WATCHDOG FAULTS CIA WAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000302470030-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: February 3, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW HAVEN REGISTER (CT)
3 February 1982
L'sp es operating on every major campus' '
By.RANDALL BEACH ' .
Staff Reporter
The CIA has. spies operating on every major'
American campus, according to Morton Halperin,
director of the Center for National Security Studies.
"I assume they are at Yale,". Halperin said during
a news conference Tuesday at Yale Law School.
Halperin, whose group monitors CIA.activities, said
the Reagan administration has given the intelligence
agency expanded powers at home. He said that when
Congress created the CIA, the agency was intended
solely to gather intelligence abroad.
"But the CIA has secret. agents on every major
American campus. These are professors who have
signed agreements not to reveal their identities. Their
main function is to spy on foreign students. They
recruit these students to go, back home and spy on
their own countries:" .
Halperin said this activity did not originate with
the Reagan administration. "We know that,-at least in
the past, it's happened at Yale."
He called this "a -continuing corruption of the
process of American universities. To have professors
secretly reporting the political beliefs of their students
to the CIA - this is a violation of academic freedom-
qt s 'a program that should be terminated"'
But Halperin said the U.S. government seems to be
headed in the opposite direction. He said the Reagan
directive allows. the I -t: -..L;,onduct covert
activities within the U.S." 'He "said this: means'
"spying on Americans."
"Let's say a Yale professor goes to Poland. He
comes back and the CIA calls him, but he won't
talk with them. However, he meets with the faculty
to discuss his experiences. Under the Carter admin-
istration, CIA spies couldn't go to that meeting. But
under Reagan, they could go secretly, gather infor-
mation and transmit it to the'CIA:- -
. "The Reagan administration has vastly changed
covert operation standards and their frequency. His
people view covert operations as a routine instru-
ment of policy."
defense and as a senior staff member of the
National Security Council. He once worked for
former Secretary' of State Henry Kissinger and
later sued him for wiretapping the Halperin home
phone. Halperin won the case but is still waiting to
Halperin, who obtained his doctorate from Yale,
went on to serve as deputy assistant secretary, of
After the news conference, Halperin told mem-'
collect the damages..
bers of the Yale Political Union. that the CIA has
for decades violated Americans' civil liberties 7I
through such illegal operations as steaming open
mail.
"The CIA should be taken out of the business of
covert operations. These are fundamental viola-
.tions of the basic principles most Americans think
we stand for in the world."
Halperin said the CIA's covert actions abroad
-are also despicable because they have led to CIA-.
agents helping overthrow governments and replac-_
ing them with more repressive regimes, as in
Guatemala and Chile. "This is a subversion of the;
democratic process."
He said CIA agents are still operating in;l
Guatemala. "That government makes- the rulers i
Poland look mild. They practice systematic mur
der." .
Halperin said the CIA is undercutting its own
intelligence-gathering.
"The problem is when the CIA influgnces what's
going on, its reporting suffers. One reason why the=
CIA did so badly in predicting the shah's fall i i
Iran was that its job was to keep him in power.
They have the same problem now in El Salvador
Their job is to keep that government in power."
Halperin originally was supposed to debate
control of the CIA with Roy Cohn, the attorney who
worked with the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy. But
Cohn was unable to come to New Haven Tuesday.
He will meet with the political union tonight. -
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