EXPERTS RAP, DEFEND CIA: EVIL EMPIRE, BENEVOLENT FORCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000807500021-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: February 20, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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20 February 1984
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pregnant wife to the hospital quicker, information. If . he were 'still a KGB
be said. agent, be said he would open up a car
"Spying is the oldest or at least the dele?ship that would allow himaccess
second-oldest profession," he said. The
Bible gives evidence that Moses car-
. tied on economic and military spying, be said.
Man spies to determine the capabili-
ties of his enemies and their inten-
tions, be said. The only way to end the
business would be to "change the
nature of man," he said.
Wise, author of "The Invisible Gov-
ernment," said that spying is neces-
was not "for lack of trying." way." "Tbey weren't your letters to Aunt
-He referred to the CIA :attempt to Vladimir. Sakharov, a :former KGB-' Minny," be told the audience.
have the Mafia poison the Cuban dicta- turned-CIA agent, ,said.'the difference Wise then rebutted Colby's conten.
for as one of its more stupid miscalcu- 'between. the tvo:, ateliigence' opera= tion that the CIA has operated -within
lations. ins is one of atet6od., . i.the law in the last 10 years.
lby also -said he would have The CIA is a think task, he said, "How do we know?"Wise said. He
cheerfully carried a bomb iota -ereas the KGB :spends '.mostaf .its . said President Reagan -has 'issued an
bunker."] setting up communications. executive order allowing covert
,Add ?to Hitler, Libya's Moar r~ Sakharov, who was at the heart of domestic operations and has revamped
Khadafy, said G. Gordon Liddy. can- CGS operations is the Middle East, I'the declassification system so that doe-
victed Watergate conspii-atorsand 'lid was largely ublic rein- uments don't automatically become
former general counsel to Richard oons, "sel ing the Soviet' point of public after a certain period of time.
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President a ~. wide-spread covert Operations around
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The-end sometimes justifies the #The Soviet agents-'try-. to make the world, most notablY.in.Nicaragata.
means when it comes to breaking the: Ittriends and establish ties, aspecially:in Because it's Tan election year, Wise
law, Liddy said. This is as true in spy- , iird World countries. -- said, Reagan has discontinued the use
lag as in the case of the husband who ic' He said the: greatest danger. to'the of lie detector tests on federal employ.
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Speaking at a Tulane University He said a Senate reporton assas_ina Colby said he thinks the difference
Direction '84 program, espionage ,Lions shows the. CIA also tried to kill,` between the two agencies- is that the
author David Wise characterized CIA ?Congo,-(now Zaire)::leader Patrice , CIA -has reliable but, few sources of
operations as rather ominous. He OF I,Lumurnbaby joishmng his toothbrush. information about the Soviets, while
elected officials need to control. the ` -Colby admitted. the CIA had_consid-- -;the. KGB has .an-abundance. of infor.
agency to prevent foreign eyed"anassassins tion ro "
assassins ~ . p gram- there, - al mation about-,the United States but
tions and domestic spying. but scrapped -it. doesn't know which pieces are correct..
Former CIA Director William Colby Liddy backed.Colby in downplaying ..I '.Colby also said he thought Ameri-
said the agency is "not an evil empire." the .CIA's intenUonsto assassinate cans have "sobered up from the binge"
It was founded to be "more ruthless opposition leaders, asking Wise if he' .1. in the 1970s of being distrustful of the
than its enemies," he said, but -the believes the CIA -gave-"Chairman CIA.
agency's abuses "have been few.:and Andropov his bad cold." = Colby confirmed Wise's allegation
far between.Liddy said the CIA is. more of a, that the CIA once screened 28 mil.
Colby said the CIA has been too con- benevolent force than the KGB. "The lion letters of Ameri cans in violation
trolled, that it does not engage -in difference is that the KGB would throw of federal law, but said the letters
assassinating enemy. leaders, although a little lady. into an oncoming train,, were only those coming from the
admitting that in Fidel Castro's case it 'and the CIA would push her out of- the , U.S.S.R. ~.-- -
agent, a Watergate burglar and an prime example of how it was used for He would then be in position to take
on international espionage political purposes.
author advantage of'someone who fell on hard
came in out of the cold Sunday night to I "This is 1984," said wise, and times and may be willing to help the
ti - Americans should beware Soviets
talk about undercove
evil empire, benevolent r-
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By JAMES HODGE but that It should be controlled to to the inanciaata of hundreds of
A former. CIA chief, an ex-KGB abuses. He said Watergate was a people.
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