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Maggie Bowman delights Ambassador Helms, as
Secretary Wisner seems to be saying defensively,
"Well, I don't know about that."
Hard-Hitting Speeches Mark Third
National Intelligence Symposium
There were no illusions at the third annual National
Intelligence Symposium held at Naples, Florida, in late
January. Without hysterics, speaker after speaker
offered careful analysis of the role of the USSR in fos-
tering world subversion and disorder.
The symposium, coordinated by AFIO and spon-
sored by the Naples Daily News and Palmer Communi-
cations, drew an enthusiastic audience of over two
hundred fifty and received extensive media coverage.
John Barron, senior editor of Reader's Digest and
author of the best-selling "KGB Today," charged that
the Soviet Union, suffering from wide-scale corruption
and a lack of competitive technology, attempts to secure
its goals by creating world unrest. According to Barron,
the USSR's secret intelligence services have been suc-
cessful in creating such schisms, particularly in Ameri-
can society. They legitimize certain groups, he said,
creating popular pressures that limit the power of US
leaders, he said.
Barron questioned whether the media is fulfilling
its national role as the Fourth Estate, and said some in
the press appear "to be at odds with the mainstream of
public opinion," tilting in favor of those critical of the
government. He urged the audience to pressure those
in the media who do not report issues fairly, and to
demonstrate to the Congress, through the electoral
process, support for the nation's crucial first line of
defense against subversion-US intelligence.
Wisner Briefs AFIO On
Africa Developments
An off-the-record, insider's analysis of recent trends
and developments in Africa brought new, and some-
times frightening, understanding to those in attendance
at AFIO's spring luncheon, April 9th.
The speaker, The Honorable Frank G. Wisner,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,
interpreted also recent diplomatic moves that have
heralded success for the administration's efforts to
reverse Soviet expansionism and block communist
subversion on the African continent.
At the conclusion of the formal briefing Secretary
Wisner entertained questions from AFIO members
sharing deep familiarity of the African political scene.
His answers were equally frank, though also off-the-
record.
Less guarded here is the reaction of the overflow
crowd at the Bolling AFB Officers' Club to Ambassador
Richard Helms' introduction of the speaker. Polite
response greeted his description of Wisner's long and
honorable government service, but it was Helms' per-
sonal, if nostalgic, assessment of Secretary Wisner as
"a chip off the old block," that released a wave of emo-
tion and sustained applause that was, indeed, "for-
the-record."
NATIONAL LAUNCHES
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Enclosed with this issue of Periscope are two AFIO
brochures. We would certainly appreciate it if every
member would sign up two new members for AFIO.
Since that is unlikely, we hope to add six hundred new
members by the 10th annual Convention in October,
1984. Six hundred new members would swell our
ranks to four thousand. We have considered this to be a
reasonable target as we borrow from the Marine Corps
recruiting phrase-"AFIO can use a few good members."
Please note that the current brochure lists all the cur-
rent members of the Board of Directors and the Offi-
cers. Please use this current application and sign the
line of recommendation so that we may keep track of
our most active recruiter and acknowledge this member
at the convention.
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New Face, Same Line, Says
AFIO President Larkin
Speaking of the recent Soviet elevation of Cher-
nenko to succeed Andropov, General Richard X. Larkin,
former deputy director of the Defense Intelligence
Agency and president of AFIO, noted:
"We have a new face to contend with, a new pho-
tograph to put on the cover of Time magazine, but
we've got to remember that the personality is the
same-it's Lenin with whom we are dealing."
In a carefull analysis of Soviet succession, Larkin
speculated that Andropov died long before the official
announcement of the Soviet leader's death in February.
Of the view of some Kremlinolgists that Chernenko's
trip to East Germany in mid-January was to bolster
image and improve chances of replacing Andropov,
Larkin scoffed, "Don't you believe it. No one of those
sinister contenders would dare turn his back or leave
the seat of power, much less the country, for 15 min-
utes unless the issue had already been decided." To
support this view, he noted that on December 26, the
newspaper Kommunist published articles praising
Chernenko's speeches at a June 1983 event-not
Andropov's. "No editor, in that society, is going to
ignore what the big cheese said at a major political
meeting unless he knows what's really going on ... Six
weeks prior to the formal announcement, Andropov,
dead or alive, was no longer in power and Chernenko
was." [General Larkin's speech will appear in a forth-
coming issue of Reserve Officer magazine.]
Phillips Urges Assault on "Root Causes"
Today, when the United States deals with leftists
in Nicaragua and Central America, said AFIO founder
David Atlee Phillips, it is not dealing with just Marxists
or Cubans; it is a confrontation with the Soviet Union.
Wannell Warns of "Year of the Terrorist"
Terrorists may be tempted to strike at four events
this year, according to W. Raymond Wannell, former
assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion. They are, he said, the Democratic National Con-
vention in San Francisco, the Republican National
Convention in Dallas, the World's Fair in New Orleans
and the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
"There are such attractive targets this year, the
possibility is great for terrorism in 1984," he said. A
long-time observer of violent subversive groups operat-
ing in the United States, Wannell expressed concern
about a new type of terrorist-the Shiite Moslem who
takes his cues from Iran's Khomeini or Libya's Khadafy.
Those leaders do not have to speak directly to the terror-
ists, he said, they only need to criticize publicly some-
thing they want to be a target for attack by their
fanatical followers. With good intelligence and surveil-
lance, Wannell explained, the FBI might be able to pre-
vent most traditional terrorist attacks, but defense
against such fanatics is another matter. "We don't
understand the suicidal terrorist, really," he added.
The former FBI official had concern for the FBI's
inability to conduct intelligence operations against sus-
pect domestic organizations unless there is evidence
linking them to violent acts. He observed that several
organizations he personally considers subversive are
helping to organize mass demonstrations near the
upcoming national political conventions. Such groups,
Wannell said, have received a new lease on life, while
the FBI's hands remain tied. He expressed hope that
the future will see improved recognition and support in
Washington of the need for FBI efforts against the
terrorists.
The United States has only three options in Central
America, said the former chief of CIA's Latin America
Division: abandon ship, send in the marines to protect
US interests, or work for benefits that will materialize
only over the long term.
Acknowledging that there is much validity to the
argument that poverty and malnutrition are root causes
of problems there, Phillips endorsed the recommenda-
tions of the Kissinger Commission on Central America
which said the United States should stabilize the region
with some $8.4 billions in economic aid over a five year
period. Phillips stressed the importance of the Commis-
sion's findings as a bipartisan consensus of the Soviet
threat to Central America and of the need to target the
native problems of malnutrition and injustice.
