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Military Intelligence Rebuilt
Says DIA Director Williams
"The U.S. Intelligence Community today has the
confidence and enjoys the full support of the present
administration," Lt. Gen. James A. Williams, USA, told
the AFIO spring luncheon on April 12th.
A major factor, the DIA Director said, has been the
valuable historical perspective DCI William J. Casey
brings to his management of the Community. "Thanks
in large measure to his efforts, DIA now has an excel-
lent day to day working relationship with its intelligence
organization counterparts. Senior leadership has never
been more cohesive." LG Williams noted.
DIA, he said, has increased significantly the visibil-
ity, objectivity and utility of military intelligence esti-
mates at all levels of government, especially for Con-
gress. In addition, the DCI has tasked DIA with more
such estimates because of a desire to exploit the exper-
tise there. "He wants a product that is not pasteurized,
homogenized or footnoted to death." Within DoD, the
unified substantive effort carried out by DIA plays an
integral role in providing the threat estimates and valida-
tion to support acquisition of U.S. weapon systems, he
added.
LG Williams recalled the beginnings of DIA, in
1961, when a small contingent of officers and civilians
moved into a few hundred feet of borrowed floor space
in the Pentagon. Today, its personnel work in four
Washington-area locations and at over ninety attache
and liaison offices abroad.
Phased development of the Agency since that time
has seen an amalgamation of service operational intelli-
gence support, creation of a consolidated and uniform
scientific intelligence production program and consoli-
dation of Defense intelligence training and career devel-
opment. The result, he said, is that today's military
intelligence products far exceed in quality, timeliness
and depth that which was provided previously. Duplica-
tion has been reduced and broad geographical and func-
tional expertise developed. In the process, LG Williams
said, "The spirit of competitive analysis is continually
encouraged so that U.S. policymakers are able to con-
sider fully diverse points of view."
Another benefit stemming from the creation of DIA
is the Defense Attache System. Since 1965, when DIA
became the single focal point on all attache matters,
chiefs of mission now have access to a single point of
Lt. Gen. James A. Williams
Director of DIA
contact on attache military matters. This has had the
result, he said, of a quantum increase in coverage and
quality reporting.
In the scientific and technical intelligence area, LG
Williams noted, there has been a DoD-wide integration
of requirements, resource allocations and tasking res-
ponsibilities in the production of finished intelligence on
foreign weapons systems.
Since 1977, DIA analysts staff the National Military
Intelligence Center, the nation's primary alert center for
indications and warning of impending crises. Located in
the Pentagon next to the National Military Command
Center, the DIA unit produces all source current military
intelligence for worldwide distribution and produce and
disseminate terrorist threat warnings. Serving the Intel-
ligence Center is DIA's Collection Coordination Facility
which facilitates the coordination and tasking of various
imagery, signals, radar and human collection resources.
In the fiscal and resource area, LG Williams said,
the Director, DIA, serves as program manager of the
General Defense Intelligence Program. This gives DoD a
central planning and management capability to review
intelligence objectives and priorities in terms of eco-
nomic feasibility, costs, risks and benefits. Thus, he
added, "An assessment can now be made of the relative
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contribution the various intelligence disciplines can make
toward achieving specific objectives and ensure that,
within fiscal restraints, equitable distribution of intelli-
gence resources to the military departments is effected."
During President Reagan's first term, he said, the
Intelligence Community has experienced a rebuilding of
many of the capabilities lost in the 1970's. New collec-
tion systems have been authorized by Congress and the
budget has enjoyed a rapid growth. An example of this,
said LG Williams, is the Defense Intelligence Analysis
Center, at Bolling AFB. Dedicated last year, the Center
"'symbolizes a new DIA," bringing together in one modern,
highly efficient facility, DIA's basic research personnel,
its scientific and technical experts and those who develop
defense intelligence estimates. The building also fea-
tures a crisis support center to produce timely intelli-
gence support both to the national level at Washington
and to the operational commander in the field.
The Defense Intelligence College, accredited by the
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools,
offers the nation's only master's degree in strategic
intelligence, and is the focal point of all DoD general
intelligence training and education. Course curriculums
range from management to space.
DIA is also searching for solutions. "It does little
good, for example, to design a new collection resource
to dump volumes of information via a real time data link
to a mobile ground station if the information then has to
be laboriously hand-plotted on a map for the tactical
commander." The long-term search for solutions cen-
ters on an early 1990's timeframe, and addresses not
only communications hardware shortfalls, but also pro-
cedural, policy and organizational issues and the flow of
intelligence to operational users.
Other priorities include active support of the new
national narcotics border interdiction system, around
the clock monitoring of terrorist-related activities world-
wide and the continuing and exhaustive search for
POW/MIAs in Southeast Asia. Through all this, the
Soviet Union remains the greatest threat to world peace.
To meet this challenge, DIA has initiated new efforts to
address the subject of treaty non-compliance, space,
chemical and biological warfare and technology transfer.
Looking beyond the-1980s, LG Williams sees a sus-
tained transformation of DIA into a strong competitive
center of analysis within the Intelligence Community. It
will be reaching out to even larger audiences as a result
of advances in high technology. For example, through
closed circuit television Defense Attaches will be provid-
ing on-the-spot analytical coverage of crises and com-
mands will be contributing live commentary on daily
events within their theaters. Finished intelligence will
be distributed on a near realtime basis, and fifth genera-
tion computers will see the beginnings of semi-auto-
mated intelligence analysis. Artificial intelligence will be
used to monitor reports, read books and newspapers,
draw information from other data bases, and widen the
DIA analyst's working capabilities.
The future will see more broad-brush intelligence
for national-level consumers and even greater detailed
intelligence to operational force commanders, both in a
near realtime environment. "We will be able to deliver it
to the Secretary of Defense at his desktop or in his car,"
the DIA Director said.
We in AFIO are saddened by the passing of Derek A.
Lee on April 11, 1985. He had served with OSS from
1943 until 1946 and he had been an AFIO Life Member
since 1976. He founded, and was the first President of
the Greater New York Chapter and served as a member
of AFIO Board of Directors from 1978 through 1984. He
was devoted to the goals of AFIO. The family suggests,
for those members wishing to make a memorial contri-
bution, The Apprenticeship, Rockport, Maine 04856.
Please make the following changes in your
Directory on pages 103-104, AFIO CHAP-
TERS WITH THEIR ADDRESSES:
ARIZONA
Col Robert A. Nugent, USAF(Ret.)
Secretary/Treasurer
4191 Ave. de Montezuma
Tucson, AZ 85749
[phone]
COLORADO
Mr. Charles D. Rockhill, Jr.
