E-SYSTEM VISIT

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
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• Publication Date: January 14, 1988
• Content Type: LETTER

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Schedule of Events/Contacts
Summary Memo
E-System Visit
Biography
Dallas Assembly/Charter 100/Atlantic Council Luncheon Meeting
Biographies
Dallas Assembly List of Attendees
Background Information (Charter 100 & Atlantic Council)
Correspondence
Dallas Council on World Affairs (DCWA) Meeting
Biographies
Correspondence & Press Release
Dallas Council on World Affairs Off-the-Record Dinner
List of Attendees
CEO Off-the-Record Breakfast
List of Invitees
Correspondence
Editorials and Articles
DALLAS MORING NEWS
DALLAS TIMES HERALD
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PAO 88-0016
14 January 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: William M. Baker
Director, Public Affairs Office
SUBJECT: Trip to Dallas
1. This is background information for your trip to Dallas on
18 - 20 January to address the Dallas Assembly, Charter 100, and the Atlantic
Council joint luncheon and to address a late afternoon meeting of the Dallas
World Affairs Council (DWAC) followed by a presentation in an off-the-record
dinner meeting of leading Dallas businessmen sponsored by the DWAC. You are
also scheduled for a private dinner (18th), tour of E-Systems (19th) and to
attend a CEO breakfast (20th). will accompany you on the trip.
2. Dinner, Monday, 18 January: You are asked to be in the lobby of the
Stouffer Hotel at 6:30 p.m. where Ray Hunt will meet you and drive you to
Trader Vic's Restaurant at the Hilton Inn on Mockingbird and Central. You are
scheduled for a private dinner with Mr. Hunt.
3. Tour of E-Systems, Tuesda , 19 Januar : You are requested to be at
E-Systems the Garland Division, 1ZU0 Jupiter, Garland, Texas at 7:45 a.m.
where you will be met by President and Chief Operating Officer of E-Systems,
David Tacke. (See tab for biography.) Breakfast, briefings, and.tour of the
facility are planned. Departure is scheduled for 10:30 a.m.
4. Arrangements for the Dallas Assembly, Charter 100, and the Texas
Association of the Atlantic Council Luncheon Meeting, Tuesday, 19 Januar :
You are requested to be at the Pavillion Room of the Fairmont Hotel at 7 N.
Akard Street at 12:00 noon where Secretary of the Dallas Assembly, Gay Oxford,
will meet you and escort you to your table. You will be seated between your
hosts for the luncheon Roy Herberger, President of the Dallas Assembly and
Dean of the Edwin Cox School of Business at SMU, and Joel Williams, Program
Chairman of the Dallas Assembly and Chairman of the Board of the Bristol
Group. (See tab for biographies.) In addition the following will be seated
at your table:
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*Carolyn Bacon President of Charter 100 and Executive Director of the
O'Donnell Foundation
*Carolyn Barta Program Cochairman for Charter 100 and op-ed editor at
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
*Steve Van President, Texas Association of the Atlantic Council
Al Casey Retired Chairman, American Airlines
Sam Coats President, Trinity Trusts of Texas
(* See tab for biographies.)
Your speech "CIA and American Foreign Policy" will begin at 12:30 p.m. and
Joel Williams will introduce you. The suggested format is 20 minutes of
remarks followed by 10 minutes of questions and answers. Adjournment is
between 1:00 - 1:15 p.m. A podium and microphone will be available. Security
will tape your remarks for the Agency's historical files. None of the
organizations plan to publish or tape your remarks.
An audience of approximately 200 CEOs, presidents of companies, academics,
and professionals who are members of the Dallas Assembly, Charter 100, and the
Texas Association of the Atlantic Council will be present. (See tab for list
of attendees from the Dallas Assembly.) Reporter George Rodriguez from the
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS will attend.
The Dallas Assembly is a group of 150 top Dallas executives and community
leaders who meet to discuss nonpartisan issues. Previous speakers have been
Bobby Inman, H. Ross Perot, and the new Chairman of the Home Loan Federal Bank
Board, Danny Wall. (See membership roster in back pocket of book.)
The purpose of Charter 100 of Dallas is to identify women who are
professional and civic leaders, to provide a forum in which members can meet
and interact. Membership encompasses the leading women in all segments of
community life. (See tab for background information and biographies of the
Charter's officers.)
The Texas Association of the Atlantic Council is a chapter of one of the
oldest and most prestigious foreign policy organizations. Both the Texas
Association and the National Atlantic Council are dedicated to the development
of American international, economic, political, and strategic policies
intended to defend and strengthen Democracies throughout the world. It is the
United States primary private link to the other NATO countries. (See
background tab for further information.)
5. Arrangements for the Dallas Council on World Affairs Meeting,
19 January: You are requested to be at the Ellipse Ballroom on the second
floor of tie Stouffer Dallas Hotel, 2222 Stemmons Freeway at 5:30 p.m. for a
reception. You will be met by the Executive Director of DCWA General Willard
CONFIDENTIAL
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Latham and President of DCWA and Chairman of the Board of Vaughn Petroleum,
Jack Vaughn. (See tab for biographies.) At approximately 5:55 p.m. you will
be escorted to the dais in the front of the room and seated with Mr. Vaughn
and General Latham. Your address on "What Is Going On In The Soviet Union"
will begin at 6:00 p.m. and Jack Vaughn will introduce you. The proposed
format is 30 minutes of remarks and 30 minutes of questions and answers
monitored by General Latham. Adjournment is at 7:00 p.m. A standing podium
and microphone will be available. The room will be set up as a theater.
