BLAKE DENOUNCES OVERKILL AFIO OPPOSES INTELLIGENCE CHARTER BILL BEFORE CONGRESS
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Blake Denounces Overkill
AFIO Opposes Intelligence Charter Bill Before Congress
In appearances before the Senate Intelligence Committee on 25 March 1980 and the House Intelligence Committee
on 27 March, AFIO spokesmen John F. Blake, our President, and John S. Warner, Legal Adviser, presented
testimony reflecting AFIO's detailed analysis of the proposed "National Intelligence Act of 1980." Both houses are
holding hearings on the identical bill, the Senate version identified as S. 2284 and the House version as H.R. 6588.
This bill, 172 pages in length, is designed by its authors to "authorize the intelligence system of the United States by
the establishment of a statutory basis for the national intelligence activities of the United States, and for other
purposes." It represents a joint effort of the Administration and the Senate Intelligence Committee, and its principal
sponsor is Senator Walter D. Huddleston, Democrat of Kentucky. Although President Carter has given his general
endorsement to the bill, both he as well as Administration witnesses have identified several areas of serious
disagreement.
The statement read by Blake was based on the
identification of six critical issues and an AFIO position
on each of them. On the matter of the desirability of
charters, the statement pointed out that the C.I.A. has
had a statutory charter since 1947. In lieu of the bill's
approach to repeal existing legislation and then reenact
new laws, AFIO urged that the more normal and proper
course of action would be to amend existing legislation
to accomplish what changes may be necessary. Blake
made clear that AFIO accepts the principle of charters
for intelligence entities but went on to say that they
"should not be so detailed and precise as to foreclose
prudent flexibility in meeting unforeseen future
situations."
The second point discussed by Blake was the
so-called constitutional issue, which arises in cases of
serious disagreement between the Administration and
the Congress. One aspect concerns "prior," as opposed
to the current statutory standard of "timely," access of
the Committees to "all" information in the possession
of the intelligence agencies. AFIO, as well as the
Administration, argued that under certain extremely
sensitive, emergency, or dangerous situations, the right
must be reserved to the President to initiate special
activities before notifying the Congress. On the matter
of access to "all" information, it was pointed out that
this would include the names of agents, a matter which
the Congress has historically avoided. It was further
pointed out that artfully crafted language recognizing
the unique responsibilities of both the Executive and the
Legislative Branches could avoid a constitutional
confrontation.
The third issue discussed was the use of intrusive
surveillance techniques without doing violence to the
See Blake on page 2
AFIO'S New Citation
"For Distinguished Service"
AFIO now has a tangible form of recognition for
those individuals who have and continue to
contribute in many ways to the growth and success
of our organization. The award, identified as a
"Citation For Distinguished Service", is modeled
along the lines of the Membership Certificate and
bears the wording "in grateful acknowledgment of
loyal and outstanding service". The Citations will be
signed by both the Chairman of the Board and the
President.
The presentations of the new Citation were made
at the AFIO quarterly lunch held at the Fort Myer
Officers Club on 21 March 1980. In bestowing the
initial award on David Atlee Phillips, John Blake,
AFIO President, stated that "It was an honor and a
pleasure to award the first 'AFIO Citation For
Distinguished Service' to the Founding Father and
first President of AFIO. No more deserving recipient
exists for the initial presentation of this Citation
than Dave Phillips". Blake also presented a Citation
to Doctor Edward L. R. Elson, Chaplain of the
United States Senate, for his "faithful and
inspirational participation" in.AFIO functions during
the history of the organization.
It is planned that additional Citations will be
awarded at future AFIO public functions to those
whose services have contributed greatly to the
advancement of AFIO.
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A Periscope Comment
The High Price of First Amendment Absolutism
Popular perception of national needs and priorities in
foreign affairs clearly has begun to change under the
pressure of events abroad. Along with that, the image
of national intelligence, badly tarnished in the
post-Watergate atmosphere marked by allegations,
investigations and almost unbridled disclosure, is
coming into better focus. By reason as well as instinct,
more and more people are recognizing effective
intelligence as a vital link in the national armor, and they
evidently don't think this is the time for weak links or
national neglect, however benign. As we have seen the
shift in the national climate, so have most of our
representatives in the Congress and observers outside
the government, including many who find it unwel-
come. What we in AFIO view as a necessary, even
overdue, adjustment in a nation intent on surviving in a
perilous age is often treated by self-styled civil
libertarians as a wave of perversity endangering
safeguards against intelligence trespasses and, in
particular, threatening the people's inalienable right to
know and to tell.
There is no need in this space for a systematic review
of the argumentation used by First Amendment
absolutists in opposition to legislative, administrative
and legal challenges to their precepts. We merely note
the common denominator: the right to make allegations
and to reveal, unearth and spread information - true or
not, secret or not, damaging or not, contractually
proscribed or not - must not be inhibited, nor must its
exercise be discouraged; for even an iota of legal
proscription, or a "chill" on publicity, would be an
intolerable threat to our society.
We were treated to examples of this absolutist
approach during recent Congressional committee
hearings on the so-called Intelligence Identities Pro-
tection Act, a narrowly drawn piece of legislation aimed
solely at stopping the malicious disclosure of the names
of individuals whose work on behalf of the nation, often
undertaken at great risk, depends on anonymity. The
absolutists came up with only two examples of how
such a law would have inhibited free speech in the past:
when the U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers had been
forced down in the Soviet Union, the use of Powers'
name in news accounts might have come into question;
and, much later, Bob Woodward of the Washington
Post would have had a problem with his front-page
story on CIA payments to King Hussein of Jordan. To
keep such difficulties from arising, we are evidently
expected to let Philip Agee ft Co. continue to name
names, at whatever human and national cost. Other
examples of absolutist thinking can be found in some of
the commentary on the Supreme Court's judgment
depriving Frank Snepp III of the profits from a book
which he, despite contractual obligations and personal
assurances to his former employer, the CIA, had
released for publication without clearance. Neither the
odor of deception for personal profit nor the prospective
damage to the whole system of contractual arrange-
ments kept Snepp from being painted as a victim - or a
hero. Moves to lessen the burden imposed on the
intelligence establishment by the Freedom-of-Informa-
tion Act, no matter how much they would help and how
little they would hurt, have been met with similar
reaction. See Comment on page 3
Blake from page 1
civil rights of U.S. citizens. AFIO's spokesmen
endorsed the standards established by the bill, and
argued against the use of a "criminal" standard. At the
same time, Blake questioned the bill's provision
empowering Federal judges to issue warrants which
would allow U.S. Government intelligence employees
to break the criminal laws of foreign countries. In
addressing this point, Blake said: "I am sure many
countries of the world would consider this the supreme
arrogance."
AFIO also objected to that provision of the bill which
would prohibit using any U.S. religious, media or
educational organizations or exchange programs as
cover for intelligence purposes. "While such cover use
should be kept to an absolute minimum," Blake stated,
"circumstances are conceivable in which such cover
would be the only means available to the government in
a situation of the highest urgency and national
importance."