Secretary/Treasurer
P.O. Box 9886
Colorado Spring, CO 80932
[phone]
FLORIDA
Suncoast Chapter
Tel: [phone]
NEW MEXICO
Mr. Thomas J. Smith
President
12711 Hugh Graham Rd., NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111
[phone]
OHIO
Mr. L. Fred Lewton
Vice President
28131 Coolidge Drive
Euclid, OH 44132
[phone]
TEXAS
Lone Star Chapter
Maj Joel E. Siskovic, USAF
Vice President
6401 Cairo Drive
San Antonio, TX 78229
[phone]
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NOTES FROM NATIONAL
Taking a leaf from the politician's notebook, the
Executive Director went to visit the three Florida chap-
ters to find out what they thought would be the best
plans for the 1986 location with good highways for the
Floridians and plenty of airlines to choose the best fare
possibilities.
The recommendation that September was too hot
was unanimous and we were able to set the date for
October 17 and 18, 1986. While there are many inter-
esting attractions in the Orlando area, we have to
assume that most of the people who live in Florida will
have visited them at their own convenience. However,
the hotel has agreed to give convention attendees the
special room rates for five days before and five days after
the convention. As soon as you think of Orlando, Disney
World comes to mind and, without a doubt, Epcot Center
is a must place to visit if you have not been there
recently. There are additional interesting things in the
area such as Sea World and the Kennedy Space Center
at Cape Canaveral for visits. We would also consider the
possibility of an AFIO golf day either before or after the
convention if there is enough interest. There appears to
be a group rate with a discount if there are 40 players
signed up.
The most important thing about the convention
being held in Orlando is to have as many possible of the
350 AFIO members in Florida attend the Convention.
The chapters have done quite well with their getting
speakers of interest and using military clubs for their
meetings, but as with all who try to schedule programs,
the availability of good speakers is very limited. National
will try very hard to make the agenda interesting.
We were certainly disappointed about the Naples
Symposium having to be cancelled this year but the
sponsors have agreed to resume the Symposium next
year with the date set for May 5, 1986, in Naples,
Florida.
Probably the question asked most frequently by
AFIO members is, "When is the next pamphlet coming
off the presses?" Unfortunately, we do not have any in
pipeline at this time and we would welcome any mono-
graphs which members may care to submit. It should be
understood that each author is responsible for getting
the necessary security clearance, if required. AFIO is
interested in pieces which relate to the intelligence pro-
fession and are approximately 10,000 words. They
should also be topics which are suitable for use in col-
lege seminars.
We are pleased with our new IBM PC equipment in
the National Office and Gretchen Campbell has offered
to prepare address labels for chapter mailings, if you will
send a list of the ZIP codes included in your chapter
area. This new equipment prints the labels for the entire
AFIO mailing list in 90 minutes. It is our feeling that this
service might help the chapter get the mailings prepared
easier. We do not think it advisable to try to mail the
notices from National since our third class mailing per-
mit requires a minimum of two hundred pieces per mail-
ing. In that connection we have had reports from some
members that the Periscope takes as long as three
weeks to be delivered, which is beyond our control. If
chapters are interested in selling the AFIO pins to raise
money for the chapter treasury, we will make them
available to the chapters at cost.
The response of members who converted to life
membership has been encouraging. We would like to
remind each regular member that the dues for AFIO are
tax deductible and if a member wishes to make install-
ment payments toward the $250 total, this method is
acceptable so long as the full amount ($250) is paid
within 12 months.
We would like to have members tell us if they are
willing to give talks to civic groups or schools and what
topics they would like to discuss. It would be useful for
the chapters to have such a list and we would also like
to have such a list in National. We do get many inquiries
from the media from all over the country and we would
appreciate being able to suggest a local person for an
interview if we have the information.
To take a phrase from the old radio shows, please
keep your cards and letters coming, because that is how
your organization can grow the way you, the members,
want it.
-John K. Greaney
Donations
The following members have generously contributed an
amount equal to or exceeding one year's annual dues.
CAPT Albert Benjamin, USNR(Ret.)
Charlottesville, VA
Mr. Henry L. Berman is
Audubon, PA
Mr. John W. Bussman
Woodbridge, CT
Lt Col Louis W. Cunningham, USAF(Ret.)
Suttons Bay, MI
Mr. Mike S. Gonakis
Euclid, OH
Mr. H. Gates Lloyd
Haverford, PA
Mr. Newton S. Miler
Placitas, NM
Mr. Robert R. Musselwhite
Holly Hill, FL
Mr. Michie F. Tilley
Greenville, TX
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On the Intelligence Bookshelf ...
Current books of interest to intelligence buffs and
watchers of the world scene. All reviews are by AFIO
members except when otherwise noted.
The Enemy, It Appears, Is Us
The Techno Bandits by Linda Melvern, David Hebditch and Nick
Arming. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. $15.95.
This is an important and certainly controversial book. It is tour de
force of the Russian and Communist bloc pirating U.S. and European
advanced technology.
The authors are British, with experience and talents in investiga-
tive reporting and computer systems. As such, they speak with con-
siderable and unbiased authority on the root causes of the draining of
secret hi tech data and equipment to the East and, most importantly,
examine dispassionately the bureaucratic weaknesses which con-
tinue to permit such loss.
The topic of technological theft from the United States has been
highlighted in the media for some time, with most such reports fin-
gering the KGB as the active thief. This book proves this is not exactly
so and that the KGB has been content to orchestrate its campaign
quite nicely through third country businessmen whose primary con-
cern is to "make a buck." Moscow offers a very sweet deal indeed for
those who wish to take the time and risk to buy and export hi tech
commodities that are banned by the U.S. for export to the Communist
bloc.
The book itself is quite well written, although at times its great
emphasis on research in the field and its almost stultifying account of
the U.S. Government's internal feuding may tempt one to skip a few
pages. Nonetheless, the anecdotal approach of the authors makes for
fascintating, if unhappy, reading. The most successful and infamous
technobandits are profiled and their successes described. Yet, when
apprehended such people are either set free on technicalities or, at
worst, serve only a few years in prison. The rewards offered by the
Soviets are evidently so great and the sentences of those appre-
hended so minor, as to make the systematic theft of vital hi tech
information and equipment worth the risk. One is reminded of the
current emphasis on combatting the drug trade and the relatively
minor sentences handed out by local courts to those who have been
proven to be involved.
This book documents the fact, little understood by the American
public, that it is the Soviet's clever use of third world and American
businessmen that provides such technological rewards. It is not the
KGB or even the GRU, operating legally or illegally; it is our own
gullible, or hungry, or simply amoral businessman, who works closely
with an ostensibly clean foreign source to provide whatever he can.
