[THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE IN THE WATERGATE-ITT HEARINGS IS TWOFOLD]

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300130007-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 2, 1973
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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(This is a special report for Subscribers to the Expanded Service of TACTICS magazine. )
The paramount issue in the Watergate,-ITT hearings is twofold: 1. Covert tactics ("dirty tricks") are
legitimate only in actual warfare, and should be effectively legislated against domestically. 2. Covert
tactics are a legitimate and necessary part of actual warfare. Our clandestine warfare establishment
should be protected and perfected, as with any other type of weaponry.
The relevant hearings and inquiries have gone dangerously off the track, also for two reasons:
1. Participants are not knowledgeable in the subject of covert ("black") and overt ("white") pro anda
warfare. 2. The partisan, political aspect a g
predominates, preventing any more than a superficial
consideration of what has only recently been renamed "dirty tricks, " so as to avoid the seemingly
racist connotation in the label, "black.
The peril is that covert tactics in "psy var" (psychological warfare) will be banned to our own
side, while the enemy will continue to put its main reliance upon them.
Now, with this conclusion presented as a preface, what follows is analysis, directly or indirectly
relating to the above.
Washington, D.C., i now the scene of a sophisticated lynching party. The nation is being dragged
into it. Those who started it have a tiger by the tail. They can't let go, even if they wanted ! The tiger
represents the increasing segment of the American people who abstained for so long, but is finally
being coaxed and bullied into joining the still elite mob.
What brought these people in was wholly different than what motivated the original faction, that
was out "to get" the Nixon administration. The public, which all along had abstained from partici-
pation, and was criticized for it by a revenge-seeking press, was finally maneuvered into the mob
action, too, because it provides an outlet for its own, 'pent-up feelings. It had become increasingly
"fed up" through the years, from the Kennedy administration onward, by a growing corruption on the
Washington scene, matched only by the swell-headed arrogance of a self-proclaimed, intellectual
elite. Government, along with money, was being stolen from beneath the noses of the voters.
This indignation, exploited as a vulnerability, was whipped into action by use of the firing of
the Justice Department chiefs and a special prosecutor as a catalyst. This enlargement of the mob
phenomenon threatens the survival of all, including the mob. Those able to maintain a clear head,
and to grasp the primary issue involved, must exert all possible influence to put an end to the hysteria,
for their own survival's sake, as well.
.Hysteria is blinding the sophisticated mob to the danger to national survival inherent in the Middle
East crisis. A free society cannot exist without a free press, for this is its natural voice. But if a
free press can build a free society, it can also destroy it.- This is what has-now been made possible
by a subtle abandonment.by the press of its responsibilities, through such devices as "advocacy re-
porting" and "interpretive news. " News values have been turned around and perverted in an Orwell.ian
frenzy.
This disregard for established, positive news values has confused the public mind to such an ex-
tent that the Soviet Union must be under great tempotation to hurl a pre-emptive, Pearl harbor-type
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