LET'S CURB FORMER CIA AGENTS

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PITTSBURGH PRESS
30 September 1981
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By, MARY O'HARA
?,H They are a little late ? getting
earound to it but the Central Intelli-
gence Agency and its oversight sem":
tinels in Congress are finally:
working on methods to prevent fore.
mer U.S. agents,
from :selling
arnis and exper-
tise to interna-
tional terrorists..
For five
years the United
States has been
tryingto build a
Case against for-
mer agents Ed-
win P. Wilson
, and Francis E.
Terpil. At every ?ass O'HARA -
turn there have .
been legal hurdles, making the lavi
work for two despicable character
? who are now fugitives.
A federal grand jury indieted
them in April 1980- for various al-
leged violations resulting from their
shipments of high explosives, delay-,
action timers, sensitive night-vision
equipment and commando-training
programs to: Libya. .
The case includes a charge that
Wilson and Terpil attempted.to car-
ry- out a '$1-million' assasiinatiod
contract against-a critic of Libya's
Moainmar IChadafy. .?; .
. It's scary to realize,that sensitive
government secrets were entrusted
to Wilson and TerpiL, . -1
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ANOTHER DISTURBING ele41
ment has come to light as both the:
/
/ House and the Senate Move tq
; clamp down on former CIA agents
and their activities abroad.
Former CIA Deputy Directhi.
Vernon Walters said in an interview.
last week that there's "no way'.' to
bar retired intelligence official
ifrom doing business abroad without;
I restricting the individual's freedom:
, Mr. Walters, a retired general as
well and now ambassador-at-large
in the U.S. State- Department
s mitted he was paid $300,000? this
-year by a company that specializes
in selling sophisticated military
technology to foreign countries.
/. The $2-billion annual trade in
r. U.S. weapons technology abroad has
lured former CIA agents to cash
on their expertise and contacts. ?
' CIA officials have' told some key-
members of Congress that their
; lawyers are redrafting the agency's
employment contract to include
prohibitions against the sale of
:--trade crafts to hostile foreign gave
; ernments or terrorist organizations:.
. Sen. Lloyd IsiL,Bentsen, of Texas
has introduced a bill &easing a loop-.l
. hole that has left the, government
; powerless to prosecute Americans]
who help terrorists.. -
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CIA AGENTS have been accused
of many wicked acts, particularly
;
by the Soviets, who have even
charged them with contaminating
; Cuban wells -trail dengue-fever
germs. T,he agents have also been
' caught napping in 'sensitive posts
such as Iran_ -
, But nothing can match in vicinus-
' bess the deeds which some of its'
! own notorious former agents have
, _committed against the CIA and the
United States. ?
? The agency needs a completh
; overhaul but it's already obviouS:
that William. Casey isn't the director.
' ? to dolt - ; - -
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\i"' tabs on the spies?
Throughout United States history there
has always been an urieasy tension between
those persons who have sought to protect na-
tional security and state secrets and civil lib-
...ertarians who favored maximum freedom of
speech and the absolute accountability of pub-
lic officials. Sometimes the tension has equal-
ized itself out. All too often, however, there
have been periods of excess when the hand of
authority was used to stifle dissent, as in the
case of the Wilson administration during
World War I when it vigorously sought to jail
-subversives" and Congress enacted the Es-
pionage and Sedition acts..
While the present period obviously iepre-
, sents nothing like the drama of those years.
, there is a certain mood in the land which, un-
less carefully controlled. could invitea return
to the kind of secrecy and lack of accountabil-
ity that often marked government before the
Watergate-era reforms of the mid-1970s. Ef-
forts are currently underway to so shroud US
intelligence agencies ma privileged shield of
secrecy as to make such agencies virtually
unanswerable to the inquiries of a free press
or a critical public. Two recent manifesta-
tions of this trend are noteworthy:
I. The House last week enacted a measure
that would make it a crime for private citi-
zens to disclose the identity -of a US intelli-
gence agent, even if the, information came
from public sources. Lawmakers have sought
such a measure for the past five years after a
. CIA station chief in Athens was assassinated
following publication of his name.
