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EDITORIALS AROUND THE COUNTRY
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ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
25 MARCH 1980
CIA, Cow ress Work : ogether
.
There are two extreme schools of oversight responsibility should be reduced to
thought about the CIA in this country. One . the 24 members of the House and Senate
holds that we. should not have a CIA, that a - -:.Intelligence committe Fowler: These com?
secret intelligence gathering organization is.... - ? But we agree with inconsistent with a free society. That notion mittees.should be notified prior to conduct-
is baloney. We. could not survive as a free ping any major covert activities. The execu-
society without adequate intelligence about -ti .e brand does ~p p~~ lyonet foreign
both our allies and our adversaries. Co policy. Nor should It unilaterally with carry
The other school is equally nonsensical. out intelligence operations,. Congress has a
It holds that the CIA should go about its major role in how intelligence operations are
business unfettered in as much secrecy' as it conducted. (Intelligence committee members
wishes to cloak itself. That is indeed also have a responsibility to keep silent on
anthems to a free society. CIA activities that could destroy that agen-
cy's effectiveness.) ,
The role of the CIA lies somewhere. be- .. The recent history of the CIA has not
tween these two conservative and liberal
poles. Fifth District Rep.: Wyche Fowler, a been happy.. First the agency went too far;
member of the 05 Intelligence Commit- fastwent Ialongt up its the own foreign p (swung
tee, is insisting on an effective intelligence_
committed but also that his committee be .,back so far that the agency was stripped of
notified ahead of time about any covert, much, of its ability to conduct valuable l
operations. The CIA is resisting FowIer's intelligence-gathering operations. Now the
proposal, claiming that prior notification' of CIA and Congress are trying to draw a l
congressional committees could result in proper charter for the organization.. ?.
leaks which would destroy, certain covert. We believe that the CIA can again be-
missions even.before they were initiated.. ,A, come effective without violating the princi-
There is such danger. We also believe. `?ples of a free society It an adequate system
that too many, congressional committees tiow 'of ..checks and balances is maintained and se?
have oversight responsibility in regard to the lected members of Congress are allowed to
CIA. (More-than 220. members of the Con- have sprior alons blon of any significant
gress . now have suah1responsibility:) CIA : by the.
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RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
24 MARCH 1980
0
estori g a a . a cL;
In seeking to correct an abuse in congressional committees were
society, lawmakers sometimes go told about It!
too far and thereby create new The . Rouse Foreign Affairs Com-
problems. A prime exampleof thisin mittee has now voted to cut to two
recent years has concerned the the number of committees that
nation's intelligence-gathering , would receive the reports. These
agencies. would be the House and Senate In-
.
Perceived excesses by the FBI in telligence committees.
combattingaubverslveordisrupting Furthermore. in a highly signifi-
groups and questionable covert ac- cant action, the committee voted to.
tions by the CIA abroad led Congress allow the president to withhold prior
and recent administrations to place notification of a covert operation
new restrictions on these agencies. when he deems it "essential" to do
The restrictions, in some instances, so.
Have posed a threat to national At the other side.of the Capitol,
security.
Now, fortunately, there isa grow- Republican Sen. Al Simpson of
Wyoming has introduced
ing realization that a balance must a measure,
be found between intelligence agen- with the support of several other
cies' excesses, on the one hand; and, senators, to make it a criminal of-
on the other, the crippling of these fense to deliberately reveal theiden-
agencies to the detriment of the tityofanyundercover agentorinfor-
nation. mant participating In a federal law
? The Iran hostage crisis and the enforcement operation.
Russian invasion of Afghanistan "During the past five years." he
.were major factors in sparking a declares,"wehave otfservedwith
reassessment of the need for etfec- an almost morbid fascination - the
rive intelligence operations. near destruction and dismantling of
Another was the disturbing dis- American intelligence and counter-
covery that allied nations have espionage capabilities. This has
become reluctant to share in- come about, in part, because of the
telligence information with us inability of the Justice Department
becauseofthefearthatsomanypeo- to successfully prosecute those in-
pie both in and out of our govern- dividuals who intentionally disclose
rnent would have access to the the identities of undercover CIA'
secrets that they would nolonger be agents." He adds that the
secret. Afghanistan Invasion finally has
One indication of the gratifying convinced people that In this
return of reason to this subject was. ? dangerous world. America needs "a the House Foreign Affairs Commit- functioning CIA - and not a
fee's recent action In voting to toothless tiger CIA."
amend the law governing CIA covert Any legislation such as that
operations In order to provide for proposed by Sen. Simpson should be
much more secrecy. ' . 'drafted with-great care to be certain
Undera 1974 statute, passed at the. that it would not be In conflict with
height of the anti-CIA furor, that First Amendment rights. Buthisbill
agency cannot undertake covert ac- and comments are in keeping with
tivities in foreign countries unless the new atmosphere in Washington
the president "reports, in a timely concerning the dire need for effec-
fashion, a description and scope of tive espionage and counter-
such operation to the appropriate espionage activities.. If this werq
committees" of Congress. Eight a world consisting totally of nice.
committees are entitled to receive friendly neighbors, the, only place
the reports. Imagine how long word for spies would be James Bond
of a major covert operation wouli novels. Sadly, It's-not that kind of a
be kept secret It member* of eight world..
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ATLANTA JOURNAL
24 MARCH 1980
Going
Teo h'as'
THERE IS room for debate over
whether the CIA'sbould be required
to notify. Congress of "undercover opera-
tions which amount to an act'of war and
which could lead to an international
crisis if discovered - such as an at-
tempt to overthrow a government or
assassinate a leader.
The relevant questions are how many
congressional committees should be In-
formed, whether nottCe.'Ahould be'given
in advance, and whether proper secrecy
and security can be maintained. But
until now this has been debated only
with reference to direct political,ac`tions,
not mere gathering of information.
Surely there should be no requirement
that would restrict gathering of informa-
tion as distinct from' operations. like sup-
porting a revolution;''plotting an assassi-
nation and-so, on. Intelligence gathering
is a normal activity of most countries.
Yet Rep `Les Apia (D-WI&) plans to
introduce'legtlation to require notifica
tion.of Congress in advance with respect
to covert activities which aim only at ob-
taining information. He claims that even
the latter type of activities can lead to
an International crisis' if? exposed, "for
example; in the case of thi.U-2 spy plane
flights over Russia."
Aspin's,own worst-case example, how-
ever, shows the, weakness `of his argu-
ment. Althdughthe United States was
embarrassed when the U-2" flights be-
came public.,krdwledge on the eve of a
summit conference in 1960; it did not
provoke a serious, sustained crisis. We
have continued such ? flights In later
years, 'and the Russians know it. And
what w the -alternative? Not to con-
duct that-2 flights? If so, how would, we
have known about the Soviet missiles
placed in'Cuba in 1962?
All major` powers engage in intelli-
gence gathering, and all powers know
that other powers are doing it. Intelli-
gene gathering, as distinct from direct
political action, must go on. U Aspin's
proposal gets anywhere in Congress, we
might'as well dismcntle the CIA and be
prepared to let the Russians get away
with murder, not to mention spying.
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TRENTON TIMES (N.J.)