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GNY Chapter Warned of News
Warp by Communist Bloc
by Ray Hoffman
Best--selling author and journalist Arnaud de Borch-
grave, blasting the news media for their "faulty memo-
ries with near-zero feedback," highlighted the February
meeting of the Greater New York Chapter of AFIO.
de Borchgrave, whose thinly-veiled fictional ac-
counts of Soviet and Cuban intelligence activity (The
Spike, and Monimbo, both co-authored with Robert
Moss) have dealt heavily with media disinformation,
claims the most influential editors and reporters in both
the printed and broadcast press have deliberately prac-
ticed "censorship by omission," the suppression of
"inconvenient facts" which clash with their pre-
conceived political notions.
de Borchgrave says Grenada offers a case-in-
point. He says the media have virtually ignored the
presence of thousands of documents, captured on
Grenada, detailing the extent of Soviet bloc involve-
ment. That so little has been written or broadcast about
these documents, de Borchgrave says, confirms the
brazen manipulation of the media, Congress and the
various Social Democratic parties of the West by "known
Cuban agents." The former senior Newsweek editor
also decries the almost unreported story of the Miami
grand jury investigation into the connection between
Cuba, the Spanish-language division of the Soviet KGB
and the growing drug trade operating out of south
Florida.
de Borchgrave also accuses most of his fellow
journalists of having what could end up being a "termi-
nal" case of naivete concerning the Soviet Union. He
says many reporters, even experienced ones, have
developed "very convenient" cases of amnesia when it
comes to dealing with news out of Moscow.
de Borchgrave says the widely-circulated "closet-
liberal" stories about Yuri Andropov, when Andropov
came to power, were only the most recent in a series of
inaccuracies. He cites stories of the time viewing Stalin
as a "moderate" versus the hard-liner Trotsky; that
Malenkov was also described as a moderate; that
Khrushchev was called "a pragmatist who would turn
inward;" that Brezhnev, too, was called a pragmatist;
and that Andropov, besides being a fan of Glenn Miller
and a connoisseur of good Scotch, was "desperate to
get out of Afghanistan."
The media, de Borchgrave says, have missed the
point that we're "dealing not with a man but with a
system; a group of people who consider themselves
militants in an historical movement that existed before
them, and will outlive them." He says the media have
also been taken in by giving too much credibility to
Communist sources, like the allegedly "independent"
Soviet commentator who appears frequently on the
ABC-TV program "Nightline." After all, reminds de
Borchgrave, it was Lenin who called telling the truth a
""petty bourgeois habit." He added, "I wonder if "Night-
line" host Ted Koppel knows that?"
[Ray Hoffman, a professional journalist with the Wall Street
Journal Radio Network, is a member of the Board of Directors
of the Greater New York Chapter. ]
TERRORIST THREAT REAL
SAYS AFIO'S BUCKELEW
This year raises major challenges to US efforts to
contain terrorism, says AFIO member Alvin H. Buckelew.
Writing in the February issue of Security Management
magazine, he warns that "prudence mandates sweep-
ing changes ... to enhance the ability of US law
enforcement agencies to cope with the anticipated
terrorism."
Buckelew, director of the security management
program at Golden State University, notes that "every-
one recognizes the peril surrounding the 1984 Olym-
pics," but observes that preparations to meet that
threat have been marked by "bureaucratic squabbling."
"The time left to resolve the Los Angeles problem and
to address the larger questions of what the US can do
to minimize the impact of coming domestic terrorism is
dangerously short," he warns.
The article also examines similar threats to the
national political conventions to be held this year, and
details the writer's views of what must be done to close
the gap.
Buckelew's comments on intelligence are particu-
larly noteworthy:
"In the intelligence field, as elsewhere, the US is
currently unable to bring all its resources to bear on the
terrorism problem. Even when key resources are avail-
able, the United States has a naive tendency to under-
estimate the determination of terrorists. The only safe
posture is one that assumes something worse than the
worst scenario is going to occur."
He makes a telling argument for increased coordina-
tion and cooperation between both American and for-
eign intelligence organizations and a sharing of terrorist
information domestically.
"During congressional hearings, the point was
made repeatedly that the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) restricts the flow of intelligence. Many state and
local law enforcement agencies with vital information
regarding terrorist groups refuse to share that informa-
tion with federal agencies for fear of seeing it made
public some day. FOIA needs to be amended by legisla-
tion to improve the flow of intelligence.
"Conversely, the federal government frequently
withholds intelligence from local law enforcement
agencies. The CIA has access to a great deal of informa-
tion regarding the personnel and methods of trans-
national terrorist groups, but is prohibited from conveying
it to state and local law enforcement authorities. New
methods ensuring the CIA-developed information is
transmitted to domestic security forces on a need-to-
know basis would place the US in a better position to
cope with terrorism within the nation," Buckelew urges.
[The issue containing Dr. Buckelew's article may
be ordered directly from Security Management, Suite
1200, 1655 North Ft. Myer Drive, Arlington, Va. 22209,
for $3.00 plus $1.50 for postage and handling.]
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Board Membership Rotation
(Second of a three-part series)
by Richard W. Bates,
Member of AFIO's Board of Directors
I am happy to report that the first of this three-part
series produced some results. I received a very thought-
ful letter from Jack Thomas of Washington, DC. John
Greaney received a short, but very helpful letter from
Quinn Matthewson of California. In addition to the letter
from Laurence Roberts of California which I mentioned
last time, Ray Wannall received a lengthy letter with a
number of helpful suggestions from Charles White of
Virginia. AFIO Headquarters has received an excellent
resolution on the subject from the Arizona chapter. All of
these have been made available to all members of the
Board of Directors. These communications, and other
material prepared for the Board, have been provided to
the Advisory Council. The Council has prepared a detailed
recommendation on the subject which has been distrib-
uted to all members of the Board. I understand that
there have also been six telephone calls. Such a show of
interest is gratifying.
The issue for discussion here is the current status
of the Board of Directors. The rotation of members is out
of kilter and we need to correct that. There are a number
of ways to do it, two of which I will discuss. But we also
need to make changes which will preclude it happening
again. The Articles of Incorporation as now written do
not provide the flexibility needed, and I will discuss that
also.
The membership of the current Board of Directors
is shown in the box. A count shows that eleven vacan-
cies occur in 1984, five in 1985 and four in 1986. This
year over half the Board could be replaced in a single
election. We have had some resignations. We have had
a death. We have elevated one member to the Honorary
Board. We have increased the size of the Board. There
may be other reasons. I understand that some of the
telephone calls received challenged my statement about
how we got to where we are, and perhaps I am wrong.
But that's history. Let's get on with correcting it.
Normally, a Board of Directors is constituted so that
there is an uneven number of members and so that an
equal number of vacancies will occur each year. The
objective of having staggered terms is to maintain conti-
nuity. For a three year term board, the total number
should ideally be 3, 9, 15 or 21. The size of the Board is
normally determined by the By-laws so that as the size
of the organization changes, the membership can easily
change the Board size to match.