Blake emphatically opposed the creation of an
independent "Office of Director of National Intelli-
gence" staffed with eight Presidential appointees. Not
only would this do violence to a central intelligence
system but it represents an "unneeded superstructure,
with predictable burgeoning staffs and its obvious
bureaucratic layering." He pointed out that this is a
significant consideration during the present period of
extreme budgetary constraints. He pointed out, further,
that no Administration witness had explained or
defended this needless new Government office, nor had
any member of the Committees questioned them
concerning it.
AFIO also opposed the introduction of the General
Accounting Office into the Intelligence Community.
Other matters noted included the lack of a provision for
protection of sources and methods, and the lack of a
war-time waiver on restrictions.
Strong support was given to the provisions of the bill
that would modify the provisions of the Hughes-Ryan
Amendment, create criminal sanctions for the pro-
tection of intelligence agents' identities, and offer
partial relief from the requirements of the Freedom of
Information Act.
The AFIO position was developed after soliciting
input from former senior officers of DIA, NSA, FBI and
CIA. A Drafting Committee, working under John
Warner, consisted of Messrs. George Cary, Jr., Samuel
Halpern, Richard Lansdale, Lyle Miller, and Walter
Pforzheimer. The statement was submitted for review
and approval both to Blake and David Phillips,
Chairman of the AFIO Board of Directors. We have
made considerable distribution of the twenty-four page
statement. Copies have been sent to all members of the
Board of Directors, Chapter Presidents, selected
members of Congress, contacts in the academic world,
and organizations such as the American Bar Associa-
tion, the American Legion, the Retired Officers
Association, etc.
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AFIO Activist Herman Bly Wins National Award
Herman 0. Bly, retired from a long and distinguished career
with both the FBI and CIA and now notably active in AFIO's
Southwest Florida Chapter, has won his third national Freedom
Foundation award, the George Washington Honor Medal, for
his guest editorial in the Ft. Myers News - Press published on
June 3, 1979 on the subject of the damage done to the national
security by recent actions of the press, the Congress and the
Presidency. For lack of space we are unable to print Brother
Bly's editorial in its entirety but herewith are his concluding
paragraphs:
"Admittedly, the intelligence community, unlike Ceasar's
wife, has not been completely pure. However, we have
overreacted in crippling our intelligence capabilities. It's past
time that we restore the effectiveness and morale of our
intelligence agencies so that our people will again provide those
agencies with the support, faith, and confidence which they so
badly need and deserve.
"It is now past time for more and more Americans to tell our
political leaders to get off the backs of our FBI, CIA, and our
other national defense agencies and to recognize the obvious
Herman 0. Bly
fact that our country is in more imminent danger today from a more powerful enemy than at any other time in
its history. If you believe that we should defend ourselves against our enemies, inside and out, with strong
effective intelligence efforts, tell your elected officials."
Comment from previous page
There is no point in going on. The absolutist
approach is no more than a logical development of an
outlook which appears to see the U.S. Constitution as
basically the First Amendment writ large, with all else
merely appended. That it, no less than other absolutist
rules of behavior, is subject to abuse is usually
admitted; but that, we are told, is the price we must pay
for a free society.
The trouble, as we see it, is, first, that the price is
sometimes too high and purchases too little. The
aforementioned arguments against the Intelligence
Identities Protection Act serve to illustrate the point. In
John Blake's words to the committee chairman: ". . . if
your bill becomes law, free speech will survive in a state
of great vigor. . . . If the legislation is thwarted . . .
intelligence capabilities will surely atrophy." Beyond
that, grave damage has been done to our national
equities in recent years by a badly balanced application
of values. We do not think any part of the Constitution
was intended as an instrument to undermine the
protection and preservation of the rest.
Second, we should realize that in many cases the
kind of license now deemed essential by the absolutists
covers practices which were disreputable only a few
short years ago. The Bob Woodwards of an earlier day
might indeed have felt a chill when they became aware
of an equivalent of the Hussein story, even though we
were very obviously not living in an undemocratic
society a few short years ago when those stories broke.
Thus new ground has been staked out as allegedly
essential to free speech - which makes us wonder
whether the main concern of the absolutist persuasion
is really freedom or whether in some cases it might not
be simply a form of self-interest in gaining broader and
heavier clout and in others plain political hostility with
the purpose of destroying the security apparatus of the
United States in order to render it helpless against its
enemies.
Third, the absolutists often present the issue as a
conflict between secrecy and knowledge. The sad truth
is that it is not that simple. What has been spread far
and wide about the intelligence establishment has been
fancy as well as fact, and a great deal of half-truth.
Many false impressions have been created and still
linger, such as the continuing references to "CIA
policies" in the face of abundant public evidence that
the CIA was never a policymaker. Such distortions may
be inevitable; but they are not noble, or beneficial.
Finally, we are aware that even First Amendment
absolutists often take their distance from those, like
Agee, whom they consider at best an embarrassment to
their cause. What bothers us is that everyone talks
about rights, but few about corresponding obligations;
and that none of the absolutists who consider
themselves responsible have offered any recipes for
dealing with those among their brethren who are not.
Mr. Loren J. Brentlinger
Boca Raton, FL
LTC Gustav J. Froeberg, UAS (Ret.)
Burbank, CA
Maj Ben Z. Gershater, USAF (Ret.)
Elgin AFB, FL
Mr. George H. Harvey
Dearborn, MI
Mr. William R. Mark
Shippensburg, PA
Col Horace G. Reeder, II, USAF (Ret.)
Falls Church, VA
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An Announcement From Georgetown University
The Russell J. Bowen Collection
On Intelligence, Security and
Covert Activities
The Georgetown University Library has received on
deposit from Colonel Russell J. Bowen a collection of
more than 3,800 books on intelligence, espionage,
covert activities, and national security. This collection
has been placed in the Special Collections department
of the Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library on the
Georgetown University campus and will be identified as
the "Russell J. Bowen Collection on Intelligence,
Security and Covert Activities."
Colonel Bowen deposited this collection in the
Georgetown Library because of his strong desire to
have it used for the advancement of research, writing,
and education pertaining to intelligence. The Bowen
Collection will be available for use by scholars,
researchers, and students in accordance with George-
town University Library policies and procedures. The
National Intelligence Study Center, directed by Dr. Ray
S. Cline, is providing financial assistance for preparation
and publication of a catalog which will facilitate access
to and utilization of the Collection.
The Bowen Collection includes books and documents
of the United States, England, France, Germany,
Japan, USSR, and other countries. The scope of the
collection extends over several hundred years, and
includes early wars and conflicts in Europe, the
American Revolutionary era, the Civil War in the United
States, the World Wars and other events. Intelligence
and espionage activities during World War II, the Cold
War, and recent events are extensively documented in
this collection. The Bowen Collection may be the
largest body of published intelligence material in any
university library.