? 2. CIA chief William Casey is urging Con-
gress to exempt national intelligence agen-
cies from the Freedom of Information Act,
which allows private citizens (including jour-
nalists) the right to petition government
agencies for nonclassified information.
- Admittedly there is something to be said
on behalf of both moves. Identifying names of
secret agents is reprehensible. The press, for
its part, must exercise the highest degree of
responsibility and professionalism in national,
security matters. ,-.. 7 ? -
? .What is worrisome,. however, is that the
way the House bill has been drafted could pre-
' vent the disclosure of abuses by intelligence
? agencies. The measure says that a person, in-
cluding a journalist, would be criminally lia-
ble if he or she had "reason to believe" that
disclosure of the agent's identity would harm
national security interests. This was a change
from a more restrictive House Intelligence
Committee version that said criminal liability
would result if the person doing the disclosing
had specific "intent to impair or impede the
foreign intelligence activities of the United_
States." ??- ' ?
The Senate should reject the House phras-
ing and adopt the stricter-intent requirement.
The fact is that in recent years there have
been disclosures of a number of cases where
? federal officials and intelligence officials
have misused their authority and violated the
law. Would the public be better served for not
having had the abuses come to light, or even
letting the persons involved continue in their
Wrongdoing? The House bill invites coverups
based on "national security" allegations-. '
As for totally excluding the CIA 'and other
intelligence agencies from the Freedom of In- /
formation Act, such a step would be injurious-
to the public:- The Freedom of Information
Act already excludes the release of abroad
range of classified information. To exempt a
I. ? .
spy agency entirely from any measure of at.?
countability is to make that agency in a sense
the master of the public
For lawmakers ahd the Heagan adMiiiis-
tration, the delicately balanced goal Must be
to protect?US agents and spy agencies-- as
well as the public and nation ihey'arecalled
,npon toserve.?- - ?
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
28 September 1981
By William Safire
.. "THIS IS NO cakewalk." said Transportation Secretary Drew
'Lewis about the air-controllers' strike. He was using a word
that has come Into sudden popularity in Washington.
? When Director of-Central Intelligence (not "CIA Director")
William Casey went: to Capitol Hill to extinguish a firestorm of
criticism, he used-.three figures of speech in rapid succession:
"The bottom of the barrel has been -reached," he said. "My life
is an open bcolc.?.This is going to be a cakewalk." .
The first two are cliches, but the third is a delicious Ameri-
canism that had become a rarity until Casey rescued it. Far
from being current speoltspeak, it finds its roots lathe Civil
War: Richard Thornton's "American Glossary" defined it as "a
walking competition among Negroes, in which the couple who
put on most style 'take the cake."' _
The high-stepping "cake-walk" soon attracted musical ac-
companiment: The walk became a dance, and the word was
immortalized in Claude Debussy's "Golliwog's Cake Walk."
Soon the phrase came to. mean "generally stylish"?Mark
Twain called a Shelley biography "a literary cakewalk." By the
.turn of the century, the cakewalk?one word--;was :a stage
?
William Safire writes a column on language for The New
1. York Times. ? . .
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dance, drawing on the fancy walking a the previous genera-
tion, as well as a mechanized promenade in amusement parks.
At some point, it became allied with something easy to do or
a pleasure to perform. A cakewalker was someone having a
good time; this was not to be confused with a "cake eater," or
effeminate man, that derogation based on the preference of
he-men for old-fashioned pies over fancy cakes.
WHILE ALL this was going on in the United States, the
British were using a similar expression to denote ease of
accomplishment: "A piece of cake," along with "cakewalk,"
were expressions used by Royal Air Force-pilots to describe
,
missions against weak defenses. ?
The British probably derived "piece Of cake' from
"cakewalk"; then the- Americans of this generation dropped
"cakewalk" and adopted the Britishism "piece of cake"?that
is, until Bill Casey revived the earlier term to describe what he
was -sure would be an easy time before a Senate committee.
