BUSH OKD TO TAKE CIA HELM

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 chairman may have to
spend much of his time in
tie next few weeks getting
to Ptnt~ a the highly classi-
To Take,, lied details of the agency
President Ford picked him
to head. He has no previous
PLO
ebackground in intelligence.-
CIA - work.
By Norman Kempster.
Washington Star Staff Writer
Although some of his
supporters believe he does-
n't really want=-.the job,
.
.
George Bush will take the Republican vice ' vresiden-
oath of office this week as tial nomination this year.
...Bush`: has made it clear necessary. to win the ap-
that despite the furor. which. 'proval of the Senate Armed
has surrounded the spy Services Committee last
agency for the past year, no month,.Ford removed Bush
major changes are needed from consideration for a
in the way the CIA does its spot on the GOP ticket.
work. . Bush had made no secet of
The personable, and ur- his interest in that job.
Sen. Charles MCC.
Mathias,'R-Md, said he
-"sensed" that Bush had no
real ambition to become the
nation's chief spy. Mathias
said he believed Bush took
the job in "response to a
presidential draft."
Critics of the Bush , ap-
pointment have said that he
scarcely will have time to
learn the job in the next
year. Sen. Dale Bumpers,
D-Ark., 'predicted that if
the next president is ' a
Democrat, he certainly will
ask Bush to resign as one of
his first official acts near:
But Mathias said that with
the.intelligence agency in .
turmoil; the most important
thing now was to provide it
with a.permanent head.
THE .NEW YORK TIMES, SATURbAY JANUARY 31 1076
ocumen
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Edmund I,.i
would always be conducted le 1
gaily. Henshaw Jr., the clerk of the:
Director, C.I.A.
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eralhundred-aens P. c Irresidentapproved a censored
today that he would work to g y employees. and an object of pride for all; version. But the committee
restore public confidence in the The .workers turned moments Americans." chairman, Representative Otis
intelligence community without 'liter to cheer; Mr. - Colby as. ? Mr. Bush, the former United) G. Pike, Democrat of Suffolk
compromising.. its effectiveness' he strode from . the building, States liaison officer in Peking, J 1 County, said he might not even
or secrets, entered an automobile and had encountered some opposi-! file. "a report on the C.I.A. in
.,We cannot improve this drove off into the late morning cy chief because of his back final rewrite"
agency by 'destroy! g it," the murk. I ground in politics as a one-time! '
President declared at the cere- Mr. Ford, whose. supporters ,House rhember from Texas and!
monial installation of George 'succeeded yesterday in winning as chairman of the Republican
McLEAN, Va., Jan-:30-Presi- i auditorium. 10.: the main-,? en, . matches a good man with! l Under the terms of the!
dent Ford promised officials of trance to. the huge C.I.A. head- i a good' :team" and that Mr.! 1 House decision,. the report'
Bush would help to make the! 1could be released once the l
the Central Intelligence Agency quarters.. building to greet sev- I agency "an instrument of e
BY JAMES M. NAUGHTON After the ceremony, Mr. Ford, The President. 'said that the! )was not sure what to do.-with'
st war to T h e New yort runes, lnd Mr- .Bush. walked f r o m the appointment of . Mr. Bush! l it.
Ford Promises Effort to Restore Confidence' in C 1"
Bush as director of the C.LA:, a 246-to-124 vote in the House National Committee.
For this part, Mr. Bush; of Representatives blocking the `No Policy Bias'
spoke of applying the lessons! publication of classified infor= In his remarks at today's
?earned from lire agency's ex- nation in the. final report of ceremony, declared that "no
cesses of, the, past,-,but he said f the House' Select Committee politics, no. policy , bias will
he was determined ? ~ color the collective judgment
t
to protect on Intelligence, sought at the l of the C.LA,". under his direr-,
intelligence agents who risk 1 C.I.A. headquarters to under-I j tion.
their lives `.'only to have. some line his view of the importance "I will not turn my back on
people bent on destroying thisllof intelligence 'activities anal the past," Mr. Bush said. Buti
agency expose their names."
