THE CI[ ] THROUGH NOT-[ ] SPYGLASS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200310001-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 27, 1978
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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Honorable Mei*, My Life bt the CIA, by. William Colby. New
York:. Simon & Schuster. $12.95.
Decent Interval, by Frank,. Snepp.._New Yor :, Random
House. $14.95: ;s r
In Search of Enemies, ~ bye John Stockwell.' New York:
W W Norton & Co. $12.95
By Daniel Sautherland
Staff correspondent of The. Christian Science Monitor
Washington-
Booksabout. the.:_United:,States. Central-Intelligence
Agency and other secret organizations have poured forth in
such profusion. over the past three..or four years that it's`
hard to keep up..
But there- now- is a. chance that part of the: flow will di-rll
tha'.t coming from former CIA 'insiders ". If sus
twined: lathe appeals process,, the government's initial sac
cess in. its b ook-pubWshin _tzial against former: CIA- analyst
Frank Sneppmay inhibit further publcation of memoirs by.--
otherexCIA employees
W hatever 'the ultimate outcome; of the: Snepp. case, John,.
D.. ilarks, co-author of:one'of the most?important..books in
this field" 'he CIA and the Cult of Intelligence," _1974,
Knopf, predicts'a trend'[it the next few years away from
books by form er'insiderstvazirincreasing numk)erof..books.?.
on secret intelligence activities, by historians wind other re-
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searchers,
"The. publishing. world thin1is- the market is' 'falling out a
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tittle bit;' said Mr Marks;- ivho is- acknowledged as, a, full-
time CIA watch l J~ c y`' S Uall
boredom has set in.
- "But I think the outpouring of information will continue,
said the former foreign service officer, who is writing a 4
book on. CIA experiments with mind-control drugs. -"Histo-
rians have ignored CIA activities over the years, and now
they're going to want to find out. what happened in any
number of countries around the world."
A. J. Langguth, author of "The Truth about.U.S. Police
Operations in Latin America," 1978, Pantheon, a new book
on U.S. advisers to police networks in Latin America which-
provides further detail on CIA activities in Brazil; notes }
that there have been only three recent "defectors" from 1
the CIA itself -- Philip Agee; Frank Snepp, and John Stock.
well who have come in from the cold to tell their stories.
Mr. Langguth suggests, in a commentary for the New York
Times, that tt?would take. at least 300 more to tell the full ;
story
That large a "number of former CIA people seems un-
likely to-".sing?,' especially if the legal actions against Mr.'.
Snepp are'sustained. But who knows how many of the ,100 to-
400 employees being 'fired under current CIA efficiency t
measures will take the risks involvedand?break their vows-
of-secrecy? A number of these veterair.CtA employees are
known to be extremely bitter over the treatment they have-i
received. `,
Mr. Snepp, : author of "Decent Interval." the story of -
the collapse. and evacuation of South Vietnam, believes that
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