However, the most important and well documented portion of
this book deals not with the mostly successful activities of the
Soviets, but with the abysmal muddle that our own government has
managed to contrive for itself in terms of policing and preventing such
damaging activities. The basic problem appears to be two-fold, one of
which is that the division of responsibilty for monitoring and prevent-
ing such Soviet actions is divided between two U.S. government
entities, the Customs Service and the Department of Commerce. The
two have never been able to sort out their respective responsibilities
and the Commerce Department (which, unlike Customs, lacks the
power of arrest) is shown to have been defending its turf vigorously in
what is rightly perceives as a '"growth industry."
The book goes into so much detail about the ensuing bureau-
cratic battle that it sometimes becomes too much for the reader to
follow. It establishes clearly that the absence of cooperation and
coordination between these two federal agencies has harmed our
overall effort in controlling Soviet efforts to steal our sensitive tech-
nology and equipment. The open warfare between Customs and
Commerce detailed in this book makes for unhappy reading. Com-
merce, it seems, considers itself the keeper of The Final Word on
what can and cannot be exported to the Bloc. Customs is in the
business of actually stopping such exports and arresting the techno-
bandits responsible. The Commerce Department is viewed as a self-
protective and hidebound old-line department that perceives Customs
as an interloper which often fails to document its actions with the
requisite quantity of memoranda and justifications. One must also
accept the sad fact that Commerce considers itself a spokesman for
business first, and the U S. Government second. It is there to promote
exports and predisposed, one suspects, to favor the poor, downtrod-
den hi tech firm anxious to make a quick buck.
The second and most immediate problem is the continuing dis-
agreement between all concerned branches of the government as to
exactly what technology is to be denied. It is reported that several
departments, including the DoD and Commerce, have their own
massive lists, described as containing literally thousands of items
many of which can be obtained from our allies without sanction or
which have long since been passed in some manner to the Soviets.
There is a clear need to rationalize this list.
Overall, the message of Techno Bandits can be summed up by
the amusing paraphrase of Admiral Perry's dispatch, "We have met
the enemy and he is us."
During his address to the November 1984 meeting of the New
England Chapter of AFIO, General Eugene Tighe was asked his opin-
ion as to how best to combat the continuing successes of the techno-
bandits. He replied that the first order of business was for the
government to decide exactly what it wished to deny the Soviets by
checking to see what they already possess and what is easily avail-
able from our allies in equivalent technology. Only when the present
list of proscribed items (described by some as exceeding the length of
the New York City telephone directory) is reviewed and reduced can a
rational start be made in tackling this urgent problem. General
Tighe's remarks were made in the context of a question as to whether
he advocated placing the problem with the U.S. intelligence commun-
ity. He indicated in his response that the answer to such a question
would first depend on cleaning our own house and cutting down the
present, massive list of banned items.
The authors make a persuasive case in favor of bureaucratic
change and streamlining. When faced with a similar problem some
years ago, the U.S. Government created the Drug Enforcement
Administration. Clearly, some such solution is required in this case.
To continue to permit the Commerce Department to have a role in
combatting the leakage of sensitive technology to the East is analo-
gous to making the Department of Interior the senior partner to the
FBI in domestic counterintelligence. Read this book even though it
will leave you both angry and frustrated.
[Michael F. Speers is co-publisher, with British author Nigel West, of
the forthcoming Intelligence Quarterly to be published simultane-
ously in Britain and the U.S. He is president of the New England
Chapter of AFIO. ]
A Yarn of Defectors, Spies
and Diplomats
Geneva Accord by John T. Whitman. New York Crown Publishers,
1985. $14.95
Our fellow AFIO member, John Whitman, has written a good
intelligence novel, Geneva Accord, at just about the right time. Former
DCI Richard Helms says of it, in the dust jacket blurb, "It is a good yarn,
with an intriguing mix of espionage and U.S.-Soviet confrontation."
This reviewer, no admirer of most spy fiction, agrees.
Whitman brings some impressive credentials to the writing of this
book. His thirty year career in CIA was marked by a steady ascendency
up the seniority ladder of analysis of Soviet policy. Perhaps more
important for this novel were the two years he spent, 1977-79, as the
CIA representative at the SALT talks in Geneva. That the author
absorbed well the events of those two years is endorsed (again in a
jacket blurb) by Paul Warnke, former chairman of the U.S. SALT dele-
gation. Warnke writes: "I can attest to its faithfulness in describing the
substance and the personal interactions of arms control negotiations."
And how lucky could Whitman be in bringing out his book in January
1985, a few weeks before the Americans and the Soviets planned to
sit down for another go at it in Geneva? Maybe we should send copies
to the delegates.
The hero of this novel is a CIA Soviet analyst named George Inigo
who is rushed to Geneva to replace his murdered predecessor there.
(You'll have to read the book to find out whodunit). Dead bodies can be
lively. Only the other day, this reviewer ran into an old colleague who
happily announced that he was the predecessor who had been mur-
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NOTES FROM
HERE AND THERE
Dr. Alvin Buckelew, has been selected to receive
the George Washington Freedom Foundation Medal for
his publication, "The Reality of Terrorism." He also was
a featured speaker on terrorism at a session of the
Model United Nations held in January at San Francisco,
and moderated a February seminar, "Spies and Spying,"
sponsored by UCLA extension. Other AFIO members
speaking at the seminar were Joe Wilson Elliott and G.
Wallace Driver.
Douglas Blaufarb, James Murray Henry, William
Hood, William R. Johnson, John F. Blake, and David
Atlee Phillips have agreed to serve on the editorial
board of the forthcoming International Journal of Intelli-
gence and Counterintelligence. For more information on
the journal, write IJIC, P.O. Box 183, Stroudsburg, PA
18390.
The Operation Friendship Foundation (600 deKalb
Pike, P.O. Box 326, King of Prussia, PA. 19406) will
sponsor a "Symposium of Unsung Heroes" at Luxem-
bourg City, Luxembourg, August 11-18, to unite mem-
bers of WWII resistance and underground organizations,
British SOE and OSS.
The Alamo Scouts Association will meet at Ann
Arbor, MI., June 13-15. For further information contact
Mayo Stutz [phone] or Col. Robert S. Sumner
(USA-Ret) [phone]. The Alamo Scouts organi-
zation was formed in the Pacific Theater during WWII
after OSS was excluded from intelligence operations
there.
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dered in the first chapter of Whitman's book! (This is not a clue.)
Despite the novel's unusual printed disclaimer that "Any resemblance
to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental," old
hands will probably be unable to resist match-ups. It won't get you
very far.
