the CIA's activities but has insisted that the CIA is an integral part of American foreign policy — a foreign policy dicthe agency.
CIA's covert operations.
tated by the interests of big business.
ed him about the changing role in the world of The Company.
******** Your own experience in the CIA was in Latin America in the late 1950s and 1960s - and at that time Latin America seems to have been the major field for the CIA's activities. How has the rise of the revolution in Western Europe in the past decade altered the CIAs priorities?
That's very difficult to say. Certainly the Angola situation is a high priority for the CIA right now, as would be Argentina. But it does seem that with the developments in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece, the CIA is again having to focus on Europe.
It isn't the CIA that determines the priorities. The CIA reacts to the growth of the threat to American economic, political and strategic interests in any particular country. Usually that's the same thing as saying the growth in the strength of revolutionary and other leftwing political organisations.
If we take the case of Portugal, - how has the CIA attempted to alter the course of events since the overthrow of Caetano?
The techniques applied in Portugal would have been more or less the same as those applied in similar circumstances in many other countries. In the first place, the goal would have been to assist in the development and promotion or a politl cal party or movement which would be an alternative to meer-wine barues which emerged so strongly after April 1974.
Of course, the CIA assisted social democratic parties in Europe for years after World War Two, and if the right In the late 1950s the United States wanted to sour relations between President Sukarno and the Soviet Union. So the CIA produced a film purporting to show him engaging in sexual relations with a woman in Moscow. They planned to pass off this venture into the film industry as a KGB blackmail attempt.
correspondent Sam Jaffe claims that the CIA once drew up a list of 40 to 200 journalists who had cooperated with But the CIA has not been getting it all its own way. The Watergate scandal brought its dirty deeds out of the murky waters of official secrecy. And two books, The Cult of Intelligence and Inside the Company, blew the lid on the Agee's conclusion is simple: if you want to rid the world of the CIA and its dirty tricks, you have to make the s socialist revolution. In the light of recent exposures of CIA operations, Red Weekly spoke to him last week and ask wing was discredited in portugal ten the CIA would obviously have begun to support the social democratic party.
I think there is little doubt that significant financial support was given to the socialist Party lea by Mario soares.
The CIA may well also have funded certain other groups in one way or another - the PPD, tor example.
In addition to the political parties, the CIA is without doubt active in promoung - - through advice and probably runds — tne Catnonc Church s cam paigns, particularly in the north of the country. Last July, August and September I felt very sure that the CIA was financing those terrorist campaigns against the lett in the north of Portugal Additionally the CIA would have been trying to sput the trade union movement, as it did in Italy and France right after World War Two. During most of 1974 following the coup a battle was waged to try to establish a Portuguese affiliate of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions - which in Europe is more or less the trade unior arm of the social democratic movement.
The CIA was instrumental in the founding of the ICFTU in 1949, and the people meer ru sent mto rortugal were people well known for their CIA connections, like Irving Brown and Michael Boggs - American trade unionists in the foreign field working for the American Federation of Labour. But the effort to establish a Portuguese affiliate of the ICFTU failed when the Intersindical, which is more or less dominated by the Communist Party in Portugal, was established as the only legitimate national trade union confederation in January 1975. The latter was particularly damaging because the author, PHILIP AGEE, not only rejected people have continued to press for an arnate in rortugal, and now wit tne turn of events since 25 November I establishment of an ICFTU affiliate in SISDOn anxious about the development of the montas tolowing the coup during the Goncalves period. would have been working to try to split ment and create cohesion among the "moderates'. They may well have been trving to promote as well as they could the emergence of the Melo Antunes group.
developments on 25 November and afterwards, because the threat to them has eased considerably.
to understand that it probably wasn't Sust The CLA — BroDaDy me DrusH sCr service me outer sevice. who know aged the Western European powers to meedle in the matter and not leave it al up to the Americans.
anism established for co-ordinating the efforts of the different services I just established here in London.
We will just have to see what happens from here on. Without doubt the ICTU would think you can expect any day the - I it nasn t rappenca arcauy The CIA would also have been very left, and the predominance of the left in the Armed Forces Movement during the - especially They the AFM, in an effort to isolate the more progressive and left officers in the moveI think they were very pleased with It's important aiso in tis context vice, the French service, the West German how many other services were involved WEEKLY Photo: ANDREW WIARD (Report)
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Newspapers have not escaped the CIA's attention, either. Last year it had eleven journalists' working overseas, and in Britain Forum World Features left in a hurry after being exposed as a CIA agency for 'planting' stories. ABC