SPOOKING THE SPOOK-NAMERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00134R000400130013-2
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: November 12, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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7.-" It was during the craziesE?days.of.tlie
'early 1970s when the Movement had. spun.
`out of control and existed only on a 'single
.piston's worth of black comedy-an third..
:rate-'street theatre. Vietnam vets taking
over the' Statue of Liberty and flying: the:
flag upside down: ' Leslie!Bacon bombing
the men's room of the. capitol: And: then
:crazy Americans .way' .out ,therei'on .the.
Pacific rim of the empire;? in ,Okinawa;;
organizing workers at.the.big air base and'
helping GIs get. out of going to'Vietnam;;
And they had these kites these kites to'
-- --bring down B-52s, kites with tinfoil string= ,
ing from ? them' that:'they'd 'fly right _up
there in front, of these . huge : jet's loaded
with 10,000-pound bombs'loftingoff._ the:.
'`runways of Okinawa on another . run to th'e
MekongValley: Bill arid Ellen;. standing.
there at the end of the. r?nwsy with-.their;
kites, trying to lasso a goddamn. B-52!. ;
:r Ellen Ray is remembering all ?thisi10.
years later in the bar.df the National Press
Club in Washington four blocks from the%
White House. Bill Schaap; now her hus-'
band, fills in -the* details. And across. the.
table, Louis Wo)f.takes it all in with, his
permanently etched visage of. gloom,.suf-
fering this interview and. wanting only- to
. 'be . back in the, womb, oVthe='National
-'Airchives, from where, =. every- month; he
.emerges with another.Iist`-of -CIA agents
ready-for the- pages of CotfercAhtimy n.
formatiort`Uullettn.`
-Wolf, Schaap,.' and Raji- along with
former. CIA agent Philip Agee - rt.the i
people v,ho nniiie the namesof CIA agents:
livery other month;' they 'publish ? iheir
that drives.the intelligence agencies up the
walLThis is the section where` they update'
theiri.lists of CIA staffs around the world
from Burundi-to Bangkok Along the way;.
they'..ve: published two books, Dirty. W&;1
The' CIA to We'sternyEurope, and Dirty
W64 01), The CIA: in Africa.
Tl ey .preilriving everybody up the wall.
Everybody.'Nornatter-that they get, the,
names from. poring through old diplomaticI
.list iin the archives=. just move your finger;
`down. the:~list:`of_the Biographic. Register.
tjll you find '16-guy'-who .,came into the
State Department in '58, spent three years
"'fin,,'.. analyst": with the U.S.- Army in
Laos. from '61 t6!63, :;'temporary duty at
the: Pentagon in 1965, on leave in;"private
business"-' for another couPle years,
ears, and
back to the State Department forl
duty.,-in -Chile ,when Allende was _ over-
.thrown=it's easy.. enough for a seven year,
'old; to. figure `out: who the spooks are, but,
Wolf and. Schaap? and Ray are driving
people crazy: _
Arid.it's not just the CIA. that hale been
trying toputthein out of business: Mem
bens of Congress are ao angry they've taken'
the:.rirat:Amendment- by the,neck and
. strangled: it with 'a bill, likely to pass soon,;
that will make it a crime-three years ink
jail,: $10,000. fine-to. print the names oft
CIA, agents even..if they've-been gathered
? from: public',sources nii "printed . before
m
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t Jerome Ambro; were screaming.
Thee first' `
people _ to go to" jail will-. bey 666f-ii death pen"ally for?those`whd have.
Schaap, Ray, Wolf, and Agee `once one of; ? acl ess to classified=information and leak;
the .CIA's best agents in Latin' America,; it: (PresumablyAmbro`will;'construcf'an
now un'apostate in Europe, lobbing his i amehdment.;-"' inpting Zbigniew
books like grenades from ncrogs the AtIan= Br7ezinski.), i
tic ??,~ ~" e~ a '.Will,thisgetAgee?'t one senatorasked
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eft? ACLU; ypes.`sliiink:up'to the micro:!
phones in' the hearing rooms'end,make:a
wide turn around-Couert'ActionInfrr?,na:
tion..Bulletin on their- 'ay - to' the.First
Amendment.
It's just that Covert Action is 'a little too
:'. well, direct. I mean,`:it's one thing, to
do your :anti-imperialist. trip putting, out
soiree nice little newsletter: about,' say;
bank loans in Zaire. But that's not enough!
for ; Schaap,, Wolf, and Ray. They go right;
down. to'Jamaica; hold apress conference;'
embassy. IV'ot fig eyear?: diter.the-govern
meat's been toppled 'but right-now,'ivhile
the CIA's doing -it:.^.
The CIA has been gritting its teeth over'
the: Bulletin .(and its predecessor;a Col ii
terspy) for nearly'a'.decade, tryingiinsuc
cessfully through a series of maneuvers to.,
put it out. pf business and its editoig iri jai)..'!
But it. -.'vasn't until- last Ji ly~that_ serious
olouds of: repression. long-on: the horizon'
gathered into: a furious storm:;Somebody`
shot up the house of one of the CIA tigenta`
Suddenly, the,"inte)ligene.Iclentitiee
'Protection Act".:: leapt'.from ; the-discard
bin, where it had'beeri:since:1978,,and!