Inigo's life in Geneva is quickly complicated by his falling for an
East German lady scientist, which allows for the usual threads and
beds to be woven into the story. Then a member of the Soviet delega-
tion offers to become a defector-in-place and supply Inigo with the
Soviet fall-back positions on the negotiations. This puts Inigo smack
into the middle of intelligence operations, for which he is not
equipped. The operations are so secret that Inigo can communicate
them only to the DCI. Eventually, the latter tells the President, who
then tells the NSC, which tells .. The operation leaks to the press.
This tends to both complicate and help the plot. Somehow, Inigo
comes through with reasonably flying colors, despite some nasty
brushes with CIA counterintelligence types who not untypically are
concerned with security, moles and CIA employees who sleep with
East German scientists and are in contact with members of the Soviet
delegation.
This reviewer always divides spy fiction into two categories. Either
the book is carried primarily by one's interest in the characters, or it is
the plot that makes it go. Geneva Accord falls into the latter category.
In this volume, one eagerly waits to turn to the next page to find out
what is going to happen-the sign of a good novel of this genre. The
author's knowledge and the use of the background against which the
story is written, in its descriptions of the SALT negotiating sessions
and the informal get-togethers among the participants, makes for a
good deal more realism than in many other first novels in this field. It is
a good read.
[Walter L. Pforzheimer, the dean of intelligence bibliophiles, seldom
has a kind word for intelligence fiction and those who write or read it. I
Michael F. Speers is the U.S. editor of the Intelli-
gence Quarterly, a newsletter which begins publication
in April. Emphasizing the international aspects of the
publication, British author Nigel West will serve as the
Commonwealth editor. Included in the first issue are
excerpts from David Atlee Phillips' new book and arti-
cles by James Bamford and Prof. Douglas L. Wheeler.
For further information write: Intelligence Quarterly,
P.O. Box 232, Weston, VT. 05161.
John Patrick Quirk has embarked on a new pub-
lishing venture, Foreign Intelligence Press, which will
feature books on the intelligence profession. An illus-
trated book on CIA is slated to be the first of a series on
international intelligence organizations. Special empha-
sis will be placed on books for young people and text-
books at the high school and university level. For more
information write: Foreign Intelligence Press, 42 Boston
Post Road, Guildford, CT 06437.
Thomas N. Moon advises that his book, "The
Deadliest Colonel," about Col. Carl F. Eifler of OSS has
been scripted and budgeted for a Hollywood production.
Copies of the book are still available from P.O. Box 1831,
Garden Grove, CA 92642.
David Atlee Phillips is writing a commemorative
article about Richard Welch, to be published in December
on the 10th anniversary of Welch's assassination. Pro-
ceeds from the article are earmarked for the Richard S.
Welch Memorial Fund at Harvard. Members who have
unclassified anecdotes or reminiscences about Welch
are urged to contact Phillips, P.O. Box 17320, Bethesda,
MD. 20817. Phillips would also welcome hearing from
AFIO members of any anecdotes dealing with DCI rela-
tionships with U.S. Presidents and Secretaries of State
or which clarify DCI stance on covert action. He will use
the material in a book-in-progress, "Company Directors
and Covert Action."
AFIO has received an inquiry from 1st Lt. Donald J.
D. Mulkerne (AUS-Ret) seeking to contact the military
intelligence personnel who interrogated three Germans
he captured at Pon-A-Mousson about September 13-
18, 1944. As Mulkerne recalls the incident, he was
returning with the prisoners and met at least six officers
presumed to be MI, who began immediate interrogation
of the Germans. He can be cohtacted at 79 Jordan Blvd.,
Delmar, NY 12054.
Members with OSS experience are being sought to
contribute articles to a special issue of the Journal of
Contemporary History. For further information, contact
David Leland Thomas, 10206 Frederick Avenue, Ken-
sington, MD. 20895.
The widow of a former CIA officer, Yoshio Joseph
Kiyonaga, has written "Remembrances of a CIA Wife,"
which appears in the March issue of Washingtonian
magazine. According to Bina Kiyonaga, "At the start of
each school year, Joe's office would categorize our
children's classmates, listing their parents' jobs, political
affiliations, family connections, club memberships, as
well as any known weaknesses. Then Joe would deter-
mine possible targets and suggest that his children get
to know certain schoolmates well." She doesn't indicate
whether the children were expected to recruit their
classmates. Hollywood is said to be interested in the
story.
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AFIO Chapter Activities
Arizona Chapter. The chapter met February 9th at
the Thunder Mountain Inn in Sierra Vista. At the lunch-
eon meeting, the twenty-four members were joined by
eighteen guests. Among them were Major General and
Mrs. Thomas Weinstein, Don Perry of the San Diego
chapter and Lt. Col. Rudolph Levy (Ret). General Wein-
stein, who is commandant of the U.S. Army Intelligence
Training Center, spoke on the mission of the school and
extended an invitation to tour the facility.
Lt. Col. Levy, who has had extensive experience
with worldwide terrorism, presented a very timely and
poignant talk on international terrorism and political
violence.
The chapter slated its next meeting for Yuma on
April 13th.
California
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. The chapter's
January meeting, was held at the Marines' Memorial.
The meeting was called to order by chapter president
Roger McCarthy, and following the pledge of allegiance,
vice president (programs) Ed Rudka offered, in Chinese,
toasts of friendship, health and prosperity to honored
guests Tang Shubei, Consul General of the People's
Republic of China, Liang Wenfend, wife of the consul,
Vice Consul Yan Xiaoming and Xie Dongna, wife of the
vice consul. The invocation preceding the dinner was
offered by the Rev. Ward McCabe.
Al Bukelew then presided over the election of off ic-
ers for 1985. Elected were Roger McCarthy, president;
Ed Rudka, vice president (programs); Tom Dickson, vice
president (membership); Jim Quesada, treasurer; Sue
Davis, secretary; and Harold Christensen, Janet Aitken
and Ricco Alcantar, executive board.
Ed Rudka introduced guest speaker Tang Shubei,
Consul General of the PRC. In his prepared remarks the
Consul offered statistics on his country's imports and
exports and the direction of Sino-US trade. He character-
ized 1984 as a "successful year," citing President Rea-
gan's visit to the PRC and Premier Zhao's visit to the
U.S. The increasing number of visas issued between the
two countries and an unprecedented number of PRC
students studying on American campuses were also
mentioned as signs of improving relations. The Consul
General talked of the PRC's need to set up new enter-
prises, to update old ones, and to exploit energy re-
sources. He indicated that his country has opened its
door to world trade and will never close it again. He
noted that the PRC is seeking relations with all coun-
tries, industrialized and Third World. In this he brought
out that Taiwan is the key problem in Sino-US relations,
mentioning that there are many families seeking a
peaceful settlement through "reunification."
The meeting adjourned after an informal question
and answer session and the final benediction by Father
McCabe.
