COVERT ACTION INFORMATION BULLETIN: EXCLUSIVE: NSA INTERVIEW

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Number 11 December 1980
Exclusive: NSA INTERVIEW
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INFORMATION BULI~TIN
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EDITORIAL
As we prepare this i~~sue for typesetting, the results of the
Octol,er 30 general election in Jamaica were just becoming
clear. IVluch to the dismay of progressives around the
world, the rightwing Jamaica Labor Party appeared to
have won about 50 of the 60 seats in the Parliament, and
Edwa-d Seaga was to become Prime Minister. Michael
Manley's Peoples National Party received about 47% of
the popular vote, but close losses in marginal seats gave
Seaga hips lopsided margin in the legislature.
This campaign, which we have documented in past issues
(see CAIB Numbers 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, and ]0), probably had the
greatest impact on the voters. But, in the short run, the
concerted campaign of violence over the past year also was
instrumental in the ouster of Manley. Gun-running, inti-
mately linked to the JLP, and tied directly and indirectly
to the Western intelligence forces, led to unprecedented
violence, to the murders of numerous PN P organizers (and
hundreds of innocent bystanders as well), and to the intim-
idation of voters both in the voter registration process and
in the election itself.
Two 1~actors-one long-term and one short-term-ap-
pear responsible for this latest successful destabilization
campaign. In the long view, the economic destabilization
which has been waged since Manley's reelection in 1976
took i[s toll. Awell-planned and well-executed covert at-
tack on anation's entire economy is a sophisticated opera-
tion. Since it is designed to be conducted in a way that the
people' clo not know it is happening, it is all the more
diffict; It to explain to the people what has really been done
to then. Voters faced with lower wages, or no job at all,
with f god shortages, with the outrageous increases in oil
prices. vrill tend to blame the incumbents, whoever they
are, artd vote "for a change." It is not easy to demonstrate
how outside forces many have conspired to cripple the tour-
ism industry, how multinationals may have connived to
create totally artificial food shortages, how the interna-
tional financial institutions may have deliberately set con-
dition;;upon loans and other agreements designed to lower
the wages of the workers and raise the profits of the
corporations.
It should be clear that despite the division of the seats in
Parliament, Seaga has no clear mandate. It is equally clear
that he and his most vicious followers will use the election
results to continue the violent attack upon the progressive
forces in Jamaica which has been part of the election
campaign up till now. We greatly fear the possibility of a
bloodbath, as in Chile, and hope that the world will con-
tinue to watch Jamaica carefully, to provide a shield
against indiscriminate violence. Already there are stories of
numerous arrests, and the shootings did not stop when the
polling was over.
As our readers must be aware, the regular session of
Congress ended early in October without any floor action
in either House on the bill designed to prevent the exposure
of intelligence abuses and personnel. However, we are
informed that the bill will come up early in the lame duck
CONTENTS
Edit~~rial
The AFIO Convention
24
The .Rise of Terrorism
4
Sources and Methods
28
Repression in South Korea
9
News Notes
29
Portlugal: Interview With an Insider
16
The CIA Commemorative Stamp
31
"Coronation" in. Guyana
21
Naming Names
33
The Caribbean Coast Guard
22
NSA Interview
35
LettE~rs
23
Publications of Interest
44
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Inc. Typography by Art for .Peop/e, Washington, DC; printing by Fac?u/tr Press, Brooklyn, NY. Washington staff: Ellen Ray, William Schaap, Louis
Wolf. Board of Advisors: Philip Agee, Ken Lawrence, Karl Van Meter, Elsie Wilcott, Jim Wilcott. The CoverrAc?tion /n/ormation Bu!/etin is available at
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session scheduled tobegin inmdd-November. As we note in
this issue's article on the AFIO convention, Deputy Direc-
torCarlucci announced that the Agency will be pushing for
the passage of the bill once again as soon as Congress is
back in session. Progressive forces which have united in the
fight against the bill will be hard at work again, and there
are still hopes that the amendments of the Senate Judiciary
Committee designed to protect to some degree the First
Amendment rights ofjournalists will withstand a floor fight.
However, the mood of the country is by no means liber-
al. Ronald Reagan will be the next President more to the
point, George Bush, former Director of Central Intelli-
gence, will be the next Vice-President, and the new Con-
gress will be, if anything, more to the right. Not that the
Carter administration has been a bulwark of liberalism.
The fight for one law after another designed to unleash the
CIA and the other arms of the intelligence octopus have all
been led by Democrats in aDemocratic-controlled Con-
gress. And Secretary of State Muskie reminds listeners in
his speeches that his administration's "five year defense
program calls for appropriations of over one tril/ion dol-
lars between now and 1985." That's more than the com-
binedtotal budgets of half the Third World for the period,
and a telling indication of how much spending will be
diverted from needed social programs here and abroad.
The Agee Passport Case
When the U.S. Department of State revoked Philip
Agee's passport in 1979 under a regulation allowing such
action when a citizen's actions and speeches are considered
detrimental to U.S. foreign policy, he went to court and
almost immediately won a ruling from the District Judge
that the regulation was unconstitutional, aviolation of
freedom of speech. The government appealed, and, several
months later, the Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that the
regulation was unlawful. All this time, because of govern-
ment requests to stay the enforcement of the ruling, Agee
was without a passport. The government appealed its se-
cond loss to the Supreme Court, petitioning them to hear
the case, which would be at the Court's discretion. A few
weeks ago, in a ruling which bodes ill for any outspoken
critic of the government, the Supreme Court agreed to hear
the case. Agee is still without a passport, and the Supreme
Court refused his lawyer's request for an expedited hear-
ing. The Court will probably hear arguments in January,
and decide within a few months of the hearing. Though he
has never been charged with any crime or offense, Agee
remains deprived of his passport--the only such case in
recent decades. That the conservative Supreme Court is
going to rule on the case suggests that the establishment's
antipathy to Agee may lead to a bad legal precedent and yet
another crack in the shield of the First Amendment.
of the campaign in Congress. If the Intelligence Identities
Protection Act is passed, we will go immediately into court
to challenge its constitutionality. if we must modify the
coverage of the Bu//E~tin during that fight we will, but we
will continue to bring to our readers the best analyses we
can obtain of events around the world where the interfering
hand of the United States appears.
