LOCKHEED CONSULTED EMBASSY ON AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300450033-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2004
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: September 12, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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Lockheed consu1ted:
P,m.bassy on Acrent,
Influence With Indonesian Governmeni
Was Criterion for Job, Leiters Show rs
---Colonel 'Asked C.I.A. for Data
In a 1967 memo dealing withli
By ROBERT M. SMITH t "Lockheed's Agent in Indo-11
Special to The ::Vv York TIr,M nesia," then a ilrlr: Das?,-. a com-I'
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 1-a matter, but we might as well; pany employe wrote that duringl
Correspondence of the Lock-i clear it up at this stage. e a visit to Jakarta some discreet
heed Aircraft Corporation re "As you know, moving inquiries were made regarding
leased by a Senate subcommit-l around in the local circles for. Dasaad's position with the new
tee today shows that the corn-i this kind of objective fnvolves? regime in. Government. Most
pany consulted the Ainerican!financial requirements, whether' !replies were that it was tool
e in Indonesia in an! one is dealing with pros>. ]early to tell, but h_; gad had"
with influence with the Indone-i A.rniy officers. Ln fact, I. have'
Sian Government, , already spent a little for this
The air attache, in turn, said. project and now foresee -hea?
he would ask the embassv's!vier requirements. Will you
personnel from the Central In-I help me out in this department,'
teliigence Agency to research] or do I assume the expenses
the matter. In the end, howev-; under a program of being rv.m-.
or, the Lockheed employe in-, bursed (and rewarded) later-
volved in trying to select the
sales agent concluded that the
embassy was not able to pro-
vide useful information.
Orara's Usti Di-(cowed
Included in the cor-espon.d.
would not consider. it amiss if
Lockheed chose- to remember
his financially if and when the
program is sold. He -,;;as told
that if his services proved to
be the catalyst needed to con-
sumate the sale, he would in-
deed be remembered."
Inquiries in Indonesia
most likely kept his fences
mended on both sides.
"In order to try and obtain
a more definite answer to this
question [a lockheed employe)!'
met with Colonel Slade, Unitedji
States Air Force Air Attachell
and -nquired if the United
States Embassy had nriy means
of checking out and evaluating
Dasaad's position with the new
Go:ernment,
Colonel Slade stated that he
The documents released to. ?
heed employe to anoth" V011-- could have the embassy C.I.A.
day, comprising internal com ; corning Mr, Orare's po:+sibla personnel "check" ti:is out and
pany memoranda, correspond-;fuse to the concern. It points would give a report hack as
once between the company ;out that he is a public-relations soon as possible."
and its overseas agents and man with McCann-Erickson ancY The colonel reported back to
copies of a Defense Department
says: L
ress
ro
on the
d t
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kh
memo, show that the company
clearly used overseas agents
who, it felt, had influence with
the governments concerned-
Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Phil-
ippines as well as Indonesia-
and sometimes arranged their
payments in a clandestine fash-
ion.
Journalists Paid for Stories
The correspondence also ap-
jpears to confirm that the cone-
i any made payments to foreign
ournallsts to publish a story
!favorable to . it. The country
involved was-the Philippines,
]where Buddy Orara, Lockheed's
agent, wrote to a company
official in Georgia:
. - What I have done about
our business is to feed the
story to a major business publi-
cation, which I. expect to make
an 'expose' momentarily. Once
the initial leak has been t;uddy can then purportedly
launched, I intend to spread, bring influence to bear on the
the story to the other program.
publications until it catches; '-in exchange for this -,,r-
Public attention. - . vice, Buddy indicated that he
There is another aspect:
which we should have been!
able to take up during; youri
visit, It is a rather delicatt'
g
p
ic
ee
w
ce
oc
"Unlike most other is-k- being made, according to thee;
types with whom we deal,
m
o-
me
Buddy is apparently well con*. "The first report was that)
nected politically. Prior to hit' their preliminary findings were
McCann-Erickson service, Dasaad was 'in' with the new
Buddy was employed for three Government. The second report
years by the Philippine Govern- was 'Dassad was defir3tely well
ment in the protocol section of , connected with the Suhart-
the President's office. This has '
reime' ?
I given him entrde to places,. Later, the memo says. another
(which, under other circum-, report was received from the
(stances, he would not, have, colonel "completely contra-'
"Buddy indicated that these, dieting the previous' two re-~
connections could be put to ports, stating that Dassad was
use, at the proper time, to as- 'out' with the Suharto regim6..
sist our efforts- in selling -"These contradicting reports
C-130's. He said he could not created doubts," the .r en,o re-.
do any good, however, while ports, "as to the United States
our proposal remains at Air ,Embrissy's ability to really
Force level, even though it is evaluate the question."
in the Commanding General's The Lockheed documents
office.
"When it is staffed and were gathered and r