,raced through both sides o'f.Capitol Hill as
fast as a congressional pay'raise; By. last;
month,:'=super-patriots .like`: Long*Island',
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Hill::-Yeah,grunted Kennedy; and that -house well known to have belonged to a -` acnaap was u7 u v u WILL LLLC,cI~ .._..~ 11
" ]]]{ succession of CIA station chiefs through National Lawyers Guild and the two soon
was=that %: a? ?eer r\v 1 the venrs:: The, Political atmosphere in hitched off for Asia, tint to the.-Philip-
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over.. the:.lieads of. the pressand the .civil- Athens when. Welch - arrived, moreover; upint _17 LU
nder the aegi3 of the Pacific Counseling
Iibertie, aawvers . trying to. see what was as oisonous; with rising anti-American Service Louis Wolf had' already been in
read
happening After it was over, no- one ec fe%er..diiected:largely at the CIA. Amid a the Philippines for a few years.
pressed.:condolences.'-:'_=`-....; flurry of.cables=.between .Welch and CIA ePhi la wag the major forward base for
"There's noquestion .ghat: there's if headqunrters .at Langley ;~'irniniti, hole the war, in _Vietnam:.Cor f orwar airliners
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friends 'xay ncedes:."I mean,-*most of: Christmas eve, he wwt murderect.
"The disinformation campaign was a the'huge=fleet of Air'America. transport
these people on the left remain our friends,: lanes.-fe ng VPs and' rice. to Saigon;
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namingnames'?The problems began; she the p'zrtinent cables. "The stories filed our
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acknowlar ges;with the-murder of Richard- of.:\Vashington on -.s -
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Decer9ber 1975 Official-'Washington; been' listed in';Counterspy. None. men- ;wealthy:iladeelphia family;.' ha olf and
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the intelligence`. agencies, tinned the CIA warnings to Welch as to his s
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people are saying. The,
by- CIA, -many p p ISM was about the time `of rthe.;Welc
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mission, !and the press are-draggzag Creturned: from Okinawa and began~ to ge bring reading-rice an
to d well-di rtg skill
skeletons out.. of, he `closet `one by o e involved with research for Counterspy. For b ng end and other Lao peoplos Later..;.
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ham handed than' precise. Now .the speak . The'only permissible absence from Irwa rit until W& went tv the Phili0-'! ?
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tryto stir: up another mess in Angola F:.. publican.-After-that it-was Lne vniyCCncyr In a little world;" '$ ehaap comments; leaning b suite of offices off .Washing-. of. Nebraska and graduate courses ,at his
in office in the !`nts.l:Press Bulk
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. tons Dupont:.Circle,--a small.' group Of.! Harvard. She was "a hippie before ere: i
nternation l'
in? that eI got to see
mostly;- ec military 'intell'gence officers I were hippies-'And I thinkI was always a, scope, o?;U. imperisee-t I mean it isn t
has -begun to' publish a Journal called radical. My parents were. sort of populists
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Counterspy:.In one' issue-in ?1974T.they- My father had. Harvard law'an~d;
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h you see the effects ealtytar I
one Richard 1Veich In late 1975, Welch is ; became a farmer." One `of.those_ arvar ' 1 0 I
transferred to Athens-as CIA station chief. summers shespent traveling. from Madrid way: the .U.S- interfered in; all these cou
r tries- and:_that_feeling led to. an: undo
ks l ..,
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cabinet meet Weich'e casket. at.Andrews moved to YNTw York fonds landed iBa ce,] ness Of the people affected-The people c
in an elaborate, solemn ceremo- `and Siloer,~. crgen. ~; ? not o ose it:"
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ny; and the legislative wheels are set in; like.'Can`God:Forgive an Adultness.-.:: ? ahe Two events in 1973 further propelled Elll, J1!
motion ,to make' it a crime to name they laughs, What Six Boys Did To Me- in three ofthem toward the limelight.. 0 e,
names} of CIA?sagents. the.: Grass,.. ard.I Was :16 and Stripped
et out; Naked at the Senior Prom.' was the. U.S= backed military.coup th t
Already, however; the CIA had?R shed the sloe ed socialist aovernmet
was the Kennedy as crug erime
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en.of -Salvador Allende- in- Chile r .
to crush Counterspy and use itas an anvil l :And
for a .:broad: attec~C`on critics of the in sassmaition Soong she nettwm?{h?;New was the publication_:2hilipAgee's C A
telhgence:agenc,sy::.I -,: -_ _
Orleans D:A:?Jarnes .:. arrison~ a A,? mostaalented case oftlcers, fo'me t l
ings.;:.CIA spokesman Angus Thuermer I
blamed .:-Counterspy: for Welch'a "death:. late night.: telephone calls ,began `There C strikes, lented_off politicians;
Such was the conclusion of-former,Kissin- Were these Spanish-accented voices," she
lantin CIPL news stones :across La in
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get aide:Morton'Halperin in a meticulo;ys. America Lii.e a :.mo
review;'of the. Welch siffair in The Washing='1 country.' ' : - blown:off hssmule on the road to Tars
'i,,4rg her-filr:Y'work that-she . ~----~ -.__ --oa as
ton f'osr on aanuary. ti
drained his:mind of every.agent,: de
class'i'c d'isinfocmatiori -campaign;"? i met Bill 5chaap_ r1 lawyer in partnership
Hnlperin. wrote: T.he'1 CIA :itself;;Helperin' with brothers David and, Sara Lubell,.the name and caner operation fie nt, a e-
"Red Twins of Harvard (so =named .for
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:reported, had warned Welch