_ That's how the language refreshes itself; nothin' to it. ? -
In that secret "cakewalk" session of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, William Roth (R., Del.) told Casey: "The Director
of Central Intelligence must be like Caesar's wife?clean as a
hound's tooth." The mixed metaphor drew a laugh in the
committee room, and Casey waxed Roth with an apt: "In
Washington, it's easier to be cleaner than a hound's tooth than
it is to be above suspicion." ?
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
28 September 1981
Headlines are focused on mavericks
who train terrorists, spy for hostile
powers, leak vital secrets. But the vast .
majority of former agents exploit their .
unique expertise for different purposes.
When an American spy ends his cloak-and-dagger work
for Uncle Sam, his life in the shadows may not be over.
A few maverick .ex-agents have continued to lead the
covert life even after "coming in from the cold." Often
operating outside the law, these onetime spies cash in on
clandestine skills honed?and secrets learned?as govern-
ment agents. Sometimes earning millions of dollars, they
move in a mysterious, violent world of guns, explosives,
criminals and foreign agents.
Two former operatives of the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy are accused of masterminding a terrorist training school
for Libya's Muammar Qadhafi and supplying him with ex-
plosives and technical expertise. A third has been convicted
of selling secrets to Russia?the only known case of a double
agent in the agency's 34-year history. Some former CIA
contract agents, free-lance operators who undertake specif-
ic contracts from the agency, have been arrested on drug-
smuggling charges.
While only a relative few become outlaws, these none-
theless have caused headaches for the vast majority of ex-
spies who go into legitimate work. As a reult, sentiment is
building for tighter restraints on all former agents.
Experts agree that.those who resort to questionable activ-
ities are rare among the thousands of CIA operatives who
quit the agency during the 1970s because of purges, scan-
dals and disillusionment. Yet the pressures that can create a
rogue are felt by all. Foremost is the difficulty of making a
new life after a career spent spying, often in exotic places
and sometimes amid great danger. Some say it is an addic-
tive combination.
There are other problems. Many potential employers are
sensitive to public hostility toward the espionage trade and
worry about any CIA ties that may remain. Many agents,
especially those who have spent a long time spying, lack
readily marketable job skills in the business 'world. And
some spies simply find themselves suited for no other work.
For them, covert activity has become not just a job, but a
way of life.
For a le,:ks at what spies do after leaving the government,
US.Netes & World Report has focused on a score of ex-
agents who have entered private life ih,recent years. While
most are respected businessmen, others operate on the
wrong side of the law. Both are-Examined in this_report -
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28 September 1981
The U.S. Vs. illiam
arly this month, Attorney General Wil-
AL:. ham French Smith revoked Carter Ad-
ministration guidelines that limited legal
recourse against current or former govern-
ment employees who publish information
about intelligence work without clearing it
with the government first. Smith obviously
meant business: NEWSWEEK learned last
week that the Justice Department plans to
sue former CIA director William E. Colby
for publishing his memoir, "Honorable
Men," without clearing all editions with his
former employer- Justice officials said the
Colby case did not portend a barrage of
lawsuits against leaicers of sensitive infor-
able to or critical of t!
involved will be a far'
er to sue," he said.
ment sources said, p
tied with a consent
forcing the former
over some profits f
government.
The Colby case is
Reagan Administrz
leaks of information
It was learned that t
ordered several inv
national-security bre
ance of State Department policy papers on
southern Africa, the removal of MX-
missile studies from the Pentagon
and the acquisition by NBC's Marvin
Kalb of position papers on Pakistan.
Similarly, CIA director William J.
Casey has asked for a special FBI
team to conduct an internal investiga-
tion of agency leaks--a request the
bureau has rejected because its top
officials do not believe that the FBI
should be working for the agency.
Irritated: Less sensitive leaks are
"more of an annoyance," says Presi-
dential Counselor Edwin Meese, but
the White House is tracking them as
well. After The New York Times sug-
gested in June that Reagan was will- ?
ing to compromise on his tax bill, '
irritated aides checked Secret Service
computer logs to learn which officials
the reporter had seen. The leak was
traced to budget director David
Stockman. Stockman's job isn't in
danger, but it is the chilling prospect
of being found out?and possibly
fired?that keeps most potential
leakers in line.
