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The Americans were represented by former CIA director William Colby and former deputy director Ray Cline.12 As CIA station chief in Rome during the 1950s, Colby had directed the CIA apparatus to work closely with Italian Communists. While on assignment in Vietnam, Colby had secretly maintained contact with a probable KGB agent without notifying his bosses at CIA; upon being named CIA director in 1974, Colby promptly fired the counterintelligence officers who investigated him for that suspicious contact. Also in 1974, while still director of the CIA, Colby participated in the founding conference of the CNSS-alongside various Communists and assorted radicals.13
Colby and Seymour Hersh also conspired to get James Angleton removed from CIA counterintelligence because his hardline anti-Communism was deemed too conservative and antithetical to the spirit of "detente". This occurred shortly after the left-wing element in the Agency had used a mole in the FBI named William Sullivan to undermine J. Edgar Hoover's access to the Nixon White House, which was followed up (after Hoover's death) by the Watergate scandal and Nixon's removal. The Church and Pike Committee's gutting of the intelligence community, which the Institute for Policy Studies assisted via several of the individuals mentioned in the article, followed on the heels of this. For additional commentary on the breakdown of the intelligence community which emerged subsequent to these developments, I'd recommend:
Professor W. Raymond Wannall, "Undermining Counterintelligence Capability"