SPOOKING THE NAMERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505350007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 18, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Bay Jeff. Stein` ? ~;:%;r- :,; ;{.3:
It was during the craiiest'days.of: the
early 1970s when the Movement had spun
out of control and existed only on a 'single
'piston's worth of black comedy, and, third.
? rate street theatre. Vietnam vets taking
over the Statue of Liberty and flying the
" flag upside down. Leslie'Bacon bombing'!
the men's room of then capitol. And, then''!
there were Ellen Ray-and Bill Schaap, twoj
.crazy Americans way- out ,there 'on the
Pacific rim of the ' empire, in -.Okinawa; s
organizing workers at the bik air base and'
helping G1s getout of going to Vietnam;
And they had these kites ::. these kites to
bring down B-52s, kites with tinfoil string=
ing from them that' they'd -fly- right up'
there in front of these huge jets loaded
with 10,000-pound bombs lofting off. the
'runways of Okinawa on another run to the'
Mekong Valley. Bill and Ellen; standing'.`
there at the end of the r nway with theirs
kites, trying to lasso a goddamri.B-52!
=a. Ellen Ray is remembering all 'thrs.lQ
years later,in the bar of the National Press'
Club in Washington; four blocks fronrthe;
White House. Bill Schaap; now her hus-
band, fills in 'the details. And across the
table, Louis Wolf takes it all in with. his
permanently etched visage of gloom, suf-
fering this interview and wanting only to
-be back in the- womb- of: the-'National'
-'Archives, from where; ' every' month, .he.I
.emerges with another.list `-of .CIA"ageiit9i
ready-for the pageg'of CoiieriAttion In
formation-Bulletin. "' ^i' s - j' .t Z;
Wolf, Schaap,. and Ray along }with
former CIA agent Philip Agee-are,the
people viho name the names of,C.IA agents.
Every other month' they publish - their
Bulletin full of in-depth article' about now they re going to get it. The moguls of
;
. CIA operations and techniques. But it. is I the editorial rooms hate them too. The
the little section Rear the back of the book]
': well,-direct. I-'mean;:it's one thing to
do your anti-imperialist.. trip putting out.
some' nice little newsletter about,' say,
bank loans in Zaire. But that's not enough
for Schaap, Wolf, and Ray. They go right,
down to Jamaica,. hold a..press conference;
and rip the'cover off 15 spooks in the.U S.;
embassy. Not five years'after.the government's been toppled;but:rightnow,wivhile
the CIA's doing it."'
The CIA has been gritting its teeth over"
the Bulletin (and its predecessor;;Coiin
terspy) for nearly a` decade, trying unsuc-'
cessfully through a series of maneuvers to
put it out of business and its editors in jail.'
But it. wasn't until- last July` that serious
elouds of:repression, long :on."the...horizon
gathered into- a furious storm:.'Somebody
shot up the house of one of the CIA Agents
in,Jamaica
Suddenly; the "tntelligenc&:Identities
Protection Act"..leapt from the-discard
bin, where it had beer since-:1978, -and
raced through both sides of.Capitol Hill as.
fast as a congressional pay raise.. By last.
month, super-patriots like' Long Island'
Democrat-Jerome ;Arnbrq;were.screaming;
Fibout a death penalty for thosewbo have
markup in the-smallest room oh Capitol/
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THE VILLAGE VOICE
12-18 November 1980
that drives,the intelligence agencies u
wall.-This is the section wherethey up
their lists of CIA staffs around the war
from Burundi.to Bangkok-. Along the
they've published two books, Dirty.
The'CIA in .1Vestern" Europe, and
,Worh;(!!)~ The