The February meeting at the Marines' Memorial
featured John A. Kirkpatrick, metropolitan editor of the
San Francisco Examiner, speaking on "The Tyranny of
the Press."
Kirkpatrick addressed issues of credibility of the
press, pointing out that newspapers unfortunately have
been lumped into the term "media" alongside television
news. He charged that TV news has become entertain-
ment based on huge profits and that this has generated
a style of reporting quite different from the quality of
journalism exemplified by the New York Times (one of
the speaker's "favorite" newspapers). He stated that the
press hides behind the First Amendment as readily as
the military invokes "national security" to cover embar-
rassments. Yet, the "dictatorial reign" of newspapers
has ended, and many publications which did not learn
this have ceased to exist. The Examiner accepts this and
is trying to change. Mr. Kirkpatrick characterized his
newspaper as the only newspaper in the Bay Area with
a conscience, citing its coverage of the Oakland drug
wars.
Regarding the Examiner's Washington bureau, the
speaker pointed out that it takes a great deal of time,
money and energy to learn what is going on in D.C., and
that one young reporter simply cannot step into such a
task. The Examiner's Washington bureau is very small
and was contrasted with the New York Times' bureau
which hires many specialists, e.g. lawyers to report
solely on the Supreme Court. Mr. Kirkpatrick concluded
that newspapers must stand on their own, apart from
TV, and must hire experts who are schooled in subjects
they are reporting on, especially when writing news
analyses. In that way, he said, the press may regain its
credibilty with the public. Kirkpatrick concluded the
evening by answering some ticklish questions from the
floor.
San Diego Chapter. Fifty members and guests at
the chapter's February meeting heard Lt. Joe Riordan
describe his role as an intelligence officer in the U.S.
Coast Guard and as southwest border regional liaison
for the Presidential Task Force on Organized Crime and
Drug Enforcement. An ex-California Highway Patrol
officer, Riordan showed slides depicting drug trafficking
routes, methods of packaging, Coast Guard boarding
activities at sea, and other aspects of the effort. He noted
that U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force reconnaissance
assists the Coast Guard in tracking suspect ships and
aircraft. Other assistance comes from the principal
suppliers of foreign narcotic intelligence: the Treasury
Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the
Department of Transportation and the National Security
Agency.
According to Riordan, much drug traffic originates
from the jungle west coast of Columbia where it is easy
to hide ships in bays and inlets which dot the rugged
coast and along rivers. That part of Columbia is con-
trolled by rebel factions, not the government, he noted.
The smuggling vessels can be anything from an old U.S.
presidential yacht like the recently impounded Potomac
to ocean-going freighters. Often they are older vessels
that can no longer compete for legitimate cargo. One
particular tip-off of a drug carrier, he said, is a small or
old "chamber pot" bristling with radio and multiple navi-
gational system antennas. Some of them may have
$100,000 worth of such equipment, he added.
According to Riordan, Atlantic and Gulf Coast pas-
sages are easier for the Coast Guard to interdict; the
West Coast is the most difficult. (For the West Coast, the
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closest "choke point" in Hawaii.) Interestingly, he
observed that the origin of marijuana can usually be
determined by how it is packaged. Smugglers often hit
San Diego harbor on Saturdays when about 8,000 berth-
ings might take place, with the drug merchants often
joining the "beer can races" in an effort to appear legit-
imate. Many smugglers in the Gulf of Mexico, he said,
now are resisting interdiction and a Coast Guard cutter
was recently rammed by one of them. Generally, Rior-
dan said, a Coast Guard cutter will inspect from 30 to 60
ships during a 30-day patrol, adding that it is not unus-
ual to tail a ship by sea and air for weeks. In stopping
uncooperative ships on the high seas, the Coast Guard
will first attempt to foul the smuggler's screws with
cargo nets or pour water down the smoke stack. If that
doesn't work, the cutter will obtain permission from the
Commandant to shoot. Once approval is gained, it will
warn the smuggler in two languages that the cutter is
going to shoot at the rudder and engine room, then lob a
round across the renegade's bow.
The speaker noted that cocaine is much more diffi-
cult to locate in ship searches than is marijuana. The
average cocaine cargo is only about 100 pounds. As a
result the anti-cocaine effort requires intelligence infor-
mation in addition to exacting searches. The route the
narcotic shipments take is sometimes bizzare, Riordan
noted. Sometimes the narcotics come into San Diego by
ship, then are flown by plane to Canada, then brought
back elsewhere on the West Coast by ship or other
means. Some smuggling vessels have off-loaded their
deadly cargo with swimmers or one-man submersibles,
he noted.
The speaker at the chapter's March meeting was
Major Keith D. Young (USAF-Ret). The Australian-born
Young served in intelligence for over thirty years. He
served with the British Purchasing Commission, 1940-
42, before entering the Army. Assigned to intelligence,
the adventurous Aussie served with distinction in WWII,
and after a break in service returned to serve tours in
Korea and Vietnam. He was a key staffer of MAC-V's
political warfare advisory directorate and headed up the
survival, evasion, resistance and escape section (SERE)
of the Seventh Air Force.
Young's talk, "The Fourth Degree," focused on cer-
tain aspects of interrogation, indoctrination and "unin-
doctrination."
Satellite Chapter. When Jerry Parr heard gunshots
ring out on a Washington, D.C., street nearly four years
ago, he shoved President Reagan into a limosine and
barked orders for the driver to head to a nearby hospital.
Parr, a Secret Service agent, had pushed the President
out of the path of all but one of John Hinckley Jr.'s
bullets, and although his split-second reflexes may have
bruised the President, they also helped save his life.
Parr recalled the events vividly before more than
160 members and guests at the chapter's February 8th
dinner meeting held at the Patrick AFB Officer's Club.
"A big part of it is training. We're trained to turn our
bodies toward the noise (of gunfire) and put ourselves
between the shots and the President," he said.
The Secret Service official stressed the unique
aspects of an agent's training: "There is no time to get a
Jerry Parr,
U.S. Secret Service
gun out. Training is the first line of defense." Parr, who
now serves as assistant director for protective research,
recalled that during his 22-year career with the Secret
Service he has headed the White House detail as well
as protected political candidates, foreign dignitaries and
elected officials. Recalling the Hinckley assassination
attempt, Parr noted that "We had Hinckley defeated that
day," but only because agent Thomas McCarthy had
mastered counter-instinctive behavior well enough to
throw himself in front of a bullet. "What he did with his
flesh was, he extended that iron (car) door." Parr noted
that Hinckley's first three shots had struck law enforce-
ment officials.
He discussed the paradox of security in an open
society, the millions of visitors who tour the White
House each year and the uncounted ones halted by
metal detectors and arrested for carrying dangerous
weapons more out of thoughtlessness than deadly
intent. "I think its worth it," he said, "For that reason I
chose to live here and not in totalitarian society."