The Articles of Incorporation establish the rotation
of one third of the board each year but allow only three
members to the Board. The Articles do recognize this
three member board as the initial board and the implica-
tion is that it will expand. The By-laws establish a board
of not less than 15 nor more than 20 members, but
there is no provision for increasing the number of Board
members in the Articles of Incorporation. We need to
change the Articles to remove the three-member limit
and to legalize the use of the By-laws to establish the
size of the Board. We need to change the By-laws to
limit the Board to a maximum of 21, rather than 20
members. Or, perhaps we don't need 21 members for
this organization. Perhaps the maximum number should
be fifteen or even fewer.
While the By-laws allow the Board to designate the
term of office of each member, there is no latitude in
designating a term other than three years. The Articles
of Incorporation are explicit in saying that subsequent to
the initial board, all directors will serve for three years.
We need to change the Articles to allow for terms other
than three years and to allow for new members to be
elected to fill unexpired terms.
With those changes there would be twelve vacan-
cies which could be filled at the 1984 Convention. With
the flexibility in designating terms of office allowed by
the changes, we could fill all twelve but limit the terms
of two to one year, three to two years, and the remaining
seven to the full three years. The individuals receiving
the greatest number of votes would serve the longest
terms. This arrangement, coupled with the authority
given the Board by the proposed changes, would estab-
lish a proper rotation of seven members each year
beginning at the 1985 convention and make it possible
for the Board to maintain that proper rotational balance.
Another option which the Board has discussed, and
which the Advisory Council recommends in their report,
is to fill only a portion of the vacancies. We could fill six
in 1984, bringing the total down to the minimum of
fifteen, then elect seven in each following year. This can
be done without changing the Articles or By-laws. This
solution will solve the balance problem, but it does not
provide a mechanism to keep the imbalance from occur-
ring again. Action to do that must be taken separately.
The Board has not yet decided on the number of
vacancies to fill at the next convention. Regardless of
how many vacancies are to be filled this year, I favor
changing the Articles and By-laws at the 1984 conven-
tion to allow for filling unexpired terms and for the Board
to designate some terms of less than three years. We
can then hold the election either way. We can fill all the
vacancies, or just a portion. But in either case future
Boards will be able to maintain a proper rotational
balance.
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NEW LIFE MEMBERS
Miss Shelley Lea Bennett
5818 Feagan
Houston, TX 77007
Mr. Conrad E. LaGueux
American Embassy, Manila
APO San Francisco, CA 96528
Mr. Norman S. Meese
P. O. Box 4324
Agana, GU 96910
Mr. James E. Nolan, Jr.
5112 Brookeway Drive
Bethesda, MD 20816
Mr. Horacio Ortiz
4170 Monaco Drive
Corpus Christi, TX 78411
Member
Year
Term
(alphabetically)
Elected
Expires
Richard W. Bates
1982
1985
John F. Blake
1982
1985
Vacant*
1981
1984
Ann Caracristi
1983
1986
John J. Davis
1981
1984
Lee Echols
1981
1984
Bobby R. Inman
1982
1985
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
1983
1984
Derek A. Lee
1981
1984
Walter L. Pforzheimer
1981
1984
David Atlee Phillips
1983
1986
Vacant *
1981
1984
Robert B. Pirie, Jr.
1981
1984
George Scatterday
1982
1985
John Anson Smith
1983
1986
Eugene F. Tighe
1981
1984
Louis W. Tordella
1981
1984
John S. Warner
1981
1984
W. Raymond Wannall
1981
1984
George R. Weinbrenner
1982
1985
*These two seats are vacant due to the resignation of Stanton V.
Phillips and Cecil Byrom.
There are a number of other minor issues which
could be included in any major overhaul of the Articles
and the By-laws and there is the other major issue -
voting procedures. I will discuss these issues in the third
article of this series. By that time we should have a
resolution from the Board which reflects all the sugges-
tions we have received from the membership and the
recommendations of the Advisory Council. That resolu-
tion will be printed, in full, in the next Periscope so that
when members arrive at the 1984 convention they will
be prepared to vote to accept or reject it.
From the
Executive
Director ...
The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors
has reviewed chapter organization and asked Board
member George Scatterday to prepare a Chapter Man-
ual that would assist in making the chapter procedures
uniform throughout the organization. At the present
time, procedures vary in how and when elections take
place in the chapters as well as for how long a term an
officer will serve. Some chapters have a program of
progression in which an individual is elected to first or
second vice president one year, move up and ultimately
serve as the chapter president in a succeeding year. We
would like to have suggestions from our members.
We still have a problem with chapters listing indi-
viduals as local members when they have been dropped
from the national membership.
It really helps to coordinate chapter activities; this
was done effectively with the Claire Sterling visits. We
look to the chapters as the means of expanding the
AFIO education program in a manner which best suits
their environment.
We sincerely hope that the chapters will take an
active role in the membership drive. Headquarters can
furnish zip-code sorted lists of members if chapters tell
us what zip-codes are included in their respective areas.
We hope all members will make an effort to recruit new
members for AFIO. Our current members are the best
sales people for the growth of the organization.
The second pamphlet of The Intelligence Profession
Series, "National Security and the First Amendment"
by John S. Warner, is now available. The text is invalu-
able for classroom discussion, and it is our feeling
schools and universities should be provided with the
pamphlets at no cost as part of the AFIO Education
Project. (The pamphlet is not designed for high school
audiences unless they are to be used by groups engaged
in debates.) Because of the specialized nature of the
information and to reduce costs, the pamphlet will not
be mass-mailed to all members. Rather, those desiring
single copies for themselves or multiple copies for aca-
demic use should write for them. We will send single
copies by first class mail; bulk mailings will be shipped
via third class.
If you want to take advantage of the Westview
Press offer for a 20% discount on George Constanti-
nides' Intelligence and Espionage, as offered in the last
News Commentary, the publisher asks that you identify
yourself as an AFIO member and include $1.50 for pos-
tage, for a total of $49.50. The book normally sells for
$60.00.
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On the Intelligence Bookshelf ...
Current books of interest to intelligence buffs and
watchers of the world scene. All reviews are by AFIO
members except when otherwise noted.
Golitsyn - "Indispensable Reading"
New Lies for Old, by Anatolyi Golitsyn, New York: Dodd, Mead and
Co., 1984. $19.95
The politics of our day confront men of conscience with hard and
sometimes dangerous choices and most severely senior officials of
governments in ideological conflict.
Mr. Golitsyn's defection from the elite of the KGB was a premedi-
tated political act of a high moral order. An act not lacking in great
courage, not to mention a significant lifelong sacrifice. He left the
Soviet Union because he had lost hope in the true purpose and integ-
rity of that government. He was moved by a conviction to warn the
West of the new uses which the communist countries had devised in
stealth for their improved political, intelligence and military potential
and of the new menacing dimensions which these developments
added to the Soviet threat. He knowingly accepted the risk that by
going to the West at the time he did, he might well suffer the fate of
the fabled messenger who brought bad news nobody wanted to hear.