Intimidation may be the b est weep-
on against leakers simply because it is
so difficult to prosecute them. Feder-
al law prohibits the unauthorized dissemi-
nation of national-security information, but .
the statutes are "so vague as to be virtually
worthless," says a former CIA official. De-,
fendants also can resort to "graymaile" forc-
ing the government to disclose even more
sensitive information so that a jury can de-
cide the relative importance of the leaked
material.
Given the legal, and practical pitfalls, the
Administration is searching for more effec-
tive ways to stop leaks: not passing some
information to leak-prone departments and
routinely collecting important briefing
books after meetings. Attorney General
Smith's new edict on unauthorized publica-
tion of sensitive information may help to
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Colby: His loyalty to the CIA isn't at issue
mation; the idea was to send a message that
the Administration would not tolerate
breaches of the legal contracts between gov-
ernment workers and their employer.
The Colby case was also designed to "get
at the heart of the question of whether we
deal only with the little fish," said a senior
Administration official. Colby's alleged
breach of security occurred in 1978 when
galley proofs of his book reached a French
publisher before the CIA could demand
that its former chief delete certain passages.
In those passages, Colby revealed that the
CIA spy ship Glomar Explorer had failed in
its attempt to recover nuclear missiles,
steering and transmission devices and codes
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
27 September 19E')1
In his, first interview since the midair confrontation Aug. 19
between Libyan aircraft and fighters of the American 6th Fleet',
over-the Gulf of Sidra, Libyan leader ? Moammar: Kliaadafg? tells
the West German news magazine, Der Spiegel, how he plans to:
? deal with "American imperialiam." He-cieserte that the CIA was ?
behind a recent alleged assassination attempt against him, and
calls President Reagan "an onsuicessful, third-rate actor." ?? ' '-
Der Spiegel,-Colonek; Khaddafy. 'in- the West, especially in
America, you .are.regarded as the most dangerous man in the.
worla. Do you think that is justified?
? IC.haddafy?It depends- on what you mean. by dangerous..
,
Q?What the 'Americans mean- by that is.- really dangerous.
They are convinced that ?you, next to the Russians, are the
worst evildoer of all and the one who is behind all the uproar,
especially here in Africa: On top of that is the fact that you
have threatened to: attack American-bases in the Meditere
ranean, even at the risk of unleashing an international catastro-
phe and a third world war,the-American-6th Fleet once again
enters the Gulf of Sidra off the Libyan coast. . ,
A?I can tell you why America calls- me the most dangerous'
man. It is part of the political and psychological preparations
for the conquest of Libya. America intends to, attack Libya and
bring it under its domination again. -- ? .: . . - '
Q?So you- don't 'believe- that in Reagan's scenario you are
merely the bad cowboy with the black hat? You really seriously
maintain that the Americans intend to attack anti''conquer
Libya?
A?That is my opinion. ?
Q?This is a -very gave allegation. How do you visualize the
conquest of Libya taking place? - ? "
A?There are various methods, but they all have the same
:aim of subduing Libya and incorporating it in the American
ephere of influence again. To do this, a direct occupation of the
country with troops,is not necessary. It is enough to overthrow
the revolutionary regime and replace it, with another laro.
American. :regime. That is one pzethori oi American. inalkerialisrat
and that is what I meant when- I spoke of America's plans for
conquest.
Q?Is that what you were thinking of in the recent speech in
which you spoke of an attempt to poison you?
A?Of course, the ,Americans were behind that. To attain
their ends they must get rid of me. This base plot, worked out
by the American president with his CIA, to get me out of the
way, was a further step in the direction of getting Libya into
their hands. , . , ? ;
Q?It is a fact that. thei American press early in August
reported an operational plan of the CIA aimed at removing reel
from office. This plea was said to have been proposed before
the .Select Committee on Intelligence, after, it had been ap- ?
proved by CIA chief (William) Casey and the crisis-manage-
.rnent team of the White House. Members of the committee. are
? said to have sent an indignant protest to Ronald Reagan
because it appeared to them that your assassination was
planned. However, therAreweenideditreSpReleieesiftYROP/141
know about all this? -"a.."' z : ' - : : ?
