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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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