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A Powerful and Dangerous Cult of Intelligence Exists in US Today carried out bombing missions in support of the Insurgents Oa May 18 1958 the Indonesians hot down one of these ynd captured the American pilot Allen Pope Although US government officials claimed that Pope was soldier of he was In fact an employee of a CIA-owned proprietary company Civil Air Transport The agency also became deeply involved in the chaotic struggle which broke out in the Congo In the early 1960a Clandestine Service operators regularly bought and sold Congolese politicians and the agency supplied money and arms to the supporters of Cyril Adoula and Joseph Mobutu By 1964 the CIA had imported its own mercenaries Into the Congo and the B-2S bombers flown by Cuban exile many of whom were (Please Turn To Page 2-A) and death for the Nationalist Chinese agents they were helping to infiltrate Mainland China was not fertile territory for agency operations There were some successes elsewhere The Huk insurgency in the Philippines was put down with CIA help Agency-supported Nationalist Chinese troops in Burma (when not engaging in their principal pastime of trafficking in opium) were induced to conduct occasional raids into the hinterland of Communist China Such gains in Southeast Asia were offset by some rather notable failures most particularly the Inability to overthrow President Sukarno of Indonesia in 1959 Contrary to denials by President Elsenhower and Secretary of State Dulles the CIA gave direct assistance to rebel groups on the Island of Sumatra Agency B-28s even The cult of intelligence is a secret fraternity of the American political aristocracy COVERT ACTION intervention in the internal affairs of other nations is the most controversial of the clandestine functions It is basic to the clandestine mentality And the crudest most direct form of covert action is called operations These activities mostly of a paramilitary or warlike nature have little of the sophistication and subtlety of political action (penetration and manipulation) or propaganda and disinformation Within the Clandestine Services have always been viewed with mixed emotions By definition special ops are violent and brutal most clandestine operators prefer more refined techniques In such a fashion that the projectile would rupture the tank and fling flaming gasoline the length of the interior incinerating anyone inside It was my lot to show the rest of the class how easily it could be done It worked my God how it worked stood there watching the flames consume the bus It was I guess the moment of truth What did a busload of burning people have to do with freedom? What right did I have in the name of democracy and the CIA to decide that random victims should die? The intellectual game was over I had to THE CIA's early operations in Asia met with mixed success Attempts to develop resistance movements in China in the 1950s accomplished nothing more than the capture of agency officers John Downey and Richard Fecteau non-paramilitary covert action the operator tends to keep his hands unbloodied and his -crimes are of the white-collar variety conspiracy bribery corruption The paramilitary operator on the contrary is a gangster who deals in force terror and violence In the CIA special ops types are sometimes referred to as the of the agency For its many Southeast Asia adventures the Special Operations Division had a home under Navy cover on the Pacific island of Saipan Saipan wai not a US possession but rather a Trust Territory of the United Nations under US care and there was concern that the establishment of a secret military base there would raise sticky problems in theUN But being masters of the art of cover and deception the CIA contingent on Saipan merely the base whenever UN representatives visited the island According to a native trainees and instructors Note to readers: CIA and the Cult of was published' by Alfred A Knopf to include both those deletions granted to the CIA and that material which the CIA requested deleted but which was restored by court ruling The restored material printed in bold-face to indicate that the CIA initally requested its deletion alike disappeared the barbed wire and "no signs were taken down In a day or so the camp was made to appear Just like any other Jumble of military quonset huts which the inspectors Ignored As soon as they were gone however an was returned to normal and the CIA's special ops training was begun anew Describing his paramilitary training in "special one former officer of Clandestine Services wrote: stated purpose of paramilitary school was to train and equip us to become instructors for village peasants who wanted to defend themselves against guerillas I could believe in that when we moved up to the demolition training headquarters we received training in tactics which hardly conformed to the Geneva Convention "THERE WAS (one) diabolical invention that might be called a mini-cannon constructed of a concave piece of steel fitted into the top of a -10 can fitted with plastic explosive of its uses was demonstrated to us using an old army school bus It was fastened to the gasoline tank in By VICTOR MARCHETTI and JOHN MARKS (First in a series) There exists in our nation today a powerful and dangerous secret cult the cult of intelligence Its holy men are the clan- destine profes- sionals of the CIA Its pa- 1 trons and prot- I 1 ectors are the 1 highest offi- I cials of the Federal Gov- 1 I ernment Its I membership extending far