LETTER (SANITIZED) FROM G. L. LAMBORN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100040030-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: May 7, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Phone: [phone]
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20505
7 May 1985
0587R000100040030-6
Thank you for writing the Central Intelligence Agency.
We do indeed share your concern for the publicity given the
irresponsible statements such as the one you cited to us. Regrettably,
we are simply not equipped to track down all such utterings for official
rebuttal.
You are within your rights should you wish to write a letter to the
editor, just so long as you are faithful to your secrecy agreement, which
requires that you continue to protect classified information. The wisdom
of taking on the allegations of someone like Ralph McGehee in a public or
media debate is at best arguable. We are unfortunately aware of many
well-intentioned and knowledgeable people who have tried to "set the
record straight" and later regretted it. The most frequent problem
encountered is that those who would besmirch the CIA can and will say
anything to promote their cause, true or not. If, on the other hand, you
stick strictly to the truth, the truth may become your handicap.
You are of course free to do as your judgment and conscience tell
you. You may find the enclosed current information about CIA
intelligence helpful.
G. L. Lamborn
Public Affairs
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1 MAY 1985
25 April 1985
Dear Sir:
The enclosed article recently appeared in the Wisconsin
State Journal, a Madison, Wisconsin, paper of considerable
influence. W'We believe the statements of Ralph McGehee ought to
be refuted by a knowledgeable authority. I am-a retired Agency
employee and my wife and I do not like to see the Agency
slandered and such extensive coverage given to its enemies.
(We can also write a "letter to the editor" pf you think it
will be of any help.)
Sincerely,
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MADISON WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL (Wi)
22 April 1985
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By Peter Annin
A 25-year veteran of the Central
Intelligence Agency spoke against
the CIA and Its covert actions to
about 50 people Sunday at the Pres. ?
House,'731`State St ::.;.
( Ralph McGehee's appearance was.
sponsored by the Women's Interna-
tional League for Peace and Free-
dom and was the first event of Peace
Week which started Sunday and will
continue through next Sunday.? 4.. L
McGehee said, "The CIA has
never been a central intelligence
agency. Its intelligence in all cases is
skewed to support whatever, the ad-
ministration wants."
'Misinformation'
Misinformation ? is a, major, re;
sponsibility of the CIA and the.Amer-
ican;public,is-the major focus for this
Hi.cited*humber.otexperienceq
he, had while working with the CIA 1.
where the intelligence Information he :t - fated 1~y'ttie CIA," he said. "If there is
gathered was changed or distorted one thing that the CIA can do, is rig
ent in Thailand
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during the Vietnam War years, he
said, his job was to document the
number of Communists in a particu-
lar region, of Thailand. He said he,.;
eventually turned in a report listing
about 2,000 members of the Comm u_-_
i nist Party of Thailand in the region.
He said the CIA then began to
claim that there were only 2,500 Com-
munists in the entire country, even
though he had shown that there were
at least 2,000 in just one of its prov-
inces. }
McGehee said the" CIA purpose-
fully underestimated the, number of
Communist Party members in Thai-
land and particularly in Vietnam dur-
ing the war because the US. troops
were supposed to be protecting the
South Vietnamese from a Communist
minority and, "If we had admitted-
. that we were fighting against more
than;50 percent of the population we
different sting operations to get me to
do something illegal."
toring the phone call began yelling at
I have been the subject of seven
on the telephone and a person moni-
He said that once he was talking
hotel rooms are routinely entered.
They're doing all sorts of things' and
they're doing it not-so-sophisticatedly
and I think for the sole purpose of in-
timidation.", .
'My phone has been tapped. My
our intervention."
McGehee, who is the aut* of a
book titled "Deadly Deceits", which
he said contains documentation of his
claims about the CIA, told the audi-
ence he is frequently the subject of in-
timidation tactics by the CIA. ,,
an election."., ? . ?4
Grenada He said that w9apons
the U.S. troops found stockpiled in
Grenada after the invasion were
planted there by the CIA,,"to justify
.Finally complains
He said that whep he became "so
furious and so fed up that I had to let
out my anger" he complained to his
superior - who put him on probation
- and he was. given an'office job back
in the United States.
"I left the agency in 1977 after find-
ing it futile to protest from within."
McGehee charged the CIA has
been involved in a number of Latin
American countries. - __
1 . Nicaragua: He said, "You have to
understand what' s . going on now in
the CIA. It's killing people in Nicara-
gua."-.
6 El Salvador: He said that CIA per-
sonnel compile lists of Communist
Party members in El Salvador, simi-
lar to the work he was doing in Thai-
land. Ile.. said . these lists eventually
get into the hands of El Salvador's
right-wing death squads..----. __ ._
The elections in. El Salvador of
Jose Napoleon Duarte were "manipu-
Today's Peace Week events in-
clude a program from 7 to 9 p.m.
called "What would a peaceful soci-
ety look like and how can we get
there?" at the University of Wiscon-..
sin-Madison Memorial Union.
And at 7:30 p.m., at the Pres
House,- "The Indian human rights
struggle and non-violent social
change: A shared progressive agen-
da."
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