SPOOKING THE NAMERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100120020-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: November 18, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ON PAG'1 _-_
, By Jeff, Stein
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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 comedyand ,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+'capitol.' And then
'there were Ellen Rayand Bill Schaap; twq
.crazy Americans way' out ,there 7'on: the.;
Pacific rim of the empire in.,0kinawa
organizing workers at the big.air base'and'
helping GIs get, out-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 4
Mekong Valley' Bill arid, 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 later,in 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 aeros9- 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-`NationaI_
-Archives, from where, '. erery' month, he
-emerges with another ,lis3' of .CIA','iigents
ready-for the pages of Coocri Attion In..*
forma tiort 'Bu lletin. V ;' t t sue`"
- Wolf, Schaap,. and Ray-along'with
former CIA agent Philip Agee=ore, the I
people who nnrne the names of CIA agents.
Every other month ' they publish - iheir i
Bulletin full of in depth articles abotiL now they're going to get it: The moguls of
,
CIA operations and techniques. But it. is 1 the editorial rooms hate them too. The:
ook
the little section near the back of the-1
STAT
:: we tract. mean, 'its 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 yeais'after.the govern
ment's been toppled,: but'right now; while'
the CIA's doing it
The CIA has been gritting its teeth over
the. Bulletin .(arid its predecessor, Coun-,
terspy) for nearly a'decade, trying unsuc-?
cessfully throtigh a seiies of maneuvers to
put it out of business and its editors in jail.'!
But it wasn't until-last July that serious
clouds of repression long on the horizon
gathered into a furious storm Somebody
shot up the house of one of the CIA agents m: Jamaica:.
Suddenly, the ?"IntelligenceIdentities
Protection Act". leapt .from the-discard!
bin, where it had .been since':1973, and
raced through both sides ofCapitol Hill as
fast as a congressional pay'raise.: By last,
month, super-patriots .like'. Long Island'
Democrat Jerome.Ambro; were.screaming
ta death penalty for those who have'
about access to- classified inforritatton: and leak
it: (Presumably,'Ambro wit,-'construct an'
amendment exempting ,'ZbigniecvI
Brtezinski.) :,
- "Will this get Agee?" one senator asked;
Judiciary Committee Chairman Ted lien".
riedy. as the bill 4was ramrodded throughl
markup in the-smallest room on Capitol] -
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THE VILLAGE VOICE
12-18 November 1980
that drives-the intelligence agencies u
wall. This is the section where they up
their lists of CIA staffs around the wo.
from Burundi to Bangkok: Along the
they've published two books, Dirty I
TheytCIA in Western',Europe, and
Worh;(R); The