SPOOKING THE NAMERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605830022-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: November 12, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE VILLAGE VOICE
12-18 November 1980
By Jeff:btein .? yr ?r `.':'
It was during the craiiesl "days 0:09.
early 1970s when the Movement had spu.out of control and existed only on a 'single
,piston's worth of black comedy-an d,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 the+'ctpitol.; And then
there were Ellen Ray-and Bill Schaap, two.-
.crazy Americans way - out,there "on the
Pacific rim of the' empire, in.Okinawa,
organizing workers at the big air baseand'
helping GIs getout' of going to Vietnam;
And they had these kites :. these kites to
bring down B-52s, kites with tinfoil string-1,
ing from them that ' they'd fly" right up I
there in front of these huge jets loaded I
with 10,000-pound bombs lofting , off. the
'runways of Okinawa on another run to the'l
Mekong Valley: Bill and Ellen; standing.
there at the end of the runway with their
kites, trying to lasso a goddamri,B-521
'Ellen Ray is remembering all 'this 10
years laterin the bar of the National Press
Club in Washington, four blocks from the:,,
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
.emerges with another.listof.CIA'agent9
ready for the pages: 6f- Codort. Attion.In-
formation -Bulletin.`'
Wolf, Schaap,. and Itayalong with;former CIA agent Philip Agee=ore?the
people who name the names of.CIA agents.
their
Every other month,' they publish...
Bulletin, full of in-depth articles about
CIA operations and teeliniques. But it. is
the little section near the Sack of the book
wall.-This is the section where they up~
their lists of CIA staffs around the worl
from Burundi to Bangkok: Along the v
they've published two books, Dirty. W
Ther'CIA in'Weisterri: Europe, and D
Worh;(II); `The CIA`in Africa:
,;They are driving everybody up the wall.
'Everybody:`No' natter that they get the
names from poring through old diplomatic
lists in the archives just move your finger
`dowri:? the list' of.. the Biographic. Register
till'you findahe`guy who came into the
State Department in '58, spent three years
as.an,.'.'analyst"--,with. the U.S." Army in,
Labs*. from '61 to.'63, }'temporary duty" at'
the Pentagon in 1965, on leave in."private
business"= for another couple years, and
then` back to the State Department for''
duty,-in Chile when Allende was over-1
thrown=it's easy. enough for a seven year
old, to figure out who the spooks are, but,
Wolf" and Chas,
p, "and Ray are. driving
people crazy.
'
And its not dust the CIA that has been
trying to. put them out of business:,Mem;
hers of Congress are so angry, they've taken
the. First Amendment- by the neck and
strangled. it with 'a bill, likely to pass soon,
that will make it .a crime-three years in
jail, $10,000? fine-to. print the names of
CIA agents; even. if. they've been gathered
from public' sources and -printed. before.'
The' first' people `to go to jail will be-
Schaap; Ray;"Wolf; and Agee, once one of
the CIA's best agents in Latin America,
.now.-an 'apostate in Europe, lobbing his
books like grenades from across the Atlan.?
.
They've been asking for it, it's said, and
now they're going to get it. The moguls of
I the editorial rooms hate them too. The.
2:: 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 1'5 spooks in the U.S.';
embassy. IV'ot five years after. the govern--:
ment's been toppled, butright now, while'
the CIA's doing.it
The CIA has been gritting its teeth over
the:Bulletin.(and its. predecessor,:Coun-,
terspy) for nearly a`decade, trying unsuccessfully through a series of maneuvers toy
put it out of business and its editors in jail:
But it. wasn't until last July~that serious
clouds of: repression to"ng on..the,..horizon
gathered into a furious storm :Somebody
shot up the house of one bf the CIA dgenta
in,Jamaica
Suddenly, the. ?"Intelligenc&' Identities
Protection Act"_ Wpt fromi _ the-discard j
bin, where it had - been since'-:1978, ; and
raced through both sides of.Capitol Hill as
fast as a congressional pay'rai.se.. By last,
monthsuper-patriots .like': Long Island'
Democrat Jerome `Ambrc Were screaming;
about-a death pe'n'alty for those-'who have':
access to classified=.inforrlSdtion,and leak'
it. (Presumably `Ambio well construct an;
amendment exempting 1'Zbigniew!
Briezinski.)
"Will this get Agee?" one senator asked
Judiciary Committee Chairman Ted Ken-.
riedy. as the bill!was ramrodded throughl
markup in the-smallest room on Capitol"
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