17 March 1980
0
l --'T w don't want to know
The House Foreign Affairs Com-
ndttee has perfected its famous
monkey imitation....,
"essential," the CIA could withhold, mation..
i
gence Agency,, to inform it and five . The: Foreign Affairs Committee is l
other congressional committees of only one of many in Congress, that
covert activities. Only two commit- will.:. have something to:-say, about
tees would. be entitled to such infor- CIA reform, but its vote shows the
tmation in the future. way the wind is blowing. The House
Hear- no evil. If the president . Armed Services Committee already
decided such .. secrecy was unilaterally,waived its right to infor-
"essential" 'to -keep from Congress.
The proposed reform, in other
words,.: restores.: the. conditions. that
See no evil. It would eliminate the needed reform badly.
information fromTie remaining two
committees virtually as lone as it
: _
wishes.
Speak -no evil. The committee
learned that the CIA, on the basis of
a Justice Department, legal opinion;
has not been carrying .out the letter
ther activity. one that.:' it
fits or start a" war. ? and declare, ei-;
The'. ,proposed, reform, under -the'
heading of `:!'hear ;no. evil," would
leave a president free.to order ?the
CIA to break-into a psychiatrist's' of-l
been the sources of leaks.;,
things is a cop-out.
Congress of such activities. The For-.
'eign Affairs Committee chose not to,
challenge the interpretation.
The committee is seeking to revise
the reporting ' requirements of -the
1974 Hughes-Ryan Act. The adminis
tratioh, and :the. CIA are enthusiastic
about such', revisions. There. is no
evidence that any of .the congression-
al : committees receiving reports
since 'the act'.went, into effect have:
d
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What .the members don't seem to
realize . is. that we elect them. to
make' sure.. the CIA isn't wasting
money on hare-brained schemes and
to, if. necessary, declare ? war, a
power specifically, reserved to Con-
gress in -the . Constitution.. ; Saying
n't want. to ,hear :about such
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CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
10 March 1.980
tism of any member of the committee, of
e But members of Congress have
~~?OSal
cours
had loose tongues on occasion. And the-
could be f atal CIA, long hamstrung by the campaign
p, against it, has had trouble enough doing
to CIA's work-....., its job
At issue is the pending CIA charter,
THE PROPOSED requirement for the introduced 'ba deCharlei MCC. Mathias,
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to in- ton, y will beheld
form certain members of Congress InR-Md., on which hearings
advance of its covert operations. strikes until April 1. The advance-notice re-
us as the best way to put the CIA - if not quirement is one of its most on p 01
sial elements. "Requiring
the country - out of business.
congressional access to intelligence
Yet members of the Senate-Intelli information will have: an inhibiting ef-
gence Committee were surprised when feet upon the. willingness of individuals
CIA Director. Stansfield Turner testified and organizations to co-operate with our
the other day * that;his agency had not country,". Admiral. Turner, said in a clear
tice to the letter statement of the obvious.
prac
taken operations without providing ad- The Carter administration's opposi-
vance tipoffs. tion to that aspect of the proposed chat--
The CIA is not questioning the patrio- ter is strong and should remain so.
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THE WASHINGTON POST
29 March 1980
J ~poses 0
ormatio n Act' eliet
By George Lardner Jr. ' . .
%%,2sIlt1Stod Pm siatC writer
The Justice- Department has voiced
its opposition to.the CIA's effort to
win a broad-scale exemption from the
Freedom of Information Act.
In a speech here-Thursday, Associ-
ate Attorney General John H. Shene.
field called the-proposal -"vastly over-
broad -and . .' in, star!, contrast to
the spiritand? philosophy of the act."
He said the Justice- Department will
propose "much narrower" relief for
.the CIA as part of a comprehensive
effort to streamline the act and over-,
come the complaints-of various'gov- f
ernment agencies since Congress put
teeth into the law in?1974.
The CIA. has asked-fora virtually
blanket exemption for its operational
and technical files on the grounds
that the freedom of information law
has "perhaps unfairly" become ."a lb-
.'Cal point for the often-heard allega-
tion that _the- CIA cannot. keep a
secret."
The debate so fai has-been largely,
confined-to the Senate and- House In-'
telligence committees. Both are con
?sidering the-CI_a:proposal'.'asparteo
overall charter legislation for the-1U?S.:
intelligence. community..,-_: Yesterday",..
however: another-and potentially lcss
sympathetic House committee said.'it
intends to-.make its--jurisdiction over
the FOfA issue with additional hear-
ings; of its own next month.
Rep. Richardson Preyer (D-\.C.);;
chairman of the House Government !n-
formation subcommittee.., said he,
plans to call public witnesses. and
spokesmen-from. the',Defense Depart-
ment. An: aide- noted that- the Penta-
gon receives more freedom of infor-
mation requests-than any other govorn-'-
ment agency. and has one of the best
records of compliance with the.law.
Preyer's 'subcommittee, which has.
jurisdiction over the freedom of infor-
mation law... has-. been receiving a
mounting number of objections. to the
CIA proposal from historians, journal-
ists and others, aides said.,:,
In a letter to Preyer aiid other in-
terested committee chairmen earlier I
this week, more than 150 organza-
tions and individuals charged. that the
CIA bill would "represent a " radical
change- in' government policy . and
would ; severely limit the disclosure of
information to? the public.",,;
. The signers included'. Common
Cause. the American Historical Asso-
ciation, the Association of American
Publishers, the- National-Women's,Po-
litical Caucus;" the U., S..' Catholic llis-
lsion Council and the Organization of
'American Historians. They -said - the
CIA's tiles constitute "an invaluable
resource for historians, political scien=
Mists and others" because of the major
role the, agency has played in U. S.
foreignIations since :the _end of
World War II.
In his talk, delivered to the-Federal
.Bar. Association's Government Infor-
matiort and Privacy Committee,
Shenefield said-'the Justice :Depart-
ment proposals. which have been un-
der study for more than a year, would
be sent to the White House shortly.
Shenefield said he was convinced of
the necessity to proteet confidential
intelligence information and confided
tial intelligence sources and methods
from disclosure. but "we are not per-.
suaded by arguments for sweeping
file exemptions that would have virtu,
ally exempted intelligence agencies
Under the CIA bill.. the agency's op-
erational and technical files would be
immune from - disclosure, except- to
Americans -seeking. records - about
themsel'es.- ,The -CIA'. could -reject
other requests without even searching
its files.' .:...
'Shenefield' did.-' not- spell'"out the
"much narrower' document - exemp-
tion" the Justice Department is draft- :
ing, but-be' said it ' would correct the
"perception" problem the CIA said it
has encountered in dealing- with for-
eign agents and other sources. -
Testifying on the issue last month,
'CIA Deputy Director Frank Carlucci-
acknowledged that "under the current.
Freedom of- Information Act, -national
security exemptions-do exist'to' pry'
tect-- the most- vital intelligence in?or,
mation. - The, key ` point.- however, is
-that thos~urces upon whom we'de
.
bend for that, information have an-eh'
tirely different perception-." "'.
Preye) 'said' .he wilL?introduce! the -
CIA proposal -Vlonday~? as? a separate
bill to-get-itsquarely-beforechy'sq sub=.
committee.. ;.--. ..._^'_`,?;' __x"6?3 Y+4r'
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W. RAGE_
_~
MINNEAPOLIS STAR
24 MARCH 1980
Legislation threatens to chain
Freedom of Information.:Aet
IT'S self-evident that ,a free flow of
information is essential to democracy.
