WHO' S BEHIND THE INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000403950008-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 7, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HUB IAN EVENTS
7 February 1981
"~.? An unheralded but important ?add'-='
~? tion to the Congress is a newly created.
panel of the Senate Committee on the ;
. Judiciary--the Subcommittee on'?Ter,':'
. TOreSnl and Security. - - .;:~ ?.~-'
.;,~ ?,-
The 'newness . is ~ mostly ~techrucal;
since Judiciary until a; couplz of years.'
:ago had along-established Subcommit
~~ tee on Internal Security. This panel was
phased out, however, when Sen, Ed-
wazd Kennedy (D.-Mass.) became the'
? chairman of the full committee: Now
"that the Republicans~are in charge, the,..
internal security unit has been revised,;;,
=renamed, and placed under the chair-.='.
manship of Sen.:' Jeremiah Denton
~:By_M., STANTOtJ EVANS_..? .
? ~? These are .matters ?~that .need
.~ .some looking Into by the new Inter
nal. security panel .In the Senate. -;
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`Also In need of careful Inquiry
~
?
the broad-gauged campaign by the ;
people ~of varying ..motives . to .?
and ~ . paraiyze~ ;the :?In
disrupt ~-
.
:; teiligence agencies of our govern
.~:,.went, and to render them useless In ,~
~- combatting" Marxist initiatives in : "
such places. as Iran; or Africa; or ?'~
Latin America: ~ Over the past five ,`
4'., ?
' ~
_
~"~ ~ ears, this effort has been extreme=
y
. .
t;~:
.~- ~ ly effective-with.- consequences~~_
i~ 'that are disastrous -for America 'S
r- =~ and the free world generally. i.: ?~:'
4 :.?? -.
l "To get a picture of this anti-intelli-
f Bence crusade and the motley crew
;engaged in it, the ~ Senate panel might.
want to begin with a newly published
staff report from a Washington foun=;
_ dation called Western Goals. The foun-
dation is headed by Rep. Lawrence
`McDonald (D.-Ga.), 'who has func-
The revival is timely, and the new
committee certainly has its work cut out.
for it. A peculiazity of the campaign to
`abolish the old internal security group,
? and other internal security agencies of
'the government, was that it occurred in
tempo with an upward surge in internal
security troubles. ~ The worse the. prob- ,
lem got, it seems, the more determined ;
the effort to ignore it. :~
Amor4g the difficulties neglected dur-
ing this span have been a marked in-
:crease in the number of Soviet and "
other Communist-bloc Personnel on`'
our soil, attempts by the Soviet KGB to ~i
.cultivate contacts in congressional of-
-;tinned as a virtual one-man internal.
:security committee during his tenure in
.the House. The study; entitled broken
:Seals (309-A Cameron St., Alexandria,
.Va. 22314; S4) has an introduction by
-Rep..John Ashbrook (R.-Ohio), and
an afterwprd by Lt._ Gen. Daniel ~ O.
"Graham,-'both='experts~:in{~>;he matter
extensive activities by Cuban th~~ under discussion.: : `
'"fices
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~telligence-'soperatives,~the=_-theft:~and .'~=: mat "this .study tells us is that
}purchase of official~se~ets; the disserr~~ ..carefully orchestrated and highly suc-
inatiori of forged documents, and so on: ~d~sful war has been cpnducted against
~' While all this was going on, leftwaid::~
}forces.?jni the~goverinmeiiL were: $j+sterit=~
~tically.abolishing, not only the :Senate
Internal Security 'subcommittee', : but -
:the House'Comrnittee~on-lnterrialSe;~
`curtly, the internal seci.erity division"of
the Justice' Department, and the Sub-
versive Activities -Control.~Board=~
while imposing -crippling restrictions
on theFHI. ~ ... .. .:~"~`
=otir -intelligence .and internal security
Tagencies; : in concert:=.with a broader
'campaign": to weaken. America's in=
fluence in the major theaters of global
~coriflict:-: Participants, =iri this 'drama
:often pop up in isolated contexts where
:they seem to have no ~connection~ with
?one another; but the links that tie them
;together are numerous. ` .
-`~==-Most people, fore instance; `have
heard of Philip Agee and his attempts
to expose case:officers working for the
CIA. Few are aware of the assistance
received by Agee from Communist
-Cuba; his appearance .at propaganda
-forums in .Havana, or his professed
....... ,a,..,,.... ,.r.t.,.w c~u~.4~ tat VUVa.~,' ~.~
;,~.. Also active ?in the anti-intelligence)
crusade, the report observes; is the In7
stitute for Policy :.Studies. A:"famousi
;participant 'in- the ? IPS tivas " they latej
,Orlando Letelier: who;`. it turned out;
'was receeving money from Communist
Cuba; and using it in efforts to lobby
Congress, and stir- up resistance to the
'"anti-Communist regime in' Chile. In-`
volved in the eampaigri at other levels
. are the NorthAmerican Congress on
'Latin America-an offshoot ol? the so-
..called "New Left"-the National Law-
. yers' Guild, the Fund for Peace, and.
numerous other groups and individuals.
~'"-'-While there.are doubtless many pen?;
=pie involved in the anti-intelligence
blit2 for innocent reasons, and whilel+
such tIistinctions~ should be kept iri;
mind, "it is also apparent that many
others are involved for reasons that area
not so innocent. The Cuban conrtec-~
tions of Agee and Letelier, and others
promoting this campaign; are not the.
stuff of libertarian idealism.:. _ :: ;,
- - ?=~_,
~:?-Indeed, viewing~~the repeated shelf,
flings of so many of these people back `
end "forth to Havana, the role of the
Cuban "double agents'.'. in attacking ~
the CIA, and the central role of Castro
? in fomenting ,trouble' throughout ~ihe
hemisphere;~,it is hard .to avoid the in-!'
ference that the Cuban bGI=Castro's
version of the KGB-is up to its ears in=
this actevety. ;)
~,
'~. On the evidence of Broken Seals, the
anti-intelligence's crusade has been'
lethally effective in injuring the rele- ~
vans agencies of government and
manipulating public opinion on such
issues. ,The American people need to +
know much more about who is con- ;
ducting this campaign=and why. for ~
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