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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170008-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
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• Content Type: PREL

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TOP SECRET SECRET CONFIDENTIAL
PRESS ITEM FOR THE DC I
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Date: 20 Oct
item: # 13
Ref: 4
A1OWK (ATROCITIES) MARINE BJT)
(130) YOUNG- CIA
WASHINGTON, OCT. 20 (AP)-SEN. STEPHEN N. YOUNG, D-OHIO, SAYS
HE WAS TOLD BY A MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY IN
VIET NAM THAT THE CIA COMMITTED ATROCITIES THERE TO DISCREDIT
THE VIET CONG.
YOUNG SAID HE WAS TOLD THAT THE CIA DISGUISED SOME PEOPLE AS
VIET CONG AND THEY COMMITTED ATROCITIES, INCLUDING KIPLING SOME LIEN
AND RAPING OF SOME WOMEN.
THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE COMMENT FROM THE AGENCY.
YOUNG, WHO RECENTLY VISITED IN VIET NAM, DID NOT NAME THE CIA
OFFI
YOUNG SAID HE WAS TOLD THAT THE CIA DISGUISED SOME PEOPLE AS
VIET CONG AND THEY COMMITTED ATROCITIES, INCLUDING KILLING SOME MEN
AND RAPING OF SOME WOMEN.
THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE COMMENT FROM THE AGENCY.
YOUNG, WHO RECENTLY VISITED IN VIET NAM, DID NOT NAME THE CIA
OFFICIAL WHO TOLD OF THESE MATTERS. HE TOLD NEWSMEN THE CIA HAS A
FORCE OF SEVERAL HUNDRED IN VIET NAM.
STATING THAT HE WANTS THE CIA ACTIVITIES CURTAILED IN VIET
NA14, YOUNG SAID HE WILL ASK THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTE
TO INVESTIGATE CIA ACTIVITIES. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE CONMITTE.
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These comments represent the initidl and tentative reaction of the Office
of Current Intelligence to the attached item from the news services,
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YOUNG-CIA (270)
WASHINGTON, OCT. 21 (AP)-SEN. STEPHEN M. YOUNG SAYS HE HAS
LEARNED THE U.S. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY HIRED SOUTH VIETN iMESE
TO DRESS AS VIET CONG AND KILL HEN AND RAPE WOMEN WITH THE
OBJECTIVE OF DISCREDITING THE COMMUNISTS. A CIA SPOKESMAN CALLS
THE CHARGE "ABSOLUTELY FALSE."
AND REP. CORNELIUS E. GALLAGHER, D-N.J., SAID OF THE OHIO
DEMOCRAT' S ALLEGATION YESTERDAY: "IT MAY WELL BE THAT HE SPOKE TO
A VIET CONG DISGUISED AS A CIA MAN."
BOTH YOUNG AND GALLAGHER ;:'ERE IN SOUTH VIET NAN SEVERAL MONTHS
AGO AND WERE BRIEFED THERE BY 'AM'1ERICAN OFFICIALS.
YOUNG FIRST TOLD NEWSMEN YESTERDAY THAT HE GOT HIS INFORMATION
FROI A CIA MAN. LAST NIGHT, HE DENIED HE HAD SAID A CIA MAN
WAS HIS SOURCE AND SAID HE GO'1? HIS INFORMATION FROM AN AMERICA:d
MILITARY OFFICER.
HE
DID NOT NAME THE CNN.
NEVERTHELESS,
YOUNG
SAID, "I CONFIRMED THROUGH THE CIA TODAY
THAT IT EMPLOYED
SOME
SOUTH VIETNAMESE NATIONALS TO POSE AS
VIET CONG--AND I
TAKE
A DIN VIEW OF THAT."
GALLAGHER SAID YOUNG'S STATEMENT "IS APPALLING, AND IT
REFLECTS A CARELESSNESS WITH FACTS."
"IT IS' OBVIOUS," GALLAGHER SAID IN A STATEMENT, "THAT HE
MISUNDERSTOOD THE. ESSENCE OF THE BRIEFING OR FAILED TO DISTINGUISH
BETWEEN THE TERMS OF IDENTIFICATION OF THE OPPOSING FORCES IN
VIET NAM. . . NO ONE COULD POSSIBLY CONCEIVE SUCH AN EXERCISE AS
SEN. YOUNG DESCRIBES."
YOUNG, A MEMBER OF THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE, SAID
HE WILL ASK THE COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE CIA ACTIVITIES.
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