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Approved For Relean'90 };0%.1 BtfirCIA-RDP88-O1350Ry9Q0AOQV?4 t - wt v < Y' $o u_att .. -;~. L1 ,Ex-Aide of C.I.A. Says U.S. Bombed Lop er.. Colony By SEYMOUR M. HE sH I fighting capability of the North Special to :ae %ew York Tames Vietnamese Army, then largely WASHINGTON, Oct. 19-Alscili in the north. former Central Inteliigencel "They spotted a huge, heavily Agency official said in a new' guarded compound at a village book pubiishert today that the called Quynh Loc," Mr. Mc- Air Force bombed a North Viet-;official said. "No public men- namese leper colony in 1966? tion was ever made of the in- after Air Force photo analysts cident." mistakenly concluded that the+ ,.An honest portrayal of what buildings-surrounded by two inte!lircnce is all about must rows of barbed-wire fence-I conclude that the C.I.A. is a were a North Z ietna:nese divi- rsuffcraale bureaucratic me- -ion headquartcrs? in with little or no central The former agent, Patrick J.Idirectio^ sorely needing drastic McGarvey, spent 14 years with,chang; Ir. 4;cI)arney wrote. the C.I.A., the Defense h,tclli.l A spokesman for the C.I.A. gence Agency and Air Forcefconfirmed that Mr. McGwvey intelli ence before resigning inihad worked there. but refused 1969. corrhmcr.t on the book. The book In his book, "C.I.A., tl:elwas sent to the agency for re Myth & Madness," puniishedl?,?iew bciore publication, Mr. Mc) by the Saturday F.e cw Press,!Garvey said, and only a few Mr. McGarvey c:. egos that de minor segments. were deleted. Tense agency and C.I.A. special- In a letter to Mr. McGarvey its were overwhelmingly con- clearing the book for publica- cerned with providing what iheltion, an agency official noted called "intelligence to please"ithat if any claim is glade that and would often distort facts'the C.I.A. "in any way al"-, Associated press Patrick J. McGarvey Joint Chiefs "insisted than D.I.A. label the facility a pos-l sibiC military . headquartersi site." His account went on-! "D.LA. acceded to this demand. On May G, 1966, a heavy bomb-, ing raid was mounted against] the facility." 'No Pubic Mention Made' "A few days later," Mr. Mc- Gra ey wrote, "the North Viet-1 namese ch:irged that the Unite:() States had bombed a leper col-I ony at Qvynh Loc, killing 30. patients :and -ounding 34. D.I.A. examined the photos and' compared her., with those on which they had based the mis- sion." "They proved to be the pos- sible mili'.ary headquarters site,''' the former intelligence In the book, Mr. McGar~vcy also reports that C.I.A. agents successfully stole the Soviet Sputnik for three hours while the missle was on a world tour to do so. (proves your book or coiifirms!Garvey said. "The compound' shortly after its successful In some cases, he contended,ith. ae.curaev of any informa-!