'A--The signs' only became clear to me afterward. Shortly
before. these plans ? were disclosed, many American visitors
came to me, as. journalists, as businessmen, as politicians..I
They all suddenly found they had-a great interest in speaking to
me. Only later did. I discover that this was all organized by the
CIA. with the purpose of discovering my daily-living habits,
where?I sleep, where I eat, what I - . ?
I also hahtips from Americaafrom friends of Arab origin who
have become American citizens and who perhaps have worked
more or less for the CIA or were?supposed to be recruited by
them. These persons_ had noticed that the CIA was becoming
more active inthe direction of Libya. They--let me kniiw that
information had. been obtained about my eating habits. They
warned me that I should have all food and drink tested, ..- ?
I did not take these reports seriously at. the time because I.
did not think that America would pursue such a base plot with
the participation. of its president. . , - I
The canipaign -against me. and against my policy became
stronger. I was saic.i to be behind. every act-oi terrorisx . and:
responsible for all evil deeds that.happened lathe world. When
they sawn that they were not getting very far.witle their plan to
poison me,- they suddenly decided to clese our People's Bureau '
(embassy), in Washington, ordered the personnel to leave- the
country, -and broke with us completely. Following that, they n
tried to slip one across me in the Sidra. ' ;
Q?That sounds to our ears; of course, like a cops and robbers.'
story. But, unfortunately, one has to admit that .the CIA plans ,
his getting rid 'of Fidel Castro, the full details of Which became
known some years ago, also sounded like one. They planned to-
get Castro by using poisoned bootlaces or-poisoned cigars...
A?Those are facts-that cannot be denied. It is-also a fact that
they tried to kill ,me-. - _ _ ? -
The. CIA. has . Martin Luther King -on its consciencee it? has 1
[Chilean leader Salvador] Allende on its conscience, it has't
[Congo's Patrice] Lurnurnba on its-conscience. Why should they:
recoil from having me-on their conscience?-.?--- ? ,
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Q?We cannot agree with that list, but a lot is possible in the
CIA and that is something that worries even the American;"
public. We-in Europe, for our part, are equally shocked tlaet you
threatened to attack the American feh Fleet if it turns up in the
-Gulf of Sidra again. Have you not lost all sense of proportion? i
? A?Nonsense. What I wanted to say was that some formations
of this fleet carry, atom bombs. If the Americans attack us irt
the Gulf of Sidra, ?Innmust. reckon that-they will also attack us
with atonebonabs. ? a - ? , ? ne. . .
In that ciee.I have the right to defend my people-and my
country by attacking the NATO bases in southern Europe or the !
ships from which these atom bombers start before they can I
reach us. If we have the-chance of destroying these bases. or I
ships, we shpuld da '
Q?Are -you. really determined to attack American or NATO
.defense base in Greece, Italy, or Spain?
A?Understand me correctly. I did not say I wanted to attack ;
Greece, Italy, or Spain.'! said if I discover that an American
attack is being made front these bases and I have _the i
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27 SEPTEMBER 1981
C.I.A. director William' Y. Casey, on
crutches because of a leg Injury.:
?
A Bid to 'insure
Secret Agents
Stay That Way
... Though many would consider the
disclosure of a secret agent's identity
:,a crime, efforts to make it one have
,yeE. to succeed. -But last Week the I
-,,-, Houseapproved a bill that would send .
Those convicted , pf betraying an 1,
. operative to prison for up to Id years. !
and passage of a similar measure in. - '
:
the S enate is considered likely..
'..,... , Proponents had been pushing for.:
such a measure for.,?more than five -:
years, after the Central Intelligence-
Agency station chief in Athens, Rich- . I
1. ard Welch, was a ,bs.....,..64inated follow-. i
ing publication of his name, and the i
- ;
subsequent disclosure of ether agents -!
