THE CIA: WHITE-COLLAR TERRORISM
NACLA
Mr. Colby Meets the Public MASTER OF DECEIT Introduction On September 13, 1974, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Colby, appeared at a Conference on the CIA and...
...Small groups of fanatics, and large, paramilitary organizations with global intelligence facilities, propaganda units and hit squads, have made the multinationals their prime target for bombing, arson, extortion and publicity...
...Isn't it true that military officers of the United States government held a party several weeks before the coup at an Air Force base in Argentina, just across the mountains, in which they did toast to the success of the coup...
...Rivero is the son of Andres Rivero Aguero, who was elected president of Cuba in November 1958 (under Batista), but never took office because of the triumph of the Revolution...
...The following is a brief (since most is unknown) chronology of his CIA career: "* For.ign service attach, U.S...
...With respect to the question about the due process under Vietnamese law and the advice of counsel, I would hope that Americans will have the benefit of due process including the advice of counsel...
...How can you go home at night and respond to your wife and children after all the killing in Vietnam...
...Where we omit words within a sentence or speech, we use 3 or 4 dots...
...the money of Mr...
...Chairman: But you do undertake activities overseas that would be crimes in this country...
...6) A slide presentation, with a written transcript, which the seminar participant can take home to use in creating security awareness among all the company's managers and workers here and abroad...
...Roman L. Hruska (R-Neb...
...Thus, the narrow defeat (by two votes) of the resolution to lift the sanctions at the November 1974 OAS meeting in Quito was a Pyrrhic victory for the exiles and for the United States--at best an effort to postpone the inevitable...
...When in Doubt--Lie to the People The CIA is presently trying to clean up its lawless covert image...
...Chairman, was that there would be no intervention in the political affairs of Chile...
...For this reason, Business International is developing a workshop in conjunction with the leading organizstion in this field -- the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) -- which will provide the corporate security manager with the knowledge and the written and graphic materials he must have to develop and implement a program for his company...
...That doesn't make them agents...
...the Chilean junta invited a delegation of Cuban exiles to the OAS meeting on relations with Cuba.lO 0 And in Costa Rica, representatives of the junta have been working in conjunction with Cuban exiles to subvert the semi-reformist Oduber government.11 These examples suggest the potential emergence of a right-wing terrorist ring in the hemisphere, with activities in Latin America and in the United States...
...Chairman: Other than espionage...
...2 Currently, congressional amendments and resolutions have been presented by Representatives Michael Harrington, and Ron Dellums and by Senators William Proxmire, Stuart Symington, James Abourezk, Harold Hughes, Frank Church, Lowell Weicker and Howard Baker...
...Congress has been neither able nor willing to limit, much less abolish, CIA covert activities, despite continuous revelations and public outcry...
...I do this regularly in the proper forum that I want to -- that I am authorized to...
...outbreak from the audience...
...The fact is that the governmental secrecy which threatens the continuation of American democratic institutions, the survival of this country -- it's not Russia and it's not Chile, it is the secrecy of the United States government of which you are a part...
...Colby, back around 1958, President Eisenhower denied that the CIA was engaged in activities against the government of Indonesia...
...First, our respect, not the Communists', for human life where it can be gained (audience laughter), and secondly because a live captive has information and a dead body has none...
...Fails to overthrow government of Fidel Castro in Bay of Pigs invasion...
...First secretary and special assistant to the Ambassador, Rome (1953-58) where he worked underground to prevent the Italian Communist Party from achieving a majority in Parliament...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, NY...
...Again, given by former Ambassador Korry quoting, "I said it was obvious from the historical record that we did not act in any manner that reflected a hard line...
...Therefore, to avoid going through what had happened to other counterrevolutionaries who went from simple reactionary nationalism to fascism, which in essence are the same thing, I simply decided to stick to real nationalism, a type of nationalism which in many ways coincides with the positions adopted today by a number of Latin American countries who are in favor of closer relations and a policy of respect and consideration for the Cuban revolutionary process...
...In his Sept...
...28 - Multinationals Under Siege: Protecting The Outposts In their headlong rush to gain control of more and more of the earth's resources and markets, the large multinational corporations have encountered a new and unexpected obstacle: kidnappings of overseas executives and other attacks on corporate personnel and properties abroad...
...Sponsors coup against Mossadegh government in Iran, and restores full power to the Shah...
...In the first place, the terrorist cells of the Cuban Nationalist Movement continue to function as they have been since before 1968...
...continued those supply operations against the demands of the Pathet Lao that they end them...
...Before this Crespo had carried out a number of attacks against Cuban fishing vessels in 1972 and 1973...
...I participated in a number of aggressions against the Revolution from inside the United States and in other countries, during 1959, 1960 and 1961, right up to the Playa Giron invasion, in which I also participated...
...From a moral point of view what are the distinctions between what we do to Americans, and to Vietnamese and people in other countries...
...Ellsberg: Have you read estimates, for example by "Amnesty International...
...And isn't it true that these same agents of the Defense Intelligence Agency, undercover as Defense Attaches in Santiago throughout the period of destabilization in Chile, were actively working for the Central Intelligence Agency...
...RIVERO: Yes, they continued because the neutralization process was really ineffective and only temporary...
...He had also participated in the attempt to infiltrate a group of counterrevolutionaries into Cuba in early January 1970, a group led by Vicente Mendes...
...1962 Spends a reported $20 million in Brazil, supporting hundreds of candidates for gubernatorial, congressional, state and local offices, in an attempt to prevent President Joao Goulart from gaining a majority in Brazilian Congress...
...4, 1974 - 21 - Rivero Collado Interview NEWSMAN: Rivero Collado, when and in what circumstances did you leave Cuba...
...Those tiger cages were built during the French time and have been used ever since...
...that is, he coordinated the work of these three groups...
...That strategy was drawn up in the middle of 1973 when the most aggressive elements of the counterrevolution began to note positive changes on the part of the Latin American countries in regard to the Cuban Revolution...
...Deputy director of Operations (also known as the Department of Dirty Tricks) which is responsible for all covert actions and for the CIA's eighty-five overseas stations...
...for Policy Studies...
...Gary Porter: Mr...
...John C. Stennis (D-Miss...
...But they are not denied...
...Here, a complex set of forces is at work to endanger the assets of the Western businessman and his own personal safety...
...These elements have their major results, we could call them, in the North Zone, which includes the - 25 - metropolitan area of New York City and some parts of New Jersey...
...Stuart Symington (D-Mo...
...four days later another exile leader was assassinated, also presumably by other exiles...
...Marcus Raskin: Does the Central Intelligence Agency use various Rockefeller corporations as covers around the world...
...Colby: I think, Mr...
...Ellender replied: I did not know anything about it...
...0. Clark Fisher (D-Tex...
...NEWSMAN: Why did you become a counterrevolutionary...
...audience applause) Colby: May I, as a point of personal privilege, Mr...
...Morton Halperin: Former staff member, National Security Council and a Dep...
...Robert L.F...
...Milton R. Young (R-ND...
...In other words, a campaign against the counterrevolutionary capitalists who refused to contribute economically to the upkeep of the terrorist bands, because, obviously, that campaign damaged the interests of the Cuban businessmen...
...Chairman, since my testimony on Chile was given in executive session from which it has unfortunately leaked,* I do not propose to discuss the details of our activity there, other than to point out that they fall within the general principles I outlined above...
...8, 1974...
...As many of you will remember, these attacks were fundamentally aimed against the diplomatic missions of the countries which maintained relations with Cuba, that is, those European countries and Mexico which had firmly refused to take part in the criminal U.S.-imposed policy of blockading Cuba...
...I should also mention that the Cuban embassy in Ottawa was attacked in 1966 and 1967...
...Artime, approximately two years ago, was plotting to assassinate the chief of the Panamanian state, General Omar Torrijos...
...But I can confidently say that the terrorist campaigns being carried out by the group of Cuban counterrevolutionaries led by Ramiro de la Fe, made up of former invaders of Playa Giron, the members of the Secret Anticommunist Army which operated in 1968 and was later temporarily neutralized, and the group of young fascists who committed the crime of Montreal, I can truthfully say that the activities of these people are directly financed by the money of the Chilean fascist military junta...
...Isn't it true that agents of the Defense Intelligence Agency were directly involved in the overthrow of that government...
...Four days after Torriente was killed, the leader of Cuban Power in 1968 and the head of the terrorist bands, Arturo Rodriguez Vives was killed in New York, and at the end of August of this year the leader of the Cuban Nationalist Movement, an invader of Playa Giron, leader of the Zero group, Hector Diaz Limonta, was strangled in Union City, New Jersey...
...audience applause) Colby: I respectfully disagree...
...No CIA Director ever before faced questioning at a public forum of this kind...
...and lobbying at the November 1974 OAS meeting...
...The nine or so people who came to beat me up on the steps of the capitol in this city on April 3, 1972...
...3618 Sacramento St...
...Was the CIA carrying on the supply operation against the Pathet Lao...
...Asst...
...analyst...
...Though subversion and secret operations have always been a major part of U.S...
...In February, 1974, representatives from the National Liberation Movement (MLN - Tupamaros) of Uruguay, the National Liberation Army (ELN) of Bolivia, the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) of Chile, and the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) of Argentina released the document at a secretly held press conference...
...Our estimate at the time was that in the fighting that took place at the time of the coup somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 people were killed...
...In Vietnam, the people are continuing to defeat the United States military and CIA apparatus...
...Branfman: Was it the practice of the national police to torture -Colby: The second answer to that question is that it was not the common practice...
...Ellsberg: No idea...
...If they were one thing, they were successful, If they were another thing, they were not...
...Marks: But in peace time -- a time such as now...
...After graduating from Princeton in 1940, he joined the army as a parachute field artillery officer...
...Ramon Orozco Crespo, Angel J. Ferrer, Frank Castro, Humberto Lopez and Alfredo Sayuz of the National Front for Cuban Liberation, which was recently joined by Gustavo Marin Duarte...
...This plan has now been actualized...
...This was done according to the procedure set up at each period...
...you have also told us by that statement that you have no conception of the Constitution which you are sworn to uphold...
...On behalf of this group, a young man, 26 or 27, travelled to Paris in August 1973...
...Certainly, I regard it not only as a fortunate and essential piece of information...
...I know that they have had meetings in the past few months...
...pacification program) in South Vietnam which included Project Phoenix, the U.S...
...It is known that a terrorist cell went to Washington around September 18th, coinciding with the meeting of the Permanent Council of the OAS which took place in Washington in the Panamerican Union building on September 20th which agreed to call the Quito meeting in November...
...Second we report broadly in executive session on the substance of what is going on in the world, and that particular hearing (April 22) was arranged for that purpose, to try to report generally on what was happening, and as I said at that time, I was not prepared to discuss our operational activities in Chile at that particular hearing...
...limiting the CIA's domestic activities to those which relate directly to foreign intelligence-gathering...
...strategies, their importance has intensified as other more overt methods of containing growing national liberation movements proved futile and unpopular...
...The workshop was to be held November 20-22 at a secret location in the New York City area...
...There are other occasions in which a broader group of people, including the Ambassador and including others in the State Department, are made available...
...I think this most recent Chilean thing indicates that is the case...
...audience outburst) John Marks: Mr...
...To achieve its goal, the CIA has infiltrated, distorted, and attempted to destroy the political, social, and economic lives of the people of the third world...
...companies operating abroad, and suggests some steps for developing defenses against such attacks...
...Later I found out that Benitez also had the cooperation of a number of Chilean military men who had been plotting against President Allende since the day the Popular Unity Government won the elections in September 1970...
...The accuracy of Rivero's charges is substantiated by reports in established U.S...
...Earlier, Secretary of State Dulles said during the time of the uprising in Guatemala that the situation was being cured by the Guatemalans themselves...
...Colby: I asked for estimates about the other two matters...
...Abourezk: Thank you, Mr...
...if you are prepared to call what you do in covert activities national policy, then shouldn't the nation be brought in, at least on the general principle of whether the nation approves of assassinations (audience applause), of CIA sponsored government coups, of many things that I and a lot of Americans personally disapprove of...
...periodicals such as Time and US News and World Report...
...of American Scientists...
...To allow the BI/IACP instructors to work on an individual basis with the one or more participants you appoint, attendance at the workshop will be limited to 40...
...Perullero and Iglesias were the two leaders of the attacks against the town of Boca de Sama, where they cowardly killed two Cuban revolutionaries and injured several persons, among them, a 13-year old girl who had to have her leg amputated because of her wounds...
...Miami Herald, April 4, 1974 8. "Under the Cloak and Behind the Dagger," NACLA's Latin America and Empire Report, July-Aug., 1974 9. See Rivero Collado interview, below 10...
...what information should be gathered at the local (foreign subsidiary) level and what at headquarters...
...CIA headquarters in Langley, Va...
...RIVERO: I don't believe that everything has been revealed, at least all the names...
...Like many former agents, Colby had a difficult time adjusting to the routine of civilian life...
...leaders "a clear perception of the motives, intentions, and strategies of other powers so that they can be deterred, negotiated about, or countered...
...I think that this is a very important piece of information...
...Colby] have left indelible imprints of the powerful United States against the popular movement in Latin America...
...Special Subcommittee on Intelligence, Senate Committee on Appropriations John L. McClellan (D-Ark...
...This is what has been commented on within the aggressive counterrevolutionary circles, in their meetings, and now the columnist Jack Anderson has not only confirmed it but has also mentioned something I had no knowledge of, the fact that these terrorist bands are plotting to assassinate the members of the United States Congress who favor a review of U.S...
