CIA REPORT A COOKED-UP JOB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000300100020-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2007
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: April 24, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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24 APRIL 1977
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gy n ump ton must somehow, be none of it deserved` a ?secret'. Tabel It had
curbed. But,to base his anneal nn -what w
ere pure or.that the Amencaa profligacy tion utilized: had -been published previoasly; =
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L e ,eport, released . by the White . House con
Few Americans doubt: that Mr. Carter's mo- tamed nothing new. In fact, all ofahe tnforina-
tives
the foundation of what :was to, become a week cooked-up: job =.even though its general thrust
long sales pitch for a.comprehensive U.S.- ei n was correct .According to theWall Stteet'Jour
ergy conservation policy nal;.U.S. energy officials belatedly , concede that
This was disturbing, insofar as President Now,..however, comes the revelation that the
From the very moment it was"leaked" to the that the.data incorporated in. the report probably
news media, the report of" the Central' Inte'lli-- came from.such vested interests as the oil com-
genceAgency (CIA) on-worldwide oil shortages panies.-But not manyAmericans pay- much at
and anticipated sizable-price increases by 1985 tention to Mr. Nader any more and' his, hunch
CIA Report a C~bk~d-
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ground for Mr : Carter.'s presentationthrough a balky Congress, he'll need the support
Tn f-.- 1C.? "?~--
and' inevitability of energyconservation::Y:.=
port. This pessimism, it.was acknowledsed.'was
-and the OECD;. the- CIA managed to inject a . -,. ; i ms, is all well- and good. After-all. ho Amer
j scan in his right mind would question the: need
considerably more pessimistic tone into its r '
e
(OECD), ampa6ns, to present suggestions for
broadcast and print commercials on:.the gravity,
desn;te acing the cnmt. 1+~E
it must. be resolved: Carter aides-have asked the
national Energy Agency and the Organization Advertising. Council; which conducts public
for Economic -Cooperation and. Development: servic
-Presidentsenergy- message: we?face a crisis and-
respected Paris=based:organizati
ions the Inter
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is- coast ring a public service : ad
figures hey not be a11'that.revealing wasahe vertising campaign, to, keep hammering on_ the
fact. that they roughly coiiforin4to those of two
to the American people, the. White, House: an--
Sparking the initial !suspicion.=that the CIA nou
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global energy reserves was. unquestionably, a Subsequent to Mr. Carter's series of. appeals
wrong tactic.
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p a immediately questioned ithe as thepresentation of theCIA's dull ecital
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Bays oerore nis firsttelevised appeal to Paignwould presumably be directed:. nation) as being deepiy disturbing.'' This task can becompicafed by such tacticsR
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