INVESTIGATION OF CIA OVERSEAS CHANGES ASKED

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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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WASHINGTON ( Rep. Stevens
D. Symms (R-Ida.) asked the House
Intelligence. Committee Tuesday ;tor
investigate how many overseas CIA; 'k
agents were being reassigned-or dis-
missed. t,.)
Symms also urged the committee,tor
find out whether the personnel cuts
were. taking_place-? the -sam -time
that Soviet. spy.-operatiaus.-tivere- ex ;-4
parading.- ..... = ti
He--quoted--arr unidentified- l:i^,lz
-ranking CIA source as saying I,Z00 oi~ -
the CIA's 4,500 operations employe*
would be cut.
However, Symms conceded that,
that figure and reports of expanded,
Soviet intelligence activity could.-be
wrong. But he said the committee
should investigate to determine tlie,
faSymms said he made the request 0nk
behalf of the American ConservativA
Union, of which he is a director. ' ,:>
At the same time, Symms retease4
a letter he sent to President Cartea
which said Soviet "operational activt-
ties are expanding at an tmprecedent.
ed rate."
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ON 's Cloak y Pleads
By Orr Kelly
Washington Star Staff Writer
The United States must
be careful not to destroy its
intelligence agencies in the
process of investigating
them CIA Director William
F. Colby says.
In a speech yesterday to
a daylong meeting -spon-
sored by the American Con-
servative Union,. Colby de-
clared:
"The rules of intelligence
operations are not confined
to those taught in Miss
Feebie's dancing school.
"It is -thus. totally unjust
to ask the dedicated men
and women of CIA, who
served their country at the
front of danger; also to
serve now as 'a national
scapegoat for a'revision of
our values and consensus of
the past 20 years.
"WE MUST investigate
our intelligence, but we
must do so i a responsible
manner, so that we do not, 5,
or 10 years from today,
investigate why and how we
'destroyed. our intelligence
in 1975."
David Atlee Phillips, for-,
mer head of CIA operations!
in Latn America and now
president of the Association
of Retired Intelligence Offi-
cers, was even more point-
ed in his warning of poten-
:.tial danger from the
current investigation of;
intelligence operations.
He said he -was particu-i
larly concerned about the!
demand of Rep. Otis Pike'!
t
chairman of the
House committee investi-
gating U.S. 'intelligence
operations, for access to the
names of agents.
If the committee should
receive names of sources,
staff members who might
have access to those names
would be a prime target of
the Soviet KGB for the next
10 years, he warned.
IN AN EARLIER ses-
sion, FBI Director Clarence
IVI. Kelley said that he
hopes to have FBI agents
assigned to -protect mem-
bers of Congress and their
staffs from the KGB.
Asst. FBI Director. W.
Ray Wannall told the group
that, if they become aware
of a persistent effort by
KGB agents to contact
specific staff members,. the
FBI warns the senator or
representative for whom
the staff member works.
Despite increasing evi-
dence of operations by KGB
agents and those of the
GRJJ Soviet military intelli-
gence agency on Capitol
Hill, Kelly and Wannall said
they, have. no evidence that
anyone on the Hill has been
successfully recruited as a
Soviet agent.
Wannail said some Soviet
agents openly gher infor-
mation and even lobby for
legislation, while others at-
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in real
trouble," he declared. them,
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Many nations have investigated their intelligence
services. Sometimes this has been because of abuses,
suspected or real. Sometimes it is because of failings.
The United States investigated its intelligence services
after Pearl Harbor and drew the lesson of the need for
central intelligence, to draw together all the bits and
pieces of information available to our Government into
an overall assessment.
A major difference exists between most of these
investigations and the one we are now engaged in with respect
to American intelligence. Most have appointed. a respected
individual such as a judge, with full authority to conduct
the investigation in secrecy. In the fullness of time, he
delivered his final conclusions and recommendations after
a sober and serious review, unaccompanied by press coverage
or leak.
