PRESS CLIPPINGS FROM GENERAL WALTERS ADDRESS TO THE DALLAS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS

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• Publication Date: September 19, 1975
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1. Attached are press clippings resulting from General Walters'
address to the Dallas Council on World Affairs (DCWA) which he asked
be forwarded to him.
2. The luncheon was an unqualified success. A number of Dallas
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3. General John Torrey, Executive Secretary of the DCWA,.has
advised that WFAA-TV in Dallas plans to do a spot special on the CIA
during 20 September 1975. This will run on several occasions and will
include excerpts from General Walters' address. General Torrey has
arranged to secure a tape-recording of General Walters' address from
WFAA which he will make available to this office sometime during the
week of 22 September. General Torrey advised that as a result of
technical difficulties the tape may not be complete, but he believes
most of General Walters' talk was recorded. This tape will be forwarded
for General Walters' office when received from General Torrey.
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5. General Walters mentioned that he is planning to give an
address in Houston on 6 January 1976, but he did not recall the name
of the sponsor for his visit there. It would be appreciated if this
information could be ascertained from General Walters' office for
forwarding to the Houston R0.
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Dick. Pest, Editorial Director
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1975
The CIA:
Life in the Qoldfish Bowl
. The Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee having opened its hearings
to the press. and public, the sins,
such as they are, of the Central
Intelligence Agency will now be
on regular display. Not that any
great note is yet being itaken of
the hearings. Plenty of seats were
unfilled at the first session; nor
are the networks affording us
gavel-to-gavel coverage, a la Wa-
tergate.
Still, the implications of the
Inquiry remain disturbing. It is all
very well, perhaps, for Sen..
Church, the panel's chairman, to
rebuke the CIA for failing to de-
stroy a large store of deadly
poisons it was ordered to de-
stroy. The trouble will come if
the committee conveys to, the
public, through osmosis, the im-
pression that CIA agents are just
so many wild men running loose
and endangering our civil liberties.
Not yet has anyone proved
against the CIA anything very ter-
rible. There was much talk at
Church's hearing earlier this week
of a deadly pill that CIA.agents
are sometimes given In, case of
capture. So what? Is it suggested
that the CIA meant to poison the
whole population of Albania? Of
course not; then to what benefi-
cial end is all this ,talk of intelli-
gence method?
No one wishes the CIA to run
amok; no one denies Congress' le-
gal right to supervise its opera-
tions. There ought, however, to be
better supervisory techniques than
full-dress investigations that serve
more to embarrass the United
States than to bring the CIA into
line. It is as the CIA's deputy di-
rector,' Vernon Walters, said in
Dallas the other day: "Other coun-
tries investigate their intelligence
operations, but they don't do it in
a goldfish bowl."
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By DOTTY GRIFFITH
Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters,
deputy director of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency, warned Tuesday
attacks on the CIA are creating a
,,new racism, a new caste of un-
touchables - people in intelligence
service."
Speaking to the Dallas Council
on World Affairs, Walters spoke of
"deliberate attempts to blind our
own country" by CIA critics who
charge the spy agency has over-
si.epped its bounds by interfering
with other nations' internal affairs.
Walters said ongoing congres-
sional investigations into CIA op-
erations "can be healthy, if they're
not used as TV theatricals."
"We're willing to be responsive
to guidelines that provide enough
flexibility for change," said Wal-
tees, who was appointed to his post
by President Nixon in 1972.
`'9ther countries investigate
their intelligence operations," he
said, "but they don't do it in a
goldfish bowl."'
Walters warned against falling
behind the Soviet Union in military .
weapons under the aegis of detente.
In response to a question in, re-
gard to reports, the latest of which
was Tuesday that President
Ford may limit CIA intelligence ac-
tivities and shift secret political op- "One thing we will never know
erations in foreign countries to an- as a result of' the hearings,"
other agency, Walters declined charged Walters, 52, "is the num-
comment.
conditional form," said Walters. ` come forward and didn't."
