EX-SPY SAYS CIA IS PROTECTED BY A POLICY OF LIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
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• Publication Date: June 1, 1984
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LOS ALTOS FOOTHILL COLLEGE SENTINEL (C
1 June 1984
Ex-spy_says CIA is profect
by a policy of ties
By PAUL SPANGLER t-P
John Stockwell, the highest level
official to resign from the CIA and author
of "In Search of Enemies,' told a large
audience at Stanford University .that the
U.S. government is locked in a "policy.
of lies."
Stockwell, a 13-year veteran of. the
CIA and former Angolan Task Force
Commander, said Thursday, April 26;
"The President and the Secretary of State,
have to be to protect the CIA' and the
CIA must he for. the 'protection of
sources and meth
"Since the CIA was created in 1947,
at least one million people have been
killed directly by CIA covert operations,"
Stockwell said. "Millions more have been
killed indirectly."
Stockwell said that covert operations
are "destabilization programs which are
designed to make people so miserable
that their society and economy simply
fall apart. This is accomplished, in part,
by blowing up bridges so farmers can't
get their .goods to market,-and by rolling
grenades into schoolhouses and depart-
ment stores." He said the CIA did just
that to China for 19 years before the
State department decided` friendship
could be more profitable. . .
"In Cuba, among other things, we in-
fected livestock with swine fever, assassi-
nated or attempted to assassinate officials)
including [Fidel] Castro, and we had the
port of Havana bombed twice. The
second bomb exploded while rescue oper-
ations were going on after the first attack."
For years Stockwell had been told:
"If you knew what the `gray beards'
(senior intelligence officers) knew, then
you'd know we're doing the right thing."
But. upon becoming a National Security.
Council (NSC) subcommittee member, he
found the gray beards were not as wise as
he had been led to believe. The first NSC
briefing on Angolan operations began by.
showing the members where Angola was'
on the world map. During one session,
Secretary of State Kissinger (who was
also the Executive Secretary of the NSC)
kept his back to the council members and
sulked because someone took his favorite
chair. Kissinger had been known to say,
"Nothing south of the equator amounts
to anything." Stockwell said other mem-
bers of the NSC would sleep through
meeti ngs. "It was disgusting. They looked
like bored college students trying to hide
their open mouths and closed eyes while
deciding if people were going to die or
not."
During the talk he also discussed
covert operations in Vietnam (where he
had been chief of station), Guatemala,
Congo (Zaire), Chile and Grenada. Stock-
well also talked about the U.S. sponsored
"Public Safety Program" in which torture
techniques were taught to Latin police,
as well as the CIA's drug and biological
warfare experiments in the Bay Area and
the U.S. in general.
Stockwell says the CIA currently is
running ten major covert operations and
is resuming surveillance of citizens in the
He also said that while the profits of
his book (and other books by ex-CIA
discontents) have been impounded, "The
Company" [CIA] pays "several hundred"
journalists to write articles and some
professors to write books from the CIA's
point of view.
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