(EDITOR'S NOTE: SAM ADAMS, 39, A DESCENDANT OF PRESIDENT

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• Publication Date: May 23, 1973
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(F.DXTOP'S NOTE-% SAM ADAMS, 39, A DESCENDANT, OF PRESTDFr-~
r"AD AMS, MA Y. RE THE CF'NTRAL INTELLIGErICE AGENCY'S MOST OUTSPOKr~%T
EX-'r'XP PT.- HE HAS RESZGNEO, CHARGING THE C.A HAS MSSHANDLE'D
Ir 1DOC}LIMA Ir1TELLXGENC
E? IM THIS FIRST OF TWO "FXCLU5TVE }?1:,I'OR'i"S"
EASED ON EXTENSIVE Ir1TF}7VXEWS' WITH ADAMS, CORRESPONDENT PATRICK'
J,. SLOYAN SETS FOPTH THE AMALYST'S D TAILED ACCOUNT OF CIA SUFPRISE
OVER THE COMMUr1IS?TS' 1,966 TE. OFFENSIVE.)
BY PATRICK J. SLO
(NAME OF PAPER) WASHXMGT M BUREAU
WASHIMGTOr?1, MAY 23--A VETERAM CENTRAL IMTELLXCENCE AGENCY
EXPERT OF Ir1.DOCHINA, WHO QUIT BECAUSE OF WHAT HE CALLS THE
GOVEI1MMU?T'S PURSUIT OF "S,ELF' DELUSION," SAYS IT IS "JUST A MATTER
OF TIME" BEFORE THE FALL OF U.S.-BACKED GOVERNMENTS OF SOUTH
VIETNAM AND CAMT30DIA.
HE BASIC PR'ORLEim TODAY FOR THE SOUTH VIETn1AMESE GOVERNMEr`1T
IS THAT IT IS PIDDLED WITH NORTH VIETNAMESE AGEii\1TS,11 SAID SAMUEL
CAPAi
I MLCAUSE OF HIS VIETNAM BACKGROUND, HE WAS CALLED
AS A DEFENSE t'IXTNESS IN THE PENTAGON PAPERS CASE AGAINST DANI FI.
ELLS}?ERG, WHICH ENDED t~ECENTLY IN A MISTRIAL AND DISMISSAL' OF CHAPGES.
ADAMS' RESIGNATION BECOMES kDFECTIVE JUN', 1 AND HAS ALREADY
CAUSED RIPPLES OF COMTROVERSI' I AT ,CIA HEADQUARTERS" AND ON CAPITOL HILL,
"MY MAIM REASON (FOR LEAVING) IS THAT U.S. INTELLIGENCE HAS
FEZ"', NEITHER HOMEST ENOUGH NOR THOROUGH ? ENOUGH IN CONDUCTING, ,
RESTAPPCH ON THE VAR IN XNDOCHI-MMA," ADAMS SAID.
S0THE FAILURES IN RESEARCH HAVE LED TO REPEATED MXSJUDGMI~~NTS
OF THE r1ATUiE AND STRENGTH OF OUR ADVERSARIES THERE."
IN. A SERIES OF XMTE'RVIEttS,' ADAMS., 39, SAID HE HAS BEEN ATTEMPTING
TO IMPROVE MATTERS THROUGH'CHANi1E
Ls. "r~' CRITICISMS WERE MET
A. ADAMS. "THERE ARE ABOUT 30,000 COMMUNIST AGENTS IN THE THXEU
GOVERNMENT, FROM TOP POSTS DOWN TO PROVINCE AND HAMLET JOPS."
AS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF LON NOL IN PHNOM PVTH, ADAMS SAYS
U.S.-SUPPORTED FORCES APT FACING DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF XNSURGENr
FO!'CES AS ORXGTr1AL.LY EST Tt4ATi!). "IT' COULD GO ANYTSMF,"' HE SAID.
ADAMS' STATEMENTS ARE RASED OM A Tm-YEAR CAREER AT THE
CIAO
MOST OF IT AS THE LEADING EXPERT ON THE VIET COr?1G, THE SOUTH
Vet%TM MESE COMMUNISTS WHO SUPPORT AND ARE SUPPLIED BY NORTH
VI 1
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WITH EVASION, DELAY AND SOMETIMES THREAT,' HE SAID.