Too much of what he had to tell us about the meaning of the
establishment of the Department of Disinformation within the KGB
and the reach and scope of the communist threat has been over-
looked in the blurred and distorted perspective of detente - the
communist manipulation of disinformation, the deployment of agents
of influence and controlled sources and channels through which
Western foreign policy has been trying to find its way to Africa, the
Middle East, Central America, Asia and Afghanistan.
In the sixties, Mr. Golitsyn, from what he knew from inside the
KGB, conveyed warnings to the western governments. He cited the
Soviet's determination to achieve military superiority; their desire to
obtain credits and loans from the West to finance their industrializa-
tion and military programs; the inherent dangers of detente as well as
the depth of the Soviet-bloc clandestine penetrations in the West.
Most of his views were greeted mistakenly with disbelief, even ridi-
cule at the time. In the two decades since, it is not without signifi-
cance that the grim events of which he gave warning have largely
come to pass. Indeed, they provide all too often the routine grist of the
day's news.
The warning did not go wholly unheard. The original contribution
he has made to the internal security of Western allies has been
recognized by them at the highest level of government.
General Sir John Hackett rightly identifies Anatolyi Golitsyn as,
"The most valuable defector ever to reach the West." I agree. The
judgment was one I reached myself some 23 years ago.
Now, for the first time, Mr. Golitsyn has set forth for wide public
scrutiny his knowledge and analysis of Soviet strategy and in particu-
lar the Soviet manipulations of disinformation as a masking element
in that strategy. His work is based on his unusual access to top secret
files, his wide association with Soviet personnel and the intimate
knowledge of KGB methodology which he acquired during his long
service in that organization.
"New Lies for Old" is indispensable reading for professionals in
intelligence and foreign policy. It is hardly less so for all individuals
concerned with the nature of the world struggle and not least among
them the many who yearn for a painless end to superpower
confrontation.
Mr. Golitsyn's revelations should also be notably instructive for
bankers and industrialists who still carry optimistically on their books
the substantial investments which they made in Soviet bloc
enterprises.
This work is not in itself deliberately controversial. It is certain to
make controversy, and this should be all to the good in the degree it
succeeds in throwing open a new door of debate in matters affecting
the fates of nations. We all stand to gain from that.
James Angleton
OSS Training Recalled
History of the Schools and Training Branch, Office of Strategic Ser-
vices, William L. Cassidy (Editor), San Francisco Kingfisher Press,
1983.$45.00
This is a recently declassified true story of the unbelievable job
done by General William Donovan and his well chosen aides in set-
ting up schools and training programs for a network of thousands of
secret operators throughout the world.
It is even more incredible when it is realized they had no sea-
soned veterans in their program, no experienced, skillful trainers to
form a nucleus for their schools. They did bring a few English Secret
Service men who gave them the expertise of their knowledge, but
most of the training was accomplished by Americans.
At the insistence of my old friend, Colonel Carl Eifler, I had
gathered up a group of ten men, most of whom I had known most of
my life, and we were preparing for a mission in the Far East. We went
through most of the schools and although a scant few of them
seemed a little amateurish to my boys, especially those who had
worked as Special Agents with Customs in New York and along the
Mexican border, all in all the program was exceptionally good.
The book brought out some nostalgic memories for me and I can
highly recommend it, both to OSS veterans and to anyone interested
in how a world-wide secret network was put together some 40 years
ago. The success of most of the operations proves the training pro-
grams paid off and, as AFIO member Bill Cassidy says on the dust-
cover, this volume is the only surviving record of the special training
programs which spawned the leaders of today's intelligence
community.
IN MEMORIAM
Mr. Paul M. Allen
Nevada City, CA
Miss Anita H. Bauckus
Falls Church, VA
Mr. Paul H. Gale
Longboat Key, FL
Dr. Otto E. Guthe
Washington, DC
Mr. Charles F. McCool
San Francisco, CA
Mr. James P. O'Connor
Arlington, VA
LTG W. R. Peers, USA(Ret.)
Kentfield, CA
LtCol Esther Cooke Settle
Arlington, VA
Mrs. Dorothy B. Shanley
Gaithersburg, MD
Col Edward G. Streidl, USAF(Ret.)
Elliottsburg, PA
Mr. Lee O. Teague
Oklahoma City, OK
Col Dan E. Teberg, USAF(Ret.)
Shelton, WA
Col William T. Walsh, USAF(Ret.)
Leesburg, FL
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The following list of new members since the last issue is incomplete in that
it does not include those who requested that their names be kept restricted.
BAMFORD, Mr. James
BUSSMANN, Mr. John W.
FINDLAY, Mrs. Jean
Two Brattle Street
Watrous Lane
Millbank
Cambridge, MA 02138
Woodbridge, CT 96525
Greenwood, VA 22943
BARRETT, Mr. John C.
CAMPBELL, Mrs. Gretchen A.
FLA HAVHAN, Mr. Holland S.
6701 Bracken Court
6701 Corner Lane
5 Sandstone Drive
Springfield, VA 22152
McLean, VA 22101
Monument, CO 80132
BENNETT, CW4 Clarence E.
CANE, Mr. Joseph J.
FLINT, Mr. John W.
3264 Alden Drive
501 Fairhill Drive
2 Charlton Street, #15D
Parma, OH 44134
Silver Spring, MD 20904
New York, NY 10014
BENNETT, Miss Shelley Lea
CAVANAUGH, Mr. Dennis H.
FOSSETT, LTC John L.,
5818 Feagan
5300 Columbia Pike, //508
USA(Ret.)
Houston, TX 77007
Arlington, VA 22204
356 S.W. Creel Road
Palm Bay, FL 32905
BIERBACH, Mr. William E.
CHAFFIN, Mr. C. Wayne
3823 S. Argonne Street
6714 Northport
GASS, CAPT Shelby C., Jr.,
Aurora, CO 80013
Dallas, TX 75230
USN(Ret.)
4085 Tronjo Road
BILLINGSLEY, RADM Edward B.,
CHAPPEL, LTC Bob, USA(Ret.)
Pensacola, FL 32503
USN(Ret.)
2415 Ala Wai Blvd., #801
711 Grand Circle
Honolulu, HI 96815
GAST, Rev. William L.
Temple Terrace, FL 33617
5230 Burgess Road
CLARK, Mr. Frank "Pete" P.
Colorado Springs, CO 80908
BLAINE, Mr. Robert M., Jr.
Star Route 3, Box 3-T
1502 Augusta, Suite 240
Techachapi, CA 93561
GREGONIS, Mr. Albert G.
Houston, TX 77057
C/o 114 Keehner Avenue
CONLEY, LTC Richard H.,
Roseville, CA 95678
BLAKE, Mrs. Cochran
USA(Ret.)
1500 S. Fern Street, #618
RD 1, Box 415
GURLEY, Mr. Joseph E.
Arlington, VA 22202
Halifax, PA 17032
245 Gypsy Lane
Youngstown, OH 44504
BLOUNT, Mr. Bobby R.