Security will tape your remarks for our records. The World Affairs Council
does not plan to publish or tape your remarks.
The audience will be made up of approximately 200 men and women
representing North Texas business, industry, academia, and the professions.
Although members of the media are expected to attend, we have not received
confirmation of which newspapers or networks will be represented. Members of
the media will be seated in the back of the room and will be permitted to ask
questions during the question and answer period. Since foreign nationals are
members of the DCWA, you can expect several in the audience.
The Dallas Council is an independent, voluntary, nonpartisan organization
of civic-minded citizens and businessmen of Dallas. The total number of
members and volunteers is approximately 3,000. The purpose of the Council is
to enhance Dallas' stature as an international city and to promote the study
of world affairs. The Council encourages informed and intelligent discussion
of international events, and promotes programs of cultural interest to the
Dallas community. (See back pocket for list of Board of Directors.) Previous
speakers have included Vice President Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz,
Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and Ambassador Vernon Walters. Recently
Vladimir Sakharov and Georgianna Geyer spoke to the organization and
President Mubarak of Egypt is scheduled to speak at the end of this month.
6. Arrangements for the DCWA Dinner and Meeting with Leading Dallas
Businessmen, 19 January: You are requested to be in Ballroom B on the third
floor at p.m. for the reception. Dinner begins at 8:00 p.m. and you will
be seated at a hollow square table with Jack Vaughn on your right and
David Tacke on your left. Your remarks are scheduled for 8:30 p.m. and you
will be introduced by Jack Vaughn. The suggested format is 10 minutes of
off-the-record remarks on any topic of your choice followed by a discussion
period. A podium and microphone will be available. Adjournment is scheduled
for 9:30 p.m.
An audience of approximately 30 - 40 leading Dallas businessmen will
attend the dinner. Many of them will have heard your 6:00 p.m. address. The
media will not be present, but Captain Peter Smit from the Netherlands will
attend. (See tab for list of attendees.)
7. Arrangements for Breakfast Meeting with Leading Dallas CEOs,
Wednesday, ZU January: You are requested to be in the main lobby f the
Stouffer Hotel at 7:30 a.m. where you will be met by Trammel Crow and escorted
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to the Cafe on the second floor for breakfast hosted by Mr. Crow and
Bum Bright. (See tab for biographies.) The suggested format is for you to
give 10 minutes of off-the-record remarks at 8:00 a.m. followed by informal
discussion. You will be introduced by Trammel Crow. Adjournment will be at
8:45 a.m. Approximately 25 leading Dallas CEOs will attend. Neither media
representatives nor foreign nationals will be present. (See tab for list of
invitees.)
A group of 25 men who are the largest employers in North Texas meet
occasionally for breakfast when there is an opportunity to hear from national
leaders. Judge Webster spoke to this group when he was the Director of the
FBI. Mr. Crow will also be in the audience-at the DCWA meeting and dinner on
Tuesday evening.
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Office: Executive Director
O'Donnell Foundation
3388 InterFirst One
Dallas, Texas 75202
698-9915
Highlights:
Director, Dental Health Program, Inc.
Advisory Board, Junior League of Dallas
Sustaining Advisor, Junior League Public
Affairs Committee
Advisory Council, Children and Youth Program
Director, Friends of the Kennedy Center,
Dallas Chapter
Board of Directors, Texas Women's Alliance
Member, National Advisory Council on Health
Care Technology, Department of Health
and Human Services
Advisory Council, University of Texas / Dallas
School.of Social Sciences
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CAROLYN BARTA
(Mrs. Joe Barta)
Office: Viewpoints editor/associate editor,
Editorial page
Political columnist
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Communications Center
Dallas, Texas 75265
977-8494
Highlights:
Former political editor, The NEWS
Elections '84 editor, supervising coverage of
Republican National Convention in Dallas,
Democratic National Convention in San
Francisco
Project editor of "Nov. 22 Twenty Years Later,"
80-page commemorative section on JFK
assassination.
Dallas Press Club . president, 1987-88. Former
vice-president,. secretary, board member,
Gridiron script committees
Outstanding Texas Communicator, 1980, by Texas
Women in Communications
Outstanding Dallas Journalist by Society for
Professional Journalists
Matrix Award, Dallas Chapter, Women in
. Communications
Dallas Press Club Katie Award, indepth
reporting
Associated Press Managing Editors sweepstakes
award
Texas Tech University Mass Communications out-
standing alumna, 1986
Former instructor, SMU, UTA, public affairs
reporting
Former panelist "This Week" on Channel 13,
. "Reporter's Roundup" on Channel 8
St. Michael School, former board member
Hillcrest High School, former PISA board
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Copyright @ 1985 A/S/M Communications, Inc.;
ADWEEK
September 9, 1985, Southwest Edition
SECTION: SOUTHWEST PROFILES; Other
LENGTH: 275 words
BODY:
The American Marketing Association San Antonio Chapter has announced the
appointments of committee chairmen for the 1985-86 term. The following have
been appointed: Elaine Spalding, programs and special events; Joel Saegert,
Austin-San Antonio meeting; Steve Spears, marketing roundtables; and Ken
Braswell, marketing person/firm of the year award.
Jeff Moyers, educational services coordinator for The Dallas Morning News,
has been elected to a serve a one-year term as chairman of the Texas
Newspaper-in-Education Advisory Board.
Sherman R. Frederick has been promoted to manage the Alamogordo (New Mexico)
Daily News. Nancy Miller has been named general manager of the Henryetta
(Oklahoma) Daily Free-Lance and Marilyn Gibbs has been named general manager of
the Wewoka (Oklahoma) Daily Times. All three of the newspapers are owned by the
Donrey Media Group.