beyond government circle's reaches into the power centers of industry commerce finance and labor Its friends are many in the areas of important public influence the academic world and the communications media VOL HOWAHO 9 HOM El Paso Herald MID-DAY STOCKS The Newspaper That Serves EL PASO TEXAS MONDAY JUNE 24 1974 rniinurr NEWS AND GENERAL TELEPHONES: wantaos CIRCULATION uyu Committee Seeks More Evidence Nixon Issued 4 Subpoenas WASHINGTON (UPI) Despite scant hope of obtaining spring of 1972 when Richard Kleindienst was testifying Committee for files on Secretary of State Henry A committee he has given up all the material he intends to But Its Readers before Senate Judiciary Committee on his nomination to be attorney general IN PLEADING guilty recently and drawing a suspended 30-day jail sentence Kleindienst admitted he did not answer some questions fully The questions concerned whether Nixon had instructed him regarding the Justice Department's handling of the ITT case He said Nixon had not discussed it with him Albert Jenner Republican counsel to the committee told reporters the material sought in subpoena concerning Kleindienst would help determine whether Nixn was aware when he nominated Kleindienst that Kleindienst had given "mistaken testimony Voting against issuance of the subpoena were Reps Edward Hutchinson R-Mich Charles Wiggins R-Calif Trent Lott R-Miss and Delbert Latta R-Ohio Thirteen Relublicans and 21 Democrats voted for the subpoena The committee is likely to agree quickly to a request from the Senate Foreign Relations -rr-i barrels of crude oil in six compartments into the bridge Saturday and Guard reports that at least one of compartments is leaking a into the MississippL All river this afternoon UPI Photo TRAFFIC A tug moves upstream today at a safe distance from a sunken oil barge upended against the center piling of the Huey Long Bridge in Louisiana while overhead auto and rail traffic moves normally across the Mississippi River The run-away barge carry PRICE SB IMI jmnm 200 40 PAGES- the panel will probably issue -subpoenas anyway to a and to enable itself to draw inferences from noncompliance REPUBLICANS generally have pressed for numerous witnesses hoping to undercut John Dean damaging testimony against the President Rodino and the Democrats have argued the witnesses should be few in number and should be asked about matters still in dispute Any explosive testimony from any witness is likely to be taken closed doors Many members are reluctant to vote to grant witnesses immunity compelling them to waive their Fifth -Amendment right to remain silent Charles Colson former special counsel to the President ranks high on everyone's witness list especially after his courtroom statement Friday that Nixon numerous occasions urged me to disseminate damaging information about Daniel Colson said he acted on orders in carrying out the crime of obstruction of justice Other potential witnesses are Henry Petersen who headed the Justice Departmnt investigation which failed to uncover administration complicity in the cover-up former attorneys general Elliot Richardson and Richard Kleindienst and Fred LaRue ex-campaign aide who played a role in filling Howard blackmail demand on March 21 1973 a few hours after Nixon learned of it While some Republicans want to summon Dean Haldeman and John Ehrlichman the Democrats generally do not New Life Pumped Into Crime Unit County Judge Udell Moore broke two tie votes today In Commissioners Court to pump new life into El Paso Organized Crime Unit for another year of operation The on-again off-again support for the Crime Unit has gone on for more than a month with Judge Moore fighting to retain it Today Commissioner Rogelio Sanchez went back to his original position of sup- porting the unit to join Moore and Commissioner Clyde Anderson for continuation A MOTION by Commissioner Sam Blackham calling for the county to withdraw its grant application with the State Criminal Justice Council was seconded by Commissioner Richard Telles but failed when Judge Moore broke the tie The judge then moved that the fund request for another year of operation be approved by the court and that the county allocate 86000 to fund the unit through July 31 again went to a split vote Judge Moore broke the vote to approve the motion CJC officials will consider the grant request in July Jerry Posey chief of the Crime Unit expressed pleasure at court action 10 CENTS -FOUR SECTIONS Kissinger Sees Nuclear Limitations WASHINGTON (UPI) Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger said today the United States and Russia may reach an in on an underground test ban during President Nixon's summit visit in Moscow Kissinger however said he does not expect a full scale agreement on the limitation of all strategic nuclear weapons at this time KISSINGER said that an agreement on limiting the size of underground nuclear tests would be very important if it kept the low enough because that would prevent the development by either side of even greater nuclear weapons At a 70-minute news conference the day before taking off for Europe with Nixon Kissinger devoted much id his time to answering questions about past US actions and future possibilities in the field of nuclear weaponry do not expect we will get a completed Strategic Arms Limitations Talk (SALT) agreement at the summit but I cannot exclude the possibility" he sajd The United States however is considering the possibility of banning underground tests above a certain magnitude and think progress in