LONG FEUD NEARS END

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000200980014-1
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 4, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Long-Feud
Nears End
Webster Likely to
Unify Intelligence
WASHINGTON, March 3 - The ap-
pointment of William H. Webster to be
Director of Central Intelligence could i
bring a definitive end to a long period
of feuding between the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and the Central Intelli-
By FOX BUTTERFIELD
Special to The New York Times
gence Agency and im-
prove the Government's
effort to curb foreign
Analysis spying, experts in the field
said tonight.
"Our most profound in-
telligence problem in this decade has
been in counterintelligence," said
Senator D angel Patrick Mo nihan, a
New York -Democrat o ew or t who
is a former member of the Senate Intel-
ligence Committee. "It is the function
of the F.B.I., but with Judge Websteri
moving over to the C.I.A. he may be
able to make people more aware of
counterintelligence and create a better
sense of common purpose."
By law, Senator Moynihan noted, the
C.I.A. has no authority for spying inside
the United States.
"But it has great internal interests
and it has had to depend on the F.B.I. to
protect these interests," the Senator
said, adding, "In the past decade the
F.B.I. has failed ominously in counter-
intelligence."
A Split in Responsibility
A former C.I.A. official said the two
agencies' rivalry in counterintelligence
work had left a split in responsibility
with loopholes for foreign agents. Al-
though the two agencies often cooper-
ated, he said the bureau's work in coun- i
terintelligence was "what you think of
when you think of tracking down a spy
in the New York subway."
"The C.I.A. is more like a classic spy
novel," the official said. "It's sort of the
cops versus the intellectuals."
G. Robert Blakey, a professor of law
at the University of Notre Dame, said
the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. had "an arm's-
length relationship" when J. Edgar
Hoover was Director of the bureau.
At that time, he said, the two agen-
cies "didn't trust each other and some-
times didn't talk to each other."
In mid-1946 the F.B.I. was compelled
NEW YORK TIMES
4 March i98i
to give up its role as the nation's lead
intelligence agency in Latin America
to the Central Intelligence Group, the
immediate predecessor of the C.I.A.
But the intelligence agency did not as-
cluding investigations of the antiwar
movement.
Professor Blakev said that since
1978, when Mr. Webster became Direc-
tor of the F.B.I. the bureau and the
sert full authority in Latin America' agency " have cooperate'. more than
until some years later. ~ they ever did before" ~.n such subjects
1976 Senate Report Cited
As stated in a 1976 Senate report on
United States intelligence activities,
"F.B.I. Director Hoover had conceded
his authority grudgingly. A formal
agreement between the two agencies
(presumably initiated by Hoover)
stipulated that no F.B.I. Latin America
files were to be turned over" to the
C.I.A. authorities.
Under the law, Professor Blakey
said, the bureau is supposed to concen-
trate on law enforcement in the United
States while the agency works over-
seas. But he noted that investigations
led by senator Frank Church of Idaho,
who was chairman of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence in the
1970's, showed that the C.I.A. had en-
gaged in operations in this country, in-
as foreign counterintelligence, terror-,
ism and narcotics trafficking.
Jerry J. Berman, hief legislative
counsel of the American Civil Liberties
Union, said the selection of Mr. Web-
ster to head the Cl.:A was "a logical I
choice for an Administration that is
trying to dig itself out of a well-founded
perception that it has broken the law in
carrying out foreign policy."
"The F.B.I and the C.I.A. have a
similar mission, namely, to collect in-
telligence, the F B.1 in the United
states and the C. A. ,t,ruaa.' Mr Ber-
man said, adding -the uifference is
that the C.LA engages in covert opera-
tions to influence'PnL; overseas. The
F b.. naa e. w er ii'. ~,ugations
but has not C?gaged in, overt activities
to undermine dissent in this country
since Webster became Director."
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