EX-AGENT BLAMES KISSINGER FOR 'CIA MISMANAGEMENT'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300590007-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 16, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

ROCHESTER, N.Y.
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By 130B DARDENNE
It's tough to say whether the CIA infil
at Geneseo last night, or whether the
.Lrated the meeting, or whether the CIA
inf-,itrated the National Caucus, or .. .
Well, it was just that kind of night
.
Victor Marchetti was on campus to talk
about privacy, as part of a week-long pro
gram on that subject. He really didn't talk
about privacy at all; he talked about his
recently published book, "CIA and T'he'Culti
of Intelligence."
That was all right with the 100 or so
students in the hot, crowded little room, since
the book is the first one in this country'
history to be censored with court sanction
.&i-td since Marchetti himself is an ex-CI _
agent, having worked. for that secrecy
shrca ded ou`iit 14 years.
Near the end of his talk; he was inter]
rupted by to members (from Rochester) of
the National Caucus of Labor Committees,
who aid among other things, Watergate was
CIA-sponsored, the ' drug culture Is CIA
caused, and. ... well, they blamed a lot of -
things on the CIA.
They also said ex-agent Marchetti;'nowan
embarrassment to the CIA, would soon be
erased, poisoned, or otherwise removed.
During it all. 'ex-agent Marchetti, who
admitted that some CM ex-agents night not
be ex-agents at a11, but real .C'W agents
masquerading as ex-agents (if this sounds
confusing now, you should have heard it last
night), sat in front of theroom's fire laceand
smoked cigarettes.
One of the National Caucus people, the
really loud one, was finally ushered out
physically to a round of applause.
Marchetti, CIA agent or not, managed to
say a lot about the organization. Nowadays,
he said, it is seemingly not difficult at all to
convince an "ignorant and gullible public
that the CIA and other clandestine agencies
are good for the country and serve necessary
purposes. I submit the CIA has done little or
no good for national security . and has
served the' purposes of power mad-politi-
af "
N C L C
cians, conniving bureaucrats and sick,
neurotics..,
Much of the mismanagement-of these;
clandestine agencies he said is the direct'
responsibility of the second most powerful
man in the country, Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger.
"The arrogance ofMr. Kissinger is
exceeded only by his contempt for the Amer- i
lean people and the democratic process," he
told the students. ' l {
The courts deleted 167 passages from the
Marchetti book. One of them, a quote he(
attributed to Kissinger, follows: "I don't see,
why we have to sit around and watch a'
country go communist just because of the]
ignorance of its own people." i
That country was Chili. You remember,
he said, what happened when Chile's Allende!
was overthrown?
When the President was asked if the CIA
was involved, he gave us that, "Who, Us?".?,
routine, Marchetti said.
"President Nixon, that poor maligned
man who is not a. crook, said `Why tvei
wouldn't think of interfering in. anyone's
affairs. That would be, wrong,"' he said,.
"It seems awful that Henry Ki ssinger'atid
his friends would overthrow the Allende
government while at the same time prepar-
ing to make friends with another communist
government right next door-Cuba (Mar-
chetti said Kissinger "had great plans for
ousting Fidel' Castro too,.- only the CIA
couldn't back it
He talked about a group of CIA men who
had been dabbling in Latin American politics
for years (he wouldn't name them) and how
they reached their zenith in Chili. The whole
overthrow operation. there, he said, was
"well planned. and well orchestrated."
Besides Chile, Marchetti said the other,
countries with which the CIA has played "the
game of nations" include India, Greece,
Brazil, Cuba, Cypress and Vietnam and
Approved For Release 2005/01/11: CIA-RDP88-01315R OO OO59G0:@7et1al of those countries, he
said, clandestine operations there resulted in
political turmoil and resultant coups.