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(AP) — Former President Bush, helping try drugs, like inhs| e CIA celebrate its 50th birthday Wednesday, called cy says in an informi enc y critics “nuts,” derided the CIA’s "universally neg- ii e designed to help' ' ve P ress ” anc I labeled congressional staffers who in- >re about the proble stigate agency misdeeds “crusading young zealots.” nts can help by bee: The podium-thumping speech brought repeated ova- d about inhalants,b )ns ^ rom a crowt I °f about 4,000 CIA retirees — includ- lieir children abo; g ah the living former directors of central intelligence, se, and by keeping ls h focused on his time as the CIA chief in 1976 and ‘in'icals out of there 77, in the wake of highly critical examinations of U.S. hildren.” Itelligence by the press and congressional investigating |mmittees. “The entire agency,” Bush said, “was demeaned by the Jiversally negative press coverage coming from mis- ;es made hy but a handful of people.” Not far behind the news media were the congression- m is |av Smith ^ ® nvest 'gators, who examined the admission by the CIA ] at it had conducted surveillance on U.S. citizens op- ised to the Vietnam War, plotted assassinations and, at tes, misled Congress about its actions. "The people of the CIA were roundly insulted by anti”drueeffortslt J tutoret ^’ aggressive staffers from the two commit- 8 3s in Congress, many, not all, but many of whom me out herewith no respect for classified informa- in,” Bush said. “These crusading young zealots ated everyone that they encountered as renegades It best, criminals at worst.” a land mine treaty. Representatives of an additional 20 countries were in Oslo, Norway, for the talks as ob servers, but without voting rights. The text calls for a total ban on production, export and use of anti personnel mines. The countries are expected to formally accept the draft text Thursday, and supporters hope the actual treaty will be signed in Ottawa in December. Land mines kill or maim more than 25,000 people every year. Without U.S. support it will be difficult to incorporate other key countries — such as Russia, China and India — that are not a part of the treaty process. Still, said Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy, who spearheaded the campaign for a ban, said, “We were not prepared to pay any price” for Washington’s approval. Jan Egeland, deputy Norwegian foreign minister, predicted that Clinton will support the treaty. “I believe internal forces in the United States will be tremendous,” he said. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., one of the Senate’s leading proponents of a land mine ban, criticized Clinton’s decision. “U.S. policy on land mines has largely arisen from Congress, not the White House, and we will move forward with our legislation to ban anti-personnel land mines,” Leahy said. Both the Senate and House have passed resolutions urging Clinton to provide more leadership on the land mine issue. i kills ti Jell OH-58 was one ers the department nd adapted for polic ig mission whenthi :urred, a departme: ■sentativesfromthesi rnt, federal AviatioL„ t - „ Motional TromI f^ext he turned to the nations colleges and umversi- tion, National Irans* , . , . . . . ,-ta m Doona which, in the wake of Vietnam, shunned CIA re- IV JDOal Cl dllu ICXdSli® . r 1 ui 1*1 rn ft public Safety vverec f 1111618 ’ some of whom were bodily thrown off campus. istigate, Massey said I :ause of the accideif He condemned the “so-called broad-minded academi cians” who refused to cooperate with the CIA, as well as “many pusillanimous business people (who) treated CIA exactly the same way.” The CIA’s “embattled” Directorate of Operations — the clandestine spy service—deserves praise, not crit icism, Bush said, and survived in spite of its many crit ics, including some who did real damage to U.S. intel ligence-gathering. Bush singled out for criticism Philip Agee, a former CIA agent and later critic of the agency. “Remember Philip Agee, who I consider a U aitor to our country?” Bush asked, referring to Agee’s efforts to expose CIA operations and identify spies. Bush said some of the criticism of the Directorate of Operations ruined secret U.S. clandestine opera tions in foreign countries and, in one instance, blew the cover of CIA station chief in Greece, Richard Welch, who was assassinated outside his residence in Greece in the mid-1970s. Bush was careful not to di rectly link Agee to Welch’s death. Agee dropped a defamation suit against former first lady Barbara Bush earlier this year after Mrs. Bush acknowledged that the first edition of her memoir was erroneous in saying that Agee had exposed Welch’s identity. Striking an oft-repeated theme in a week of celebra tions at CIA headquarters, Bush said the CIA seldom gets credit for its successes. 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