"This must stop," he asserted.
The remarks of the President
and Mr. Bush, ,who is the
agency's.third director in three
years, drew loud applause from
300 intelligence. officials, mem-
bers of Congress and the Cabi.
Bush" accepted. the tap
pointment,-`although it
seems to contain more risks.
than benefits for his own
career.. The" post already. -
has cost Bush
a shot at the
secrecy. '
"The abuses of the past have)
more than adequately been de-
he called "fellow employees"
of the C.I.A. that, in seeking
to restore trust in the agency
,
scribed, the President said. ljhe woul dalso be "determined
He expressed assurance th
t (to protect those thi
hi
h
ngs w
a
c
IC * I.A. officials. were as deter- (must be kept secret,"
1 mined as, he said he was to I iHe . emphasized that he was
ntent on preventing disclo-
prevent. recurrence of intel- Lures of the identities of t'he
11 ligence excesses. But he added: "unselfish and patriotic" a
ents
g
,
in an egg-shaped auditorium at I We cannot improve this abroad who he said often
"
agency by destroyirg it. Le, served with
their lives on the
the
C.I.A. headquarters outside 1 '
Washington: rme assure you I have no inten I.Itne."
The agency chief in Greece,
lion of seeing this intelligence Richard S. Welch, was slain
But it was William E. Colby, h
the departing director, who I community dismantled and its] by unknown gunmen outside
operations paralyzed or effec-
stole the
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whose dismissal. by. the Pres- lively undermined." ] 123. about a month after art
,Ident terminated.. a 25-years He said that his long-awaited! Athens newspaper listed his
career in the agency, , recommendations for reform of! ;t'a1ne among C.I.A. officials'
a was given the intelligence community'servmg in the country.
two sustained, standing ova- 1 would try to strike a balancer The i tcome of the House
tions by the' audience--onceS j he;?ween the need for effective) `tote hlociiine release of the
before MTr. Ford arrived and,' ~ intelligence, including 'neccs-j intelligence committee's report
again ..; when the President? sary covert operations," and; was unclear. today.. The report
thanked him for "dedicated ser- ;assurance that such activities! was to be. filed, as a secret]
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THERE IS SOME secre-
cy about 'what else the 'ob
-may have cost.: Bush. The
Armed Services Commit-
tee's report said the ap-
pointee will be required to
dispose of within 30 days
"securities of certain
companies which are vari-
ously related to U.S. intelli-
gence.-activities."
What- are those firms?-
The committee didn't say
and the 'CIA never talks
about its relations with the
business community.
The Senate yesterday
.confirmed, by a 63-27 vote,
Bush's. appointment to suc-.
reed William E. Colby. The_
,White4House said.he-..prob-
ably would take office be-
fore the end of the week.
All four senators from.
Maryland and Virginia
voted to confirm the nomi-
NETT YORK TmEs
18 Jan. 1976
C.I.A., Appreciation
To the Editor:
May I express my appreciation for
the manner in which your journal
wrote the Jan. 14' story. `.'Paris Paper
Lists 32 as U.S. Agents,"
I am pleased that you did_ not repeat
the names carried in the Paris publica-
tion. I agree with your judgment that
the names themselves would have
added nothing to the story, would have
:given worldwide circulation to what is
otherwise local publication and would
have increased the difficulties and
dangers faced by Americans-either
correctly or incorrectly said to be
C.I.A. employes-working abroad in
the service-of our country..
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Wed., Jan. 28,1976? "
PLANS I LAND VACATION, BOOK ON SPYING
BY RUDY ABRAMSON
Times Staff Writer-
WASHINGTON-As the U.S. Senate was voting Tues-
day to make George Bush director of the Central Intel-.
ligence Agency, William Egan Colby was, in the words of
an associate, "packing up his pencils."
He conducted his last staff meeting and gave his last
press interview.
Removing the last of his personal belongings from his
~ckS Up Hos Pencils
At the same time, he has continued to defend the CIA
in the. press and to denounce the leaking of material from
congressional investigations of agency misdeeds.
