MORE OPEN C.I.A. SOUGHT BY COLBY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100220003-8
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 29, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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Intelligence Director Asserts
He Has a Duty to Explain,
in Part, Agency's Role
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By DAVID BINDER
Spedat to The New Yo.k Times
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28-In
the 16 months since he took
office as Director of Central
Intelligence, William E. Colby
has made more public appear-
ances, spoken to more reporters;
and testified more often beforei
Congress than any of his prede-
cessors-perhaps more than all
of his predecessors put to-
gether.
Mr. Colby has said several
times on the record that he be-
lieves these deliberate efforts
to "go public," though seem-
ingly paradoxical for an espio-
nage chief, constitute an essen-
tial part of his responsibility as
the head of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
1n a speech before the Los
Angeles World Affairs Council
last summer, bor. Colby ex<
plained his credo as follows:
"We in the intelligence profes-
sion are aware that ours must
be an intelligence effort con-
ducted on American -principles
and that it must be more open
and responsive to our public
than the intelligence activities'
of other nations."
Vietnam, Watergate Influence
Privately, Mr. Colby and his
press aides acknowledge that
the Vietnam conflict and the
Watergate scandal have practi-
cally compelled the leadership
of the C.I.A. to take defensive
steps by letting the public
know a bit more about the
workings of the agency.
Certain sectors of public
opinion held the C.I.A. respon-
sible for both, even though in-
fluential figures in the agency
warned in Administration coun-
cils against involvement.
Soon after Mr. Colby took !
command in September, 1973,
it became possible for reporters
to; call the C.I.A..headouartcrs
in' Langley, Va. and make ap-
pcintments for hriofi:)gs with
senior analysts on a
of foreign intelligcr, : topic
In one such "back;ic.under '
of more than 100, a C.I.A. spe-
cialist told a rcp rc?r in la ie
August, 1073, that she cxpccted
some sort of military co n
Chile within iv-c",
an,lcst then l+'stec: the factor
ute uUWiUtau ui we vuveLIuLLew.I eign inteiii~ence secrets, par-
of President Salvador Allendei titularly by former C.I.A. em-
Gossens through actions thati ploves.
were not public knowledge. The effort was prompted in
Colby Talks With Editors large par` by publication of
Mr. Colby himself began meet- ! "The C.I.A. and the Cult of 'In-
ing reporters for such briefing, telligence," of which the main
sessions eariv in the autumn of author was Victor ',kTarccetti, a
1973. Recently he estimated'. former agency employe. The,,
that he had talked to more than; C.I.A. Sought to obtain a court;
132 press representatives in one injunction enforcing 225 dele-
year. tions of classified secrets, but,
In addition, Mr. Colby tray-1 had to settle for 27 deletions.
eled afield to talk with editors Mr. Colby indicated recently;:
and reporters of the Los An-~ that he intended to continue his',
gejes Times, The Chicago Sun- round of public appearances`
.Times, The New York Times, The; and his responsiveness to re-,'
Washing ton Post, The Washing-! porters and'
nti members of Con-1
ton-Star-News and Time and; press. He and his aides have,
Ndyvsweek magazines. testified 28 times before 181
These talks, too' were on congressional committees since!
"background," meaning that the he took office.
information could be used, but But in t':e midst of a con
not attributed to a specifiedi troversv during the last week
source. Mr. Colby also gave sev-I over allegations that the C.I.A..
eral interviews on the record. I had conducted large-scale spy
In addition to his puhlic!l ing on American citizens within.
speech in Los Angeles, he ad-! the country Mr. Colby has thug",-
dressed the Fund for Peace: far: elected not to go on record.'
Conference devoted to C.I.A.'
and Covert Actions" last Sep-i
tember in Washington. And he
spoke to closed groups of citi-
zens interested in foreign policy,
in New York and Chicago.
In his Washington address!
entitled, "The V'swc from Lang-I
ley," Mr. Colby set out some-j
thing of his philosophy about;
the C.I.A.'s work and its public
image:
There have been some "bad
secrets". concerning intelligence;
their exposure by our academic,
journalistic and political critics
certainly is an essential part of
tilt workings of our Constitu-1
ti;?in. There have been some
'ndn-secrets' which' did not need!
to-he secret; I have undertaken.
a program of bringing these[
into the open. But I thintc thad
responsible Americans realize
that our country must protect
some 'Good secrets'."
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