...authorities were not top: Identity card issued by the so-called Anti- Communist Organization, one of the fascist terrorist brganizations based in Miami...
...The North Vietnamese withdrew, if I remember, it was something on the order of 40 or 50 people, leaving some 5,000 behind...
...In this way, Cuban and Chilean counterrevolutionaries created the so-called Pro-Chile Committee, fundamentally to make propaganda favorable to the fascist military junta because the international situation of the junta, from the moment they committed the crime of assassinating President Allende and of assassinating the hopes for liberty of the Chilean people, was so negative that the junta considered it necessary to enlist the aid of certain elements, chiefly within the United States...
...Rivero Collado Revelations: An Inside View These events are the context for the remarkable revelations made on November 3 in Havana, by former Cuban exile activist Carlos Rivero Collado...
...NEWSMAN: They actually plan to assassinate Latin American diplomats...
...Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce's boys...
...Leverett Saltonstall, who served for many years on the oversight subcommittee: It is not a question of reluctance on the part of CIA officials to speak to us...
...We have a regime so incompetent that tens of thousands of people are literally on the brink of starvation, for which I think the United States and your Agency in particular, must bear some responsibility...
...Is it your understanding, as mine, that millions of Americans are opposed to any kind of assassination programs, any kind of police programs, any kind of attempts to overthrow foreign countries or influence the political practices in foreign countries -- that these programs are repugnant to most Americans and, in fact, are being carried out against the will of most Americans...
...According to Colby, who as head of CORDS supervised the program from 1968 to 1971...
...Colby: I think, Mr...
...role in Indochina...
...The coup had nothing to do with our Agency...
...I want to read a brief portion of a document written by some organizations in Latin America* that I think represent the interests of the majority of the people there, and they are leading the struggle against you and against the CIA apparatus that you represent...
...Named after the title of a National Security Council memo which defined its role, the Committee is restricted to five key men: Sec...
...Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1974...
...The Chinese government made it clear that they would personally help the Vietnamese to maintain their troops in Laos until the U.S...
...1954-1963 Backs Diem in South Vietnam, launches guerrilla raids on North, and supports pacification program in South...
...In the short time I've been here I've traveled from one end of the island to the other and I can honestly say that I have seen the extraordinary work of social transformation carried out by the Cuban Revolution which has placed our country on an astronomically high level among the nations of the world...
...Thus in an article on the security situation in Argentina, BI reports that: "A major U.S...
...Barnet: Could I ask you to be a little bit more specific about that...
...were in every case former, experienced, contract employees of the Central Intelligence Agency paid for by /Nixon/ campaign funds...
...press...
...Towards the end of 1973, the person who coordinated the work of the Chilean counterrevolutionary exiles in Miami, a newsman called Pedro Ernesto Diaz -- intimately linked to the criminal Chilean group called Fatherland and Freedom, and to the military who made the coup in Chile - established close contact with the terrorist band which had acted in Montreal and which at the time was led by Ramiro de la Fe...
...Am I correct...
...NEWSMAN: From what you say I gather that you have certain secret information as to the activities of those fascist groups...
...newspaper which expands and corroborates what I have known privately since 1972, since the plan to assassinate the U.S...
...executives working in Latin America...
...It was called The White Rose...
...built "Provincial Interrogation Centers" where only a lucky few escaped brutal torture...
...Thus Howard Hughes has employed Intertel to oversee his worldwide gambling and resort empire, while IBM commissioned the IACP to prepare the memo cited above...
...It does not...
...I did not...
...Did I understand you to say earlier that there will be no more lying about CIA operations...
...RIVERO: The total failure of the counterrevolution is the fact that the Cuban Revolution is a historic and irreversible reality...
...Despite this, Colby continues the official lies with repeated statements that the CIA "had no connection with the military coup...
...With the approval of competent authority in the Forty Committee and the National Security Council, do you feel those techniques are justified in the name of national security...
...On September 20, 1974, the New York Times reported that the $8 million was exchanged by the CIA on the Chilean black market, multiplying its value by "as much as 800% higher than the official rate...
...And thirdly, what is your understanding of the fact that so many Americans are sick and tired of what they understand the CIA is up to...
...In the Bay of Pigs invasion I fought on the beaches called Playa Larga and Playa Giron...
...Michael Harrington: Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts...
...withdrew...
...Gary Porter: Research Associate, Indochina Resource Center, Washington D.C...
...destroyed an entire floor of the hotel where he was staying near Paris, the Abren Ville Hotel...
...Now, if it is discussed with Lucien Nedzi or Stuart Symington, I'm not aware of it...
...They were few, - 16 - exceptional, and against policy, but they did occur, and I've said that...
...bank, which feels that Peron's well-intentioned security measures are ineffectual in curbing terrorism, has organized its own highly effective security, including intensive training for management and orientation for all employees...
...As long as socialist countries and movements for national independence are viewed as the enemy, liberal agonizing over where to draw the line on CIA operations -- and over the distinction between intelligence gathering and covert actions -- misses the main point...
...2) To familiarize him with the knowledge, systems and skills he needs to design and implement his company's global security program against such vulnerability...
...and abroad, and even begin to lose their political base in the exile community, they are becoming more desperate and more dangerous...
...Bob Wilson (R-Cal...
...The basic cause underlying covert operations is protection of the U.S...
...The FNLC is also made up of mercenaries from the U.S...
...11) A check-list of steps to take in countering terrorist propaganda -- for example, social programs in cooperation with local governments, etc...
...A US office-eqtipment company's Milan office was recently bombed by terrorists...
...Colby: Because you don't have to talk about them...
...PROGRAM The detailed program of instruction will implement the teaching and take-home materials described above...
...Branfman, I have a considerable degree of modesty as to whether anyone has a monopoly of morality...
...15, 1974, p. 11...
...We did leave some people in Laos for intelligence purposes but not for paramilitary purposes...
...Since each participant will be asked to bring certain corporate information with him (to facili- 30 - tate his work in developing a concrete program for his company), and since sensitive subjects such as the question of paying or not paying ransom will be discussed, the meeting-place itself will afford maximum security...
...intelligence covert actions do not remain secret, the U.S...
...Colby, for the most part, refused to answer questions, claiming the conference was not the proper forum...
...Chairman: Nancy Stein...
...A diploma testifying to the "patriotism, courage, loyalty and yili" of the same counter- revolutionary, issued in liami, May 4, 1961...
...Dragnet raids of poblaciones and working-class neighborhoods occur regularly, with thousands of 'suspects' rounded up at any one time...
...Each of those terrorist bands which operate in the United States and in other countries, such as Mexico, Venezuela and Spain, are definitely fascist...
...It will also furnish an indication of the costs of such a counterintelligence program and instructions on how to make a cost benefit analysis of a counterintelligence program...
...Cuban exiles after surrendering during the Bay of Pig...
...imperialism has been fully exposed...
...Each participant will gather certain data about his own organization prior to attending the program, and will then utilize that information to analyze the nature of terrorism and how his corporation and its personnel may be vulnerable to attack...
...The fundamental plan of these elements is to assassinate two specific figures: Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio of Costa Rica, who as we know has been the main drive behind the Quito meeting...
...Let me read one more significant paragraph in view of your testimony...
...Chairman...
...As recently reported by the New York Times, the late Allen Dulles, former Director of the CIA, admitted that the Agency (as well as the FBI) had a policy of lying whenever necessary to the public...
...2 By far the main activity of the CIA is covert action...
...Washington attor- ney...
...Ellsberg provides documentation based upon Senator Howard Baker's minority report to the Watergate Committee (see: The Senate Watergate Report, Volume 1 "Minority Report on CIA Involvement," Dell, 1974, p.746-752), which showed that Richard Helms, then Director of the CIA, agreed to do a psychological profile of Ellsberg as part of a campaign to destroy him...
...It will include a survey of hardware (detection devices, etc...
...One of those packages which arrived at the Cuban embassy in Lima seriously injured a Cuban woman employee and another one which was sent to the Cuban embassy in Madrid injured two Spanish employees of the embassy...
...other than certain funds -- let me correct that (audience laughter) -other than very limited items that were commitments made prior to the coup and have nothing to do with the period after the coup...
...Nancy Stein: NACLA staff member researching the intelligence community...
...security firms such as William J. Burns International Security Services or The Wackenhut Corporation to provide plant security abroad...
...Porter: Are you saying that the United States did not supply the Clandestine Army days after the Geneva meeting...
...In addition to the Cuban Action group, there is the National Front for Cuban Liberation, the FNLC, a mixture of terrorist groups which belonged to earlier terrorist organizations...
...And the answer to your question, were there tiger cages on Con Son Island, the answer is yes...
...During the past 15 years, however, it has been used by the CIA and others for many other missions, both abroad and within the United States, culminating in the Watergate break-in...
...Colby: I will say that CIA did begin a program of assistance to the tribesmen in Laos in, I believe, 1960...
...We would like to know what your morality is...
...6. New York Times, Sept...
...Colby and two former directors of the CIA, Allen Dulles and Richard Helms had each been in charge of the Directorate of Operations (clandestine activities) prior to heading the Agency...
...1 The press also generally took Colby's statements at face value, choosing to ignore lies and contradictions...
...co-author, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence...
...was very candid discourse as far as the CIA operation in Chile...
...If we went around the world to find the "* Since the September 1973 coup, between 20,000 and 40,000 Chileans have been killed...
...Source: Adapted from a chronology compiled by the Center for National Security Studies...
...I believe that the book will be published soon...
...and similar elements...
...That in itself did not change things until they began to attack some of the people of the Meos up in the country...
...RIVERO: The counterrevolutionaries Juan Jose Perullero, Antonio Iglesias and Ramon Orozco Crespo are members of those pirate groups...
...Wouldn't it be an appropriate matter for public debate to establish whether or not then a specific Chilean operation or the Cuban operation might be then national policy...
...Supports Phillipine government campaign against the Huk guerrillas...
...Since the creation of the CIA, the U.S...
...RIVERO: Obviously, the entire terrorist campaign, which has a history of ten years now, has not been financed by the Chilean junta...
...CIA raiding boats operating in the Gulf of Tonkin when two U.S...
...the position of the carriers and brokers vis-a-vis international terrorism, including conditions attached to such insurance...
...the distribution of a half a million weapons to the people of South Vietnam to use in unpaid selfdefense groups -- a venture that I doubt that many other governments would try or would meet with the success that the Vietnamese did...
...Throughout the hemisphere as well, sentiment for restoring normal relations with Cuba continues to grow, as some of the U.S.' anti-communist stalwarts, including Costa Rica and Venezuela, leaders of the campaign to break relations with Cuba in the early 1960's, are pushing now to lift sanctions against Cuba...
...Ramon Orozco Crespo has been the bodyguard of the Florida multimillionaire Maurice Ferrer for several years...
...additional copies will be furnished at cost...
...This attack was carried out by a terrorist band called Young Cuba, in coordination with other fascist elements which resided, and, as far as I know, still reside in Montreal and other Canadian cities...
...I have proscribed that phrase, because I do not believe that we can tell the American people an untruth...
...The FNLC also includes the followers of Ramon Orozco Crespo...
...Charles Meyer, who I think was his predecessor in that role...
...Funding of scores of ostensibly private organizations revealed...
...Colby justified CIA secret intelligence gathering because it gives U.S...
...1, 1974...
...Were many people or some people shackled in tiger cages on Con Son Island...
...RIVERO: I have some information here about those groups...
...The whole question of the morality of self defense is one of making the action relate reasonably to the need for some kind of action...
...However, in Vietnam there are only two hundred lawyers and it was a little hard to get advice of counsel for every person arrested in Vietnam under those circumstances, and therefore a variety of other activities were conducted to try to improve the legal and procedural aspects of the Phoenix program...
...Against the demands of the Pathet Lao, certainly, and their North Vietnamese allies because they were North Vietnamese allies and they were attacking the Meo tribesmen...
...Program of providing personal subsidies to key Greek military and civilian leaders culminates with Col.George Papadopolous, a longtime recipient of secret CIA money, leading overthrow of civilian rule...
...public opinion...
...Peck: Mr...
...Cuban exiles also planned to assassinate Castro and Allende in 1971 during Castro's visit to Chile...
...Originally launched by the CIA in 1967, Phoenix was subsumed under the CORDS (Civil Operations & Kural Development Support) program in 1969...
...Tad Szulc, "Cuba on our Mind," Esquire, Feb., 1974 2. Miami Herald, Nov...
...Begins Phoenix Program to coordinate the attack on NLF infrastructure, leading to 20,587 "suspected" NLF members killed in first 2 1/2 years...
...I would say that terrorism is a typical symptom of defeat...
...I just can't say right now, which item was made available to which State Department officer at this particular point...
...Was there an effort to keep State Department personnel informed of these operations that you were mandated to carry out by the National Security Council...
...While given prominent treatment in the major news media of a number of Latin American countries (Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, and Argentina), the Rivero revelations were virtually ignored in the U.S...
...Chairman, and as I have indicated, I believe these matters should be reported to the Congress in the manner that the Congress establishes...
...foreign policy is dominated by an aggressive, interventionist ideology which denies nations the right to self-determination, because the U.S...
...3, 1973 and again on July 14, 1974...
...Your statement is that "covert action reflects national policy...
...One of them, Mr...
...however, you have admitted that there were activities before that...
...and Mr...
...and Michael Klare, "Operation Phoenix and the Failure of Pacification in South Vietnam," Liberation, May 1973...
...This makes the point both of the fiction of oversight and of the, at least, casual use of the truth on the part of a variety of State Department officials that have appeared before congressional committees over the course of the last year...
