EX-CIA AGENT TELLS OF SIX-WEEK PEARY COURSE

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ByNIC110LAS BROWN
A former agent with the Central In-
telligence Agency told The Times-D;sparch
yesterday that Camp Per. ry in York County
was the CIA's principal training base in the
United States when he underwent training
there in the 11150s.
He added that through contacts and per-
sonal -friendships with present employes of
tho CIA he believes that camp Peary is still
the organization's major training facility.
The former agent, who asked not to be
identified, said he participated in a six-week
training course at Camp Peary in the Junior
Officer's Training Program the CIA held
there.
"We would come in on a Monday and stay
until Friday," he said. "While you were
there you had an assumed name. We took a
course in basic intelligence gathering."
The former agent said he did not know of
any assassination trams, guerrilla cadres,
special warfure agents or nuclear devices at
Camp Peary while he was there. Joe Maggio,
a former agcnt with the CIA's covert "Spe-
cial Operations Division," has maintained
that these things exist at the camp, com-
monly called "the farm" by CIA personnel.
Special weapons, which Maggio has called
mini-nuclear booths" and said were
demonstrated atCarnp Peary, were disputed
and called "the most preposterous thing of all"
by the former agent.
As for the assassination terms, the former
agent said, "I would think if the agency had
anything like that they would train them
overseas." He added that most of Maggio's
description of the activities on the base
"sounds like James Bond tome."
The CIA's purpose for existing, the former
agent said, "is to gather intelligence in-
torintron and arsseminate it to the proper
officials of government." In the 1950s. the
former agent said, the CIA also dealt in
counterespionage overseas.
The former agent also said that during his
association with the CIA it was quite possible
that foreign nationals were brought to Camp
Peary for "debriefings."
He said that while at the camp for training,
agents wore military fatigue uniforms. While
he was there, he said, the population of the
camp consisted of several CIA instructors, a
cooking staff, a contingent of military police,
and the 50 or so students. There was both a
six-week course and a three-month course.
One exercise the agent recalled was named
"Rabbit" and required him to trail so-
meone. He said he had to follow this person to
Richmond and place him under surveillance in
the city.
Another exercise used facsimiles of the
borders of Eastern European countries,
There was an activity called "Operation
Holecloth" which organized an intelligence
program that included trying to recruit an
agent,
"Dead Drop" Cited
Much of the former agent's training at
Camp Peary was spent in learning in-
telligence techniques and terminology. For
example, he said the term "dead drop"
meant leaving a secret message in a desig-
nated place for another agent.
The former agent said he thought it was
"common knowledge" that the CIA operated
a training facility at Camp Peary, and he
said he 'could "think of no reason why they
wouldn't admit" having a base there.
In recalling his former experience with the
CIA, however, the former agent surmised
that one aspect of the agency hasn't changed
over the years. .
"Security is pretty damn rigid," he said.
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Less than two vdool:s before the
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Democratic Party National Commit- Also housed in the. Watergate
tee headquarters in Washington's Hotel complex are the offices of the
Watergate Hotel were not only in- Democratic National Committee.
volved in' the. Contra[ Intelligence In the early morning hours of June
Agency, the Bay of Pigs, invasion, 17, 1972, five men were arrested
+and.' f resident Kennedy's removing parts of the ceiing from
assassination but also. With plans 'the sixth floor panels in the'
first revealed last year by Los Democratic National Headquarters.
Angelps.Police informer Louis Tack- These men possessed expensive
-wood to disrupt the Republican electronic equipment, cameras;
National Con*enfion. (See the Los walkie-talkies, burglary . tools, and
Ang&Ms Free P'r&ss, October 22, other James Bond accessories.
Two of the men arrested had in
These charges were made by Mae:i their po;3session t o telephone num-
?Brussell, a well known private in- . ber of -Howard Hunt White Houset"
consuitant who had previously work-
`vestigator Into American political ed with the CIA for 21 years.
assassinations fdr the past nine James McCord, Jr., employed as/
years. She was accompanied by Chief of Security for Mitchell's Cam-
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According to Don Freed of CRIC
(who was not at the press con-
ference but submitted , additionat
material to the Free Press), within.
six weeks of the first arrests it was'
known that at least 12 men and
$114,000 were involved, and that the
invaders were discovered putting,
forged documents of some kind into
files, not taking papers oui. They
were not burglars, they were riot
functioning with a "bugging" budget
-or with the numbers usually,
associated with more v-iret?apping.
