EX-EMPLOYEE ATTACKS SECRET CIA OPERATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201030018-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: February 23, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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STANFORD DAILY (CA)
Stanford University
23 February 1982
Former CIA agent, John Stockwell;
described,' the 1 CIA- as ?7a "rogue,
where it wants to go around the,
world" and compared reports of es-:
catating. U.S.involvement in Central'
'America to hisexperiences as Angolan
Task Force commander under the-,
National Security Council during the:
'It smellsso much like Angola,
Stockwell said to more than 100 peo-'
ple at the Center for Educational Re
Stockwell worked for ten years ort
."African operations and for three'
years in Vietnam, immediately fol-'
lowing the withdrawal of most Amer-
ican. troops in1973." Throughout his..
career with the agency,Stockweitbe
came increasingly alarmed at thena-
ture of CIA operations:,''' .
"The secrecy,"' Stockweil' said, "i
`designed to prevent Americans from
knowing what the CIA.i.scloinic'!" -Ii
"I could see too many cases that
the CIA had done what it had wanted
tO do, then set up the president and
Stockwell claimed`"that "CIA"
directed actions have resulted in the
deaths of 800,000 people around. the'
world, including 500,000 casualties
from. the Vietnam; war and 300,000,
deaths. resulting from other opera-
tions`as cited in a Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee report. "How many people are~we willing
to kill in El Salvador, Nicaragua oranr
of the rest of these places?''
Stockwell asked. "At-what point d
`:you lose your moral, leadership ofth
In Angola, Stockwell said the CIA-
covertly fought a war against Soviet
backed and Cuban regular forc
while American leaders openly
deplored any form of violence or in
'
tervention by other countries.
"We were fighting it secretly.with
the CIA;" Stockwell said.
"We lied extensively throughout
this program," he-continued, "and
a we were shackled by those lies.. We
lied to the president and we lied to
the Senate Oversight Committee
about what we were doing.".::
Disillusioned by the nature and
mentality- of CIA operations,
Stockwell left the agency in 1977 to
write In Search of Enemies, a book.
describing covert actions conducted
In 1978; the federal g6ehment
sued Stockwell, winning an injuri
tion that requires thathe-submits
review any puoncanon aiscuss;ng to
agency _ t:: aF-
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