MOLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201180039-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: April 1, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Jeiiseq Stein
he chill wind blowing in Wash
ington did-not begin:-:with'
ta> Ronald- Reagan's inaugura=
_ tion. There was an early blast about
-two years ago, when right:wingY-'?
scholars and joumal.ists, affiliated for ,
the most part with the Georgetown
Center for Strategic and International
Studies, began peddling the notion that
.the Government was infested with
"moles =American officials recruited
long ago by Soviet intelligence:
The talk of "moles" in the Govern-
ment has simmered down since
Reagan entered the White House,. but
there is reason for concern about a pos-
sible recrudescence of McCarthyism.
Reagan transition officials said they
would take "a close look" at recom-
inendations by the right-wing Heritage
Foundation to investigate ."subver-
sives," and the Senate reestablished an
Internal Security and Terrorism Sub-
committee.
"Terrorism" is the key word, of
course: It has replaced "communism".
as the all-purpose menace which pro; -
vides the rationale for political repres--
sion. A recent piece by syndicated col=.-'
umnists Rowland Evans and Robert
Novak illustrated the new shape being-` given to the old theme of red-baiting.
A look at it also allows us to feel what
it's like to be on the short end of? a
witchhunt.
Stephen R. Weissman spent the first:.
weekend of February worrying. He is a -
quiet, carefully articulate political
scientist, thirty-nine years old, with a
Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Jeffrey Stein.is The Progressive's con --'
THE; PROGR33SIVE
April 1981
For two years he worked under Demo
cratic Representative Stephen Solarz
on the House Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee, specializing in U.S.. policy toward
.
Africa.-.---.".---.
During those years, the' Commit-
triburing editor in im~,-
tee
tee had backed the 'Carter -Ad-
ministration's -- sanctions against
Rhodesia until a peaceful transition to
majority rule was accomplished, had
developed legislation prohibiting the
CIA from engaging in another secret
war in Angola; and had generally
looked for ways to carry out a humane
and ' progressive foreign policy
divorced from past entanglements with
the white supremacists in South Africa.
Late in January, Stephen Weissman
received a call from columnist Evans,
who inquired about two matters: First,
an article by Weissman, "The CIA and
U.S. Policy in Zaire and Angola," that
had been reprinted in a book called
Dirty Work (11), issued by an anti-CIA
group in Washington affiliated with,
former CIA agent and critic Phillip
Agee; second, some remarks critical of
Zaire that Weissman had made at an
academic conference in Philadelphia.
Evans seemed polite, and -Weiss-
man, explained. First, he said, his anti-
cle had originally been written ex-
pressly for, and printed in, a book of
scholarly articles on Southern Africa.;
It had later been reprinted in the
august Political Science Quarterly. He
had given the editors of Dirty Work (11)
permission to reprint the piece, as had
other authors from the Defense De-
partment and The New York Times.
Weissman also explained that he hadl
complained to the editors of Dirty
Work (11) when he found out too late
that their book would include an ap-
pendix listing the names of hundreds of
CIA agents.
As to his remarks at the Philadel-
phia conference, Weissman told,
?.. ~..:.....M.kexarep.-k. -- Evans, he had clearly-spoken for him-
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