FORMER SPIES FORM LEGAL FEES FUND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100200057-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: July 26, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CHEVY CHASE HONTGOi1ERY JOURNAL (Ail
26 July 1983
Former Spies Form
Legal Fees Fund
Old spies don't fade away. They
form legal defense funds.
Challenge, a Maryland-based or-
ganization of former intelligence of-
ficers, was formed a year ago to raise
funds to help U.S. intelligence
agency personnel pay legal expenses
if they believe they have been
defamed.
The group, incorporated-in 1981,
announced new officers and a fund-
raismg drive last week.
Richard H. `Landadale, a former
associate general counsel with the
CIA, is.the group's new president. He
served with the CIA than 20
years.
J.E. "Ned" Dolan, a former intelli-
gence officer, retired Marine captain
and citizen activist from Garrett
Park, is the group's vice president.
The group has aided in a lawsuit
filed by former CIA agent David At-
lee Phillips of Bethesda. Phillips is
suing authors and publishers who
have suggested he had some role in
the assassination of President John
F. Kennedy and former Chilean For-
eign Minister Orlando Letelier.
Challenge's current.fund-raising
efforts are to assist former U.S. Am-
bassador to Chile Nathaniel Davis in
his lawsuit against the producers of
the movie "Missing," according to
the organization's announcement.
Davis' suit charges that the film,
which starred Jack Lemmon and
Sissy Spacek, wrongfully implicates
him in the death of an American
freelance journalist killed during the 1
1973 CIA-supported coup that top-
pled popularly elected. leftist Presi-
dent Saivadore Allende.,:
The group also-has offered to help
defray the legal expenses of retired 1
Army Gen. William C. W estmore-
land in a.suit,against CBS. The,
former commander of U.S. forces in
Vietnam has charged that the broad-
casting company libeled him by air- I
ing a adocumentarythat said a con-
spiracy
-concealed military
intelligence about the Vietnam War
from e.presidentand Congress
"It's awfully hard to take on an
author or a publisher when you're
small and don't >have any money,"
Landsdale said. - -
Challenge's board of directors and
advisers include.a number of former
high-ranking military officers,
former CIA .officials and conserva-
tive politicans, amonngg them former 1
U.S. Sen. James Buckley and former
CIA Director-William Colby.
"We don''taprofess to be (of) any
political persuasion,"but we do have
a common military background that
generally is rather conservativae,"
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