AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN MARKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000200010026-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: September 10, 1974
• Content Type: TRANS

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DATE September 10, 1974 8:00 PM C
AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN MARKS
FRED FISKE: A two-day conference
Intelligence Agency and covert activites, ho!
Edward Brooke and Philip Hart, takes place it
this week, the 12th and the 13th. We are p1,
to our Empathy microphones now Robert Borosal,
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Director of the Center for National Security Studies, and
John Marks, who is a former staff assistant 'to the Director
of the State Department Bureau of Intelligence, and co-author,
along with Victor Marchetti, who was on our program some..
time ago, of the bestselling book, "The CIA. and the Cult
of Intelligence."
Welcome, gentlemen. Tom Ross, who's the bureau
chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, is supposed to be here as
well and he might be along very, very soon.
Congratulations on the book, John. It's done extremely
.well., hasn't it?
JOHN MARKS: We're very happy. The U.S. Government
actually has guaranteed us a bestseller by trying to suppress
us. It does wonders for book sales.
You went to court with them, right?
MARKS: Well, they took us to court, and then we
went back to court with them. But this is the first book
that the U.S. Government has ever tried to censor in American
history, we think, and we actually had to publish our first
edition with blank spaces in pl ace of the words that they
insisted ~iere going to hurt the national security.
FISKE: Didn't Victor Marchetti do one before in
which he had some trouble from the government?
MARKS: Wel 1 , Victor wrote a novel before, a very
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