Parr also noted the threatening letters that arrive by
mail at the White House. Each, he said, has to be inves-
tigated meticulously, with a finding that over 90 percent
of the traceable threats are made by the mentally ill.
Yet, it is the face in the crowd that alerts a Secret
Service agent. "I can't prove this, but there's something
about a face that sets it apart from the rest. Most of the
crowds you work have excited faces, anticipatory faces,
but every now and then you'll catch an eye, and they'll
see something in yours, and there's this mutual knowl-
edge. It's a mystery, this dangerous organism we call
man."
New England
New England Chapter. Mike Speers, president, re-
ports the chapter rolls continue to grow at a very gratify-
ing pace. Starting last June with a core group of eight,
membership now stands at seventy, including two life
members. He advises that invitations to the group's next
quarterly meeting, at the Hilton Hotel, Merrimack, NH,
April 13th, were mailed to all AFIO chapter presidents in
hopes those located in the East could attend or pass the
invitation along to those members who might be visiting
the area at the time.
Recognizing its large geographic spread, the chap-
ter has appointed a number of key persons for each
state. They are: Alan Swenson (Maine), Eric Howes
(Massachusetts), Dan Halpin (New Hampshire) and
Eleanoar Hoar (Connecticut). Mrs. Hoar recently arranged
a successful reception at the Roger Sherman Inn at New
Canan, CT., for active, former and potential members.
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Twenty, including two guest members of the New York
City chapter, attended. Two AFIO members became affil-
iated with the chapter and six new members were
enrolled. Speers credits Mrs. Hoar with a particularly
fine job in organizing the event, which he hopes will be
replicated elsewhere in New England.
Chapter member Winn Taplin is teaching "The Role
of Intelligence in Diplomacy," a full credit course at the
University of Vermont. As evidence that the program
has been well received, initial planning anticipated 12-
15 students; 40 are now attending. Members of the
chapter who have audited the course have come away
impressed. And, when Taplin sustained an eye injury
recently, members filled in for him with what Speers
calls the Speers-Jacobs-Binder-Lawlor "N.E. AFIO dog
and pony show." He believes their efforts were rewarded.
"We became so involved in answering student ques-
tions that we ran half an hour over the allotted three
hour period." Subsequently the chapter purchased and
donated to the class twenty copies of Dave Phillips'
Careers in Secret Operations.
New Mexico
Members of AFIO resident in New Mexico met at
Kirtland AFB on January 19th to discuss forming a state
chapter.
Adolph Saenz, the organizer of the meeting, wel-
comed the members, noted that this was the first step in
forming a new chapter, and congratulated the twenty-
nine in attendance for supporting the goals of intelli-
gence. Named to develop a slate of candidates for
election to the new chapter's board of directors were
Joe Luna and Sam Papich.
Also welcoming those assembled was Lee Echols
of AFIO's board of directors and George Wiggins, AFIO's
vice president. Wiggins congratulated the group for
being the newest chapter to be formed, and encouraged
them to seek associate members who, although not
veterans of the intelligence profession, support the aims
of AFIO.
It was then Echol's turn to entertain the audience
with a sampling of his great stock of one-liners and
humorous stories, a warm-up to his more serious mes-
sage. He recalled that the San Diego chapter started
with only eighteen members, and now has 150. He
urged that the New Mexico chapter seek out those eligi-
ble in the Albuquerque area, actively recruit new mem-
bers, hold monthly meetings, encourage members to
bring their spouses and friends, and exchange minutes
and meeting notices with the Arizona chapter to en-
courage cross-visits. Echols presented Saenz with an
example of approved by-laws for local chapters and
referred the group to the articles of incorporation in the
AFIO handbook.
A month later, February 21, the chapter held its first
meeting. Elected as officers were: Thomas J. Smith,
president; Adolph B. Saenz, vice president; Leonard E.
Sczygiel, secretary; and D. Arthur Byrnes, treasurer.
Cleveland Chapter. The chapter will meet on May
24, 1985, with Bill Hood, president of the Greater New
York Chapter as guest speaker. For further information
contact Fred Lewton, [phone].
In Memoriam
Mr. James K. Arnold
Camp Hill, PA
Mrs. Virginia G. Blatt
Washington, DC
Mr. John B. Coyne
Brunswick, OH
Mr. Henry H. Eldredge
St. Petersburg, FL
Mr. Derek A. Lee
New York, NY
Mr. Thomas E. McCormack
Woodsboro, MD
Mr. James M. McDermott
Silver Spring, MD
Mr. Anthony J. Sforza
South Miami, FL
Kicking off the first meeting of the New Mexico
Chapter are Tom Smith, Sam Papich, Frank Coffee
and Nick Mastrovich
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Mr. John Gordon Lanier BARCLAY
Calle Santalo 135
Barcelona, SPAIN 0021
Mr. Lonnie M. BARROW
One Beach Drive, #1506
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
The Honorable Theodore R. BRITTON, Jr.
P.O. Box 23788
Washington, DC 20026
Mrs. Jean FINDLAY
Millbank
Greenwood, VA 22943
COL Frederick K. HEARN, AUS(Ret.)
2240 Stonewood Court
San Pedro, CA 90732
CDR Harvey LAMPSHIRE, USN(Ret.)
2145 N. Quebec Street
Arlington, VA 22207
Mr. John D. MacKENZIE, Jr.
2400 N. Taylor Street
Arlington, VA 22207
Dr. James A. MATTISON, Jr.
234 San Miguel Avenue
Salinas, CA 93901
Mr. Peter L. MERKEL
5001 King Richard Drive
Annandale, VA 22003
Mr. John Patrick QUIRK
4 Centre Village
Madison, CT 06443
Mr. George W. RAUCH
1415 9th Avenue E.
Bradenton, FL 33508
Mr. Robert Ruhl SIMMONS
36 Broad Street
Stonington, CT 06378
Mr. Frederick A. VOIGT
5016 25th Street, South
Arlington, VA 22206
Mr. Albert W. ZILAITIS
501 North Palm Avenue
Indialantic, FL 32903
Legislative Notes
Walter L. Pforzheimer
It is with a touch of sadness, and a mood of remin-
iscence, that we learn of the death of former Senator
John Chandler Gurney of South Dakota on March 9th.
Elected to the Senate in 1939, "Chan" Gurney became
chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in
1947. It was this committee which held the hearings
and reported out the National Security Act of 1947,
creating the CIA. (The act also created the Secretary of
Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the separate U.S.
Air Force.)
