests who included
-Egyptian -Ambassador,Ashraf.Ghorhal, Italian
Ambassador P3010 P3033 Cedronio, Jean Bee,
the ?John Brasses, the John Colvint, the Phil Bu-
chens, Bill Blair. Ruth and Wiley Buchanan. Joy
and Bruce Sundlun; chic oil company president ?
. Jean Lindsey who flew- in for it: and the Bill
. Corogs were treated to a changing and delectable
- fare. The buffet went from a many-dishBrazilian
. luncheon .to an ample Cocktail "colladon.with a
. hot chicken and rice dish added at suppertime.
Out by the poet-at one point. Betty Burton,.
bachelor lawyer Michael Butler and forther high ?
CIA official and later assistant secretary ot De-
fense Jack Maury were discussing WETA's three- -
part TV series. "On Comeanv Business." which
(according to WETA) was funded be the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Ford Founda-.
;ere a?e_e? eeendeeneeeetaeLeeetete ?
?
"- Betty Burro asked why, we in the public; -;
should be paying for a program that discredits
our own CIA? Butler felt the same way and. I
_Maury, who served in intelligence for 33 years.,
went so far as to say. "If I had seen-those films -
without knowing where they originated, I would
have guessed they had to coma from one of three-
places ? Moscow, Prague or Haeaaa." Why j
Prague. he was asked? "Because Prague is one of
the major outlets for Soviet pro,paetanda .in the .1
West". ? e -. ?
"I recall." continued Maury, "one of theenost
knowledgeable-defectors from the Russian intelli-
gence service said, 'Our first priority was always
to put out the eyes of the enemy by discrediting
? and disruptinghis intelligencesereiced . - -
7 He also recalled that Philip Agee, who was the-
- consultant to the WETA TV?serineand we quoted I
most extensively in it wrote in an article in the
June-197g Esquire: "I aspire., to be a Commtiaist
and a re-aolutionarf."
Former CIA Director Bill Colby and former CIA I
-
Chief of Latin-AmeriCaa Operations David Phil- 1
lips have both called Agee the CIA's first defector, t
said Maurf, and he has been deported from Eng-
land, Rolland, and France andie not allowed to
enter Italy. - - ? -
(Both Colby and Phillips appear briefly in the I
film but says David Phillips, who is active in the ?
? Association of Foreign Intelligence Officers ?
? AFIO ? both were filmed three years ago and
.,. their enviers to specific questions were lifted out
of context and "selectively edited." ARO. reveals
Phillips, had asked Vird?I'A for a half-hour to rebut
the three-hour series.) ? '
Roosevelt biographers Edmund and Syleia Mor-
ris were at the Roosevelt party. Edmund, whose
"Rise of Theodore Rooseeeli" was hailed as: the
definitive book On TR last year, is writing the sec-
ond volume now-and wonders if there won't be a
, third. The second, that begins with his presi-
dency, will be caned "TheodoreaRoosevelt, Rex."
? Sylvia brought with her her own just-published
-.volume,. "Edith Kermit .Roosevelt: Portrait of a.
First Lady," to give to Lucky and Archie. Like Ede.
raund's first volume, it, too, has been selected as a.
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THE WASHINGTON POST
28 May 1980
. A Complaint - to PBS I
The Association of Former Intelii,!
genre Officers has asked the Panel
Broadcasting Service for a hag-hour.
. to .respOnck to the recent three-hour(
documentary called "On Company
Business," which was put together by
independent producers.. .
-? ? - telegram to ? PBS President;
Lawrence Grossman . .
President John F. Blake called
Yjati .Company.:Business" . "a ten?
.clentious? television review of intelli
gence . history. and ? function.". adding
:that: if.we ?are;astounded that PBS of-
feted fa.. forum -for an alleged docn-
?. ?
mentary whleitt: carries ..the- sordid int-
lirlmatui-Of Phil Age-:special consul-
tant
* '? -
? : .Blalte's.telegram. identifies Agee as
the "CIA's first defector".
? Thef.telegrain also. said the associa-
tion's ? 3,000 members "are dismayed
And 'shocked that -PBS has. devoted: -
-three;houri.- to 'devious; insidious 'andi
at times false history on an issue ?of
. .
