CIA OPERATIONS, COSTS DISCLOSED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030029-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: January 26, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
26 January 1976
CIAOp~rathiis, Costs 'inclose.
By Jim Adams
A-.soclated Press
The total cost of U.S. intelligence
operations is $10 billion a year. three or
four times the amount listed in the an-
nual defense appropriations bill, ac-
cording to the final report of the Secret
]louse Intelligence Committee.
The 338-page report was approved
Friday by the committee by a 9-4 vote. It
has not been released publicly but.
sources familiar with it described
Sunday some of its contents.
They said the report gives top-secret
details on Navy submarine spying on
Soviet missile launchings and other
covert C.S. operations. including CIA aid
for Angola, Kurdish rebels and Italian
political parties.
It blames U.S. intelligence's failure to
predict the Soviet invasion of
Czechoslovakia in 19t+8 on the CIA losing
track of an entire Soviet division in
Poland. the sources said.
The report iurludes, in a footnote, a
CIA memo saying that Sen. Ifenry M.
Jackson, D-Wash., gave the agency
advice in 1973 on how to protect itself
against exposure in Senate hearings on
Chile.
Jackson, asked about the memo in
Jacksonville, Fla., said that was
ridiculous" and that he advised the
agency only on procedures, not on any
matter of substance."
The CIA memo says Jackson recom-
mended the CIA have then-director
James Schlesinger get former President
Richard M. Nixon to request personally
that the Chile hearings, which were to
unravel CIA involvement, be held by a
friendlier committee.
The CIA involvement against the late
President Salvador Allende of Chile
began to emerge in the hearings held in
1913 by Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, and
his Senate multi-national corporations
subcommittee. _ -., ...1 . .
The CIA memo says
Jackson suggested that Nixon
request they he held by the
CIA appropriations oversight
subcommittee headed by Sen.
John ,McClellan, D-Ark.
Sen. Jackson repeatedly
made the comment." the CIA
memo says, that in his view
the CIA oversight committee
had the responsibility of
protecting the agency in the
type of situation that was
inherent in the Church sub-
committee. As a result of. this
conviction, Sen. Jackson
would work with the agency to
see that we got this protec-
tion."
Jackson said he was ap-
proached in February 1973 by
Jack Maury, congressional
liaison officer for the CIA. and
asked for advice because Sen.
John Stennis, chairman of the
Armed Services Committee
who would normally handle
such matters, had been shot
and was critically wounded.
lie said he advised the CIA
to get in touch with McClellan.
Jackson added: '
That is all I advised them. I
advised them to talk to him
because Sen. Stennis of course
was not available. I also
suggested that Sen. McClellan
would be the proper person to
confer with Sen. Church on
this matter. I (lid not deal with
any matter of substance. It
was only a question of
procedure."
Jackson also said: I was not
involved in anything that
pertained to protecting the
agency."
The CIA memo was written
by William Broe. who had
been chief of the western
hemisphere division of the
CIA clandestine plans division
in 1970 and thus oversaw CIA
operations there.
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