Therefore, every American should be-
formation to the public and the press-'
under the Freedom of Information Act."
The bills' passage could be a fateful
alarmed about concerted-but camou Lfirst step: Other federal departments
flaged-moves to mutilate the federal .and regulatory agencies are sure to try
Freedom of Information Act. to void the information act as it applies
agencies to their files. Thus, under one bill, a
Under pressure from various
ide range o
f consumer information in
and business-although those in busi-
ness make more use of the information FTC files would be kept secret. The bill
act than any other group-Congress is also.would assist the CIA, which, with
moving all too quickly to- pass the first .White House backing, has been pushi}ig,
major truncations to this beneficial law the claim that it's-hampered by the act.
since it was enacted, 14 years ago. But the information act, as it stands,,
gives- the- CI:A. plenty of power to keep :
As a recent publication of the Ameri ' secret. information, that would endanger
can Society of Newspaper Editors ob- national security. However, thanks to
served, merely trying to track the var- the information act, the CIA has been
ious attacks is a "horrendous task." The forced to disclose its blunders and illegal
reason: So many _of them are slipped acts: domestic spying on. a vast scale,
into appropriation' bills or otherwise
manipulated: The bject: to slide them
past an unaware p blic.
And, of course, he risk of informa-
tion-act mutilation doesn't deprive only
news organizations, scholars, students,
free-lance researchers, businessmen. and
- others who interests are directly affect-.
ed by information access: Blocking. 66,
cess to what government does with our
tax dollars Is a matter for general con
sternation. The::-Reporters, Committee
,.for Freedom of the Press has warned,:-
"For the, first. time entire federal agen-
cies-in this 'case- the Federal Tirade
Commmission, the FBI and the, CIA-
will be virtually exempted, under pend-
ing legislation, from giving any- infor
drug experiments on human guinea!
pigs, the surveillance-of the Rev. btartin
Luther King,' to name a few. Under the ?
bill, this kind of information would be{
kept secret.
Indeed, much information would, no f
longer be available, even when its-re=
lease could not possibly damage national j
security. The FBI, also has a broad-ex-.
emption under existing information. act
provisions. But pending legislation.
would expand the FBI's secret sanctu-
ary and nearly exempt the agency'-from a right-to-know disclosure.
All in all, this ambushing of the Free.
door of Information Act is bad business.
It ought to stop..
Austin C. Wehrweln
for The Minneapolis Star-
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,"riRTICLI 'APPEARED
ON P.AGE -
THE HAMPSHIRE REVIEW (W. VA.)
26 MARCH 198o,
a
e serving-ltort-term as
Whil
ews-S ook
N
copy} editor_ on a : major Western
~+'La -p A 811T the: departmental?" editors was a
1 1 . . _ . cit
.
d
l
resented :''has "that.
e
sni
e
y
r:' By Bill Davidson
nd -decade"before Senators like Frank
e irritating (a
rch `virtually ruined the ef?
One of the mor potentially- dangerous)-. hypes V Church:'
feeness of. CIAand FBI' with
around now is the effort by' ' some'-
journalists and certain politicians to .L absurd strictures.on disclosure: and
operations, but the feeling : was
outlaw use of journalists by U.S- strong. even then among:.:news-.
intelligence agenctes people' whose: ideolo I: would.`
The. implications are. (a) that no. gy..
decent newsperson would. want to have to accurately brand as liberal
moonlight for..the Central""Intelh left. s
gence Agency, Federal .,Bureau `of The resented. editor had" in fact
Investigation-at this,
passed strict guidelines designed time chosen to' honor Admiral'
to curb such operatives. They did, Turner as spring commencement
so, it was explained, because they speaker. at Pleasantville ,And we
felt the whole clandestine nature ;? hope that the important issues we
of this network obviously,tended have raised will be--debated by
to have a "chilling effect' on the each member of the Pace corn-
free exchange of ideas so essential .r munity, so than we all.'consult, and
to the academic world act according, to our... consr ences
Now, in the midst of the current as citizens of a democracy and as
pressure to "unleash" th
A
can only view with dismay these
covert intelligence: activities on- clear threats to our basic liberty in
campuses by our, government. the name of protecting liberty.
Shortly after this, the Pace Pleas-
-Further, we agree with the of-
a ntville Faculty Council. voted its _ .; forts of the Senate. Select' Com
endorsement of that resolution..: mittee. on, Intelligence-`to pass
These steps were taken in the wake : charter legislation that would, ac
of numerous disclosures of intru- cording to the Times, prohibit use
sion by the Central Intelligence: ? of the three above-mentioned pro-,
Agency. into university, and:_ . fessions for.`?"covers." Also, the,
chl CI?f'
occasions". 'waived restrictions
and authorized the use of. iourna-
risrs, teachers, and clergymen for,
covert missions in recent yearsi
,
i o ine eauors: "clarification" to the effect. that Ernest Sherman, Ass't. Prof.,
Several years ago, the Am en'
. ...although authorized, the _.opera- Social Science
Association of University Profes- tions were never. carried: out.);.; Ellen Weiser, Asst. Prof.,
sors passed at its national conven- _We the undersigned. faculty- Chemistry.
tion a resolution condemning
Stansfield Turner, C.I.A. Direr:;;
Times, (Sun., March 2), Admiral `r
It-am from the newspapers. that,-,."
imposed after the -scandals, we Blanche-:Abramo%l, Assoc Prof,
NEW MORNING
24 MARCH 1980
PACE UNIVERSITY (N..Y).
Daniel Farkas,=;:1nstructor
Martin Kotler, Ass's, , Prof.,;
Brian Pasby, Prof:;. Biology:.
of Education -'-..
:Anthony.. Salotto,... Prof.,
Chemistry
Billie-Jane Schwartz
Ass's Prof.,
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LOS A11GELES TIMES
27 MARCH 1980
As a result. the proposed charter
~..- .~ for intelligence agencies has become
' ! Carter-who wish to give intelligence I
:agencies greater freedom to COMM
threats to national security. and those
who fear that greater freedom for in-
telligence agents will mean erosion of
civil liberties for Americans general:.
:.'The nub- of the ontroversy is
'WASHINGTON If an Amencan
citizen who happens to be a close as- ! any breach- of- a- citizen's privacy by
police'-should'- be lowered , for Intel=
llah
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By ROBERT C. TOTH
^ wtietner Amenciusznuulu UC ucaLcu
,cifferently when it comes to gather-
. ; ingdntelligence information than tbey-
" h' . Id f' lavr'enforcement'
under a proposed rew charter being ,.
~onsidered,by Congress, intelligence gel aontactS a d- intenti ' a d
their;contacts'and :intentionss, and
agents: sometimes can encroach on steps are: then'taken to neutralise or
the privacy : of ..apparently innocent misinform them and their employers
Americans in ? ways never permitted without going to court, he explained= "=I
for law enforcements agents :._ ., distinguished them .from . a ..
CONTINUED
:different. P Under.. current -rules and.I hence Committee recently: - ?rar-
- r.
ligence agents.