COONEY, Mr. Edward
2609 Shenandoah Valley Drive
P.O. Box 67
GUTHRIE, MG John S., (Pet.)
Little Rock, AR 72212
Bellevue, NE 58005
1065 Gulfshore Blvd. N., //304
Naples, FL 33940
BOWMAN, Mrs. Margaret N.C.
COOPER, Mr. Michael L.
8228 McClelland Place
P.O. Box 70373
HARROLL, Mr. Benjamin R.
Alexandria, VA 22309
Washington, DC 20088
5905 Bark Street
San Diego, CA 92105
BOYLE, Mr. Walter A.
CROWLEY, Mr. Cameron R.
2950 Peralta Oaks Drive
1515 Roanwood Drive
HART, Mr. William J.
Oakland, CA 94605
Houston, TX 77090
11 Old Lowell Road
Westford, MA 01886
BRADFORD, Mr. Mark
da CRUZ, Mr. Francis F.
71 E. Royal Oaks Tower
5927 Oakdale Road
HAYNES, Mr. Jeri C.
Nashville, TN 37205
McLean, VA 22101
1715 Kirkwood
Houston, TX 77077
BRADLEY, Mr. William
DALY, Mr. John L.
6413 Wilcox Court
320 S. 12th Street, //2E
HINDS, CAPT Charles D.,
Alexandria, VA 22310
Philadelphia, PA 19107
USN(Ret.)
4412 Hermitage Road
BRAM, Mr. Bert
DAVIS, Mr. Fred L.
Virginia Beach, VA 23455
2616 Spencer Road
1532 Silver Strand Circle
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Palatine, IL 60074
HODGE, Ms. Betty G.
2885 Gulfshore Blvd. N., #203
BREEN, LTC Thomas A.,
DIMODICA, Mr. Mark Robert
Naples, FL 339940
USA(Ret.)
P. O. Box 11175
9530 E. Grand Avenue
Arlington, VA 22210
HOECHTEN, Dr. Harry V.
Englewood, CO 80111
1205 Victoria Drive
DOCTOR, Mr. Michael S.
Nacogdoches, TX 75961
BRENNAN, Miss Elinor L.
7509 88th Avenue, SW
3154 Siron Street
Tacoma, WA 98498
JACOBSEN, Mr. Henning E.
Falls Church, VA 22042
10633 Jonathan Drive
ELOW, Mr. Clifford L.
Orlando, FL 32817
BURKE, Mr. Edmond J.
10700 Fondren Road, #306
416 Commonwealth Avenue, #204
Houston, TX 77096
JOHANNESSEN, Mr. John E.
Boston, MA 02215
Box 315, 52 Fairway Drive
FEHL, Mr. Fred C.
Grantham, NH 03753
P. O. Box 2521
Houston, TX 77001
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JOHNSON, Mr. Thomas L.
McCABE, Mr. Ward
SHADER, Mr. Thomas Patrick
P. O. Box 817
935 Eden Avenue
3702 W. 67th Place
Golden, CO 80402
San Jose, CA 95117
Chicago, IL 60629
JORDAN, Mr. Joe L.
McCANN, Mr. J. Patrick
SHIMKUS, LtCol Albina H.
910 Westheimer Road
4125 West End Road, #3
(Sochin), USAF (Ret.)
Houston, TX 77006
Cocoa Beach, FL 32931
18 Page Farm Road
Sherborn, MA 01770
JUAREZ, CAPT Robert,
McWADE, MAJ Henry A., USAR
USN(Ret.)
119 Princeton Avenue
SMITH, BrigGen Willard W.
3217 Wynford Drive
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
,
USAF(Ret.)
Fairfax, VA 22031
93B Maro Street
MOTE, COL Marlin E.
Whispering Pines, NC 28327
KALITKA, COL Peter F.,
P. O. Box 35637
USA(Ret.)
Houston, TX 77235
SUTTON, Mr. Walter D., Jr.
2077 Amberjack Court
799 Pinellas Point Drive, S.
Reston, VA 22091
NELSON, Mr. Richard H.
St. Petersburg, FL 33705
802 Pin Oak Lane
KAUFMANN, Mr. Walter Jackson
Arlingtron, TX 76012
TAYLOR, Col Cortlandt M.
I1 Ruxview Court, /302
,
USAF(Ret.)
Ruxton, MD 21204
NOLAN, Mr. James E., Jr.
5915 Munson Court
5112 Brookeway Drive
Falls Church, VA 22041
KING, LtCol Raymond A.
Bethesda, MD 20816
2885 Lee Hill Drive
Boulder, CO 80302
OBATA, LTC Benjamin T.,
TWILLMAN, Mr. Donald J.
USA(Ret.)
14412 Oakvale Street
KLAGER, Mr. Roy B., Jr.
5317 Atlee Place
Rockville, MD 20853
711 Flamingo Drive
Springfield, VA 22151
Apllo Beach, FL 33570
WARNER, Mr. Chester D.
OELSCHIG, LTC Carl H.,
2226 Fulham Court
KLEIN, Mr. Irving
USA(Ret.)
Houston, TX 77063
11019 Bellbrook
2742 Picardy Place
Houston, TX 77096
Charlotte, NC 28209
WEBB, Mr. Thomas G.
560 Blackhowk Court
KOCZAK, Mr. Stephen A.
OLECK, Mr. Howard L.
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
2932 Macomb Street, N.W.
1440 Sea Gull Drive, So.
Washington, DC 20008
St. Petersburg, FL 33707
WEISS, LtCol James E.,
USAF(Ret.)
KOSLASKY, Mr. Earnest E.
O'NEILL, Mr. Paul J.
3 Paradise Point
5051 Wake Robin
218 Albi Road, #3
Yorktown, VA 23692
Menton, OH 44060
Naples, FL 33962
WELBORN, Mr. James F.
LANCER, COL Thomas F.,
ORTIZ, Mr. Horacio
1589 Colonial Blvd.
USA(Ret.)
4170 Monaco Drive
Ft. Myers, FL 33901
500 H Street, S.W.
Corpus Christi, TX 78411
Washington, DC 20024
WELKOM, LtCol Jerome G.,
OWENS, Mr. George A.
USAF(Ret.)
LEFF, Mr. Barry J.
835 5th Avenue, East
4 Cambridge Ct.
2760 Belmont Canyon Road
Kalispell, MT 59901
Buffalo Grove, IL 60090
Belmont, CA 94002
PATTAKOS, COL Arion N.,
WILKE, Ms. Susan R.
LONG, Mr. Chester (Chic) H.
USA(Ret.)
4513 Chesswick Drive
46 Country Club Road
4216 Knowles Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Cocoa Beach, FL 32931
Kensington, MD 20895
WIMPRESS, Dr. Duncan
LUSBY, Mr. David S.
ROBERTS, Mr. John P.
P. O. Box 28147
12719 Two Farm Drive
404 Townsend Place
San Antonio, TX 78284
Silver Spring, MD 20904
Atlanta, GA 30327
WINSETT, Mr. Nolan 0., Jr.
