SPIES VIE FOR U.S. OPINION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05T00644R000300940003-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 9, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Washington Post Wire
WASHINGTON - Intelligent
agencies of five foreign governments
have conducted systematic campaigns
inside the United States to spy on, ha-
rass and in some cases plan assassina-
tions of their opponents, U.S. intelli-
gence and law enforcement officials
have disclosed to Senate investigators.
A principal target of the campaigns
by four of the five countries - Iran,
the Philippines, Taiwan and Chile -
appears to have been American public
opinion. Spies were set loose on critics
whose speaking out might have dis-
turbed the traditionally close relations
between each of the four authoritar-
ian regimes and Washington.
Methods ranged from the reported
sending of "hit teams" from Iran and
Chile to the United States to the te-
dious business of monitoring and cata-
loguing student political discussions
here by each of the four countries,
according to a secret Senate staff
study of foreign intelligence oper-
ations inside the United States. Inde-
pendent accounts obtained by The
Washington Post tend to confirm or
expand many of the study's disclo-
sures.
Each service developed its own spe-
cial wrinkles. Preparing to go totall
"underground" when Washington es-
tablished relations with Peking,
Taiwan's National Security Bureau
drew up plans to recruit Chinese-
Americans to travel to China and sp
for Taiwan. Chile hoped to establish
Miami branch office of an interna-
tional consortium of intelligence agen
cies it had helped set up.
But the four spy outfits had an im
portant common feature. They all ha
intelligence liaison agreements wit
the Central Intelligence Agency, an
they operated with a relatively fret
hand here.
The report strongly suggests tha
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