Information about the Bowen Collection may be
obtained from the Georgetown University Special
Collections librarian, George M. Barringer.
AFIO members are advised that Georgetown Uni-
versity actively seeks to enlarge the collection and will
happily accept contributions in the form of books.
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Advisory Council
With its membership now complete, and a plan of
action developing, the AFIO Advisory Council is
commencing to make its influence felt. In addition to
those members whose names were reported in the last
issue of Periscope, H. H. Callahan now has taken his
place as the person representing N.S.A.
As previously reported, the Council has recom-
mended, and the Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors has approved, the establishment of a
formalized committee structure. Committee chairman,
with one exception, have been named. The committee,
and chairmen, are: Membership, Admiral Fritz
Harlfinger, Public Affairs, Angus Thuermer; Legal,
John Warner; Publications, Douglas Blaufarb; Finance,
Robert Novak. A chairman for the Activities Committee
will be named at the next meeting.
At the meeting held on 2 April, the Council was given
a report on the chapter structure. In the ensuing
conversation, it was decided to give consideration to
establishing a Chapter Committee. This matter will be
acted upon in the forthcoming meeting of 6 May.
The last issue of Periscope mentioned that the
Council's membership was composed of individuals
whose previous service reflected all the major entities in
the Intelligence Community and went on to mention
those entities - but, unfortunately, not completely.
Missed through inadvertence (spell "mistake") was the
F.B.I. This happened even though Bob Kunkel's name,
our F.B.I. referent, appeared in the article. Our
apologies to Bob and the Bureau!
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For reasons of space AFIO does not attempt to publish obituaries of deceased members. We make an
exception in the case of Commander Rowe because of the unique distinction of his career and the fact that so
few today remember the kind of service that men of his generation rendered when the going was really
tough. We thank Lt.Col T. R. Bohannan of Manila, PI for writing and sending in this obituary.
The Editor
Commander George F. Rowe, USNR (Ret.)
Leader of the ISRM (I Shall Return, MacArthur) mission which landed on Mindoro early in July- 1944,
George maintained surveillance on Manila Bay, and collated guerrilla intelligence reports until the liberation of
Manila. As an enlisted clerk in the Army Finance Corps he had come to the Philippines in 1930. Between the
time he took his discharge there and WWII, he became a prominent sugar broker, an aviator, and an ONI
agent.
Caught in the States by the outbreak of the war, he was called to Navy active duty, serving alternately as
an intelligence officer and a Navy flight trainer. It was only in 1944 that he was able to return to the Pacific,
serving as Executive Officer of the Philippine Regional Section of the Allied Intelligence Bureau. As he often
said, he "volunteered for the penetration mission to escape the more dangerous in-fighting in Brisbane."
During that mission he used the cover name of Major "Nicholson," fearing reprisals against his wife and son
in Manila if he were identified by the Japs.
After release from active duty he remained in Manila, engaged in communications, entertainment, and
export-import matters until failing health virtually confined him to his quarters. Dissatisfied by the popular
account in Dixon Earle's "Bahala Na" about his seductively named ISRM mission, George was working on a
history of it until his long ill health was ended by a peaceful death at the age of 72, on 9 January 1980.
Early Warning for Conventioneers
So as not to divert national attention from the
Democratic and Republican conventions AFIO will hold
its CONVENTION '80
on 3-4 October
at Tyson's Corner Holiday Inn, McLean, Virginia.
Please mark your calendar and plan to attend, as
we're going to move into the 80's with a memorable
program. There will be prominent guest speakers at
each of two luncheons and the Saturday night banquet.
At business sessions we'll have some thought-provok-
ing speakers to help us assess the challenge to U.S.
Intelligence as our Soviet adversaries move to exploit
their "window of opportunity" in the coming decade.
For the benefit of family members not attending the
daytime sessions we want to plan some cost-conscious
activities to offset the budget-busting temptations at
one of the country's largest shopping centers across the
street from the Inn. Here are some of the excursions
that can be arranged, depending on your response:
? The National Cathedral is well worth a visit,
especially if you've not been there in the last ten
years.
? The Kennedy Center has a room full of Boehm
figurines, a spectacular Waterford crystal chande-
lier, and a great deal more.
? The Department of State will open its reception
Rooms which boast an impressive collection of
American antiques dating from the American
Revolution.
? Ford's Theatre, the National Portrait Gallery,
and the new award-winning East Wing of the
National Gallery are worth a trip downtown via
the new subway.
? The DAR have decorated a room in Constitution
Hall for each of the fifty states.
The Holiday Inn management is willing to make a
suite available for bridge players. Also, if there is
enough interest, they can stage a flower-arrangement
demonstration.
Do let us know if you're interested in any of the above
- or other attractions in the area - so that we can get
an early start in making CONVENTION '80 an enriching
experience for all.
The Convention Committee is dedicated to making
every effort to keep the convention fee at the lowest
possible amount. While the cost of rooms is slightly
higher than last year, inflation being the primary cause,
gratuities being furnished by the hotel management will
help lower the convention fee. As another cost-saving
technique, the Committee has decided not to print
initially a separate Convention brochure and schedule.
All details, including Convention and hotel registration
forms, will be printed in a special Convention Section in
the next issue of Periscope. That issue will be mailed
approximately 15 July 1980. This will save additional
printing and postal charges. The traditional Convention
Informational Booklet and Program will be prepared and
available to all attendees upon registration.
CONVENTION '80 Committee members are: LTG.
John J. Davis (Chairman), Richard W. Bates, Anita
Herndon Beasey, Charles V. Belt, Joseph L. Burke,
Richard C. Gales, J. William Grady, William P.
Katsirubas, Alma Mattison, Robert C. Roth (Vice-
Chairman), John G. Rushworth, and Helen Kleyla.
PERISCOPE NEEDS A
TALENTED CARTOONIST
This is a plea for a volunteer to step forward
(preferably in the Washington area) who would be
willing to do at least one cartoon for each issue of
Periscope. So - let the word go forth to all the
world. We need artistic help in A GOOD CAUSE.
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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.
John Le Carre, Smiley's People, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1980, 374
pp. $10.95.
This, his ninth novel, is vintage le Carre. For those who do not know
him, this reputed former MI6 officer rose to popularity with his "Spy
Who Came In from the Cold," published here in 1963, a novel built
around the British foreign intelligence service. His initial and
continuing success is due not so much to his knowledge of the
intelligence mission, but more to his outstanding writing skills. Having
found a successful formula, like many other writers, le Carre recycles it
occasionally, writing essentially the same story with slightly different
characters with only slightly different situations, of which the
penultimate, The Honorable Schoolboy," was released in 1977.
Just as policemen and detectives, retired and on active duty, are said
to have an appetite for detective and cop stories, I enjoy stories of
espionage. Since most of these novels are inaccurate reflections of real
life in the practice of the craft, the addiction possibly stems from
Mittyish dreams about how we might have carried on our business
more romantically and in sustained high drama. Or it may sublimate
the restiveness that goes with fire horses - that dates me - or race
horses retired to pasture. A further ingredient may be the smug
pleasure that goes with reading such novels and saying knowingly to
ourselves or anyone who will listen: "You know, it really isn't at all like
that."