Ralph Langer, executive editor, and Carolyn Barta, viewpoints editor, of
The Dallas Morning News have been elected officers of the Press Club of Dallas
for the 1985-86 year. Bill Evans, managing editor the The Dallas Morning News,
has been elected to the governing board of the press club.
Beth Brannon has been named sales representative for the Dallas-based
typography company, TypeDallas Incorporated.
J. Alfred Washington, president of the agency Focus Communications Group, has
been appointed to the newly-established Advisory Council of Small Business and
Agriculture by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The Advisory Council was
formed to improve communications between the Fed and small businesses and
agriculture.
Copyright m 1984 Southwest Newswire Inc.;
Southwest Newswire
AUGUST 15, 1984, WEDNESDAY
DISTRIBUTION: TO CITY/NEWS DESKS
LENGTH: 284 words
HEADLINE: C-SPAN TO FILM DOCUMENTARY ON THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
DATELINE: DALLAS, AUG. 15, 1984
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@ 1984 Southwest Newswire, AUGUST 15, 1984
B()DY:
AS PART OF ITS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION COVERAGE, CABLE SATELLITE
PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK (C-SPAN) WILL PRODUCE A 3-HOUR DOCUMENTARY ON THE DALLAS
MORNING NEWS SHOWING HOW A LARGE, DAILY METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER PLANS COVERAGE OF
A NATIONAL POLITICAL CONVENTION BEING HELD ON ITS HOME TURF.
THE PRODUCTION, "A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS," WILL BE AIRED
ON LOCAL CABLE SYSTEMS FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 5 TO 8 P.M.
C-SPAN WILL FILM A BUDGET MEETING, DISCUSSIONS WITH POLITICAL WRITERS AND
EDITORS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS, AS WELL AS INTERVIEWS WITH TELEVISION CRITIC ED BARK
AND COLUMNIST MARYLN SCHWARTZ.
THE BROADCAST WILL BE PRECEDED AT 4 P.M. BY A LIVE INTERVIEW WITH JIM WRIGHT,
EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR, WHO, ALONG WITH HOST CARL RUTAN, WILL ANSWER QUESTIONS
FROM VIEWERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
SIMILAR LIVE CALL-IN INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD WITH BURL OSBORNE, SENIOR VICE
PRESIDENT AND EDITOR, AND CAROLYN BARTA, ASSISTANT TO THE MANAGING
EDITOR/POLITICAL AFFAIRS. OSBORNE'S INTERVIEW WILL IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW AT 8 P.M.
ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, AT 10 A.M., MS. BARTA WILL DISCUSS THE GOP CONVENTION,
WHICH BEGINS THE FOLLOWING DAY.
THE DOCUMENTARY AND OSBORNE'S AND WRIGHT'S INTERVIEW WILL BE REBROADCAST ON
SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, NOON TO 5 P.M.
C-SPAN IS A NON-PROFIT COOPERATIVE OF THE CABLE SATELLITE 'INDUSTRY, AND IS
THE ONLY TELEVISION NETWORK THAT AIRS BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS GAVEL TO GAVEL.
IN JULY, C-SPAN AIRED "A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE" AND "A DAY
IN THE LIFE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE" AS PART OF ITS DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
COVERAGE.
CONTACT: LOUISE GLICKMAN, MARKETING PLANNING MANAGER, DALLAS MORNING NEWS,
214/745-8353.
LEVEL 1 - 3 OF 3 STORIES
Copyright @ 1983 U.S.News & World Report
November 28, 1983
SECTION: Close-Up of America; Pg. 80
LENGTH: 1750 words
HEADLINE: A Booming Dallas Emerges 20 Years After JFK's Death
BYLINE: By KENNETH R. SHEETS
DATELINE: DALLAS
HIGHLIGHT:
By facing up to ''that awful day,'' ''Big D" set a course toward tolerance
TOW
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and maturity. Now the city has grand plans that show its faith in the future.
BODY:
The bullet that altered the course of the nation's history changed a city,
too.
In the days of grief and shock after the assassination of President John
Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, Dallas was reviled throughout the world as the ''city
of hate' -- a bastion of self-righteous intolerance and lunatic politics that
somehow was responsible for placing Lee Harvey Oswald at a sixth-floor window of
the Texas School Book Depository as the presidential motorcade passed below.
Many civic leaders feared Dallas would never recover from what they still
call ''that awful day.'But the assassination prodded the city into some
soul-searching that has helped push Dallas into the mainstream of American life.
Today, 20 years later, ''Big D" is back -- more confident, sophisticated
and, many believe, a more civilized place than it was in 1963. Observes Robert
Strauss, the Washington lawyer who still calls Dallas his home despite
longstanding differences with the local Establishment: ''Dallas still is a very
conservative city dominated by the business community. But the conservatism is
more responsible than it was 20 years ago. The kookiness is gone, and the city
is more tolerant of other viewpoints.'
One sign of Dallas's growing maturity is the willingness to confront the fact
of the assassination and the climate that existed here in 1963. Business and
civic leaders no longer try to ignore the tragedy and have become less defensive
when it is mentioned.
The city prepared to mark, on November 22, the 20th anniversary of the
assassination with a simple ceremony at the Kennedy Memorial, a plaza designed
by architect Philip Johnson two blocks from the site of the assassination. The
nonpartisan ceremony, sponsored by the local Democratic Party, has been held
each year for the past 20 years, but this is the last time. Future observances
will honor Kennedy's birthday on May 29.
