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CIA From page 3 witch hunt, a McCarthy 1st sort of thing," he said. Although Marks doesn't object to open CIA projects on campus, he does oppose covert ones. "All .CIA research on campus should be identified as such," he said. Some CIA campus activities have given American colleges a GRADUATING SENIG STARTED LOOKING I TIME FOR YOU TO P PROFESSIONAL RESl COMPOSE, EDIT, AN PROFESSIONAL RESl IMPROVE YOUR CH> GETTING AN INTERN FOR APPOINTMENT 254-1 QImik'I Bdueatfot TO TALK WITH SOM FOR TODAY' * FREE PREGNANC ? PROBLEM PREGN COUNSELING ANC # ABORTION REFEF M D I DTU rrtMTDm I FAMILY PLANNIN * V.D. TESTING * REFERRAL TO SO AGENCIES & MED * OUR CONTACTS A I 254-4 ) OR CALL TOLL 1 -800-92 1614 TWO NJ FEMININE I we h Call for appointm< 1939 MorU ffHSimk nwirrimnn imnrr?? **** wimmtk bad name abroad. For example, Marks said, American scholars have great difficulty working in India because the Indian government views all Americans as potential spies. MARKS SAID THE CIA tends to think of itself as the policeman of the world. It has tried to chance history to suit its own standards, American foreign policy and the ideals of such governmental of>RS, IF YOU HAVE FOR A JOB, IT IS REPARE YOUR IME. WE AT S.O.S. D PREPARE A IME THAT WILL \NCES OP /IEW, CALL 5343 Kflf Smwci. 9K EONE WHO CARES S WOMAN Y TESTING IANCY > REFERRAL I IRAL 3. G CIAL SERVICE ICAL FACILITIES RE CONFIDENTIAL 1371 FREE IN S.C. *2-9750 OTCH ROAD 1 TOUCH NAIL V"The advantai Columbia's m women" I For USC s MF Choice of Cle gm sculptured n< |kv $5.00 discour ; m application o1 ISm # Individual ey RV and bottom i * Have a comp cosmetics wi For the "do-it y lave Sculptured - N nts (evening appoint ?n St. Cola., S.C. PH. ficials as Henry Kissinger, he said. These goals cause the CIA to attempt anything in the name of national security, Marks said. "There is no criminal tactic in the world that the CIA hasn't used at one time or another. And you don't have many countries in the Ttiird World where the CIA hasn't intervened at one time or another," he said. MARKS SAID the CIA has done nearly everything from waging private, undeclared wars abroad, disrupting foreign governments anH nttpmntino occoccinoJiAno V. uouuoouiaviuiiO IV building bicycles designed to fall apart after two days' use. Once in Africa, Marks said, the CIA distributed buttons bearing Mao Tse-tung's picture to a large number of Africans. Special chemical treatment of these buttons caused the wearers' clothes to disintegrate a short time later. "If you were an African and had your only clothes to fall off, you probably won't like Mao too much," Marks said. THIS SORT OF action comes under the classification of the Dirty Tricks Department, also known in the CIA as the Clandestine Services, Marks said. However, the agency's actions often don't have innocuous results. Marks said he was under surveillance by the CIA in 1973. As a correspondent for Rolling Stone in December 1974. Marks said the CIA had him thrown out of Vietnam. Later, when he received his records from the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, he found that the CIA office in Washington had telephoned CIA operatives in Vietnam two days before his arrival there. "I got the feeling for a moment of what it was like to be in Nazi Germany," he said. The Vietnamese special police awakened him in the night, called him by name and took him away for questioning. Marks said he hopes his book, "The CIA and the Cult of In lemgence, neipea cause me Senate's investigation of CIA practices. THE OTHER author of "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence," Victor Marchetti, is under court injunction for life not to divulge the material which the CIA had BOUTIQUE I ge shared by ost beautiful tudents only! >ar or Opaque ails tt on original F sculptured nails lash application (trips availioble. lists stock of th consultation oursolfer" ail Kits in stock m*nts are availably) 2523916 i "There is no criminal 1 the CIA hasn't used a And you don't have r Third World where tervened at one time deleted from the manuscript. Originally, the agency wanted to remove 339 passages or words from the book, but it finally settled on 168. Marks h??li*?vps that tho deleted material would not have harmed the U.S. Marks said the book hold? the "dubious distinction" of being the first book consored