AGENTS' PROTECTION BILL

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• Publication Date: February 4, 1981
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February 4, 1981 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-Extensions of Remarks E 375
ington, and William Harrop, U.S. ambassa-
dor in Kenya.
Ciresi, a 1979 graduate of the College of
St. Thomas who plans to go to medical
school. worked at Miller and St. Joseph's
hospitals and in the Ramsey County medi-
cal examiner's office before joining the
Peace Corps last October. He was complet-
ing a crash course in Swahili in Nairobi at
New Year's.
In a taped letter to his parents, he said he
and a friend were having dinner a short dis-
tance from the Norfolk when they "heard
an explosion, guessed it was a bomb and ran
right over there."
For a time, Ciresi said, "I was the only one
there with any medical training at all." He
put this training to use amid the flames and
wreckage Inside the Norfolk, "doing
triage"-that is, deciding which of the in-
jured could be saved and should be rescued
and which were beyond help-while carry-
ing seven of the former to safety himself.
Ciresi's father, a Target Stores director
and proprietor of the Q Restaurant in the
Lowry Medical Arts Building, said he and
his wife, Monica, were afraid at first that
Kevin might have been staying at the Nor-
folk.
"But then," he added, "knowing Kevin, we
knew he'd be there anyway if he were any-
where close."
At present, Kevin is in Kish, Kenya,
teaching high school biology and chemis-
try-in Swahili.*
AGENTS' PROTECTION BILL
HON. ELDON RUDD
OF ARIZONA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, February 4, 1981
? Mr. RUDD. Mr. Speaker, our Na-
tion's critical intelligence-gathering
capability has been severely reduced
in recent years. Despite all of the
modern technology-including satel-
lite and computerized information-
utilized by our intelligence agencies, a
significant portion of our intelligence
effort must rely on human informers
and agents.
This human intelligence effort is in-
creasingly threatened by the deliber-
ate disclosure of the identities of our
undercover agents. Publication of
these names not only terminates the
effectiveness of these agents, but en-
dangers their lives as well.
The most infamous example was the
identification in "Counter Spy"-pub-
lished by former CIA employee Philip
Agee-of Richard S. Welch as the sta-
tion chief for the Central Intelligence
Agency in Athens, Greece. Shortly
after this disclosure, Welch was assas-
sinated.
Nor is this an isolated disclosure.
Agee has published the names of some
1,200 alleged CIA personnel.
Another anti-intelligence publics-
tion, Covert Action Information Bulle-
tin, has also been initiated with Agee's
assistance. Its function. is the same as
that of "Counter Spy"-to crusade
agaist the CIA and other U.S. intelli-
gence agencies, and to publish infor-
mation and identities of purported
CIA officers and informers, thus
endiaig their effective service and ex-
posing them to possible retaliation by
kidnapers or assassins.
The most recent example-and a
major impetus for this legislation-
was the identification in 1980 by
Covert Action Information Bulletin of
15 CIA agents serving in Marxist Ja-
maica. Again, this revelation was fol-
lowed by a July 4, 1980, machinegun
attack on the home of the CIA station
chief, although fortunately he and his
family were unharmed.
It should be clearly recognized that
these publications' ultimate intent is
nothing less than the total elimination
of the intelligence-gathering capacity
of the U.S. Government.
Indeed, those associated with these
publications and supporting organiza-
tions held a national organizing con-
ference to stop Government spying
September 22-24, 1978, at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, spon-
sored by the"Campaign To Stop Gov-
ernment Spying.
The objectives of the Campaign To
Stop Government Spying were an-
nounced as continued worldwide publi-
cation of anti-U.S. intelligence infor-
mation, suits directed against Govern-
ment agencies and private companies
whose security departments cooperate
with law enforcement and intelligence, agencies, use of the Freedom of Infor-
mation Act for forced disclosure of
Government intelligence information,
.and political efforts to end all U.S. do-
mestic and foreign intelligence oper-
ations.
The House should be aware that
there is a well-orchestrated attempt to
totally abolish not only the effective-
ness, but the very existence, of our Na-
tion's intelligence system.
These efforts are a conscious part of
an international effort designed ulti-
mately to destroy our Nation's ability
to stop Marxist-oriented revolutionary
activities and terrorism, and to provide
defensive countermeasures to protect
our own people.
We must act surely and swiftly to
protect our intelligence community
from these assaults. Certainly, swift
and sure. penalties must be meted out
to any person who discloses the identi-
ty of an intelligence officer, who per-
forms under already dangerous condi-
tions.
I am reintroducing in the 97th Con-
gress a bill-the Intelligence Agents
Protection Act of 1981-which would
prohibit the disclosure of information
identifying an intelligence agent to an
unauthorized person. Penalties under
this bill would be a $100,000 fine and/
or 20 years in prison for anyone con-
victed of this offense.
Furthermore, the bill would provide
a $50,000 fine and/or 10 years in
prison for any person wh iden-
tifies an individual as In n B ence
agent.
The bill does not limit prosecution
to those individuals having or having
had authorized access to classified in-
formation, but raher includes anyone
publishing or otherwise revealing the
identity of an intelligence agent.
Injunctive Mlle provided within
m y to require he e Attorney y Gener-
al to take action to prevent the publi-
cation of such identification if its im-
minent publication is known.
The House Committee on the Judici.
ary and the Permanent Select Com-
mittee on Intelligence reported legisla-
tion addressing the disclosure of
agents' identities during the last"Con-
gress. I believe that this issue must re-
ceive early conderation during the
97th Congress.
I offer this approach as one which
deals sternly with those who would en-
danger the lives of those who serve in
sensitive intelligence positions.*
JOHN LENNON: THE BEATLE
LEGACY
HON. LARRY McDONALD
OF GEORGIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, February 4, 1981
? Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, now
that some time has elapsed since the
passing of John Lennon and the great
stir in the media has waned, it is nec-
essary to share some facts and com-
ments which may have been little
mentioned at the time. The following
articles "The Lennon Legacy" by John
F. McManus, and "Which Was the
Greatest Tragedy Lennon's Life or His
Death," by Bob Spencers published in
The North Side News, Atlanta, Ga.,
January 8, 1981, demonstrate clearly
that the eulogies given in the press
and the actual facts which John Len-
non's life and music represent are in
fact quite different. Far from being an
"orchestration of a generation's best
hopes and fondest dreams," his life
and the music of the Beatles led an
entire generation astray. Beatlemania
was a 20th century siren to many of
the youth of the sixties leading their
lives and ideals to drugs, promiscuity,
and disrespect for time-tested stand-
ards. So that the record may stand
corrected on these little known facts
and balance be given to a biased media
picture, I commend the following to
the attention of my colleagues:
THE LENNON LEGACY
(By John F. McManus)
BELMONT, MASS.-There can hardly be
anyone left in the United States who is un-
aware that Beatle John j.ennon has been
murdered. Over and over again, we have
been told that the man stood only for peace
and joy. Typical of the gushing tributes to
his memory was the following from Time
magazine:
"The world wide appeal of the Beatles
had to do with their perceived innocence,
their restless idealism that stayed a step or
two ahead of the times.... (Their) songs
became, altogether, an orchestration of a
generation's best hopes and fondest
dreams."
THEY ATTACKED EVERYTHING
The truth is that the Beatles waged a
frighteningly successful war on the values
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