CIA LINK TO MY LAI CLAIMED BY OFFICER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100190015-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 24, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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S~~':S1iINGTON STAR
~ NOV 1974
OKLAHOl~~IA CITY. Okla., the` CIA-sponsored: Phoenix
CAPJ - An Army intelli=?. program, which was aimed
.. Bence officer who partici ` at eliminating the Viet Cong
gated in the My Lai opera- leadership... ~ ' ~ "~
lion.says he believes the Johnson. was". charged-
Central Intelligence Agency with participating in: the ,
tvas.?involved ~in the 19b8 cover-up of the incident but.
incident; the DailyOklaho- charges were later dropped
man said today. ._..,-_:,,-~:~-;~--:for lackof evidence. He said
_."viy Lai itself ;was`~an he was angered by accusa=
operation that.was directed: lions against him,contained
from higher sources -from . in . the,::.Paris .,Report, ::the
the CIA =-- in (.~uang.: Ngai~ report on-the Army's invest-
and Saigon," Capt~ Dennis=; igation of the incident: _ ~~`?r
H: Johnson of..Fr:`Lewis,-- - ; _i^ ~:, .,}; ...: r
~'Vash., said in an interview: = `
Lt: Willian Calley later wash
courunartialed by the Army
for his part in Iyiy. Lair;, ~:::.::
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"I.~DON'T kno~ti~vhai #o"
do.."~J~hnson said.:"It fast"
involved a whole lot ~of peo-
ple. Some of them-;I knew,;
personally."
~Johrson, an intelligence
officer with the task force"
that raided My tai, told
Taylor that just before tl~e
raid he accompanied Lt.
Col_.Frank Barker, com-;
mander of the task force, to;
a secret meeting with ttivo;.
men Johnson believed to be
CIA agents. _.. -
~.:Johnson said the meeting:
txk place in the CIA's local
headquarters i.~:; Quang
iVgai, the capital of the !,
province in which the vil-
lage of My Lsi was located, ; "
and that the same rivo men,
later visited Barker at his
task force i~eadquarters. "~
JO>~INSON said he was
excluded from the meetings
despite his assignment as
a military intelligence offi-,
cer. He could not identify
the two men.
Harker was killed in ac-.
lion a fe~v weeks after the
]9oS incident.
Johnson lin'.:ed >tiiy Lai to
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