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• Publication Date: December 24, 1982
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2L DECEMBER 1982
Ey ROEERT PARRY,
+.A ;HINGTON
CI.A -History
!or U.S. ?intelligence and military officials assured Congress in 5Ecr__
Tony years ago that the CIA wouldn't spy on Americans and thus`
safeguards against such action were unnecessary.
"I would not try to be too specific," said Allen Dulles, a top U.S.
.intelligence operative in World War II and later director of the CIA. "It is a
delicate field, and you cannot be too specific" about restrictions on CIA
activities.
The testimony of Dulles and other officials, given June 27, 1947, and
released Tuesday by the House Intelligence Committee, reflects many of the sarr:e
concerns that later became the focus of congressional investigations in the
mica-197Ds into CIA spying against Americans.
At the secret hearing, Dulles also testified that 10 percent of German
military intelligence was helping the United States during World War II.
The aid provided by the Abwehr, the Nazis' military intelligence arm,
'included "some of the first information we had about the German development of
the guided missiles," such as the V-1 "buzz bomb," a subsonic jet, and later the
V-2 rocket, Dulles said.
The House Committee on Expenditures
held
the
closed hearing to
take
testimony
on the proposed National Security Act,
Intelligence Agency.
the
1947
law that created
the
Central
At the hearing, several committee members expressed concern that the CIA
might grow into an American "Gestapo." Although the bill barred the agency from
a police or internal security role, specific guidelines on the CIA's functions
were left to a presidential executive order.
"That is one of the weaknesses in this bill that we have before us," said
Rep. Clarence J. Brown, R-Ohio, father of current Rep. Clarence J. Brown.
"Nooody knows what those functions are. ...
"The Congress, as the representatives of the people, has a duty and a
responsibility to guarantee the protection of those people and their rights and
privileges under the Constitution."
But Gen. Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, then-chief of the Air Force, said that
since the CIA's clear role was foreign intelligence, there was nothing in the
bill "that can possibly affect any of the privileges of the people of the United
States."
In 1976, a Senate investigation found that in the late 1960s, the CIA
directed intelligence operations against anti-Vietnam War protesters and other
dissident groups in the United States.
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The investigation also discovered that the CIA had for years been opening
U.S. maid.
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Z_.:; DULLES WARNED AGAINST CIA 'OCTOPUS'
:"r: Lr4 "iI
~~le_, w'ho late, became director of the CI , 1 E e
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estimates, CIA employees now rl~~Y:ber upwards of
hearings on the 1ati0nal Security Act of 1947,
'tI_ setting up of the CIA, Dulles said, ' ' I do not believe in a
"o+_? ought to keep it small, " he said. If this gets to he a great big
noot fun ~10n well
s:cr, Switzerland during World War Ii.
c C C' a~"oad should be ' 'scores rather than hundreds, ' ' Dulles
__ ~-a= tilled - testify because of his successful operation of a small
ro ad do setter w,zh 10 people than I could with 50he said of the
-,f :E of rated c Se vices operation, l4Jluch was cut off from all but radio
got; to _ t e ~r, _ -e a :a -:Dr after Germany occupied France.
t 1v rF. a thE z?r.,a`, "I,1:
pro viced the OSS, th= CIA's predecessor acency
he said, inCluoeo "the first clues to
S'r',c:: t- E"--Et-it Of guided missiles and led the way to the bombing Of
_?..;_ ___ Li :.S E_ t reerlEmUr1Oe.
_ a~ C''ealed ears ago, those provldinG the 05S with information included
tale Es of e AGwehr, Adm. Wilhelm Canaris, who was executed in 1945 Decause
of n:_ part cipation in a 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
D ~_es also told House members that the CIA should be Free n =eel.
p rc~. st._
c?ce _Cs:10115 who SEnd their people throughout the world.''
' They- collect a tremendous amount of information,'' he said. "There ought
to oc a way of collecting that in the United States."
Such information could be collected by ''a couple of dozen people throughout
the United States ... two in New York, one in Chicago and one in San
Iranc.co,' he said.