before publication in the US. "IT'S NOT an honor I enjoy or recommend to others," he said. Hie book, he added, had been published after much litigation. He said that he and Marchetti sent a request to the Carter Administration to have the deletions reinstated. But at present, he could not discuss the material without risking a jail sentence. Marks never actually worked with the CIA but Marchetti did for 14 years. A recent history of blunders by the agency and the Senate investigations have caused the American people to be less afraid of the agency. "While under investigation, they don't mind people thinking they're incompetent," Marks said. But the CIA is not a band of total misfits or supermen. he said. "They're not the 'Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight' either," he said in an interview before his lecture. MOREOVER, HE fears that the American public still doesn't know enough of what happens within the agency. "The congressional committees were afraid to dig into (hp fT A Mncf nf what Vin Qanala Wi\/ ? *'*uuv V?I nuui tiiv UVIIUIV sub-committees found out they kept secret. The Senate committees were almost entirely dependent on the CIA for information," he said. The Mast five presidents before President Carter, Marks said, have lied to the public to cover the agency's exploits. "The CIA keeps secrets by lying and writing 'cover' stories to hide its actions." The term employed in this event is 'plausible deniability'." he said. i ?<T ..,i. i uiiiirv ^auci is ^ci tuud wntrii 1 he says there will not be as much CIA intervention," he said. Nevertheless, the United States must expect a discrepancy in Carter's promises as a presidential candidate and his actions as President. "As a candidate he couldn't have enough openness. Now, he can't have enough secrecy," Marks said. "HE S BECOME an insider; whereas he ran fnr nrpciHpnt ac an outsider. The CIA comes with the job like Air Force 1 and the Secret "CHATTERBOX" Starring CAMMC LARRY 6ELMAN JANE KEAN PEOffSttR IRWIN COflEY * Ml factic in the world that r one time or another, nany countries in the the CIA hasn't inor another." --John D. Marks Service." Mnrlrc palloH tha ?nI A n schizophrenic bureaucracy. It often engages in activities contrary to American principles, he said. Referring to the recent scandals in which Korean agents bribed American legislators and the disclosure of annual $1 million payments to King Hussein of Jordan, Marks said, "If we're putting their chiefs of state on our payroll, why not let them buy ours? What difference is there in the Koreans trying to buy information from us and our buying it from Jordan? We want the right to do it to other people but we go crazy u/hf>n thpv rin it tn ?ic " HE SAID THAT very little useful information comes from CIA operatives. He said he preferred the use of technological information gathering over the use of operatives. Despite his objections to CIA abuses, he recognizes the need for an intelligence service. However, he said that the CIA is usually too involved in its own affairs to fulfill its main purpose: supplying useful information to the president. He also said preventing the spread of communism and watching the KGB, the CIA's Soviet counterpart, sometimes become secondary missions. "Mainlv the KGB and the CIA leave each other alone. One needs the other to justify its existence," he said. "I HAVE NO doubts that the CIA still has skeletons in tts closets," he said of the Senate investigations. "I mean real skeletons. "I think it would be a good idea if the CIA and the rest of the government followed the law. Now that may seem like a radical idea but I believe it." Concluding the lecture, Marks urgea me siuaent governments of USC and other universities to pass legislation forbiding secret CIA activities on campus. The school's administration must also agree to honor the measure for it to be effective, he said. "It won't take your student government 10 minutes to do it. The Carter Administration couldn't ignore 50 universities making that demand." he said. Marks is executive director of the Center for National Security Studies. He often writes for the Washington Post and other publications. He is working on a book about the CIA's drug research. gggrn ppa? "?\ i v its not WHAT K.J she says... its WHERE Vishe says rrl ER1AU0M i 1 Guest Stars RIP TAYUM |Mj .6:0^7:50^9:40 . i jU IliJlU iU>