HOW REAGAN MAY RESHAPE CIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505420120-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 120
• Publication Date: July 21, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
21 July 1980
Director, Air t,eorge 'tsu~n. ?A radical researche
ONE of the unresolved . now move in behind Mr Fred Landis has
debates among Mr Ronald Reaga?a, there is likely to be pr' ess conferences
Rea;an'S foreign policy a battle for the mind of the. making further c
L advisers is. over how the potential President. 'undercover C I A
C e n t r a l Intelligence No single can~d?id?ate is tipped. Mr Landis was ats
- Aghpenc will be reshaped,! as yet, as the n?cxt C t A OrYando? Letelier, ?
- ?if? w ine thv ,r*^.,o.,,po, Director if Reagan wir.~. But -.:Chilean Socialist
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It is universally 'accepted that.
the present CIA Director,
'Admiral Stansfield Turner,,
would have to go. He is
bitterly criticised by intelli
rtence professionals for I.' operaticn:c officer whose ex-
excessivelr subservient to, to Indochina to re-pon-erhility.
the political- line of the for Western Hemisphere
present Administration, and, activities.
= this feeling was not assuaged;----- ---- -
of Carter's televised campaign Agee group
There is ' also widespread helps hlfit l ey
sympathy in the Reagan
camp for the view that the
CIA has been so leached
of experienced operatives as
a result of successive waves
of sackings that there is a
need to bring back many
recently retired men as
consultants who could super-
vise the refurbishing of its
resources for intelligence
collection, counter-intelligence
and covert action. -
There are al_o complaints from
several quarters that the
C I A's defects as an ar,:zlyti-
cal ageat?y land predate the
Carte- Ad-m'nla:rat-'on, erd
th'--t its failure ci record of issues alas
Soviet defence spen' :ng or
s.-escon?y capabilities is so
egregious that it shot.ld he
-.'deprived of its present. role
as co-erdirtator of the Ameri-
can inte'rligence_ community.
Competing service
Some of '4fr Reagan's advisers:
are etror,-:y conv`nced of the"'
tterd for competitive intelli:-.
gence estimate.. Some re'
commend elevating the
Defence Intelligence Agency
(Dl A) into an aaaessnlerts!
- ager,cy with equal authority
to the Cl A. People with a'
background sn the Pen?tagen,,
und--rsandably. tend to~
argue most enahueiast?cally,
for this prescription.
Any carving-up -of the C I A's.
present range of responsibili-
ties appears little short of.
heresy to moot former CIA..
men, however,"and as those:
who--rallied to their fcrnter,
posltlcr-s in the n^Id are
: ` ~Vashirngtan in 19~
.General D viol 0. Grz-ham, time he .\',,,: actin
the D T A or (if a man from offshoot of an influentiia]Left- - .;r. ftdIc
Institute for Policy Studies. 1Yest Furore tr tecurity experts
After Lete!-ier's 'death' 1,;.z - . are braced for a sCrious re.
associates were' embararssed ' ? vuv?l of Pa'estinian terrorism
by the publication of docu- -ever the nevi few months. as
ments proving that he had ' the result of decisions report-
edl
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reached at a meetin
of
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been secretly receiving a
monthly subsidy from the the P L 0's operations der.?rt-
me
Ma
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ri
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ear
Cubans, and had worked in
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close contact with identified Key le'ders who attended this
members of Castro's intelli- .:m^eting were Abu Jihad, the
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gence service, the D Cl and -P L O
s military chieand
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the K G n ' . - . . ~ Anmi 7nheir his s
ecial ass st-
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In the violent run-up - to the This raised ? su!picions that ant; who is - respons -ble for
.Jamaican elections, the Prime Letelier may have figured an the tr,lning of terrorist at-.
`Minister. Mr Michael Manley. a classical "false flag" opera- tack souads. The meeting was
has+ been able to count on . tiod. designed to lure un- chaired by Yasser Arafat.
energetic propaganda support suspecting American l;be^als According to Western intelli.
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from a. group of American and New Leftirtscompro- ? gence sources. the P I.
radicals who .'are '- closelh n11` 'n- rel'3cor?s with- Soviet ohiefs agreed to step up re-
,
':associated with the CIA's , bloc intelligence. cruitmnt on non Arabs Ion
"ideological - defector,' Mr `?~ high-risk missions agaio-t tsr-
Philip Agee. Press conference` . gets in Europe and I'-ael.
The theme of the campaign'is WJJih the support. oF? a lAtle- There appear to have hen
identical to the one developed kn^wn group ca'?ed tin Citi- two motives for this decision.
``by. Mr Agee himself when he re-ls Research and Tnve tir-a- First, at a time when the P L 0-
toured Jamaica before the tion Cemp ittee (C R I C), Mr is malting notable headway in
last national elections: the Landis recently`.c~a~er.sd a its campaign for international
CIA is engaged in an anrhi Press cani'ererfe in 11'ac-s rig- recogniticrt, it makes sense to
tious "destabilisation',' pro- ? ton e' which he 'e.z ?m2d;that delegate co'n'troversial terror
gramme designed to bring the Letelier? da0uments - had....' operations to auxiliaries who
down the Manley Govern- been part of *a d,--_?r?%crn:ation can be publicly disowned. -
merit, and anyone who dares exn^clse mounted by the CIA -
'to criticise the far-reaching act the Ch..'lea-n secret service. Suicide missions
subversion 'in the MT Lanes-'was lent -vocal sup- LSecnnd. there have been reports
Cuban
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country (such as the out- - part by elhar leading mem-
spoken opposition Press) *bars of, C R I C, i,nc!uoing ??",llr
must be a tool of the CIA.,` Don?a:d Freed, %slra,sit up.an
The theme ha-s been taken up organ?ieation ca'-1ed friends ?',
by Agee associates like Ellen .%, of she J?a?nthe--s" in 1969:as a
Ray, a co-editor of the CovF.nT -' whito -support- group, fo'"the
ACTION INFORMATION BULLETIN,' Black Panther&.,-'..'`~:
a publication exclusively rledi; T::eir:,effort;/_to deny: the'ddcu-
agents and.operation-s around -.letel`ecs- invo'.vemeot_'wah .
of desertions from P L 0.
camps in. Lebanon and Syria,
by Palesdi?nian recruits
To maintain discipline, P UO
commanders are said to havw,i
imposed strict punishment,,:
-ranging front solitary con?fine-
- men?t to shooting in the leas,
or even execution, on recruits:
who refuse to 'embark - -on--
suicide missions. ?
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Early -this month two days 4fter ? wired ,general Inc': - Lt'. i,`.."'; "3"e?0, zne-.onlel of me ..
Mr Louis Wolf, an-other en- - - The evidence. .consists' oft ? P I. O's special issault ?All, oue,
acers- found ? in Letelier's' code-named "Farce : is'
editor of the BULLETIN reamed
p
, Mr Richard Kinsman and 14, briefcase, 'which were's;sbwu
other members of the - to a journalist by hi tN{dow.
American Embassy in Kings-The . orooaganda war= acts.
ton as alleged C I A 'officers, ?..shrille~ 'in Jamaica-. as .politi-
Mr Kir.?sman's house was ate
-cal vi
lenee contiUuesto in-
,
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join because of the need
?racked with automatic gunfire ...to
crease:- The Cuban's are for money, drug addictioi or'
and a fire bomb.- clearly, bent on' ~p.rotettinsG i- psychological 'problems_, _
Germany and France to seek
to enlist young men and
women who may be induced
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