this field is Kissinger rejected charges by Sen Henry Jackson D-Wash and some others that he had reached a to let the Soviet Union retain more nuclear missiles than was provided for in the 1972 summit agreement want to emphasize that no secret deal has been made which permitted any change in the totals outlined in the 1972 Kissinger said in a weekend statement is regrettable that this false suspicion has been raised just before the trip to the Soviet At the White House presidential aides indicated the possibility of Nixon and Soviet Party leader Leonid Brezhnev reaching an agreement on a 10-year trade project among other things There were no details AFTER THE news conference Kissinger was scheduled to appear before a closed session of the Senate armed services subcommittee on arms control diplomatic methods were in the news again yesterday The New York Times Magazine reported that the secretary of state clashed with Defense Secretary James Schlesinger over giving Israel military aid during last Arab-Israeli war In excerpts from a forthcoming book CBS reporters Bernard and Marvin Kalb said Kissinger tried to carry out presidential orders to aid Israel but met with Pentagon resistance Kissinger they said told Israeli officials that the President had ordered military aid then said the Defense Department wasn't following orders Reacting to the story Schlesinger said is a difference between dragging your heels and having your shoes nailed to the floor by national XCIV No 150 Howard Hunt Jr an original Watergate defendant and the CIA had obtained from Hunt photographs taken in front of Daniel office which was burglarized ASKED BY Ervin why Justice Department investigators did not question Ehrlichman about these things Petersen replied was terviewed on the NBC-TV Today Show IS NO instant cure to inflation instant economic Simon said have to get back on the right path of fundamentally sound fiscal and monetary policy to bring this back to an acceptable He added very much treating this situation as a crisis situation and our forecasts have been that the inflation rate wil begin to abate toward the end of the this year and gradually decline from the double-digit inflation we are experiencing at this the second qurter digures come in I think see a diminution in the rate of inflation but this is not going to be done quickly and at the end of this year we are still going to have an a most unacceptable rate of inflation as far as I am He said that what it needed to correct the economic imbalance is to return to old time of balancing spending with federal income to return to for a substantial period of ing ZXJ000 slammed the UA Coast the SJOO barrel trickle of oil traffic was halted Ehrlichman Not Questioned About CIA Ellsberg Role Depletion Allowance Likely to Continue role in the wiretapping of 17 government officials and newsmen The Senate committee reopened the wiretapping investigation after Kissinger said he will resign if implications of misbehavior are not removed ALSO TO BE decided in a series of meetings today Tuesday and possibly Wednesday is in what manner James StClair courtroom lawyer will be permitted to respond to the evidence the impeachment Inquiry has examined in 18 closed sessions over the past six weeks Finally the committee is expected to vote to make public much of that evidence in a version edited to protect the secrecy of grand jury proceedings and safeguard the rights of defendants awaiting trial Chairman Peter Rodino Jr D-NJ is pushing for publication of the evidence in hopes of curbing the news leaks from his committee The White House has accused the committee of to undermine Nixon Nixon has already told the then resume the filibuster as time runs out on the debt bill The Kennedy package would cut individual taxes Slightly by Increasing the personal exemption from 8750 to 8825 with an optional 8190 tax credit for low income taxpayers To make up the loss to the Treasury the liberals would strengthen the minimum tax end some business depreciation advantages and export incentives and end the oil depletion allowance which permits oil companies to deduct 22 per cent of oil and gas income up to a maximum of 50 per cent of taxable income While defeat of the Kennedy amendments will not end the effort to scrap the oil depletion allowance the week of maneuvering has shown that oil-oriented legislators now stand a good chance of preventing any bix tax increases for the oil industry Inside Your Herald-Post jj EP Weather Service Forecast Clear to partly cloudy (Details on Page B10) C7 AS A2 D2-9 Crossword and Comics Dll Dear Abby B3 Deaths D2 Dr BUX Conner B2 Editorials B2 Markets D10 Sports Cl-6 Star Gazer A8 TV Programs Virginia Payette B1 News B45 more impeachment evidence from him the House Judiciary Committee issued four more subpoenas against President Nixon today The subpoenas demanded that Nixon surrender tapes and documents in four areas the 1971 antitrust suit against ITT a 82 million pledge to the Nixon re-election campaign from milk producers the Ellsberg break-in case and alleged use of the Internal Revenue Service to harass White House or benefit friends THE SUBPOENASbrought to eight the number the committee has issued against Nixon since it began its inquiry into his possible impeachment The first four subpoenas issued in April and May sought 98 taped conversations and produced 31 tape transcripts but no tapes In a letter to the committee two weeks agon Nixon said that responding to never-ending requests from the panel would only weaken the presidency