(We mush caution, however, that
the Free Press has no ' means at
present of independently verifying
facts such as documents being
planted instead of being removed,
and that Don Freed, evidently, bases
' """v McCord was formerly employed by ' collation from such sources as the
charges,originafly. and Paul checked' K out Tackwood's the CIA for nineteen years, having Washington Post, vihich has
rassner, editor
I., ft two years previously at ap- :published carefully documented ar-
of The Realist. The current issue of proximately the same time as Hunt. ticles on the 'raid. Freed has' also
iTh'e Realist (August, 1972) contains a McCord's position with the CIA was made investigative trips to'
20-page article by his. Brussels thief of Security over the entire
which was distributed to the Washington, D.C.Y.
newsmen at the press conference as grounds of-the immeiise'`C1A com- Following the raid, a million dollar
the men for t pr confer nce a pound at Langley, Virginia. Accord- suit. was filed by the Democrats
lions. ing to Mae Brussell, this Out McCord against the Committee for the Re-
According to Ms. Drussetl the
Watergate Hotel, located in
Washington, D.C., was the home of
(John and Martha Mitchell at the time
of the attempted wiretapping of the
Democratic Party National Commit-
tee. John Mitchell, former Attorney
General of the United States, had
shortly before resigned that
prestigious position to head.'the
portant Committee to Re-Elect the
President.
until after 'the November 7th elec-
tion, To hear the suit before the
election, the Committee said, could'
deter campaign workers and con-
tributions, force disclosure of con-
fidential information and ot.herwise
cause "incalculable, damage" to
President Nixon's campaign.
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Wins no iced pieces ?of scotch tape
over the. door locks. .";ashington
police arrived and made the arrests. (~ pYt 1.111] a
Vpensatory vi rnu rrt;biuern ror cam-
in relation to. CIA Director Helms V pensatory and punitive damages to
who could not conceivably carry out the Democratic, headquarters. The
any intelligence planning without, Nixon Committee then asked a U.S.
relying on McCord to ensure that District Court to postpone the suit
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IA plans were kept secret
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Nine persons (all registered with
false names suspiciously similar to
names used in novels written by
Howard Hunt) stayed at the
Watergate. Hotel May 2S to 29, and
again June 17 and 18. Five of them,
the night of their, arrest, were
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They wore surgical gloves and car-
ried walkie-talkies, a pair of cameras
and electronic bugging devices. They
picked a lock on abasement door, left
the Well taped open and made their
way up a rear stairwell of a building in
Washington's elegant Watergate com-
plex to the sixth floor. There the five
men jimmied a door to the Democrat-
ic National Committee headquarters,
slipped inside and began rifling the files,
stuffing some documents in boxes, dump-
ing others out on the floor. They evade
just one mistake: when the night watch-
man removed the tape on the down-
stairs door, one of the intruders put it
back-and when the watchman checked
the door again, he promptly called the
police. Within minutes, three cops from
the Capital's plain-clothes "mod" squad
burst in on the intruders with guns
drawn. "Don't shoot,"? one of the five
shouted. "You've got us."
They had indeed-and with the ar-
rests, Washington had one of the juiciest
political scandals ill memory.. Four of
the five intruders turned out to have
been either agents or operatives for the
Central Intelligence Agency. And one of
the mon, James \V. McCord, 53, of
Rockville, hid., happened to be both
security coordinator for the Committee
for the Re-Election of the Pi?esiclent and
a- security consultant for the Republican
National Committee. To add to the em-
barrassment of the Administration, both
committees immediately announced that
McCord had resigned some months ago-
only to find out that 'he was indeed
working for. them right up to the time
of his arrest.
Integrity: At first, the White House
simply tried to ignore the affair. The
Justice Department announced that the
FBI had entered the case, and that a
grand jury was ready to receive evi-
dence. High-ranking Republicans vig-
orously denied that the party had any
hand in the raid. "There is no place in
our campaign or in the electoral process
for this type of activity," declared for-
mer Attorney General John Mitchell,
now the head . of the Committee for
the Re-Election of the President. "We
will not permit or condone it." The Dem-
ocrats howled nonetheless-and not with-
1,
ITouse has had no involvement whatso-
ever in this particular incident."