For the former intelligence officer, le Carre's latest may have a
special appeal since it deals with a senior officer recalled from
retirement to handle a termihated agent in order to avoid a king-sized
flap potentially embarrassing to British national interests and the
British intelligence service. For me, this novel has an additional appeal
in that I can more readily identify with the short, fat, and bespectacled
Smiley than I can with the tall, handsome James Bonds - the 007's
who swing with the greatest of ease from deeds of derring-do to alight
on various mattresses, attractively populated.
For those who do know le Carre, be assured that you will not only
find Smiley, but his faithless wife and other characters who appeared in
prior novels. The story line is, as usual, built around a
counterespionage situation. A British agent who had been defected in a
high Soviet place continued his work against the Soviets even though he
had been terminated by the British service after having become only
marginally useful. The defector is brutally executed by the KGB in
England itself. Smiley is recalled from retirement "unofficially," to
find out what the message was that the defector was trying desperately
to convey to his former case officer, Smiley, and to hush up the
potential scandal that might damage the atmosphere of detente that
HMG was nurturing. I would not detract from your pleasure, or le
Carre's sales, by telling you more.
It's all there. The scenes shift rapidly all over Europe. The tradecraft
portrayed, both Soviet and British, is plausible. The fabricators and
the double agents are believable. The inherent friction between field
and headquarters is present, and so is le Carre's normal budget of snide
references to the American intelligence service. The decay and loss of
morale within the British service under political pressures and media
exposure is not necessarily fiction. When Smiley writes that Vladimir
(the defector) didn't know that "Max (Smiley) was on the shelf and the
Circus (the British service) had joined the Boy Scouts," we might find
parallels within the American scene. And when Smiley says: "I invested
my life in institutions ... and all I am left with is myself," he may have
been talking of thee or me.
Aside from the specialized interest of pro's of old who are getting
older, le Carre is a competent wordsmith with a sharp eye for physical
and psychological atmosphere. He appreciates the incongruous, such
as the German beer cellar on the fifteenth floor of a Hong Kong
building, the table in a second-rate cafe decorated with plastic flowers
in a vase with water in it. The "human bondage" of Smiley for his
adulterous Ann is moving, not soap opera, and the author has the
ability to convey skin-crawling tension with words artfully used. Like
our own Charles McCarty, he is a competent novelist in his own right,
and his story can stand by itself without his needing to rely on the
arcane mysteries of espionage.
Having said all this, while novels such as this are anodynes for
boredom and frustration, they leave a sense of inadequacy in the
impression they build of the craft itself. Nothing is said about the
tedium; the painful and prolonged efforts to obtain and maintain
mundane capabilities such as safe houses, accommodation addresses,
dead drops; the recruitment of utility agents with the most rudimen-
tary skills; the long hours of trying to transform recruited ugly
ducklings into productive swans; the number of alleys that have to be
explored only to find that most of them end up in a cul-de-sac; the high
percentage of bread-and-butter routine intelligence to be collected as
compared with the occasional nugget, all against a background of a
flood of paper, records, and reports; and laboriously artful efforts to
surmount/evade/avoid operational restrictions. Obviously, such
realism is not likely to win any literary prizes, make any best seller lists,
or gain any lucrative "residuals."
More seriously, such novels add to the distorted impression conveyed
to the layman of the intelligence function of government. Writers of
espionage fiction are not limited by truth or reality, but only by their
imagination and conscience. The latter can be very flexible even among
former intelligence officers turned novelists. Such writers have a special
responsibility since they know better whereof they write than do others.
When I asserted this thesis to McCarty at an AFIO luncheon, he
replied that the public did not take such fiction seriously. My reply was
that he flattered the discrimination of the public and, given the flood of
so-called factual misinformation, the average reader would, con-
sciously or not, tend to confuse fiction with fact. I regret that neither of
us was persuaded.
It is in this context that the dangers posed by le Carre's skills must be
noted. Le Carre used his New York Times review of Thomas Powers'
book on Dick Helms to make a vicious personal attack on Helms and to
make invidious comparisons between the British and American
intelligence systems. It is not pertinent to this review to make a detailed
response to le Carre's distortions, except to observe that his review is in
many respects woefully inaccurate and short on reasoning. Yet his
skills as a novelist somehow persuaded even such putatively
well-informed persons as the editors of the Times Book Review to offer
him the freedom of it pages to spread his hostility and ill-informed
prejudices before the eyes of the world.
The public perception of the intelligence function is vital to the
future of the intelligence agencies and to the national interest. While
books such as this one make diverting reading and can be
recommended on those grounds, a serious question is raised in this
reviewer's mind as to whether the misperceptions they engender do
damage that outweighs the entertainment they provide.
Arthur L. Jacobs
British Intelligence In the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy
and Operations. Vol. 1. By F. H. Hinsley, with E. E. Thomas, C. F. G.
Ransom, and R. C. Knight. New York, Cambridge University Press,
1979. 601 pp.
(Extracted from a longer review published elsewhere.)
British Intelligence is a monumental work of scholarship, unique in
the historiography of international warfare. Officially authorized, it
relates the story of Britain's intelligence processes from before the
outbreak of World War II to the German attack on the USSR in June
1941, in 483 pages of narrative, freighted with fifteen appendices of
some 89 pages, a table of abbreviations, and an index. The second
volume, scheduled for publication this coming May, will carry the story
through the North African campaign; volume three will finish the war.
A companion volume on deception is currently being composed by the
learned Oxford Professor of the History of War, Michael Howard.
This, and the coming volumes, are of course "must" reading for the
professional American intelligence community, existing and future,
and, it is to be hoped, for the decision-makers of the U.S. government,
because they should comprehend the function of the former, be moved
to levy demands for fact and evaluation, and be able to affirm when
they are well served - or to act energetically should the opposite be
true.
In view of the scope, the authority, and the novelty of this first
volume, it should be engrossing, riveting. Instead, the style lacks color
and grace. Minutiae load the text. There is repetition. The book is dull
reading for the most part - perhaps unavoidably so; an historian's
task is to take amorphous collections of facts and, according to his
perceptions and inferences, assemble them into an order. More is not
required, for the writing of modern history differs from the composition
of poetry. British Intelligence is formal history, meant for the serious
reader. There can be no doubt of the rewards - for the devoted
amateur buff as well as the government professional - in this volume,
and there should be even greater rewards in the next two.
