CIA ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504260013-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 18, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM CBS Evening News
July 18, 1985 7:00 PM
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CBS Network
Washington, DC
DAN RATHER: The House today passed and sent to the
Senate a secret fiscal - '86 budget for the CIA and other
intelligence agencies. Few details, few numbers, few explanat-
ions were given. We do know that, among other things, the CIA is
engaged in a well-publicized secret war in Central America, a war
commanded not by any Army general, but by a 72-year-old former
Wall Street lawyer.
Pentagon correspondent David Martin profiles Casey's
DAVID MARTIN: Lights burn late at the CIA. This was
one of the first buildings to go on alert last month when TWA
Flight 847 was hijacked.
The U.S. rushed a 20-man counter-terrorist team to
Sicily to prepare for a possible rescue mission. More than half
the team came from the CIA. A rescue was never attempted, but
the episode shows how deeply involved the CIA is in the battle
against terrorism. That is only one of the battles to which the
CIA is committing new forces.
CIA is nearing completion of its biggest buildup since
the Vietnam War, a buildup run by William Casey, Director of
Central Intelligence. His close ties to the President, combined
with recorded increases in the intelligence budget, have made
Casey perhaps the most powerful CIA Director since Allen Dulles.
WALTER HUDDLESTON: CIA Director Bill Casey is certainly
of the old school, and he believes that the agency should be a
force and should be an entity to deal with throughout the world.
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MARTIN: This new building will double the size of CIA
Headquarters, making room for more computers and people. In the
last five years, there has been an increase of about 30 percent
in the number of people working for the CIA. The CIA would like
to hire even more.
Many of the new recruits come here, to "The Farm," a CIA
training base complete with pop-up targets and its own private
airstrip. Hundreds of new intelligence officers trained here
have been sent overseas, many to Central America, Asia and
Africa, areas which had been neglected for many years. So many
new officers have been sent overseas, the CIA is having trouble
finding cover jobs to mask their real occupations.
But Casey cannot build up a worldwide network of agents
overnight, particularly when the CIA is still worried about
running afoul of Congress.
SENATOR WILLIAM COHEN: I think it's too early to count
it a success yet. I think they're still a little bit gun-shy,
and I'm not sure that's all bad.
MARTIN: What the CIA learns overseas goes into
classified intelligence estimates. The CIA is turning out three
times as many now as in the 1970s. The analysts have scored some
successes: predicting Yuri Andropov's rise to power, and
spotting Mikhail Gorbachev early on as a real comer. But they
were surprised by Argentina's occupation of the Falklands and by
the ouster of the chief of the Honduran armed forces, a man the
CIA depended on in conducting its not-so-secret war against
Nicaragua.
Nicaragua is the CIA's most controversial operation, one
in which the agency is not just spying, but actually trying to do
harm to an unfriendly government, at one point even going so far
as to mine its harbors.
There are scores of these covert operations going on
around the world, ranging from support for dissidents opposed to
Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, to arming of guerrillas fighting Soviet
troops in Afghanistan. Covert operations have increased not only
in number, but also in size.
HUDDLESTON: They involve many, many people, and also
carry with them a considerable amount of risk if they are
revealed, either the life of individuals or to the reputation and
credibility of the United States.
MARTIN: Congress watches the CIA much more closely than
it used to. But that alone does not guaranty successful
operations. That will depend on the quality of the people coming
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into the CIA and on the ability of whatever Administration is in
power to make good use of the intelligence the CIA provides.
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Tuesday, June 1985 -- B-9
FROM THE PENTAGON
Rather: Right now, the U: S. government is taking a diplomatic approach
to ending the hijack hostage drama, but the military option is being
kept open.
CBS's David Martin: A three-ship amphibious k force is thealatest unit
to cut short a port call, this one in Gibraltar, l
Lebanon. The aircraft carrier Nimitz is now within range of the
Beirut airport and a ship believed to be the guided missile destroyer
Kidd can be seen through the haze. The Kidd's real value may be as
a source of intelligence. Ships of that class are outfitted with an
electronic eavesdropping system, code-named "Classic Outboard,"
which could detect communications in and around the airpo short
Intelligence on the whereabouts of the hostages Is in very
supply. Government sources say the U. S. has an almost total lack of
agents on the ground in Beirut. The same thing happened during
the Iranian hostage crisis, when the U. S. was left without any agents
in the country after the embassy was sieged. AS a result of that
failure, a secret Army organization, called the Intelligence Support
Activity, was created to infiltrate native-speaking agents into
countries like Lebanon where Americans are not able to move around.
The suicide bombing of the Marine compound dramatized in gruesome
fashion the lack of good on-the-ground intelligence in Lebanon. An
investigation determined that a shortage of agents had made it
impossible to check out the scores of reports of impending terrorist
attacks. Now, a year-and-a-half later, sources close to the into
Intelligence Support Activity say it still has not sent any agents
Lebanon. That same investigation also recommended that the Joint
Chiefs of Staff develop a "broad range of appropriate military
tIf the Joint Chiefs o demonstrate them. have developed (CBS-4)
responses to terrorism."
responses, they have yet
Jennings: For all of the talk on the subject, there appears to be little the way of
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position where they can be seen if not felt.
ABC's Dean Reynolds: The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier U . S . S .
imitz, accompanied by other warships, including the cruiser South
Carolina and the guided-missile destroyer Kidd shouldered into
position today off the coast of Lebanon -- the Kidd so close it could
be observed from the control tower at Beirut airport. It was a show
of sea and air strength by the. U. S. Sixth Fleet. More importantly,
it provided what experts said would be a base for a rescue -- or
retaliation. At the same time, the U . S . S . Spartanburg County and
other ships in the Mediterranean amphibious force headed methodically
eastward toward Lebanon from Gibraltar, with 1800 Marines aboard.
Navy officials acknowledged the amphibious force could be used to
secure the beach for a military mission. That mission could be
carried out by elite commandos, known as the Delta Force, a unit that
sources said was assembled during the weekend for use in the Middle
East. Because its mission is secret, the Pentagon won't say how
large the force is, where land there are other probems people
could die in a military action (continued)
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