Our present investigation is a legislative one. Some
subjects are indeed investigated in privacy, but some are
displayed to the TV cameras. The purpose is to ensure
that we in America have a responsible intelligence service.,
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one which will conform to our Constitution and laws. But
in this process, we Americans must be responsible about
the way we go about our investigation. If we yield to the
temptation of sensation, we can hurt our safety. If we seek
publicity, we can reduce our protection. Our investigators
must be responsible with respect to. the sensitive informa-
tion they learn. And our intelligence personnel must be
responsible to retain the secrets they pledged to respect,
as well as to follow the oath they took to our Constitution
and laws.
This responsibility is not only a political responsi-
bility; it is a moral responsibility. It is a responsibility
for the lives of our agents, for the livelihood of the
American companies and individuals who helped their govern-
ment with the assurance that their connection with intelli-
gence would never be revealed, for the integrity of the work
of our technicians who discovered chinks in an adversary's
armor which can be corrected if disclosed, and indeed for
the lives of all Americans who seek safety and peace from
the many threats facing us in today's world and the world
of the future.
We live in a dangerous world. A nuclear missile 30
minutes away is aimed and cocked at us here. The mutual
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deterrents we may have established with our major adversary
can be frustrated by the spread of easily manufactured
nuclear weapons to reckless despots or paranoiac terrorists.
The increasing interdependence of the world's economy, the
growing problems of over-population and under-production,
and the instability of a world order in which only about
thirty of the 142 United Nations share our democratic
standards of government, all pose a danger to our country.
The rush of technology into new dimensions poses the hope
of its use for the settlement of human problems but also
the danger of its use in unexpected weapons systems.
Thus we need good intelligence today and we will need
it in the world of the 80's and 90's. We must not allow
ourselves to be hypnotized by the mistakes or even the
misdeeds of intelligence in the 50's and 60's so that we
are blinded to the problems ahead and deprive our country
of the intelligence needed to anticipate and meet them.
I do not say that we should not look backward and
learn lessons from the past. But when we look backwards,
let us look at the whole picture and not just the individual
incidents. Let us apply the intelligence doctrine of cen-
tralizing all the information before we make an overall
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assessment about our intelligence capabilities, not depend
only on one jigsaw piece. Let us see the good with the
bad. Let us see the big with the small. Let us add the
new to the old. Let us listen to the studious as well as
the brave. Let us learn from technology as well as the
library. Out of all these, we will see that we Americans
have the best intelligence in the world.
The best intelligence is not necessarily perfect. We
do not yet have, nor pretend to have, a crystal ball at the
CIA building. Rather, we centralize all the raw information
open, clandestine, technical. We subject it to rigorous
analysis by a corps of experts which cannot be matched in
any other country. Their products are educational in the best
sense of the word. They raise the level of understanding
of our Government of the forces and factors at work in the
world around us. Taking bits and pieces of information
they draw precise measurements, not only of where hostile
weapons are today, but also of the development and deploy-
ment programs which will bring new weapons into existence
years ahead.
There are unknowables as well as unknowns in the world
.around us. We make no pretension that our intelligence
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product is an advance copy of the World Almanac of 1.977.
Rather our products give our national leadership a better
understanding of the problems ahead and the probabilities
that they may occur. We do not cry wolf every day, because
it is our obligation to help our Government avoid unnecessary
expenditure for defense as well as to warn of the need for
it. Our warnings stimulate our Government not only to take
measures to defend or deter against threats, but also
positively to negotiate them away. Thus intelligence today
contributes to peace rather than merely defends against war.
It provides the basis for resolving political and economic
problems rather than predicting their inevitable arrival.
I have said that we welcome responsible investigation.
I have admitted that there have been missteps and misdeeds
in the past 28 years of our history. I insist that these
have been few and far between, indeed far fewer than would
have occurred in any community the size of our intelligence
agency over such a period. In fact, all of these have been
presented to our investigators by the intelligence community
itself, coming from our own self-examination and correction
of where we did not measure up. But the rules of intelli-
gence operations are not confined to those taught in
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Miss Phoebe's dancing school. It is thus totally unjust to
ask the dedicated men and women of CIA who served their
country at the front of danger also to serve now as a
national scapegoat for our penitence for our policies and
consensus of the past 20 years. We must investigate our
intelligence, but we must do so in a responsible manner,
so that we do not, five or ten years from today, investigate
why we destroyed our intelligence in 1975.