At one point, the Texas School Book Depository -- where the Warren Commission
said Oswald fired the fatal shots -- was in danger of being razed by a community
trying to forqet what it represents. The red-brick building overlooking the
famed ''triple underpass'' now is owned by the county, and a local group is
trying to raise 3 million dollars for an exhibit that would be open to the
thousands of people who visit the assassination site each year.
The Dallas Morning News, once a right-wing newspaper that fanned local hatred
for President Kennedy and liberals in general, published a special section on
November 20 that thoroughly examined Dallas's role in the assassination, the
impact it had on the city and the changes that have taken place in the past two
decades. Says Carolyn Barta, a News assistant managing editor who headed the
special section: ''Dallas now recognizes that it cannot sweep the Kennedy
assassination under the rug. It happened here; it's part of our history and
cannot be ignored.''
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President
Carolyn Bacon
President-Elect
Ruth Sharp
Co-Vice Presidents- Programs
Carolyn Barta
.Sis Carr
Co-Vice Presidents - Arrangements
Louise Caldwell
Ann Reed
Vice President - Communications
Judy Nix i
Vice President - Membership
. Ruth Ann Montgomery
Treasurer
Paula Mosle
Nominating Chairman
Linda Custard
Advisory Committee
Susan Collins Linda Custard
Kay Hutchison Sally McKenzie
Cece Smith
Secretary
Lynn Smith
361-6439
THE CHARTER 100 OF DALLAS
6124 Sherry Lane, Suite 303
Dallas, Texas 75225
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PURPOSE
The purpose of Charter 100 of Dallas is to
identify women who are professional and civic
leaders, to provide a forum in which members can
meet and interact.
MEMBERSHIP
Membership encompasses the leading women in all
segments of community life. There will be a
limit of approximately 100 members. New members
chosen each year will number no more than 3 to
5.
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MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA
I. ARTS
Artists of National Recognition
Patron/Director of Major Institutions
II. BUSINESS
Owner
Top Management
III. COMMUNICATIONS
Acknowledged in her field
IV. EDUCATION
Administrator
Professor acknowledged in her field
Policy Maker
V. GOVERNMENT '
Director of Program or. Agency
Key Executive Level
Elected or Appointed Official
VI. HEALTH
Head of a Major Health Agency or
Institution
Doctorate Degree acknowledged in her
field
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VII.. PROFESSIONS (Accounting, Architecture,
Engineering, Law)
Partner
Advanced Degree or Certificate
Acknowledged in her field
VIII. SCIENCE
Research - National Recognition
Published
Education Professor acknowledged in
her field
IX. SERVICE ORGANIZATION - PHILANTHROPY -
CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS.
Acknowledged
X. SPORTS
Professional National Level
XI. WRITERS
Published
Recognized in her field
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PRESIDENT'S REPORT
January 1, 1987
The Texas Association of the Atlantic Council of the United States
has concluded its first year of service.
As you know, the Atlantic Council of the United States is one of our
country's oldest and most prestigious foreign policy organizations.
It is our nation's primary private link to the other N.A.T.O.
democracies, each of which has an Atlantic Council. Both the Texas
Association and the National Atlantic Council are dedicated to the
development of American international economic, political and
strategic policies intended to defend and strengthen democraoies
throughout the world and to maintaining the Alliance among those
nations that has produced over 140 years of unprecedented peaoe and
economic prosperity.
The Texas Association was formed in the fall of 1985 at the
suggestion of general George Seignious, President of the Atlantic
Council of the U.S. and with the encouragement of Lord Peter
Carrington, Secretary General of N.A.T.O. after his October, 1985
trip to Texas. Both men felt it critical to the future of the
Alliance that the foreign policy establishment of the United States
reach out from the East Coast to the heartland of our nation to
actively involve the emerging leaders of the Sunbelt in the foreign
policy formulation process. In December, 1985, the Directors of the
Atlantic Council unanimously approved the establishment of the Texas
Association.
The Texas Association has three goals:
1. To enhance the experience and knowledge of its members for more
effective participation in the foreign policy process.
2. To create a Texas based core of foreign policy leaders,
3. To impact the foreign policy of the United"States in the areas
of national security, diplomacy and international trade
(partioularly as it bears on our state.)
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During 1986 the Texas Aesooiation met goals 1 and 2 through the
following exceptional programs exclusively for its Directors,
February. Dallas - Private breakfast with Senator Sam Nunn who
w 1 e Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee
as of January, 1987.(3o members present)
Marsh Dallas - Private dinner with Brent Sooworoft, National
Seour ty Advisor to President Ford.(45 members present)
April Dallas - Public Foreign Policy Conference with M.I.T.
professor Lester Thurow, Deputy Director of OECD, Dr.
Jacob Meyerson, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury,
Richard barman among others.
June Washington, D.C. - Private two day briefing in State
Department with Secretary of State George Schultz,
Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Bernard Rogers,
SDI Director General James A. Abrahamson and a private
dinner for 25 of us with President Carter's National
Security Advisor Zbigniew Hrzezinski.
August Houston - Private dinner with President Reagan's former
Na ions Security Advisor, Bud McFarland. (85 members
attended)
September Mainz West German - Texas delegation trip by 12
members to an o Treaty Assembly upon invitation
from Secretary General Lord Carrington of NATO.
Briefings included dinner with West German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl and a talk by Lord Carrington.
Additionally, the Texas delegates were guests at the
residence of the U.S. Minister for West Berlin, went
thru Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin and went into
the field with the 11th Armored Calvary Regiment on the
East German border.
