A MOUTHFUL TO CHEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600230057-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: May 10, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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10 May 1978
A Mouthful TO'ChCWT
This Week, the Senate J n- - -The CIA was using
;elligence:. Committee. was Americans as military advisors
hahded more than just a series : in Angola without the knowledge
of new allegations involving the of the Congress, the Ford Whit
Central Intelligence Agency. House, or the State Department,
Former CIA agent John Stock- -. and in direct contradiction of the
weal's charges .,of illegal CIA, stated Angolan policies of. all
opeerations in. Angola also three.
represent the first major, public - -Secretly financing efforts
.CIS watchdog.. power , and mercenaries to~;!fight for U.S.
gumption., And. how the com- interests in `Angola,' -again
mtttee handles, this challenge, without, approval or apparent
should determine -if_it is really knowledge' of. Congress, the CIA 11 an effective watchdog or just oversight group of that period,
another in a long series of paper or the White House
tigers.. =-So: badly . handling the.
With no small amount of irony, clandestine operation that the
Steckwell's 17 charges of illegal, .,,Soviets and the Cubans felt the
clandestine operations by the need to intervene in the Angolan
CIA in Angola in 1975 cover the ., civil, war, with -their own clan-
saine time period that helped destine ' eans, . worsening- an
-gite birth later to the new, and already bad situation.
supposedly more effective, : The Senate ' Intelligence
Senate Intelligence Committee,.' Committee needs, to do more
whose membership includes. here, than 'just investigate the
Vermont' Sen. Robert Ti Staf accuracy 11. of these. - charges,.
fold.; : _ .. . _ report on them publicly, - and:
It was during 1975 and 1976 "make'certain that nothing of the.
that Senate hearings on earlier_ , kind is still going on.. It must also
CIA abuses were being con-...' ensure that. those who may have
ducted, eventually spurring the. been responsible for sanctioning
Senate to set up' a new CIA.', illegal actions in the' Angolan
oversight system. Yet Stock- ~ operation are- brought to trial,
well, the former chief of the and' to bring an abrupt halt _ to
CIA's Angolan task. force. 'and '.government attempts to = punish
'on;e of many CIA. agents who . those who "blow the whistle"=on,
resigned from the agency in , illegal clandestine actions more
1977, has now charged that-the . severely than, those who per
and doing another every - as : -You would think, in fact, tha
Senate hearings on CIA"the new leadership of the CIA,
'assassination plots were under -Admiral Stansfield Turner
way and the -Ford - -A d-' Company, would be as eager a
ministration was denying direct anyone to help the Congress se
U.$. involvement in the Angolan 'thin sort of example. For wha
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i'il war. better way to prove that the C
rges that: has gone straignt-r
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