MADDOX, Mr. Dexter A.
ROESELER, Mr. Herbert W.
1742 S. Krameria Way
3970 Mistral Drive
179 Pascack Avenue
Denver, CO 80224
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
Emerson, NJ 07630
WRIGHT, Mr. John H.
MALEY, MAJ Lucien P., USA
SAENZ, Mr. Adolph B.
Rt. 1
(Ret.)
1508 AG Place
Arp, TX 75750
373 N. E. Live Oak Street
Rio Rancho, NM 87124
Palm Bay, FL 32905
YIZAR, Mr. Marvin
SAYLE, Mr. Edward F.
1608 Stokes Avenue SW
MALONE, Mr. Charles J.
25 22 N. Upland Street
Atlanta, GA 30310
233 W. 11th Street
Arlington, VA 22207
Deer Park, NY 11729
ZINK, Mr. Philip C.
200 Margaret Lane
Orange, CT 06477
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Media Monitor Taplin
Scores One for Truth
Media distortion and misinterpretation sometimes
seem to be of epidemic proportions. And, many AFIO
members are among the first to point it out.
Such was the case of Winn L. Taplin of Stowe,
Vermont, after viewing the TV interview of a medical
student returned recently from Grenada. In a letter to
the station, Taplin challenged the interviewer's bias:
"She was quite obviously taking an advocacy role -
clearly attempting to lead her subject to condemn the
American action in Grenada."
He was pleasantly surprised to hear from the
reporter, Sara Matthiessen of WCAX-TV. She wrote, "I
agree with your assessment of the piece I did on Mr.
Giannelli. Though I was not, in fact, playing an advo-
cacy role, it certainly seemed that way."
"Mr. Giannelli and I had spoken on the telephone
the day before the interview. In that conversation he
was very assertive and articulate about his feeling that
the invasion was justified. The questions I formulated
were based on that conversation. My goal was a bal-
anced view, in fact the reverse of the end product: Mr.
Giannelli's unalloyed approval of the invasion vs. some
difficult questions challenging that view. As sometimes
happens, however, his assertiveness died under the
lights of the camera. The result was the impression you
quite rightly came away with, that I was trying to force
his hand."
The reporter told Taplin that she spotted the prob-
lem when the interview was aired, and edited the piece
for subsequent broadcasts.
OFF-THE-WIRE: News in Brief
Intelligence Assessed
Arnold Beichman, a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, in
a report assessing the state of U.S. intelligence, credits DCI William
J. Casey with having "done the best job of any CIA director in the
past decade." According to Beichman, "Under Casey, a number of
important steps to rebuild U.S. intelligence have been undertaken
under the continuing scrutiny of two congressional select commit-
tees on intelligence ..." Among the improvements says the writer:
increased funding of intelligence, a return to covert action, an
increase in the number of national estimates sent to intelligence
consumers, returned emphasis on human intelligence resources,
and a rebuilding of "perhaps the most important ingredient in the
intelligence schema-counterintelligence."
Beichman has harsh words for Casey's predecessor. He charges
that former DCI Stansfield Turner "had a low opinion of the agency
he was assigned to administer" with the result that "the United
States and its allies paid the price of poor intelligence, and, most
important, insufficient and even unreliable national estimates ..."
Beichman was critical also of the "revolving door" sequence of
appointments of CIA directors Colby, Schlesinger and Bush, which
he views as "hardly calculated to restore confidence within the
organization." And, of the counterintelligence issue: "The various
congressional investigations of CIA and their repercussions within
CIA led to a wholesale dismantling of Cl a decade ago. Whether or
not Cl has been successfully rebuilt, no one can really know-
probably not even Casey himself-but at least Cl reconstruction is
under way.-
But, Beichman is restrained in measuring the long-term effect
of Casey's efforts. "Whether Mr. Casey will ultimately succeed in
leaving an imprint is questionable. Except for Mr. Casey and a few
others he himself brought in, there have been few changes at the
top of the intelligence hierarchy "
Critic Views Intelligence
Prof. Harry Howe Ranson of Vanderbilt University, a member of
AFIO, offered a contrasting assessment in a book review published
in the New York Times recently:
"My own view is that the KGB and the CIA have escalated their
secret operations-the CIA often aping its adversary-in an action-
counteractions process that has overpopulated the world with secret
agents. Operations on both sides often appear to be pointless and
self-defeating. And the world is less safe as malignant fears have
been engendered. If the full story could be known, I believe that
many of these secret activities would seem not tales of moral blind-
ness or personal tragedy, but rather scripts for Marx Brothers
movies.
Protecting Sources and Methods
The American Historical Association, which has taken a strong
stand on openness and access to documentary materials, has
adopted a resolution urging that security classification not be permit-
ted beyond 20 years, "except for documents pertaining to cryptology,
intelligence sources and methods and agent operations in regard to
which the classification period should not exceed forty years."
In related matters, AHA also urged that implementation of
National Security Decision Direction 84 be blocked. It claims that a
lifetime publication review obligation for those with access to Sensi-
tive Compartmented Information (SCI) is a "dangerous threat to his-
torians," and would "choke off the flow of information so vital to an
understanding of the nation's history." The historical group has also
urged that all records seized by military intelligence on Grenada "be
temporarily transferred from all U.S. government agencies now hold-
ing them to the National Archives ... pending their return to
Grenada."
Grenada and the Bay Of Pigs
Veteran journalist Charles J. V. Murphy, assessing the role of
the president as commander-in-chief in a cold war situation, has
compared U.S. performance in both the Bay of Pigs and Grenada
episodes. Writing recently in the Security and Intelligence Fund
newsletter, Situation Report, he quoted The Economist of London:
"A great power knows that it is dangerous to be seen to flinch
because its assorted enemies around the world take heart and its
friends' knees knock," and the influential magazine's crediting of the
President with having "rejected the flinch and moved in to achieve a
clearly identified and achievable objective" in Grenada.
Citing his own reportorial experiences at the time of the Bay of
Pigs, Murphy noted, "The trouble at the Bay of Pigs was that the
libretto which the Kennedy men wrote for their Camelot did not call
for anyone to reach for Excalibur.". According to Murphy, "a strong
justification for intervention existed. U.S. intelligence possessed
proof that Moscow was moving arms and advisers, both militarily
and ideologically, into Cuba," but that the President "was rendered
timid at the knife's edge of decision by a fear of the criticism from
other American states, as well as our more sensitive allies, which
the exposure of the United States' hand was certain to bring."
DeBorchgrave Warns of Cuban Terror
Writer-correspondent Arnaud DeBorchgrave warned a White
House audience recently that the Cuban intelligence service "has
built up some formidable assets in the form of front groups" in the
United States, and is conducting an "intense active measures cam-
paign" to influence public opinion against U.S. foreign policy, espe-
cially toward Central America. "The DGI," he said, "regards internal
security in the U.S. as a joke ... Their agents roam the country
freely, organizing cells and campaigns against U.S. domestic and
foreign policies with total impunity."