...Now, since all covert action is done in secret, and when it is revealed it is denied by the CIA, and since it is neither disclosed nor acknowledged to the public, how can it reflect national policy...
...Stuart Symington challenged this irresponsible attitude toward the CIA when he asked the Senate Appropriations chairman, the late Allen Ellender, whether or not his subcommittee had approved the financing of the CIA's 36,000-man secret army in Laos...
...Colby: Again, I would say that I do not propose to discuss the details of our operations...
...This threat was publicly announced by the ambassador of Costa Rica in Washington, Rodolfo Silva...
...During the course of my revolutionary work in the United States I had close relations with most of those fascist groups, the creators of the terrorist bands which have been functioning since 1964...
...I ask myself the question of how is it possible that U.S...
...In November 1974...
...Published monthly, except MayJune and July-August when it is published bi-monthly, at 160 Claremont Ave., New York, NY 10027...
...relations with the Castro government.1 Cuban exile journalist Roberto Fabricio wrote recently that "the majority of Cubans living in exile don't participate in any liberation efforts" and are apathetic about the issue...
...The cell chiefs of the above-mentioned terrorist bands are Orlando Atienza Perez, Ignacio Novo Sampol and Felipe Martinez Blanco of the Nationalist Movement and Zero group, which are really one and the same thing...
...Access to the memoranda of both the psychiatrist and his superiors has been refused to this Committee...
...newspapers...
...There is a fundamental fallacy in viewing Congressional oversight as a plausible or adequate means of curbing covert operations...
...The United States gave no support to any electoral candidate...
...Some years ago, there was a phrase called "plausible denial" used...
...Winslow Peck: Former intelligence analyst, National Security Agency...
...Then we have the so-called Secret Cuban Government which was founded in 1972 and which carried out several spectacular terrorist actions until 1974 when it joined the so-called National Front for Cuban Liberation (FNLC), which is the most active terrorist group right now...
...According to Charles A. Meyer, former Assistant Secretary of State from Latin-American Affairs: "We bought no votes, we funded no candidates, we promoted no coups...
...A team-teaching effort towards programmed learning by eminently well-qualified experts in the field will be presented...
...I am particularly intrigued by a statement you made when you testified before Congress in '71 about the An Tri sentencing procedure whereby Vietnamese are sentenced to two years without a lawyer, and you said you wouldn't want to see these legal standards applied to Americans, although they were being applied to Vietnamese...
...He felt that if U.S...
...I want to read.., statements made on three occasions by three separate individuals all of whom were directly concerned with Chilean policy on the part of this country's government before congressional committees over the course of the last year...
...See: U.S...
...However, in October 1968, precisely when the political life of the United States was centered on the coming presidential elections, ^^- 23 - the U.S...
...Richard Barnet: Mr...
...Sikes (D-Fl...
...Colby, the 54-year old son of an army officer, has spent most of his career as a clandestine agent...
...From my experience in the government with gentlemen like yourself, I did not in fact believe that was the way we operated...
...This Virginia highway sign previously omitted the CIA...
...Builds a miniature "Fort Bragg" in Peruvian jungle, recruits and trains guerrilla force, and puts down local insurgency...
...He will need to teach other employees the concepts and principles presented...
...During his two years with the OSS, he parachuted behind enemy lines to work with the French resistance and he was dropped into Norway to carry out sabotage against German rail lines...
...Orlando Bosch Avila, Antonio Calatayud of the Cuban Action group...
...And, therefore, I think that any exceptional effort to use CIA in an improper way will come out...
...This manual, like the slide presentation, will also include prevention techniques to avoid kidnapping...
...In his prepared remarks Colby asserted that it was vital for the United States to protect some "good secrets...
...Colby Meets the Public MASTER OF DECEIT Introduction On September 13, 1974, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Colby, appeared at a Conference on the CIA and Covert Activities held on Capitol Hill...
...Colby: Yes...
...No firm with foreign operations -- no matter how large or small -- is immune...
...First of all, is it not true that the CIA forces were already supplying (inaudible) at the time of the cease fire in Laos, at the time of the Geneva meetings in 1962...
...Colby, you have just violated what you just said a little while ago that you weren't going to lie as Director of the CIA...
...Copyright ( 1974 by the North American Congress on Latin America, Inc...
...Ellsberg: Finally, have you asked for such an estimate...
...Secretary of State Kissinger and Costa Rican Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio (who for years was closely identified with the anti-Castro cause...
...There were some, I admit that...
...author of books and articles on national security questions...
...But all of these programs won't work, because we are talking about the struggle of the people for their own independence and self-determination...
...As mentioned earlier, it will include individual consultations on each participant's need to develop his own corporate security program...
...Wackenhut, for instance, operates private guard services in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, and offers an "Executive Protection" service for U.S...
...Secretary, Fedn...
...Chief of Far East Division of Clandestine Services (mainly Vietnam) in Washington (1962-68...
...This will include a brief description of what a corporate security analysis is, and how it is conducted -including general formulae which any company can adapt or modify to its own needs in measuring the direct and indirect costs of losing plant, equipPinkerton's Inc...
...but through the power of the CIA and its friends in the House and Senate only two bills have reached a vote and both of them were defeated...
...research coordi- nator, Fifth Estate...
...Colby and his wife, the former Barbara Heinzen have four children, live in Springfield, Virginia and are practicing Roman Catholics...
...it will include a check-list of the elements in a corporate security awareness program (such as the need for a company to develop materials showing what losses from terrorism will mean to the company and its workers), and will show participants, step by step, how to create and implement a corporate security awareness program...
...The following document contains numerous other examples of the Director of the CIA spreading misinformation...
...RIVERO: I can say that the terrorist campaigns which these people have carried out in the past 10 years against the diplomatic missions of several countries are aimed at starting open warfare between the most aggressive faction of the counterrevolution and the nations of Latin America that are in favor of raising the blockade against Cuba in the forthcoming 14th Consultative Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Latin America to open on November 8th in Quito...
...by the time the fire engines arrived the damage was $50,000...
...Exxon, for instance, was recently forced to pay $14.2 million for the release of its top manager in Argentina, Victor Samuelson...
...It gave decisions about economic development programs in the localities to the local officials...
...I agree with you because I thinly the foundation of our country is in its people, and I think the people of this United States deserve to have their freedom protected...
...Chairman, I would be very happy to answer any questions * On September 8, 1974, the New York Times reported that top officials of the Nixon Administration had authorized the expenditure of over $8 million for covert activities in Chile between 1969 and 1973...
...NACLA'S LATIN AMERICA & EMPIRE REPORT Vol...
...To cite a few other examples: the Miami Herald covered the Montreal Cuban trade office bombing on April 5, 1972...
...7 - 20 - The Chilean Connection Already the exiles have linked up with other right-wing forces, particularly representatives of the Chilean junta...
...Wise, talking about what happened in 1950, 1960, and so forth, I have tried to indicate that times have changed...
...NEWSMAN: In other words, we can say that these counterrevolutionary actions are financed by the Chilean fascist junta...
...The campaign started with an attack against the United Nations building...
...RIVERO: Well, aside from the influence of my family, which logically I felt strongly, there was also the influence of my environment, that is, the world I lived in and of which I was really a product...
...author of articles on U.S...
...They are the present leaders of Chile, and they are not alone...
...Barnet: I'm not asking you to comment on the operations...
...In the light of this last information, we now know at least some of the people around the world who put faith in the secrecy of our government and whose survival politically in their own country depends on it...
...I can say that the chiefs of those terrorist groups are 99 per cent fascist, that is, public and admitted admirers of Mussolini, Hitler, Primo de Rivera and of the newest incarnation of fascism, the tyrant of Chile, Augusto Pinochet...
...Nor has the Agency explained the destruction of the taped telephone conversations between then CIA Director Richard Helms and Nixon, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman - after the Senate had requested that the CIA safeguard all evidence pertaining to Watergate...
...I can't say that every dollar that CIA spent in Chile was individually approved by a chairman, but I can say that the major efforts were known to the senior officials of the Congress as established...
...Whether he is talking about the Phoenix program in Vietnam, or of the break-in to Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, Colby continually refuses to tell the truth to the American people...
...His group went so far as to assassinate a humble fisherman and to kidnap his body...
...94118) - 14 - other leaders mainly of closed societies who rely on our kind of secrecy, I don't think there would be much satisfaction anywhere...
...VIII, No...
...At that point, in order to respond to the attacks made by those forces illegally in Laos, CIA was asked to and did begin a program of covert supply to those forces to protect themselves against the North Vietnamese incursion...
...Starts Counter-Terror program in Vietnam using terror techniques against NLF...
...17 - on information that I have about the results,and then I would like your evaluation as to whether that was a success...
...That is, the neutralization of those groups was an action fundamentally carried out so that the elections could be held in a climate of peace...
...destroyers allegedly came under North Vietnamese attack, leading to Congressional passage of the Tonkin Gulf resolution...
...It is another irony that the recent bombing of the Washington headquarters of the OAS -- the organization regarded by the Latin American left as the "Ministry of Colonies of the United States" -was carried out not by the revolutionary left but by Cuban exile terrorists...
...December, 1974...
...As noted below by BI, "International companies, in particular, are the prey of terrorist groups...
...31 - ment and personnel...
...Dominguez Benitez returned to Venezuela and from there he went to the United States...
...But for a very practical step, we can start with your cooperation in (the break-in) matter, since as I see here on page 751, "The CIA psychiatrist so purported it to his CIA superiors, both in memoranda and a meeting on August 20, 1971...
...He used these papers to travel to Santiago de Chile to cover the visit of Fidel Castro in Chile...
...Instead, the CIA and the State Department repeatedly insisted that the United States had a policy of non-intervention...
...Instead it is a question of our reluctance, if you will, to seek information and knowledge on subjects which I personally, as a member of Congress and as a citizen, would rather not have...
...Vastly more was lost some months back by the American oil firm whose Dutch refinery was hit by arsonists simply because it wasn't as secure as its neighbors down the road...
...These groups united and in 1968 started a terrorist campaign which reached somewhat large proportions because in a little less than a year they exploded more than 70 bombs in the United States, that is, they carried out at least 70 terrorist attacks...
...News and World Report ran this photo in 1974 as a "symbol of the new CIA openness...
...In practice, Phoenix constituted a campaign of unrestrained terror against all opponents of the Thieu regime -- particularly students, Buddhists and neutralists...
...In November, Rivero surfaced in Havana and held a press conference containing the revelations about the activities of these groups...
...The threat from the exile groups within the United States has become so serious as to force the Justice Department in April 1974 to decide "at a very high level" to begin a Federal grand jury investigation of terrorism by Cuban exile groups in Miami...
...Jamie L. Whitten (D-Miss...
...Unidentified member of the audience: How many did you kill (in Vietnam...
...I think it much more useful if I just say no to the whole run of such questions...
...NEWSMAN: You've been in Cuba for a while now...
...It also included a program of developing local village and provincial elections and giving authority to the elected officials thereof...
...Felipe Rivero directs the work in Florida and Guillermo Novo in the New York area...
...Barnet: Well, as a result of the activities -Colby: No, not as a result of our activities...
...1 2 Fidel's recent interview on CBS-TV was well received by the U.S...
...Colby: Of course...
...They also continue to plot against Cuba in spite of the fact that there is a treaty against piracy signed by Cuba and the United States on February 15, 1973...
...Chairman, of course...
...Abourezk: I want to have one more specific question...
...I think it's disgraceful...
...Only in the past decade have many would-be kidnappers come to see the modern corporation as a surrogate family for its top executives and thus a logical target for this form of extortion...
...DteSu )e U'NCO The Center for National Security Studies plans to publish the papers prepared for the Conference on the CIA and Covert Act Activities...
...I think I have basically answered your question...
...You say, Mr...
...Colby: Because, Mr...
...These people have publicly declared that independently of international detente, which is already evident, they will continue to fight, and I am quoting them exactly, even if they have to fight the U.S...
...Intelligence gathering is, of course, a necessary part of covert action...
...Colby: Our attaches in any foreign country are known as attaches...
...Could you be more explicit...
...They boast of this in public...
...Despite pressures to the contrary," and I'm quoting now, "the United States government adhered to a policy of non-intervention in Chile's internal affairs during the Allende period...
...U.S...
...press and public...
...There were a variety of programs of this nature, including the inducement, reception, and resettlement of over 200,000 Vietnamese who had served with the Viet Cong and decided to - 6 - come over to the government's side and were received and not punished for whatever they had done...
...It became more and more evident that counterrevolutionary nationalism would lead me straight to fascism, and we have a great many cases of that happening in the counterrevolution...
...The person in charge of this operation was Jesus Dominguez Benitez, nicknamed "El Isleio," an individual who had been intimately linked to Cuban Power, a terrorist group which as I said before was active in 1968...
...Abourezk: I might say, it is not reported to me...
...As long as this is the case, CIA covert operations will continue to fill a structural need of imperialism -to subvert national liberation movements and to intervene in the affairs of other countries...
...This was a program which was run by CIA and was also participated in by the U.S...
...agents debugging a corporation's headquarters in New York City...
...This followed a prepared statement by Colby...
...Other companies have turned to private intelligence organizations such as Intertel (International Intelligence, Inc...
...Branfman: Mr...
...Organizes propaganda campaign to exacerbate the Cultural Revolution on China, with disinformation carried to the mainland by Agency-supplied balloons and radio-transmitters...
...Abourezk: Did the Chairman of the oversight committee know in advance of your Chilean operation...
...3 The tactics of covert action include the "employment of well-placed agents, the use of money, the mustering of mercenary armies, and a variety of other covert methods designed to influence directly the policies (or determine the life spans) of foreign governments...
