CABLE REGARDING ACTIVITY IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA ATTRIBUTED TO DAVID PHILLIPS
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: PRIORITY DIRECTOR
Document date: 03/02/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1, CARACAS ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER "THE DAILY JOURNAL"

OF 2 MARCH HAS FOLLOWING EDITORIAL COMMENT ENTITLED "THE NEW YORK

TIMES AGAIN'!

• TEXT: "WHAT IS THE NEW YORK TIMES TRYING TO DO?

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IT PRINTED AN ERRONEOUS REPORT SLANDERING THE HAD OF A

FRIENDLY STATE, BASED ON RUMORS WHICH ITS OWN CORRESPONDENT

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ADMITTED WERE NOT FULLY CHECKED OUT. TIS ACTION CAUSED A SERIOUS

DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT WHICH WAS SETTLED ONLY THROUGH THE PERSONAL

INTERVENTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA.

NOW, THE NEW YORK DAILY, IN AN APPARENT ATTEMPT TO SALVAGE

ITS REPUTATION, HAS DUG UP A SELF-PROCLAIMED FORMER CIA OFFICIAL

GAVE

WHO SAYS THAT THE CIA GUE MONEY TO THE GOVERNMENT HERE. NOT TO

ANY INDIVIDUAL.

LAST NIGHT, THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY AND

EMPHATICALLY DENIED THIS REPORT.

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THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT, ON ITS OWN INITIATIVE AND

WITHOUT ANY PROMPTING FROM WASHINGTON, FOUGHT COMMUNIST INSURRECTION

TO A STANDSTILL HERE IN THE EARLY SIXTIES. THERE WAS NO NEED

OF ANY PAYMENT FROM THE CIA FOR ANYTHING. THE VENEZUELAN GOVERN-

MENT WAS WHOLEHEARTEDLY IN THIS FIGHT FOR ITS OWN REASONS, TO

PROTECT ITS OWN INTERESTS, USING ITS OWN RESOURCES. "

2, NOTE IN THE ABOVE THAT THE JOURNAL HAS MADE THE

SAME ERROR AS THE GOVERNMENT OF VENEZUELA IN ATTRIBUTING INFO

FROM "INTELLIGENCE SOURCES" AND "AN OLD OFFICIAL OF THE CIA" AS

COMING FROM DAVID PHILLIPS. SINCE ONE OF THE FAVORITE STUNTS IN

THIS COUNTRY IS TO QUOTE STATEMENTS OUT OF CONTEXT AND/OR MISQUOTE

ACCIDENTALLY OR ON PURPOSE, SUCH STATEMENTS RARELY CLARIFY ANYTHING;

THEY ONLY COMPLICATE, ALMOST ALWAYS TO OUR DISADVANTAGE.

3, NO FILE. EZ- IMPDET•

*Advised that New York Times article of 1 March has blown the lid off the

situation in Caracas again.

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