ADAMS' BATTLES WITHIN THE AGENCY, INCLUDING FACE-TO-FACE STRUGGLES
J1.171I FORMER DIRECTOR RICHARD HELMS, GO TO THE HEART OF CRUCIAL
DE.::CSIONS MADE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
THROUGH ELABORATE AND EXPENSIVE COLLECTION SYSTEMS,'INCLUDING
SPY SATELLITES, ELECTRONIC EAVES.DROPPTNG AND-SECRET'
ND' SECRET AGENTS,
THE CIA AMASSES, SECRET INFORMATION ABOUT NATIONS, THEIR FORCES
AND THEIR LEADERS.
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T7,i5 SHEET Tiara SLOYAM-CIA-EXPLUSIVE REPORT-RLS DIED MAY 23
X X X SCANDAL.
THIS IMFO1 MATIOM. IS FUNNELED INTO CIA HEADQUARTERS AT LANGLEY,
VA. THERE IT IS ANALYZED BY MENN SUCH AS ADAMS, WITH IMPORTANT
XMIFORMA T ION GOINIG TO THE PRE SIDEMT IN THE ROUND, . BLUE BOOK TITLED,
11ATIOMAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES."
IT WAS ONE OF THESE TOP??SLERET?REPORTS, PRESDITED TO PRESIDENT
LYMDOM B. JOHNSON . IM 1967, THAT ADAMS HAS SINCE DONDEMMED AS A.
"VONU r4ENT OF DECEIT." BESIDES MISLEADING JOHNNNSON, ADAMS. CONTENDS THE CIA HAS USED
EOC OR ED REPORTS TO FIT THE DEMAMDS OF SENIOR MILITARY AND
CIVILIAN OFFICIALS WHO WANTED TO APPEAR TO BE WINNING THE GIAR XN
Ir"TDOC H I MA .
"IT IS CONTYNUIMG TODAY IN CAMBODIA," ADAMS SAID. "THEY ARE
GWVIMG ESTIMATES TO PRESIDENT NIXON BASED OM AM ACCOIJMTXATG SYSTEM
THAT IS CLOSE TO OUTRIGHT FAKING ."
IT IS DIFFICULT TO DISPUTE ADAMS! VIEWS. THE CIA REFUSES TO
'DISCUSS ITS IN"iER WORKING WITH NEWSMEN. AUT SOME CIA OFFICIALS
SAY PRIVATELY THAT ADAMS HAS A'REPUTA?:IoM AS A "BOAT ROCKER."
THE TROUBLE WITH SAM IS HE WAS RIGHT MOST OF THE TIME," SAID ONE
OF XC?IAL. "OAMD THAT CAUSED A LOT OF TROUBLE FOR SOME IMPORTANT
PEOPLE."
ADAMS WAS BORN IN REDDING, CONN.0 A DESCENDANT OF PRESIDENT,
C ''.ADAMS . HE WAS GRADUATED FROM HARVARD, SERVED AS A NAVAL
OFFICER AMD JOINED THE CIA IM 1963. AFTER A STINT IN THE f?ELGIAM-
COZ,GO, HE WAS ASSIGNED IN 1965 TO STUDY VIET COMG MORALE.
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t;1ORAL E.
"I BECAME THE' EXPERT OM THE VIET CONG BECAUSE I WAS THE OP'LY
GUY TO DO ANY RESEARCH ON THEM,", ADAMS SA~LD. WE HAD SOME GEMEI'AL
I^TFOPMATION,, BUT NO REAL DETAILED STUFF
ADAMS MADE A SERIES OF TRIPS TO VIETNAM TO LEARN ABOUT THE
ri,,TEMY. HE CONDUCTED ENDLESS INTERVIEWS WITH EMEM ? PRISONERS AND
DE'("ECTORS. HE FILLED FOUR SAFES WITH CAPTURED COCUMEMTS, "THE
DOCUMENTS ARE,VALUABLE, IF YOU USE THEM PPOP1 LY, JUT)GIMG THEM AS A
WHOLE RATHER THAN TO BACK UP A SPECIFIC POINT," HE SAID.
HE AUTHORIE0,9 "GUIDE TO 'A VIET CONG PROVIMCE," STILL THE ONLY
GOVEPNMENT HANDBOOK, ON THE GUERRILLA FORCES, HE WAS 'ASSIGNED TO
L,CT'URE ON.THE VIET CONG TO ALL CIA ACEMTS DESTINED FOR VIETNAM.