...by a ,notorious former one,: _ Philip -
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:In- moving from the House Intelli-
gence Committee to the floor, how- -
' ever, the bill was expanded to cover
not just those with .an -"intent" to
harm the agency through such activi-
ties but those who Merely "had rea- .
. son to believe" they would, a category' i
thought to include journalists'. Wary ' !
`,. of constitutional difficulties, Repre-
sentative Edward P. Howland, the _ !
' committee chairman, who originally !
had sought such a law?joined 55 other
:Democrats in opposing it. - . --
Testifying.before a Senate suhcorn--
mittee the next day, William J. i
:. Casey, Director of Central: Intelli-
gence, asked Congress to go further, -
* and exempt the agency from the
' Freedom of Information Act. "There i
.,?, are inherent Contradictions in "apply-
,: ing a statute designed to secure open- .
ness in government to agencies whose
-work is necessarily secret,". Mr,..;.;
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. How open? How secret? The Justice:
' Department was reported readying a .
3 Suit last- week against an ex-C.I..1L
chief,.William E.. Colby, who failed to '
..- clear a European edition Of his 1978
book about the agency, ."Honorable?
Men," with the Government. Though
no criminal charges are ant1cipated,fl
.?-?:.
Mr. Colby might be forced to-share
, some of his royalties with his, former
employera:,:*i..-e'r.,...:
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26 September 1981
Even though Joanne King Her-
ring was not at the opening of The
Second Annual Afghan Fair last
night -- she was with her ailing hus-
band ? it was very much her eve-
ning. About 200 people gathered at
the Youth for Understanding
Grounds on Newark Street; NW, for
the premiere of Herring's. film,
"Courage Is Our Weapon,",a. docu-
mentary about the AfghatOefugees
in Pakistan co-produced with
Charles Fawcett. So powerful were
the scenes-of the Afghair-suffering,
many guests wept softly throughout
the screening. ? .
It was the sensitive iide :of the
flamboyant -Joanne Herring:- loved
but Controversial in the social set
both here in Washington' -and in
Houston, where she lives with her
husband,_ Bob,.., chairman of-- the
board of the Houston Natural Gas
Co. "This is the first filth to capture,
the true moocl the, Afghans,"
said Ejaz Azim, the amba.ssador of
Pakistan, who has been in theUnit-
ed States eight weeks. ? .
Before the film, the International
Rescue Committee and the Afghan-
istan Relief Committee -hosted a'
benefit dinner for the -refugees, as
well as a preview of this Weekend's
fair. Guests included CIA Director
William Casey; Rep. Do-inlitter. (R-
Pa.); former ambassador to Saudi
Arabia Robert Neumann; former
assistant secretary of state Harold
Saunders; journalist and author Ar-:
,naud de Borchgrave; and American
Federation of Teachers head Albert
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Exempt all spy agencies
from FOI, Casey asks
Washington (AP)?CIA Director Wil-
liam J. Casey asked Congress yesterday to
exempt all U.S. intelligence agencies from
the federal Freedom of Information Act.
Mr. Casey told a Senate Judiciary sub-
committee that the FOI law has seriously
jeopardized U.S. relations with other na-
tions and put the intelligence agency's net-
work of covert agents "in jeopardy."
The law?which permits scholars, jour-
nalists and citizens to obtain information
about government operations--"has never
been an effective method for oversight of
the intelligence community," Mr. Casey
testified. -
But Morton H. Halperin, a former offi-
cial of the National Security Council, told
the subcommittee that the CIA "is a better
institution and . . . is more responsive to
the dictates of the Constitution" because
of the law.
Mr. Halperin, who testified on behalf of
the American Civil Liberties Union, said
the information act has brought public dis-
closure of valuable information about the
CIA, including new revelations about the
Bay of Pigs operations in the 1960s, use of
mind-drug experiments and illegal sur-
veillance of Americans.
Mr. Halperin now is director of the'
Center for National Security Studies,
which publishes' reports on intelligence
abuses.
Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato (Ft, N.Y.)
has introduced legislation to partially ex-
empt the CIA and other intelligence agen-
cies from FOI coverage.
