CIA OFFICIAL DENIES ANGOLA ACTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000700070054-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: January 7, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

STAT
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/23: CIA-RDP91-00901 R000700070054-8
THE HOUSTON POST
7 January 1976
official dernesJ.n.go1a actrions
The deputy director of the Central
Intelligence Agency said here Tuesday
that he does not know of any Cuban
mercenaries being trained in this country
for fighting in Angola.
"There is no CIA involvement in Angola
with troops or agents," said Lt. Gen. Ver-
non A. Walters, number two in command
at the CIA, "and I am not aware of Cuban
mercenaries being trained here by the
CIA." -
Last week White House press secretary
Ron Nessen would not comment on
rumors that Cuban nationals living in the
United States were being hired for Angola
troops to fight for the Moscow-supported
site.
Walters, speaking at the Executive
Breakfast Club meeting, said he expects
the agency will receive a "set of restric-
tions" and "some reorganization" as a re-
sult of congressional investigations into
CIA activities.
"We are prepared to live with the re-
sults of the congressional reports if we get
a fair reporting,"- Walters said. "Yes,
we've had our share of poor judgment,
over zealousness, kooks and nuts, but they
have been few and far between in 27
years.
Walters, CIA deputy director three
division for the Defense Department.
He said that "much of what has been
brought up and used against us" through
congressional inquiries were contigency
plans rather than policies adopted for use.
Assassinations, mind-bending drugs and
use of toxics were discussed within the
agency, he said, "but in the final conclu-
sion they were passed over. We were deal-
ing with possibly the means to retaliate if
they were used against us."
The deputy director said that in addi-
tion to congressional probes, the CIA has
had to contend with an American attitude
that intelligence work is "unmoral and
ungentlemanly."
where Cuba has sent. some 7,000 combat. years, formerly was with the intelligence
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/23: CIA-RDP91-00901 R000700070054-8