WHO'S BEHIND THE INTELLIGENCE

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• Publication Date: February 7, 1981
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ON F-kG ._M-
HUMAN EVENTS
7 February 1981
An unheralded but important addi- These are matters that.need.
tion to the Congress is a newly created. some looking into by the new Inter=
panel of the Senate Committee on the nal security panel In the Senate..!-
Judiciary-the Subcommittee on"Ter Also In need of careful Inquiry Is
rorism and Security.
the broad-gauged campaign by the
The newness is ` mostly technical;: people of varying. motives to ,Z.!
since Judiciary until a couple of years disrupt and .paralyze the..In
ago had a long-established Subcomn-dt-
r.c telligencei agencies of our , govern
tee on Internal Security. This panel was anent, and to render them useless in
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combatting Marxist Initiatives in
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internal security unit has been- revised;:- ly effective-with consequences
'-renamed, and placed under the chair `'that are disastrous for America :-
manship of Sen..-Jeremiah Denton and the free world generally.
-(R.-Ala.). `. .
The revival is timely, and the- new To get a picture of this anti-intelli-
committee certainly has its work cut out. gence crusade and the motley crew
for it. A peculiarity of the campaign to engaged in it, the-Senate panel might.]
'abolish the old internal security group, want to begin with a newly published-
-and other internal security agencies of staff report from a Washington foun_,
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the government, was that it occurred in dation called Western
s.tempo with an upward surge in internal `dation is headed by Rep. Lawrence
security troubles."The worse the.prob- - McDonald (D.-Ga.), -who has fungi-
lem got, it seems, the more determined ; tioned as a virtual one-man internal
the effort to ignore it. security committee during his tenure in
difficulties neglected dur- the House. The study, entitled Broken
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ing this span have been a marked in-' Seals (309-A Cameron St., Alexandria,
.crease in the number of Soviet ands =.Va. 22314; S4) has an introduction by
other Communist-bloc personnel on -Rep.. John Ashbrook (R.-Ohio), and
our soil, attempts by the Soviet KGB to - an afterwprd by Lt. Gen. Daniel - O.
cultivate contacts in congressional of- Graharii,*`.both: experts in the matter
"ices, extensive activities by Cuban in-s under discussion.
T>telligence-