'I DID NOT LEAK THE FAMILY JEWELS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100150170-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 170
• Publication Date: August 20, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON STAR
20 AUGUST 1978
Letters to the editor
`I dick not . lea the familyn j~w~ls'
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I did -:not leak the so-ca a chinery and my 1975 testimony will
"family jewels" ' to Seymour Hersh look at the straightforward, ac-
printed on Aug. 6,.. bee- makes other
equally-. far-fetched assertions.: , a< 'Perhaps Mr. -Epsicin's7 next
(fifth) theory to e :plain' my change
which call for clear rebuttal..: in CIA's. counterintelligence ma- .
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d
mentaryarticle which The Star re-- ist movement.
to have abandoned his earlier by- G4'
f' . ied
pothesis that.I might have been a tried him out and abandoned him
Soviet "mole" within CIA [a "mole" after a few weeks of its usual cau-
tious testing. The Soviets appar-
is the word for an agent whose job
ently utilized these tentative,con-
is to burrow into and eventually
> ~. tacts as the basis for a concocted
came to me before his Dec. 22, 1974- ; .'
Times article with a much exagger
ated account of those past events. It .
was clear tome that he was going to ?,
publish that story, so I tried to bring .:
him down to a more accurate per
gave
hi
m no ma
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spective, an
terial he did notalready have...: .. ' '~ total. secrecy and unquestioned
2 . - executive power over intelligence
opinion with James Angleton over
how counterintelligence should be William E. Colby
conducted in CIA. Mr. Epstein . Wnch;notnn n r ._ y
Second, my comments to Hersh and a belief that CIA in this new era
Cc,
and my testimony about CIA during..'...* must be accountable to the leas
1975 had absolutely no connection gress and to the American people as
with my professional differences of well as to the president.
p~'??w- I standby both of these beliefs
counterintelligence' structure.i-.'. aprogram Initiated in the mid 1960s
"strengthened rather than. weakened". in CIA. I do not have' access -to the
that, effort- over the'way-it was. con--! details of the Lipavsky case at thin
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count erintelligence:was not .con- recrui men o o g ? domestic. skulduggery, r eferred .to
nected'drith Mr: Hersh's article,.~`?'; .. so-called- "hard-target" areas, in-
Third;: aiy 'change in the CIA',f 'cluding'the Soviet-Union,- following as ~? _ ? the - - __? family j, _...ewels.,
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on Dec- 20, 1974,: which. appears on ..yam :, late -the E stein. iece alleged that
.my conversation wire ivir. tingieron .. WILLIAM E. COLBY
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