The only remaining transcript of the secret 1947 testimony was found in the
CI4 files and released chiefly through the efforts of Rep. Robert McClorv,
r it who said he felt it should be made public because of its ' 'historical
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18 December 1982
E=dward
W. O'Brien
A CIA success: U-2s gave
us priceless pictures
WASHINGTON - According to the cliche, only the CIA's
failures are publicized. Its triumphs remain buried in secret
files.
Thanks to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, an
amazing CIA feat is now on the record in more complete and
authoritative fashion than ever before. It is the story of the U-2
photo- reconnaissance aircraft that made high-altitude
espionage flights across the Soviet Union for four years until
the plane piloted by Gary Powers was downed on May 1, 1960.
The Senate committee is methodically reviewing the
transcripts of its executive sessions and publishing the
materials deemed most interesting or historically important.
The 1960 volume released a few days ago focuses on the
sensational U-2 episode, which the senators investigated by
taking testimony from top figures in the Eisenhower
administration.
In the present era of intelligence-gathering space satellites,
it's hard to recall the priceless benefits of the U-2 aircraft,
which were called weather-observation planes but were in fact
loaded with cameras capable of photographing 12-inch objects
on the ground from a height of 80,000 feet.
"Equipped with enough film to photograph an area 750
miles wide, each U-2 brought back a staggering amount of
information," the Senate book says, and provided a solid
factual foundation for United States military and diplomatic
policies.
The crucial decision to develop the U-2 was made in 1954
with President Eisenhower's approval. The plane had to be of
unique design, light and fragile and yet able to fly long
distances at altitudes beyond the reach of Russian missiles.
Its mission, as CIA director Allen Dulles told the senators,
was to photograph "the vitally important closed areas of the
Soviet Union where ballistic, nuclear and -other military
preparations against us were being made." Did the project
work? "Accomplishments exceeded expectations," Dulles
said. The CIA had thought the U-2 flights, which began in 1956,
would last only two or three years, until some mishap would
force an end. In fact, they continued for four years, until an
explosion during the fateful flight that proved to be the final
one.
An eminent Missourian, the late Representative Clarence
Cannon, knew about and sanctioned the U-2s as House
Appropriations Committee chairman. Like President
Eisenhower, Allen Dulles, and the Jew other involved
Americans, he believed government's highest duty is defense
of the nation.
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ARTICLE APPF.A L-D THE WASHINGTON TIMES
ON PAGE j- 6 DECEMBER 1982
BRIEFLY / Capital
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CIA spy flights revealed
Declassified Senate documents reveal the CIA flew
several hundred spy missions over the Soviet Union,
including one flight downed before Francis Garv
Powers was shot down in a U-2 reconnaissance plane.
A newly released transcript of testimony before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee shows the
United States conducted spy missions long before
Powers was captured May 1, 1960, in an international
incident that damaged relations between the two
superpowers.
The transcript was released Saturday; CIA and
State Department spokesmen had no comment yes-
terday.
The transcript said that only 30 days after Powers
was downed, CIA Director Allen Dulles told the com-
mittee the crew of another plane, this,rone made up of
CIA employees in civilian clothes, was downed over
Soviet territory and eight or nine crew members
were captured. A committee spokesman said the fate
of the crew remains classified.
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ON PAGE 5 DECEMBER 1982
1960 TestirnonyRcveats Loss
UT Spy Plane, Crew to Soviets
AssOClated Press
The Soviet Union shot down a
!CIA spy plane and took the Amer-
ican crew prisoner sometime before
the downing of a U2 -reconnaissance
plane in May, 1960, the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee said yes-
terday.
Newly released testimony con-
firmed that the United States had
sent spy planes over Soviet territory
long before the U2 incident on May
41, 1960, which severely damaged
U.S.-Soviet relations and became an
'issue in the 1960 presidential elec-
tion campaign.
On May 31, 1960, CIA Director
Allen Dulles described . another
,episode involving what he said was
a civilian plane. It was manned by
employes of the Central Intelligence
Agency, not by military personnel
... It was an entirely civilian in.
telligence operation."
In this earlier incident, Dulles told
the committee during closed-door
testimony, eight or nine CIA em-
ployes were aboard the plane when
it went-down "in the area of Cauca-
sus.
