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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03266817
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: July 11, 2023
• Document Release Date: February 8, 2022
• Case Number: F-2016-00644
• Publication Date: July 10, 1978

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Chairman
James Angleton
Former Chief,
Counterintelligence, CIA
President
Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow
Retired career diplomat
Secretary-Treasurer
Robert C. Richardson, Ill
Brigadier General, USAF (rel.)
FOUNDER MEMBERS
(Partial Listing)
The Hon. Robert B. Anderson
Former Secretary of
the Navy and Tryy
Admiral G. W. Anderson
Former Chief of Naval Oper. and
Chairman of President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board
William V. Cleveland
Chairman, Information Committee
Society of Former Special
Agents of the FBI
Amb. Shelby Cullom Davis
Former U.S. Ambassador
to Switzerland
Ms. Nancy Dickerson
Television Journalist
Ma. Eleanor L. Dulles
Foreign Affairs Specialist
Harvey G. Foster
Former Special Agent in Charge,
New York FBI Field Office
Amb. Loy W. Henderson
Former Deputy Under Secretary
of State
Rear Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter,(ret.)
Former Director, CIA
Geoffrey M. T. Jones
President, Veterans of OSS
Amb. William Kintner
Former U.S. Amb., Thailand
Edward Lawler
Attorney, Former OSS
Francis J. McNamara
Former Exec. Secretary,
Subversive Act. Control Board
N.ScottMiler
Former CIA
Counterintelligence
Jahn P. Mohr
Former Assistant to the
Director, FBI
Donald E. Moore
Former Inspector, FBI
Charles J. V. Mu
enior Editor,
uric magazine
James R. Murphy
Attorney, Former Chief
Counterintelligence, OSS
Sen. George L. Murphy -
President, American Cause
Arthur Oppenheimer
President, Oppenheimer Co., Inc.,
Former OSS
Sam J. Papich
Former Special Agent, FBI
It. Gen. W. W. Quinn, USA (ret.)
Former Deputy Director,
Defense ThrieTrZence Agency
Robert
Former Governor of Idaho
ChaumeyStillman
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Former Member, CIA
James Van Alen
New York City,
Col. G. R. Weinbrenner, USAF (ref.)
Former Commander,
Foreign Technology Div.,
U.S. Air Force
SECURITY and INTELLIGENCE FUND
Suite 1000, 1101 17th Street N.W., Washington D.C. 20036
July 10, 1978
Public Affairs Staff
P. O. Box 1282
Washington, D. C. 20013
Dear Friend:
We invite you to join us in defendin_g_the intel-
ligence community - and thereby help our country sur-
vive.
Our politicians and propagandists of the liberal-
left have, in their folly, gutted and straitjacketed
the FBI, CIA, NSA and DTA. They are now moving on to
destroy the remaining effectiveness of these agencies.
For example, on the same day when the people of
Canada were shocked to be told by their government
that the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa had been caught
red-handed in a massive espionage plot aimed at pen-
etrating and paralyzing their internal security
agencies, our own Senate was being presented by its
Select Intelligence Committee with legislation which,
if enacted, will make it all but impossible for the
American security agencies to nip such plots in the
bud.
The New York Times ran these sharply contrasting
stories on the front page side by side with the head-
-lines:
"CANADA TO EXPEL 11 SOVIET AIDES IN SPYING CASE"
"SENATE PANEL OFFERS LEGISLATION TO CURB
INTELLIGENCE AGENTS" - our agents!
Alongside the revelations from Ottawa, so stun-
ning in their impact on the Canadian Parliament, the
Senate proposal becomes so naive as to be dumbfound-
ing.
We've analyzed the Senate Intelligence Commit-
tee's bill and other connected projects and schemes
presently before Congress. The faults and danger
inherent in the proposed legislation are grave and
they number three:
David Yorck
Treasurer, Veterans of OSS
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� They would hobble and deform the investigative re-
sources of the security agencies, in the guise of
centralizing and further coordinating their oper-
ations.
� They would impose limitations on electronic surveil-
lance so exacting and cumbersome as to put this in-
dispensable source of intelligence all but out of
reach of the agencies charged with protecting the
nation against foreign agents and terrorists.
� They would draw so many outsiders into the con-
trived approval and oversight process that the
secrecy of any significant CIA or FBI investi-
gation - and secrecy must be preserved, if the
action is to succeed - would be at the mercy of
Washington's vast whispering gallery.
