CABLE RE DAVID PHILLIPS AND FUNDS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Originator: CIA
From: HQS
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 03/01/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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I. NEW YORK TIMES OF I MARCH CARRIES ARTICLE ON PAGE & ENTITLED

"CIA MONEY FLOWED, BUT U.S. AIDES INSIST IT WAS FOR INTELLIGENCE. "

ARTICLE STATES IT IS NOW CLEAR THAT CIA FUNNELED LARGE SUMS OF MONEY

TO FOREIGN LEADERS, BUT OFFICIALS INSIST THAT PAYMENTS WERE INTENDED

NOT AS BRIBERY BUT FOR INTELLIGENCE SERVICES. DAVID PHILLIPS WHO IS

DESCRIBED AS A FORMER CIA OFFICIAL WHO SERVED BOTH IN MEXICO AND

VENEZUELA, AND WHO LATER WAS CHIEF OF THE AGENCY'S LATIN AMERICAN

OPERATIONS, IS QUOTED AS SAYING: "IF I WERE CALLED TO TESTIFY UNDER

OATH THAT PEREZ OR ECHEVERRIA WERE ON A CIA PAYROLL OR RECEIVED MONEY

FOR THEIR PERSONAL USE, I WOULD TESTIFY THAT THEY DID NOT. I WAS IN

BOTH COUNTRIES, AND I WAS THE BOSS." Y

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