HE WAS PROMOTED TO THE STAFF OF HELMS, THE THEM CIA CHIEF.
THIS DETAILED KP'OWLEOGE OF THE VIET COMG ORGANIZATION AMD ORDER
OF BATTLE LED ADAMS TO AN ASTQUNDIMG COPCLUSIOM I^' 1967. UPON
U~10ERSTANDIMG THE EXTENSIVENESS OF VIET CONG OPERATIONS AND
ADMINISTRATION, IT BECAME CLEAP. TO ADAMS THAT AMERICAN FORCES
WERE FACING DOUBLE THE ,NUMBER OF ENEMY THEM ESTIMATED.
MOST INTELLIGENCE IS BASED ON GUESSWORK, AMD AT. THAT POINT,
ThE INTELLIGENCE. COMMUNITY HAD GUESSED THE VIET CONG INVOLVED
300,000 MEN, DIVIDED INTO MAIN AND LOCAL FORCES PLUS CIVILIA'M
GU' PRILLA, AND SERVICE' PERSONNEL.
"IT WAS A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE BASED ON WHAT WAS CALLED
'ACTUAL' EVIDENCE," ADAMS SAID. FOR EXAMPLE, TO DETEPMINE THE
EXISTENCE OF A BATTALION,( AT LEAST THREE BATTALION IDENTIFICATION
CARDS HAD TO BE ,RECOVERED FROM ENEMY BODIES.
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720 SHEET FIVE SLOYAN-CIA-EXCLUSIVE REPORT-MADVM FOR WED MAY 23
X X X PODXES.
YOU CAN JUMP THESE ESTIMATES UP OR DOWN PY CHANGING THE
4(aUIR'wMENTS--TWO I D,, CARDS INSTEAD OF THREE," ADAMS SAID* "THE
T;~CURLE IS,' THESE ESTIMATES, WILL ALWAYS flE LOU BECAUSE YOU DO NOT
11'T:XMATE WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE."
OF A REGIMENT HEPE, A BATTALION THERE, HE WOULD FILL OUT THE
ADAMS TOOK A DIFFERENT TACK. IF INTELLIGENCE OBTAINED EVIDENCE
PESO" OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHART HE KNEW THE ENEMY, USED.
"THESE WEREN'T JUST ISOLATED UNITS)" HE SAID. IT WAS VERY
L,AFO ?ATE, EVERYTHI'G FPOM SAPPERS, ENGINEERS, MEDICAL CORPS,
ARTILLERY,. POST OFFICE AND, ADMINISTPATIO T THZ' WERE CAREFULLY
ORGANIZED FO;, 'YEARS
PY FILLING OUT ORGANIZATIONAL CHARTS, ADAMS GUESSED THE VIET
CONNG STRENGTH CLOSER TO 600,000 THAN 300,000. , IT WAS A SHOCK,"
HE SAID. "IN 1967, EVERYONE WANTED TO HEAR THAT THEE WERE
LESS VIET CONG, NOT PORE."
IN'( 1967, THE ONLY GOOD NEWS PRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS GETTING WAS
FROM GFNN. EARLE.WH'EELER, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHILES OF STAFF,
AMD GI'Dl. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND, U.S. COMMAMD IF1 VIETNAM.
'ALTHOUGH ADAMS SAID HIS ESTIMATES WERE ACCEPTED ?AY THE MILITARY
UNDFFXCIALLY, FOR THE RECORD THEY, KEPT INSISTING THAT THERE WERE
ONLY 300 ,000 VIET LONG .
"INITIALLY, THE CIA ACCEPTED MY FIGURES BUT WE WERE ORDERED TO
GET TOGETHER WITH MACV (iMILITARY HEADQUARTERS IN VIETNAM) AND
COME UP WITH A COMMON ESTIMATE," ADAMS SAID.
"THE ARMY WAS UNDER ORDERS FROM WESTMORELAND' TO KEEP THE
FIGURES AT 300,000 EVEN( THOUGH SOME OF THE' ARMY INTELLIGENCE MEN
TOLD'ME LATER THAT I WAS RIGHT," ADAMS SAID
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7X21 SHEET SIX SLOYAN-CIA-EXCLUSIVE REPORT-RLS WED MAY 23 X X X
ADAIrS SAID.
