EX-AGENT ALLEGES CIA ABUSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100170011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 18, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BROCKTON ENTERPRISE (MA)
18 April 1984
Ex-agent alleges CI
By GIL BLISS
Enterprise Correspondent
BRIDGEWATER - The Central Intelli-
gence Agency's war against communism has
resulted in "major genocide" and many of the
victims are citizens of Third World countries,
according to former CIA official John Stock-
well.
Stockwell is the highest. ranking CIA offi-
cial to date to resign and pen a "tell-all" book
b
a
out his experiences. He told a Bridgewater
State College audience Tuesday night that he
.involved himself in -CIA activities because he
felt that what he was doing was.in the best in-
terests of the United States.
The dark-haired, ex-Marine told an audi-
ence-of approximately 50 people he was in-
volved in covert activities in both Vietnam and
Angola, following service in the conventional
branches of the military...
The CIA's recent mining of Nicaraguan--
harbors it part of a "destabilization" move-.
that is designed to undermine public
faith in the government..of whatever country is
Stockwell said CIA activity in Nicaragua is
designed to disrupt society there in ways simi-
lar to earlier disruption attempts in China,
Chile, Cuba, Angola and Vietnam..
Stockwell graduated from the University
-of Texas in the time between the Korean and
Vietnam Wars and embarked on a "glamorous
time" in the service. After his discharge, the
CIA contacted him for employment. He
.worked for them until 1977, being chiefly in-
volved in enlisting native CIA agents in..the
One million direct victims of the actions
have died and millions more have died indi-
rectly, he said, mostly Third World natives,
:rather than Russians or Americans:
He cited economic considerations of Amer.
ican big business :as the motivating force be- ,
hind the constant political upheaval that he 1
said is causedby the CIA" -
Stockwell -related a background that began
with his upbringing in the Belgian Congo as
the son of an American government employee,
a bit of experience-that proved useful later
when he was assigned to Angola. -
He was sent to Vietnam in the amid 1960s,
serving as a chief-of station, recruiting Viet-
namese to work - against the northern commu-
nists..He said the 'CIA was supporting a cor-
rupt government, one -that kept American for- -
eign aid and -pocketed funds that were desi
g-
nated for the anti-communist war effort.
their native o """'y of
served as a sourcerofs "emwhen otional Saigon
or
Stockwell, but it wasn't until he became' in-
volved in the Angolan operation thatthe.began
"to?harbor serious doubts abo
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ut
is
ork.
.Because of 'his African experience, he was
a vital -part of the decision-malting process for
Angola, and he found that the lofty ideals and
justification for the acts he had been involved
His two books, "In Search Of Enemies," "''r`? of goyern?
ment as he had imagined:
and "Red Sunset," have been scathing attacks "I could not find justification for my ac-
on his former employer. He has been sued by tions in management," he said.
the government agency over the first book Besides Angola and Vietnam, Stockwell
He said the assets from his book have been 'detailed atrocities. committed by the CIA in
frozen by the CIA and that he has three others Grenada recently and even incidents in the
that have not yet been published. He is cur. 1 United States, where Stockwell said American
rently working on a sixth. book: His first book citizens have been used for CIA experiments in
was written in 1978. the past.
__Stockwell_said the-United- States is "on the He cited an incident-of a virus-laden barge
brink of war in Central America," -and that being dragged through San Francisco harbor as
government leaders are using ."the same ra- -an Example, as well as .a Long Island town al-
tionale as Vietnam" in pursuing military con- legedly being'.?infected with mass cases of
flict there. whooping cough.....
"We're lied to by the government," he Stockwell -said that he has been lecturing
said. "They're committed to apolicy of lying to ; on the CIA' since : his books were published,
the world." He cited figures uncovered by the and although it has been a financial hardship
1975 Frank Church Senate committee investi. for him, it's been a "morally gratifying experi-
gating the CIA, detailing hundreds of covert ence.
actions conducted by the CIA in the last 35 "1 have no.regrets," he said.
years of its existence._
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