...Covert action is distinct from intelligence gathering in that it is designed to influence or affect a given situation to achieve a desired goal by any means necessary, legal or illegal...
...Questioning from the audience continued, including some detailed questions regarding CIA activity in Chile...
...In fact, it reflects the new Agency public relations campaign...
...Wise: Then doesn't that mean logically an end to covert operations...
...and as you know we have a round-up recap every now and again and the April 22nd one was one for the House Committee...
...Through a series of super-secret NSC Intelligence Directives (N-SCID's), Agency covert operations have been expanded even further...
...Colby: I believe Mr...
...4) A manual on insurance coverage against international terrorism, including: a summary of the types and general costs of insurance available for all forms of terrorism...
...This distrust or lack of confidence in Third World governments has prompted many U.S...
...Prior to taking power, Black nationalist and terrorist groups may selectively target Western business interests which they view as especially symbolic of the oppression they are seeking to eliminate...
...I was one of the founders of a small counterrevolutionary group, the first to be organized in U.S...
...In November 1973, the Secret Cuban Government planned to assassinate the Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, Ricardo Alarcon Quesada...
...Army who were trained in Fort Jackson, Fort Benning and Fort Knox and who now have a veterans' association...
...Later, after the bloody coup in Chile on September 11, 1973, these people rejoined the group led by Ramiro de la Fe...
...He quoted active officials of the CIA as stating that a conviction of Ellsberg in the courts was impossible due to the First Ammendment...
...That is what our policy was and that was what our activities were aimed at...
...I may, on occasion, have to keep some matters secret and not mention it, but I believe that it is not feasible in the current world to tell the American people or his representatives an untruth either in open or in secret...
...I don't ask for a lot of questions that come up in our intelligence business...
...Colby's unprecedented appearance came out of the CIA's need to defend itself against the storm of public criticism over its most recently revealed activities in Chile, Greece,and Watergate...
...Cuban Action is a terrorist group made up of members of the Insurrectional Movement for Revolutionary Recovery (MIRR) which should not be confused with the Chilean patriotic MIR...
...Therefore, at the beginning of 1963 I turned to nationalist ideas...
...I repeat what I have previously said, that CIA had no connection with the military coup there in 1973...
...See "Chileans, Cubans, and.'Costa Rica Libre,'" Guatemala & Central America Report #6, December, 1974, based on reports in Costa Rican press 12...
...3) A corporate security-risk analysis manual...
...NEWSMAN: You said before that the terrorist campaign is a result of the failure of the counterrevolution...
...But I do not believe we can tell them an untruth...
...This securityrisk analysis manual will be presented in a way that shows a company, step by step, how it can conduct and bring to a successful conclusion an analysis of its own corporate security risks in the field of international terrorism...
...The relationship between the exiles and Chilean right-wingers dates back at least to the 1964 elections, when a tape by Juanita Castro was used against Allende...
...I would like to add something which is not known publicly, but which is well known to the counterrevolutionary elements of the fascist - 24 - current now operating in U.S...
...And you don't have to leak about them...
...NEWSMAN: Rivero, we understand, however, that those terrorist activities continued...
...We have a situation today in Chile where large parts of the middle class are considerably worse off than under the regime that succeeded it...
...I never asked, to begin with, whether or not there were any funds to carry on the war in this sum the CIA asked for...
...As for the question of how to check on CIA, I think the front benches here of the press do a superlative job of showing us and catching us whenever they can...
...They are overtly known as that, and the answer to your basic question is that the other agencies do not conduct covert actions...
...however, his name has never been mentioned...
...in 1949...
...We understand that those fascist groups were responsible for the terrorist attacks against some of Cuba's diplomatic missions abroad...
...Elford A. Cederberg (R-Mich...
...The terrorists claim to represent the aspiration of thousands of exiles to "liberate Cuba from Communism...
...5 For example, the CIA continues to lie about its role in Watergate...
...Nedzi is a rather recent appointee to that chairmanship, but over the years since 1964 a variety of congressional committees and individual congressmen and - 7 - senators were made aware at appropriate times in the period of our covert activity...
...Nancy Stein: I just want to make a few statements...
...Hew York, 1974), p. 78-79...
...Fascist elements hurled a bazooka projectile against the UN building...
...boycotts of products from those countries...
...It is, as Fidel Castro pointed out in a recent CBS-TV interview (referring to the exiles' role in Watergate) one of the ironies of history that the Cuban exiles were unable to destroy the Cuban Revolution, but instead helped bring down the government of their friend Richard Nixon...
...government give "discreet support" to "America's friends" and thereby gain "control of a nation's political direction...
...NEWSMAN: Can you tell us something about the present plans of the terrorist groups which are operating in several countries...
...NEWSMAN: Can you tell us something of your life in the United States and of how your ideas began to change...
...policy on Cuba...
...To carry out this plan, the Secret Cuban Government rented an apartment in the "up-town" section of Manhattan in New York...
...The CIA's cash thereby had a "local impact of more than $40 million...
...and, despite setbacks, the people in Latin America are gaining strength every day...
...18, 1974, p. 22...
...RIVERO: Of course...
...She happened to believe throughout that I was exposing myself to possible attempts to kill me by members of the government or attempts to beat me up, which she didn't want to see...
...But with respect to the question about clearance with State, the Deputy Secretary of State is a member of the Forty Committee who considers and approves the various covert action directions that we get or approvals that we get.* The State Department, like the rest of us, handles this on a very strictly compartmented basis offering the need-to-know principle for the reason for limiting sharply who should and who should not know...
...Colby: I said that our policy was to encourage the democratic forces in Chile to sustain themselves in looking toward a victory in the elections of 1976...
...As I said, the terrorist campaign started in 1964, as a creation of the Cuban Nationalist Movement which is, I repeat, of Nazi affiliation, a fact which is very well known among counterrevolutionary circles...
...We respected the Geneva Accords agreement at that time and were only led to a violation of them by a greater violation by the North Vietnamese...
...McCord worked for the CIA until 1970 and the destroyed documents possibly revealed a link between McCord and the Agency since his "official" departure...
...In many areas of the Third World, revolutionary groups have identified U.S...
...Instead the public was told how "Colby kept his temper," in the face of "haranguing" by his critics...
...We should note that the plastic bombs found in the apartment are identical to those which the following month, or two months later in January 1974, were found in a children's playground located on the grounds of the Cuban embassy in Mexico...
...Colby, your statement was that CIA was not directly involved in the coup...
...I think it is obvious that there is an apparent discrepancy between what they are stating as officials of the United States government, and what you have testified to in a session before, as you call it, a relevant House subcommittee...
...The counterrevolutionary fascists are the authors, the creators and the perpetrators of the terrorist campaign which began some ten years ago under the name of "The war along the roads of the world" and which is spreading even now, as I can see from the press reports I have read recently...
...co- author, The Invisible Government...
...RIVERO: That plan has been coordinated by the following counterrevolutionaries: Orlando Bosch Avila, Antonio Calatayud, Hector A. Fabian, Ramon Orozco Crespo, Felipe Rivero Diaz, Juan Jose Perullero, Angel J. Ferrer and Gustavo Marin Duarte...
...Credit LAs) - 10 - Colby: Various of our individual actions in Chile over the years were reported at that time, and in some cases before the funds were expended, to the appropriate chairmen of the committees involved...
...Of course, these killings are only a tiny part of the internal war within the ranks of the counterrevolution which, as we have seen, has cost the lives of several persons...
...but when the Cold War intensified in Korea in 1950, Colby joined the CIA...
...Thus in Argentina, where revolutionary guerrilla organizations have collected millions of dollars in ransoms, businessmen admit that the aim of many kidnappings is "to drive out the multinational corporations and replace them with a basic Marxist system...
...But in this war it has once again been shown that in spite of all of their military power their system is weak when confronted by a people prepared to fight and be free whatever the price...
...He admitted that the CIA exceeded "its authority in several instances with respect to Watergate...
...3 - Partially because of the failure of overt intervention in Vietnam, the Nixon/Kissinger doctrine has emphasized the development of a low-profile approach to intervention...
...Fortunately, the projectile did not make impact and fell into the East River...
...Through the supply of money, arms and bombing raids, unsuccessfully tries to overthrow President Sukarno of Indonesia...
...Secretly intervenes in Chile to prevent election of Salvador Allende, and is successful...
...Before I call on Mr...
...These men meet at least once a month to review and endorse covert action against "enemies" of the United States...
...2) A check-list of the reasons why every international corporation should have an anti-terrorism program -- including the need for counterintelligence, the need to keep from being caught by surprise, to remove doubt as to what to do when terrorists strike, to have policy decisions in place in advance of any trouble, and the need for a global and well-thought-out security program -all of which requires extensive planning to minimize the opportunity for terrorists and to maximize detection, prevention and apprehension...
...All of my instructions came from State, in that no hard line toward Chile was carried out at any time...
...Embassy in Stockholm (1951-53...
...Peck: Just the same as agents of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...repressive forces, especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation, decided to eliminate those groups, chiefly because U.S...
...However, judging from Colby's comments, a major purpose of such exposure appears to be to feed false or misleading information to the public rather than to come clean...
...Source: Direct from Cuba, Nov...
...Rivero Collado participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, and was captured and imprisoned for 20 months in Cuba...
...These people coordinate terrorist activities in Miami...
...Barnet: Mr...
...He then made a racist comment about "people your size...
...I believe sir that you have a lot to answer for...
...only by the merest fluke was the kidnapper apprehended...
...Those people continue to walk the streets of Miami, they continue to possess weapons and equipment which were used in the attack against Sama and in other actions, and continue to possess the vessels that were used in those attacks...
...You said that you hoped that the people would win...
...Sets up the Center for International Studies at M.I.T...
...But perhaps that does relate again to your remark that you regard as unfortunate the leaks of that information to the American people (such as Representative Harrington's extremely responsible letter, which was initially confidential...
...In the newspaper story by Laurence Stern in the Washington Post, it states that $350,000 was authorized to bribe the Chilean Congress which at that time was faced with deciding a run-off election between Allende and the opposition candidate...
...Colby, that the best answer to all of your policies, the policies of the CIA, is going to be the will of the people who are going to win and that we know that you will suffer eventual defeat...
...Miami Herald, Nov...
...After being released, he returned to the United States...
...METHODOLOGY This workshop will be conducted in the form of a staff study...
...8 Since the September 1973 coup, the Chilean junta has agreed to supply arms and funds to the Cuban exiles...
...if the U.S...
...Sincerely, Elliott Haynes Executive Vice President A WORKSHOP ON CREATING AND IMPLEMENTING A CORPORATE SECURITY PROGRAM TO COMBAT KIDNAPPING AND TERRORISM A Service of Business International Corporation in conjunction with the International Association of Chiefs of Police Date: November 20-22, 1974 Place: In or near New York City PURPOSE 1) To prepare the participant to make a detailed study of his firm's international terrorism vulnerability quotient...
...Could you expand on this...
...All of these materials will cover the USA as well as foreign operations...
...It involved the reception and resettlement and eventual return to village, as security improved, of hundreds of thousands of refugees...
...RIVERO: That's absolutely right...
...Is that right...
...In addition to attending the conference on the CIA,Colby has granted interviews to major U.S...
...These two men are activists of the so-called Authentic Party of the Miami Area...
...Colby: I beg your pardon, Mr...
...I'll stand by a memory that I have of two readingsof your testimony, and obviously not finding it as accesible as you do day to day, it is very hard to have more than a memory...
...Colby, putting aside various arguments over what actually happened in Operation Phoenix...
...And it included the Phoenix program which was designed to identify the leaders of the Communist apparatus that was bringing terror and invasion to the population of South Vietnam The Phoenix program was designed and started in about 1968 in order to bring some degree of order and regularity to a very unpleasant, nasty war that had preceded it...
...15 - Colby: There are some, yes...
...Isn't it true that agents of the Defense Intelligence Agency were acting in the Port of Valparaiso during the coup, helping to direct the police and military operations and rounding up suspects for internment during that period...
...NEWSMAN: Rivero, was there any special reason which made you leave Cuba that way, on the very day of the triumph of the Revolution...
...Melvin Price (D-Ill...
...Chairman, with great respect, that falls within the category of the details that I'm not going to talk about...
...firms are developing new "risk management" programs to prevent further losses...
...I think we can tell the American people a true statement and keep other matters which have to be secret, secret...
...As I said, this was the opening round of the "War along the roads of the world" which in spite of these criminal actions, spread and made moderate progress until 1967 and 1968 when, under the influence of this terrorist current, new bands were created, such as Cuban Power, the Secret Anticommunist Army and others...
...The techniques of covert action include blackmail, burglary, subversion, and assassination...
...They are really a single group which is branched out deliberately to give the impression of a bigger membership and to mislead public opinion...
...national security institutions...
...F. Edward Hebert (D-La...
...and there were 20,500 killed, of which 87% of those killed were killed by regular and paramilitary forces and 12% by police * In fact, Operation Phoenix was nothing more nor less than a mass assassination program which claimed the lives of 26,369 South Vietnamese civilians and resulted in torture and prolonged imprisonment of at least 33,358 others...
...International companies, in particular, are the prey of terrorist groups, which have proliferated throughout the world in recent years...
...Let me also say...
...Daniel Ellsberg: Former Pentagon and Rand Corp...
...Colby, you addressed yourself early on to the question of American CIA involvement in Laos and justified it by referring to the allegation that the North Vietnamese refused to have the troops leave Laos after the country was established in 1962...
...This fact which, I repeat, I've known privately, has been corroborated by the U.S...
...ruling class refuses to give up its influence anywhere in the world...
