Authors: Randall B. Woods
36
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 323.
37
. Curt Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and His Secrets
(New York: 1991), 327, 380, 391â392, 645; Andrew St. George, “The Cold War Comes Home,”
Harper's Magazine
, November 1973, 76; Helms,
A Look over My Shoulder
, 269â270.
38
. Quoted in Stephen Ambrose,
Nixon
, vol. 2,
The Triumph of a Politician, 1962â1972
(New York: 1991), 567.
39
. Hathaway and Smith,
Helms as Director
, 189.
40
. Helms,
A Look over My Shoulder
, 9â10.
41
. “Testimony of General Vernon Walters, Senate Watergate Hearings,” Aug. 3, 1973, CREST, Archives II (“Walters Testimony” hereafter); Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 324.
42
. “Walters Testimony.”
43
. Helms,
A Look over My Shoulder
, 12â13.
44
. “Walters Testimony”; Hathaway and Smith,
Helms as Director
, 191â192.
45
. Weiner,
Legacy of Ashes
, 322; Richard Helms to Deputy Director, June 28, 1972, CREST, National Archives II.
46
. Helms,
A Look over My Shoulder
, 410.
47
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 328; Hathaway and Smith,
Helms as Director
, 208â209; quoted in Helms,
A Look over My Shoulder
, 410.
48
. Quoted in Hathaway and Smith,
Helms as Director
, 210.
49
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 329.
50
. Prados,
Lost Crusader
, 252; Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 331â333.
51
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 296â298.
52
. Quoted in ibid., 332.
53
. Author interview with Jenonne Walker, June 16, 2010.
54
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 333; Prados,
Lost Crusader
, 256.
55
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 335.
56
. Author interview with Susan Colby, June 5, 2010; author interview with Christine Colby Giraudo, June 5, 2010; Carl Colby film script,
The Man Nobody Knew
, in possession of author; author interview with John Colby, June 4, 2010.
57
. DCI to All CIA Employees, May 9, 1973, Colby Papers, Box 7, F1, Texas Tech University.
58
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 339.
59
. See William Broe to William E. Colby, May 21, 1973, Colby Papers, Box 7, F1, Texas Tech University. The full text of the “Family Jewels” document was only released in 2007. See “The CIA's Family Jewels,” June 26, 2007, National Security Archive,
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm
.
1
. Quoted in William Colby and Peter Forbath,
Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA
(New York: 1978), 343.
2
. Ibid.
3
. Richard M. Nixon to William E. Colby, Feb. 20, 1973, Box 7, Colby Papers, Texas Tech University; author interview with Brent Scowcroft, June 3, 2010; author interview with Robert Myers, April 11, 2007.
4
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 344; author interview with Barbara Colby, Jan. 5, 2007.
5
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 346.
6
. Ibid., 347.
7
. Ibid., 348.
8
. “Exchange of Remarks Between President Nixon and WEC,” Sept. 4, 1973, Box 1, FâMail Intercepts, Srodes Papers, Marshall Library, Virginia Military Institute.
9
. David Wise, “Colby of the CIA,” July 1, 1973, CREST, National Archives II; “Sheehan Notes of Interview with WEC,” March 15, 1975, Box 62, F Colby, W. E., Sheehan Papers, Library of Congress.
10
. Quoted in Harold Ford,
William E. Colby as Director of Central Intelligence, 1973â1976
(Washington, DC: 1993), 204, released under Freedom of Information Act, Aug. 11, 2011.
11
. Ibid., 7, 205.
12
. William E. Colby to Henry A. Kissinger, Sept. 13, 1973, Box 1, and “William E. Colby Memo,” n.d., Srodes Papers, Marshall Library, Virginia Military Institute.
13
. Hinchey Report, “CIA Activities in Chile,” US Department of State, Sept. 18, 2000.
14
. James Pringle, “The Year of the Generals,”
Newsweek
, Sept. 16, 1974, and “Gentlemen of Torture,”
Newsweek
, March 31, 1975.
15
. Quoted in Ford,
Colby as Director
, 71, 204.
16
. William E. Colby Oral History Project, July 27, 1976, CREST, Archives II.
17
. William E. Colby, “American Intelligence Today and Tomorrow,” Sept. 6, 1973, CREST, Archives II.
18
. Ronald Radosh, “The CIA in the Job Market,”
Nation
, Feb. 8, 1975; “Nixon, Brezhnev, Colby Conversation,” June 22, 1973, CREST, Archives II.
19
. Daniel Gilmore, “WEC Interview,” n.d., CREST, Archives II; John Blake to William E. Colby, Dec. 5, 1974, CREST, Archives II.
20
. Harold L. Brownman to William E. Colby, May 9, 1974, CREST, Archives II.
21
. William E. Colby, “American Intelligence Today and Tomorrow,” Sept. 6, 1973, CREST, Archives II; William E. Colby Oral History, July 27, 1976, CREST, Archives II.
22
. William E. Colby Oral History, July 27, 1976, CREST, Archives II; author interview with Jenonne Walker, June 16, 2010.
23
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 353; Ford,
Colby as Director
, 45.
24
. John Prados,
Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby
(New York: 2003), 353.
25
. Author interview with Jenonne Walker, June 16, 2010; “Advanced Management Students Discussion with DCI,” Sept. 26, 1973, CREST, Archives II.
26
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 354.
27
. Prados,
Lost Crusader
, 265.
28
. “Memo of Conversation Between HAK, Schlesinger and Joint Chiefs,” March 11, 1974, National Security Adviser Memcons, Box 3, Ford Library.