But that declaration hardly put an
end to the speculation. Theories about
what the * five intruders were doing-
and who ordered it done-swept through
Washington like Hurricane Agnes. Dem-
ocratic insiders, skeptical of the FBI's
investigation ("Hell, they're investigat-
f{ig their own people"), claimed that
pedition, perhaps with the additional
purpose of replacing a Inalfunc?tioning;
bug that had been installed earlier. A
more measured version suggested that
sorneo ne-Republicans or others--be-
lieved the Democrats were in possession
of an extremely damaging document-a
hot new chapter in the ITT affair, per-
haps-and sent the five men in to r vet it.
)3ut authorities were- still not discounting
the possibility that the raid may have
been the brainchild of anti-Castro Cuban
extremists who feared that the Demo-
crats were planning to case relations
with Cuba.
At the weekend, authorities were
looking into possible links between this
raid and two earlier burglaries of the
Democratic headquarters-one of which
took place while the same four Cubans
were registered at Watergate Hotel.
And the Committee for. the ]tie-election
put some private eyes out conducting an
investigation of its own. As one worried
White I-louse staffer put it, "The only
way we can prove we're not guilty is to
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out a note of glee. This Incident raises God!", ]lung up-and then dropped out.
the ugliest questions about the integrity of sight.
of the political process that I have en- Still, his name alone was enough to
countered in a quarter of a century," suggest a link to the White house, and
proclaimed Democratic National Com- the Administration reacted with suitable
mittee chairman Lawrence O'Brien, who I . . C-1 o II Wt's olcl n utron he ircl
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promptly filed a $1 million damage suit 1
against the GOP campaign committee. the news and roared, "Guilt by associa
"There is certainly a clear line to the tion!" Presidential press secretary Ron
Committee to Ile-Elect the President- Ziegler first declined to comment on "a
and there is developing a clear lime to third-rate burglary attempt," then tip-
the White 1 r q j' graSled ' tai second-rate" A said Q the
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enough. One of the group, a Cuban done it. Finally, at his own first news
named Virafilio R. Gonzales, 45, appears c'01iferc:nce in three nnonths, President
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to have been just a simple Miami lock-
smith recruited for the job. But a second
Cuban, Miami reallor Eugenio Mar-
tinez, had worked for the agency smug-
gling refugees out of Castro's Cuba. A
third, Drank Fiorini-who also went by the
name Frank Sturgis and several dozen
known aliases-was a U.S. marine turned
soldier-of-fortune who once smuggled
guns for Castro's rebel army, then turned
Bernard Barker, 55, who ehnployecl Mari
tinez, was a wealthy, Cuban-born U.S.
citizen, well known in Washington GOP
circles. Barker served, under the code
name "Macho," as one of the hey links
between the CIA and Cuban exiles
training in Guatemala for the abortive
Bay of Pigs invasion in 1931. McCord
himself, before he retired two years ago
to set up his own security agency, spent
nineteen years in the CIA security force,
safeguarding agency installations.
.'Mission Impossible': All except Mc-
Cord, it developed, checked into the
plush Watergate hotel, next to the office
building, the day before the raid. Au-
thorities picking through their ' quarters
later found what looked like a make-
up room for TV's "Mission Impossible."
Among other things, police confiscated a
kit full of burglary tools, two pairs of
gray work overalls, a wig and a radio
transceiver. But the most intriguing items
seized were a pair of address books
listing -the naive Everette Howard hunt
-with the notation beside it, "\V.II."
and "\V. Ilouse."
Until recently, Hunt worked as a $100-
a-day consultant for White House trou-
bleshooter Charles W. Colson. Colson
hired hunt during the Pentagon papers
furor last summer, probably to look for
information leaks. And Hunt brought a
wealth of experience to the task. For 21
years, the suave, Ivy League New Yorker
was a CIA field maul in Latin America,
Spain and the Far East, churning out no
fewer than 45 science fiction, spy and
detective novels in his spare time. Sig-
nificantly, Hunt served as Barker's boss
in the preparations for the Bay of Pigs
invasion. When he retired two years ago,
the career spy went to work for Robert
11. Mullen & Co., a Washington-based
public-relations' firm whose close tics to
Republican Party leaders gave it ready
access to the White House, Informed by
phone that his name had been linked to
the case, Ilunt reportedly blurted, "Good
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PROGRAM The Ten O' C lock News
DATE November 21, 1971 10:00 PM CITY Washington, DC
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NE.W$CASTFR; Speaking of curtains;' syndicated columnist Jack Anderson
reports how the ClA's security curtain was breached by a .group of little boys.
JACK ANDERSON; The legendary security.of the Central Intelligence
Agency has been penetrated by a secret spy mission called Operation Gino.