Lacking evidence of criminal acti-.
vity.should agents.be able to eaves-
,drop, on the American who meets
with, Khomeini because he might,;
have'essential information about the^~
U.S. hostages in Tehran? Should the
Jewish American and the Irish Amer~.j
ican., be spied'. one because :,of . the
chance that they might be engaged in.!
-
''clandestine intelligence ' (or terror
activities" even though they
might actually be doing nothing more
than- exercising., their constitutional
rights? ...
FBI Director William. H. Webster,
former CIA chief William. Colby and;
even' some liberals in Congress and!
the. Carter Administration -believe
that the answer is yes, that there
should be a lower threshhold for in-' I
.vestigation- ir, intelligence cases than
inn.criminal cases. "Few intelligence cases ever go to'_
P
surveillance if he lunches privately
:with the Israeli ambassador and later
-lobbies his congressman on behalf of
Israel? Or should it be legal to keep
.tabs on an Irish American who meets
.with' leaders of the Irish Republican
`4rmyin Dublin, then makes pro-IRA.
: Speeches in Boston? ' ' ' ` :'d''?' _.:' a'>' .'
all three :of. these. hypothetical
cases, the :American.: citizens -- are
seemingly-' innocent,-'of. -. criminal
wrongdoing.. Legally, they' could. nQt'
besubjected to electronic surveillance
or: other intrusions on their. privacy
by U.S:. 'law ' enforcement': agencies
conducting criminal investigations.:: _
Yet where-intelligence agencies are.
-'concerned the' situation may be far,
Khomeini has a meeting with the Ira-
nian'revolutionary leader, should U.S.
intelligence agents be allowed ? to
eavesdrop?
And what about the propriety of
American under
lacing a Jewish
o
u
sociate of . the- Ayatolla
az$. ui t ie o .
,"-put another. way, the.charter raises:
the question of whethei the "criminal']
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criminal investigation where- prosecution is the aim," he. ' -, To wiretap, bug or commit burglary against a "target"
said.'He urged an"earlier threshold" at which surveillance under the charter, the FBI would first have to obtain a
can be started than in criminal cases, where authorities warrant from a special intelligence surveillance court
must show that they have "possible cause" to believe a composed of seven federal judges. It would have to show
suspect has commited or is likely to commit a crime before. "probable cause" that the target was a foreign agent or ?
electronic surveillance can be used. " terrorist,- or that the President had decided that the infor-
"Law enforcement isn't what it's all about," Colby said mation he possessed was "essential" to the national securi-
in an, interview. If an American visits a foreign capital ty s
whose soldiers are fighting our soldiers, it seems not too For less intrusive techniques, less justification would be
much to ask that an American surrender part of tns rights required `.'r ? ;;
.against surveillance and intrusion to allow our government To collect ' positive intelligence' by interviewing afar-
to?learn more (about the enemy's plans) if other Ameri- get's friends, associates, or himself on some pretext, by
cans are being.asked to surrender their lives." monitoring his mail without opening it, and the like, the
The American Civil Liberties Union, on the other hand,. FBI would only need to report its activities to the attorney
has attacked sections of the charter- dealing with rights of general.
Americans for. "authorizing rather than prohibiting the To begin such surveillance for counterintelligence and
many types of investigative activities that were labeled counterterrorist purposes, the FBI would not need to tell
'abusive in the past.".- -- the attorney general unless its activities collected "signifi-
'ACLU lawyer Jerry Berman said ',The standards for in- cant" information, about the political and religious activity
vestigating Americans are too vague and overbroad, the:' of the target. controls too ineffective and the enforcement mechanisms The Administration maintains that the attorney general
too inadequate." would issue guidelines to the FBI under which the
In trying to meet President Carter's demand that ' un- bureau's actions would be far more limited than the char-
warranted restraints" on the Central Intelligenge Agency ter requires. For example, friendly countries would be dis-
be removed, Berman said, Congress "may ignore or give . tinguished from hostile ones for counterintelligence sur-
short shrift" to intelligence activities directed at Amerr- veillance, and "agents of influence" such as the hypotheti- E
cans that could violate their rights. cal Jewish and Irish Americans would be treated different-
. "Those of us proud of our liberal credentials will have a ly from "intelligence agents " + .
very hard time voting for a law in which innocent Amen-
cans can be treated as criminals by the intelliegence com-
munity," Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), chairman of the Sen-
Moreover, the Senate and House intelligence committees;
would have oversight powers to keep tabs on the intel-
ligence agencies.
But the ACLU's Berman said such, controls are insuffi-
cient to prevent the kinds of abuses that were uncovered
DUI 11C 111G1111u. ' "
intelligence investigations written into the charter are "personally I think the charter has enough safeguards
strong enough to justify permitting the lower standard for and controls," Colby said. "But perhaps others think not.
such. surveillance that is being asked by the FBI. . .:._ Let's argue it out and come to, some .compromise on these
In; addition to lowering the threshold for spying on provisions, because we need a charter covering civil. rights
Americans, the charter, hammered out between Sen. Wal=' I, as well as the 'relief' of (intelligence agencies)." '
ter: D.. Huddleston? (D-Ky.): of the intelligence committee "Unleashing". the CIA and other intelligence agencies
and the Administration; promises the CIA relief from three 1: will not materially improve their performance, Colby said.
much publicized grievances: - ' > Intelligence. officials will be looking. over their shoulders,
.Reporting covert actions to eight congressional com-
mittees;
-The inability to punish ex-agents who leak the names:.;
of current agents;
:-Being compelled to provide information under the -
Freedom of Information Act.that is damaging to the United
Congress appears likely to pass such relief in the wake. {
of. the Iran and Afghanistan crisis. Virtually no one argues
.against this relief, .though some are fearful of efforts to
curtail restraints in the proposed charter on activities
against individual Americans. ..
Basically two kinds of activities against Americans are
involved: collection' of information, or "positive intel
ligence," such as:on. the condition of.:the hostages; and:
counterintelligence or counterterrorism information,- such
as learning the plans of a foreign power or terrorist group. -
worrying .whether an activity they authorize today will be
considered an abuse tomorrow, he added, unless do's and
don'ts are written into the law now.
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LOS ANGELES TILL'
26 MARCH 1980
By ROGER SMTI'H ''_''' Bit federal, investiaators quickly dismissed such' znecu- l
into history 9 years ago with $200,000, investigators now;
have,to wait for an unexpected event, a twist of fate, that
might lead them to Boyce. . .:. i ,;
One U.S. deputy i s ' . to the case full I
time, although other investigators, are.occasiorially called'
iii to help.with interviews and law enforcem.ent'agencies-l
around the world have been briefed and asked to be on the
alert for Boyce.
call someone who will in turn call police?. Will he make'a
hilsta.ke that will arouse suspicion or inadvertently. call at-_
tention to himself?
has he masterminded himself into ' what might be
called lawman's limbo, that netherworld.of new identities .
and backwater existences that make detection almost im- ?l
rpossible , ;' sip:;; ; r
Boyce was convicted in 1977 of treason He hiid spirited,
'top: secret, documents about U.S. spy. satellites out of the
"black vault communications room at TRW Inc. in )3e- fi
dondo Beach where he worked as a clerk.';.