AFT- V A THn'EI~-DAY'SESSIbrt IDI AYR-COMMDXTXOMED 11PENTAGOM EAST'S
ADD[-IS SAID HELMS OIDERED HIM TO GO ALOMG WITH, THE MILITAI?Y VIEW. ,
"THEY WERE MORE .CONCERNED WITH WHAT TO TELL, THE PRES.S,' HE'
SAID. rTIT,FIT IM TO THE VIEW' THAT WE W1:RE WINMIMG A. WAR OF ATTRITX0N."
.BUT ADAMS DID D10T. 'GIVE UP.
THE ISSUE STILL HAD TO' RE REPORTED TO THE PRESIDENT AND IT WAS
UP TO THE POARD 'OF ESTXNATES TO APPROVE THE OFFICIAL FINDINGS.
THE SIX MAN HOARD, MADE UP OF INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY VETERANS,
COVPILE THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE IN A WINDOWLESS,
CAPPETED ROOM ON THE SEVENTH FLOOR OF THE CIA HEADQUARTERS,. ,
'SAM, HAVE WE COME PEYODMD THE ROUNDS 0I' REASONABLE DISHONESTY?"
A BOARD MF 4RER ASKED ADAMS,, ADAMS SAID YES AND SHOWED WHY HE.
PrL:C7=VED THE MILITARY WAS MXSLT.ADIDNG
"x MAKES MY BLOOD POLL TO. SEE MACV COOKING THY BOOKS9?'
SAID ANOTHER FOARA MEMPrR AFTER ADAMS' PRESFN.TATIODN .
"TH :fiE'S NO VOTING'DY THE BOARD," ADAMS }"XPIAINFD PECT:PNTL1'.
"TH1,Y READ THE DRAFT PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH, LISTENING TO
a irCTIONS AND 'ACCEPTING OR REJECTING'. THEY ENDED UP FOLLOWING ORDFRS.~l
OVEPTULED BY THE BOARD, ADAMS, CONTINUED TO, FIGHT. FOR THE
RtCO1:D, HF ATTACKED THE DRAFT. THAT EVENTUALLY WAS GIVEN TO
PT'TSXI)EVT JOHNSON AS "UNWISE, LESS THAN CANDID, SNEAKY, AND ILL-
FORMED." ' HE RECALLED THAT HE SAID JUST THAT IN A 19,58 MEMO.
tMfFT')
'NY MEMO ON THE DRAFT MADE IT CLEAY THAT X WAS ACCUSING THE
AGENCY OF* LYING? COWATP))ICE, PAD.) JUDGMENT AND XNCOMPI:"TENCE."
PUT ADAMS GOT NOWIIERE. FINALLY, HE REQUESTED TO PT" TAKEN OFF
THY DXk'ECTOP'S STAFF IN A LETTER THAT ACCUSED THE AGENCY OF
APPROVZMG A 1'MQMUMEP'T OF DECEIT."
TIIE LETTER REQUESTING TRANSFER WAS DATED JAN. 30, 1967.
THE VERY NEXT DAY, THE VIET CONG AMD THE' NORTH "VIETNAMESE
LAUNCHED THE TET HOLIDAY OFFENSIVE. , "TICE ATTACK ON THE CITIES
WAS TOTALLY UNEXPECTED ADD SO WAS THE NUMPEP OF ATTACKERS," ADAMS SAID.
THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE ATTACKING 'UNITS WERE VIET, CONG SAPPER
GROUPS AND OTHER SERVICE UNITS--THE. VERY SAME UNITS THE ARMY
ONLY THREE MONTHS BE70RE TERMED DNQNEXXSTEMT,
"ay APF.IL, THE CIA CHANGED ITS MIND. IT THEN FORMALLY ESTIMATED
THE VIET CODNG AT MORE THAN 500,000.
"IT WAS TOO LATE BY THEM," ADAMS SAID.
(TONO ROW: , ADAMS: , CONGRESS MUST REFORM THE CIA)
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SL(A' M'-CXA-EXCLUSXVE, 1?EP?RT-ADV. FOR THURSDAY, MAY. 24
(P-11, ,CEDE) THIS IS THE SECOMJ) "EXCLUSIVE F-POPT"RASED OM, EXTENSIVE
,r,,'?Tu.a~VIEWS WITH SAMUEL, A. ADAMS, A CEM PAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
EXPEP'T OM SOUTHEAST ASIA INSUnGENTS tr}{O HAS PESIGNED. (END PPECEDE)
1)Y PATRICK J . SLOYAN
0H01Z OF PAPER> WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHING TON, MAY 24--DESPITE THREATS HE WOULD Rr FXPFD, A CENTRAL.
