AFTER ELLSBERG: COUNTER-SPY

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This is in part directed to Norman Mailer; but only in part.
Anyone interested in supporting a serious; systematic
probe into secret operations against the Constitution by gov-
ernment and private agencies can be of use. -
it was Dan ElIsherg's 'hope,
after he had released the Pen-
tagon Papers, that others--both
former and present government
employes-would follow his ex-
ample -and Make public informa-
tion that the citizenry has. the
right and, as Watergate rat.hpr
emphasizes. the need to know.
Last year, Illsberg told me that
while he was disappointed there
had been no marked initial move-
ment in that direction, "f do see a
very small beginning trend."'
An- encouraging index of that
and Secretary of State.William
Rogers on the effects of American I
bombing. in Southeast Asia. Butz
is also a former project manager,:
of Project Air War.
Around May .1972. Winslow
Peck got the idea for what came
to be the Committee for . Ac-
tion/Research on the-Intelligence
Corrimunity. The following is' cx
cerpted from a' statement, "Why
CARIC?," in the second. issue of
the - committee's . publication,
Counter-Spy:.:: '?: ...
There is no agency of
government-directly responsible.
b
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h
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as
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e 4VL-," - ~? , telligence. Now former in?l
CARIC: the Committee for- Ac
tion/Research on the Intelligence ; telligence workers, Vietnam Vet-
Community. I have talked to two
of the three full-time organizers
of C :*1?RIC and have read their
reports. The foundations for what
Norman Mailer has called. tho
Fifth Estate already exist.
First, the organizers.
Winslow Peck worked for al-
most four years as an intelligence
analyst for the National Security
Agency and was stationed in is.
tanbul and Souther st Asia. "Dur-
ing the two year,, I spent in
Istanbul," Peck says, "I was in-
volved, I felt, in playing' in-
telligence games with the Rus-
sians. I enjoyed it. Like most peo-
ple in government, I was apoli-
tical at the time. But then I went
to Vietnam for NSA, and that was
no ganic. I was killing people.".
K. Barton Osborn was an
"Agent llanrller" in U. S. Army
Intelligence and Security from
1966 to 1009. Both in'Vietnam and
in Washington, lie worked with
the murderous. -Operation
Phoenix. .
Tim Butz served in' U. S. Air
Force reconnaissance units . in
Vietnam and Germany.
In recent years, all tin?ee have
been active in the anti-war Inove-
mcnt and all joined Vietnam Vc?t-
cr?ans Against the V,'ar. In 1071,
Cxsborit tc:,'.ii ir:d before the House
it:',cnrnn~ittt~c's on Foreign
)peratir,r,s and (;1)verntnc'nt lri-
orination. In A1tt'll 1072, B i I t z vlas
a witness bcinre. the Senate.
Foreign Ilelatiorls Committee in
rebuttal to statements by then
i>cfcn~e S eretary Melvin T gird
erans, and concerned citizens
have formed the Committee for
Action/Research . on the In-
telligence Community (CARIC) to
serve as 'an independent
'watchdog' on the government
spy apparatus. We have formed
the committee to provide the vital
information an aware public
needs to know about government
operations. The - secrecy with
which the government surrounds
itself Must stop. . .
"CARIC will serve as an in-
dependent, - publicly" sponsored
source of analysis and informa-
tion: on the practices, organiza-
tion, and objec'.ives of U.S. In-
telligence., What clandestine ac-
tions are being carried out in the
name of. America? Is the CIA
preparing ? to ? entangle us in
another war similar to Indochina?
What information is going into
federal data banks on innocent:
American citizens. . .. Whose
phones are tapped in America?
These are some of the questions
CAR IC hopes to answer.
"Although CARIC does believe
that a massive government spy
apparatus is at work in the world,
we hope to dispel some of the
paranoia citizens naturally feel
when there is talk of spies and
wirc.taps. We know that the FBI
does not }lave agents behind
every tree, but there cu ca a only, in
every majoi? town in this country
who have, . spied on innocent
private and public, citizens. Only a
full and undisguised look at this
hiddesilwrgricl can displace unwar-
ranted fears, and guide the public
effaif [a end this illegal and un jt
tified'espionage by Big Brother.=?'.
`^-CARIC' knows --that tens of
thousands of Ar.1eric2n citizens
were mobilized over the past
decade to help b '..^.g an end to the
government's war in Indochina. a
war that has taken new forms'
tinder the direction of U. S. in-
telligence agencies. CARIC hopes
that these same concerned citi-
zens will continue to oppose the
government's policies and bring
an end to this new form of covert
war... " .
From their own backgrounds
and contacts in intelligence
agencies. the members of CARIC
had a firm base from which to
start gathering and analyzing in-
forrnation, some of it classified.
However, as CARIC pointed out in
the first issue of -Counter-Spy,
"none of the information pre-
(in our publications), no
matter hove -ernbarrassing to the
U. S. government, will pose a
threat to national security. It has
been estimated by a
congres- sional committee that 90 per cent
of government information now
classified should not be classified
at all."
Nonetheless. when " CA1UIC
began, being a I)ublic counter-sry
was hind of scary for those in-
volved. For perhaps the first time
'in American history, a rroap of
fm:tier government intelligence
,agents was operly trying, to eX-
pose the inierconneclions of the
in?,'isil?e g*overnme'n.t. from the
`CIA's "dirty tricks" division to
rnutcne ses of the Pill of
in
by )e.. _'t .,rd
Squads aro the eo :airy.
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fluence on all o;" us in CARIC."
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