EX-C.I.A. AGENT GAINS RETRACTION BY AUTHORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000200890015-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 16, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APP' NEW YORK TIMES
ON PAGE - 16 February 1986
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Ex-e r.A. Agent Gain,,
Retwction by Authoii
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (Reuters)-
A legal action group that defends fop,.
mer United Staten intelligence ofpcess
has announced its first victory - t1
full retraction of an assertion that a fl
me: C.I.A. agent was linked to the kMk
ings of President Kennedy and forma
Foreign Minister Orlando Leteller-4
Chile. w,
The group, Challenge Inc., an intelili
gence officers' legal action fund, sad
Friday that the authors of "Death-bo
Washington,'! a book an Mr. Letelie;'s
slaying in 1978, had retracted the albs
- against David miner agent, in an out-of-court the sett
ment.
The president of Challenge, J.l;a
Dolan, a retired Marine Corps lnteU
gence captain, said the group was.fk
nancing a lawsuit against the author d
the book "Missing" and the makers -el
a popular film based on it.
..Missing" asserted that United
States officials took part in a coup tha6
toppled President Salvador Allende
Gossens of Chile in 1973. n-_
.Death in Washington," by Donald
Freed and Fred Landis, asserted that
Mr. Phillips, using the alias "Maurice
Bishop," served as a C.I.A. case officer
for Lee Harvey Oswald, who was i