INTELLIGENCE AGE~TCY EXPERT ON IMJ)OCHIMA WAPNED PPESIDEMT NIXON
iN 1970 THAT U.S. POLICY IN SOUTH VI ETMAM WAS BEING U~NDEPC1JT PY
CO;';UIIIST AGENTS WHO HAD v'PENIETRATED" ALL LEVELS OF THE THIEU
GOVEP Nt-IruNT, THE CIA EXPERT SAYS.
SAMUEI. A. ADAMS, WHOSE RESIGMATIOM AT THE SPY AGENCY IS EFFECTIVE
JUNE 1, SAX)) IN AN INTERVIEW THAT HE IGNORED "IMTIMIbATIOM" -FROM
HISS CIA SUPERIOPS TO SLIP TO THE WHITE HOUSE HIS REPORT ON
:XINIFILT ATION OF THIEU GOVERNMENT POSTS,.
WINE PR ES ID EMT WAS VESPY UPSET AMD SO WAS HENRY K.ISSIPNGER,Q?
ADAMS SAID. "IT ,SHOWED THAT VIETNAr~TIZATION--TUDNXNG THE WAP OVER TO
SOUTH VIETNAMES E--COULD NOT WORK BECAUSE THERE WERE AS MA MY
AS 30,000 AGENTTS' IN ALL LEVELS OF THE SAIGON GOVEPMMENT.",
ACCOPDDIPNTG TO ADAMS, THESE AGENTS OF NORTH VIETNAM ARE STILL
HOLDING KEYPOS'ITIOVS AMD "ZZTING AWAY THE GUTS OF THE THXEU
GCVERMM1EMT."
1{r SAID SOME OF THE COMMUNIST AGENT ACTIVITIES INCLUDED:
--A SENIOR ARMY GENERAL IN THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE HIGHLANDS WHOSE
Ol D "Ps TO SOUTH VIETNAMESE REGIMENTS RESULTED IN SERIOUS SAIGON
GOVER1%.TM,.NT RAT'fLEIF13) LOSSES.
--ONE AGENT, EVEMTUALLY'ARRESTED,- WAS ACTING' AS CHIEF ADVISER ON
AMERICAN AFFAIRS TO PRESIDENT THIEU.
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TX23 SHEET TWO SLOYAAr-CIA-F'XCLUSIVE'RE PORT-ADV FOn THUR MAY. 24
X X X THILU.
--AMOTHFF COMMUMIST, AGENT DIRECTED THE ASSASSIMATIOM OF SUPPO'FTIw'RS
OF TIXXE SOUTH VIETNAMESE COVERMM,VT WHILE OSTE^ISIPLY PURGING THE
THIt _IJ GOVERMMEIMTT..OF COM4MUMIST AGENTS,.
"~,OST ALLIED INTELLIGENCE OPERATIOMS tjERE PENETRATED BY NORTH
VI":`. AMESE AGENTS'," ADAMS SAID. "I THINK THESE AGENTS RAFT MANY OF
OUR OPERATIONS AIMED AT PT:CFUXTING VIET CO~TG LEADERS IM SOUTH VIETNAM,"
FOR EXAMPLE,_ ADAMS EXPLAINED, THE CIA WAS FORCED T i O GO THROUGH
MIDDLEt4F_M i IM EFFORTS TO CONTACT O )? , ArIPPE VI ET COMG) OFFICIALS .
"USUALLY, XT TURNED OUT THAT THE MtDO1. EN WERE COVMU"GIST AGEMTTS,"",
'HE'SAID.
ACCORDING TO ADAMS, EARLY xM THE VIE:Tt`TAM CONFLICT THERE WIRE SOME
SUSPXCIOMS THAT COMMUNIST CHINESE FORCES WERE INVOLVED IN VIETNAM
MILITAfY OPERATIONS .
oOFTEN IN SUCH CASES, WE WOULD TURN TO THE SOUTH V:tETMAMESE
GOVEfMNNENTT FOR SUCH ItSTF.I.LIGENCE," ADAMS SAID. "BUT THEY COULDN'T
GET ANYTHING. INSTEAD, THEY WOULD MAKE UP--JUST MAKE IT UP--REPORTS'
Ot,T WIIATEVER WE WERE XMTERESTED IN.
