CIA PURPOSELY MISINFORMS, EX-AGENT TELLS W&L AUDIENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201180010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 11, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ROANOKE TIMES & WORLD NEWS
11 November 1983
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CIA purposely misinforms,
ex-agent tells W&L audience
By MIKE HUDSON extend their false propaganda to the
Shenandoah bureau information given out on communist
nations. "There is clearly a discrep-
LEXINGTON - "Truth has no ancy between what our government
applicability to the covert activities tells about the other half and the
of the CIA or the operations of the truth."
United States in places like Grena- Stockwell was an agent from
da," says a former agent who bills 1964 until 1977, when he resigned to
himselft as the "highest-ranked CIA write a book analyzing the CIA's
official to ever openly criticize the covert activities in Angola in the
agency." mld-1970s. In it, he argues that the
John Stockwell, a former CIA agency should be dismantled "for
colonel who directed the agency's the good of the United States and the
covert operations in Angola from world."
1975 to 1976. said the CIA and the The 1978 bestseller, "In Search
National Security Council regularly of Enemies," resulted in a lawsuit
lied to the United Nations, the U.S. against him by the CIA for revealing
Senate and the news media about government secrets and a court or-
the CIA's activities in Angola. der requiring that any future writ-
The CIA purposely misinforms Ings by him about the U.S.
the American people about its activ- government be submitted to the
Ities through secrecy and carefully agency for censorship.
constructed lies, Stockwell said in a Stockwell said Thursday he is a
speech Thursday night at Washing- conservative who is frightened by
ton and Lee University. nuclear arms and U.S. foreign poli-
"Secrecy is not. designed to I cy.
protect the operation. The victims "I believe the United States'
know they are being attacked," he militaristic policies - invading
said. "Secrecy is designed to keep -countries and killing people - are
the American people from knowing dangerous in every sense of the
what is happening." word," he said. "What I'm saying is
Stockwell also charged that the that Ronald Reagan is a radical. I'm
CIA. and the U.S. government also, a conservative."
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