CHURCHES WANT C.I.A.'S CHARTER TO BAR ANY USE OF MISSIONARIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200700021-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: February 24, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PAGE - 24 FEBRUARY 1980
Churches Want~C.I A's Charter
To Bar'Any Use:af Missionaries!
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UPI) Re=
ports that the. Carter Administration
wants to ease proposed restrictions on the
Central Intelligv!nce.Agency's use of mis-
sionaries is meeting resistance in the na-
tion's religious organizations.
The National Council of Churches;
made up of 32 Protestant and Orthodox
denominations, passed a resolution at a
meeting in New-York this week urging
Congress to prohibit such use of mission-
aries. It asked Congress to,make sure
that the new agency charter includes
"explicit prohibitions against' recruiting
or employing members of the clergy or
church workers-American or foreign-
as informants or agents in any capacity
at home or abroad."
The council also requested a bars on
C.I.A. personnel impersonating clergy-
men or church workers or establishing
proprietaries purporting to be churches,
church agencies, or religious organiza-
tions.
News reports- have indicated that the
White House would like to avoid a flat.
prohibition against the use of clerics,
journalists and academics as intelligence
agents or sources.
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