October Lakeway Resort, Austin, Texas - Texas Association's
rirst annual retreat with briefs by General Andrew
Goodpaster, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe,
General George Seignious, former head of U.S. Arms
Control Agency, Ambassador Richard Rubottom and others.
(78 attended)
These small, off the record meetings provided an excellent
opportunity for both education through meaningful dialogue with
foreign policy leaders (Schultz, Brezenaki, Carrington, Kohl,
McFarland, etc.) and interaction among our members (especially the
Washington briefing, the NATO Europe trip and the Lakeway Retreat.)
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Our third goal - Impact was met by the formation of a U.S. Mexico
working paper group y the ACU,S in Washington whioh will include
several Texans. Our concern for the magnitude of the Mexioo problem
for Texas was heard in Washington.
The one time ~nit.,lation leer and first years dues is $1,000 with
annual membership thereafter to be less than $500. Director's
Spouses are offered full participation in all Council aotivities.
During 1986 the. Texas Association rained and spent over $100,0.00 to
meeL its objectives.
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RAY L. HUNT
2900 INTERFIRST ONE BUILDING
DALLAS, TEXAS 75202
December 16, 1987
Mr. Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Room 7E44 Headquarters
Washington, DC 20505
I just wanted to drop you a short note to confirm that the Dallas
Assembly has combined their luncheon in January with two other groups,
the Charter 100 and the Atlantic Council. This should bring the total
number of the group to which you will speak to between 150 and 200
people. Bob, I am extremely pleased that you were able to rearrange
your schedule to accommodate this group as they are really looking
forward to hearing you speak.
I hope you and your family have a very joyous holiday season and I
am looking forward to meeting you for dinner on Monday, January 18th.
Sincerely,
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OFFICERS: ROY HERBERGER. PRESIDENT JOEL WILLIAMS, VICE PRESIDENT-PROGRAM SAM COATS, VICE PRESIDENT-SEMINAR
REGINA MONTOYA, SECRETARY RICHARD KNIGHT, TREASURER
DIRECTORS: BILLY ALLEN SAM COATS TOM DUNNING ROY GENE EVANS ROY HERBERGER RICHARD KNIGHT HARRIET MIERS
PHIL MONTGOMERY REGINA MONTOYA BILL MOORE ROWLAND ROBINSON KERN WILDENTHAL JOEL WILLIAMS
December 18, 1987
Dr. Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director For Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Room 7D 60, Headquarters
Washington, D. C. 20505
I am enclosing a 1987/88 Membership Roster for The Dallas
Assembly for your review. I have spoken to Ms. Carolyn
Barta, President of The Charter 100 who will be forwarding
similar information on. that organization to you as soon
as possible.
The meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 19th at 12:00
noon in The Pavillion Room of The Fairmont Hotel, 1717 N.
Akard, Dallas, TX [phone].
If you need any additional information, please give me a
call. I look forward to meeting you.
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REGINA MONTOYA, SECRETARY RICHARD KNIGHT, 1REASURER
DIRECTORS; BILLY A LLCN SAM COATS TOM DUNNING ROY GENE EVANS NOV HERBERGER RICHARD KNIGHT HARRIET MIERS
PHIL MONTGOMER' REGINA MONTOYA BILL MOORC ROWLAND ROBINSON KERN WILDENTHAL JOEL WILLIAMS
December 21, 1987
Dear Dallas Assembly Member:
The next meeting of the Dallas Assembly will be held on
Tuesday, January 19th at 12:00 noon in the Pavillion Room
of The Fairmont Hotel. We will be co-hosting the luncheon
with Charter 100.
the CIA. Mr. Gates will speak on
As Deputy Director, Mr. Gates is the principal deputy to
the Director, who heads the Intelligence Community (all
of the foreign intelligence agencies of the U. S.) and
directs the CIA.
Mr. Gates joined the CIA in 1966 and in 1974 was assigned
to the National Security Council staff. in 1979 he was
appointed to a series of administrative positions at the
CIA and served as National Intelligence Officer for the
Soviet Union prior to his appointment as Deputy Director
for Intelligence in 1982.
Mr. Gates received a BA degree from William and Mary,
Masters from Indiana University and Doctorate in Russian
and Soviet history from Georgetown University.
The guest fee for the luncheon is $23.00. Please return
the enclosed reply card as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Joel T. Williams, III
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CIA Public Affairs
1820 N. Fort Myer Dr.
Arlington, Va.22209
STAT
Charter 100 of Dallas is delighted to have the opportunity
to hear Dr. Robert M. Gates, along with the"1DTallas Assembly,
on Jan. 19. As program cochair for Charter 100, I am
happy to provide you with the materials you requested.
Charter 100 is a group of women who are professional
and civic leaders in Dallas from various areas: arts,
business, communication, education, government, health,
science, service and philanthropy. We try to draw outstanding
speakers from various walks of life for our membership,
such as Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and
U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. We generally participate
in programs once or twice a year with the Dallas Assembly.
Our membership is limited to 100 women, and includes such
prominent members as Dallas Mayor Annette Strauss and Rita
Clements, wife of the governor of Texas. The current president,
Carolyn Bacon, was for many years administrative assistant
to former U.S. Sen. John Tower of Texas. I am op-ed editor
at The Dallas Morning News. I have enclosed biographies
of Miss Bacon, as well as President-elect Ruth. Sharp and
the program cochairs.
If I can provide any further information, please call me
at my office: 214/977-8494. Again, we're looking forward
to hearing Dr. Gates.