Colby's last public appearance as CIA director was Mon-
day when he called a press conference to denounce the
leak of a House committee's report and recommendations
on CIA reform.
Though the recommendations of the committee were
believed similar to those now under consideration by the
White House, Colby appeared unusually upset by the leak.
There was a noticeable tremor in his voice as.he de-
nounced "outrageous statements designed to titillate and
spacious office atop the CIA headquarters building, the
'ousted chief of the country's
;intelligence establishment
planned to return only once
more-to shake hands with
employes today, and to
have a farewell dinner with
members of the CIA's senior
staff.
After more.than 30' years,
most of them?as a spy, Col-
by then leaves the govern-
ment. He expects, he said,
to . continue honoring his
pledge of secrecy and he
expects the government to
pay him his pension. That is
all.
Iri the peeks immediately
ahead, he plans to vacation
on an undisclosed island in
get a few headlines."
Until the Watergate disclosures, the. congressional in-
vestigations of assassination plots and CIA domestic
spying, on-the-record press conferences at the CIA were
unheard of.
Lately, they have become ordinary with one disclosure
after another of CIA mischief, going back to its early days.
Colby's last attempt to defend his agency was an unu-
sual one for him. The old-time undercover man seldom
known to publicly show irritation, amusement or any oth-
er emotion was clearly angry.
"It was not nervousness," said an official who has,
worked with him for years. "It was frustration and anger.
When his voice starts to rise and quaver, you know he is
POd."
The issue of leaked reports on the CIA has been around
long enough that the few reporters who showed up for
Colby's last appearance had few questions.
And when the brief press conference ended, and the re-
porters. and photographers drifted. away, Colby' walked'
from the auditorium back to his office.through the rain.
the sun. Then he will start
to work on a book on the intelligence business. After that,
he will practice law for the first time since 1949 whem he.
was an attorney briefly for the National Labor Relations
Board.
President Ford fired Colby as director last November at
the same time he ousted Defense Secretary James R.
Schlesinger.
The Administration never gave an explicit reason for
Colby's dismissal and, immediately after the White House,
announced his firing, Ford asked him to stay on until
Bush could be confirmed.
'In the interim, Colby has been a key figure in the FordAdministration's search for ways to reorganize the intel- '
ligence establishment and to quiet the controversy that
has raged since the CIA became involved in the Water-
gate scandal.
According to officials involved in the Administration re-
view of the intelligence system, Colby has played a lead- :
ing role in spelling out the issues Ford should address and ;
his possible courses of action.
Remarkably for a man who climbed to the top of . his
profession only to be unrcremoniously dumped, Colby has
gone on as though nothing had happened.
Whatever reforms the Ford Administration proposes to
halt misconduct by the CIA, they will result to a signifi-
cant degree from Colby's work after his dismissal was an-
nounced.
According to White House sources, the President has
continued to praise Colby in private since he was dis-
anissed and to rely upon his advice.
Monday, in an oval office ceremony kept secret until it
was over, Ford presented Colby* with the National Securi-
ty Medal, noting that he had led the CIA in the most diffi-
cult period of its history.
After firing Colby and Schlesinger, and easing Secreta-'
Ty of State Henry A. Kissinger out of the post of White
House national security adviser, Ford described the
shakeup as an effort to establish his own national security,
team.
Whenever the subject of his firing has come up, Colby'
generally has dismissed it by pointing to his commission;
on his office wall-indicating the CIA director serves at
-the pleasure of the President.
Aside from working on the Administration's intelligence
PEOPLE
26 JAIWARY 1976
1.
Cold Comfort Though fired by President
J Ford last Halloween, CIA Director William,
Colby is just now, with his successor arriving,
preparing to go back into the cold. "I'rrrgo-
Ing to do some speaking and try to write a
book about'the new Intelligence; "says Col-
'by. "Then I plan to see if fcan refurbish my
law degree. I've had a lot-of experience be-
ing a witness," says Colby wryly of the
more than 70 times he testified in his em-
battled 25th and last year with the agency.
