WHY NOT ASSASSINS FOR THE CIA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100080047-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2007
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: March 7, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2007/04/17: CIA-RDP99-00498R000101nRnna7-F
PHILADEPHIA Ti1Q.UIRE1
7 MARCH 1977
Y his .robes-from : his do low'
~trdSHINGTO~i-Iti;_h s :cocfi.:na= en tilI?d aswell :~ .0,4~?Osoldiers "
?nd 000. policemen The Juterna bens by .troops and killed.
tioi~ reariro -last>-week; `President ' p? = At?one 'time. the ver'1`Iile 'and'
Car'er's'most recentromi ee to head" tionalCommission _ o Jurists e~h. Victoria became so c ge ?
mates ts'rat;as many -as2a0000 Ugan .. , , ?se
th? CIA; `cldin:r -Staasf,eld urner, victiris
made a statement':~zth`k'riichiuost aians:mayhave been :killed in repri- that :they,were;;cIearly. visible .from
.people undoubtedly will be -in -agree gals for?alleged -plots 'against Amm the: giant Owed Falls mower 'station;
inert:-Men asked if he could think ;and In Purges of li.s cpporents and 'several> Italian :eng veers; x o-1 1
In "ust one ?90 ds rind in?1971 in- there..quit in. disgi st , in 197a
of a situation -.where ire _ night ap- m ~. e lied 55 yiisians from ' Amin has said that Hitler was `.'rig`rty
prove. toe assassination of, a- foreign to bum six miLion
Uganda. Ire London,'tiiaJr,Ian-Gra.:
head -of .stale; Adm. Turner replied hame- Amin's_-former commanding -:7-.1 ore recently, _Idi;A ru.n :has once
tersely:.` Not in officer in African Riffles and a promi- again been in the news as a result o?
But, I_wonder-: I--wonder if the--.-nent-apologist.for-him, tells the 1313C 'a variety; of horror' stories, specifi
-world ':-wouldn't really-?- be--a better ` : that in Uganda, under Amin "it's the-,.- tally his role hri the `deaths of the An
.place if the CIA were to assassinate ` 'law of ? the . jungle.. there. " .And thy'. glican Archbishop of Uganda and two t
=0r assist:- in the assassination of jungle is wimung ;:; : - -=- `- Ugandan. cabinet ministers. Although. -
Amin says these people died"'
accl~;,
Uganda's President Idi Admin'.: Amn's predecessor ::Hilton Obote dentaL'y'' in an auto collision, sources--
Sinte:be=came to power in a coup described -him -as `.`the greatest-brute _? -
:six -years agoAmnesty International an' African mother has ever brought ___ characte>ized as; ra le say."other=i
r > -_? wise.--No - "imperial president",;'he,
quotes a now in, exile former' inspec:.,_ to-li.e:'The president of -Tanzania =
-tor-of the-Ugandan-secret-police -as Julius Nyerere,-ha" called..Amin 'a : isolated from affairs of state, theRd saying that' under- the kmm regime murderer-"- Amin:earlvin-his rein ficial Tanzanian 'government .p
a John'D: 'Lofton Ji:{ j` ''' =300,000 civilian' lmr an being is r? - . r`' - -"
rQ: os have had his own chief justice -draaaed in
K } - -.': confirmation hearing,. Admen.- ,
Turner -"declared:-11 _believa-with my>-
':= oiu?' moral dedication to the rights of;
`?=-- Well;- I agree wholeheartedly" -And
this _is=my point: What better way,, to
our' moraFdedicationto the:rights of.'
-Individuals than to have_the'CIA-ar-
e- afte'
_, E k1 t this :. is accomplished . the ,' agency ._
~ '= " ?"x il ' ~` ? t `might even want to hold a press con -
~~;,,~~~_.-= - - p= ference'and cla:to credit for. the open a
to endure. -me tyranny of the
Amin regime~,.;~
lonber will the people of Uganda.
uuvu.
t;; As: Canon Car
r-asks: 'How muc}t';
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