CIA'S CAMP PEARY BACK IN THE NEWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-01042R000300010051-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2005
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: February 7, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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Williamsburg, Va. .
7 February. 1975
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t 'RECENT DISCLOSURES about alleged
unprorietres b ._ the Central Intelligence
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A;gencys involving domestic surveillance of
Peary
American citizens have brought Camp
back in the newsp y,y< R=
Although no allegation relating to spying
on Americans here home has.been linked with the CIA's `traimng baseat Camp Peary,
the : top-secret facility has been mentioned in
a number of news accounts and interviews in
recent Iweeks ,,
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Newsweek , magazine 10 days ago
reported on a new book-about the CIA written
by ,+Philip Agee,.' a former:.; career:, CIA s
operative.: in South America The.
newsmagaixne quoted Agee's detailed ""
revelations.abut'CIA operations both here`
:":'and overseas,. and mentioned his training at
Camp Peary, during the late. 1950s
Agee himself?sat -: o_ n .the NBC network ,y
tal~t{sho :::Tomo row aired last Thursday
a' . from Toronto Canada that he had received F
forrrtal fie d training~fo' the CIA "at` Gamp
Peach, which is just outside Williamsburg,i
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bookshelves here for several moremontl#s a 4?
United States;: the btiok.:wan.t be:.bn
While it has been published} outs del the
eiR ~ulary t,aa .fir.,.. w.
identity; oC, more tha304 agents'~overseas In '_
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into CIA activities at their training base here.
Ls t Wreek a :Parade: 'contributing' editor,
n.:ti:.,>h W.a~. `=^vvaS in town.visiting- the
Parade's intere'it in,Camp Peary stems
froiiI a ,,series- .bf ,stories by, -the- Gazette
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beginning in 19721 on the. type o
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at the baseduring .
programs run
struction o?. "assassination cadres,',-for the
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 Approved For Release 2005/12/23 : CIA-RDP83-01042R000300010051-3
Approved For Release 2005/12/23 : CIA-RDP83-01042R000300010051-3