If these anti-intelligence bills are enacted, the
United States could no longer gather the facts to act on
espionage cases as it and other countries did in the
short span of three weeks beginning at the end of
January as follows:
� An official of the Soviet trade mission to the U.S.
whose name the State Department refused to divulge
was expelled for "flagrantly improper activities."
A first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in
Washington was thrown out with him.
An official of the U.S. Information Agency and a
Vietnamese spy were both indicted for espionage.
The Vietnamese Ambassador to the United Nations was
denounced as an unindicted co-conspirator and or-
dered out of the country.
The French State Security Court imposed stiff prison
sentences on five soviet spies who were passing
French and NATO defense secrets to Moscow.
� The German Minister of Defense of the West German
Republic resigned abruptly under the disgrace of the
disclosure that a Soviet bloc spy ring was operating
within his ministry.
� The Canadian KGB spy expulsions occurred during the
same three weeks as the above cases.
Wherever one looks - in Ottawa, in Washington, in
New York, in Paris, in Addis Ababa, in Angola, and in-
deed throughout the noncommunist world - the pace of the
Soviet drive to sunder and overcome the West by means
short of war has quickened.
Thirty years ago, the Kremlin embarked on a cam-
paign to defame and discredit the U.S. departments and
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intelligence agencies responsible for national secur-
ity. Their main targets were and remain the FBI and the
CIA.
In the early 19601s our intelligence community ob-
tained full details of this plan, by then in high gear.
Congressman C. Melvin Price, now Chairman of the
House Armed Services Committee, put a summary of the
Soviet plan into the Congressional Record on September
28, 1965, (page 25391). It showed that a central pur-
pose of the disinformation department of the KGB was to:
',Destroy the confidence of the Congress
and the American public in U.S. personnel
and agencies engaged in anti-Communist and
cold war activity.�
In 1951 the U.S. Communist Party set up a front
called the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (so cited
by the House Committee on Un-American Activities).
The ECLC devised ',OPERATION ABOLITION,* to campaign
for the elimination of such intelligence activities as:
(1) the House Committee on Internal Security; (2) the
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee; (3) the internal
security committees in state legislatures; (4) state and
city police files on subversives; (5) the Subversive
Activities Control Board; (6) the Internal Security
Division of the Department of Justice; (7) the counter-
intelligence functions of the CIA; and (8) the internal
security functions of the FBI.
All of these bodies and functions have been abol-
ished except for the FBI and CIA.
But, the FBI and the CIA have themselves been so
badly shattered that their internal security or counter-
intelligence capabilities are perilously below the
levels which their responsibilities call for. If they
are to recover their lost means, they need help NOW.
The Security and Intelligence Fund is determined to
muster the needed help. Our purpose is to stop the anti-
intelligence wrecking crews and to revitalize the decay-
ing intelligence and counterintelligence capabilities of
the FBI, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and the
National Security Agency.
Most of the founding members of this Fund have had
professional experience in counterintelligence, military
intelligence and foreign affairs at the policy level.
But, we are starting late and we need your help.
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The more Americans who join with us, the better the
chance that President Carter and Members of Congress
will act to stop the anti-intelligence bills and set
about rebuilding our once great intelligence organi-
zations.
You can be sure that we'll let the President, the
Attorney General and the Congress know where you and
other members stand. In the meantime, we urge you to
write them yourself.
Since this is an emergency situation, we urgently
invite you to join with us as a charter, sponsoring or
founding member TODAY.
Please use the enclosed membership form and reply
envelope to participate in the defense of our intel-
ligence community.
incer ly
41/44416..._ ftelit/rV`'/
James Angleton Elbridge urbrow
Chairman Presid nt
Former Chief U.S. Ambassador (Bet.)
Counterintelligence CIA
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Robert C. Richardson III
Secretary-Treasurer
Brigadier General USAF (Ret.)
P. S.
Because of its importance, we will send each
member a special reprint of THE SOVIET AND
COMMUNIST BLOC DEFAMATION CAMPAIGN, cited above,
which outlines the KGB's secret plan to discredit
our intelligence agencies and other American in-
stitutions.
P.P.S. As a member, you will also receive SITUATION
REPCRTs -- like the one enclosed -- to keep
you informed on important developments as
they unfold.
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