.pliblie:Anterest--the role of
intefli-
gencO?perations' in American foreign.
-
,..;.f.Grossman!.'said'Yesterday that PBS
-hadn't-had -a?nce.? to study the
request r ?? but Barry. Chase. PBS!
.7directbe-Of elitrint; affairs program-
Ming, said it doesn't seem likel:v?the
request .for??? the half-hr;iir,??wilf.'.1i0:
. ?-:-
Said .Chaser -"The .telegrant cuircen:'
,
iently ignores the fact.that 'William:
Colby and David Atlee Phillips. bothi
artieulate defenders of the CIA, apq
Pearedori- the program,: : : and ? thei,:. ?
telegram; appears to be a. visceral!
-negative reaction to the appearance. o?
i
Agee....-...--.? - - ' - .:' ? :.
Phillipswho is a.. former. chief 94
.CIA operations. in ? Latin-America.,an0
? ?
?is now board chairman of the associa
..60o.:.said yesterday. that in addition to-
-cOmplaintS:-. made-- tin--'-the
'teig,gram.,both he and- formec CIAJ
-direct-or Colby were. intetyleWed for
the series' 'ttirefi:"-friaste,. --34.?4=-3i?eir. ?
a,,or. and. that?. neither_h-i'mir;--- Colby
.,,,vould have ? agreed .to be.; intervieweg.
if "we'd . known that subsequently
we?d. be- appearing with Agee--'in the.
way-the program .presented....
!.-Th -.documentary whieh. airect.
.over three Fridays on PBS...Ouring-
INIarr:7".":-P-I*iciiie-W-bitiffit
FrancOich ? and 'Howard. Dratch
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PBS Sp. -eciA
Rips Into CIA . .
The taxpayer-financed Public Broadcasting Sys-
tem (PBS) _has been featuring a three-part TV.'
series on the Central Intelligence Agency called
"On Company Business." The major thrust of the
series: that the CIA, in the name of fighting com-
munism, has been wiging a wicked war against
genuine nationalist movements all over the world.
Judging from the series, in fact, communism has
never been a threat. - - -
Put together by Allan Francovich and Howard
Dratch of the Isla Negra-Bianca Films in Berkeley, -
Calif., the film .was financed through a PBS-..
administered fund whose major contributions
come from the Ford Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts. The anti-CIA tone of,
the film is not particularly surprising, especially
when one becomes aware of the raging anti-CIA
sentiments of Francovich and Dratch.
HUMAN EVENTS has a copy of the proposal for
the film project that Francovich and Dratch were
circulating as far back as 1976, hoping to get fund-
ing Tor its completion. This proposal,. also called
"On Company Business," was not the one they
eventually submitted to PBS, but Dratch, con-
tacted in New York by ns, admitted that it was the
genesis of the antiseptically worded outline that-
was finally accepted. . ?
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"ON COMPANY BUSINESS"' ::-?,-. - .. CIA Director Richard Helms insists before a
Directed by Allan Fra ncovich ? ? . . . congressional committee that top govern mcr.t
Produced by Francovich and Howard Dratch?....:..-. officials on the National Security Council and
An Isla Negra Films Production....? : . . ?. ? .? in the Defense Department knew of the anti-
On .
Public Television-May 9..16and 23. ':? .. . i?-?"--.. Castro plots. At the same time, the fil m shows
.7.. ' ?,... '. ? .::-. .-.--. -... -.7:,? -,,,,.? ? :-.,-....... .: .. ...:. President Kennedy at a 1961 press conference.'
By BETSY-STONE - - -?-::.-?::. :-? ..-. ? ---? ' - - ?.:Adlai'Stevenson rep-resenting the U.S. at the
. _
. At a time when President Jimmy Carter, UN,:and CIA director- John N1cCone?all
1 -
Mitrione worked ir the intermsnat ..io Police.
Academy and later moved to Uruguay wh.era
- he trained police in matters of intelligent:,
collection and repression techniques in orden.
? to help them coritrol the growth or l'eftis?
