REPORT ON CIA: PART I

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2005
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• Publication Date: October 17, 1974
• Content Type: TRANS

RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF
PROGRAM CBS Evening News
STATION WTOP TV
CBS Network
DATE October 17, 1974 7:00 PM GI's` Washington, D.C,
REPORT ON CIA: Part I
WALTER CRONKITE: In recent weeks the Central Intelligence:
Agency has become the center of national debate because if-its
secret political operations in Chile.
Here's Daniel Schorr with the first of a two-part
report on the spy agency.
DAL SCHORR: Some things have changed, like being
able to stand in ronr of CIA':Headquarters and talk about what
goes on in there. But what's going on has been going on for
about a quarter of a century until disclosures about Chile blew
the lid off covert political operations.
DIRECTOR WILLIAM COLBY: I think that the United States
needs to be able in some situation that's important to it --
to be able to do something between making a diplomatic protest,
on the one hand, or sending in the Marines, on the other. And-
.there are interim steps that we can do through discreet help
to certain friends in some situations that can help our country.
SCHORR:. Around CIA the old hands look back on situations
like Iran, 1953, helping to unseat left-wing Premier Mossadegh
and restore the Shah; Guatemala, 1954, a coup against pro-Communist
President Arbenz; the Congo, 1960, the revolt against left-wing
President Lumumba. Then there were the more directly military
CIA operations in Indochina and, less bragged about, the 1961
Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro's Cuba.
COLBY: In the 1950s there was. a general concern about
the expansion of communism worldwide and the necessity for a
containment policy. Now at that time it was of great importance
to us, it was felt, to meet various challenges in various parts
of the world. Today under a new policy, the policy of our current
reduced involvement abroad and particularly under our effort
to achieve detente with the major communist powers, there's
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SCHQRR: But there is some?
COLBY,1: There can be. I can envisage situations
in which a little help to some friends can help a great deal.
SCHORR: Such a situation, so it was thought, was
Chile in 1970; Salvador Allende, a Marxist frontrunner for
President raising the prospect of the first freely elected
communist government.
National Security Chief Henry Kissinger told his
told supersecret inter-agency Forty Committee, according to
leaked minutes, "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch
a country go.communist due. to the irresponsibility of.its
own people." So into "stop Allende" operations, the CIA poured
eleven million dollars. CBS.News has seen some of the secret
documents.
First, subsidies to opposing. parties. Allende won,
but narrowly, requiring a runoff vote in Congress. Then a
$500,000 plan, later dropped, as unfeasible,. to buy 'anti -Allende
votes in Congress, to pay persuadable congressmen, said one
memo. Finally with Allende in power, annual CIA budgets,
the last a million dollars for fiscal '74 to sustain the opposition
.in.a hope of beating. Allende';in the '76 election; this-cited
as. evidence the U.S. was not, involved in last year's coup
against Allende. But U.S. money may have trickled-into supporting
demonstrations that helped set the stage for the coup. Thus
the U.S. was dragged into' a chain of events that led not to
restoring democracy, but installing military dictatorship.
And Congress wants to know who did it.
Kissinger suggests the CIA was more or less self-
starting,,his approval more or less routine. His secret testimony
after the coup to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee went
like this. The CIA was heavily involved in 1964 in the election,
was in a very minor way involved in 1970 elections, and since
then we have absolutely stayed away from any coups. What
Colby stressed: CIA acts only on instructions from the top.
COLBY: The basic authority in the statute is the.
National Security Council, which is advisory to the President,
and so, therefore, under the general policy set by the President.,
We are the technicians. We can determine what is possible
and what isn't. And we make specific recommendations, and
then the approval or disapproval is given.
SCHORR: Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of CIA,
watched the plans for Chile as State Department Intelligence
Chief.. And he says it was a Nixon-Kissinger decision.
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RAY'CLINE: I don't think that it should come as
a surprise to you that President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger operated
in almost all fields of government on an Olympian plane which
was sometimes not even disturbed by contrary opinion and seldom
influenced by it. They felt they had a policy understood
by the two of them which was, in their minds, in the best
interests of the United States, I suppose, and they certainly
intended to carry it out.
