CIA PROVIDED GIRLS FOR HUSSEIN, SAYS REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100210017-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: January 27, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
27 January 1976
C14 provi4e . g fr s f or.
Hussein, says report ,7
By RICHA-RD BEESTON in Washington'
HE latest instalment of Ameriicanintelligence.
secrets;, including covert payments to foreign
leaders "and the' provision of female companions for
King Hussein, has.-been made public l through'- a'
Congressional leak of an 'i ---
sein of Jordan and other foreign.
leaders, and that the girls were
paid for with Federal funds.
entire 338-page report of
unrelieved criticism of
the CIA.
The report, by the House.'
Intelligence Committee, is still
officially supposed to be
secret. ? ?
It disclosed that American
intelligence operations cost
$10,000 million a year (about
#5.000 million) three to -four
times the amount listed in the
budget-and that ? a third of
covert operations involved sub
ventions' for foreign political.
parties.
Among the d`eport's revelations'
was that Robert Maheu. a for-
mer assistant to . Howard
Hughes, arranged to supply
female companions to King Hus-
women on behalf of the CIA
took place around 1957 at about
the time that he produced for
the agency a pornographic film
entitled "Dirty Harry ".
The film starred an actor who
closely resembled the late Pre=
sident Sukarno and the film was
made with the intention of em-
barrassing him.' ' '
' The names of Haheu. Sukarno
and King Hussein weer excised
from the report but were pro-
vided by "sources familiar with
the House. paney's investiga-
tions."
According to an excerpt from
from. the report. published yes-
terday in the- Ne'v York Times,
Mr Nlaheu's procurement of
`Biased amd irresponsible'
The draft report has been de-
nounced' by Mr William Colby. 1
the outgoing director of the
CIA. as " hineed and irrespon-
sible." He' said the disclosures
of the agency's sensitive activi-
ties would harm American- for-
policy. '
eign
The leaked report. ironically.
contains a proposal recommend-
ing criminal penalties for any
Congressman or their staff who
release names' of intelligence
agents or other secret informa-
tion. as well a.; the removal
from intelligence committees of
Congressmen' who disclose such
information.
The report revealed that
America had secretly supplied
$75 million (about #37.500,000)
to Italian political parties and
leaders since 1947 including
$10 million last, year.
The CIA had also given one ?.
unidentified Third World politi
cal leader $960,000 (#180,000) in
aid over 14 years and that
several other foreign Beads .of
State had heert financially sup-
ported for over a decade.
The report also