Sincerely,
Carolyn Barta
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DALLAS COUNCIL
ON WORLD AFFAIRS
Executive Registry
87-2699X
Mr. RUSSELL H. PERRY
Chairman Emeritus
Mr. L. FRANK PITTS
Chairman of the Board
Mr. JACK C. VAUGHN, JR.
President
Mr. DAVID C. BRIGGS
Chairman of the
Executive Committee
MG WILLARD LATHAM. USA (Ret.)
Executive Director
Dr. NORMAN P. NEUREITER
First Vice President
Mr. LEE DRAIN
Secretary-Treasurer
Mr.ROBERTS.RENDELL
Programs
Mr. HAL JACKSON
Volunteers
Mr. EDWARD M. FJORDBAK
Mr. C. TERRY GRANADE
Mr. WALLACE L. HALL, Jr.
Mrs. BARBARA KERN
LES FEMMES DU MONDE:
LIDA LIGHT BLUE
General Chairman (1987)
Mrs. CAROLYN TAYLOR
General Chairman (1988)
DALLAS COMMITTEE FOR
FOREIGN VISITORS:
Mrs. CLYDE EMERY
General Chairman
Ms. NANCY RILEY
Chairman
Steering Committee
July 15, 1987
The Honorable Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington D.C. 20505
Your address to the members of the Dallas Council on World
Affairs on February 3, 1987 was the highlight of our 1987-1988
program year. The purpose of this letter is to extend another
invitation for you to visit Dallas. You may recall you were
unable to participate in a question and answer session due to
the Senate hearings so our members were pleased to hear that
you expressed a willingness to return to Dallas to speak again.
As you know, the Council is comprised of business and civic
leaders and people with an interest in international events and
topics. We would be delighted to provide you with a forum to
speak on any topic you wish.
January 1988 would be a good time for the Council; however,
we will be happy to accomodate your schedule.
We hope that you can accept our invitation to visit Dallas and
would look forward to making the necessary arrangements with your
staff. Coordination for a stay will be made with your staff by
Major General Willard Latham, USA (Ret.), Executive Director of
the Dallas Council on World Affairs.
Very sincerely,
Jack C. Vaugh(V Jr.
President
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THE DALLAS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIR -?.-
cordially invites you to
"~-~i f i
an evening forum with
Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Tuesday, January 19, 1988
The Stouffer Dallas Hotel
Ellipse Ballroom
5:30 P.M. Reception/6:00 P.M. Speech
Robert-M. Gates was sworn in as Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence on April 18, 1986. In this
position he is principal deputy to the Director, who
heads the U.S. Intelligence Community (all of the
foreign intelligence agencies of the United States)
and directs the Central Intelligence Agency.
Mr. Gates received his BA Degree from the College
of William and Mary in 1965, his Masters Degree in
history from Indiana University in 1966, and his
Doctorate in Russian and Soviet history from Georgetown
University in 1974.
Mr. Gates joined the Central Intelligence Agency
in 1966, serving as an intelligence analyst and as one
of two Assistant National Intelligence Officers for
Strategic Programs. In 1974, he was assigned to the
National Security Council Staff.
After more than five years at the National Security Council, serving three Presidents,
Mr. Gates returned to the Central Intelligence Agency in late 1979. He served as National
Intelligence Officer for the Soviet Union prior to his appointment as Deputy Director for
Intelligence in January 1982.
As Deputy Director for Intelligence for nearly four and one-half years, Mr. Gates
directed the Central Intelligence Agency's component responsible for all analysis and
production of finished intelligence. In September 1983, the Director appointed Mr. Gates
Chairman of the National Intelligence Council concurrent with his position as Deputy Director
for Intelligence. As Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Mr. Gates directed
the preparation of all National Intelligence Estimates prepared by the Intelligence.
Community. Mr. Gates served as Acting Director of Central Intelligence from December 18,
1986 to May 26, 1987.
Mr. Gates is the recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the Intelligence
Medal of Merit and the Arthur S. Fleming Award, which is presented annually to the ten
most outstanding young men and women in the Federal Service.
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Enclosed is my check for $ for tickets ($5.00 - Members and $10.00 for
Non-members) for the reception and lecture honoring Dr. Robert M. Gates on Tuesday,
January 19, 1988, 5:30 P.M. at the Stouffer Dallas Hotel, Ellipse Ballroom.
NAME TELEPHONE
No tickets will be mailed
Reservations must be made 48 hours in advance
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ARE YOU INFORMED ON WORLD EVENTS?
DALLAS COUNCIL
ON .WORLD AFFAIRS
upcoming programs-
INTELLIGENCE!
DR. ROBERT M. GATES
Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Tuesday, January..19,1988
U.S./ CANADA TRADE!`
Panel discussion on the U.S./Canada Trade Agreement
The HONORABLE DONALD MACDONALD ;
Former Minister of Finance of Canada
and
The HONORABLE FREDJONES HALL
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European,
Wednesday, January 27, 1988
An address oy'
HIS EXCELLENCY MOHAMMED HOSNI MUBARAK
President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Saturday, January 30, 1987
The Dallas Council on World Affairs is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated
to the. education of world events and cultures. If you are interested In further
Information on our'programs or in becoming a member please call 748.5663
2U5Ir~j ESS SECTlQ/Aj
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DALLAS COUNCIL
ON WORLD AFFAIRS
Mr. RUSSELL H. PERRY
Chairman Emeritus
Mr. L FRANK PITTS
Chairman of the Board
Mr. JACK C. VAUGHN, JR.
President
Mr. DAVID C. BRIGGS
Chairman of the
Executive Committee
MG WILARD LATHAM, USA (Ret.)