"Until I have more information, I He warned if current criticism
can't comment. We have no indica- against 'intelligence activities be-
tion that is the case." comes restrictive, congressional
He . complained that revelations hearings in 1990 might be investi-
about United States intelligence ac- gating things the CIA neglec:md
tivities have jeopardized informa- "ins~teao of sins of commission."
tion sources. Although he stopped short of of-
"Our foreign friends are aghast fering a wholesale defense of CIA
at what's going on. Some people use of human guinea pigs in LSD
who might otherwise help us fear experiments and assassination as
they will hear their names revealed an intelligence operation, he asked
in the hearings or see them in that such incidents be viewed "in
print. the context of time."
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"trumpeted all over the world." But
successes, he said, are very difficult to
talk about.
"If you talk about it, people know
what You know . . . and if somebody
knows that somebody is looking
through the window, he'll pull down the
blinds and turn off the light.
"On a number of occasions in my
own experience we have brought coun-
tries together that were on the edge of
war. One of then thought the other
was going to attack.
"We have been able, through good
intelligence, to convince country 'A'
that it was not going to be attacked by
country 'B.' We have been able to
bring sometimes the head of intelli-
gence of these countries together. I
can't hell you what countries these are
or we couldn't. do it again."
Walters, who was appointed to his
post by, former President Richard
Nixon more than three years ago,
testified last year against,White House
Chief of Staff II. R. Haldeman in the
Watergate cover-up trial. ,
He reached the Tank of major
general in the U.S." Army and traveled
extensively with former President
Nixon in 1969: He also accompanied
Mrs. Nixon during her visit to Peru in
the wake of disastrous earthquakes
. there in 1970.
Walters emphatically denied pub-
lished reports of any link between the
CIA and the accused assassin of
President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Os-
wald; "There is no link between Lce
Harvey 'Oswald 'and the CIA in any
shape, form or size. And there never
has been to my knowledge."
fie termed the idea. that then Atty.
Gen. Robert Kennedy would conspire to
abort the investigation of the death of
his own brother "an aberration."
Iie said the major questions facing
intelligence agencies concern the SovIct
Union. "We see there modernizing their
missiles . . . We sec then] building
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Agency (CIA) as a "power for peace,"
the agency's deputy jdirector says the
security of the United States and its
survival is "far too precious ?tq be the
vehicle" f o r individual political
ambitions.
Referring to intelligence agents as a
new form of "untouchables," Lt; Gen.
Vernon A. Walters said most shortcom-
ings and wrongdoings on the part of
the CIA have been' exposed by the
agency's interval probes.
He pi'edicted ' during a luncheon
meeting Tuesday in Dallas that new
guidelines to emerge from current
congressional investigations would be
little stronger than those outlined in
the agency's original charter, "(to do)
such other things as the National
Security Council may prescribe."
He said the successes of the
agency's operations could not be
outlined to counteract negative pub-
licity received in recent months.
"I can't tell you that of the 50,000
or 60,000 ' people who have passed
through this agency in the past 25
years we haven't had some bad
apples," he said in defense of the CIA,
1 comparing it to a city of 60,000 persons.
"I'm not saying that we haven't
done things that were wrong - but
they're few and far between. And most
ot them 'came to light as a. result of
our own investigations - not as the
result of someone finding there out
against us."
Walters also issued a stern warning
about the ramifications of "disman-
tling" American intelligence gathering.
"intelligence is knowledge and
knowledge is power. People have
always thought in the past of itttclli-
gencc as being a power to make war
or a power to threaten or over-awe
someone.
But, the world has changed. Intelli-
gence is a power in another sense. It's
power for peace."
Ile said that CIA failures are
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sties for launching missiles; we see
them building new, modern aircraft
with capabilities against the United
States; we see them adding tanks to
every Soviet motorized rifle division
around, the' world, and we see them
improving the training of their forces,
the logistics of. their forces and the
over=all capabilities of their forces.
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"'t'his has gone far beyond what
they require for defense or deterrence.
It leav7es us with the great question of
what do they plan to do with this."
Addressing the subject of CIA
involvement in assassinations, he said
that a person who succeeded in killing
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at the
beginning of World War II would have
been the first joint recipient of the
Congressional Medal of Honor and the
Victoria Cross.
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