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The authors had unrestricted access to official records, other
archives, surviving members of the wartime intelligence and operations
authorities and, of course, other relevant published works. Lacunae,
some surprising, result from the authors' own editorial decisions. For a
few examples, they entirely omit intelligence activities east of southwest
Asia, on the ground that the war in the Far East was so much a U.S.
concern that British archives alone would not enable an adequate
account; they provide no graphics of the organization of the several
intelligence authorities in London and their connections at various
stages in the time frame (although, it should be said, such could be
generally constructed from text); secret agent operations are treated
with traditional reserve, to say no more than that there are no
revelations here; and, with an exception or two, none of the leading
personalitites is named, none is evaluated. How can the human factor
- intellect, ambition, confliM, influence, exhaustion - at the levels
where seminal decisions are made, be omitted from this history? One
major figure, Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, goes unnamed. He
was the chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service whose authority
extended to thg control of the dissemination of high-grade (ENIGMA)
communications intelligence (comint). Anonymous, and their role-
playing unevaluated, are the pace-setters at the top of the Whitehall
intelligence community in the services, the Joint Intelligence
Committee, the Ministry of Economic Warefare, and of the analytical
entities at the Foreign Office.
Still, putting aside criticisms, we have to be thankful to the authors
(and to the British government) for this encyclopedic and expert study
of the early and painful stages of the evolution of an effective system of
intelligence.
Andrew Boyle, THE FOURTH MAN: THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT
OF KIM PHILBY, GUY BURGESS, AND DONALD MACLEAN
AND WHO RECRUITED THEM TO SPY FOR RUSSIA. New York:
Dial Press/James Wade (1980), 504 pp. $12.95.
Wolfgang Lotz, A HANDBOOK FOR SPIES. New York: Harper &
Row (1980), pp. 146. $8.95.
The title of the London edition of Mr. Boyle's latest book - he is an
official of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the biographer of
the Anglo-Irish conspirator Erskine Childers - tells it better: The
Climate of Treason. For here is the richest evocation this reviewer has
seen of the social and historical forces gradually producing a situation
wherein, one fine day in 1933, student members of the Oxford Union
could formally resolve that they would "in no curcumstances fight for
King and Country." Mr. Boyle believes that the financial weakening of
Britain after the Boer War set in motion a long-range crumbling of
empire and prestige which in turn exacerbated the social ills festering
in the body politic. Chiefly was this the close-fisted control which a thin
layer of the upper-middle and aristocratic classes wielded over English
life - the phenomenon of "the Old Boy network," or the
Establishment.
Nowhere in Mr. Boyle's intricately meshed study of the three traitors'
interrelationships does he state that his title character was Sir Anthony
Blunt, the Queen's arts curator. He discusses Blunt intermittently
throughout, however; and it was perhaps these unspecified revelations
which induced the London magazine Private Eye to finger Blunt
publicly in November, 1979, as one of the central corrupter's of the
younger men's loyalty back at Cambridge in years gone by. He was
"Maurice," a vicar's son turned agnostic and Marxist. Hovering over it
all, permeating the pleasant aromas of teacup and sherry glass, was the
miasma of homosexuality.
And there was also a Fifth Man, "Basil". A nuclear scientist, he
confessed in 1948, is now retired, and was orginally brought to bay and
turned 'round when agents of the Israeli Secret Service threw him into
James J. Angleton's arena. Angleton fares well in these pages: "deep,"
"effective," "redoubtable." The book has a good index and
annotation, is quite competently written, and is bolstered by a myriad
of interviews confidential or otherwise.
Every now and then we found ourselves scribbling such marginalia as
"gad!" opposite some particulajrly outrageous example of moral or
governmental laxness. Just one example (p. 291): "Donald Maclean's
preference for spending his evenings alone with official documents in
front of him, and a consoling bottle of whiskey to hand, had quickly
become accepted by colleagues as one of his more endearing oddities."
Read it, and weep? No: read this cautionary tale the better to identify
any recurrence of such mortal distempers in our own country.
"Without the personal guidance of former members of the American
intelligence community," Mr. Boyle confesses, "I would never have
stumbled on 'Maurice' or 'Basil' ... there may be further accomplices
still to be uncovered. If so, I leave the field as open as I found it for
future sleuths to track them down."
From such somber probings it is a relief to move to the jaunty pages
of German-born Israeli Intelligence officer Wolfgang Lotz, who turned
a neat trick of Gesel achattssplonage for Israel against Egypt a while
back, and told about it in The Champagne Spy (1972). That volume
has, we learn, been translated into fourteen languages; even the most
grubbing media hacks were forced to "acclaim me one of the most
successful and brilliant secret agents ever to have operated in the
Middle East." Obviously the next phase was to take a cue from British
agent Alexander Foote's Handbook for Sples (1949) and offer novices a
vade-mecum on how to become a spook.
In ten insouciant chapters, with no illustrations or any supporting
material, one is told how. The section on interrogation is interesting
("the more they beat you, the less they know"), and so are occasional
generalizations, viz., "I have yet to meet the retired agent who is
generously provided for." Major Lotz runs the gamut from how to get
into the business up through how to survive in a penitentiary.
The author even offers questionnaires for self-grading. Here we met
our Rubicon. The first questionnaire gives ten multiple-choice
statements on one's fitness for the Second Oldest Profession; and since
we have weathered thirty-four years' service in activities ancillary
thereto, we took the test in a mood of diligent optimism. Alas, against a
scale running from 250 points down to 50 or below, we were advised as
follows: "You are average . . . you are hamstrung by conventions ...
you have your uses even in a profession such as ours. If you apply
yourself, you may in time become a passable agent." Dashed, we
turned to a second questionnaire treating The Spy and the Opposite
Sex. On a scale running from 305-plus points down to 20, we racked up
the following appraisal: "You are a hardbitten individual, and your
partner in love is not to be envied. The secret service should be just the
right occupation for you." Riven and bemused, we emerge from this
ordeal with only one tentative critique: perhaps the Champagne Spy's
handbook would have been more fruitfully reviewed in some such
periodical as Telescope: The Bulletin of the Association for Future
Intelligence Officers.
Curtis Carroll Davis
Baltimore, Md.
The members of the panel that participated in the
discussion of the Charter Bill at the AFIO Spring
luncheon. Left to right: William Brannigan,
formerly with the FBI, Major General Jack
Thomas and, on the far right, Jack Warner of
AFIO. President Blake is introducing them.
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The Opposition Responds
Anti-Intelligence Organizations Resist Loosening
of Restraints
(The following represents the latest report in our
continuing effort to keep members informed on the
activities and background of the forces arrayed against
the intelligence community. Although not entirely
enjoyable reading, it makes clear that our opponents are
a formidable coalition which is not resting on its past
successes. This, in turn, suggests that despite recent
gains AFIO must also increase its efforts to deepen and
strengthen public support. The Editor)
Proposals to loosen restraints on CIA covert action
capabilities, made early this year and now embodied in
several pending bills, drew immediate protests from the
Campaign for Political Rights (CPR), the Washington
umbrella organization that represents the organized
anti-intelligence lobby. In a January 24 joint letter to the
President, 36 CPR member groups vigorously opposed
weakening the 1974 Hughes-Ryan amendment so that
the President would have to notify only the two
intelligence committees, instead of eight congressional
panels (i.e., a few hundred Congress members and
staffers), of covert operations.