...12) An analysis of the pros and cons of paying ransom or of giving way to extortion demands, and, importantly, why companies should settle on a policy in advance -- whether it is to pay or not to pay...
...1 Another example of this congressional irresponsibility was the statement of Republican Sen...
...This information was based on a letter written by Congressman Michael Harrington to Congressman Thomas Morgan, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...Was this particular situation that you have described in detail, either going back to the 1960's or with more relevance to the 1970 Allende period through the latter part of last summer, followed as a matter of practice in keeping informed various embassy department personnel in Chile during that period of time...
...I think that, Mr...
...our reports to Congress run on three levels: First open sessions, without divulging our operational methods and secrets...
...corporate giants, such as ITT, Exxon and Ford, as the key impediments to socialism and national independence...
...It is hard (audience laughter) to say whether it is successful or unsuccessful without talking about what they were...
...By reason of the structure of the Defense Department, they report to the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency...
...The United States, in fact has had to resort to the imposition of Fascist governments - 11 - -1 around the world because of the strength of the peoples movement...
...Where we change the wording for clarity, we use brackets ( C ). Footnotes 1. Time, September 30, 1974, p. 22...
...Colby: I have testified on that and I said that over two and a half years of the Phoenix program there were 29,000 captured...
...It is also our impression that there were very few what you might call executions...
...How do you feel and what are your impressions of Cuba...
...This manual will include a general formula for allocating money for security resources based on the risk analysis...
...The CIA continues to lie to the American people about its covert operations overseas to control or overthrow foreign governments, and about its counterinsurgency programs...
...In line with the Center's objective of exposing policies decided in secret to public discussion, the conference sought to reappraise the role of CIA covert actions and to pressure Congress to abolish such activities...
...RIVERO: I left Cuba on January 1, 1959, at 5 in the morning...
...Colby, do you consider the covert operations in Chile to have been a success...
...Now, as a citizen, I resent being lied to by the government, and wonder if this lying doesn't make the cost of covert operations too high...
...The 40 Committee is, in the words of Newsweek, the "board of directors for America's master spies...
...Raskin: Did the Central Intelligence Agency use ITT as a cover in Chile...
...The Watergate break-in was only the most visible of a long list of their subversive activities and "dirty tricks," 6 but it was the logical extreme of the CIA's activities abroad...
...What, in your opinion, are the causes of this failure...
...And that in fact the U.S...
...the advantages and disadvantages of self-insurance...
...Nor would I say that all the terrorist actions going on at this moment, let us say after September 11, 1973, are financed by the Chilean junta...
...However, although the boats are there plain to see, the authorities apparently are blind...
...press generally ignored the content of the confrontations between Colby and the conference participants (some of which are transcribed below...
...I'm asking you to comment on the results...
...American but who thinks just like a Cuban counterrevolutionary, that group which broke into the Watergate building originally had six members, but at the last minute it was decided that the sixth person would not participate in the action...
...companies to retain U.S...
...Rep...
...SENATE Special Subcommittee on Intelligence, Senate Committee on Armed Services John C. Stennis (D-Miss...
...Colby: I deny that CIA did anything before they were provoked to it and requested by the people in Laos to help defend themselves against the North Vietnamese incursions against them...
...Bottom and right: Identity card issued by the so-called "Playa Giron Liberation Forces," carried by one of the Cuban counterrevolutionaries when captured in the Bay of Pigs...
...There were exceptional cases as I said in my prepared statement...
...journalist, Jack Anderson, who I believe is the most widely read columnist in the United States...
...This is a matter, of course, for the Congress to decide...
...The latter, especially, is not a fair description of our national policy from 1971 on, of encouraging the continued existence of democratic forces looking toward future elections...
...Dan Mitrione was a U.S...
...and establishing a joint Senate-House oversight committee...
...In the document reproduced below, Business International (BI)--the leading U.S...
...consulting firm serving the multinationals--spells out the threat to U.S...
...territory, and that is the following: When the prime minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, visited Chile in October 1971, a group of fascist counterrevolutionary elements, sponsored by the CIA, planned to kill the leader of the Cuban Revolution and President Allende...
...As I did say, I believe that I cannot tell the American people an untruth...
...John 0. Pastore (D-RI...
...NEWSMAN: To change the subject a little, do you believe that the press has published everything about the involvement of Cuban conterrevolutionaries in the Watergate case...
...The analysis will include a look at whatever difference there may be vis-a-vis expatriates versus local nationals and third-country nationals...
...economic empire...
...Director (with ambassadorial rank) of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support - CORDS (U.S...
...Speaking of political positions, I would like to say that when I was released I was what you would call a liberal democrat, that was what my politics were from 1959 to 1962...
...Counter-Revolutionary Apparatus: The Chilean Offensive...
...Thus in a 1974 internal memorandum on "IBM as a Target for Terrorists," the giant computer firm notes that: In view of the political changes now taking place in the buffer states around the Union [sic] of South Africa, security planners must view this region as especially sensitive during the mid-1970's...
...16 per year for non-profit institutions ($30 for two years...
...Ernest Siracusa was U.S...
...and I have every confidence that a fully satisfactory solution will eventuate...
...9) A slide presentation on the corporate personal security program...
...RIVERO: Right now I'm finishing a book on the history of the counterrevolution, which goes from the founding of the White Rose group in Januaty 1959 to the Watergate affair, which scarcely three months ago led to the resignation of the President of the United States...
...John Marks: Former staff assistant to Dir...
...There are occasions in which these matters are held extremely tightly and made available only perhaps to the principal concerned...
...They have adopted terrorism as their strategy because to a certain degree they realize that what they call the cause of anticommunism, that is, the struggle of the counterrevolution, has failed and they believe that terrorism is the only way left open to them...
...NEWSMAN: In addition to the terrorist groups you've referred to, we understand that similar groups or bands have been created recently...
...This warfare consists principally of terrorist attacks against the diplomatic missions of the nations which vote in favor of raising the blockade, or more precisely, the diplomatic missions of those countries in the United States and in other countries where these fascist bands operate, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela and other countries...
...Let me put to you what I think, based Colby: A Career in Covert Operations Nixon's appointment of William Colby to head the CIA in May, 1973 signaled the continuing importance of U.S...
...protest marches, rallies and work stoppages in the United States...
...After that action, Perullero, Iglesias and Crespo joined the FNLC...
...Barnet, by saying that I reiterate that our policy at that time was to look forward to a victory in 1976 of the democratic forces through elections...
...They have not been indifferent to the organized genocide directed by yankee imperialism against the heroic people of Vietnam...
...You've indicated that your efforts, at least as they were reflected in Chile and I can infer from that generally, were to keep the State Department informed at all times of activities that were conducted in the carrying out of what you characterized again today as a directive given you by the executive branch in the course of their Constitutional mandate...
...During the UP government, the names of several Cuban exiles were linked to the activities of Patria y Libertad...
...Fred Branfman: Mr...
...Strom Thurmond (R-SC...
...Similar statements have been attributed to U.S...
...I also took part in other events at the time, but I don't think it necessary to enumerate them here...
...military...
...It is reprinted in full in NACLA's LA&ER, March, 1974...
...This will describe what a corporate security awareness program is and why it is needed...
...Daniel Ellsberg: What is your best estimate of the number of people who have been killed by the present regime in Chile which replaced constitutional government over the last year...
...Audience laughter) I'll tell you the answer to that question...
...This man, Juan Felipe de la Cruz, was really a victim of the Cuban Action chiefs who had sent him to Paris...
...They may well have made an estimate that I am not familiar with.* Ellsberg: I'm sorry, sir, that this was not regarded as an obvious question in the government...
...It is not my responsibility, but that is a fact that happened...
...NEWSMAN: Could you give us the names of the counterrevolutionaries who lead these terrorist groups...
...RIVERO: That's right...
...public ignorant...
...The investigations concerning Watergate exposed that the Agency considers itself not only above national laws elsewhere in the world, but here in the United States as well...
...July/August 1974, "U.S...
...We now know that votes were bought in the Chilean Congress, that opposition candidates were funded, and that the coup was promoted by the funding of sabotage groups and right-wing strikes...
...Colby: Mr...
...Miss Stein, you said that I said that 20,000 people were murdered...
...25 per year for profit-making and government organizations ($48 for two years...
...Branfman...
...and the de la Torriente and Rodriguez-Vives assassinations on April 18, 1974...
...1973...
...Colby: I would rather not use exact numbers, because I'm not sure of them...
...He will apply the data presented at the workshop specifically to his organization, toward the final aim of drafting a plan for thwarting the menace of terrorism and kidnapping which directly affects his company...
...or to policemen's associations such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) for assistance in setting up their own security apparatus...
...Hence each of these security managers must recreate the wheel, as it were, and develop one from scratch...
...They have resorted to terror and genocide...
...We know about your operation Phoenix in Vietnam which resulted in, as you yourself said, 20,500 people murdered, and similar programs elsewhere...
...I mean the position of the United States in the world today and in the world ahead...
...Colby: There may well be one but I just can't recall it here at this moment...
...Colby: I didn't kill any...
...At present, about two-thirds of CIA funds and manpower are for covert operations and their support, and this proportion has been relatively constant for more than ten years...
...Robert Borosage: Director, Center for National Security Studies...
...The FNLC is responsible for the mailing of postal packages containing bombs which they have sent from Mexico to several Cuban embassies...
...Chairman: Is there anything that the CIA has done overseas that you would not do in the United States...
...Secret Service appointed five of its agents to protect the Costa Rican minister during his stay in Washington...
...The vast majority of those killed were killed in military combat, fire fights or ambushes, and most of the remainder were killed in police actions attempting to capture them...
...8) A physical security program manual...
...applause) [At this point Daniel Ellsberg described the government's conspiracy to try him in public...
...Successfully carries out its part of an intricate covert operation to overthrow the Allende government in Chile...
...in continuing that supply operation had a plane shot down by the Pathet Lao...
...At the workshop, corporate officials--who paid $4,750 apiece for the privilege--received personalized instruction in how to develop a global security system that would include, among other things, a "corporate counterintelligence program" and a "physical security program" to "harden corporate targets" against guerrilla threats...
...I do not want to get in a situation where I say, no, no, no to a series of questions and then have to say no comment because the answer is pretty obvious at that point...
...In order to answer your question concretely, I would say that it was because of the influences of my family, my social origin, my environment, the psychology of the world I belonged to and the enormous propaganda that existed against the Revolution and against socialist ideas...
...The Cuban trade office in Montreal was attacked in early April 1972...
...1964 1964 1965 1965 1967 1967 1967 1967 1967 1970 1973 Secretly intervenes in Chile, spending $20 million, to prevent the election of Salvador Allende, once again successfully...
...Therefore they would have to destroy him in public by "render(ing) him the object of pity as a broken man," and by "refer(ing) to Ellsberg's Oedipal Complex...
...foreign policy and covert operations...
...Miami Herald, Nov...
...If your company has not yet taken this step, the time to do it is now...
...There are some civilian employees of the Department of the Army, Defense, the Navy and so forth...
...CIA station chief in Saigon (his "cover" was first secretary of the Embassy) where he became a staunch supporter of President Ngo Dinh Diem (1959-62...
...Colby: I don't believe that is a useful subject to discuss, Mr...
...They had been collaborating with the campaign of the Cuban Nationalist Movement since 1964...
...I believe that the action was financed by a donation of 2500 dollars which former president Carlos Prio Socarras gave to the Young Cuba band...
...We were consistent in that we financed no candidates, no political parties before or after September 8 or September 4th rather...
...According to the terms of the pact, if the counterrevolutionaries in Miami and in New York carried out a publicity campaign favorable to the junta and if this publicity campaign yielded results, then the colonel, Eduardo Sepulveda, promised to solicit the aid of the tyrant of Chile and persuade the military junta to give the Cuban counterrevolutionaries arms, equipment and money...
...2. Hamilton, Andrew, uThe CIA's Dirty Tricks Under Fire - At Last," The Progressive, Sept...
...He has been sentenced twice by two different courts for illegal activities...
...5 As the terrorist groups become more isolated within the U.S...
...According to commentaries I heard in Miami and in New York, the Cuban-origin counterrevolutionaries Bebe Rebozo and Edgardo Buttari are not completely out of the Watergate scandal, I would say they are not even partially out of it...
...However, I soon realized that this new political position, which was a reaction against my earlier political beliefs, was in reality a contradiction, a falsehood...
...We have a rather large and efficient group of analysts who serve up the answers to the obvious questions around the world...
...3) To furnish him with the manuals, check-lists, and visual presentations he will need to put a comprehensive worldwide security program into place, with stress on reducing down-time for operations, profit protection, and the cost-effectiveness of the options he faces in creating such a program...
...Also, the manual will show how to quantify -- put dollar figures against -- these various degrees of risk, which is essential if a security-risk analysis is going to be useful to a company in arriving at amounts of money it should spend for insurance, prevention, etc...
...NEWSMAN: What are your plans now...
...There came a time in my life when my wife asked me what I hoped to achieve by leaking, by revealing, information to the citizens of this country...
...a team of parachutists called "The Golden Falcons," and a dissident group from the Authentic Party of the Miami Area...
...For more information write to them at 122 Maryland Ave...
...Colby: There are lots of fine points in this argument that I frankly would think that this is not the forum to discuss the finer philosophical points...
...San Francisco, Ca...
...see box on Phoenix) Colby had been preparing to become chief of the CIA's Soviet operations in 1968 when the ailing Vietnam pacification chief Robert Komer recommended Colby to President Johnson as his replacement...
...I would not like to go further into detail about it, but there are some, yes...By security of the United States, I do not mean that the capitol will fall tomorrow as a result...