In this issue we are fortunate to have an inside look at
repression in South Korea, provided by two disillusioned
former Peace Corps volunteers who saw the results of
American domination with their own eyes. We have some
equally cogent looks at the situation in Portugal, the East-
ern Caribbean, and Guyana. And we have an analysis of
the rapid growth of rightwing terrorism.
We are also finally able to bring to our readers an unusu-
al interview with former telecommunications intelligence
experts disclosing in meticulous detail the inner workings
of the National Security Agency. The NSA was created
allegedly to break enemy codes, but modern technology
has made codes virtually unbreakable. The NSA, undaunt-
ed, has turned from code breaking to massive eavesdrop-
ping, pure and simple. It is far and away the largest eaves-
dropping outfit in the world, and its victims are primarily
the American people, who are to a large extent completely
ignorant of its existence, much less its operations.
We also present a report on the recent convention of the
Association of Former Intelligence Officers, attended by
co-editor Louis Wolf, who received some sharp looks at the
press table from members and speakers. A few, quite cau-
tiously, were even friendly.
We have a number of additional, shorter items, part of
our effort to make the Bu/lc~tin as comprehensive a source
material as we can of developments in the intelligence field.
We include for the first time a clever piece of satire by ours
Source.~~ and Mc>ihods columnist, Ken Lawrence, as well as _
his regular contribution..And, undaunted, we continue to
bring you our Naming Name.e column.
We are well into our third year now, and readers will
note that we have had to increase our prices. Rising pro-
ductioncosts alone have been responsible for this. The staff
of CA /B take no salaries from it, and never have. Still, even
with the modest rise in prices, it is a struggle to keep the
magazine going. Times, given the political developments
taking place right now, are not going to get better for some
time. For the first time, we have decided to ask those of our
readers who can afford it for contributions. Within the
next few weeks a letter will go out to all our subscribers,
asking for assistance. Help us if you can; if you can't, we
understand. Keep reading us, and passing CRIB around;
urge others to subscribe. Ask your local libraries to carry
CA / B.
As we have indicated all along, we will continue to
publish the CovertAction /n/'ormation Bul/etin regardless
The battle against intelligence abuses is surely going to
heat up over the next few years. We expect to continue to
be in the front lines of that battle. The CIA's victims
around the world deserve that.
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Majc-r Rightwing Threat:
NEW SPATE OF TERRORISM:
KEY LEADERS UNLEASHED
by William Schaap
For ~~ears, the rhetoric of the Western Press has confused
the public's image of terrorism. Virtually all progressive
revolutionaries are referred to as "terrorists," while right-
wing reactionaries are usually called "freedom fighters" or
"rebels." 1Historically, when terrorism has applied to libera-
tion struggles-notably the Irish Revolution of 1916-1921
and the Algerian Revolution of 1957-1961-it has been in
the context of a colonized people fighting the colonial
settlers and occupiers.
[n recent times, however, nearly all the terrorism in the
world has been coming from the right, from some of the
most reactionary forces in existence. Yet the effect of de-
cades of linguistic manipulation has been to create the
impression that terrorism is a weapon of the left, and to
obscure the real role that terrorism plays in rightist politi-
cal movements. This confusion is most serious now, be-
cause o1?aseries ofevents which indicate a massive increase
in the use of terrorism by reactionaries, coupled with the
inability of the Western powers to stem this tide, at best-
or outright complicity with it, at worst.
These are just some examples of the trend in the world.
In the United States the situation is also disturbing. Ac-
cording to several recent reports, the Ku Klux Klan is
engaged in paramilitary training in at least seven states,
and Cuban and Nicaraguan exiles are openly training for
combat in southern Florida. But three events in September
underscore the dangers which may be expected. On Sep-
tember 11, Felix Garcia Rodriguez, a protocol officer at
the Cuban Mission to the United States in New York was
assassinated, the first time that a U.N. delegate has ever
been killed. On September I5, the convictions of three of
the assassins who killed former Chilean Ambassador Or-
lando Letelier and his associate Ronni Karpen Moffitt
were overturned by the District of Columbia federal Court
of Appeals. And, on September 26, the Venezuelan War
Council, a military court, threw out murder charges
against the infamous Orlando Bosch and three others, who
had repeatedly confessed to the 1976 bombing of a Cubana
Airlines plane in which all 73 passengers and crew perished,
the only such incident in history.
Several recent events, both in the United States and
elsewhf~re~, demonstrate that terrorism of the right is on the
rise, and that some of the most notorious and dangerous
terrorists of recent years are being set free by Western
nations, despite the lip service given to efforts to convict
and jail these wanton n-iurderers.
In the past few months, there has been an anti-Semitic
bombing in Paris, France, aneo-fascist bombing in Bolog-
na, Italy; and aneo-Nazi bombing in Munich, Germany.
Even the Peoples Republic of China has acknowledged a
terrorism problem after the bombing of Peking's main
railroa