It was early in March 1947 that I first met with
Senator Gurney to discuss the proposed legislation for
CIA. At that time, there was still some question whether
we would propose what we now know as the original
provisions of the National Security Act, or whether we
should go for more detailed legislation by adding the
material which ultimately became the CIA Act of 1949.
The chairman advised that we should stick to the short
version to avoid getting intelligence involved with the
many other controversies which this bill engendered in
its military proposals. We followed his advice.
On March 26th, DCI (Lt. Gen.) Hoyt Vandenberg
and I met with Senator Gurney to discuss the DCI's
forthcoming testimony. Chairman Gurney asked that we
place as much testimony on the record as we could,
assuring us that he would hold for Executive Session
any questions which would raise security problems.
When the DCI testified at the end of April, this is exactly
how it went. General Vandenberg's opening statement
went into the public record, and there were no kick-
backs. In Executive Session he told the committee that
the CIG was engaged in espionage, and that CIA would
continue intelligence operations overseas under the
new legislation before the Congress. Those who still
contend that the Congress did not know of CIA's opera-
tional role just haven't read the record; that early testi-
mony has been officially released. On July 9, the
National Security Act of 1947 was shepherded through
the Senate, just as the chairman had assured during our
meeting in March. "Chan" was a gentle, thoughtful,
wonderful man to work with, and the Intelligence Com-
munity is in his debt.
The esteem with which Senator Gurney was held
by his colleagues reminds me of an incident in 1948
when we were trying to secure passage of what became
the CIA Act of 1949. A Senator rose on the floor and
moved to strike the provision which was to give CIA use
of unvouchered funds; he succeeded. The Senator con-
cerned came off the floor to discuss his move with me.
We exchanged some rather heated words as I pointed
out what his actions would do to intelligence operations
and the lives of our people overseas, and the Senator
began to waver. At this point, sensing what was hap-
pening, Senator Gurney strolled up, put his arm around
the recalcitrant Senator and said, "You can't do this to
me." That was all it took. The Senator returned to the
floor, reversed his position, and moved to restore the
unvouchered funds provision. Just a quiet word from
"Chan" Gurney was all it took.
In later years, his support and able help continued
on a number of occasions when CIA had important and
difficult problems before the Civil Aeronautics Board of
which Senator Gurney became chairman.
We will miss "Chan," but we should pause and
remember what he did to make CIA legislatively possible.
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The following list of new members since the last issue is incomplete in that
it does not include those who requested that their names be kept restricted.
Mr. Frank E. ANDERSON
Mr. Fred C. BURTON
Mr. G. Kirk FINCH II
225 Arboles
South Stratford Ct.
140 Dalkeith Glen
El Paso, TX 79932
Windsor, CT 06095
Arnold, MD 21012
Mrs. Marguerite O. ARMSTRONG
Mr. Alan L. BUTKOW
Mr. Wilson H. FORD
7 Deborah Drive
c/o WBK Ltd.
980 Wilson Street
South Burlington, VT 05401
10169 Judicial Drive
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Fairfax, VA 22030
MAJ Percy Lyn AUSTIN AUS(Ret.)
Mr. David A. GILLESPIE
5800 N. Banana River Blvd
Mr. Douglas CADDY
607 Oak Harbor Drive
Building 2, #222
7322 S.W. Freeway, #610
Houston, TX 77062
Cape Canaveral, FL 32920
Houston, TX 77074
Col Nathan S. GOLDBERG
COL Frederick T. BARRETT
Mr. Richard L. CASANOVA
USAF(Ret.)
USA(Ret.)
323 Pine Needles Drive
603 N. Doheny Drive, #2A
3024 Modella
Winston-Salem, NC 27104
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Dallas, TX 75229
Ms. Pat E. CLARK
Mr. Barry GOODENOW
Mr. Lonnie M. BARROW
871 Paiute Road
P. O. Box 4247
One Beach Drive, #1506
Rio Rancho, NM 87124
Honolulu, HI 96813
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
CDR William C. COOK
Mr. Gerd HABER
Mr. John J. BARRY
USNR(Ret.)
4713 Lillian Drive
2300 Pimmit Drive, #614
249 Nod Hill Road
Alexandria, VA 22310
Falls Church, VA 22043
Wilton, CT 06897
Mr. Thomas R. HAMPSON
LTC Charles C. BENNETT
Mr. Thomas H. CURRY
680 Hillcrest Boulevard
USA(Ret.)
3212 N. Kenmore Street
Hoffman Estates, IL 60195
17164 Courtney Lane
Arlington, VA 22207
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
Mr. F. William HELLMAN
COL Joseph W. DARLING
1004 Morse Drive
Mr. Joe A. BLACK
USAR(Ret.)
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
8507 Honiley
1211 Janneys Lane
San Antonio, TX 78250
Alexandria, VA 22302
Mr. Richard L. HIGGINS
816 E. Mendocino Street
Mr. Russell O. BLAISDELL
Mr. Ralph A. de VORE
Altadena, CA 91001
107 Wilderness Drive, #309
3411 Park Royal Drive
Naples, FL 33942
Kingwood, TX 77339
Mr. Donald F. JONES
7207 Northern Lights
Mr. Peter N. BORSI
Mr. Clifford A. DOLAN
San Antonio, TX 78238
111 N. Alder Avenue
6 Thunderbird Park
Sterling, VA 22170
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
LTC C. D. KRYZANOWSKY
USA(Ret.)
Mr. Michael L. BOSCHAERT
Mr. James M. ELLIOTT
4812 Kemper Street
P. O. Box 1374
6249 Primrose Avenue
Rockville, MD 20853
Imperial Beach, CA 92032
Los Angeles, CA 90068
COL Bruce E. LLOYD
Mr. William T. BROWN
Mr. Clinton FIELDER
Box 112
2502 Rock Branch Road
11273 SW 174th Terrace
East Glastonbury, CT
Vienna, VA 22180
Miami, FL 33157
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Mr. Joseph David RENO
Mrs. Lesba L. THOMPSON
142 Rio Vista Place
791 Tremont Street, W-105
1745 Meredith Lane,
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Boston, MA 02118
Belleair
Clearwater, FL 33516
Mr. Peter A. LUPSHA
Mr. Mervyn J. RIKER
617 Dartmouth N.E..
7608 G Sereno Circle
Mr. Arthur S. TORF
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Orlando, FL 32807
P. O. Box 2586
Norcross, GA 30091
Mr. Francis (Frank) E.
LTG William I. ROLYA
MADD
USA (Ret.)
