CONTACT BY MR. VICTOR MARCHETTI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001800100002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

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31 March 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Contact by Mr. Victor Marchetti
1. On 23. March Victor Marchetti called me at home, which is
the first contact I've had with him since he left the Agency.
2. Marchetti stated that he had just read the Epstein book and
found the reference to me very unflattering and almost libelous. He
said he thought that I must be upset by this book. I told him that it
was the first time my name had been identified with the Agency in
print but that I had not reacted quite as strongly as he had. He asked
if I intended to do anything about it and I said'no.
3. He said that he had been talking to Colby and Hyland and that
he would be testifying before the Senate Select Committee on 24 March.
He said he had. told Colby that two different persons reported Colby to
be under investigation as possibly being a Soviet agent. He asked if
I had heard these. stories and I said I had not and considered them
ridiculous.
4. I told Marchetti that it was disturbing to see his name linked
with certain disaffected former CIA employees as I really felt that
his motives were more positive toward the Agency. He asked whom
I meant and mentioned Agee an He said he had only met 25x1
Agee because when he was in L had been invited by friends
to go with them to a party at Agee's house. However, he said he
wanted to be known as a hostile critic of CIA and that he had been
insulted when he was referred to in the. media as one of the more
responsible critics of the Agency.
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he visited Marchetti, at d discussed the intelligence comniuiv.ty,
its problems and possible remedies. Marchetti said that if I had the
"guts" he would be happy to have me come visit him too. I told him
that while he was working so hard outside the Agency to improve it
that there was also useful work that could be done inside the Agency
and that it was probably best for us to continue our efforts independently.
5. He said that the one erson who felt secure enough to visit
him was0 Whe I was in the National Security Council 25X1
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