WE COVE UP'WITH THE NONY AMt) THEY' CAME UP WITH COPMUNIST CHIMESE
ARt,"' UNITS, TANK UNIT? ALL OVER THE PLACE., -THESE OPERATIONS FINALLY
BECAME } MOWN AS 'PAP ER MI LL S'--T:XEY'D TURN OUT AMYTHINC WE 'WANTED.
"WE CREATED A COTTAGE IPDUSTRY OF PHO'MY INTELLIGENCE REPORTS
~rROt-T THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE INTELLIGENCE COMt,TUNITY."
ADAMS' REPORT ON AGENT INFILTRATIOM OF THE SAIGON GOVERNMENT WAS.
ORDERED SENT TO THE t'11-CITE HOUSE AFTER MEMBERS OF' K.ISSIr'GEP'S
NATIONAL SECURITY, COMMITTEE WERE TIPPED BY ADAMS AS TO ITS CONTENTS .
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TX24 SHEET THREE SLOYAN-CIA-EXCLUSIVE REPORT-ADV FOP. THUR MAY 24
X X X CONTENTS.
THAT BLEW, THE ROOF OFD' THE CXA," 11'. C- SAID. AN AIDE WHO HELPED
THE r -
At'il?!cIS 1IaPrPAPE fSti:PQ?~1 WAS S t~FAr,!SFr:'I:.F,.,Y,'n, tPtT'xMJfI?ATrD AND TVF..NTUALI,Y
;:;'.E,'(GMME)) FROM THE CIA . ,
11TJU ' TPX ED TO GET ME A LETTn OF Rr-PRIMAND BUT THEY COULD HARDLY DO
';I'AT FECAUSE IT WAS AN ISSUE OF INFOPMIMG THE P1-1.ESXDFNT,11 ADAMS SAX)).
ADAMS' EFFOPTS TO TELL. THE WHITE HOUSE APOUT AGENT PIFIL.TPAIPION AMn
DOCTORE)D I rPOI+TS THAT UNDERESTIMATED COMMUNIST FOt ES IN INDOCHINA
PT,".SULTED IN A SE.PIES OF WHAT HE COr?'SXDT;PED THREATS FROM, HIS SUPrPIOPS.
"T'f! PEPOPTS r"AAI~' THEM LOOX BAD BECAUSE I WOULD) NOT CO ALONG WITH
PPT,SSUPE FI'OM POLITICIANS AND THE PENTAGOr'NNADAMS SAID.
"THEY CHIS CIA SUPERIORS) TOLD ME I'D BE OUT IN THE STPEET, I'D
N`VEI; HAVE AMY FUTURE AT THE AGENCY AND MADE OTHER TER T,,'ATSJ," Hr,., SP ID
AT ONE POINT, ADAMS DFMAMbED A FORMAL. AGENCY XNVFSTXGATION INTO
CIiA~GI"S THAT THE CIA,APPROVED ESTIMATES OF THE VIET CONG THAT HA.1) BEEN
FAF XCATED FY, GEM. WILLIAM W.rSTNORELAPMD, U.S. COMMAPIDER IN VIETNAM.
ADAMS SAID CIA DIRECTOR RICHARD HELMS FINALLY CALLER HIM FOP A
",WEAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO--TAKE ON ' THE ENTIRE MXLITABY7" H'ELMS
SAID, ACCORDING TO ADAMS .
A,CCOxlDX NG TO ADAMS, HELMS AGPFEA--BUT LATT TRIED TO 'BLOCK--ADAMS'
EVFO.YTS TO .t NFOZ M PPESXDFMT NIXON'S INTELLIGENCE STAFF. ABOUT THE
PIHON4Y PENTAGON ESTIMATES .
RAT) INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES RESULTED IN NIXON DEMANDING AN
INVESTIGATION OF. THE CIA ' AT ONE POINT, ADAMS SAID
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11X2 SHEET FOUR SLOYAN-CXA-EXCLUSXVE REPOFTMADV FOR THUR VAY 24
X X X ADAMS SAID.