" i don't know whether that translates into
being an advocate, but we'll see."
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,THE NEW YORK TIM'S, WEDNESDAZ FEBRUZEY 4, 1976
sc bees
Qlb t ; 02. the Col Di
The following' article was
.ands is.based on reporting by
.!pin} and .Nicholas M.; Horroch.
?.n?s - $p1? 5al to Ttie New YocY Times -
.,,;WA$HINGTON, Feb. 3-One
' ek after the Senate's confir=
msYlon of George Bush as Di-
rector..of Central Intelligence
. .Girded -William E. Colby's 25-
-year-long' career as a spy, Mr.
Colby -,relaxed in the sitting
AFoortm,of his modest suburban
.iii9ne. and talked about "the
elephant "
"'The temporarily unemployed
iivate citizen used the term
to describe the Central Intel-
,litgence.Agency, which, he. head-
~. for; the : last three years,
_bsit--not in, the same context
?ev -Senator- Frank Church, the
=chairman of the Senate Select
.Committee on Intelligence, who
previously likened the agency
to a' `:`rogue elephant" - running
wild beyond the control of the
,White House.
, ` -Rather, Mr. Colby said, the,
public. confusion about . the
that has grown out of
,year of investigations by Mr.
,(~kilirch's committee and others,
and revelations by-. the newt
uedia . reminded him of. the!
iindu fable about the six blind!
nqn who, each feeling a differ-~
ent' part of an?. elephant, came
to very different conclusions
about its nature-
The. retired 56-year-old inteI-
.Iigenee chief told. his interview-
ers:_that he- wanted to keep
both his - secrecy -. -agreement
with the C.I.A. and "my pen
sion,'~ had he declined to an-
Wswer for the record a number
of questions: about - sensitive i
agency operations.
But Mr. Colby did agree. tot
talk about-some of the agency's
current public - diffiWcultiesi
which, he said, are as much
a product of sensationalism and
a lack of - perspective by. iits
critics as of- the agency's.own!
transgressions.:
Mr. Colby, who was wearing
a. rumpled. burgundy pullover
and paused occasionally to sip
coffee, reiterated his concern
that `recent news reports dis-
closing covert C.I.A. operations
in. Italy, Angola and elsewhere
had provided foreign intel-
ligence services with previously
u . known details about the l
..American .agency's clandestine
activities. .., 4, , -
But he also said that, 'al-; sibility of allowing C.I.A. offi-I
though such operations had! cers to pose as diplomats as-
;dominated the newspaper head- signed to American embassies;
;lines and television newscasts,' abroad, and some private con ":
,they had typically accounted. panies' have withdrawn from!
"
"
for only
about 5 percent
of
the C.I.A.'s total expenditures.
It is. the remainder of "the
elephant," Mr. Colby said, that
he hopes to portray in a book
about the agency that he is
planning to write.
Asked about the C.I.A.'s use
of, journalists to gather intel-
lligence-topic that, al ong wi
covert operations, has created
a furor in recent, weeks, Mr.
i Colby rolled his eyes skyward
for a mbment, then replied em-
phatically that ..the C.I.A. had
never "engaged in an of fort
to maniuplate :. the, American
press.".
The] ast five correspondents!
for major American news-gath-
ering organizations who served
the C.I.A. . as. clandestine agents
were "phased out" beginning,
in late 1973 he said, and byl
the end of 1974 all had severed(
their relationships:, with the!
C.I.A. "At no time," Mr. Colby
added, were any of the five,;
or their uncounted predeces-,
sors, told "what to write for
an American journal."
He conceded, however, that,
under the agency's current re-
gulations part-time -or freelance
correspondents abroad who'
might at times sell articles to
American publications were:
continuing in some cases to
gather intelligence for the
: C.I.A. on. the side. - j
Asked. whether the agency!
had ever planted stories with:
'foreign news organizations, Mr.
!Colby replied, "Oh, sure all!
the time." He also conceded
the possibilty that such bogus
news accounts might have been
picked up and reprinted by,
American newspapers, although;
he said he-believed the effect
of that on domestic opinion
would have been marginal.