.Here is the hush-hush story. The CIA enclave is enclosed by cyclone
fencing and protected by electronic detection devices. Guards swarm all over
the place., The only way tr, get inside is through the main gate Which is care-
fully watched by the security men. But four schoolboys, led by if-year old
Stewart Andrews of McLean, Virginia found a.series of manholes in'an old
federal road testing facility near the CIA._ They got the covers off and ex-
plored the underground tunnels. Their subterranean travels took them:past the
great security wall and up into secret CIA territory.
They went back day after day, telling their parents mysteriously,
they were engaged in-Operation Gino.
But the manhole covers were overgrown with greenery and the boys
soon broke out. in a familiar rash, The rash led to more probing questions from
their parents. Thus was Operation Gino foiled by a case.of poison ivy.
....The'CIA deals in operations so secret that its waste paper is
classified... Ye t it receives more publicity than government agencies that ad=
ve-rtise. SQ, understandably, the CIA isn't saying anything about the school-
boys who infiltrated their headquarters.
But maybe the CIA security wasn't so bad after all. Perhaps the
poison ivy was a CIA plant.
.This is Jack Anderson in Washington.
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By Robert McLeod
Some urban office buildings now
have security procedures to rival even
the Pentagon's elaborate precauti.ons,'
according to a report released today
by the Conference Board.
Bombings are becoming a \vay of
life for corporate America, according
to I. Patrick McGuire. author of the
study by? the private business. survey
firm.
Nine out of Len major U.S. firms
have received bomb threats, and a.
bomb explodes on an average of once
every two hours, the report said.
But companies are learning to cope
with corporate terrorism.
Visitors are electronically probed,
McGuire. said. briefcases are inspect-
ed, and often an armed guard will es-
cort the visitor .to his destination.
The reasoning behind bombings are
no longer the simple need for revenge,
nor the criminal motivations of the
past. Now large numbers of bombings
can be traced directly to'anger or frus-
tration over social issues, such as Viet-
nam.
' And as the reasoning changes. so do
the bombers. Unlike terrorists of the
past, 'today's bomber is less likely to
havc'a criminal record, is better edu-.
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trace.
U.S. Treasury data reveals that i;nl
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perpetrators go undetected.
Explosives are easy to come. by, the.
report shov;s, and anyone who can't-
find the materials, isn't trying very
hard.
Explosives produced for legitimate '
use. no1C amount to .snore than 2 billio.ii
pounds per year., and dynamite can be
purchased through thousands ofretait.
ers license.
Bomb builders who don't. obtain th'e-
explosive from legitimate dealers can,
go.to a rapidly giowingblack market,';
or he can' simply steal them. In a Imy:-
cases. even the C.l,:1, and the Detens~ .
were i ratified as inarl-
Department
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vertent suppliers of materials.
The report also notes that it is simple:
for would-be terrorists to learn lo:'
male explosive devices by reading th.e."A
underground papers which have super '
plied step-by-step. guidance on how .lo
Then. there's always the Govern;;,
meat' Printing Office, which will sup-',',
ply unclassified Defense Department,
manuals on booby traps and construct-:,'-
ing explosive devices.
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,return to person in Septeinber of
1970," he reminisced, "I estimate that
my partners and I systematically stole
from Railway Express, air freight and
-"~t both regular and registered mail, ap-
proximately $100,000,000 in stocks,
bonds, jewelry, cash, furs and other
valuable items."
. Cuclak's share of the loot after
fences, be said, came to about $1,000,-
0 "I are penniless today," the lean,
sideburned' 29-year-old thief said. "I.
gambled most of the money away as
soon as I receivecT my share from the
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Washington-A convicted thief told sacks, were marked, "Hand Deliver
senators yesterday that he had robbed Only."
the airport mails of more than $100,- "What you're saying is that these
.000,000, operating with such abandon documents could have easily been sold
that he would frequently steal top se- ' to the New York Times or foreign
cret government documents by acci- ' agents or anyone else?" Percy asked.
dent along with unclassified loot. "Sure," Cudak said. "It [the mail
Robert F. Cudak, of Baldwin, L.I., sacks] had a lot of stuff in it."
said that he stole cupfuls of diamonds But Cuclal, said that he wanted to
and Department of Defense plans fora make one thine clear. "First of all," he
;'land-to-air ballistics missile. He stole said, "I want to say that neither I or
carloads of furs and the prototype of a my associates ever tried to move any
new military pistol. He stole bearer of this stuff, but I- looked at some of it
bonds and an FBI list of Cuban na- because my curiosity got the best of
tionalists and agents in Miami, com- me.