.? He and his boyhood friend, Andrew Daulton Lee, abld:y
the documents to Soviet agents in Mexico City for $70,000.
iAt the trial, prosecutors alleged that the' information was
so valuable that the damage done to the United States was
'-almost beyond calculation.,
Boyce;', by. most `accounts' an engaging, clever'young
man;:was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Lee,. who used
the money .to finance;asmall-time drug trade between
"' Mexco and' California, received a life sentence.
''-~= Both were sent to Lompoc federal prison last summer
shortly ifter the prison was given a akimum .security
'designation.'In December, Boyce applied for a sentence re-:
duction,' pleading that the prison was brutalizing him; He;
i'.was turned down.:A-month later he escaped with the help
of .a Seattle bank. robber named Perry Gilbert, 23 ; who was !
~ i; s:;a:?;:.;. .:i , ~~~ Sri.
left behind
-fF;The ease of - his escape'and' his background=lie {s th
son of '& former FBI agent and was reared in a strongly pa-
triotic and religious house-fed a theory. that the espionage.I
was setup to mislead the Soviets, and that the Central In-;
, telligence Agency had "sprung" Boyce:,R
, * n i ,f ;ration. "There is no evidence to indicate that," one said. .
S Christopher Boyce, 27, the convected spy who easily es As it turned out, there has been very little evidence of
aped from the maximum security prison at Lompoc two any sort.
months ago, has apparently vanished without
a trace What is known is that Boyce; with the held of Gilbert,
Investigators have made. hundreds.--of phone.:' calls; i' managed to take advantage of loopholes in security at
checked out scores of tips and Interviewed dozens of his;; Lompoc to escape.;IIehid ir1 a drainage ditch near the;
acquaintances, friends and members of his family. Now, ~ fence, ieavirig a paper?m..ache dummy in his cell, On the'
with all leads exhausted, they do not have a clue where he `-night of Jan, 21, he scaled the fence at a blind spot in 'the
,'i t field of view from a guard tower, He fled an foot into the
-; It is the kind of baffling case that turns detectives gray ! surrounding wilderness.
and keeps mystery writers in business. Like,the search for, 11 The prison was ripe for such an escape. It was maximum
D.B. Cooper, the notorious airline hijacker who parachuted j'$ecurty in name oily, New guard towers had not yet been
constructed. Prisoner cheek procedures were still at a me-
dium security level, which: allowed Boyce to be unob-
served in the Prison for hours at a time. 1 i
The FBI field office in Los Angeles j
initially took charge of the case. By..;
midafternoon of the following day, 25'
FBI agents and U.S. marshals were
conducting a ground and, air - search .
near the prison.
A few days later, the FBI bowed to !
bureaucratic, .imperative.::.TheMar- _-
shals Service .had officially .taken `
charge in October of investigating es-
capes from federal prisons. Although.."'
the marshals had fewer men to.spare.
and less extensive investigative train
ing, they took over the Boyce case. i
When the ground search proved
fruitless, they began interviewing
former friends of Boyce. They probed
the backgrounds of guards recently
dismissed ,from the . prison. -.They
staked out homes, factories, and shops
in Southern California on the skim
piest of tips l
hey tracked down 'theories offered j
by T . other prisoners, "almost all' of
,which are completely worthless," an
investigator said.
They came up with a handful of air.
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Today, they believe that Boyce, prob- proceedings for being lax in their du-
ably acting alone but perhaps with ties the day Boyce escaped..
the help of some new-found friends, The Bureau of Prisons has since
is hiding in another country or some decided to replace the 8-foot fence
where in the United States. r around the prison with a 12-foot
`.You know, he sold his country.',':. fence,. build two additional guard,..
down the river, and in 10 minutes he.: towers, install an electronic perimeter
could have you liking him," a marshal detection system, and beef up internal
says. , ysecurity procedures
He'. is the marshal's most wanted man: 'His poster is pinned to.law en- Until the prison is truly a maximum
forcement bulletin boards around the .security.facility, Andrew.Daulton Lee,"
world. "We'll get him," says marshals',.,' - and several other prisoners have been
spokesman Bill Dempsey. But ..the moved to' other federal prisons. Lee's ;
marshals can only wait. And hope: attorneys' have, protested the move, I
Meanwhile, - three guards : at the " ?and say 'they hope to get a new trial
Lompoc prison, . face disciplinary:',,.: for Lee.. ; : ::..:....
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MIAMI NEWS
6 March 1980
ANA VECIANA people when they cut out the Miami N. A.vurt?r Before, we used to get a Iot of peo-
_ ple with military, background.. They
If you re intelligent, skilled. and had served. in the armed forces.
re
Tike a challenge, then it's time for_traveled around -some and we
the-'CIA. and- you, to ? know, more. looking, for something else to do,'. .
about each other. That's assuming - Pherson said, - - -
the CIA doesn't already. know all-..' So the agency went to Madison
= Avenue. Gaynor & Ducas cteated
about you-. ~..'',_'' ;:: _" `? _: w
In _a media ad vertising_campaign the new ads; aimed at a special type
that began last summer, the Central of person =- -:'.Not everybody, can
Intelligence Agency is trying to re work for the Central Intelligence
cruit"men and women who want a 'Agency..- but you may ' be one of-
career with a challenge and re them "
wards to match, _''" The, ads .have appeared in" big
"We're looking- for: .a1L-_minori- name newspapers such as the New
ties," said-Robert Peterson,*CIA.-York Times and .Washington Post,.,
personnel representative for the, and some magazines geared to mi-
southeastern region. "Miami,. with norities. NUESTRO,. a national
its. high concentration of Hispanics ..-magazine- for Latins distributed in
fits- right intd the picture.". Many - Miami,. New York. Chicago and the
. ` . "?- southwestern United States, ran a-,
referrals have been the resu_lt..%
Overall, CIA-recruiters say,', the full-page CIA display ad with a pro-
ad_ campaign has 'brought about file of an eagle on a black back-
"tremendous"results. ?: ground earlier this year.
"We've gotten very good re- This ad, like those in the news-_
spbnse," said CIA spokeswoman papers, makes its pitch to the per-
I:athy Pherson.?About finances, she son who has "the ability to piece to-_
would only say the agency has got- gether information' from many
ten its money's worth. - sources and build it into a picture of.
_:_ .;;.
In the past few years, atarnished . what's happening in the world.."
image and other problems - have
given the CIA trouble in recruiting The agency, which wants people
with in computer sci- 'I
new agents. The agency tried small backgrounds
economics, engineering, for-
ads in professional journals for en- eign studies, languages, mathemat
gineers or scientists and college icy, photographic interpretation and
newspapers, but job applications physical sciences, has a new slogan:
continued to drop. r?.: =. - . "It's time for us to-know more
"I think we Most out on `a lot of . about etch other."_,_
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NEW BEDFORD STANDARD TIMES (MA.)
I March 1980
caused Zaire leadei
path, daughter claims
By David H. Kogut
STANDARD-TIMES STAFF WRITER
The United States is propping up a
corrupt despot in Zaire, and "the
same thing will happen in Zaire asi
Iran," Julienne Lumumba, daughter
of slain. Congolese- leader Patrice
Lumumba - told an 'audience of .30
.students at- Southeastern
Massachusetts University yester-
day. ... .
Her father was the-first premier
of Zaire, known as the Congo when it
achieved. independence from
Belgium. in 1960.