...When we were through, -- I've forgotten the number but it was in the neighborhood of 1,000 people who checked out through the international control checkpoint...
...The present congressional oversight arrangement is as follows: HOUSE Special Subcommittee on Intelligence, House Committee on Armed Services Chairman Lucien N. Nedzi (D-Mich...
...able to control the comings and goings of a person who had been sentenced twice by the courts in Miami...
...Phoenix was designed to "neutralize" the Viet Cong Infrastructure, or VCI (Pentagon parlance for the NLF's clandestine governmental apparatus...
...Were there shackles in the tiger cages...
...Guerrilla attacks on corporate personnel and facilities have proved extremely costly for the multinationals...
...This slide presentation will detail how employees can contribute to the security of plant and equipment...
...4 Even exile journalist Fabricio acknowledged that the slayings could be a "last-ditch effort by a limited number of exiles (perhaps less than 40 or 50) who want to make a show of force at a time when Cuba's isolation from the rest of the hemisphere is being debated...
...That is up to the Congress to determine how it shall be done...
...How many I cannot tell you for sure...
...I do not take satisfaction in that particular result of our secrecy...
...2 Given these changing attitudes among the majority of the exiles, the terrorists are no longer the heroes they once were...
...Such actions cause most Chileans today to live in constant fear of arrest...
...Recently, I discovered a piece of information in a U.S...
...they regard themselves as heroes and other people in that same aggressive current accept them as such...
...but as he came to understand "the intrinsic amorality and repugnance of the enemies of the (Cuban) Revolution," he worked within the exile terrorist groups as a double agent...
...I did see it published in the newspapers some time ago...
...I thought those were not dangers...
...The following document is an edited version of the questioning of Colby by the conference participants...
...Principal targets have included U.S...
...Morton Halperin: Are you really saying, in line with the policy of candor that you say that the Agency is attempting to follow, to tell us that the activities of the Agency in support of hostile press, in support of strikes, in support of direct support of armed nationalist groups in Chile, did not have a direct effect on the atmosphere which produced the coup...
...voters now favor ties with Cuba...
...What is your estimate of the number that have been imprisoned, and of the number that have been tortured in that period...
...These people were operating in New York City, although Aguila Kaliman also lives in the Dominican Republic...
...Other aspects of the campaign have included: bombings, threats and harrassments against diplomatic installations of countries favoring ties with Cuba...
...After World War II Colby received a law degree from Columbia University and started work in the New York corporate law firm (Donovan, Leisure, Newton, Lombard & Irvine) whose leading partner was the former head of the OSS, Maj...
...The Phoenix program was one part of the total pacification program of the government of Vietnam...
...We are publishing in its entirety the text of the press conference, made available by Prensa Latina (Direct from Cuba, 1 Nov.74) because this document presents the most complete and accurate account available to date of the range of activities of the Cuban exile groups, and presents background and analysis to show their interrelations...
...I don't see how you can...
...Colby: We respected the Geneva Agreement provisions...
...Violence directed at established institutions -- and especially business corporations -- has become commonplace throughout the world...
...10, 1974...
...Organizes and leads capture of Che Guevara in Bolivia...
...NE, Washington, D.C...
...You justified apparently the murder of Mr...
...I hope you are the only person in the room who sincerely believes that...
...At the time of the Bay of Pigs, Adlai Stevenson, who was twice a presidential candidate, had to lie to the whole world by reading a cover story into the record of the United Nations, which I think he always regretted...
...Cuban Action also includes members of the so-called Revolutionary Directory...
...RIVERO: Yes, I have...
...Guido Sanz and Perez de Villa, invader of Playa Giron, former secretary-general of the MIRR, of the movement which was led by Orlando Bosch Avila, who is the coordinator of Cuban Action in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...I think it can now be perfectly well demonstrated to your or anybody else's satisfaction that it was common practice to be tortured in Vietnam, and you have just lied after saying just a minute ago that you wouldn't...
...I have not asked for that particularly...
...12 - A PDrtial .hrnnnlnnv nf (CA (l nvart An arntinnn Late '40s early '50s 1949 - mid '60s 1950-1953 1951 1953 Sponsors underground movements in Albania, Ukraine and Poland...
...firms will therefore have to establish their own security network...
...territory and in the territory of several countries in Latin America and Europe...
...of Defense...
...It also exposes the magnitude and the conspiratorial nature of the Cuban exile activities...
...I was 19 years old at the time, and my father, Andres Rivero Aguero, had been elected president in the elections of November 1958...
...authorities incapable of keeping their borders from being used for these criminal plans or did they deliberately close their eyes to that situation...
...Although not openly stated, an implicit supposition of the BI memo is that many Third World governments are unable or unwilling to provide adequate security and that U.S...
...Ford, and there is the CIA which, with Pappy Shelton, Mitrione and Siracusa* [and now you, Mr...
...I realized that there was a practically imperceptible distance, a very small step, between a genuinely nationalistic position and a revolutionary position...
...former Asst...
...Enrollment will be on a first-come, first-serve basis...
...Barnet: And you cannot give a general example of those threats...
...Cover: CIA Director William Colby and right wing terrorists in action in Latin America...
...As for discussing future events, many of them cannot be predicted in the future but a number of our covert activities have gone on over a number of years and during that number of years there have been periodic appropriations, some of which is used for some of these operations, and when they get significant enough, they must be covered in the appropriations process...
...The CIA has yet to explain the burning of James McCord's files by McCord's wife and a CIA operative named Lee R. Pennington, shortly after the Watergate break-in...
...Colby: I would perhaps save you the time, Mr...
...Colby: On the question of reporting to the committees and particularly your reference to my reporting to the Latin American Sub-Committee of the Foreign Affairs Committee...
...We know that the CIA conducted the training of foreign police in Texas under the auspices of the Office of Public Safety so that they learned to make bombs and conduct terrorists actions against their own people...
...The major stress of the Phoenix program was to encourage the capture for very sensible easy reasons...
...The terrorist activities which have made outlaws out of the counterrevolutionaries have led to a great wave of world protest, even on the part of U.S...
...Artime had active, direct participation in the Watergate affair...
...But the action in Mexico was carried out by a third terrorist band, Cuban Action...
...Audience laughter) But in the elections of 1976 by the democratic political forces...
...Porter: Can you answer yes or no...
...Colby: My morality is to try to help produce a better world and not to insist on a perfect one, Mr...
...6, 1974...
...The peoples of the world live under the permanent threat of the most aggressive imperialism that has ever existed...
...Colby, I'd like to ask you a general principle question...
...Colby: Well, in line with my disinclination, to put it mildly, to talk about our operations, I would rather not do that in this forum...
...Lopez and Crespo were seriously injured in March of this year, when a mediumsize bomb exploded in their hands as they were trying to place it inside a book to send by mail to a Cuban embassy...
...The military withdrew its people...
...Recognizing the very real threat to their corporate assets and personnel which kidnapping and international terrorism present -- and the huge corporate losses already being incurred -- a growing number of firms are creating a new management function -- risk management -- to develop and implement a program to protect the company's plant, equipment and people...
...David Wise: Mr...
...I would like to add, since we are speaking of the people who took part in these maritime aggressions, that they are now freely walking on the streets of Miami and New York and publicly boasting of their actions such as the one where they attacked a fishing village and among other things, made a 13-year old girl lose her leg...
...Sources 1. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks (Knopf, 1974) p. 343...
...This manual will also include suggestions on how to balance insurance coverage and costs against the costs of a corporate security program -- and how to make insurance coverage a part of such a program...
...of Defense William Clements, Under Sec...
...We are engaged everyday overseas in trying to learn through secret, clandestine operations about matters which are kept secret and are illegal...
...RIVERO: On January 1, 1959, I decided to fight the Revolution...
...I think that the various members of Congress and the various staff members as they travel around, they have a chance to ask our people what's going on...
...There are other people who, in addition to participating actively in terrorist activities, carry out work we can describe as miscellaneous: Horacio Minguillon, Rolando Minguillon, Arturo Mufioz, Antonio Mendez, Jose Perez Linares, Pedro Hernandez, Francisco Molina, Rafael Gonzalez Labrada, Gabriel Abay and Jose Aguila Kaliman...
...formerly with Inst...
...What can you tell us about them...
...There are two more persons involved in that scandal -- all this is well known in counterrevolutionary circles, I'm not inventing this, it's widely talked about in those circles -- Mike Suarez Fernandez and Humberto Lopez, the coordinators of the Front for Cuban Liberation, a terrorist group which also had a participation in the Watergate case...
...Intervenes in Congo on behalf of Adoula and Mobutu, supplying mercenaries and an "instant" air force of B-26 bombers, flown by Cuban Bay of Pigs veterans...
...That under the agreement the Pathet - 18 - Lao had a right to be consulted on all major questions of defense and foreign policy...
...Marcus Raskin: Co-Director, Institute for Policy Studies...
...5. New York Times, November 23, 1974...
...We are always talking about what the CIA has done two or three years, four or five years in the past...
...Now, do you confirm or deny these facts...
...covert operations...
...Chairman...
...Colby: I believe I said that, in my prepared statement, that CIA must do those things that are lawful in the United States...
...Korry, who was the former Ambassador to (Chile...
...I did not say that we had any authority to commit crimes in the United States and I deny that we do have any such authority and we have given very strict directions to our people that they will not...
...Abourezk: It seems that CIA covert activities are never discussed in advance with anyone that I know of...
...This will include corporate case examples...
...the use of embassies and paid informants...
...politics by its real name, that is, as imperialism...
...There is now] the definitive awakening of our people, with thousands and thousands of workers on their feet, which goes forth inevitably towards the Second Independence, towards the elimination of the unjust capitalist system and the establishment of revolutionary socialism...
...businessmen traveling abroad...
...19 - The Cuban Exile Terrorist Network: Confessions of an Apostate When CIA officials authorized the training of Cuban exiles for the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1960, they had no idea of the Frankenstein monster they were creating...
...and how this information should flow within the overall company...
...This explosion took place in the home of the counterrevolutionary Alfredo Sayuz who has worked as coordinator...
...David Wise: Washington-based writer...
...William E. Minshall (R-Ohio...
...6, 1974 3. Miami Herald, Oct...
...NEWSMAN: You have said that the fascists direct the attacks against our diplomatic missions...
...Casing photographs" of Dr.Fielding's office (Ellsberg's psychiatrist), were reviewed by CIA officials and reported to the office of the Deputy Director of the CIA...
...We also have Aldo Rosado, Henry Aguero and Pedro Arnao who work in a terrorist group in Los Angeles, California...
...major -- stumbling block: no service organization offers a comprehensive course in how a global corporate security program should be created, nor produced the manuals, visual aids and other materials needed to implement it...
...secretary of state began to take certain form at the end of 1973...
...The United States did not seek to pressure, subvert, influence a single member of the Chilean Congress at any time in the entire four years of my stay...
...of State Joseph Sisco, and Gen...
...At the time of the U-2 in 1960, we were told by the government that it was a weather plane that drifted over the border...
...and advice on how these should be considered in the context of a total global corporate security program...
...It will show how to protect information about the company and its managers' movements from leaking out, and how the company should gather and process intelligence about terrorists and disseminate it within the company...
...I just want to say to you, Mr...
...I would add that, in my review of the transcript of that testimony, there is no reference to prototype, nor the term "destabilize...
...the prototype for other CIAsponsored think-tanks...
...You are correct that these covert actions, by definition, are secret...
...Espionage is a crime in this country...
...Small group discussion and problem-solving sessions relevant to the course topics will be conducted, in addition to individual consultation...
...Jesus Dominguez Benitez has been arrested twice by the FBI...
...MANUALS, CHECK-LISTS, VISUAL PRESENTATION AND OTHER TAKE-HOME MATERIALS 1) A list of the important terrorist groups throughout the world (including the US), an analysis of the major types of groups, and a brief description of how and why they practice terrorism...
...Since the creation of the CIA in 1947, over 200 congressional bills and resolutions concerned with increased oversight have been presented...
...I would also comment that this unfortunate leak, once again, raises the dilemma of how we are to provide the Congress such delicate information without its exposure and consequent adverse impact on those who put their faith in our secrecy and those who might be contemplating such a relationship in the future...
...Today, fifteen years later, the ghost of dirty tricks past in Cuba has come back to haunt them, and is rapidly turning into a "security threat" within the United States...
...list of recipients included National Student Association, Asia Foundation, numerous AFL-CIO-sponsored foreign labour programs, and Encounter magazine...
...I have told our employees my conviction that if anybody tried to misuse CIA against the American people, CIA would explode from within and I would think it a good thing...
...1958 1958 1959 - mid '60s 1960 1960 1961 1961 - 13 - Colby: Mr...
...Special Subcommittee on Intelligence, House Committee on Appropriations George H. Mahon (D-Tex...
...The Secret Cuban Government is most active also in the North Zone, that is, the industrialized northeastern part of the United States...
...I can confidently say that terrorism is the direct result of the failure of the counterrevolution as a political cause...
...I can say with certainty that the group of five counterrevolutionaries, including James McCord, who is an...
...I make specific reference to former Ambassador Davis, to former Assistant or Deputy Ambassador Shlaudeman and to a variety of other people who might be loosely in the category of those who would be, as a part of their State Department discipline, responsible for Latin American affairs in general -- Jack Kubisch,(former Assistant-Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs...
...That person was Angel J. Ferrer and we've already spoken of him...
...Operations, U.S.Assistance Programs in Vietnam, Hearnings, 92nd Congress...
...author...