Executive Director
Dr. NORMAN P. NEUREITER
First Vice President
Mr. LEE DRAIN
Secretary-Treasurer
Mr. ROBERT S. RENDELL
Programs
Mr. HAL JACKSON
Volunteers
Mr. EDWARD M. FJORDBAK
Mr. C. TERRY GRANADE
Mr. WALLACE L HALL Jr.
Mrs. BARBARA KERN
LES FEMMES DU MONDE:
LIDA LIGHT BLUE
General Chairman (1987)
Mrs. CAROLYN TAYLOR
General Chairman 11988)
DALLAS COMMITTEE FOR
FOREIGN VISITORS:
Mrs. CLYDE EMERY
General Chairman
Ms. NANCY RILEY
Chairman
Steering Committee
THE HONORABLE ROBERT M. GATES, Deputy Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, will be the honored speaker at an evening
forum hosted by the Dallas Council on World Affairs. He will
be speaking on INTELLIGENCE & NATIONAL SECURITY.
* * * * * * * *
Tuesday, January 19, 1988
The Stouffer Dallas Hotel
Ellipse Ballroom
5:30 P.M. Reception/6:00 P.M. Speech
Robert M. Gates was sworn in as Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence on April 18,
1986. Mr. Gates joined the C.I.A. in 1966,
serving as an intelligence analyst and as
one of two Assistant National Intelligence
Officers for Strategic Programs. In 1974,
he was assigned to the National Security
Council Staff. After more than five years
at the National Security Council, serving
three Presidents, Mr. Gates returned to the
C.I.A. in late 1979.
Mr. Gates served as National Intelligence Officer for the Soviet Union
prior to his appointment as Deputy Director for Intelligence in January
1982. As Deputy Director for Intelligence for nearly four and one-half
years, Mr. Gates directed the Central Intelligence Agency's component
responsible for all analysis and production of finished intelligence.
In September 1983, the Director appointed Mr. Gates Chairman of the
National Intelligence Council concurrent with his position as Deputy
Director for Intelligence. As Chairman of the National Intelligence
Council, Mr. Gates directed the preparation of all National Intelligence
Estimates prepared by the Intelligence Community. He served as Acting
Director of Central Intelligence from December 18, 1986 to May 26, 1987.
Mr. Gates is the recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the
Intelligence Medal of Merit and Arthur S. Fleming Award, which is
presented annually to the ten most outstanding young men and women in
the Federal Service.
Reservations must be made by 4:00 Friday, January 15, 1988 (this includes
the media) by calling the Council office at 748-5663.
Media Representatives welcome - free of charge!
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Executive P^dis;,e
88-0102X
TRAMMELL GROW
December 29, 1987
The Honorable Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
We are pleased to know that you are coming to Dallas,
and I shall be in the audience when you speak on
Tuesday night.
A group of 25 men; being, approximately, the CEO's
of the largest employers in North Texas, meet
occasionally for breakfast, particularly when we might
have the opportunity to visit with important persons
with interesting messages - as the case could be on
January 20.
We would like to have such a breakfast on January
20 and invite you to be with us and make a short and
impromptu t a l k , followed by d i s c u s s i o n . I f poss ibl e
for you to then be with us, we would be meeting at
the Cafe on the second floor of Stouffer's Hotel at
7:30 a.m. and out by 8:45 a.m.
If your schedule permits this meeting, would you please
call me or have your secretary call Mrs. Miller at
( 21 4 ) 9 79-511 2 .
I will look forward to hearing' L.com
Best regards,
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The New York Times
The Washington Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Christian Science Monitor
New York Daily News
USA Today
The Chicago Tribune
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Date ~9 STN. / 4_7
EDITORIALS
IRAN ABUSE
Torture victims reveal the improbity of arms sale
A recently disclosed C A. iemorandum fi-
nally offers some insights into the National
Security Council's motives for the Iranian
arms deal. The memo written by CIA Direc-
tor William Casey is purported to disclose
that that trade of arms for hostages was to be
cloaked in the guise of trying to create an
opening with Iranian moderates.
Vice Adm. John Poindexter and Lt. Col.
Oliver North probably realized that in sell-
ing arms to the ayatollahs they were bolster-
ing the slipping power base of the religious
fanatics. Surely, they would have known
that they would have had to reach outside of
Ruhollah Khomeini's regime for true ele-
ments of moderation. But apparently they
didn't care.
One of the most damning revelations
about the Khomeini regime and thus the im-
probity of the arms deal comes in the testi-
mony of three Iranian torture victims who
visited the United States recently to tell
their story. In escaping from prison, they
were spared the fate of the nearly 50,000 Ira-
nians who were tortured and executed. Un-
inhibited in revealing her deformities, one
young woman of 25 described how she had
been whipped so severely with electric
cables that the soles of her feet had to be
reconstructed with skin from her thighs, an
ovary had to be surgically removed, her ear-
drum was permanently damaged from blows
to the head, and she still suffers the effects
of hemorrhaging in her kidney. Another
woman in her 20s, who survived psychologi-
cal torture and confinement in a 31/2-foot-
square cell while blindfolded, suffered per-
manent impairment of vision, a severed in-
testine and torn rib cage from the beatings.
She also was forced to watch her husband
being executed.
Members of the Iranian Majlis, including
the bogus moderates whom North met dur-
ing his secret trip to Tehran, attended these
torture sessions, which according to the re-
gime's prosecutor was "an obligatory act of
the righteous." Some, like Majlis member
Hadi Ghaffari, reportedly raped teen-age
girls before these young prisoners were put
to death.
