FBI AND CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100660015-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 18, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The Rowan Report STATION WHUR Radio
DATE April 18, 1983 5:55 PM CITY Washington, DC
CARL ROWAN: It's been almost ten years now since the
FBI and CIA were gravely damaged by revelations of outrageous
violations of law and abuses of people's rights at home and
abroad. The reputations of some top officials at both agencies
were ruined, and Congress imposed tougher controls. Americans
told themselves it would be a long time before anyone in those
agencies tried that stuff again.
Well, it looks like a long time has passed. There's
evidence that people in the CIA and FBI are trying that stuff
again, as I'll report right after this message from Chrysler
Corporation.
ROWAN: Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan recently raised
the question of whether the CIA is complying with the law in its
operations in Central America. Moynihan said many senators
believe that the agency is involved in efforts to overthrow the
government of Nicaragua, despite the Omnibus Appropriations bill
for this fiscal year that prohibits such American support.
In the name of preventing communism from spreading in
this hemisphere, the administration seems to be encouraging the
CIA to do everything it did in Chile and elsewhere a decade ago.
At the same time, the FBI, in the name of fighting terrorism or
anticipating and preventing crime, proposes again to infiltrate
many groups that the FBI or the Attorney General designates as
violence prone.
It may sound fine to have the FBI place informers inside
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unpopular groups like the Ku Klux Klan, until you remember that
the federal government even now is being sued for millions by
people who claimed that FBI informers were the perpetrators and
agitators of a lot of KKK crime.
Moreover, the infiltrations start out with terrorist-
type groups, but soon the nuclear freeze, anti-draft, civil
rights, women's rights and other groups become targets. Then
we're back to Co-and-Tel-Pro [?], the discredited old FBI scheme
to disrupt and destory groups on the hit list of the director,
the attorney general or both.
Current FBI Director William Webster restored most of
the Bureau's respect by operating it under stricter guidelines.
But this administrtation likes some of the old procedures and
thinks that it can restore them while the public dozes.
One FBI veteran recently claimed that he had particiated
in two illegal entries on behalf of the Bureau. He may or may
not have been telling the truth, but whatever the case, it's bad
for both the FBI and its director's fine reputation to have these
charges surfacing again.
Such charges become more believable when people note
that the FBI has jumped out front in efforts to mangle the
Freedom of Information Act, and that a move has sprung up in this
administration' to give the CIA authority to infiltrate domestic
groups. Also, when you consider that President Reagan has made
it harder for the public to get foreign policy information by
ordering secret declassification stamped on documents and data
never before given secrecy lables.
Congress had better stand up the way it did in 1974 and
1975 when revelations of CIA and FBI abuses so outraged the
nation. Attorneys general and CIA directors must not operate
under whatever set of guidelines they like. Congress ought to
set the rules for the FBI and the CIA and ensure that incumbent
directors abide by them.
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nail for a month was forced to admit he didn't have the votes,
and Kasten did. The result: a deal on Kasten's terms. No tax
withholding on interest and dividends until 1987 and then only
if the General Accounting Office finds and both houses of
Congress agree that there is significant tax cheating on
investment income. Banks and savings & loans mounted a huge
lobbying and mail drive against the law passed last year that
would require starting this July 10% of all interest and
dividends to be withheld for taxes. It isn't a new tax, but the
paperwork was enough to make the banks oppose it, and they got
millions of customers to join their campaign to repeal the law.
The compromise finally agreed to isn't repeal, but Kasten said
it's just as good. KASTEN: In my opinion, the possibility of
ever having withholding on interest and dividend income is very
remote.
HUME: But would the administration buy it? Treasury Secretary
Regan indicated not. REGAN: My own personal position as well
as that of the administration is that we should stand firm. The
president last Saturday said that he would veto it, and when he
says something, he usually sticks to it.
HUME: The secretary may talk that way now, but the Senate seems
likely to pass the Kasten plan tomorrow, and there is at least
as much anti-withholding sentiment in the house, so there seems
a good chance the president., instead of casting a veto that
Congress might well override, will decide to go along with this
deal. Brit Hume, ABC News, on Capitol Hill.
REYNOLDS: In a moment, more on the bombing of the U.S. Embassy
in Beirut. ABC News has now learned that more CIA agents were
killed in the attack. We'll also have a report on those Libyan
planes caught sending arms to Nicaragua, and later in this
broadcast, did a Brink's truck holdup lead to a much larger
crime ring involving drugs and prostitution?
AP03 LEBANON/ REYNOLDS: Now the Middle East. We reported last night that the
EMBASSY CIA's senior Middle East analyst Robert Ames was among those
EXPLOSION killed in Monday's bombing. ABC News has now learned that in
addition to Ames, three other CIA agents in Beirut, the entire
U.S. contingent, were killed in the bombing. At the White house
today, flags were flying at half staff in mourning for the
Americans killed in Beirut. A high level U.S. delegation leaves
for Beirut tomorrow to escort the remains of the dead Americans
back to this country. Now once again in Beirut, here is Peter
Jennings. Peter?
JENNINGS: Frank,' here at the embassy itself, they keep digging
and finding more bodies today. It's a slow process. Ambassador
Dillon said it may be some time before the full extent of
American and Lebanese losses are known. Nine Americans have
been found dead. Eight are still missing and presumed dead.
Thirty-two Lebanese have been found dead. No one is certain how
many are missing. The ambassador rejected speculation that
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Philip Habib, the president's envoy, was supposed to be in the
embassy when the explosion occurred. Lebanese security
continues to pick up and interrogate a variety of people. That
doesn't mean they are any closer to discovering who actually did
it. Here's ABC's Mike McCourt.
MCCOURT: When the bomb exploded on Monday, one of the embassy
staff's highest priorities in the midst of the flaming chaos all
around was to protect and save vital classified papers. They
got them out any way they could. Today as the search progressed
for additional bodies in the wreckage, senior embassy officials
were continuing their hunt for more sensitive material. A short
distance away Marine guards were burning damaged files outside a
temporary embassy headquarters. Inside, staff members, many of
them injured, were back at work. *Dundas McCollough was buried
in a consular section when the bomb went off. MCCOLLOUGH: I
struggled to stand erect. I thought what might kill me aside
from the explosion was suffocation.
MCCOURT: Other survivors say the blast was at first like a
rushing wind until the building caved in. JOHN REID (Press
Attache): I mean, I remember trying to dig myself out, and then
a couple of the officers from OMC came and helped me out into
the hallway, and I could walk.
MCCOURT: In spite of the shock and trauma of Monday, the entire
surviving staff, according to Ambassdor Robert Dillon, wants
only to get back to normal. DILLON: We have begun operations.
I would not call it full operations, but we're trying very hard
to get back into operation.
MCCOURT: For others, though, this week has not been a matter of
firm resolve to carry on as before. This Lebanese woman has
been waiting since Monday for news of her husband. She has
heard nothing but insists on staying here day and night until
she does, and late this afternoon another woman who had also
been waiting identified a red sweater. It belonged to her
husband, and it was all she found. Mike McCourt, ABC News, in
Beirut.
JENNINGS: One other note from here tonight about the Lebanese
foreign minister. Before the Israeli invasion last summer, Elie
Salem was a professor at Beirut's American University. He gave
a news conference today, and to borrow a phrase, he's mad as
hell, and he doesn't want his country to take it any more. What
about the attack on the embassy? SALEM: Lebanon is sick and
tired of such "anomie behavior on its territory.
JENNINGS: Salem, who went to university in the states, is one
of those unusual Lebanese who cares less for his religion or
clan than his nation, and what fosters his anger is Lebanon's
inability to prevent other nations and their gunmen manipulating
the body politic here. SALEM: Israel fights the PLO. The real
victim is Lebanon. Syria fights Israel. The real victim is
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Lebanon. America and the Soviets compete inside Lebanon. The
real victim is Lebanon.
JENNINGS: Lebanon's preoccupation at the moment is how to get
rid of these Israeli troops. After that, if it happens, it will
be how to get rid of the Syrians and the PLO and the Iranians
and all the others who serve as surrogates for more powerful
forces than Lebanon. SALEM: Lebanon is frankly frustrated by
the efforts of the others to make of Lebanon a security zone for
themselves.
JENNINGS: But that's the way it is and has been. It is often
said here what this country needs is a miracle. Frank?
AP04 REAGAN/ADDRESS REYNOLDS: Thank you, Peter. It was announced today that
President Reagan will address a joint session of the Congress
next Wednesday night. The subject: increased aid for El
Salvador and other Central American countries. A House
committee voted yesterday against the president's request for an
additional $50 million for El Salvador.
AP05 BRAZIL/ REYNOLDS: It's likely that in his speech the president will
LIBYAN PLANES refer to those Libyan cargo planes that stopped in Brazil and
were then found to be carrying arms and explosives for
Nicaragua. Pentagon correspondent John McWethy has more on how
that incident occurred.
.MCWETHY: ABC News has learned that the four planes left Libya
last weekend, refueled in Mauritania on the west coast of
Africa, then were headed for Manaus, Brazil, and eventually
Nicaragua when one of the aircraft, an American-made C-130,
developed mechanical problems. All four planes then landed at
the Brazilian city of Recife. After some delays, three of the
planes, Russian-made `'Aleutians, flew to Manaus, a Brazilian
city in the Amazon Jungle en route to Nicaragua. All this time.
the Libyan pilots were claiming that they had medical supplies
aboard. The pilot of the C-130, according to Brazilian sources,
finally admitted under questioning that there were more than
medical supplies on his plane, and Brazil ordered all of the
aircraft seized. Brazilian and American sources now say there
are no medical supplies as originally stated by the Libyan
government. Instead there are weapons, explosives and military
spare parts, all of which have now been unloaded and seized by
the government of Brazil. Libya's leader, Col. Muammar Khadafy,
is quoted as saying today that he 'regrets the dishonesty of one
of his civil aviation officials who misled Brazil about what was
on the plane.' Brazil has filed a protest. U.S. sources say
there were several Russians among the 40 crew members on the
aircraft. The Reagan administration has been accusing the
Soviet Union of supplying weapons to the leftist regime in
Nicaragua through such middlemen as Libya and Cuba, but the
president has lacked hard evidence. Now thanks to Brazil, he
has the proof. John McWethy, ABC News, the Pentagon.
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