A General Reluctance
Mr. Colby cited : a concern
among journalists about the
effect of such relationships on
the, integrity of their profession
as indicative of a general reluc-
tance on the part of other
domestic groups, and even
some Government agencies, to
enter into close contacts with
the C.I.A.
The State Department, he
said, is 'reconsidering the advi-
arrangements in which C.I.A.j
men' passed themselves off as;
corporate employes overseas
In addition, Mr. Colby said
it is -now more difficult to!
solicit interviews,, with busi
nessmen and others returning'
from travels abroad about con-
ditions in the areas ' of the
world they had visited.*
"Everybody agrees that we
;ought to collect intelligence,"
Mr. Colby said with a rueful
:smile. But he added that many
=persons and business concerns
.'?had lately adopted an attitude
of ? "don't look -at us" when
!approached by the C.I.A. with
,a request for assistance, and
that, as a result. "We're miss-
ling - information."
Distressed About Helms
Mr. Colby also expressed his
distress about the possibility
that Richard M. Helms, who
headed the C.I.A. from 1966
until 1972, might be indicted
by a Federal grand jury in con-
nection with some of his activi-
ties as director of the agency.
One of the matters under
investigation, Justice Depart-
ment sources -have said, is Mr.
Helm's . sworn assurance to the
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee that the C.I.A. had not
given financial support to 'op-
ponents of the late Dr. Salva-
dor Allende Gossens, former
President of Chile, and :had not
engaged in the surveillance of
American citizens protesting
against the Vietnam war.
The other subject of the!
!Justice Department's concern
involved Mr. Helm's authoriza-
tion nearly five years ago of a
,C.I.A. conducted burglary of
;a - photographic studio . in a
!suburb of Washington.
' Mr. Colby said today that, al-
though the C.I.A. had provided
money to some Chilean organi-
zations prior to the 1970 Chil-
ean elections, he believed that
a "narrow construction" of the
questions asked of Mr. Helms
in that area precluded the pos-
sibility that the former C.I.A.
director, who is the United
States Ambassador to Iran, had
perjured himself.
Domestic Surveillance
Mr. Colby also said he be-
lieved that Mr. Helms -had an-
swered the Senate _ committee
correctly .with respect to. ~clo-
mestic surveillance by the
C.I.A., 'since the agency's role
in what has become known as
Operation Chaos, a Federal in-
vestigation of anti-Vietnam war
,groups in the late 1960's and
early 1970's, had been con-
fined, with only a small num-
ber of unintended exceptions,,
to finding links between pro-
! testers and . foreign govern
I ments. -
The burglary of the photo-j
-graphic studio, Mr. Colbvl
maintained, had been mandated
by Mr. Holms's respens bility!
to protect the, C.I:A.. security,
and not with any criminal in-
tent. Mr. Colby speculated that!:
no' criminal charges could bet
sustained in- that case- or in the
only other area of C.I.A. activi-l
1 ties that remains under Federal l
investigation-the 20-year pro-!
f
fiil bt
gram o openng maeween:
j the United States and Com-
munist countries.
Mr. Colby,'a lawyer who has
not . practiced since the early
1950's, when he joined. the
C.I.A., said he planned to return
eventually to the law after gain-
ing admission to the District of
Columbia bar and - taking' a!
"crash course" in legal develop-
ments over the last 25 years.
But the book will .come first,'
he said. The former C.I.A. di-j
rector was seen a few days ago
in a stationery store purchasing
equipment ? for the temporary
office he is building 'in the base-
ment of . his apparently un-
guarded home in Bethesda, did.,
a Washington suburb.
Meanwhile, Mr. Colby seems
like a man who is betueeni
trains, sitting at home on a .
snowy morning while his wife
Barbara bustled around him.
There is no Government car a.nd
driver any more, so he and Mrs.!
Colby debate over. whether he
should drive to a downtown
luncheon engagement, whether
he needs any cash, -what time
she can expect him home.
