WHO OPPOSES OUR SECUIRTY AGENCIES AND WHY?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201180008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 7, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Who opposes our security agencies and why?
The recent revelation that Soviet
spies caught stealing computer tech-
nology from companies in Califor-
nia's "Silicon Valley" underscores
the need for the United States to be
more vigilant against covert actions
by unfriendly foreign powers and
their front groups who seek to under-
mine our security.
President Reagan's attempt to
strengthen our intelligence agencies,
however, is being attacked in Fed-
eral Court in Washington, D.C. by a
coalition which includes Rep. Ron
Dellums D-Cal., the All-African
Peoples Revolutionary Pam, the War
Registers League, the U.S. Peace
Council and dozens of other radical
organizations.
These groups claim that they regu-
larly communicate with and travel
to Cuba, The Soviet Union, The Peo-
ples Republic of China, Vietnam, and
to El Salvador to support the com-
munist guerillas there. They want a
federal judge to order our intelli-
gence agencies to refrain from car-
rying out Reagan's directive because
they allege that their First Amend-
ment rights will be violated. But as
William Webster, director of the FBI
recently noted, groups that "produce
propaganda, disinformation and
'legal assistance' may be even more
dangerous than those who actually
throw the bombs:'
In response to their lawsuit to
thwart our security capabilities, the
Washington Legal Foundation, repre-
senting U.S. Sen. Jeremiah Denton,
and several other congressmen, has
gone into court to oppose the radicals'
lawsuit. The foundation is a non-
profit, public-interest law center
with over 85,000 members and
120,000 supporters nationwide which
has as its goals the promotion of a
strong national security and defense
as welfas free enterprise, the rights
of victims of crime, and limited gov-
ernment regulation.
We urge all citizens to stand up to
these radical groups and to demand
that federal judges not tamper with
our vital and necessary national
security interests.
Daniel J. Popeo
Washington Legal Foundation
Washington
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