Patrice .Lumumba was
assassinated, in 1961, she said,
"because he was. a threat to- the
west." She blames the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency for his death.
(In November 1975, the. U.S.
Senate's Intelligence Committee
reported two CIA. "officials were
asked by superiors in the fall of 1960
to assassinate Lumumba; poisons
were sent, - and, some preliminary
steps were taken, but the evidence
I does not show that the U.S. was in-
volved in his, eventual killing," ac-
cording to the Associated Press).
Turmoil- followed her father's
death , and in 1965, Col. .Joseph
Mobutu seized power. Known now as
"Mobutu Sese :Seko," he contitues
to run. the. country,. now known as
Zaire: -
t. CIA agent?
Mobutu,: she charged, .. is- a CIA
agent who continues to be propped
up by the intelligence agency.- "The
U.S. is now the staunchest backer of
the Zairean regime.
(A former'' ranking ? CIA official
acknowledged in- 1975 that the
agency provided money -for Mobutu,
-the AP. reported)::
Miss Lumumba, a political
the University of
science. student at
Paris, spoke in French. Her com
ments were translated by SMU
sociology professor.Alex Dupuy..:...
She is-on' a 17-day tour of the,
United. States, she said, to draw
attention to conditions in her native
country. Her tour is. sponsored by
the` All Africa-- Peoples
Revolutionary Party. The party is
headed. by former civil rights ac-
tivist Stokely Carmichael. Car
michael has changed his name to
Kwame Toure, she said.
Zaire today is a ravaged country,
she-'said. Unemployment is at 47
percent, 60 percent of the country's
infants die of malnutrition, and in-
flation roars at 120 percent, she
Mobutu remains in power with an
iron hand, she charged. She alleged
several massacres of student dis-
senters in Zaire. An attempted coup
by the -Zairean army's generals in
1975 was foiled by the CIA, she
charged, and the 37 officers involved
were executed.. .
Two "liberation movements"
were responsible for the 1977 and
1978 battles in Zaire's mineral-rich
"Shaba" region, she said. .
Two factions
They are the National Liberation
Front for the Congo and the People's
Revolutionary Party, she. said. The
two groups have popular support in-
side Zaire. but need. to cooperate.
Her eldest brother,-Emery Lumum-
, ba, 29,.is trying to bring the two fac-
tions ? together,.shei said.:;
` The aim of the groups, she said, is
to fashion Zaire into an "anti-
imperialist society." The "true
masters of her home. country
today, she'alleged, are the major
Japanese, European and American
corporations.
Her father's "Congolese National
Movement" is "very powerful" in-
side Zaire today, she said, kept alive
by former followers.
"I= want to go-home," Miss`
Lumumba said, "but for strategic
and tactical reasons I cannot-go
back."
Mobutu wants her and her family
to return, she said. Her mother
already lives'there, under a kind of
loose house arrest- With the. entire.
family there,, he could claim their
endorsement, she said.
"We don't. trust him; it's not very.
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LONDON OBSERVER
23 MARCH 1980
ATHER, .our.
lby IAN: NI
ANEW arms race is under
way, with all the attendant
dangers of_vat'
Western >Jeaders justify
? .
Increased -...pending de?
fence -,ith-the argument,fliat
the. Soviet Union' is building
more powerful
nd
.
a bigger a
war machine...How real is,the.
Soviet-threat ?'
This - analysis is concerned
with :Soviet,-capabllities;'an
the facts':' ,about Soviet
. in vela
strength;:parncularl
tion to NATO.::
There'. is :a crude balance
between the super-Powers in.
sttategicr .-nuclear.- -weapo ,
the - Russians having jnore
missiles, while the Americans
have more .The only available details
of the Soviet defence budget
are contained in an annual
;statement seven lines long.
i .Tins says that 1978 equi-
valent tISoviet~Union spent
of only S25 billion at
the official exchange .rate,
less than a quarter of United
States dnotefenence spending, and
1 ri ough to explain
a y
everyiformI'ot argument-?t0
perstiad 6,s their- .go y eriim ents
to -give. them . more resources.
and. Western . defence' depart-
: menu are no
LifL1ie " tarY are rL sa ,
peculiarlv+~ powerful - position
in that .they :,have virtually
exclusive access :=. to the
information which.can?justifs
TheirT.he.:threat -to kill the
'hostages: was repeated;?yesterday foh:
lowing- new U.S..hiiits?about.possible
use. of:., force ifs the hostages: remain'
;captive:.The-new.-threats by the mili-
tants. preceded .the: television, -appear-.
ante of the two .Americans by several-
hours:
While` acknowledging that the tele?~
vision appearance- was an attempt t6
"embarrassv.?the United States, ?offi
cials here declined to comment di-`
rectly on-the.=reported allegations of
;spy, activities, ?It is government policy
the U S..Embassy compound. Monitoring. of. Iocal .:radio broad-;
xtense _ --
CACt.ia: pa of a
n e
:wctis w :US intelligence-gatherings
'operation; often rusing highly;ophisz
Both hostages weregiving explanations of various aspects of embassy
operations. Due to a sometimes inconclusive Persian language narration,
it was not immediately possible to determine the full extent of the areas
covered:.-----
The identity of the hostages was also not immediately known.
One of those shown, apparently a young marine, pointed to wires in
what seemed to be a communications room and said the equipment
could "monitor computer traffic in Iran."
He then pointed to several junction boxes. "This one goes to the Na-
twnal Security Agency,'-' he said. He was then briefly overridden by Per-
sian language narration:^.
Pointing to another box, he said,"this is CIA.
It was not immediately clear whether the hostages' narrative had indi-
cated specific instances of espionage or had implicated the interviewed
pair or others of the 50 captives.
It was also not clear when the film had been taken or why it was being"
shown. But Western diplomats expressed concern that it could be a pre-
lude to intensified efforts by student militants to prove wrongdoing and
perhaps even go through with past vows to stage trials.
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ARTICLE APP}r;;D THE BALTIMORE SUN
ON PAGE XL-5_ 10 April 1980
'Pilo
.1ary you Id cost
hos"taSes- lives, Captor's Sa
Tehran-The Iranian militants holding
50 , Americans hostage here threatened
yesterday that the captives all will be
killed if there is "the slightest military in-
tervention" by the United States.
The deadly warning overshadowed
comments by Iranian Foreign Minister
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh that he believed the-
militants favored improving living condi-
tions for the hostages, perhaps through
permitting members of their immediate
families to visit them
Mr. Ghotbzadeh said he personally fa--
vors allowing more: visits to-the hostages,
now expected to. remain captives in the .
occupied U.S.: Embassy at least until the
still-to-be-elected Iranian Parliament is
organized in June. However, Mr. Ghotbza-
deh does not speak for the Muslims hold:_
lng the Americans captive.
Like most- political. groups here, the
captors issued, astatement supporting
Iran's revolutionary regime in the intensi-
fied confrontation with the United States
resulting from the announced American
trade boycott.
The embassy militants declared, "The
Iranian people and all oppressed people of
the world celebrate this severance of rela-
tions..... It makes this brave people more
determined in paving the straight line of
Islam, which is confrontation with the.,
criminal United States."