...I would also like to add, incidentally, because I have had to mention my father's name every time in order to explain the essential reason why I left Cuba on the very day of the revolutionary triumph, that while I have been fully identified with the Revolution for the past few years, my father, as you know, has been, is and, I am certain, will continue to be an enemy of the Revolution...
...The United States had maintained the most total hands-off-the-military policy from 1969 to 1971 conceivable...
...Of course, he was a terrorist, but he was also the victim of the chiefs who did not take any risks at all...
...Just for example, were the committees aware of that...
...certainly the Watergate Five have brought more embarrassment than pride to the Cuban exile community...
...The first was before our sub-committee, the Inter-American Subcommittee, on June 12th of this year by Deputy Ambassador Shlaudeman...
...Rockefeller and Mr...
...efforts to track down Che Guevara in Bolivia...
...As I said before, this aid from the Chilean military junta has two objectives: in the first place, to finance the campaigns of the Pro-Chile Committee, which is simply a propaganda organization, and in the second place, to finance directly the terrorist activities of the groups in U.S...
...23, 1974...
...If it had not been leaked to the press, the public would never have learned that at least $8 million was spent by the CIA to overthrow the Allende government...
...There had been previous total round-up recaps for other committees of the Congress well prior to that time, and, in fact, right after the coup in 1973...
...I personally have never seen a report and none was ever presented in my trial, interestingly, or any of the other trials, of a single leak in the past twenty years that did in fact injure the interests of the people of the United States...
...More recently we have statements by high officials of the government that there was no intervention in Chile...
...The gap between the few terrorists and the rest of the exile community is becoming more evident and public: Cuban Vice-Mayor of Miami Manolo Reboso recently said he and others in the community were "ashamed" about the destruction of a monument in Miami by an exile terrorist group...
...This will be a series of documents showing how to harden corporate targets and what rules and procedures to adopt...
...In the middle of 1973 they planned a personal attack against the Cuban ambassador in Mexico, Lopez Muiiio...
...8 - Congressional control of the CIA has almost been non-existent...
...On domestic issues, Colby justified CIA infiltration and secret funding of the National Student Association because it "helped articulate the views of American students-4abroad...
...the group of pirates who have carried out several maritime attacks against Cuban fishermen...
...We also have Conrado Rodriguez Sanchez, Humberto Lopez Jr., Luis Crespo and Juan Jose Perullero of the National Front for Cuban Liberation...
...In general, do you see any national security threat that would justify any covert operations at this time in any third world country, which I define roughly as poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with no conceivable capacity to endanger the American people here in the United States...
...Colby: I think they are officers or enlisted men in their respective services...
...A Conference Board report this month, noting the growing number of "professional" kidnappers, states that "traditionally, kidnappings have quite naturally been directed against persons of affluence, with ransoms sought from the victim's families...
...How can you have them if you don't lie about them...
...10) A manual on procedures to follow if an employee or his kin are kidnapped or are said to have been kidnapped, or if an extortion demand is made...
...The Latin American people from the last century until today have suffered a string of military interventions and unjust wars executed and fermented either by the North American armed forces or the multinational monopolies...
...if you were ordered by the President of the United States and the National Security Council to engage in such actions againsteither Americans or other people in other third world countries, I'd like to know if you would have any moral objections to it...
...there were 17,000 defected...
...It never dawned on me to ask about it...
...It will cover: the use of external, published sources...
...In 1943, Colby responded to a call from the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) for French-speaking volunteers...
...I think that my presence here demonstrates that I am prepared to talk about covert actions, and I've talked about a bunch of them...
...It provided procedures by which the identification of the leaders, rather than the followers, became the objective of the operation...
...NEWSMAN: You mentioned that these groups had a plan to assassinate Latin American diplomats...
...In recent months, however, several close observers of the exile community (including some within it) have noted that the vast majority of the exiles are resigned to staying in the U.S., and especially younger exiles have lost their fervor for "retaking" Cuba...
...And in that period following the same, the Pathet Lao as a member of the tri-partite coalition government demanded it as was their right under the arrangement and that the United States ceased its military and economic aid through the (inaudible) who were ensconced in bases within the classified (inaudible...
...Each participant will receive one full set...
...2. Ibid, p. 344...
...of State Dept.'s Bureau of Intelligence & Research...
...5) A corporate security awareness program manuel...
...For this reason he was proposing legislation to "impose penalties on those who take upon themselves the choice of which secrets to reveal...
...for CIA's Scientific Intelligence...
...These activities were carried out by the Young Cuba band, which is made up of a number of young fascists, some of whom had belonged to the group of former president Carlos Prio Socarras and others to the group led by Ramiro de la Fe, an invader of Playa Giron, a counterrevolutionary who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in the United States for illegal activities...
...Colby: Of course...
...The fundamental thing was that I believed that all that was the truth, so I became an enemy of the Revolution on January 1, 1959...
...and distributing over $8 million (through the black market) to "destabilize" the legally elected government through funding of "bosses" strikes, right-wing opposition candidates, terrorist actions, and black propaganda...
...Leslie C. Arends (R-Ill...
...Another name hasn't been revealed, that of Manuel Artime Buesa, civilian chief of the Playa Giron invasion, an agent of the CIA for many years, who was also involved directly in the Watergate case...
...Therefore, Cuban Power, Nationalist Movement, ESA and other smaller groups were neutralized some three or four weeks before the 1968 elections...
...However, Watergate has forced Congress to consider new mechanisms for strengthening its responsibility to oversee the intelligence agency...
...Martinez, as you know sir, was at that time on a $100 a month retainer from the CIA which he remained on until he was later caught in the Watergate a month later, being paid from the same funds...
...corporations are beginning to acknowledge that their rapid push into Third World areas has made them an obvious symbol of what IBM calls "American overseas imperialism...
...Finding themselves more isolated, the terrorist groups have been embroiled in internal warfare: one leader, Jose de la Torriente, was killed in April 1974, reportedly because others felt he had not delivered on his promise to overthrow Castro by December 1970...
...Finally,.he claimed that CIA covert actions are in the interest of the United States because they give U.S...
...Parenthetically, she was correct...
...Unidentified member of the audience: How many were killed while you were over there...
...In 1971, Sen...
...Colby, I believe you would agree with the definition of covert action as secret intervention into another country's internal affairs...
...Colby: I have read various papers on this subject...
...The coordinators or main leaders are the following: Felipe Rivero Diaz and Guillermo Novo Sampol of the Cuban National Movement and the Zero Group...
...Business Itternational World Heandquarters: One Dag Harnmarskjold Plaza New York...
...The policy of the government, Mr...
...However, around the time I was exchanged, I began to understand that liberal representative democracy was not exactly the best system with which to combat communism, because I had seen so much disloyalty, cynicism and perversion under capitalism...
...1954 Overthrows Arbenz government in Guatemala...
...Secretly intervenes once more in Chile to prevent election of Salvador Allende and the Popular Unity government -- this time without success...
...Colby was known as one of U.S...
...In the operation against the Cuban trade mission in Montreal, the counterrevolutionaries Eduardo Paz and Rafael Perez Torpedo had direct participation, in coordination with a person whose last name was Soto, a resident of Montreal...
...What I'm trying to say here is that there are certain things which today are not an immediate danger to the United States but if allowed to grow can become a serious problem and consequently a problem to the security of the United States...
...Do you think it might not be a good idea to discuss what you are doing now, at this time, even before the appropriate committees...
...Incorporated in this section will be a brief analysis -- with case examples -- of the modus operandi of terrorist groups with respect to intelligence, action, and propaganda as they affect the physical assets and personnel of international corporations...
...Oscar Luis Acevedo and Edwin Gonzalez, invaders of Playa Giron and former members of the Secret Anticommunist Army, of the Secret Cuban Government...
...Ralph "Pappy" Shelton was the Green Beret who headed U.S...
...CIA activities have led to the overthrow of governments in Guatemala, Brazil, Bolivia, and now Chile, the details of which you know better than any of us, Mr...
...Is that right...
...The Secret Cuban Government is a terrorist band made up of the former members of Cuban Power from 1968, a group called the ARA MIRR Alliance, and the Marti Insurrectional Movement...
...Harrington prepared the letter after he was given access to the transcript of testimony by Colby given at a secret hearing of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence held on April 22, 1974...
...The people of Latin America have suffered first hand the consequences of U.S...
...In April, 1973, he became ambassador to Uruguay...
...Source: Direct from Cuba, Nov...
...of State Kissinger, CIA chief Colby, Dep...
...Borosage, I have a question that I would like to ask of you...
...Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash...
...All this made me turn against the Revolution on the very day of its triumph...
...Let me read secondly from testimony given to the Church sub-committee last spring...
...Such secrets, he stated, help the U.S...
...Where we omit whole sections of a speech or exchange between conference participants and Colby, we use 3 stars...
...Marks, the use of an atomic bomb is justified in the interest of national security, and I think going down from there is quite a realm of things you can do in the reasonable defense of the country...
...U-2 flown by Francis Gary Powers is shot down over Soviet Union, causing cancelation of four-power summit conference...
...George Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Moreover, I would say that terrorism is the epitaph of the counterrevolution...
...Branfman: Tell me, while you were in Vietnam, was it the frequent practice of the South Vietnamese National Police to carry out torture...
...And I ask myself another question: Are the U.S...
...General William S. "Wild Bill" Donovan...
...The threats against Gonzalo Facio and Costa Rican diplomatic installations were reported in the Miami Herald, Sept...
...Richard Barnet: Co-Director, Institute for Policy Studies...
...Speakers James Abourezk: Democratic Senator from South Dakota...
...26 - RIVERO: The terrorist groups have coordinators, cell chiefs and cell members...
...What activities in the covert operation do you engage in overseas that you would approve of in this United States...
...This MIRR is the antithesis of patriotism...
...All fail...
...The work of this group, directed by Dominguez Benitez, had the cooperation of several Cuban counterrevolutionaries living in Caracas, Venezuela, who gave Benitez false papers accrediting him as a Venezuelan newsman...
...I hope you will read the enclosures carefully and let us know as soon as possible on the enclosed registration form if you wish to enroll one or more of your staff concerned with corporate security...
...Subscriptions: $10 per year for individuals ($18 for two years...
...Uses Cuban exiles-in-training to put down rebellion against Guatemalan government...
...Colby: I think that falls into the category of not talking about our operations...
...No firm with foreign operations--no matter how large or small--is immune...
...ambassador to Bolivia at the time of the 1971 coup against the nationalist military government of Juan Jose Torres...
...Only about 20% of the CIA's career employees (spending less than 10% of the budget) work on intelligence analysis and information processing...
...In the memorandum below, BI notes that in recognition of the "huge corporate losses already being incurred," many U.S...
...audience outburst) * Maj...
...Chairman, it is given to us by the established elected authorities of the United States government, the President and the National Security Council and is reported to the Congress (see Congressional Oversight box...
...For more on how this money was spent to 'destabilize' Chile, see: NACLA's LA&ER...
...10017 (212) 759-7700 Cable Address "Busymaq New York" June 17, 1974 Dear Several days ago, in Oklahoma, the president of a global oil-drilling firm, Helmerich and Payne, Inc., was kidnapped and ransomed for $700,000...
...He took a job at the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C...
...But the Agency has moved beyond this, and has increasingly based its operations on "point 5" of the Act, which authorized it to perform "such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the NSC (National Security Council) may from time to time direct...
...The Expanding "Loophole" The CIA's original mandate, as specified in the National Security Act of 1947, was intelligence gathering...
...There are a lot of other people who are quite willing to bring to the attention of the public or to the appropriate authorities any wrongdoing by the CIA or any contradiction between what we are duly authorized to do under our constitution and what we are not duly authorized to do...
...It will be a "do-ityourself" seminar...
...As for the number tortured, I have no idea...
...the Lopez and Crespo activities on March 21 and 24, 1974...
...Colby: I'm really not trying to play games with you...
...Colby: With due respect, I disagree with you because our appreciation of the situation in Chile and the analysis of the situation in Chile was that the military coup in Chile was brought about by the policies of the Allende government, which so mixed up the situation in Chile that the military decided to act against the government...
...advisor to the Uruguayan police force involved in torture training, who was executed by the Tupamaros in 1970...
...A few weeks after the killing of Torriente, who was shot in the back, another 70-year old man, Ernesto Rodriguez, president of the Christian-Democratic Movement in exile, that is, the counterrevolutionary Christian-Democrats, was also shot to death in Miami...
...Today Phoenix continues under Thieu's "F-6" program and an estimated 200,000 political prisoners remain incarcerated in South Vietnamese prisons...
...By which there were limits placed on the length of time of detentions and the procedures for interrogation...
...There are also Luis Tornes, director of a counterrevolutionary newspaper, Justo Alonso, Jose Llevert, Eduardo Paz and Jesus Lazo...
...the outline of the workshop and its take-home materials are enclosed with this letter...
...The U.S...
...Hector A. Fabian, Francisco Hernandez and Guillermo Miguel of the Secret Cuban Government...
...You said that the CIA conducts genocide...
...Watergate revealed publicly the potential of these groups as a mercenary force, capable of applying the skills and techniques they were taught by the CIA -- burglary, sabotage, assassination -- to intervene in U.S...
...This took place over 90 days and the U.S...
...There is also something which I have not mentioned up to now, and that is the publicly known fact that on September 19th of this year, the Costa Rican foreign minister, Gonzalo Facio, was threatened with death in the city of Washington...
...This is with reference to Chile...
...Executive director-comptroller of the CIA (1972-73), the Agency's number three position...
...This bombing was part of a campaign of "open warfare" in which the exiles have turned their CIA-learned sabotage skills against all agencies and individuals identified as favoring the elimination of sanctions against Cuba...