"And, oh," said Mrs. Colby,
a' bright, smiling woman, as
her husband trotted down the
stairs, "I need to ask.him about
shoe repair."
She paused and turned to a
guests. "It's so strange to have
THE WASHINGTON STAR
22 January 1976
Spying, foil peace , . ?
Wiliam Colby, outgoing director of the CIA, told
CBS: "The old idea used to be that intelligence would'
tell you a secret so that you would then be able to move
the troops to the right of the field and defeat the
enemy. 'T'oday .. the most exciting prospect of
intelligence is the elimination of wars because if you
look back on most old wars, you find they started by a
combination of ambition-misunderstanding. If we in
crease the understanding, we can convince the ambi-
tious they can achieve more through peaceful means."
He did not spell out the role of intelligence if your ox is
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F TH`E ` 7_EK@)
H
AVE
"CIE SWEARING-,Cof Ceorge Bush as Can he reorganize it without impair-
Director of the Central Intelligence in- its role as an intelligence-gathering Mr. Colby has acknowledged that he
gency on January 30 marked an . end organization? Will he try to "politicize" was the anonymous source of the first
t s -,t CIA era-but promised little letup it to, make it conform to the political news story that exposed the fact that
in the Agency's troubles. needs of the White House? journalists were employed as intelli-
What came to an end was a decade of . The answer to the first question is still gence gatherers for the CLA.
ccrs,:ro, of the CIA by "professionals." to be decided. To the second, most in- Ticklish dilemma, 'Mr. Bush, taking
3ush, 51, the ninth Director fay telligence experts say over as Director of the Agency, will
t _v CIA's 28-year history, is a political -No," claiming that the come face to face with this problem,
i pire, a former member of Congress professional staffs at CIA which is bound to be embarrassing to a
frc tea Texas and a one-time Republican and other intelligence former member of Congress:
national Chairman. He was considered . agencies fail into spat- Capitol Hill is certain to insist on
2 a .vice-presidential choice by both tern that cannot be bent knowing more and more about the co-
Presiaents Nixon and Ford. to political ends-even if vert operations of the Central Intelli-
?hat background drew some opposi- Mr. Bush wanted to turn gence Agency. But-
tion to his confirmation, largely from in that direction. . How can this insistence be reconciled
-Senate liberals. The January 27 vote to .. Mr. Colby, who has tak- with the reality that Congressmen and
put him into the office was 64 to 27. ' en the brunt of past mis- persons in other Government agencies
Now Mr. Bush is expected to play the deeds of the CIA, has set have been careless in revealing these
kep- role in a reorganization of the CIA. 1 down what he. thinks secrets to the mass media? - ? -
Bcih Congress and the White House are Congress should do in re
%::orking up plans to redefine its role in forming the Agency.
u:,lercover work and bring its covert In testimony on Janu-
activities under closer scrutiny. ary 23, he said: CONGRESSIONAL, RECORD- SENATE
leaks to press. Many officials, how- "Traditionally, intelli- 28 JANUARY 1976
,per, are concerned that widespread gence is assumed to oper- A SALUTE TO WILLIAM E. COLBY
?:?iersight of CIA operations by Con- ate in total secrecy and
r~ss would result in paralyzing the outside the law. This is j~?'~. WILLIAM S. $3 ~~? ~ LIB'
;:IA's intelligence gathering. impossible under our
'The reason: Some of the CIA secrets OF r
Constitution and in our society. As a IN THE HOUSE OF F REPR
REPRESENTATI'vcS .
th,nt were revealed in closed sessions of result, when CIA was established in
Wednesday, Eanuary 28, 1976
congressional committees have been 1947, a compromise was made under
leaked to news media. . ?:?- Mr. BR001VE?IELID. Mr. Speaker, the
which broad, general statutes were ; changing of the watch today at the
The latest example was -a draft report drawn and carefully limited arrange- :Central Intelligence Agency marks the-
n spared after a year-long study by a ments for congressional review were : conclusion of an intelligence career that
situse investigating committee headed adopted. It was then believed necessary is best characterized as professional.
by Representative Otis Pike (Dem.), of to sacrifice oversight for secrecy. dedicated, conscientious and uncommon-
err York. Release of the report was "Our society has changed, however, ' ly unselfish. Dever' in the nearly 30-
r eked by a House vote of 246-124 on and a eater degree of* oversight is yas hisrery of that beleaguered agency
29, but many of its details al- ~ g has there been adirector who served
y
i_=uar Y now considered necessary. U.S. intelli- under more trying circumstances than
eEtly had made their way into print. gence has already moved out of the William Colby._.