- Yesterday, an article in the Islamic-
-Republic newspaper, the organ of Iran's
leading political party, called for expul-
sion of about 20 American journalists who -
have been permitted to report from Teh-
ran. However, Iranian officials said they-
were going "to keep their cool," and there:
was no plan for kicking out what is.-other,;
By DOUGLASWATSON
Sun Staff Corespondent
than Americans married to Iranians-the
last remaining group of U.S. citizens in the
country_ -
The Islamic Republic'- article de=
Glared: "Now that the political relations of.
Iran and the United es are cut; Here is .
no reason anymore for- the American spy
Correspondents to wa ree y in the
streets of Ie ran an o spying for te
But Mr. Ghotbzadeh, who has become
almost a nightly- feature on American
television, showed no inclination during a
press conference here -yesterday to say
goodbye to the American television net-
works, who are constantly- interviewing
him.
And n official of Iran's ministry of na-
tional. guidance protested what he de-
scribed as a false, unsubstantiated report
by.:Agence France-Presse, the semi-offi-
cial French news agency, that the remain-
ing Americans here would be arrested. -
Iranians, meanwhile, were assured by
their government yesterday that the break
in diplomatic-relations should not mean
any severing of telephone or postal com-
munications between the two countries.
An official of Iran's central bank said it
was expected that-anew arrangement -!
could be made through a third party to en-
able Iranian parents to continue sending
money -to young Iranians still studying at
colleges in the United States. .
The Iranian media. yesterday echoed
this country's revolutionary leaders in de-
claring their contempt for the U.S. retalia-
tory actions.
Ettelaat, one of the main newspapers,
editorialized that the previous diplomatic
relations "were based on plunder and op-
pression and had been practically severed
by the revolutionary Iranian masses since
the first days of the revolution."
An Iranian radio stationsaid the news
of the- breaking of diplomatic- relations,
"swept through the people like a, spring
breeze, boosting morale.... We were tired
of American wheat, rice, meat, eggs and
worthless goods."
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ON PAGE
THE WASHINGTON POST
8 April 1980
' There is mounting evidence that the
Soviets are using incapacitating gas.
against anti-Marxist rebels in Afghani-
stan, Defense Secretary Harold Brown.
said yesterday.
'Brown' also said there are some re-
ports that the Soviets may, tie using
lethal gas in efforts to subdue Afghan
resistance. He did not indicate the-na-
ture of the evidence or- the sources of
the-reports. - .
Such reports have.-been received by
U.S. intelligence as far back as Janu-
ary, although' officials have said -there
has been no-conclusive evidence.
U.S. intelligence sources ? have said
Afg an.. refugees, questioned sepa-
rately, have described effects- corre-
sponding to what American specialists
say are known effects of -a nerve
agent called Soman. .
Brown spoke of the possible. Soviet
use of gas in?a speech prepared for
the Los Angeles World Affairs Coun-
cil, where he listed what, he called
- "some of the harsh facts of life about
Afghanistan today:' -
Brown's prepared speech. obviously
-was designed:. to buttress the Carter
administration's position that. the So-
viet invasion--of Afghanistan could
foreshadow Soviet designs on the oil-
producing:Persian-Gulf area;, :.
.- He warned that if the Persian Gulf
area fell under Soviet control, "our al-
lies would be in the shadow of eco-
nomic vassalage ' to the -Soviets, and
our own vital security interests corre-
spondingly crippled."
A similar theme was struck in a sep-
arate-speech.prepared by Deputy De-
fense' Secretary W. Graham Claytor
Jr. for a conference of the-Advertising
Council here.
Claytor said that "the reality-of ' Af-
ghanistan,' I- believe, has" gradually
slipped from public attention."",- `
Both Brown and Claytor voiced sup-
,port . for President Carter's demand
that-U.S. athletes-boycott the Moscow
Olympics.
. Associated Peeas
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THE WASHINGTON POST
JACX ANDIRSDN___~
"Animal Farm-The Russian`..b'ear
that rampaged through Afghanis,.
.'being transformed by Soviet pro?a-.
gandists- into Mischa, the cudft:c'ute
cub that is the symbol of the Sumgier
Olympics. It fools those of childlike,
gullibility. .....; :.. _ :,.:
The Kremlin has more skillful ly'titi-
.lized another animal from childhood
`fable=the wolf in sheep's clothin- to
'manipulate a worldwide network'uf in-
.terlocking front groups that lend re-
spectability to Soviet policy'adals
abroad according to secret CIA Rtes.
The front organizations include such
high-sounding groups as the Intei-ha-
tional Institute for Peace, World'eeace
Council, World Federation of Demo-
cratic Youth, and even, with particular
irony, the Christian Peace Conference
and the International Federation of
1Resistance Fighters:
"These organizations profess;' Tiro-
communist..goals," one CIA' re ort
states. "and fogy that reason are,iii'cder
?certain?. circumstances,:: more op-era-
tionally useful to the "Soviet Union
,than groups of communist sympathiz-
ers.'.' .
The CIA estimates that the Kremlin
funds 13 of these international organi-
zations to the tune of $63 million a
year.
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Since Afghanistan :closed- its borders' to
Western ' reporters, news from inside the
co;:nfty has been sparse: London. Sunday
Times.,reporer Barrie*. Pehrose managed
toget.into the country and filed this first-
hand report..- -
KABUL. Afghanistan-The Moslem ',insur-
gents are tasting blood.
The burned-out tanks, wrecked helicopters,
and other destroyed -Soviet equipment- are,
proof that heavy weapons are-'reaching rebel.
hi.deo:its in the mountains.:'
This, is reflected in Soviet `reactions` the
aonarently systematic torturing of Afghan
political. prisoners; the desperate need to
have "self-confessed'' spies o show to
the people-_ and a virtual closure o
coun^ try's borders to Western' correspondents.'
I entered Afghanistan as a tourist, by buy-
ing a ticket to Kabul from Afghan Tours in
Piccadilly. In the Afghan capital, I bought a:
second ticket, enabling me to join some ?pil-
grims traveling by bus- to- Mazari Sharif- in
the north to.celebrate- Nawroz, the Islamic:..
New-Year.:..
AT'. LEA ST 20-, vast'_military camps. dot.: the-
300-kilometer run to Mazar. With their guns
pointing uniformly at Kabul were' close-.
parked assortments of, Soviet weaponry:
tanks; armored personnel carriers, field artil-
lery, and rows. of amphibious vehicles each
capable of carrying 12 men.
Positioned between- these camps, at inter-
vals of never less than a kilometer. are
smaller emplacements. A cluster of tanks.
guard a bridge, or a solitary soldier peers:.
from behind a -machine, gunnest. built.:'of
Significantly.'for the. military mind, and a
comfort . pilgrims off our bus.; Soviet fire-
power points mainly toward ,the hills and the.
caves which honeycomb the peaks beyond..
The Russian soldier has (earned that, despite
what his .commander told him last Decem= -
ber.:he is not welcome in Afghanistan.. and:-:
that, if retribution comes, it` will certainly
come from above.
THE.WHOLE HIGHWAY from Kabul t0-=".
Mazar., and the nearby Soviet border cross-
ing-point at Tirmiz is clearly,. well protected
from attack. In between frequent stops for-
pray ers, the bus picks its way through a.-
string of convoys,' often''more than 100. vehi
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
6 April 1980
One convoy, driving toward Kabul, con-tams thousands of shiny metal beds, one of::
the most popular Soviet export lines to Af",
ghanistan and a sure.-sign that the Russians
will. soon change their tents: for more perma
nent barracks.