AT ISSUE WAS CIA ESTIMATES OF SUPPLIES REACHING COMMUNIST FORCES
IN SOUTH VIE NArt. ' IrTV0LVE_D, WERE SUPPLIES COMING DOWN THE HO CHI
NI1' H TRAIL AND THROUGH CAMI?ODIA'S PORT AT SIHANOUICVII1,E.
"TI{I. CIA SAM) NOTHING IMPORTANT. WAS COMING THROUGH SIHAMOUKVXLLE
TUT -HE PENTAGON SAID IT WAS AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF SUPPLIES,",
ADAMS EXFLAXNED,
ADAMS RECAME INVOLVED WHEN: HE ATTACKED CIA ESTIMATES OF WHAT
COMMUNIST FORCES NEEDED TO OPEPATE;XN SOUTH VIETNAM. 01ACCOPDING
TO OUR E TXMATES, COMMUNIST TROOPS WERE' MOT USING AS MUCH SUPPLIES
AS DID THE TINY l .EFIM.AFMY IN FIAFPA," 'HE SAX)).
"U". IIAD GOOD IP'FORMATIOM ON THE RIAFRAN OPERATIONS AND
IM 1"! X MADE THE COMPARISON-, IT KNOCKED THE FOTTOM OUT OF OFFICIAL
CIA ESTIMATES. IT BECAME KNOWN AS THE 'RIAFF:AM MEMO' AND I WAS
TIIF'!"P,TENED WITH DISMISSAL IF IT GOT CIRCULATED TO, OTHER
11"'TELI.xC :r`'CF AGENCIES.
"IT MAY NOT SOUND IMPORTANT FUT YOU'VE GOT TO REALIZE THAT
? f
SOME OF THESE: TOP GUYS AT THE CIA BASED THEIR WHOLE CAPE:EES ON,
ESTIMATX MG ENEMY LOGISTICS."
:CPI THE 1970 INVASION OF CAMBODIA BY U.S. FORCES, LARGE AMOUNTS
OF CCOt`IiUNXST SUPPLIES W '&E FOUND STOCKPILED AFTER HAVING REE N LANDED
THROUGH SXHAMOUKVSLL.E. "THE MILITARY WAS RIGHT AND THE AGENCY AS
WRONG IN THIS CASE," ADAMS RECALLED.
NIXON ORDERED AN INVESTIGATION. , BUT ADAMS SAID HELMS APPOINTED
AS :DIP..CTOR' OF THE PROBE THE V V MY MAN WHQ HAD COME .UP WITH THE BAD
LOGISTICS ESTIMATE. IN. THE FIRST PLACE.
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X X ); FXPSTPLAC c .
"IT WAS LIKE APPOINTING L,IZZIE ROPDEN. THE HEAD OF A COMMISSION OM
AX MUPDEFS," ADAMS SAID
`SI[E INVESTIGATI'OM NEVEA.PRODUCED RESULTS AATD IT IS AM FXAMPI.E OF
T,[::; KIND OF THING THAT ADAMS SAID FINALLY PERSUADED HIM TO QUIT
71-CE CIA IN PPOTFST .
::I MADE A DECISION AT ONE POINT IM AL;, THESE RATTLE'S THAT I. DIDN'T
I?' ALLY NZt?.D A PDOMOTIOM. I WAS MAKIMG 419,000 AND THAT WAS ENOUGH
XFCOP1r. I DECIDED I WOULD PE THE ONE GUY WHO WOULD NOT GO ALONG,
G1JUI.I) REPOPT THESE WRONG THINGS THROUGH OFFICIAL CHANNELS' UNTIL
SOiTi'1 RING WOULD ICI. HONE.
"RUT THE CV. CAN'T BE PEFOPMED FROM WITHIN. WHEN A' GUY MAKES A?
r: G [?1IS.TAKE AT THE AGENCY, USUALLY HE GETS, KICKED UPSTAIRS. HIS ROSS
HAS S OMMTETHING 0?" HIM A?U) CAN ST SURE THAT HE'LL NFVFp MAKF, ANY
Tf-.'OUI'LE AND JUST GO ALONG.
"IT IS THE OLD PURrAUCFATIC PFOP.LF.V--EVEPYRODY SCPAMALFS TO COVFR
UP MISTAKES AND PROTECT THEMSELVES. I3UT WHEN YOU STAF.T DOING THIS
WI hh[ INTTELLIG'FMCE FOR THE PRESIDENT, IT'S pEALI.Y, RAD."
