EX CIA-MAN'S ULTIMATE FANTASY: SELLING U.S. SECRETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200400037-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: November 6, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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agency. Like a lot of men
for. whom . the Arnei'icali,
dream has turned to nigh.t-
marc, ll;; wrote a novel .-.
"my great fantasy," he calls,
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By Henry n Allen.
It was the ultimate li`an-
tasyfor Victor Marchetti.
It was the filial, catacl:ys
niic >vllimsy, probably, for
the rest of Main up there in
the executive suite of the
Central Iiilclli;ence Agency,
a talizin ; daydream after
one of the more brutal
PO' Cr auet1011s known]] as
"morning coffee" with the
director, Incharc] Holies (the
ritual 9 n.ni. coffee poured
by the ritual blacks into the
C)A's very own china, blue
rifluned, v; bh agency seal in
blue on the side of the cup).
In 19t1 Victor' lwfarchettl
was one of the blucsrib-
boned, Ivy-bclengcired inner
circle of ill "old boys" who
sipped the coffee and played
the po]it.ics of their own and
.everyone else's country. lie
was a CS-I:5, the executive
assistant. to Deputy Director
Adiu. Rufus Taylor.
11e was also the inner cir-
cle's "token dego," he'd say;
It seemed he was still the
.smallest lineman on the
football teaiii, the teal] now
being that of the I astern es-
tablishutent, a term nfar-
clietti ? likes, instead of the
high school leant in the coal
town of llnZellon, 1101111 a.
(where he played guard at.
17x:1 pounds).
At night, in his suburban
house cram ed with Ameri-
cana,.--- bronze eagles and
hand-painted mliii cans --
-lie was having chest pains
and stomach aches and his
wife was telling hair to quit:
And days, in his GS-H's
office with inock?leath?er
chairs and floor.-to-ceiling
windows overlooking the I'0-
toinr.e; lie wns having this
nail suicidal daydream .
So in 1c:69, lie -quit the
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Fact or fiction, ho"vever,
Recently, sitting in the Alie Hove]. "cuts close to the
basement bar of his Oaktou, bone," Marchetti said. lie's
Vp., home, 11"arelletcireniern written another novel, and
bored the illuaio is of 3155, lie's tried to sell a couple of.
the year he joined the analytical pieces. Ile bc-
agency.. l.ieves be is under "mild stir-
"
Tbc novel, called "'l'hc
bus person--?-adie,lttir- lie has recently begun to
ous, romantic, living in f ur? suspect his phone is
P, Q.w. Own -
about Paul Franlain, exec-
ti.ve assistant to the deputy
dircetcir of the National In-
tcIligence Agency`, a
Polish-Anie.riean from a
Pennsylvania coal town who
for reasons never cxplc;ined,
falls .prey to (lie ultimate
fantasy of selling to the So-
viets every secret he can
Xerox, photograph or tape
record.
The novel, told in tits flat,
familiar prose, of myriad
other novels about the "ov-
crnment, with little of the
flash and ilintful allure of
spy novels, describes the
sign countries ..."
tapped, IIe has' been going to
Now, a 0ghtl.y pudgy 11.,' vat'iotts , congres:nen to
with three sons (Franklin plead his case for wore con-
has two sons), 7ic.ucyetti gressional surve].Ilance of in-
wears a paint-stained red telljence,
sweatshirt, work pants and He claims, he "cl.ea;iseti"
crepe soled boots. Upstairs himself of agency influence
his wife is yelii.n Ht one of in his first few months away
the clogs. . .from it. , But a fa5ciiiatiQn
"I spent my .year in up", 'and frustration still vein to
allone. Then elcn'en years aJ wrestle inside Mini, th,a c,)a-
a resea,rch allnlySt and fliet of responsibility and
ivohi11 011 ir'don l csti- romance. . ,
mates until 1 niovcd up to "Sometimes at a party,
the director's staff. Sitting when I was still with the
up there I began to sec how pgMe , we'd discuss na-
it's all pulled together, the tional or interna.tioria.l is-
interplay with the rest of sites. Put as the ni ,ht v;er;t
agency's discovery of Frank- the exc.:utivc branch of the on and more whiskey got
kin and Franklin's discovery, Uovei nnl .rt.. drunk, we'd end un mooting'
along the way, that the "The agency is the most the bull. I'd realize we were
director himself is working romantic segment of the in, sitting there teihnct old vrar
for the Soviets, an astonish- telligence coir.nlunity, but I stories about old operations
ing but plausible possibility, ',began to lose faith in it and in this and that country.
since the defection of Brit- its purpose, in intelligence They were just war stories
gin's Ittm Philby to Russia in general, ' and we.?wvere all fascinated.
after years of leaking the se- "We spend $6 billion a = "I clori't. trust any of my
crets of Al. I. (Military Intel- year on intelligence,, which old friends now, I've made.
Hence) Six. is too` damn much. There's new friends, jour-r,-,".lists and
Old boy and hew boy alike not neau'l.y enough Congress politicians bite its not tlie.
the, agency is rotten..?In bed signal control. One night, same thing, not like being
iweeu,l'farchetti tells us, after a particularly hard with the guys you were re
day., washed into the office
the fictional agency fudges of one* of the other' executive These ed and baked with.
facts to fit the whims of the assistants, and' l said "This These are the thingr; I ieias.
President, or co n n i v e s to place couldn't foul lip worse "Put I. have a son who's
end run" around our am- if the KCB was runllinr it.'? 1.7. If I have anything to say
bassalo' to Colombia to (The KG13 is Ilussia's~intpl.- about it he's not goi11 to iie
overthrow its gover;rnnent. ].igence service.) in l'- of etof or 1 ,o, or thc
jung] C olo:il1 - t b^cau-.
it's guilty of all the chica_ And a novel wYas born. of a btu,cli of CIA spooks
ncry, backstabbing, and Actually, M it r c b c t t i. and Eastern estab1 slun,in
self-seeking that have wanted to write a Wort-fie-
t{u?iaris.
marked organizations, and Lion account, a critical aual-
the chronicles of Men disil- ysis, out after i'i ycars, Still, he keeps souvenir's
lusi.oned in tlieiu, through you're very, very security of his agency days. One of
history. conscious, alid.?hesides, there thc:itl, for instance, next: to
Perhaps the novel, and arc a? lot of old buddies over the baseine nt b r, is a
the disillusionment that there 1. wJciildtt't want to' framed letter from Director
lms, thanking i la~'cltctti's
drove 1Tarchetti to write it, ]tort." }]ethree sons for the coffee
was inevitable.
1 y bought for him.
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large size of the -fl 7ug 111i-ht
force hire to drink more cof-