SCHORR: Failure, they say, is an orphan. And Kissinger
and the intelligence community are busily trying to abandon
Chile on each other's doorstep. But the real issue now is
current and future covert operations and who manages them.
Daniel Schorr, CBS News, at the CIA.
CRONKITE: Schorr will continue his report on the
CIA in a later broadcast.
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF
PROGRAM CBS Evening News
WTOP TV
CBS Network.
DATE October 18, 1974 7:00 PM' ciTY Washington., D.C
A REPORT ON THE CIA: PART II
WALTER CRONKITE: U.S. Interference in Chilean affairs,
especially the CIA financing of newspapers opposing Chile's
now ousted Marxist.government, has been strongly criticized'
by the Inter-American Press Association meeting in Caracas.
The CIA activity has proven to be a sore spot in the spy agency's
once impregnable shell, as Daniel Schorr reports.
DANIEL SCHORR: CIA is no longer the silent, long-
suffering service it used to be. From Watergate to Chile, it
finds ways now to pass the word that it's been pushed around
by the White House.
RAY CLINE: I think you cannot separate CIA covert
action from our foreign policy, because, after all, the decision
to use covert action is a foreign policy decision made at the,
highest levels of the government, not in CIA.
SCHORR: For the intelligence community, now under
attack in Congress, CIA's ex-Duputy Director Ray Cline wants
it known covert operations are carried out only on orders of
the National Security Council's Forty Committee; that is, on
Henry Kissinger's orders.
CLINE: It is essentially a presidental authority
group. They can only act with the approval of the President
and Dr. Kissenger, who's the only man who could speak authoritatively
for the President.
SCHORR: Kissinger passes the buck back by hinting
that CIA has been free-wheeling in the past, but no longer.
SECRETARYOF STATE KISSINGER: I do not think it
would be appropriate for me in the nature of what is a covert
operation to go into the scale. But I believe that if one compares
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to the previous periods, one would find that the political direction
has been tightened up and the number has decreased.
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SCHORR: For CIA9 whose hero is Nathan Hale, the martryed
spy, people are expendable; the enterprise must be protected.
The problem now: to ride out the congressional storm over Chile
without losing basic authority for covert operations, as.well
as intelligence gathering.
President Ford's acknowledgement and defense of these
operations did not end the controversy; it may, in fact, have
sharpened it.
Now CIA has agreed to add one more group in Congress,
a selected House Foreign Affairs .subcommittee, to those it briefs
on its operations. It has not, contrary to reports, assured
anybody that it's ended its political operations, or will end
them, in the foreseeable future.
CLINE: I think it would be very shortsighted to
pass some sort of legislative ' sel f-denying ordinance against
the United States.ever employing covert political actions.
You can look around the world and find quite a few
places it would not be surprising in the next two or three years
if there was a rather strong outcry as to "where the hell is
CIA; why aren't. they doing something to help our friends?"
SCHORR: CIA Director Colby recently returned from
the Persian Gulf looking into things. For professionals like
Colby, the Chile revelations represent one more flap to be endured.
DIRECTOR WILLIAM COLBY: I've had conversations with
foreigners who have expressed concern as to whether they can
share secrets with us with the hope that these secrets will
.remain secret. And these are both individual foreigners and
foreign intelligence services that contribute to our knowledge
of the situation within their country or in an neighboring country.
We have had a series of house problems over the years
from the period of the Bay of Pigs to the uproar over Vietnam
to the period in 1967 of the National Student Association, and
so forth, and this is another one of those items of excitement
that come up from time to time when one of our situations comes
to light.
SCHORR: So as a professional, you say when something
like this blows open, you just take it.as a professional would,
pick up the pieces and go on?
COLBY: It's part of the hazards of this -- of the
profession.
SCHORR: The era of covert operations isn't ending,
just evolving. There's reason to believe that right now in
there they're working on contingent lans, if called upon,
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