But Mr. Casey, arguing that intelli-
gence organizations should be free of all
requirements of the act, said, "it has seri-
ously impaired the operation of the intelli-
gence apparatus with no significant public
benefit."
Since 1974, when Congress enacted
provisions requiring CIA compliance with
the law, the agency has handled 1,212 FOI
requests at a cost of $3 million, an effort
that drew highly trained and experienced
intelligence officers away from other-
work of greater importance, Mr. Casey,
said. ' .
The 1974 provisions all-ow those seek--
ing information ta ask federal judges to
reverse an agency refusal to meet a re-
quest. Mr. Casey conceded that only once
in 198 cases 'has' a ' judge overruled the
CIA, and that case is on appeal.
But the CIA occasionally has let infor-
mation that it should have kept secret
"slip out accidentally," Mr. Casey said.
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United Press Inte rnati anal
CIA Director William Casey said
yesterday all U.S. intelligence agen-
cies should be exempted from Free-
dom of Information Act requests, to
end a growing fear that secrets are
not safe in this country.
Processing requests under the law
for secret records is an enormous-
burden and some classified informa-
tion has been released inadvertently,
Casey said.
But the greatest harm is an ero-
sion of trust that has reduced coop-
eration, of allies and dried up intel-h
ligence sources, he told the Senate
judiciary subcommittee on the Con-
stitution
Because of uncertainties created
by the information act's coverage, 15
friendly' nations have notified the-
CIA that they no longer will share
their? intelligence with the United
States, Casey said.
He said the National Security
Agency, the Defense Intelligence
Agency and the CIA should be ex-
empted from having to receive and
? process requests for "intelligence
records" and deciding if information
should be released under the act.
Casey said that a number of bills
being considered by the House and
Senate would improve the situation,
but that intelligence-gathering can-
not be freed entirely, of the stigma
the act causes unless agencies are'
given a blanket exemption.
He insisted that congressional
oversight is all the public needs to
guard against official abuses.
Classified material has been re-
? leased inadvertently, causing diplo-
matic embarrassment and risking
lives, because deciding what must be
disclosed under the FOIA is not fool-
proof, Casey said.
A single FOIA request by former
CIA agent Philip Agee cost $325,000
in manpower and $70,000 -worth of'
computer time, Casey said.
The searches and reviewi are es-
pecially costly to the CIA because
they cannot be done by clerks but
only by high-level officials,,who have
access to the information o
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Be Exempt From information Act
By DAVID SIIRIBMAN
Special to TheNew York Tfraes
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 ?William J. deputy director of the National Security
Casey, the Director of Central Inte111-! Agency, said that several law clerks and
gence, recommehded today that intelli-1 other court personnel had handled top-
gence agencies be granted "total exclu ' secret documents while the courts de-
sion" from the provisions of the Free- cided whether an intelligence agency
was justified in refusing to provide clas-
sifted documents.
The subcommittee is considering
legislation introduced by Senator Al-
fonse M. D'Amato, Republican of New
York, that would exempt documents de-
tailing the internal management of the
intelligence agencies from the act and
tighten , exemptions covering covert
operations.
Mr. Casey said foreixfagents and in-
telligence sources regarded the Free-
dom of Information Act as "a threat to
our country's ability to maintain the
confidentiality of its intelligence
sources," and added that the possibility
of public disclosure had prompted 15 for-
eign agents to refuse to continue to coop-
erate with American intelligence offi-
cials or to restrict their flow of informa-
tion in recent years.
He also said American intelligence of-
ficials spent 5 percent of their time re-
viewing information requests, locating
records and determining what informa-
tion could be released without jeopardiz-
ing the security of intelligence opera-
tions and personnel.
"We spend more time on responding
to Freedom of Information Act requests
than we are able to spend on some intel-
ligence problems of the highest order,"
Mr. Casey said, adding that compliance
with the act cost the agency about $3
million a year.
Requests from Philip Agee, a former
C.I.A. agent who has publicized many of
the agency's activities, cost $325,000 in
personnel time and $70,000 in computer
time, Mr. Casey said.
dom of Information Act.
