EX-CIA OFFICIALS PAINT BLEAK PICTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000200740032-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 32
• 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:
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' Two faenMC top otllciaN m the Centel Intelli-
gence Agoney lel~ few pnbifc tl4nree or myths of
a~tioUanail secuetty umcathed Wednesday night at Cor-
U.S. for~~covect ap atia~osa ~~g PkKure of
John Stockwell, foemir station chief fa' CIA oper-
ations la Angola, and David AIaclltichael, a former
senior stall analyst toe tho CIA, are to testify today
in Sync~ue an behalf of a groap arrested for refus-
ing to leave Sees Altman DAmato'a at8ce where they
wereep~ U.S. lnbevmtbo in Nlpiraga.
W dd~i y. a captivated andie~e of about 300
people heard their talb !o Ithaca.
MacMtchael ~ t Cornell ahoetly after return.
Ing from The The NetherLnds,? where he
testified before the World Corot on U.3. intervention
in Nicaragua. Hs labeled a State Department report
released to the World Conn thb week m Nicaragua
"the aingle most dLhonest document produced by
the United States government that I know of."
Stockwell and MacMichael, who both spoke out
after breaking ties with the CIA, narrated vivid
horror stories Wednesday night of U.S. agents car
trating, maiming, and tortnrin citisens from
around the globe, all in the name o~ democracy and
national security.
Vithlle the two spoke briefly of worldwide covert
operations over the past ZO years in places anc6 as
Angola, Iran, Chad, Cuba, and China, they empha-
sired the ~ at the current situation in Nlca- .
ra~guta,~ tl~n thq. sai11. tba Ualted States govern-
Contra robNs inthdr and supplying arms for
"Its lUegal, iNab~ ~ t Sandinistas.
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the Niearagnaoa," Stockwell said? .
I1tacNichael ste+e~ed that the "wicked and uncon-
acionabie" U.S. foreign policy strategies go far be-
? yond the vldblo arm oI t6e CIA.
"It b a moeh latgsr problem. The CIA does not run
the foes policy of the Udted States. It does tM?~
hd~sa{d. ya," bet oNy at the president's deefective, .
Both Stockwell and MaclYtichael implicated .ths?
media and Congress in the national conapinpy to
conceal foreign policy, charging that some journal-,
bts are more than wllling to disseminate false intoe~
oration on covert activities while some pnbllc o~fi=-
ciaLs accept bribes in passing favorable legislation '
and testis iinnk~ before Congnmional
"We're talking shout a world of Ues, Ste' tockwell
said. ,
honesty a~ cbm charges' Stockwell attacked the
potency of such public figures as
Henry Risdnger and Jeanue Kirkpatrick, but wa!
particularly Critical of President Reagan. ~ -?.a
The president bas "a defective mind and quite
possibly a detective soul," Stockwell sold, describing
~ gars as "like an 8-year-old playing cowboys and .
Indians, playing nuclear war."
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