The accounts of these victims are a scald-
ing portrayal of political depravity in Iran,
which tracks with the evidence being un-
covered by Amnesty International and other
international human rights agencies. -
The Unitt.? tes should be deeply dis-
turbed by these accounts of torture. But it
should also feel called upon to act by identi-
fying and nurturing the true moderates, the
democratic elements among the anti-Kho-
meini groups gaining support within Ira-
nian society.
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The New York Times
The Washington Times
The wail street Journal
The Christian Science Monitor
New York Daily News
USA Today
The Chicago Tribune
Date
SPY GAP
Lack of intelligence information damages U.S.
The statement by Robert McFarlane that for very long in such a state of heedless igno-
the United States had virtually no independ- rance.
ent intelligence information on Iran before It may be true that bad judgment was as
the ill-fated arms deal indicates the alarm- much at fault for the Iran blunder as poor
ing state of affairs in that vital part of policy- intelligence, but that hardly argues against
making. the need to find better ways of getting the
Nor was McFarlane alone in that opinion: facts for ourselves. Any policy that must be
Members of Congress investigating the af- devised without accurate, dependable infor-
fair have said they see the lack of independ- mation for the policy-makers to go on is a
ently gathered intelligence data, and the re- policy with two strikes against it from the
sulting dependence on Israeli sources, as a beginning.
major cause of the mess. It is a problem that William Casey had made a start in re-
has been around for a while - too long, in building the system before he was struck.
fact, for a nation that lives in a dangerous down by cancer. It is time to continue the
world. process, name a vigorous successor to Casey
The most obvious cause of the breakdown and get on with the job of putting this coun-
in U.S. intelligence was the Watergate era, in try back into the front rank as it once was.
which it became the thing to do to expose Should that successor be a trusted associ-
(and therefore disable and dismantle) much ate of the president's who can be depended
of the intelligence-gathering system. But our on to carry out partisan themes while direct
society has an aversion to the spy business ing the intelligence operations? Or should
that goes back much farther; it is a business, that successor be a professional manager
heaven knows, at which we have never who will build a quality service and let the
shown much natural talent. political chips fall where they may? For the
Be that as it may, no nation, certainly no agency's sake, it would help to keep the par-
superpower, can live in the arena of global tisan politics on Capitol Hill and find some-
politics without an independent system for one who can concentrate on building an in-
gathering and evaluating intelligence infor- telligence agency that knows what's going
mation. It cannot, at any rate, expect to live on.
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IRAN REPORT
The New York Times
The Washington Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Christian Science Monitor
New York Daily News
USA Today
The Chicago Tribune
Date
Senators' work provides a good foundation
Although the just-released Senate Inte11Adviser Robert McFarlane and the senators
gence Committee report on the Iran-contra themselves.
affair draws no firm conclusions about the
underlying reasons for the foreign policy de-
bacle, it still should provide a useful guide
for the more extensive congressional inves-
tigations that are getting under way.
The report, which is the
product of an inquiry by
the Senate panel last year,
reveals few new episodes
in the sale of arms to Iran
and the attempted diver-
sion of some of the profits
to the Nicaraguan rebels.
But the report does serve
an important purpose in
Unfortunately, the report is far from a
complete document. The lack of cooperation
from key players such as Lt. Col. Oliver
North and Vice Adm. John Poindexter pro-
duced some gaping holes in the committee's
providing a more detailed description of findings. Yet by acknowledging its
what already has been reported by others. shortcomings and pointing to the unre-
And it spells out several significant ques- solved issues itself, the Intelligence Commit-
tions about the affair that still need to be an- tee in effect has defined the task facing an-
swered. vestigators for the House and Senate select
The Intelligence Committee's findings are committees.
something of a double-edged sword for Pres- Those unanswered questions include: To
ident Reagan. The administration no doubt what extent did private individuals partici-
was eager to have the panel's work made pate in the arms sales and the diversion of
public, because it knew the panel did not funds to the contras? Why would the admin-
turn up any direct evidence indicating that istration use private citizens instead of gov-
the president approved - or even knew of ernment officials in implementing foreign
- the diversion of funds to the contras. But policy? Who within the administration ap-
the report did uncover evidence that openly proved the diversion of funds? Where did all
calls into question Reagan's longstanding: of that money end up? Were any laws broken
assertion that he was not attempting to trade: in the process? And most important of all,
arms for the release of the U.S. hostages in. why was any of this done in the first place?
Lebanon. ''" One thing is for sure already, however:
Just as troubling, the Intelligence Com- The congressional investigators have their
mittee found that administration officials work cut out for them. The inquiry by the
routinely lied to one another and to Con- Intelligence Committee underscored some
gress. Testimony before the panel, for exam- serious problems in the nation's foreign pol-
pie, portrays CIipirector William Casey as icy apparatus. And the sooner that those
misleading bdth former National Security shortcomings can be corrected, the better.
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The Washington Post
The New York Times
The Washington Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Christian Science Monitor
New York Daily News
USA Today
The Chicago Tribune
Date F'Ed
(Review operation of CIA
HE RESIGNATION of William J. Casey
as director of the CIA creates an opportu-
nity for the Reagan administration and
the Senate to examine the activities of the intel-
ligence agency in recent years with particular
emphasis on its role in secret arms sales to Iran
as well as its overall performance.
The administration wisely decided to
name a professional to succeed Mr. Casey, who
is a long-time friend of President Reagan from
'`California.
However, the appointment of Robert
Gates, a 20-year veteran of the CIA and the
"'White House National Security Council under
three presidents. should be reviewed carefully
by the Senate Intelligence Committee during
confirmation hearings later this month. