ANTI-DESTABILIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100040016-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: November 11, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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By John D. Marks
WASHINGTON-Now that President
Ford has-publicly asserted 'that the
United States has a right to "de-
stabilize" foreign governments, other
countries might` consider 'whether to
permit entry to America's agents of
subversion, operatives of the Central.
Intelligence Agency.
.These people, after all, 'engage, : in
covert activities that the Director of
Central ,Intelligence, William E. Colby,
recently admitted wouldbe crimes if
committed in this country.
Why should any sovereign nation
stand for that sort of thing, and, more
important, what 'can a country do to
protect itself from C.I.A.-attack?
Foreign governments could inform
the State Department that employes the most determined and clever gov-
of the C.I.A. and other United States ernment- could probably not stop the
spy agencies area. not :welcome: and flow of. secret C.I:A. funds of the type
must be withdrawn -immediately .if the that President Ford has admitted were
United States wishes to. continue dip- secretly paid- to :Chilean -Opposition
lomatic relations. leaders and newspapers.
As long.as there are citizens willing
Admittedly, Britain, Canada and ' to accept the laundered C.I.A. funds,
South Africa would probably not expel the agency.will contrive ways to get
the C.I.A. because the ageftcy operates money to them.
in these countries mainly to exchange . For example, in Greece the C.I.A. has
intelligence data and maintain close over the years recruited thousands of
liaison. political, military, police, labor,.news
Similarly, the Soviet Union almost media, and academic figures. Now as
certainly would not want to expel Greece restores democracy and moves
C.I.A. operatives, since the United away from America's all-encompassing
States would surely retaliate with embrace, there is real fear in the
similar action, breaking an unwritten Greek Government that the United
rule that both powers have a right. States will act to stop what Washing-
to spy on the other. ton policymakers perceive as a left-
But allied and third-world countries ward drift.
that have no, wish to infiltrate our
Government or to "destabilize" our
democratic institutions-as the C.I.A. While the. Greek. Government could
did to Chile's--might .declare them probably identify and expel most. of
selves espionage-free . zones. They the. C.I.A. operatives-60, according to
could make clear that their refusal to one - newspaper. report-the many
allow the . operations of the C.I.A.. Greeks already in. the C.I.A.'s employ
(or K.G.B., or any other foreign in. would remain as potential fifth colum-
telligence service) should not be con- nists to which the agency could pro-
sidered an unfriendly. act; vide assistance.
Since all C.I.A. personnel are abroad Perhaps the way for Greece to rid
on false pretenses;- finding them- in herself of the C.I.A.'s pervasive influ-
order to expel them would be a poten- ence would be to declare a general
tial problem. but one. greatly simpy- amnesty for all citizens who are with
fled by the C.I.A.'s standard procedure the agency. If genuine forgiveness were
of sending most of its operatives promised in return for immediate co-
abroad as bogus State Department of- operation, and stiff penalties promised
ficers. for those convicted or staying on the
Over 25 per cent of the people who C.I.A. payroll after the amnesty period,
are listed as working'for the depart- enough, of the C.I.A.'s Greek contacts
ment overseas are actually with the might provide sufficient information
C.I.A. And by cross-checking two un- to enable the Government to start un-
classified State Department publica. raveling the agency's extensive agent
tions, the Foreign. Service List and the network.
Biographic Register, most of the C.I.A. The point is that foreign govern-
operatives,'normally listed as Foreign ments do not need to stand by idly
tinguished Service from Reserve Officers, America's can real be di
diplos- . - while the C.I.A. attempts to "destab-
mats, the Foreign Service Officers. ilize" them.
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While there are ? Reserve Officers hn D. Marks is on Associate of the
who do not work for the C.I.A., those Center for National Security Studies
who'do are cons rcuous y into. tg Wa i g
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cludes loi? service in such vague- the Cult: ,f Intelligence."
sounding Jobs as political analyst,
Department of the Army."
Identifying American' military-intel-
ligence personnel abroad is even
easier. In countries where there are no
United States forces stationed, most
of them are simply called defense
attaches.
C.I.A. operatives under "deep cover"
-primarily as American businessmen.
but also as newsmen, missionaries, and
students=-would be more difficult to
spot than their "diplomatic" brethren,
but a government could handle many'
of these by announcing that any cor-
poration knowingly concealing a C.I.A.
man would be subject to expropriation.
Certainly not all United States intel-
ligence operatives could be discovered,
but such tactics could seriously disrupt
C.I.A. operations. Nevertheless, even
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