...CIA actions include coordination of terrorist activities and the training and funding of right-wing paramilitary groups...
...As Fidel took power, Rivero left Cuba, at age 19, and helped found the first exile terrorist group, "La Rosa Blanca," in Miami...
...Raskin, because I get back to my responsibility not to talk about the operational details of my agency...
...By which the objective was to capture, rather than to kill, the members of the apparatus...
...The Cuban exile team was assembled and trained by the CIA in 1960 for the specific purpose of overthrowing the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba...
...9 and representatives of the junta recently spoke at an anti-Castro rally in Miami...
...That policy remains in force today...
...RIVERO: Yes, I had a very important reason...
...That is, these movements are the political facade for this terrorist group...
...29 - In the letter reproduced below, Business International announced a joint workshop with the IACP on "Creating and Implementing a Corporate Security Program to Combat Kidnapping and Terrorism...
...This "loophole" has allowed the CIA to expand into paramilitary and other covert actions...
...We did look forward to a change in government...
...Now, we did not have anything to do with the military coup in Chile, and therefore, I dc not think that you can say that the result today is the result of either CIA or the United States...
...Senator Symington (was quoted) in this morning's Washington Post indicating that as a member of the Senate structure for oversight, statements made by yourself came as surprise to him as to the degree of involvement in this country...
...In editing this transcript of the question and answer session, we had to omit certain portions and change some wording, for reasons of space and readability...
...According to a recent Gallup Poll, 63% of U.S...
...I'm not sure what the 90 days is right at the moment...
...Colby: That may be true, Mr...
...In this unequal war, whose flames are still not extinguished, the belligerent and treacherous character of U.S...
...Anyone identified as a "VCI suspect" could be imprisoned indefinitely in U.S...
...13, 1974 4. Miami Herald, April 18, 1974 and April 28, 1974 5. Tropic, July 14, 1974 6. "Cuban Exiles and Watergate," NACLA's Latin America and Empire Report, Nov., 1973 7. Los Angeles Times, April 21, 1974...
...Can you tell us which of these groups is planning to assassinate the diplomats of Latin America...
...Herbert Scoville: Former Asst...
...Moreover, a few days after the heroic fall of President Allende, Colonel Eduardo Sepulveda, an intimate friend of the tyrant of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, visited Miami and personally met with Ramiro de la Fe and his group of young terrorists...
...Moreover, the U.S...
...Was Lucien Nedzi , or were the informal members of the Armed Services Committee structure that oversaw, at least theoretically, the CIA role with specific reference to Chile, informed with that degree of specificity before April 22 of this year...
...Harrington...
...But since you have already indicated in your addendum to your prepared remarks, your intention not to address specifics raised in your testimony to Lucien Nedzi on April 22, let me at least get into the question of what I think is the fiction of congressional oversight...
...Their provisions include: banning all covert operations...
...It was formed in 1948 to make sure the year-old CIA's projects were worth the political risk...
...Barnet: /As the result of the withholding of information which you had from the constitutionally elected government/ we have a military dictatorship which has repealed two generations of reforms in Chile, has obliterated a system of reform which has evolved under conservative and Christian Democratic governments...
...At the time of the Geneva Accords in 1962, CIA ceased its supply and withdrew its people...
...As far as I know, a pact was signed between the Chilean fascist colonel and other elements who accompanied him and the group of Cuban counterrevolutionaries under the leadership of Ramiro de la Fe...
...We are aware they have changed, and we are trying to adjust to the new world that we have here and that we are trying to respond to the American people and to the American Constitution in the form that is expected of us at this time...
...1, 1974...
...A moving confrontation occurred between a Vietnamese woman and,Colby...
...will reach a situation "in which our adversaries profit froni our openness while we are blinded by their secrecy...
...authorities themselves...
...From the facsimile of the IBM memos in The Berkeley Barb, Nov...
...Colby: Mr...
...Meanwhile, revolutionary Cuba continues to gain support, thus increasing the isolation of the terrorist exiles...
...But isn't it true that the Central Intelligence Agency is not the only agency of our government involved in covert activities...
...1, 1974 column, for example, Jack Anderson independently confirmed, on the basis of his own investigations, that the exiles were prepared to "turn their deadly skills against the U.S...
...The term "political destabilization" was indeed used and I think...
...dissemination of black propaganda (lies distorting the Chilean reality) to the right-wing media...
...It's the military government that brought it about...
...1. See for example New York Times, Oct...
...The plan is to assassinate the diplomats, ambassadors and foreign ministers of those nations...
...many have even accepted the inevitability of the resumption of U.S...
...Congress, House Committee on Govt...
...Are there any things that you have done in Vietnam that you would not do elsewhere and would not do here at home, from a moral point...
...Colby replied that he had spent seven years in Vietnam trying to help the Vietnamese protect themselves...
...These young men, who had been members of Young Cuba, later created a fascist group also dedicated to terrorist actions, called the Cuban Neorevolutionary Action Group...
...We had a lot of advisors around and throughout the police and throughout the other structures in Vietnam...
...In the closed societies and countries that we work in and in some of the other countries that we share this world with, there are a lot of illegal things, according to our standards, done overseas, and I think this is a natural aspect of the fact that we live in a world of sovereign nations, each one of which must protect its own security...
...RIVERO: I feel highly honored and pleased to be able to return to my country after so many years of absence...
...senior consultant, Center for National Security Studies...
...I was captured and held prisoner, with the rest of the invaders, for a little more than 20 months until December 1962 when, as you will recall, the prisoners were exchanged and returned to the United States...
...1961- ? Sponsors regular armed incursions from Miami into Cuba, carried out by Cuban exiles residing in U.S...
...7) A corporate counterintelligence program manual...
...Fred Branfman: Director, Indochina Resource Center...
...Halperin: Have you, as a result of what happened in Chile, ordered a review of that part of the Agency that develops plans for encouraging democracy in foreign countries...
...domestic politics as well as abroad...
...Chairman: Excuse me...
...20002.-5Colby Transcript WILLIAM COLBY (Preceded by prepared speech, Friday, 13 Sept, 1974) Colby: With respect to Chile, Mr...
...Harrington: Well, if it was as substantive as my effort to obtain information from you on the Inter-American Affairs Sub-Committee before which you testified, I still question whether or not there was the kind of language you have chosen to use indicating frank and substantive information being given to the committee...
...Colby: I do not have an idea of the number that were tortured...
...attempt to destroy the National Liberation Front's infrastructure through imprisonment, torture and assassination (1968-71...
...That terrorist campaign of 1968 was also aimed against a number of other counterrevolutionaries who were engaged in what we might call capitalist activities, that is, the Cubans who ran businesses, etc...
...in other words, in making a cost-benefit analysis and deciding how much it should spend to combat international terrorism...
...For current statistics, contact Amnesty International...
...NEWSMAN: You mentioned that the persons who have attacked our fishermen have been members of these terrorist groups...
...The conference was sponsored by the Center for National Security Studies,an independent nonprofit organization whose primary objective is to contribute to a public reappraisal of the purposes and policies of U.S...
...Address all correspondence to Box 57, Cathedral Station, New York, NY 10025, or Box 226, Berkeley, CA 94701...
...By the end of the session it became clear that CIA secrecy is primarily designed to keep the U.S...
...The apartment was used to store explosive plastics material known as C-3, C-4 and D-A-9, two M-3 machine guns, hand grenades and several automatic pistols and ammunition...
...starts doing business with Cuba...
...public opinion and the press were exerting great pressure on the FBI to make sure that the elections would be held in a climate of peace...
...And I personally would like to see you go further than that...
...The office was destroyed and a Cuban revolutionary was killed...
...20, 1974...
...9 - I could read the last of former InterAmerican Ambassador Meyer's but it runs along the same lines...
...that your historic intelligence gathering and evaluation role is one that I not only endorse but, in a sense, accept as a legitimate facet of Agency operations...
...However, after just a few days in prison he was released and given absolute freedom of movement, including the freedom to collect weapons and organize an assassination plot against two government chiefs of Latin America...
...The total number of political prisoners jailed over the last year is between 50,000 and 80,000, with approximately 7,000 to 10,000 imprisoned, tortured and interrogated at any one time...
...There is Shell, Esso and Standard Oil, United Fruit, and ITT, * The document refered to here is the Declaration of the Council of Revolutionary Coordination...
...It did a variety of things to improve the procedures by which that was run...
...This would imply that the CIA was not involved with supplying guns and other equipment and material to the secret Armed Clandestine in Laos before...
...Dir., Arms Control & Disarmament Agency...
...Business International, Jan...
...This presentation -- together with a written text -- will focus on personal security awareness and on anti-kidnapping techniques for use within the company after the participant returns home...
...There was the plunder of Mexico, the occupation of Puerto Rico, the intervention in the Dominican Republic, the Bay of Pigs, and many other acts that our America does not forget and will never forgive...
...Third, I was prepared to discuss any operational detail with the constituted sub-committees of the Armed Services Committee or the Appropriations Committee, and I did so...
...Ellsberg: But your agency has not given you an estimate...
...Mitrione...
...This manual will enable the participant to create, step by step, a counterintelligence program for his company...
...Trains and finances Tibetan exiles in guerrilla raids on their homeland...
...The workshop will be conducted on November 20, 21 and 22, 1974, in or around New York City...
...There were several other parts: the development of local security forces in the neighborhood to protect the villages...
...As one retired CIA veteran recently revealed,"Thus, out of the agency's career workforce of roughly 16,500 people and yearly budget of about $750 million, 11,000 personnel and roughly $550 million are earmarked for the Clandestine Services...
...And an exaggeration of action when there is little need is immoral and wrong...
...I would like to add that there is absolute coordination between the Secret Cuban Government, Cuban Action and the FNLC...
...Sponsors guerrilla raids into Peoples' Republic of China...
...Now I'd like to lay out these facts andhave you either confirm or deny them...
...Colby, that you are prepared to discuss the Chilean operation before any appropriate committee -that's over with...
...In outrage this woman commented: "...the Vietnamese are one people...
...3. Marchetti, Victor, and John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, (Knopf...
...revealed Pentagon Papers to the public...
...Colby: We have not given any assistance to Chile since the coup...
...invasion of 1961.Credit: Cuba Resource Center Newsletter That is, when I adopted this position I realized that I really had only two choices before me: to advance towards fascism, as I said before, or to adopt a position of anti-imperialist nationalism, or real nationalism, that form of nationalism preached by Marti the Apostle and proclaimed in his works where he called the United States by its real name, and called U.S...
...It makes them officers in the United States Army or Navy or whatever it is...
...The emergence of effective Black nationalism means that Black majorities now will demand substantial control over in-place business assets...
...The CIA subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee only met with CIA witnesses twice in 1970, not at all in 1971 and only once in 1972...
...the Cuban exile team was used to break into the Chilean Embassy in Washington in May 1972,and three Chilean diplomats were also the targets of such break-ins...
...The extremely powerful bomb he was preparing exploded in his hands, killed him instantly, destroyed his body which simply disappeared, and The White Rose Organization, one of the Cuban exile terrorist groups exposed by Rivero Collado...
...Colby, if I could, let's turn to the country of the week, (Chile...
...the de la Cruz death in Paris on Aug...
...So (my wife) wasn't wrong...
...territory to fight the Cuban Revolution...
...William G. Bray (R-Ind...
...Porter: It is on the record admitted by US officials that the US did, in fact, supply the Pathet Lao with military aid 90 days after the Geneva meeting...
...I should also say that these aggressions against Cuba have been carried out from boats - 27 - and launches now anchored in the Miami River which runs through the middle of the city...
...You told us you understand your oath to uphold the Constitution...
...in spite of that, I still have the same affection for him, the same respect and deep love that I have had for him all my life...
...4. Ibid., p. 21...
...1962-1973 Organizes Secret Army in Laos, which eventually numbers 35,000 Laotian tribesmen and 17,000 Thais...
...Secondly, Senator Symington told you at your confirmation hearing that "we are getting pretty sick of being lied to" -- If we don't want to take your word that, for example, the CIA is not now involved in paramilitary activities in Cambodia, we -- nothing personal here but there is a lot of feeling that over twenty years CIA directors have lied to Congress, even to people like Senator Symington, -- do we have any way of finding out what you people are up to...
...Michael Harrington: Mr...
...NEWSMAN: Rivero, you were speaking of the socalled counterrevolutionary nationalists who became fascists...
...Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo...
...It will also include a typical, hypothetical insurance program for an international company operating worldwide...
...I left from the airport of what was then Camp Columbia and landed in Florida...
...In other words, we are diametrically opposed in politics...
...policy makers an option between a "mere diplomatic protest" and military intervention...
...These elements founded the socalled Zero Group, a terrorist band which publicly took responsibility for the killing of Jose Elias de la Torriente, 70 years old, who the fascists accused of having stolen funds from the so-called Torriente project which were to be used to fight the Cuban Revolution...
...However, an analysis of the counterrevolutionary events of the past 10 years shows us that a little more than three years after the FBI thought it had neutralized the terrorists, they resumed activities with an action that was really criminal...
...I would also like to add that my feelings towards my father stem not only from a purely family tie, but because I know that my father has always been an honest man, perhaps a rare exception in Cuban politics of the past...
...According to Ellsberg, Colby is still part of an on-going cover-up to prevent public knowledge of CIA involvement in this government conspiracy.] However, it would be obscene to regard as criminal only a break-in to an American citizen's office (the office of my psychiatrist) and take no criminal action against the break-in by bombardment of a neutral country, Cambodia, with 100,000 tons of bombs...
Vol. 8 • December 1974 • No. 10