The CPR quoted Church Committee findings and the
President's 1976 campaign promises in support of its
position, claiming the proposed changes would be "a
step backwards to the days of secret CIA wars and
Watergate-style secret government." It urged the
President to resist any effort to "undercut current
restraints on CIA operations" and to act positively to
place all intelligence agencies "under the strict rule of
law."
The ACLU, ADA, Center for National Security
Studies (CNSS), Committee for Public Justice and
Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB) were among
the better known signers of the letter. Also included
were a number of church groups, several officially cited
(i.e. by Congressional Committees) Communist fronts,
and the ultra-rightist Libertarian Party. Charlene
Mitchell, for years a top-ranking U.S. Communist Party
official, signed for one of the fronts; Pauline Rosen,
another activist identified as a Party member, signed for
the National Center to Slash Military Spending.
Key activists in the lobby who were denounced as
"traitors" by DCI Stansfield Turner on a nationwide
NBC telecast last summer, testified before the House
Intelligence Committee at the end of January in
opposition to several "identities protection" bills, even
as they went about their business of exposing everyone
they knew, or suspected, of being CIA officers serving
abroad. They were William H. Schaap, publisher of the
CAIB, and his wife, Ellen Ray, and Louis Wolf
(co-author of Philip Agee's "Dirty Work: The CIA in
Europe") - both CAIB staffers.
Schaap claimed it is a "myth" that exposure
endangers U.S. intelligence personnel in foreign
countries, that the CIA is "an evil instrumentality which
is beyond reform", that it is even now paying off foreign
politicians, buying elections, and engaging in other
"dirty work," and that he and his associates want to put
a stop to such practices and should be allowed to do so
without any danger of prosecution. He also opposed
any effort to amend or repeal Hughes-Ryan and exempt
the CIA from Freedom of Information Act disclosure
provisions.
An old hand at such activities at age 40, Schaap has
been active in the National Lawyers Guild (NLG),
defending such groups such as the Black Panther Party
and SDS, and was an NLG delegate to a function of the
Soviet-controlled international legal front, the Interna-
tional Association of Democratic Lawyers. During the
Vietnam War, he specialized in military service
resistance work.
More recently, he has been active in defense of
persons associated with the New Jewel Movement
whose leader, Maurice Bishop, seized control of the
Carribean island of Granada in March 1979 with Cuban
military assistance. An associate with Agee in the old
"Counter-Spy," Schaap introduced the "Covert Action
Information Bulletin" to the world by distributing
several hundred free copies of it in Havana at the time of
the July 1978 Moscow-controlled World Youth Festival
there.
The old "Counter-Spy", meanwhile, is erratically
published. Its last issue, featuring an article "U.S.
Intervention in Afghanistan," came out in mid-
December 1979 just a few days before the Soviet
invasion of that country - and just in time to serve as a
most useful Soviet propaganda instrument. Moscow
radio was quoting it before its troops began crossing the
border and, immediately afterward, both the U.S.
Communist press and Tass and Pravda were quoting it
and one another's versions of its allegations in support
of the world Communist propaganda line on why
Moscow's forces had to move into that unhappy land.
The U.S., it seems, was interfering in Afghanistan "on
a large scale" by its support of armed rebels against the
legitimate government. The Soviet Union did no more
than respond to the government's plea for help in
putting down a U.S.-inspired rebellion. We are perhaps
fortunate that the declared enemies of the intelligence
services are so plainly tied to the declared enemies of
our country.
Chapter Notes
STRIKE STRIKES GREATER
NEW YORK CHAPTER
The Greater New York Chapter had scheduled its
annual business meeting for the evening of Thursday, 3
April, 1980 and had invited Jack Blake to be the
featured speaker. Unfortunately, the New York City
transit strike started the day before, and Derek Lee
rightfully thought the better course of wisdom was to
cancel and reschedule the meeting. Question - was
this an intelligence failure?
NEWS FROM FLORIDA
The Satellite Chapter held a luncheon meeting at
Patrick Air Force Base on 15 March 1980. The guest
speaker was Mr. Steve Lewis, Legislative Aide to
Congressman Bill Nelson. Stan Phillips and Gerry Davis
were invited guests.
The Suncoast Chapter at St. Petersburg will hold a
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meeting on Monday, 28 April, and has invited Jack
Blake to address the group.
We are indebted to Gerry Davis, both Florida State
Chairman and President of the Southwest Chapter at
Ft. Myers for calling our attention to the accomplish-
ments of Herman Bly, reported elsewhere in this issue.
Herman Bly himself also reports the following events:
.. On January 18, 1980, I appeared on a one-hour
radio talk show on WRCC FM . . . and on Jan. 27 .. .
Col. Gerry Davis, Don Randall and I appeared before the
Lee County Veterans Council meeting and discussed
various matters relating to the intelligence agencies."
Jack Blake will be visiting with Gerry and other Chapter
officers at Ft. Myers on Saturday, 26 April.
CALIFORNIA DEVELOPMENTS
Interesting expansion developments in the California
chapter structure are underway. The Orange County
Chapter is moving ahead. Lt. Col. Emanuel Peters is
forging ahead in organizing a Chapter at Los Gatos,
which should take care of the South Peninsula area. We
have also asked Lee Echols to look into the prospects of
starting a Chapter in San Francisco.
MONTANA
Dick Grant reports that with the snow now melting
away in the Western hills, his Chapter is about to
schedule a Spring meeting. Dick is very active in the
Montana Department of the American Legion and uses
his entree to help further the cause of AFIO.
OHIO
The second meeting of the new Ohio Chapter, under
President Fred Lewton, was scheduled for mid-March.
Miles Beran has been active in both helping get the
Chapter underway and making local public appearances
on issues of concern to AFIO.
Editor's Comment:
Clearly the chapters are becoming more active in all
parts of the country. Our plea is to keep the reports
coming in to Periscope so that the whole membership
can be informed - and please remember to take
pictures and send them in.
A member rises to ask a probing question of the
panel at the Spring Luncheon. The member is
Hans Moses.
PERISCOPE, in its continuing efforts to be of
service to members, is opening its pages to
classified ads submitted by members. Do you
have a boat or car for sale, a condominium to rent,
a house you would like to swap for a few weeks or
months, a service to offer, or a hobby to pursue? If
you do - or have similar interests which we can
help you with through our pages - send us a brief
summary of the details for insertion in our
classified ad column. There will be no charge for
this service.
(Photo Courtesy of Pottsville, Pa., Republican)
AFIO speakers helped Pottsville, Pa., Rotarians celebrate 75th Anniversary of Rotary Founding. Here,
Pottsville Mayor Robert L. Allen, second from right, presents the Key to the City to John Blake, center,
and John Maury. Completing the picture, at left, is AFIO member and Pottsville resident Charles "Red"
Buchanan, who arranged for the speakers, and at right, Rotary President F. Dale Shoeneman.