and said he had no intention of giving up further materials Two of the subpoenas issued today were approved on votes of 34 to 4 with the opposition coming entirely from Republican members The other two were approved on voice votes with no audible dissent One of the the subpoenas asked for 12 tapes and copies of daily news summaries for a period in the winter and EP United Way Sets Fund Goal Volunteer leaders today set the goal for the 1975 United Way of El Paso County fund campaign at 81771000 at a meeting in the Mountain Bell auditorium Fqllowing a report on current business conditions in El Paso by Dr Eugene Palamore Halem Ayoub United Way Budget Committee chairman said that already 12 agnecies are requesting increases in excess of 19 per cent over last year in anticipation of inflation RALPH KARLSRUCHERa member of the United Way committee said that Casa Blanca had been approved for admission to the United Way and that the committee is considering three additional agencies for ad-' mission A Heitt Ward chairman of major firms division for the 1975 campaign said that gifts from national firms which are received in advance of the fall' drive indicate a 10 per cent increase thus far Mrs Tom Lea Jr local United Way president reported that the board of directors had voted to recommend a 10 per cent goal increase Finance Chairman William Gardner presided for the session Others participating included George Janzen 1975 campaign chairman Louis McKee Mhj Gen CJ LeVan I Schwartz and Jethro Hills (Picture on Page Af WASHINGTON (UPI) Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen acknowledged today that prosecutors did not question former White House aide John Ehrlichman about possible CIA Involvement in the 1971 Ellsberg break-in But Sen Sam Ervin Jr DNCL said Ehrlichman asked the CIA to provide a wig a camera and other equipment to "Unacceptably High" Inflation To Continue no suggestion of relevance that occurred to us at had curiosity but curiosity Petersen said hard to catch a fish until you go fishing" Ervin said ERVIN HAS used the Senate Committee hearings into the nomination of Earl Silbert the chief Watergate investigator in 1972 to become US attorney for the District of Columbia as a vehicle for probing the Justice handling of the original Watergate investigation Ehrlichman goes on trial Wednesday along with three codefendants including Gordon Liddy architect of the original Watergate break-in Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski said today he will not try to prove in court that a White House coverup followed that burglary but will concentrate on the break-in itself and the conspiracy to commit it EHRLICHMAN and the others are accused of plotting the 1971 burglary at the office of Dr Louis Fielding the Los Angeles psychiatrist who treated Daniel Ellsberg who was charged with leaking the Pentagon Papers Convicted presidential aide Charles Colson who was sentenced to three years in jail Friday after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice in the Ellsberg ease is expected to be the main prosecution witness El Paso Sunshine The Sun shone today for the 486th consecutive day The Sun has failed to shine 15 of the last 4453 days (June 24 174) WASHINGTON The oil friends in Congress are likely to win a key round this week in their effort to save the oil depletion allowance And if the liberal-sponsored anti-depletion move fails on the Senate floor so too will an effort to trim individual income tax payments THE TAX CUT and the depletion repeal measures are part of a package proposed by Sens Edward Kennedy D-Mass Hubert Humphrey D-Minn Walter Mondale D-Minn and others who used the pending debt ceiling bill to try to force their tax reform ideas through Congress quickly The debt bill which would raise the ceiling on the national debt by 8193 billion to 8495 billion is considered because it must become law by midnight Sunday or the government will no longer be able to pay its bills But the administration let it be known that President Nixon would veto the bill anyway if it came to his desk with tax cut attached SEN JAMES ALLEN D-Ala backed by oil state 'senators then skillfully maneuvered the liberal measures toward defeat first with a time-consuming filibuster and then by forcing a set for this afternoon-on the liberal package as a whole not on each separate part as the liberals wanted Enough senators oppose at least one part of the bill to vote against the whole package! Kennedy has vowed to offer each part of the package separately if the whole measure is defeated but Allen or some other opponent could WASHINGTON (UPI) Treasury Secretary William Simon said today the double-digit inflation rate would continue to be the rest of this year and that the administration is treating it as a At the same time Simon said government experts believe there will be a reduction in the inflation rate when second quarter economic statistaics are compiled and that the rate will go down later in the yearm THE PRESENT inflation rate running about 11 per cent according to latest cost-of-living figures and a 85 billion budget cut as a means of controlling inflation were -among subjects for discussion at a meeting President Nixon called this morning with Simon and other economic advisers Kenneth Rush newly named economic coordinator said in an interview with the Washington Post today that the 85 billion budget cut and a 8300 billion spending limit had been decided on for fiscal 1975 starting a week from today Prior to the White House meeting Simon was in.