plete with names and addresses of in. "I was scared of it, I aws. afraid of
1 formants. He stole travelers' checks it. I would burn it or throw it in the
and an entire military pouch headed water. I know one time, when I first
for an Air Force base. The classified sfarted, they recovered some of this
material, he said, came from the De- stuff and they made-a big stink over it.
fense Department, the CIA and the It was in Septeni"ber of 1.967 and they
FBI. "I don't think w0?oeell-,Nny Ma- got kind of excited because this stuff
I tine stuff," Cudak said. was lying around." ranging from a half a carat to two or
Many of Cuciak's activities were de- On one occasion, he said, Albert three carats each," Cudalc said. "One
scribed by Newsday reporter Toni DeAngelis of Woodside, who he said package held a 16-carat marquis dia-
Renner last year in a series of articles was one of his fences and who is also- mond. I managed to slip that diamond.
on mail theft that called Cudak "the ciated with the Carlo Gambino family, into my pocket before Jimmy Sanatar
world's most successful mail thief." warned him to stay away from his saw it"
Yesterday, Cuclak gave the details of principal hunting ground, the John F.
his operations to the Senate permanent Kennedy Airport. That, he said, was Associates Listed
investigations subcommittee. He was because Army Intelligence agents were Besides Sanatar and DeAngelis,
under heavy guard and a court order of conducting an investigations of th efts
Cudalc listed as among his Long Island
immunity from further prosecution. know of that Cu dal, l ep replied, l"He might said associates: one James V. Schaefer,
Served 7 Years he had a lode brother who was an whose address was given as 250 West
t Merrick Rd., Freeport; a William D.
j Cudak, w'Iiose address was 2318 Mil- FBI agent." Ricchiuti 45, of 99 Round 't'ree Dr.,
burn Ave. before he began serving a Cudak, who listed his associates,` Plainview, who, he said, was "the most
seven-year sentence for mail theft last many of them from Long Island, important of my partners," and one
year, told the subcommittee that he claimed that, while he-had to use mob Vincent Pisano whose address was
had stolen classified. materials about 20 figures as fences, he himself remained given as 254 Monroe Blvd., Valley
times. "You mean, it is just as easy to an independent operator. He told the Stream. He said that his principal
steal classified material as it is stocks, committee of a youthful criminal fences on Long Island were Pisano, one
bonds, jetivels, furs and other things career that led to airport mail theft Harvey Sapperstein of Bayside; one
you stole?" Sen. Charles Percy (1?-Ill.) when he got a job as a ramp mar for Jack Molitz of Westbury and one
asked. Northwest Airlines at Kennedy, Air- Leonard Mastr.ogiacomo of Great
"Sure," Cudak replied. "That stuff port. Within a few days, he said, he Neck.
was placed alongside the securities and saw how lax security was and he began. Subcommittee Chairman John, Mc-
tho jewelry. It was treated like the to steal from the mails. Clellan (D-Ark.) declared that Cudak
same thing." But, Percy asked, wasn't. stealing
Was 111ore Prostable was "telli~rnthe t 0th seas far as nator Iii
it marked confidential? "Many times, ? f Memory pw
Cudak responded. He added that some enjoyed the job," Cudak said. not permit television or still camerae
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fences. At first, my partners and J_
gambled heavily in the. New York City
area . . . Then we found Las Vegas.
We lost at the blackjack tables, in the
keno rooms and at the dice tables
In detailing some of his 125 thefts,
Cudak said that he stole from Ken-
nedy Airport about 90 times, from La-
Guardia about 10 times, and a number
of times from airports ranging from
Florida .to Los Angeles. "Anyone
dressed as a ramp man or airline em-
ploye can come along and grab any or
all of the bags without being ques-
tioned," he said.
Sometimes, he said, he and his asso-
ciates stole from each other. On Sept.
13, 1967, he said, he 'and one James
Sanatar, whose address he gave as'255
Irving Ave., Deer Park, stole four bags
of registered mail. At Sanatar's house,
he said, they opened the bags and
filled a suitcase with common stock,
bearer bonds and treasury notes.
"We filled' a teacup with diamonds
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I1111ployees in the McLean
heaciquarter"s of the Central
Intelligence Agency w e r e
evacuated for more than an
hour last night after a man
called the switchboard around
'1:30.p.m. and. said a bomb was
hidden in the building.
