COLBY DEFENDS CIA AS VITAL TO SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000200010017-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: September 13, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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By DANIEL F. GILMORE
WASHINGTON - (UPI) -
CIA Director William E..
Colby defended the agency's
secret activities today as es-
senual to `insure American
security, lest the nation "risk
subordination, to possible ad-
versaries."
In a speech prepared for a
hostile symposium on the CIA,
Colby aclmowledged his audi-
ence. "if I said I am happy to
be here, my statement might
be used to challenge the credi-
bility-of the intelligence com-
munity," he said.
The meeting. sponsored by
the National Security Studies
Section of the privately-fi-
nanced Fund for Peace, has
-tions as illegal, immoral, un-
': t- 1 and a violation
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off international law and the do a somewhat clamorous
United Nations. way." The CIA chief men-.
Former officials of -the CIA, tioned the abortive Bay of
State Dept and Pentagon in- Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961
telligence groups, authors, b u t made no reference to
researchers, and journalists Chile.
came 1th new ammunition - Colby is Proposing legisla-
the disclosure, through news tion which will penalize ex-
"leaks," that the CIA spent CIA agents and others who re-
from 58 million to 511 million veal classified. material.
trying to - "'destabilize" the A n unexpected panelist
Marxist government of Presi- Thursday was Daniel Ells-
dent Salvador Allende in berg, who released the Penta
Chile. Allende was deposed gon Papers on the Vietnam
and died. in. a military coup war and who came under sur-
last }ear, a victim or a sui- veillance by active and former'
cide. CIA agents on orders of the
Colby, a CIA veteran who Nixon White house. His psy-
became director last year, chiatrist's office was broken
said secrecy was not unique to. into in hopes of stealing ma=
the agency terial potentially damaging to
"Oar military forces must Ellsberg.
be responsive to our public,
but our public does not de- Ellsberg said Thursday an
eland that our war plans be "invisible government,"
published," he said. which included the CIA, oper-
"It is even necessary for the ated in Washington outside
Congress to conduct some of . congressional control.
i t s business . in executive Colby said the CIA's prima-
(closed) session, while rery function was gathering in?-
roaiing accountable to the formation and analyzing it but
voters for the legislation it the agency carried out covert
gasses. " activities "only when saecifi-
Similarly, Colby said, the - cally authorized by the Nation-
CIA maintains "the necessary al Security Council - thus
secrecy of the sources and CIA covert acme, reflect na-
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