Mr. Casey said that national security
secrets had been released in the course
of complying with the act, which per-
mits the public to request documents de-
tailing Government activities. He urged
that all documents created or main-
tained by the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy, the National Security Agency and
the Defense Intelligence Agency be ex-
empted from the act.
Mr. Casey's remarks were made in
testimony before the Senate Judiciary
Committee's Constitution Subcommit-
tee, which is considering adjustments in
the act, and came a day after the House
approved legislation making disclosure
of the identity of American intelligence
agents a Federal crime.
"There are inherent contradictions in
applying a statute designed to assure
epenness in Government to agencies
whose work is necessarily secret," the
director testified. "This application has
caused intelligence functions to be seri-
ously impaired without significant pub-
lic benefit."
Data Unintentionally Released
Mr. Casey said the C.I.A. had uninten-
tiona Hy released "sensitive intelligence
information" while complying with the
act. Information that the agency pro-
vided to other Federal agencies has also
been released in response to requests
under the Freedom of Information Act,
Mr. Casey said, and has caused "serious
compromises of classified informa-
tion. He refused to disclose details in
In later testimony, Ann Caracristi,
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U.S. Intelligence agenclei should be ex-
empted- from compliance with the Freedom
of Information Act, CIA Director William
Casey told a Senate panel. The 1974 law al-
lows journalists and others to get access. to
government data, but the CIA fears that sec-
rets aren't safe anymore. He said 15 nations
no longer share intelligence with the U.S.
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?
By Maria kissed cheeks and petted
The ta.- was of budgets. and box-,.i ,:"each other's mink' s. About 25 guests,,
inglat last, night's. benefit.dinner. foe ' including Sen. Robert Dole (R.;
tha:Claarles ECILIOEI Niercorial-YoUth-..-:f Kan.), William Casey, director of the
Fund at- the= Sheratoo.,Weshingto' CIA, political analyst P:--CM--f-,i-
l'V1Ore. tlaart,700.peopla'aitanded .thee-.4. White and the Ray. Richard Halver-
$2b0-a-plate affair,: honaringe son, attended a smaller pre-dinner
Barri Gold (R-Ariz.);-' involved party called "the-special:VIP, recap-
in l the pregrank- sinos it.. weeestabe - ;.,
fished in, 1969-- Several,. of the: fund's scholar;
:Edison,' the eon. of-Ilventor.Tho';'+'" stood outside the door, peering in at
mas,, created the fund to sponsor ed---;ctthe select group of guesta,"Sorneday
ncntional."Prnigraple"-for well be Very Important People," one
atifli as a six-week summer institute of them said with a laugh ?
in. comparative- politic, at George-.::-', ., They are well on way, Dia I
toiva University'. "rile future of our of the fund's graduates now work in-
coi.intry is determined by the
positions of authority in .. variois
catian at am% Ycuth''' 5aid Mikei Cas' i brandae4 a the government. And
executve director. of :the- pro--? .
; boethe impact of the $1,700 proprogram?gouif, mho attended the institute in ? . . . .
beyond intellectual enrichment
1973 as a Manhattanvillee Collegoes?
stu
, "It changed my whole life, says Cas-
dent. ? - ;
Many of the guests, however,.were-
ulifamiliar with the. piogranr. "Oh, I Jeffrey Simmons, a participant
? thought this was all for Barry Gold- last year from Cochise College in Ar-
- izona, cukid, "I learned so much, but
Ar-
water's birthday or somethirtg,? said
one. wOman. - ? , it was also a lot of fun being exposed
Another woman asked a- barten- to these people in government.*
de'r,st "Who's Charlie Edison?' He ? Meanwhile,- in the VIP- room, a
shiviged and poured.,. her another group gathered around Goldwater,
drink, ? ? who wanted to talk about education,
:
;The furs came. out of the cleeet - not budgets. "Budgets, budgets," he,
;for the evening. At the smoke-filled said, shaking his head. 'It's gotten so
? recep6ore --before- thez`. dinner; ?. the that I dream about them."... ?
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