The CIA chief said that U.S. of-
ficials were "endeavoring to get
back" the plane's crew members, but
that the Soviets "haven't told us'
their fate,
Dulles did notidentify the type of
aircraft or the date when it went
.down.
. Alan Safran,, a spokesman for the
Senate panel, said the committee
staff does not -know what happened
to the crew members. Whether they
are dead or alive and their where-
abouts if still alive remains classified
information, he said.
In the U2 case, pilot Francis Gary
Powers was captured after his plane
went down near Sverdlovsk in the'
Ural Mountains. He was released. in
an exchange of prisoners.
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DATE December 4, 1982 7:20 P.M. CITY Washington, D.C.
SUBJECT
CIA Plane Incident
CHUCK SCARBOROUGH: Russia shot down a CIA spy plane
with eight or nine men aboard in 1960, before the downing of a
U-2 spy plane that same year. None of the men aboard the CIA--
plane have ever been accounted for by the Russians. Now, that
information was released tonight, by the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. It's based on secret hearings held more than 20 years
ago.
Richard Valeriani reports.
RICHARD VALERIANI: During the 1960 hearings, then-CIA
Director Allen Dulles testified taht sometime before the U-2
incident another CIA plane had gone down in the Soviet Union. In
the full transcript, made public tonight, Dulles said the plane
was manned by employees of the CIA in civilian clothes. It was
an entirely civilian intelligence operation. Dulles also said
the Soviets haven't told us what happened to eight or nine of the
crew. Committee staff members say they still don't know what
happened to the crew.
As for the U-2 incident itself, the transcript does not
clarify the purpose of the mission, the timing of the flight so
close to the Eisenhower-Khrushchev summit, or the failure of
pilot Francis Gary Powers to follow instructions to destroy the
plane in the air.
David Wise, coauthor of "The U-2 Affair," provided one
possible explanation for Powers' behavior.
DAVID WISE: The pilots were told if they would push a
button there would be a timing device that would then activate an
explosive charge in so many seconds. Powers was told 70 seconds.
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4 December 1982
By ELPMR W. LA1I
WASHINGTON
U-2
Anothe. _ircre t rl,rr;n- CIA personnel ~: r as downed
_ ~d by` l In Sov1Et to rifery
;IE ri o~ c t: r c i'i_: J E-, Po d
y' rur,_i S was C Sl'Gt uvw'i it YcV
C1-1- ke" for nD r _har~ 2u y~ca~
e Ea LEd Saturday.
the plant was -lane up Dr CIA
was he1 d by the Sov 1 ets .
The trranscript, part of a
Fo C 1U_'n RE1E t1On5 to7 n i t tee,
'_ e r 5 oY i E t territory before
But Defense SeecrEtarv
she Siievt Ina ~~. u.ti?"; o the
were ''More of
borde
i_!U i Cr,
type Of f11ght.I
Employees in Ci`viliarl clothes. He Said the Crew
historic series being released by the Senate
revealed American military planes also were flying
the U-2 flights began in 19510 .
T;"hom,as Bates sa:o at closed "heap nos held in 1960 after
piloted by Powers ti',ct the earlier rilltery .fl GhtS
a perlphery nature than a complete deep penetration
,,A54.
The downin4 of the U-2 photo reconnaissance plate Weer Sverdlovsk led to the
fa ur# Of the Parts Summit Conference on May 16, 1960, When Soviet Premier
P~ita rihrushchev angrily' denounced the United States and walked out.
n C i w rref^C_ to the i='t0 r ~E'i"t ~tl'I. Charles Percy R-I `
1.y CU-1-Enl
C. kG~...out
v. a o.ht an ei"id to the Early thaw in the Cold i4ar that had followed
*;ihru5hchhev 5 v51t to the Uni tEd States the year before. "
The tr anscript of the learitios r cvealE0 that senators who heard the
Closed-door testimony on the U-2 incident were so divided and angry that, in
PErcy's words, ''never before du. _ng the Veers of the Eisenhower
ao ,"Inistration had the committees bipartisan: approach to foreign policy been So
Shaken.' '
I he testimony showed CIA -operated U-2 P-11 Cade -, 99 flights to dctl r
_i. E-._ L= :i'i i L'. atlcn under she ;u se L!, weether planes operated b '
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
4 December 1982
Soviets Shot Down CIA Spy Plane Before 1960 U-2 Incider'
By MIKE SHANA.}L
WASHINGTON
The Soviet Union shot
ar., 4 `-- `- G owna~ CIA spy plane
5 o r s c t _ took -~ ercan crew
'r the 1Et uGnil'i m i
t C'' a v-_ r ecor ra.SCrcG l
n EnatE F Crtii;n ReiatI m - } ET-1 c 4c Q,
ins Committee said zatur0-Y.