CIA security guards searched
the building while Fairfax
County police checked the
Identification of persons leav-
ln; the CIA compound, but no
bomb was found.
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By a sire correspoade ii t of
The,ChristianScieace Monitor
Was- 1':irzvto?
A greatly intensified effort. to protect pub-
lic servants from politically motivated harm
has been undertaken by the Secret Service,
,e Federal Bureau of Investigation, and
the Central Intelligence Agency.
The chief members of the government
here, as well as the personnel of foreign em-
bassies in Washington and American em-
bassies abroad, are being given a rapidly
expanded guard,
Meanwhile, programs to train specialized
police and intelligence agents for this pill,.
pose are proceeding under forced draft.
Very little is being said in public about
this effort, lest ideas for blackmailing gov-
ernments and their officials be planted in
militant or unstable minds. '-Pine results of
the intensified 'protection are visible as 'well
as known to Washington news correspon-
dents, however.
The issue, is pointed up by the Berrigan
affair which now is being given wide pub-
licity bccause'it is unavoidable, in view of a
public grand jury indictment, and because it
shows what is represented by the indictment
as successful police work by the FBI.
Charged with conspiracy, the accused
have to be considered innocent unless their:
forthcoming court trial results in a guilty
verdict for any of seven indictments, which
presume the possibility of conspiracy to blow
up the heating pipes for some fedoral build-
ings here, and thereafter to kidnap Presi-
dential Assistant for National Security Af-
fairs Ilenry' A. Kissinger.
It is assumed by the FBI that an anti- -
war group calling itself the East Coast Con-
spiracy to Save Lives including a.`number
of Roman Catholic priests like the Rev.
Philip F. Berrigan, a former priest, and a
nun who were. included in the indictment, is
not pacifist as claimed, but willing to corn-
mit crimes to try to stop the fighting in
Viet.narn.
This is denied by those of the defendants
who have spoken 'publicly, and by other
members of the so-called East Coast Con-
spiracy.
Without drawing any conclusions from
this case, which is yet to be tried, it shows
the-greatly enlarged 'effort of the FBI to
deal with the dangers of a period in which
both normal and abnormal persons have'
been increasingly involved with violence be-
causeof the violence of the Vietnam war.
regal vioier1cc ? .
been declared against governments and their
hitherto vulnerable top men. It is concluded
by persons and groups who are willing to
use illegal violence to protest what the gov-
ernment considers to be a legal form of
violence in the Vietnam war.
Without attempting a judgment on the
political and social questions involved, or
the legal questions, the result has been a
wave of efforts to blackmail governments;,
on the part of,frustrated citizens.
Americans are highly conscious of the
three assassinations of two Kennedys and
Dr, Martin Luther King, and -of the hijack.
ing of airplanes in the recent Jordanian
crisis. They have heard of the kidnappings
of American, I3r?itish, Canadian, and Latin-
American diplomats and public figures.
They have been told that security agents
now are flying on American international
plane routes. .
`Social emus, s'
'hat they have not seen is the guai-ds ac-
ecmpanying many more officials than Mr.
Kissinger, Or standing outside em6assics
here.
In his most recent issue of Uniform
Crime Reports, FBI Director J. Edgar
STATINTL
I-loover makes a discreet reference to the
"social causes"- along with other causes
of the sharp increase in crime in the past
year. Ile refers to controversial legislation
passed by Congress and state legislatures,
which he calls "positive action" to meet,
among other things, "civil disorder crises."
lie does not mention the sharp increase
in agents of his and other protection
agencies, which appear only in legislative
appropriations.
The 'gLtestions which arise of protecting
innocent persons from a wave of new
security measures and from public pros
sures to solve crimes of this sort are yet
unanswered and only began to be discussed
by the expiring Congress in any detail.
But the known and tlnavowed incidents
of the now kinds of guerrilla war are press.
ing on the police and they are responding
under counterpressure.
A new era embracing new levels and
techniques of law enforcement, along with
its attendant problems of personal liberty
and defense of the- innocent, seems to be
opened. Whether it `will abate with 'the
winding down of the Vietnam war, assum-
ing that takes place as hoped, remains to
be seen.
There are many cases, some disclosed,
others kept quiet, and still more b^ re Ulp
courts, it, which a kiAwroMelt ;a+h elease 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP80-01601 R000200220001-8