Not far from Mazar are three large Soviet
supply depots and two impressive contingents:
of tanks, each set well back on the side of,
the road. Some move about like black crabs,:
and-their guns point in every direction.....
Their, presence in such strength outside ? a
city, even.during the festival of Nawroz, is
plain enough for- any- pilgrim. 'Indeed, there
had been talk on the bus of a Kabul-style
insurrection on Nawroz [March 21]. It is ex-
plained that the religious festival provides a.;
chance for a. get-together'of underground
supporters of the Islamic opposition parties.
EVkAI MORE menacing are the armed;
civilian supporters of Babrak Karma!, -the!
Soviet-backed Afghan leader.. They and units^
from the Afghan army, guard the city gates.
Some of them, students with earnest faces, j
search the pilgrims and their bundles with a
certain relish, occasionally flicking the safety
catch of their semi-automatic rifles.
The oppressive reality of this Soviet muscl,
is. lightened temporarily by the sight of no
one', but-two. burned out helicopters and U.
charred remains' of'a gas. truck. With thei
siniles,._ the. pilgrims , display. their sympa
" thies:
FROM AFGHANS IN the-north, I learn o
,fighting. J& hours before in several area
around Baghiaa and Kundi~i_ At Jari, a mass
grave contains the bodies of some 40' people
killed .either in very recent fighting or, in
reprisals by the Russians-
On. the road'to-,Kunduz, there are burned
out houses, and. schools, clearly destroyed
from the air.
Close to Kunduz,'there Is a funeral proces-
sion with severaI hundred mourners. A vil-
lage elder says the victims died fighting the
Shorvees. (Soviets]. He points at the hilltop
which'runs parallel-with the road 500 meters
away.-There are four tanks and a personnel
carrier,. their guns pointing' in. our direction.
IN' KUNDUZ- ITSELF, occupied-in force by
the Russians, people generally dismiss
claims heard in' Mazar that -some 300 Rus-
sians had died in fighting 48 hours before.
A school teacher says skirmishes have tak-
en place outside the town but no more than
30 Russians have died. He says that more
than 1,000 prisoners have been freed from a
jail near Kunduz. In return, the insurgents
and. innocent villagers have. suffered reprisal
raids by Soviet bombers, leaving many dead
and wounded. .
Although a steady trickle of deserters from
the Afghan army are joining the resistance
.movement, says: the teacher, they remain
lamentably short of weapons capable of com-
batting Soviet airpower. -
RETURNING. TO KABLTL in our mixed
convoy of buses, taxis, and lines of Soviet
tanks and other armored vehicles. we hear
distant automatic rifle fire at times' quite
heavy. It is noticed that we are not Afghans
and a' Soviet NCO is placed next to me in my
taxi.
He speaks irritably about the Afghanis. In
Moscow, he and his compatriots; were- told
that they were going to fight a conventional
For once, I too am searched' and my pass-
port and tourist visa, are studied carefully.
After stating my wish to see the 'Mazar
shrine of Hazarate All, son.- in,-1-.a w of the
Prophet Mohammed, I am allowed into the
city..
Mazar itself, dominated by the rhagnificent
blue mosque ~bith its thousands of pilgrims,
is tightly under the control of. tanks. armored
personnel carriers,- large numbers of Afghan
troops, and well-armed civilians.
'ROMI M'tZAR TO Aq Chah and Shibar-
.`ghan; - the . road. runs parallel with the Soviet
bother.. Here are - more burned. out Soviet
trticks.and gasoline tankers. Just beyond Shi
barghan are the stone graves of two government .functionaries killed; the driver says, in
recent fighting betwen party members and
insurgents. The red. party flags above their
graves-were left,: says the driver, out of re-
spect for the dead, and he spits upon the
..,stones. Pushing' on toward . Mazar, our coach
squeezes. past several fast-moving lines of
tanks which. . with - the. spring thaw, can
found nothing but sullen, unwelcoming ?inhab-
spread far afield in the search for rebels and I pants who take pot-shots at them from the
their, hideaways.
war wtth_American and British-troops, aided
by the Chinese and Pakistanis, invading Af-
ghanistan?.from' the east. In reality they have
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14 April 1980
A `CIA Confession' in Kabul
With his blond hair, his trendy aviator glasses and his
sweater, the young man looked as though he had just walked off
an American college campus. But when Robert Lee appeared on
Soviet and Afghan television last week, he made a startling-if
wholly unconvincing-confession: he said he was a spy for the
Central Intelligence Agency sent to aid Afghan guerrillas in
their fight against the Soviet-installed government.
Since the Soviet invasion last December, Moscow's puppet
regime in Afghanistan has been anxious to establish foreign
complicity in the rebel cause-especially if the foreign devil was
an American. Lee provided a convenient propaganda tool. A
former chemistry student at the University of California, Lee
happened to be in Afghanistan during the guerrilla uprising in
February. He was arrested and imprisoned in a Kabul jail.
There, according to former prisoners, Lee was subjected to
physical and psychological mistreatment designed to extract his
"confession."
"Lee is very confused," said David Wilkie, a 21-year-old
Australian student who had been in an adjoining cell. "He has
bronchial pneumonia brought on by the intense damp cold and
he also has jaundice. Without medical treatment, he could die."
Wilkie said Lee was questioned incessantly by Afghan and
Soviet officers and offered asylum and a new life in East
Germany in exchange for his televised performance. As Wilkie
recalled: "I remember hearing him say repeatedly, `I want to
make a new beginning for myself, I want to go to East
Germany.' He was in such a bad state, he began saying anything
to please his guards." ?
`Crying Like Babies': According to the released prisoners,
Afghan jailers systematically tortured inmates to extract infor-
mation about the resistance movement. Several mentioned
electric-shock treatment; others recounted how an 8-year-old
boy and a 90-year-old man were severely burned with lighted
cigarettes. "At night we could all hear other prisoners, Afghans
and Pakistanis mostly, screaming while they were being beaten
and questioned," said Wilkie. "There was banging and thump-
ing and some were crying like babies." Given the prospect of
undergoing such torture, Wilkie said, "I wasn't surprised that
Lee agreed to do what they wanted." But Lee's captors have not
done what he wanted. Despite his "confession," the young
American is still imprisoned in his damp Kabul cell.
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Associated Press ' : >. i'"'
NEW DELHI Afghanistan's ruling
Revolutionary Counel has ' approved- a
treaty permitting the ,Soviet Unidri?:'to..
temporarily' maintain "a limited 'contin-
gent"?of troops in the`country, Radiir K-a^
bul reported: "< -
The broadcast,, monitored' here" late
Friday, also quoted. Afghanistan's Presi-
dent Babrak KarmaIas saying his govern-
ment;would not take part in any talks to
ease::the;Afghan crisis, until external
threats to the country ceased.
"Nothingwtlt get off the ground un
less'and until all interferences, interven--
tions,armed;raids,; training, supply.'of
arms and' otfier'forms of subversive ac-
tivities'against thetAfghan,revolutionary
government are completely: stopped;" 'he:
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