Newly released testimony confirmed that the Ur-1 i te0 5`a `e c
Over Soviet tern tort ?pn befcr Lc. had Seil latle5
e Lht U-L ZnCICE -!Z G,,"i r;E I 70U which
Severely dam,aoed U.S.-Soviet relations and bECamE en issue in the 1960
Presidential campaign.
On riay 31, 1960, then- CIA Director Allen Dulles described another episode
involving what he said Was "a civilian plane. It was -,anne~
Central intelliger~Ce Agency, b% E"'0~i'te5 0. the
11 `' not Li m1li L'L T
Eil t i r ey C.v.llarl intelligence oper atlon..., ary pE'SOr, ;-c1 tt Was ar
?In this earlier incident, Dulles told the committEE dUrlnc; Closed-door
testimony, eight or nine CIA employees were aboard the l
i n the area of Ene Wh it N'Eil doW,i
CaUCasus."
The CIA Chief Said that U.S. officiClS were "End:avur
p
-rIC, to get back"
lane's crew miember5, but that the Soviets "haven't told us "their fate. the
Dulles did not identify the type Of aircraft or -h= r.a 4 p
dowel. Lac lc;ic ..
wen
Alan Safran, a spokesman for tile' Senate panel, saic the CO,iniittee sta,
f COa51C
not know what happened t0 the Crew members. whether they are dead or alive
their Whereabouts if still alive - remains ClaS_.'.ed infcri. - t:on he Said. -
i~GiTED.
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4 December 1982
WASHINGTON
By JUM ADAMS
SPY
A Second downed U.S. intelligence plane and crew Was already n RUSS1a -,)En
Frannc :s Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was Captured `?ay , ?r_u, accardri- to rate
__.._Moly released today.
Allen Dulles, then Director of the Central IntElligence Agency CIA)
testified at the time that the CIA was still t- .vi to :_`_ back, the
plane and crew of eight or nine CIA agents when the U-2 went down.
Dulles' previously secret testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Ccerumlittee
was released today.
Du11es gave no details except to Say the plane was on an "intelligE?ice
Opera ions and to su e -
+ C it haJ been Shut down 1 ,t ,
gs ~ several yC~," earlier af,~ ter
straying over the Caucasus region.
A spokesman said the Senate committee did not know what ultimately happened
to the Crew and the CIA had no Comment.
The Soviet Union never said publicly it, had the first plane and crew, but
embarrassed then President Dwight Eisenhower by proving Powers' U-2 was a spy
plane after Washington at first denied it.
U. S). Off1C1a15 SE a at tale tine tI1dy believe^C then SO' rrEr.,1eer ilik-1 ta
rw r', r.ev Ex -;tsed t ;"+e U-2 capi tu, _ Es an Excuse t0 Cat1C -' _
E1 L ti. Sur~i;l t IitCC :ti
with Eisenhower because he had decided the meeting would not serve his
interests.
ExCW_T_E'
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CBS Evening News
December 4, 1982 6:30 P.M.
Investigation of Spy Plane
StAIION WDVM-TV
CBS Network
Washington, D.C.
BOB SCHIEFFER: When the Soviet Union shot down 'Gary
Powers in his U-2 spy plane in May of 1960, it was already
holding the crew of another U.S. spy plane that had been shot--
down earlier. That according to Senate Foreign Relations _
Committee documents released tonight of secret testimony by -
then-CIA chief Allen Dulles. Dulles did not say what kind of
plane it was or when and if it was shot down. But he did say it
carried a crew of eight or nine CIA employees.
A committee spokesman says the fate of the crewmen
remains classified information. The CIA would not comment.
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