INMAN: LITTLE CHANGE OF INTENTIONAL DOMESTIC SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100150008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 17, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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-.17 AMARM.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOP,
17 April 1984
Mman: dale chance of intentional domestic swum
'
Bobby Pay Inman doesn't look like a spy.- With his
prominent glasses and equally prominent grin, he could
be a copier salesman or the owner of a string of conve-
nience stores.
But the Rhonesboro, Texas, native in fact is one of the
premier United States intelligence officers of the post-.
W
l
or
d War II era. Among other things,
Mr. Inman, a retired vice-admiral, has
been director of naval intelligence, vice-di-
rector of the Defense Intelligence Agency,
chief of the National Security Agency
(NSA), and deputy director of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA).
"This country does need to have strong,
healthy, viable intelligence organizations,"
insists Inman, now bead of MCC Corpora-
tion. a microelectronics research company.
For the most part, the US public sup-
ports this goal, he says - with the caveat
.that spy.agencies never again, ": resort .to
domestic. surveillance"
, as: -the
y did-
The abuses of the past - CIA spying on antiwar
protesters, NSA perusal of US telegrams headed over-
seas - weren't entirely the fault of espionage agencies,
says Inman. "These weren't things the intelligence agen-
cies decided, 'Gee, wouldn't that be great to do?' They all i
flow from decisions at senior levels of the executive
branch, [telling] the intelligence community to do them,"
Bobby Ray Inman
MV Today there is little likelihood of an-'
0 other Operation Chaos (the illegal CIA do-
mestic- spying program) or Operation
s Shamrock, NSA's long-term scanning of
Inman. But with the NSA's electronic ears
sucking up information all over the world,
the prospect of incidental, unintentioned
acquisition of information on US individ-
uals is a reality," he admits.
NSA procedures guard against abuse of
this data, he says. When it is recognized
that a message contains the identity.of. a
US citizen that identitc!is . supressed:
-P.G.-
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