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APR 2 7=1969
By IODNEY CROWTIIEId,
[Washington Bureau of She Sun]
Washington ,? April 26-The
American Conservative Union
imade public today, a special
!study which charges that some
ax-exempt foundations are re
,sponsible for "much recent ur-
ban and college campus tur-
f moil."
The study, made public by
tions engaglng.ln political activi-
ty.
The' study also charges that
the National Rural Electric Co-
Operative Association has
openly paid for propaganda ad-
vertisemcnt.s in such magazines
as Look, Harpers and The Atlan-
tic "to arouse public support for
co-ops as a necessary clement in
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the American power system.
"N.R.E.C.A. paid for these
ads," the study charges, "and
for the 12 lobbyists it maintains
Representative John M. Ash-
i brook (R., Ohio), national chair-
man of the American Conserva-
Itive Union, was prepared by Al-
lan C. Brownfield, who was the
,author of a recent special study
of the New Left for The Senate
(Judiciary Committee.
s Political Activity Charged
at the Capitol, out of tax-exempt
revenues from tax-exempt rural
cooperatives, which were creat-
ed and directly subsidized by
the federal treasury."
to prevent-build dams in . the
`.. '
Grand Canyon."
In a section of the, report-
'deal-ing with activities ' of the Ford
Foundation, the charge is made
that the foundation was the ca-
talyst of New ?ork school disor-
ders.
.The foundation helped finance
an experiment in school decen-
tralization in the Ocean Hill-
Brownsville section which later
became the focus of three city-
wide teacher strikes.
Albert Shanker, who as presi-
dent of the United Federation of
Teachers led the walkouts, is
quoted as charging the Ford
Foundation with undermining
his union.
The study also charges that
ti on conceives of its role not as
educations but as political."
The study declares that
though few -Americans are
aware of it, much of the current
unrest and revolution on college
and university campuses can be
traced "to a tax-exempt student
organization which has fully ex-
ploited its tax-exempt status to
promote its far left-wing views.".
CI, Tic Suggested
This e the the National Student
Association which once was
denied tax exemption, but later,
granted it under circumstances,i
the. study charges,' suggesting!
that the original exemption may
have been given "at the behest
of the CIA." -
The' study cites a substantial
list of activities which it calls
"lobbying and politcs" in viola-
tion of the student organization's
tax-exemption-its demand that
the House Un-American Activi-
ties Committee (now the Inter-
nal Security Committee) be
abolished and its advocacy of
the admission of Red China to
the United Nations.
The study accuses the Internal
Revenue Service of having a
double standard in that it re-
voked the tax-exemption of the
Sierra Club for lobbying for
preservation of forests, parks
and other natural resources, but
failed to raise a word of warning
to the Central Arizona Project
Association which spent $74,065
"solely to get Congress to do
what the Sierra Club was trying
i The special targets of the
{American Conservative Union
study are the Ford Foundation
and the National Student Asso-
Ciation.
i The Ford Foundation and the
student group are charged with
'engaging openly- and flagrantly
in violation of the prohibition
against tax-exempt organiza-
the foundation has given sub-
stantial financial assistance to
Harjem's Intermediate School
No. 201, despite continuous man-
ifestations of anti-Semitism, rac-
ism and violence.
,,it is clear," the study de-
clares, "that the Ford Founda-
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Part' involvement in these ! peproductionocots, Lewis said,
deplonsttations.".. -would be equally borne by
He `noted that "Opera ion himsel Bruce and Newscope's'
third director, Roy Burlew, fi-i
Lance-CIrairmatr of the Anmcri-f
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leading fund-raiser for Barry!
Goldwater in 1964.
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