29
. Henry A. Kissinger to President Gerald Ford, Oct. 24, 1975, National Security Adviser, Outside the System, Box 1, Ford Library. See also Robert M. Hathaway and
Jack Russell Smith,
Helms as Director of the CIA
(Washington, DC: 2006), 11. In September 1975, Kissinger observed to reporters that Ford was not “tough enough” on foreign policy. “Memo of Conversation Between President Ford and HAK,” Sept. 26, 1975, National Security Adviser, Memos of Conversations, Box 23, Ford Library.
30
. William E. Colby, “Memo for the Record,” June 15, 1973, CREST, Archives II.
31
. Author interview with Jenonne Walker, June 16, 2010.
32
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 356.
33
. Author interview with Jenonne Walker, June 16, 2010.
34
. Quoted in Ford,
Colby as Director
, 22.
35
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 375.
36
. See Douglas Brinkley,
Gerald R. Ford
(New York: 2007), 82â84.
37
. “Memo of Conversations Between Ford and Kissinger,” Oct. 21, 1974, and Nov. 10, 1974, National Security Adviser, Memos of Conversations, Box 7, Ford Library; Lodl/Richard Ober to Henry A. Kissinger, Sept. 5, 1975, Box 1, F-CIA, Srodes Papers, Marshall Library, Virginia Military Institute; Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 375.
38
. Quoted in Ford,
Colby as Director
, 79.
39
. See Burton Hersh, “Dragons Have to Be Killed,”
Washingtonian
, September 1985; author interview with Paul Colby, Jan. 6, 2007.
40
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 365.
41
. George C. Herring,
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
(New York: 2008), 804â805.
42
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 366.
43
. Quoted in Tim Weiner,
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
(New York: 2007), 329; Deputy Director for Administration to William E. Colby, Sept. 24, 1975, CREST, Archives II; Ford,
Colby as Director
, 26, 30, 34.
44
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 366.
45
. Herring,
From Colony to Superpower
, 805â806.
46
. “Project Azorian: The Story of the Hughes Glomar Explorer,”
Studies in Intelligence
, Fall 1985, 36.
47
. Ibid., 9.
48
. Ibid., 23â24.
49
. Quoted in “The CIA's Mission Impossible,
Newsweek
, March 31, 1975.
50
. Author interview with Brent Scowcroft, June 3, 2010.
51
. “Project Azorian,” 48.
52
. Quoted in ibid., 39.
53
. Prados,
Lost Crusader
, 266.
54
. Author interview with Jenonne Walker, June 16, 2010; “Project Azorian,” 44â46.
55
. Author interview with Laurence Silberman, June 3, 2010; “Memo of Conversation Between Kissinger, Colby, Schlesinger, and Moorer,” Jan. 22, 1974, National Security Adviser, Memos of Conversations, Box 3, Ford Papers.
56
. “DCI Colby Meeting Regarding News Media Knowledge of the Glomar Story,” Jan. 9, 1974, CREST, National Archives II; “Memo of Conversation Between DCI Colby and Fred Buzhardt,” Feb. 2, 1974, CREST, National Archives II; “Memo of Conversation Between Colby and Sulzberger,” Jan. 30, 1974, CREST, National Archives II.
57
. Quoted in Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele,
Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
(New York: 1979), 531â532.
58
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 414, 415.
59
. Ibid., 415.
60
. Bartlett and Steele,
Howard Hughes
, 536, 541; “Memo of Conversation Between WEC and Brent Scowcroft,” March 18, 1975, CREST, National Archives II; Seymour Hersh, “Hughes Built Ship,”
New York Times
, March 19, 1975.
61
. “Memo of Conversation Between Ford, Schlesinger, Colby et. al.,” March 19, 1975, National Security Adviser Memos, Box 5, Ford Library.
62
. “CIA as White-Collar Mafia,”
Village Voice
, June 16, 1975.
63
. “The CIA Partner,”
Time
, April 19, 1976.
1
. See William Colby and Peter Forbath,
Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA
(New York: 1978), 371â373.
2
. Quoted in Richard Helms, with William Hood,
A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
(New York: 2003), 399.
3
. Ibid.
4
. Quoted in “CIA Chief Tells House of $8 Million Campaign Against Allende in â70â73,”
New York Times
, Sept. 8, 1974.
5
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 380.
6
. “CIA Chief Tells House.”
7
. Lawrence Eagleburger and Pete McClosky to Henry A. Kissinger, Sept. 24, 1974, Srodes Papers, Box 2, Marshall Library, Virginia Military Institute; “Director Colby on the Record,”
Time
, Sept. 30, 1974.
8
. John Prados,
Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby
(New York: 2003), 73.
9
. “CIA and Covert Operations Conference,” Sept. 13, 1974, CREST, National Archives; “Colby and CIA Conference,” Sept. 13, 1974, Box 62, F Colby, Sheehan Papers, Library of Congress.
10
. “CIA and Covert Operations Conference,” Sept. 13, 1974, CREST, National Archives; “Colby and CIA Conference,” Sept. 13, 1974, Box 62, F Colby, Sheehan Papers, Library of Congress.
11
. “Colby and CIA Conference,” Sept. 13, 1974, Box 62, F Colby, Sheehan Papers, Library of Congress.
12
. “CIA and Chile,”
Christian Science Monitor
, Sept. 11, 1974; Tom Wicker, “Secret War on Chile,”
New York Times
, Sept. 13, 1974; Daniel Schorr, “My 17 Months on the CIA Watch,”
Rolling Stone
, April 8, 1976; Prados,
Lost Crusader
, 291â292.
13
. Laurence Stern, “Perjury Inquiry Urged on Chile Data,”
Washington Post
, Sept. 17, 1974; Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men
, 383.