CIA ACTIVITIES DEFENDED, COLBY PLEDGES OPENNESS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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-grams, had over a period 61 draw applause with a long any direct part in the Chile
.two,-days. heard. numerous.., denunciation of U. S_-op- . coup. "Wewere _lookingfor
rass an Latin America . denials that the agency had
to the ;CIA's covert-'pro'
diminished since Cold War lughter... replied.
days. One panelist. Nancy"Stem
The symposium, devoted of the North American Con- Colby repeated' earlier
THE REVELATION las
week of some $11.million i
CIA funds pumped int
Chile to oppose depose
president Salvador Allende
produced many questions
yesterday but produced
new revelations. -
.Rep. Michael Harrington
D-Mass., who was inadvert
ently responsible for th
disclosure of secret Colby
,testimony on :the -Chile
operation;. tried ..to win
.admission that Congress
had been insufficiently
briefed on the policy. It is
"up to Congress to legislate
the methods by which it
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his questioners was virtual- when he heatedly denie
ly never acknowledged, let the 20,000 Vietnamese killeaalone responded to, in the Phoenix program
Panelists several times de- which he ran, were "mur
nounced as "an outrageous dered" and denounced he
lie," or "another lie" a applauding the assassins
Colby assertion that torture. tion in Uruguay of U. S. for
of Viet Cong was not U. -S. eign service officer Davi
policy in the Phoenix pro- Mitrione
-gram, or that U. S. military"
attaches in Vietnam dou-
bled as intelligence agents.
ay' Colby seemed not to have
During atwo-hour-ques-4?? heard, most-of the time.
tioning session before' On the subject of.govern-
largely hostile panel, Colby
revealed n6i secrets ,'and `meet lying,_ Colby. asserted
d ost bxi hi's` that the CIA, once obsessed
v
d
friendly audience yester-
d
.people about them, " CIA
The Central Intelligence
Agency still performs
clandestine operations.
around the world but will no
longer lie to the American
d' Or%enness
ges
By Oswald Johnston
Star-News Staff Writer
criminality in the underd he admitted, thereby draw
operations - .as illegal-,
tional. yoked Calby's only show of- live laughter, ."in the 1976
THE INDIGNATION~of anger of the afternoon, elections there.
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