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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.
LIFE MEMBERS
LTC Mecedes O. Cubria, USA (Rat.)
Miami, FL
Col Francis Bernard Gallagher, USAF (Rat.)
El Paso, TX
Mr. Henry C. Houkal
Falls Church, VA
Mr. Fred Rodell
Houston, TX
The Honorable James R. Schlesinger
Washington, D.C.
Mr. Wilfred S. Tucker
Perrine, FL
Mr. Chester H. Twentyman
Arlington, VA
Mr. "Woody" (Ralph L.) Woodall
Kettering, OH
Mr. Thomas B. Abernathy
Vienna, VA
LTC John R. Alliason, USA (Rat.)
Alexandria, VA
Mr. Daniel C. Arnold
Vienna, VA
Mr. James N. Atkinson
Glen Gardner, NJ
Mr. Howard C. Barlow
Rockville, MD
LtCol Robert L. Base, USAF (Rat.)
Fairfax Station, VA
Mr. Edward B. Beidleman
Ewa Beach, HI
Mr. John W. Borgman
Annandale, VA
Mr. Donald A. Borrmann
Silver Spring, MD
Ms. Irene U. Boublik
Vienna, VA
Mr. Scott D. Breckinridge
Lexington, KY
Miss Beryl T. Brown
Annapolis, MD
Mr. Thomas R. Brown, III
Vienna, VA
Mr. Robert O. Bussey
Arlington, VA
Mrs. Cordelia T. Condray
Cheverly, MD
Mr. Herbert L. Conley
Silver Spring, MD
Mr. Stephen A. Conroy
Alexandria, VA
LCDR David S. Cooper, USNR (Ret.)
Hamilton, VA
Dr. David S. Crist
Washington, D.C.
COL William R. Culmer, AUS (Ret.)
McLean, VA
CAPT Edward Dangler, USNR
Palo Alto, CA
Mr. Erik S. Dinsmore
Brooklyn, NY
Mr. Jeremiah M. Dolan
Poway, CA
Ms. Rita M. Draina
Sarasota, FL
Col John C. Erskine, USMCR (Rat.)
Bethesda, MD
Mr. Michael S. Evancevich
Sierra Vista, AZ
Mr. Fredric S. Fear
Springfield, VA
Mr. Otto E. Fiedler
Dayton, OH
Mr. Donald P. Forbes
Poolesville, MD
Mr. William J. Gadue
Naples, FL
CDR Robert C. Gerdemal, USN (Ret.)
Cypress, CA
LtCol William G. Ghormley, USAF (Rat.)
Georgetown, TX
Mr. Peter C. Goold
Castleton, NY
Mr. Edward Grainger
Bethesda, MD
Mr. Harris Greene
Arlington, VA
Mr. Charles A. Greenlaw
Falls Church, VA
Mr. Arnold H. Haverlee
Oviedo, FL
Mr. George A. Heisch
Pasadena, MD
LtCol Lorenzo H. Herring, Jr., USAF (Rat.)
Lexington, KY
Col Ralph A. Heywood, USMC (Rat.)
Harlingen, TX
Mr. Chester R. Hoatson
Bethesda, MD
Mr. Hans J. Jensen
Incline Village, NV
Maj Bruce R. Jones, USMC (Rat.)
Honolulu, HI
LTC Earl W. Jones, AUS (Ret.)
Beltsville, MD
LTC William J. Jones, USA (Rat.)
Williamsburg, VA
Mr. Edwin L. Kilby, Jr.
Clemson, SC
Mr. Marcus W. Kostolich
Wheaton, MD
Mr. Hubert N. Lacey
Arlington, VA
COL John V. Lanterman, USA (Ret.)
Bethesda, MD
Mr. Constant A. Lascaris
Clearwater Beach, FL
Mr. Al Lipp
Alexandria, VA
Mr. Kenneth G. Lobb
Merritt Island, FL
Mr. James L. Lofton, III
San Diego, CA
Mrs. Dorothy R. Lyman
Ponte Verde Beach, FL
LT Kevin W. Lynch, USNR
Annapolis, MD
LtCol Donald C. Maier, USAFR
Saratoga, CA
Mr. Michael J. Malanick
Vienna, VA
Mr. John F. Markham
Washington, D.C.
Mr. Brian L. Marshall
Washington, D.C.
Mr. Jack F. Mathews
Carpinteria, CA
Mr. Cord Meyer
Washington, D.C.
LCDR Harry C. Midgley, Jr., USNR (Rat.)
Worcester, MA
Mr. Jack H. Mower
Washington, D.C.
Mr. RobertW. Muenster
Warrenton, VA
Mr. Leslie F. Nute
Midland, MI
Mr. Bruno G. Ortelli
Pinehurst, NC
Mr. M. R. Panell
Seymour, TN
CDR Herbert E. Peters, USCG (Rat.)
San Diego, CA
Mr. George E. Prujan
Silver Spring, MD
Mr. Edwin S. Rockefeller
Washington, D.C.
Mr. William J. Rowland
Elmhurst, NY
Mr. Don V. Rowton
Alexandria, VA
LtCol Stewart G. Scull, USAF (Ret.)
Seminole, FL
Mr. Robert T. Shaw
Fairfax, VA
Mr. Peter M. F. Sichel
New York, NY
Mr. Robert Ruhl Simmons
Washington, D.C.
Mr. Thomas J. Smith
Tiburon, CA
Mr. David P. Stang
Washington, D.C.
Mr. Lawrence M. Sternfield
Miami Beach, FL
Mr. Clifton R. Strathern
Bealeton, VA
LTC John N. Stratton, USA (Rat.)
Bowie, MD
Mrs. Mary Eloise S. von Otto
Washington, D.C.
Mr. Robert J. Welday
McLean, VA
Mr. Samuel W. West
Springfield, VA
Mr. Richard D. Wever
Bedford, PA
Mr. James L. Wheeler
Falls Church, VA
Mr. Daniel C. Williams
Annandale, VA
LTC Richard W. Wood, USA (Rat.)
Springfield, VA
Mr. Irving Barron
Brooklyn, NY
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Mr. John Hale Bliss
New Port Richey, FL
Mr. John Hunter Chiles, Jr.
Atherton, CA
Mr. Andrew J. Collins
Goose Creek, SC
Mr. G. Edward Cotter
Los Angeles, CA
CWO John A. DeNino, USN (Ret.)
San Diego, CA
Mr. Daniel S. Flamberg
New York, NY
Mr. Edward Gustavson
Hartford, MI
CDR Ned Harrell, USN IRet.l
Sun City, CA
Mr. Marvin Holt
Beverly Hills, CA
Mr. Horace D. Hulsey
Smyrna, GA
Mr. Robert T. Morrison
San Diego, CA
Mr. Henry Muller, III
Coronado, CA
Mrs. Constance Phillips Nelson
Menlo Park, CA
Mr. Dudley Porter, Jr.