? . _political movements. Mitrione was late:
kidnaped anti murdered by U ruguay's leadini.
. revolutionary-group, the Tupama ros.. .
liberal politicians and? the-newsmedia are all :-.-:-.. categoncally denying U.S. involvement in the ..?. . -: On- Company .. Business' . is ex haustivell
calling for loosening restraints on the Cenkral-.........i:_Bayof Pigs operation... . -. .., _ .: - -1 *.e.....'. - ;.. _:-...thorough in recounting most of the CIA'
I ntel hgence.Ager:cy (-CIA) a new documentary ..;?:".l?-;T.-hen, just to let us know that the CIA is still' - _ activities abroad. including its operations i
is confirming what critics of the.U.S.imperial ?:.-.5:.-..tryingtofool all of the people most of the tirne....-:: Europe. Latin America. Iran and Africa. NA/ till
"systen-r-havalways. known-that;,. far :from :-.???.;
. . . . ? .
_William.Colby tells the filmmakers that: well,'..; ' .-. is glaringly absent?.however, is any present:.
being s"...17ieil;*1 the CIAhas--.'-been- freety..,:,:iiyes.:theCIA did try- to kill Castro, but theie is _-_;',..: tion on the CLik's activities. in Viet na m,I t. i
. - ?
.exporting destabilization techniques. torture ..,:.;-.._no.,..e;iidence?that.'it"s: been invelved-in_other ...-...".runfortunate-that -wiiiiant.Coloy?who-.is th
?devic.,assassination plOts-ind.chemical and ,.7.,*-1.assas,SinatiOnattempts. Quick camera Cut to 3,-;-?:f-.'.epitoirso ?of....the.cool: and 'reasonable- publi
biologiaktiii-aifare-in oriler;pa,prote_t. l'. -U:S.;;;-:.;.tievaa,r._eel_.-.:a of Congolese- leader Pa Vice-';.1.-f?;-,relations Man for the--CIA-:--is not challeng-
.-..ecoriornicrand ?:Political*.:friteresis.against :..; Lurki tpriba being arrested lay mili t a ryfO re'eSled .-..:.: .:-..for his managemeni-pf thei nfa mous PhOeni
Com muniSi-and: decoioniza' tio6._"in-c0;enlents by ,.General :??Mobutu, the _CIA-supported,..-.. program in Vietnam. It was under this assas*s.
..throughout the worIcf;;;-.,-:...a-fi-::?,...:F...-;::.--,71.7:;:-.'.......E.:.-.....;--..!--r.i.upp f.:.:..i.y.s a IS e da t e.' co m mitt ee-,hiS.:::::.:._-... nation program-, designed to -neutralize..th.
-. "-Ors CoMpany.BusinessPenetrates..what ii:;:,.....-dOcUrriented and as former CIA ? pperatiVe -7..--.?: political infrastructure of the. Nation:
left ofthe.CIA'S mythic image as an .Organi--,-.;---;1,-;rohn.Stockwel I confi rms in this film, it Wai iiot-_;...--;-... ,
_Liberation Front. that so I ne 70,587 sus pect- -
. za don Ouilif conircl, engaging in James' Boncl-.:*?::'.'.'f
tar:-- want or trying that the CIA didn't direc-tly -...-..,NLF cadre were. kil:.ed in the firstt%-:;o-and-i--.
_! type missions of sensation and romance. What f:'-'... kill L:tiriauthba, sending highly toxic p oisons to '
.???- ? . ? ..?.?....
half years of the_ p rogra cis opera tion...-- t...
?. ...,...? . . . . :. . ,.
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-we a reshoWn-instead is an organization whose.-,..,....t.z.....the Congo as part of i ts.att.e7....p:s.,,t,o:? k...!..,17..,1.t71,...e,f7li.:"...?._..:,..-`ti.:
.. - U.S. where, under operaton Chao
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As in he
is any -len CIA i lep1-,
criminal operations were-conceived and con?-?:-.-",neadet-...-*:---.- ? ? ?
done& by six...Arnerican Preiidents.?as well as .--7:11.-!:-..':4:1-1-:-?-:?:':".:'' - .:*-;:*- ,..7.-; :;?-???? 7.- .-..,.:c.-:.?,....1-...!......:;:-:::-....-,-..7-'-..5;----jilt:.- the.: age n cy: blatantly-.? violated its legislatit.
lib,-..ral-ldersin government and business..,:..-::::?;z71519.SS'iti;VITY ? ''..'.??:2.?---:-?,....- ?:-....-,-r,7..-:--.?-!., charter which prohibits i t fro m cond ucting; r.-
..Wmving historic film clips of presidential f.:.?-:.;:.11.--..z= Part 2 of the film picks up in the early l 960s ,,--.- activities within the U.S.. by spy rig on mot,
speecht-.s,*cone_ssional hearings and interna- with 0.8_ ?
hyst,ena over liberation movements ? .... - than. 700 U:S... citizens arid 100t) dorrest-
tional events.- with recent interviews of former. -."---in Lat:n America at an all time high. ? ..- .-: --...: ... organizations.. -... - ----... ,.. ? .- . -."-._ r -
Agency officials and critics
. 'producers Allan -.?;;!..:-,.,--Forg7ddocuments ,- false- in fOrrnation.; ..._ ' And finally, little of the film is.addrec. ;se..-cl="t:
a-FrancoviCh and -Howard Dratch present a ..: . media manipulationr ? infiltration -- of labor. -.:"..-the question of oversi9,ht, except for a.-sho
?
? tneticutouSIY:.doctimenterFhionicle of the-2"?iniOn ? 't lning ot?reign poi icein methods of . :.,.` segment in which we. a re given the scnse th t n;
develorrient,of the crAastheiiPeratiOnaland? 7
T'ioittirt La
.. n d .i.nterrogation ;were all system ...:. one in Congress, save Rep. Ron Dellums (E.
ciandtiiii:ariTitOrti.S..:Iforeign Policy.'..1..:?.'''. .aliCally-Used todestabilize any movem or.
ent -....:-.....CaliL) is concer h re e
riedwitform. W are vit
Filmed/EhrOnolOgiCally, -"Ori.-?;:COMPL.;P_ :.se.?.:' gOVern meat. ' in--. Latin _America.- which .-F.: told or the work" ogriumerous individuals ar.
. . . . . .
Business--?Was shown over three..Onsecutive ."1,;.-4.attcmpied to break away from U.S...politicalor -,..?-; orga nizations who have been trying to build.
weeks. icui-public...felevision's.nOnfiction TY,....,-';:-.:,;_Multinational.control-Particular.ernphasis is.:. i.-,-zernove merit --to- wor'kfagainst .in tell id:tr.(
series_ 'Part-. One: following:ifiez-_CIA'S dirty-...-;4-.....;?-p faced on CIA activitiesin.Ectiador?- (where ._:::::agency abuses. In fact, th e only people. wh o v.
tricks- aftt:i World. War. 2?'Wherr the keyio.,...:::;..fiiiiner.-CIA?gent_ Phillip Ages saysthat the ..---._-__-_sec challinging the intelligence commit- nii.,;-:-
protectiftg._. -S....corpora te interests was, taCIA-_,''s.pread hysterical outcries- against the ..-.....:::all are former ClAasients a nd whistleblow?-
. rcue... the cc. Onomies of Western' Eurnoe.,otwliueSr:.;(-.1i7ilir:O.:-.vt_l_ft..._;of....,'Fornmunisin!..-- and stressed stressed . the ??.::...:....-such as Agee-?Victor Marchetti ari"' "2.-.--..v.ver.
insuring:11.S..'i 'domination :- of.''th p
e-:- i ' :.:, disi nd-
ntegration. of: far--; ly-a religion '.Under .-:,..??-_?:-. '. 3h6 film fails. to-naked':- :.
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HUMAN EVENTS
. 'ON PAGE 1' 26 JUIN' 1980
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'PES Propaganda gats
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By M. STANTON EVANS
Any lingering doubts about the need
to abolish the Public Broadcasting Ser-
vice have now been laid conclusively to
rest.
