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Colby's more pressing concern, however, is the controversy's effect on the agents operating under deep cover in Communist and other potential enemy countries and on allied and other friendly intelligence organizations. He told TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "A lot of them are in a state of shock. They cannot put into their own framework this idea of going on television, going to Capitol Hill, going into these secrets. They ask, 'Are we going to get in the middle of this? Is it going to come out that we have this secret relationship...
...been primarily conducted by Counterintelligence, which combats the activities of potential enemy agents round the world. It now appears that many of the home-front spying operations, at least in the late 1960s, were actually carried out by the shadowy DOD. An ex-CIA official told TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "CounterIntelligence performed mostly a policymaking function where domestic activity was concerned, including helping to decide which groups and individuals should be watched. But it was the DOD that did the dirty work...
...State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who contributed the main part of the story, the CIA was suddenly right there last week when Director William Colby granted TIME a rare on-the-record interview. This was quite a departure for the former Eastern European correspondent, who spent several years steering clear of all contact with the CIA. He explains: "In the Communist countries, Western newsmen are widely regarded by local authorities as licensed spies. That made us all the more chary about getting near the agency and its outposts, even for the legitimate purpose of seeing what...
...rare on-the-record interview with TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, Director William Colby defended the CIA against its critics, ranged over the current functions of the agency, and discussed future prospects. Highlights...
...uneasy cease-fire had been worked out by a joint effort involving the U.N., NATO and the Common Market. Though the U.S. was roundly criticized for not applying enough pressure sooner on Greece, Kissinger denied the charge, telling TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "From the first day, we told Greece that we did not want enosis [union], and we told the Turks that we did not want enosis." Nonetheless, after remaining aloof from the crisis during its early days, Kissinger spent much of the weekend after the invasion talking on the overseas telephone to London and Paris as well as Athens...