Brae reported conclusion: Federal in- atmosphere of total secrecy which pre- To fully appreciate Mr. Colby's per-
;eiligence agencies operate in such fish- viously characterized it. We who are in formance, one must look back and recall
?en that they are "beyond the scrutiny" e t in September, surrounding his o`_ intelligence are well aware of the need m most in Septeptember, 1973. Just I month
f Congress. Other allegations: to retain public confidence and con- before the President of the United
'.Budget . figures supplied Congress gressional support if we are to continue States-in an unprecedented move-had
c=::xitelligence agencies were far below to make our contribution to the safety -resigned amidst charges that; ,among
ne sums actually spent. of our country. other things, he had manipulated the
The CIA violated a 1967 presiden- "Thus, from the earliest days of the CIA of eyvesi foreedothecCIA into an
a: is tai ective banning it from giving n- current investigations, I have stressed
~~scii?l assistance to schools. unwanted limelight from which- it has
my hope that they will develop better been unable to retreat.
letirie?g CIA Director William F. guidelines for our operations and . In assuming the directorship of the
CS7-by cs:rleci a me-,vs conference to pro- stronger oversight, to Insure that our CIA, William Colby knew what lay ahead
=s bit~erl f against the "obvious barst- as the furor created by the Watergate
;tie hies do remain within the Consti- revelations provoked a public clamor for
~g of the :lam protecting many of our lution and the laws of our country. a catharsis of the intelligence community
a ret operations and activities.' "In 1947, we took a small step away that could only be achieved through a
~3e explained: "We provided large from total secrecy by enacting general long and painful congressional investiga-
s vuni:5 O? information to this commit- tive process. Moreover, he may well have
statutes and constructing careful over- foreseen the possibility that the final
rc wits the understanding that the se- sight arrangements in the Congress. ,
would be protected... . The com- Proposals now under consideration chapter in such a scenario could include
a call for his own removal.
?iktee seems neither able to keep se- would alter these arrangements to as- We have watched the scenario unfold.
bsi;.;:5 nor its agreement." sure more detailed oversight.. As it was being played out, Mr. Colby
Lis. Colby called the report an."out- "But it is essential that the pendulum spent more than half his time keeping
r:?eous calumny," and asserted: "I be- not wring so far as to destroy the ,.ores this Congress apprised of the CI
he
.:-ve it totally biased and a disservice to activities, both past and present. The
yard secrecy of intelligence or destroy record will show that his testimony was
r nation, giving a thoroughly wrong intelligence itself in the process." startlingly candid and proved most help-
of American intelligence. By Erosion of secrecy. The CIA was ful to those in Congress who have been
te`_'ective use of the evidence provided, once so zealous of its secret mission that charged with the task of making recom-
mendations for reform of the intelligence
bi innuendo and suggestive language, on roads bordering its Langley, Va.,
the committee implies that intelligence heads uarters there were no signs point- community. Somehow, he also managed
1 g 1 to discharge his many other responsibili-
- ; deceptive budgets, has no account- ing the way to "The CIA." Such signs ties in his dual role as head of the CIA
virility and has not complied with it cli have now been installed-?amdl many and the intelligence community.
