REPORT TO REAGAN AIDES URGES ENDING MANY RESTRICTIONS ON U.S. SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100490030-4
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: November 21, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIMES
21 PdOVE'MBER 1980
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WASHINGTON; Nov.., 20' .=' A ~ report
prepared fornationai securityadvisers to
= President-elect Ronald Reagan'calls for
"sweepingchanges: is intelligence prat-
. ti'eee; and the elimination of many restric-
.tionsontheintdifgencecomniunity. -?_
? ~ ~ x.TEe 97 page report; Prepared under the
-auspices. of the heritage Foundation; a
coa~ervative reseRrca organization here,
couclndes:that is order. to?revivc:the na-
. Lion's intelligence capabilitles; "agencies
= mwt be rtbuflt thsough a combination of
legislation; exewtive orders, administra-
tive actions and Presidential- leader-
ship.".It suggesttseparating clandestine
operations irom.thesCentral Intelligence
Agency, hiring. more and better-trained
.agents; establishing. competing sources;
of .intelligence analysis and changing
laws that restrict Intelligence activities: i
The. report characterizes.the current;
intelligence apparatus as being ."in the
worst:conditfon since before Pearl Har-
bor" and blames?not only President Car-;
ter but also three psevious Administra-
tions for politicizing intelligence gather-
ingaad analysis.. _ ...:: _ ~ ., - < . ~
Officials . strpsed that.. key Reagan;
aides had only begun to thick about how ~
intelligence should be reshaped, and the
report, theysaid. is only a tentative list of
options open to a Reagan administration.
As one Indication of the tentative na-
lure ot,the~ options. J._.Wi3>~- Midden-
dorf, farmer Secretary of the Navy and
acting head oi; the Lraasition's task force
on intelligence, and der. members of the
task fosoe, met today far the first time
with Adana Stazssiield.Tttts:er~Director of
`Central Intelligge~ncee.. ~ _ :. - ~ . ~ : -:
':. HooveverfotJ~lsclose~tatheRepubiI
.can transitl0~t efi'ort in isrtelligena said i
was liktly that several o! the proposals in
the report would be pursued. by a Reagan
administratlaa anti. the new. Rapub~ll
fYajor.ty Wt~~te. .'_: ...'i 1~'~~1.~?IF
The olIIclah ssid that. Mr. Rtiagan had
not yet chosen a Director of Central Intel
ligence but that. William Z. Casey, the
Reagan campaign director, was known to
be the front-runner. Mr. Casey is known
to support a much more aggressive ap-
proach to inteiligenceoperations. ' .
Moreover, many of the report's propos-
als resemble portions of snow-dormant
legislative charter, introduced last sum-
mer by Republican Senators, that would
restructure intelligence agencies and
relax restrictions on domestic spying.
Many of the changes advocated In the
report are bound to be~resisted by civil
liberties groups, which have fought for
years for the laws and executive orders
that now limit intelligence activities and
protect ir-dividual liberties. Other strua
Loral recommendations are bound to be~i
controversial, since they would require
an overhaul of the current intelligence +
scheme. They stem from an assumption ~
that the. organizational 'setup is. largely
responsible for what the report contend
is the poor quality of intelligence. .
The report accuses theCarter Adminis-
tration of weakening American intelli_
gence'?thrcugh mass dismissals of C.I.A.
oftidals and partial replacement of them
by inexperienced employees,":a charge
that agency officials have denied:
.`Presidential leadership must play a
role in rebuilding our intelligence serv-
ices, which have not been so weak since
Pearl Harbor, and can instigate not only;
administrative re orma, butt also gramote;
legislation and give file intelligence comma
munity the moral and political supporti
necessary to fulfill its mission "the re-~
port Concludes. : ; -
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r~iany of the report's recommendations!
wouid=not require legislation. For exam-:
i pie, it urges [he revocation of an execu-~j
five order that governs inte}lil;eetce strut-,
tore and provides operational guidelinesi
and restrictions for the intelligence agen-~
ties. - ~,. ~ ,_~,~
The report recommends that "lan_:
8uage training. as well as adequate mill-~
mry and political instruction" should be.
standaM toragents.: _? _ :... 1
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