He cautioned the White House Outreach Working Group on
Central America that Cuban successes have not been limited solely
to disinformation campaigns. Citing his debriefing of a Cuban DGI
defector, he warned "The DGI has been gradually putting into place
in the U.S. a terrorist infrastructure" to foment riots and chaos.
Sadly, the Cubans are not without support here, DeBorchgrave
noted, adding that political leaders and journalists have accepted
Cuban disinformation, failing to recognize its Soviet and Cuban ori-
gins. He also described the case of Rolando Salup, a third secretary
to the Cuban mission at the UN who was declared personal non
grata last year. Salup, DeBorchgrave said, flew to Washington at
least once a week to "avail himself of the offices of a congressman
on Capitol Hill as a 'safe house' for meetings with his American
contacts and recruited agents."
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AFIO Chapter Activities
California
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. Newly-elected
chapter officers are: Roger E. McCarthy, president; Col.
Edward J. Rudka, SMR, vice president (programs);
Harold 0. Christensen, vice president (membership); Lt.
Janet Aitken, USNR (ret), secretary; and Ricardo
Alcantar, treasurer. The chapter's January meeting, co-
sponsored by ASIS and the SFPD Eight Ball, featured
author-journalist Claire Sterling.
San Diego Chapter. Howard L. Abrams, special
agent in charge, Naval Investigative Service, was guest
speaker at the February meeting. He explained the
general mission of the 850 NIS agents stationed at 140
posts around the world, and discussed the San Diego
units recent investigations of espionage, fraud and nar-
cotics (400 narcotics arrests in the last year alone). The
March meeting featured a visit to the USS Counstella-
tion. The chapter's speakers' program is particularly
active. So far this year, Lee Echols has given five talks,
Wally Driver has spoken before three groups on terror-
ism, and Joe Elliot has also joined the speakers' circuit.
The chapter is also considering affiliate membership for
young people, possibly fostering interest in intelligence
careers.
Satellite Chapter. The chapter sponsored an infor-
mation and membership booth at the annual Retirees
Day held in March at Patrick Air Force Base, providing
an AFIO presence to an audience estimated at 7,000.
Recently elected as officers were: Col. Charles D. Gray
(USMC-Ret), president; Col. Charles T. Williamson
(USMC-Ret), vice president; Mrs. Eileen W. Gould,
secretary. Elected to the board of directors were Ray-
mond J. Brennan, Col. Stone Christopher (USAF-Ret),
James M. Griffin, and Col. Paul A. III (AUS-Ret).
Diamond Head Chapter. Following last year's
successful luncheon meeting with the Pacific and
Asian Affairs Council, at which Ambassador Vernon A.
Walters, as expected, captured the hearts and minds of
the audience, the chapter is looking for more dignitaries
"just passing through" who might be available. (Con-
tact chapter secretary-treasurer Ted Beidleman at
Wackenhut of Hawaii, 680 Ala Moana Blvd., Suite 301,
Honolulu 98813, with any leads.) For its Winter meet-
ing in February, the guest speaker was William C. Ervin,
the FBI's local Special Agent in charge, who spoke on
the role of the FBI in the intelligence community. Thirty
to forty members participate actively in chapter events.
Western Montana Chapter
The chapter shared its April meeting with guests
from the Western Montana Military Officers' Associa-
tion, and heard Walt Sedoff describe the various aspects
of interrogation of Soviet defectors. The chapter has
agreed to purchase a copy of George Constantinides'
Chapter Spotlight
GULF COAST CHAPTER
9619 Yupondale Street
Houston, Texas 77080
[phone]
Fred Rodell
Chapter
President
The Gulf Coast Chapter, of which Fred Rodell
is president, has been extremely active in spon-
soring education programs which generate con-
siderable and favorable press coverage, including
TV. One program, for example, featured the
Ambassador to the US from El Salvador, and its
February meeting hosting author Claire Sterling
at the Westin Galleria Hotel had over 400 in
attendance. Her speech captured a seven-minute
segment on ABC News in Houston, and resulted
in many phone calls commending the effort.
Chapter officers have accepted speaking
engagements before several Rotary Clubs and
The Houstonian, a highly influential community
group, and is working with Texas A&M University
to sponsor a seminar on terrorism. The chapter
has also taken on the task of seeking private sec-
tor funding for the event, and has already received
favorable response to invitations from the advisor
on terrorism to the President of France, Scotland
Yard and the Director General of Police, Quebec.
The chapter in on record as offering to spon-
sor a future AFIO national convention.
[Chapters are invited to submit "focus" summar-
ies of their activities; this was culled from several
Gulf Coast Chapter reports.]
intelligence bibliography for presentation to the Univer-
sity of Montana Library, and announces that AFIO
wives will be invited to the summer meeting to hear
Maj. Gen. Jim Duffy, state Adjutant General, describe
the reorganization and revitalization of the Montana
State Militia.
The chapter notes that Walt Sedoff is scheduled to
deliver five talks in one day to the senior class of the
largest high school in Ravalli County. According to Dick
Grant, AFIO chairman in Montana, Walt's presenta-
tions on the need to protect our nation's intelligence
capabilities are "going over big here in Western
Montana."
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Notes from the Board Room
Thirteen of the 18 members were present, with
those absent represented by proxy, at the AFIO Board of
Directors meeting held April 9, 1984, at the Bolling AFB
Officers' Club.
The chief topics discussed were the 1984 Conven-
tion and the proposed changes in procedures for elect-
ing the Board of Directors.
Col. Bruce Baumgardner (USAF-Ret) chairman of
the convention committee, briefed the Board on the
status of plans for the 1984 Convention (see elsewhere
in this issue), noting that negotiations on rooms, meet-
ing facilities, etc., had been firmed up and a contract
signed with the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Rockville, Maryland.
Capt. Richard Bates (USN-Ret) discussed the pro-
posed changes in election procedures, taking into con-
sideration the recommendations of the Task Force
under Col. Robert Roth (USA-Ret) which had been sent
to Board members before the meeting for their review.
Capt. Bates stated that changes in the Articles of Incor-
poration, Resolutions and changes in the By-laws may
be required to accomplish this. The Board designated
the Executive Committee as the "implementing com-
mittee" to prepare a course of action for consideration
and decision at the next Board meeting, to be held June
14, 1984, with subsequent announcement to the
membership in the next Periscope. The "implementing
committee" is to take under consideration recommen-
dations made by the Task Force as well as individual
members.
It was also announced that the second pamphlet in
the Intelligence Profession Series, "National Security
and the First Amendment," by John S. Warner, is at the
printer and would be available in about three weeks.
The meeting adjourned at 1600 hours. Submitted by
Secretary, Charlotta P. Engrav.