acct order of the l'resident. Mr. Speaker, I .would like to express
these flatly." more secrets. of the CIA have been re- my appreciation for the talent, dedica-
I deny
" i, into speculation now is what vealed, through leaks from Congress- tion and selfless public service of William
sect far. Lluslf, as a se ' i nai men and their staffs, other Government Colby and wish him the very best in hi.;
> A~8,vs t`drRet tW ;009d848d08vriE 4t-RlE)P7ft4i@*32R00040041ft@4s8I am most confident
will have on the CIA's u re. that history ev 1 nd;udlge him to hate
agents and oven the CIA itself.
been the right: man, to% the :iglu job, at
the right time. . ,
U. S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
,q February 1976
 Tue-Any, Dama, 27. 1976 Approved
F h s S~ys,
CIA, Job
Was. Lonely...-
. By Norman Ketnpster
Washington Star Stan-Writer
Former - CIA. 'Director
Richard Helms said today
his 6i/2 years'as the nation's
top spy were lonely ones
because Congress was un-
willing to share in the re-
sponsibility.
Testifying before the
Senate Government Opera-
tions Committee, Helms
said that often congress-
men assigned to supervise
the CIA really didn't want
to know what the agency
was doing.
He said he questioned
"how much certain sena
tors wanted to--participate
in the dirty tricks that a se-
cret service engages in."
Responding to friendly
questions from the commit-
tee, which is attempting to
draft legislation reforming
congressional supervision..
of intelligence, Helms said
that present law sometimes
poses a conflict for the head
of the CIA.
. He said that in order to
obey a statute requiring the
director to protect intelli-
gence sources and methods,
it was sometimes necessary
to break other laws..
He did not elaborate, but
he could have been refer-
ring to the. burglary of a
Fairfax photo studio which
was conducted with Helms'
approval in an effort to find
out if a former CIA employe
was exposing the agency's
secrets.
Administration sources
have said that Helms is
under investigation for that
burglary and for possible
perjury before congression-
al committees.
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff,
D-Conn., who presided at
the hearing, asked Helms
what a CIA director should
do if ordered by a president ?
to commit an illegal act.
"His first duty is to argue
it out with the president for
whom he works," Helms
said. But he added that if
the director is unable to
convince the president to
change his mind, he has
only two choices - go along
or resign.
"And if he goes along, he
may be left holding the bag
and being pilloried in the
press," Ribicoff remarked.-
"That can happen,"
Helms replied dryly
Reflecting on the 6'/x
For ReIeMrd1p~.~C
(`mmgressmen serving on the few legislative F
.,z,. -mm; tees which received periodic, se- ~j
briefings tended to be "very busy"
By Petei? C. Ove~rirl
Staff conreaa.r aC T.'
t.~The Christialn Sciemca T
A.-new congressional `:o:?
step nearer after endorseme ;7
director.of the Central Inteii:genca ,fie ..oy.
But Richard- M.. Helms, ciirec?c zf the
embattled supersecret agency f:= 3; ?mars,
sees a far different role for the wronosaO. .ew
i congressional oversight cornmi'ien do
reform-minded lawmakers: to crust eon
sional "backing" for intelligence oneratia?!.o.
There were many times when wog - ,' .a.r
liked to have been able to fee ^.rrl.
hacking , [when] Ii neii quite lcin.7," he
told the Senate Government C raS: ass C.cm-
mitteeTuesday (Jan. 27).
liy bringing congressional oversee--s "in on,
the takeoff" of new intelligence ac':f.
helms explained, a permanent ?r=,tc.;~.dog
committee might spare-the agendas
-`the legs cut out from under you .,!.o'.r?a'-?..::
when you are in midstream." ..
This is roughly what has occtvx ed ! .^?c`
after the_ Senate voted to sarsca :.
..militiry.aid to pro-Western factions t'? n%
Mr. Helms, who left the CIA three wears ag:
and now is ambassador to Iran, c cnoedei> t
past oversight of his agency vier ",..~.,
enough."
THE DAILY O'CLAHOMA'
K.Ii 7 JANUARY 1976
rca iy didn't want to know that much'
.:a zcveri operations) because it might
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intelligence e ae^.c..._ _
the gcver..1 ent r'hic -
large degree t as
done, but the srocess
;overrTner' ?2321.fr
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