FORMER CIA OFFICIAL TO DISCUSS COVERT WARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 25, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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STANFORD CAMPUS REPORT (CA)
25 April 1984
Former CIA offficial
covert wars
Joim""itockwtll, fonie -CTA chief of station in Africa and
Vietnam; ooinnaander of tbZ cbi iffi*in -ngola, and-ad 'is-
er to the top-secret'National Security Council under Henry
Kissinger,.will speak at.:30 p:m.:.Thursday, April'26,'at
'r Kresge Auditorium of the Stanford Law School.
. He will discuss covert wars, with particular emphasis on
CIA involvement in Nicaragua and parallels with CIA activi-
ties in Angola.
Stockwell is the highest-ranked CIA official ever to "de-
fed" from the agency. His 14 years (1963-1976) as a CIA field
case officer began in Africa, where he rose to become chief of
I station; moved to Vietnam, where he was chief of station
upcountry. from 1973 through the final evacuation in 1975;
and returned to Africa, ' where he was commander of the
Angola Task Force.
He subsequently spent one year as adviser to the National
Security Council before leaving the agency in 1977. Recently,
Stockwell has spent time in Nicaragua.
I.. Stockwell has charged that the CIA is "the ultimate threat
to democracy and a major cause of the world's move to
nuclear extinction." He has testified before the U.S. Con-
igress in extended session and appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes,
I NBC Magazine, and ABC's Jack Anderson: Confidential.
Stockwell's best-selling book, In Search of Enemies (W.
W. Norton, 1978), depicting the CIA covert war in Angola,-
resulted in a lawsuit from the CIA. He was put under a court
order requiring that any future writing be submitted to the
CIA for censorship, and the government has impounded all
profits from the book. Stockwell has also published a novel
about Africa, Red Sunset (William Morrow, 1982).
Stockwell's talk is being sponsored by the Stanford Central
America Action Network (SCAAN) and the Stanford Afri-
can Students' Association (SASA).
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