Greater New York Chapter. Veteran journalist
Arnaud DeBorchgrave delivered his forthright message
about Soviet disinformation to over 100 persons at the
February meeting. Bill Hood has assumed the presi-
dency of the chapter and Derek Lee has agreed to serve
as first vice president. Ralph Vollono serves as secretary.
Pennsylvania
Keystone Chapter. Newly elected as officers at
the chapter's February meeting are: Terry Foster, presi-
dent; Pat Stingley, vice president; and William J. Fry as
secretary-treasurer. Members of the board of directors
are Randy Welch, Dale Hanka, Morris Ragus and
Sammy Snider.
DONATIONS
CAPT Albert Benjamin, USNR(Ret.)
Charlottesville, VA
Mr. Henry L. Bermanis
Audubon, PA
Ms. Janet E. Boley
Washington, DC
Mr. John W. Bussmann
Woodbridge, CT
Mr. Robert R. Davis
Oakton, VA
CAPT Robert A. Dowd, USN(Ret.)
Longboat Key, FL
Mr. Mike S. Gonakis
Euclid, OH
Mr. Derek A. Lee
New York, NY
Mr. Newton S. Miler
Placitas, NM
San Diego Chapter, AFIO
San Diego, CA
Mr. Michie F. Tilley
Greenville, TX
AFIO Convention Slated
for October 19-20
Col. Bruce K. Baumgardner (USAF-Ret), chairman
of the convention committee, has announced that the
Crowne Plaza, a Holiday Inn in Rockville, Md., has been
selected as the site of AFIO's 10th Annual Convention,
to be held October 19 and 20, 1984. According to
Baumgardner, he and his committee are planning to
make the tenth anniversary event the biggest and best
ever, with full details to be published in the next issue
of Periscope and in special bulletins.
Members of the convention committee are pleased
to note that after examining several proposed meeting
facilities, they succeeded in securing most reasonable
meal prices and favorable room rates ($55 for a single
or double) at the new luxury hotel.
MR,
Lone Star Chapter. At its March meeting, held at
the Fort Sam Houston Officers' Club, the chapter
elected its new officers for the 1984-85 year: Stanley
D. Sagan, president; Joel E. Siskovic, vice president;
and William J. Hammond, secretary-treasurer. AFIO
member George Kiefer gave new insights in a talk
about the Fourth Amendment.
Mark Flag Day on Calendar
ft
The Summer meeting of AFIO will be held on
Flag Day, June 14th, at the Bolling AFB Officers'Pq
Club. Further information will be provided in thek
?- meeting announcement to be mailed soon.
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From The President's Desk:
Ours is a heterogenous Association whose charm
is in the diversity and independent thought of its
members, and whose success rests on the relentless,
apolitical, objective championing of the national need
for a competent intelligence capability. The Board of
Directors has the serious responsibility of guiding and
directing the effort of the group from one convention to
the next, and they weigh these responsibilities most
heavily. Please give serious attention to the current
articles on our election process. Much study and effort
has been made to select a system which is acceptable
to all, which is administratable, timely, economical, and
which conforms to our founding Articles. Excellent
suggestions have been made from conventions' floors
and by letter; a Task Force from the former Advisory
Council has exhaustively examined alternatives; Dick
Bates is doing yeoman (!) work in sifting out the best
solution. It's up to you to make it work.
This Easter finds your Capitol boiling with accusa-
tions over the CIA role in Nicaragua's coastal waters.
Somehow lost in the emotion and the headlines is a
single sorry fact, the consequences of which I believe
greatly outweigh the good or evil of the mining or the
extent of our participation. Were not the details of a
highly classified operation consciously (intentionally?)
leaked by a government official who has sworn to
uphold secrecy, and only by virtue of his oath was he
privy to the information he compromised? Pros and
cons of the operation aside, and leaving the decision on
the appropriate role of the Agency in covert operations
to those with the authority to act and the responsibility
to answer for their actions, this naked violation of con-
fidentially must be considered a most serious obstacle
to the essential trust that must prevail between the
Intelligence Community and the Congressional Over-
sight Committees. Whatever the motivation, if these
travesties of sacred trust continue, oversight cannot,
will not work.
The public dissection of our innermost secrets
must bring joy to the aging occupants of the Kremlin.
Certainly they have little else in which to find comfort.
Chernenko, having recently wrestled to himself the
third crown, of Presidency, has wasted no time in de-
emphasizing the annoying purge on white-collar crime,
Senate Intelligence Committee
Treaty Violation Briefing
Included With This Issue
The seemingly endless tabulation of Soviet violations and cir-
cumventions of arms control treaties drew the attention of the U.S.
Senate recently. In a lengthy briefing of both classified and unclassi-
fied evidence and analysis, the Senate Select Committee on Intelli-
gence gave the issue frightening perspective, noting that U.S.
charges against the Soviets "can be demonstrated with hard and
often conclusive evidence. Soviet explanations have been incom-
plete, and often grossly misleading. And the Soviets have refused to
stop their most flagrant SALT violations."
The sensitivity of the intelligence information on which the
committee's findings are based was emphasized by a rare closed
session of the Congress, lasting almost two hours, which followed
the unclassified presentation.
A reprint of the important public briefing is included with this
bulletin, courtesy of the committee.
for which his colleagues are obviously relieved. Un-
changed is their complete intransigence on arms con-
trol, bleating to the world that the status quo ante
(Soviets-360; NATO-0) must be re-established before
talks will continue.
It's time for them to try a major diversion or distrac-
tion, since they haven't been able to shake off the
blame for walking away from the negotiating table. May
our active colleagues be alert!
We welcome with this edition the new editor of
Periscope, Ed Sayle, and express our sincere apprecia-
tion for the countless hours of professional work that
Harris Greene has devoted. Harris has greatly improved
the quality of our publication (members' opinion as well
as mine) and presents a fine challenge to Ed to con-
tinue the upgrade. Additionally, the entire membership
owes thanks to the Advisory Council whose missions
have now been performed. They filled a critical need in
the growth of our Association, worked unselfishly and
arduously on the important areas they addressed, and
are responsible for many of the ideas which have now
been incorporated into practice.
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A new publication, soon to be marketed world-wide,
is seeking correspondents/reporters on a full or part-
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middle east and Central-South America experience. A
knowledge of and experience with counter-terrorist
activity and political and economic problems is desir-
able. To apply, send a resume and a letter stating your
desires, to: Jack E. Stephenson, P.O. Box 3644, Boze-
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PERISCOPE is published quarterly by the Association of
Former Intelligence Officers, McLean Office Building,
6723 Whittier Ave., Suite 303A, McLean, VA 22101.
Phone[phone].
Officers of AFIO are:
Maj. Gen. Richard X. Larkin, USA(Ret.) ..... President
Robert D. Brown, Jr .................. Vice President
Robert J. Novak ......................... Treasurer
Charlotta P. Engrav ...................... Secretary
John K. Greaney ................. Executive Director
Edward F. Sayle ............... Editor of PERISCOPE
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