Mr. Frederick A. VOIGT
6614 West 73rd Street
3110 Waterside Lane
5016 25th Street, South
Overland Park, KS 66204
Alexandria, VA 22309
Arlington, VA 22206
Mr. William O. MALONE
Mr. William J. RYAN
Mr. Robert F. VanBEEVER
89 Crestview Drive
East Hill Road
22 Treadwell Avenue
Portland, ME 04103
Williston, VT 05495
Westport, CT 06880
Mr. Donald J. MEYER
Mr. Ara V. SIMIDIAN
Mr. John M. WEINBERG
11414 Georgetown Drive
45-42 220 Street
438 Wolcott Avenue, #4
Potomac, MD 20854
Bayside, NY 11361
Middletown, RI 02840
Mr. John D. MacKENZIE Jr.
Mr. Charles H. SMALL Jr.
Mr. Elmer R. WINGROVE
2400 N. Taylor Street
P. O. Box 12232
119 4th Street, SE
Arlington, VA 22207
El Cajon, CA 92022
Washington, DC 20003
Mr. Raymond F. McMULLEN
LTC Harry M. SMITH USA(Ret.)
COL George A. ZACHARIAS
10411 Dee Lane
838 Manitou Boulevard
USA(Ret.)
Clinton, MD 20735
Colorado Springs, CO 80904
7736 Tauxemont Road
Alexandria, VA 22308
Mr. Louis F. PALUMBO
Col Landgrave T. SMITH
1640 S.W. 54 Terrace
Jr. USAF(Ret.)
Mr. Albert W. ZILAITIS
Plantation, FL 33137
2814 Oakton Manor Court
501 North Palm Avenue
Oakton, VA 22124
Indialantic, FL 32903
Mr. James D. PARRISH Jr.
523 Bayview Drive
Mr. Leon P. SONNENBURG
Seabrook, TX 77586
200 Fiqueroa NE, #1
Albuquerque, NM 87123
Mr. John R. PHERSON
7404 Charlotte Street
Mr. Charles R. STEFFLER
Springfield, VA 22150
P. O. Box 190
Bellaire, TX 77401
Mr. John Patrick QUIRK
4 Centre Village
Mr. Robert D. STIGER
Madison, CT 06443
One Russell Court
Sterling, VA 22170
Mr. George W. RAUCH
1415 9th Avenue E.
Mr. Ralph STOVER
Bradenton, FL 33508
560 McNabb Parkway
Cocoa Beach, FL 32931
CAPT Merrill D. REICH
USN (Ret.)
1731 Tarleton Way
Crofton, MD 21114
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From the President's Desk:
From where I sit as I write this in my library at home
in Middleburg, our vista is so peaceful and beautiful that
it is hard to believe there is evil in the world. In the
distance I see the wooded slopes of Mt. Storm rising
three thousand feet above the beautiful Virginia coun-
tryside. Only one house is visible in the intervening five
miles, a building bordered by tall pines and lush green
meadows where horses and cattle feed throughout
most of the year. In such beautiful surroundings it might
be difficult to believe how much danger and how many
difficulties engulf this planet we occupy.
But then I scan the floor-to-ceiling bookcases that
cover the major portion of three of the four walls. On the
fourth wall hangs a magnificent map, entitled ""1829
General Post Und Strassen Karte Der Osterreichen
Monarchie."
The bookcases I face include seven shelves on the
War Between the States, or the Civil War, depending on
what part of this nation you hail from. (My mother was
an unreconstructed rebel and my father a New Yorker.)
The two adjoining bookcases are primarily World War II,
including a complete bound set of the Joint Congres-
sional Committee's Investigation of the Pearl Harbor
attack, published by the Government Printing Office in
1946. Two bookcases are devoted to the Presidents
(Washington to Reagan), one to intelligence, and one to
Communism. Where is the fiction? In bookcases in other
parts of the house. If the books are not enough, there
are three daily newspapers plus numerous other publi-
cations. What do I do when not reading? I write.
This lengthy preamble is simply to set the stage for
saying that the state of the relations between nations is
cause for continued concern. If there was ever a need
for professional intelligence dedicated to producing
prompt and accurate analyses of the dangerous interna-
tional situations it is now. I fervently hope that the intel-
ligence services of the Soviet Union, the Chinese Peoples
Republic, the Eastern European nations, as well as
those in the Middle East, Latin America, and the Atlantic
Alliance are all well-informed and objective. Further, I
hope the policy levels of all governments are directed by
men and women of good will who are proponents of
peace and prosperity and not of death and destruction. It
is now forty years since the end of World War II, but
there should be little consolation that wars have been
limited in size in recent years. The war between Iran and
Iraq has resulted in appalling slaughter, with the major
powers and the United Nations unable to obtain a
cease-fire. The situation in the Middle East continues to
be a powder-keg with everybody playing with matches.
Only the United States and the Soviet Union have the
power to be peace keepers, but there is so much suspi-
cion and distrust between them that we must wonder
how long it will take to build a basis for mutual respect
and trust when Reagan and Gorbachev meet.
What we must do as individuals and collectively for
AFIO is to continue to make the people of the United
States aware of the capabilities and problems of the
United States intelligence agencies. This is not an easy
task. The American people are distrustful of secret
organizations. This concern is heightened by the con-
sistently bad press that CIA receives. Obviously the CIA
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
President of AFIO
cannot boast of its successes, but its failures-as well as
those of the other intelligence agencies-are certain to
receive headlines. Let's face it. No three letters are cer-
tain to attract such attention as CIA and newsmen know
that their use sells papers. We must also accept the fact
that most of those in the public media regard them-
selves as experts on intelligence matters. And surely we
are aware that what we say will be viewed with scepti-
cism by some.
Please remember that most of the high school and
college teachers now are of a post-World War II vintage.
They are suspicious of all intelligence activities. They
believe the bad things they read about CIA and do not
approve of covert operations, which they consider "dirty
tricks." Collectively they are not knowledgeable about
Soviet activities, and basically don't care. Every new
expose of CIA operations widens the gap and deepens
the gulf of distrust.
There is no panacea for coping with this hostility.
Recognize that it is there, and face it. Within the area of
unclassified information, tell it like it is. There is so much
unclassified information now that a presentation based
on the history and organization of the U.S. intelligence
agencies is simple and is most useful in the high school
and college audiences. It is also valuable to take along a
list of books and articles that provide objective analyses
of U.S. intelligence activities. It is well to be prepared
with a bibliography of literature on other intelligence
services of the world. And finally, if possible, a brief
analysis of how intelligence fits into policy making is
valuable.
One point I always stress is that I am proud to have
served in CIA. While some may not approve of such
activities, such work has to be done until we live in a
world devoid of avarice and hatred.
One last suggestion: In addition to the academic
audiences there are many local organizations looking for
speakers. These include the Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis,
Chambers of Commerce and other civic organizations.
Make sure your Mayor and other public officials know
you "Have speech, will travel!"
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