THE MAN FROM THE COMPANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100190010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 22, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

,ASTAT.
agains
Nex
Cente:
forty-
nation
In.!
was d
01208R000100190010-2
the V f
Vieth,
milit,
Col
weak. -
program which we supported to make it
better." The CIA, according to Colby,
by Barb s S.F. News Bureau V.C. priscners and to make sure that'
That the CIA has triggered revolutions :. V.C. leaders, rather than followers,were
[H-1 H1_ 1-ILL-1
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/08: CIA-RDP90-
baying outsidethedoor Division of theClAbefore he was appoint-' Saigon put the figure at nearer 41,000.
of the Central Intelli- ed Director. He has spent his entire ca Last week Colby admitted there were a
gressional Committees the director of the Clandestine Services were killed in just two and a-half years.
ITH A VICE Presi. backed fascist regimes, engaged in secret marked for capture.
dentialCommission and paramilitary operations and worse, Colby, In 1971 Colby testified before a Con-
no less than ei r"LCon.. himself, is well aware. Afterall,he was gressional Committee that 20,567 V.C.
lenceAgency (CIA), its Director. William reer as a clandestine "dirty trickster". "few mis-steps, but they were few and
,olby, has taken to the luncheon circuit for the government. ' far between." He said that "veryfew.
o Miff up the Agency's image. Phoenix . people'were improperly killed" and em-
Last week Colby spoke in San Fran- PProgram phasized that the program's purpose.was
to bon
isco to 900 members of' the Common- g the operation more into linewith? .
~.
vealth Club. He said that the United During World War II Colby, a Prince- American ideals and principles.".
states -needed spying to keep America se- ton graduate, served in the Office of' 'Colby also in his speech last week, de .
ure "in this dangerous world" and he ' Strategic Services (OSS), the embryoof, parted from the historical CIA position
aw nothing wrong with an intelligence the CIA. He cut his teeth as a paramili- and, in response to deepening distrust of
gency operating secretly in a free soci- tary operator parachuting into Nazi oc- the CIA, said that the, agency's enabling
ty. cupied France and Norway. _ laws'are too vague. He said that he looks
His' speech jarred dramatically with In 1951, with a law degree from Colum forward to new 'laws more precisely
is disclosures made b the bia University y and having worked a brief spelling out-the agency's'functions.
by press and He referred to the 1947 Charter as
>rmer employees of the agency, above-ground stint at the National Labor Adel Colby argued that intelligence was Relations Board,?Colby returned to Scan- iberately phrased .circumlocutions:" i
ecessary since Americans live just dinavia as the CIA's spy at the US em- He is not wrong about that. The Charter
irty minutes away from "aimed a nd bassy in Stockholm. itself has been fleshed out with secret
.-It was Colby who in the mid-sixties , :Council 'and only a few government ofi i-
rvestigations of the CIA, he warned
, .
Could not prevent the agency'from con- orchestrated 'the US "secret" w a r in cials know what these amendments to .
cting its "essential services." "We Laos, with more than 30,000 Meo and the Charter are.
could not," he continues. "throw the baby other tribesmen operating as a clande- Colby said last week that he "fully sup-
it with the bath water." stine, army equipped and paid by the Cl .. pods procedures to insure supervision,
What are the CIA's' "essential ser- It was Colby who directed the battles control and accountability with respect.
against the Pathet Lao, the Air Amcrica to intelligence.
ces." According to Colby, the CIA's
ajor role is to collect intelligence in- ; bombing runs and the sorties into China ft is interesting that Colby opposed.
rmation, analyze it and prepare reason- and North Vietnam. such legislation in 1972 when it was intro.
r John Sherman Cooper of
reports for government and the'mili- Such was Colby's success in Laos that I duced ced by Senatori
ry. "Its essential feature," Colby said, the agency turned him loose on the then Ken by. That law would have forced the
of to report regularly to relevant com
s that it is an intellectual process." burgeoning war in Vietnam. From his
mittees
Colby's picture of the CIA as a cool, post in Washington, D.C. he oversaw the on current intelligence. Colby
ademic-like, think-tank is in remarka- founding of the Counter Terror program, argued then that the needs of the Con-
contrast with the known facts. a clandestine operation whose unfortunate gress could be better served ,by informal .
According to Victor Marchetti and John title was soon changed to Provisional Re- discussions.
Marks, both former members of the connaissance. This was a unilateral pro- But, of course, that was before Water-
"intelligence community" whose book gram without the recognition of the Sai gate, in whose moralizing aftermath
e 'CIA and Cult of Intelligence helped , Son regime. Colby has prospered. When Colby left
The CIA recruited, organized, supplied Vietnam in 1971, where he held the rank
>eel; the .agency's cover, the CIA put s
le energy into these "intellectual pro- and paid terror teams whose job was;ac- of Deputy Ambassador, the CIA immedi-
ses." From the annual budget ofS750 cording ? to Marks and Marchetti, to "use ately took him back as a regular'em-
lion, S550 million arc earmarked for 'Vietcong terror tactics -- assassination, , ployee. 'Then Director Richard Helms
ndestine Services -- espionage, coup- ' abuses, kidnappings and intimidation-- appointed Colby to the post of Executive
Director Comptroller --the numberthree
espionage and covert action. In fact, spot in the agency.
s than 30% of the CIA's employees and
rcely 10% of its money is spent on the ' 0012tiz U d
tellectual process" of intelligence
lysis and information processing. -
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/08: CIA-RDP90-01208R000100190010-2
16-22 MAY, 1975