SECRET PENTAGON INTELLIGENCE UNIT IS DISCLOSED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606410006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 11, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ON PQ6 11 MjY 1983
Secret Pentagon Intelligence Unit Is v1sciosea
By RAYMONID BoN NP.R U~ an agreement with -c - valor ate- I1icaragua a-bettiec tney~
$Podal rhewwvatTlms aian8l leaders, the Reagan Admta- were aware of the activities of the spe-
WASHINGTON, May 10 - The De. tiro bas said that the number of z i. cial unit and that each had
feme Departrdent has set up a special ce d~ is El Salvador note=. said Z. The legislator said he did not
uldt for intelliged e g and ~,. know whether the CI.A. offices we
In won with the jacaragoin telling him the truth or were intact not
,art operations to suppieme~i the Can.
aware o2 what the tacit was doing
.
6- Inteligedce Agency and the De- several sources said, the
prase Intelligence Agency, according to _ is flaming Intaftence to ' kepa rtsd Itskin Dozier Aftatr
several officials and others fA,l+li.* sup,Xat anti-Saari nlst;r and don It The son- said the special Peata-
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the new unit and its activities. not have anyone stationed Imide Nia.
.The sources said that the new Pants- '`= - . - - .. - :. ? '
gun u it, which they ldmtffied as the around ~ -wneid,the
Army Trr_ elligeoca Activity". theuOkhuprvwJdadmill-
was amended w .operate around the
world,- and that two current
were in El Salvador and in support of
the t guerrillas in Nicara.
IML.
Theaistence of the newunit was can.
farmed by a high-rankkag Defame Do.
Par t= official, -who declined to pre>
vide any derails. A department spokes-
man, James Freeman, declined to an.'
swe r questions about the matter.
A former intelligence official and
Goveraunent souses said the unit had clef in jbe Boston wvoemJuly feu said name "Monarch _Z_-Eagle," the
been established in 1990, ? during the united. States -badrovlded intelli. would have provided intelligence
pin-iag of the raid to free the Ameri= Bence suspport to James G. (Bo) Glitz, a the secret unit's field ope nonce. ,
can hostages in Iran. AaSOrdiag to the former Green Beret officer, an private The sources said the C.LA..bad op-
Government sources, the Pentagon had forays into Laos in search of Americans posed this enlarged tateilige ce.gatbet- '
been dissatisfied with the tatelligeaoe rumored to be still'alive and held cap. I ing operation on the
data it was gettiugtrom the C.LA five since the Vietnam War. .lea would arise If mom than one
Clandestine Existence for a Year Although the intelligence committees American intelligence service was ac.
The sourrces said that the unit, for were said to have conducted an investi- live in a partic ular country. The goose
nearly a year, conducted the n , for flame enbsequently, several commit- and Smite Intelligence committees
tee members who were asked about the agreed, according to the sources, and
operations without a''Presidential find- ,mil said Ise. week that they still the new agency was.not set u n.
Congress, and that the "`^""?" """"" `"? wllmu"a s had Pentigm had been fully informed of its operations.
not advised the Senate and Rom Iigedee committees of the unit's mast. One House member, who declined to
awe, as required by law. be identified, said that, during a trip in
One source said that during this Central America, be had asked C.I.A. period the C.I.A. and the Defame Intel- operations chiefs in Honduras, IISal-
ligence Agency, which is the Penta-
gon's regular intelligence unit, hadI
been unaware of the secret van's activi-
ti except possibly "In very vague
The unit was said by the sources to be
operating DoW in complift with -the
law. The said it included clerical and
support personnel along with service-
men and civilians in the field.
Acxoidiag to a Goveznment official,
the unit began operating in El Salvador
about'the time of the elections to the
Co Assembly in March 1962.
He mid the primary ttmction of the
group in El Salvador was lnte}tigence
gatbering.
NUlttsry Iochaded fn the Unit
The official said the group in El Sal-'
valor included servicemen., but be de?
dinsid to mental that aye whether their presence stated exiting on United
States military personnel in El Salva.
.nor was being exceeded as a result.
goo unit played an unspecified iolee In
the resew in January 2962 of Brig. Gm
3ames L Dozier, who had beea'kid-
named bvthe RedBriades thltaly. -
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aged uzchgglaLeidreeti-~ the seetuat eft. -.according -Mo .'the
tiestoeroBectiamettig~x so~ces,~was-Gen. Richard G.149well. I
-MBWMMM declined w the Nopv Mired, Zmaral StilweIl' s=the
uadt1sbeedquart rs,altbou>$htheyindi- Deputy UDder-Se aryafDedeneefor
cated1bat Fort of its Operations were Policy and, in that capacity, plays
Bragg. N.C., , aupparratty leading rule in inteitigeom,
aswaeOMeasion of tbe'Army's Special 11 telligericeandsecsrritypolides.
I'Or' - The sources said General =well bad
The ccm~ al- Com- `' propose'+d setting up an satire newiatel-
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ttea ' sn bled an
the unit's e>zat. ligmoe_gatberiag agmcywithin the De.
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