"MASSACRE" AT THE CIA...

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100050067-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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U. S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
14 NOVEMBER 1977
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"Massacre" at the CIA.
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Widespread discontent at the crisis-
ridden Central Intelligence Agency is
about to break into the open in the
form of a class-action lawsuit against
Director Stansfield Turner. Subject:.
the unannounced firing of some 200
secret agents as part of a policy to scale
down controversial covert operations..
CIA officials call the October 31 purge
"
the Halloween Massacre."
Requests for once-secret information
at th
C
e
entral Intelligence Agency are
piling up faster than a staff of 100 can
deal with. Many of the requests-more
than 3,300 this year under the Privacy
and Freedom of Information Acts-'
involve people who want .to see their
"
"
personal files
at CIA.
Connecticut Republicans are p
di
re
ct
ing a shoot-out between two_ "native
sons" in the State's presidential prima-
ry in 1980. The foes: Senator L
owell
Weiclter and George Bush,. former
CIA Director and envoy to China who,
while now a Texan, lived in Connecti-
cut and still has family ties there.
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