Chattanooga, TN
Mr. Jack J. Resburg
Portland, OR
Mr. William N. Ronaldson
Portola Valley, CA
Mai William Siebert, USAF IRet.)
San Antonio, TX
Mr. Jack A. Stern
Brooklyn, NY
Mr. Francisco H. Tabernilla
Palm Beach, FL
Mr. Kenny Tang
Gardena, CA
Mr. William L. Wasson
Silver Spring, MD
Mrs. Natalie Wraga
Lovettsville, VA
happened to be First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy.
Our reply cannot be quoted due to the family nature of
our readership.
Notes from National
WASHINGTON AREA LUNCH. The Annual Spring
Lunch for members in the Metropolitan Washington
Area was held on 21 March 1980 at the Fort Myer's
Officers Club. A paid attendance of 333 people
represented the largest number drawn to one of our
spring lunches. Featured at the gathering was a
three-man panel that discussed current charter legisla-
tion proposals. The Panel consisted of William
Brannigan, formerly of the F.B.I., Major General Jack
Thomas, former Chief of Air Force Intelligence, and
John Warner, the AFIO Legal Advisor. (See pictures
elsewhere in this issue.)
UNIQUE USE OF SPEAKER'S KIT. An AFIO member
who is a well-known Professor at a leading southern
university informs us that he is using the AFIO
Speaker's Kit as a reading item in a course on
intelligence he is conducting.
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY. Current planning calls
for the 1980 edition of the Membership Directory to be
mailed on 15 July. Members are urged to report any
change of address at their earliest convenience.
AFIO DECALS. AFIO decals are still available from the
National Office. Priced at $1.00 each, these four-color
adhesive-backed emblems may be mounted on car
windows or bumpers. Why not order one or more?
CHAPTER BY-LAWS. We have now received from the
majority of chapters copies of their by-laws. As soon as
time permits we will review all and be in contact. In the
meantime we thank all involved, and also express
thanks for the information recently submitted on
chapter officers, membership totals, etc.
AND NOW TO CLOSE ON A SWEET/SOUR NOTE.
We considerded but were dissuaded from awarding a
citation for distinguished service to the employe of the
Fort Myer's Officers' Club who, on the day of our
December lunch, changed the notice-board to read
Association of Formerly Intelligent Officers." . . . And
then there was the telephone call from the charming
associate on the day of the Spring Lunch asking if it
would be all right for her to bring a guest who just
Jack Blake Presenting a Citation for Distinguished
Service to Chairman David Attlee Phillips. On the
left is Dr. E.L.R. Elson who received a similar
citation a few moments later.
Margaret L. Rossiter, Professor of History at
Eastern Michigan University, is seeking any
information members may have about women
who served OSS in France or Algeria during
World War II. Professor Rossiter is preparing a
book on Women in the French Resistance. Her
interest covers women agents, translators, code
clerks, office managers, liaison agents, radio
operators, etc. Her address is Eastern Michigan
University, Department of History and Philos-
ophy, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.
An interesting table at the Spring Luncheon. The
gentleman in uniform is MG George S. Patton, Jr.
To his right is Dora Layton and to his right are
Marilyn de Silva, Lou Conein and Gil Layton. The
others are unidentified.
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From The President's Desk: A Report From Jack Blake
Having been in office
over half a term the
thought occurs to share
with you some facts and
observations on your
organization.
It is hard to identify
what most impresses me
about AFIO and, indeed,
there are many options
from which to choose.
First, there is the mere
fact of the existence of the
organization - people
with common beliefs and
recently sent out 350 additional notices to people six
months in arrears. Over one hundred have favorably
responded so far, but action will commence on 1 May
1980 to drop the names of those from whom we have
not heard. Our current membership is approximately
2800. While we dislike dropping the names of members
we cannot in fairness to those who meet their
obligations continue to send our material to those
whose dues are more than six months in arrears.
While our growth rate is satisfactory we wish to do
more both to hold current members and acquire an
increasing number of new ones. We are trying to attack
this matter on several fronts. Hopefully, the "AFIO
News Commentary" is a new and valuable service that
will help hold members. Secondly, our re-instituted
Membership Committee will take a vigorous approach
to solve this problem. There is a third and most
important approach to this matter. It is you. On page 4
of this issue is a form to be filled out and sent to us by
those who may be interested in joining. If each of you
would tear out and give this form to one prospective
member we could take a great leap forward. Surely
among your working colleagues, your neighbors, your
circle of personal friends, is an individual desiring to be
associated with us - but the person has to be aware of
our existence. That is the crucial role you play. We ask
that you give this matter thought, identify the best
possible prospective member, and get the form to that
person.
experiences, thoroughly dedicated to the maintenance
of a service essential to the well-being and survival of
our Republic. Another option to pick is the number of
members who give unstintingly of their time and energy
to ensure the viability of AFIO. I have in mind the
chapter officers, the members of the Advisory Council,
the dedicated volunteers, men and women, who
perform tasks at the National office. Another choice is
giving recognition to the accomplishments of AFIO in
working with the Congress, much of which is not
readily visible to our members. There are other
examples that could also be cited, but I believe the
above will suffice.
Let me now give a brief description of the AFIO
organization. The Advisory Council recently recom-
mended that we adopt a more formalized committee
structure than has existed. Elsewhere in this issue you
will read a listing of the committees. In some cases this
new approach ratified on-going activities, while in
others we will be charting new waters. The total of the
six committees, however, represents an umbrella that
covers our activities. Some of those activities are
continually on-going while others are more sporadic. In
the legislative field, for example, one volunteer visits the
office each week to read copies of the Congressional
Record, and seeks out any new developments of
interest. Another volunteer spends three afternoons a
week reading through newspaper clippings to spot
items of interest. Our Treasurer, a full-time, employed
CPA, visits the office once a week to write checks, pick
up dues payments, and keep the books current. The
National Convention Committee has already had two
meetings and is far along in its planning for 3/4 October
1980.
Specific note should be taken of the dedication
shared by the Legal Task Group that basically authored
our position on charter legislation. In view of their other
commitments and interests, their investment of time
and energy was nothing less than impressive.
The mainstay of any organization is obviously its
membership, and most particularly, its active and paid
membership. We are acquiring about 45 new members
per month but, sadly, a bit less than that number are
dropped on the average each month. In the Fall of last
year we dropped the names of 115 people who were
more than six months in arrears on their dues. We
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PERISCOPE is published quarterly by the Associ-
ation of Former Intelligence Officers, McLean
Office Building, 6723 Whittier Ave., Suite 303A,
McLean, VA 22101. Phone (703) 790-0320.
Officers of AFIO are:
John F. Blake ....................... President
Capt. Richard W. Bates .......... Vice President
Robert J. Novak .................... Treasurer
Charlotta P. Engrav .................. Secretary
Susan Barton .............. Executive Assistant
Douglas S. Blaufarb ....... Editor of PERISCOPE
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