EX-CIA OFFICIALS PAINT BLEAK PICTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000201100018-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: October 3, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SYRACUSE POST STANDARD (NY
3 October 1985
Ex-CIA Officials Paint Bleak Picture.
By ERIC JICIITBLAU . sized the a gency of the current situation is Nica-
Two former top officials in the Central Intern- rogue, where they. said the United States govern-
gence Agency left few public figures or myths of ment Is funding, trenin4,,and supplying arms for:
national security unscathed Wednesday night at Cor- - Contra rebels In their tight against the Sandinistas.
neil University while painting a terrifying picture of "It's Illegal, it's war 'what they're doing against .
U.S. foreign covert operation. the Nicaraguans," Stockwell said.
John Stockwell, former station chief for CIA oper- MacMichael stressed that the "wicked and uncon-
ations in Angola, and David MacMichael, a former scionable" U.S. foreign policy strategies go far be-
senior staff analyst for the CIA, are to testify today ' yond the visible arm of the CIA.
in Syracuse on behalf of a group arrested for refus- "It is a much larger problem. The CIA does not run
ing to leave Sen. Alfonso DAmato's office where they the foreign policy of the United States. It does the
were protesting U.S. Intervention in Niparaga. dirty jobs, yes," but only at the president's directive, .
Wednesday, a captivated audience of about 300 he said.
people beard their talks in Ithaca. Both Stockwell and MacMichael implicated the-
MacMichael apgke at Cornell shortly after return- media and Congress in the national conspiracy to
lug from The HHaague, The Netberlands,? where he conceal foreign policy, charging that some journal-.
testified before the Wald Court on U.S. intervention ists are more than willing to disseminate false infor-?
in Nicaragua. He labeled a State Department report motion on covert activities while some public offs-
released to the World Court this week on Nicaragua ciais accept bribes in passing favorable legislation'
"the single most dishonest document produced by and testifying before Congressional hearings.
the United States government that I know of." "We're talking about a world of lies," Stockwell
Stockwell and MacMichael, who both spoke out said.
after breaking ties with the CIA, narrated vivid In leveling his charges, Stockwell attacked the.
horror stories Wednesday night of U.S. agents cas- honesty and competency of such public figures as
trating, maiming, and torturing citizens from Henry Kissinger and Jeanne Kirkpatrick, but was .
around the globe, all in the name of democracy and particularly critical of President Reagan.
national security. The president has "a defective mind and quite
While the two spoke briefly of worldwide covert possibly a defective soul," Stockwell said, describing
operations over the past 20 years in places such as Reagan as "like an 8-year-old playing cowboys and.
Angola, Iran, Chad, Cuba, and China, they empha- Indians, playing nuclear war."
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