EVEN-TTUALLY, ADAMS' E'FO.RTS RESULTED IN OPDERS PPOHIRITINC HIM
1,;0I1 CONTINUING RESEARCH ON INDOCHINA PPOPLE IS, "THEY
TO STOP LEC TUFING CIA AGENTS OM THE VIET QONG WHICH I THOUGHT
IT ONLY HURT THE 'GUYS WHO WERE GOING TO VIETNAM
WAS JUST STUPID
WI[O ?nIDN'T KNOWN REAMS. THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANYONE TO REPLACE ME SO I
TO 01 I.I AVE AND CONDUCTED THE LECTURES ON MY OWN TXME.N
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"IT'S THE SAME Oil) THING AGAIN--T!-1'1!'Y APE TAILOT'ING THE
d^1TE1,1.IGENCE TO FIT U.S U.S. POLICY," ADAMS SAID.
IN RECENT RAYS, ADAMS HAS SEEN F. IEFING SENATORS AND CONGPrSSMr"N
APOUT THE SITUATION INN CAMBODIA AND WHAT'S WRONG WITI( THE INTFF:NAL
OPERATIONS OF THE CIA.
H1 XS GETTrNG A LOT OP CAT',XTOL HILL ATTENTION CAUSE OF THE'
WATT GATF SCANDAL'S CONNECTION j'JITH THE,CIA.
"I LOVED MY WORK AT THE CIA, I FOUND IT FASCIM/1TIMG. I HOPE TO
T:ETURN TO WORK AT THE CIA SOME DAY. BUT FIRST I't, GOING TO W.R.XTE
A SOOK--MA\sJE TWO BOOKS,.
"THE CIA NEEDS SOMEONE TO CLEAN IT UP. SOMEONE FROM OUTSIDE--
MAtlPE CONGRESS.'!
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X X X OWN TI Mr."
IN PEOSECUTING DAMItl ELLSPF,PG FOP PEL'FASING THE PENTAGON PAP P,S,
TI r,.GOVFENMENT CALLM ARMY FXPF ?TS TO TF'STXF'`Y,THAT ELY..SPrI*:G HAD
MADE PUBLIC "CLASSIFIED" 'INFORMATION ABOUT COMMUNIST 'STr ENG.TH IN
VIETNAM.
PrADING THE TESTIMONY, ADAMS CONCLUDED THAT THE INFOPMATXOP7 WAS NOT
ONLY UNCLASSIFIED PUT THAT IT WAS THE SAME DATA THAT THE PENTPGON
HAD "FAKED" IN 1967. `DESPITE CIA AND ~:JUS~ DEPARTNEMTS EFFORTS TO
FLOCK HIM, ADAMS FINALLY TESTIFIED FOR THE ELLSPFRG DE'FIMSE.
XT WAS 0t'1k: OF THE PAPE; INSTANCES WHrt'r. A CIA FMPLOYE HAS DEEM
PET.NITTr;D TO TESTIFY AF3OUT AG NCY.OPFRATXONS IN PUBLIC SESSION.
f' A FIL.IJ WEEKS LATER HE DECIDED TO QUIT WHEN, HE SAID, THE CIA DEGAN
DOCTORING FIGUP'ES ON THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN CAMBODIA.
ADMXNISTPATTON OFFICIALS SAY U.S. AIrOPF.rATOMS IN CAMPODIA AnF
DESIGNED TO HALT A MOETH VIrTMAMF,SE-L 7FOPT TO SEIZE THE: U.S.-
BACKED GOVEENMENT INT VIOLATION OF THE INDOCHINA CEASE FIFE.
ACCOFDXNG TO ADAMS, THE CAMBODIA INSIJFGENTS P.P.E A HONE-CnOWM,
PWi OLUTXONAPY FOPC,:, CONDUCTING A CIVIL WA1=. WHILE THEY GYT,SUFPI.IrS
FROtn NORTH VIETNAtMM, ADAMS, SAID, THE COMMUNIST INSUPCEMTS DO NOT
QUF\LIFY AS "OUTSIDE AGGRESSORS."
AND, ADAMS SAID THE CAMPODIAM COMMUNISTS APF CLOSFP TO 100,000
STEONC AS OPPOSFD TO THE 40,000 TO 50,000 ?1STIMATFD PY THE CIA.
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