PBS pretty well sealed the verdict a
few weeks back when it broadcast a
three-part series called "On Company
Business"?a blast at the Central In- ?
telligence Agency as seen by renegade
agent Philip Agee and others of his ilk.".
The purpose of the series, as the pro-
ducers put it when the project was an-
nounced, was to tell "the story of 30
years of CIA subversion, murder,
bribery and torture as told by an in-
sider"?rneaning Agee.
Viewers were not informed that Agee
in recent years has been actively work-
ing the other side of the street?in
behalf of America's enemies. Agee
himself makes no bones about his sym-
pathies in the matter, though innocents
watching PBS were not brought in on
the secret. In a 1975 interview, for ex-:d
ample he was quoted as saying his
allegiance was with. the Communists.
in their struggle -with. the evil
".capitalists." .
"The CIA,".. he said; is plainly on
the wrong side, that is, the capitalistic .
side.. I approve KGB [Soviet in-
telligence) activities,' 'Communist ac-
tivities in general, when they are to the
advantage of the oppressed: In fact, the
KGB is not doing enough in this regard,.
because the USSR depends on the peo-
ple to free- themselves. Between, the
overdone activities the CIA initiates
and the.-more modese-activities of the!
KGB there is no comparison." -
In other words, the Communists ?? ?
are good guys?although bit too
-"modest" in their efforts. The bad
guys are ? the capitalistic .
'Americans. These sympathies were'
underscored by-an article Agee did
for Esquire, in which he expressed
his admiration for Communist
Cuba, acknowledged he had done
a lot of "research" in that Socialist.
paradise, and otherwise spewed
?)1,t Marxist. boilerplate. - ?
r
In this revealing article, Agee said "I
aspire to bea Communist and a revolu-
tionary." Although saying he wasn't
versed in Marxist doctrine and that his
Communist aspirations did not require
a foreign model, he had obviously ab-
sorbed enough of the creed to denounce
America in class struggle terms for
alleged "social and economic in-
justice" committed in the interests of
the evil corporations. .... .
? In further explanation of his views,
Agee 'added: "I came to reject
gradualist reform as the path to a better
society." And: "I had come by now to
acknowledge socialist revolution as the
historical process that would lead to a
higher form of social and economic
organization. Not only had I com-
prehended what I was against, but also
what I was for." ' ? : z .
What Agee is "for". and ''against" is
further exemplified in the pattern of his.
expose activities, which focus ex-
clusively on the supposed evils of the
CIA while having nothing critical to say
about the Soviet intelligence network
or its stooges in the Cuban DGI.
tribute to sports in Communist Cuba;
and a sanitized look at life in the ghastly.
g police state of .North Korea. When'
responsible parties at the network were
takan to taA for these blatant offer-;
I ings, they showed little willinness to
concede their error or mend their ways. 7
Much of the background on Agee.
and the slanted nature of the PBS
? presentation are spelled out in a recent
newsletter from Accuracy, in Media.
This watchdog organization wants to
know why PBS would air a three-hour
onslaught against our intelligence ser-
vice from the standpoint of a Soviet
apologist?without even identifying
him as such. On the past record, AIM
probably won't get much satisfaction.
PBS has indulged in similar
shenanigans before, such as a dithering
.The usual defense provided for such
programming is .that. it is covered. by
"freedom of the press," but that is an,
evasion. Presumably, any private news
outlet could pump forth similar. slanted
offerings and,. while, people ivould
vehemently protest, there Would be no ;
question about the journalistic right to'.
such expressions. ? .. ? -
PBS, however, is not a private
outlet. It is heavily funded by the !
government and would not survive
for very long without such fun- .1
ding. Which means that U.S. tax-
'payers are being compelled to foot
the bill for the blatant pro-Soviet
? propaganda- of Agee and others.
? like hint. As one such taxpayer, I .
consider this to be an outrageous
,violation of . my constitutional
rights. - . ? .
The case for living a public broad-4
'cast system . is iveak-to-nonexistent-i
anyway, since there is no good reason I
in a free society to. have government in-1
volved in :such activity.; When the
system- is used .to disseminate the!
unabashed. propaganda of America's.
enemies,
enemies; it is long since time to shut it
down..- ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? 111
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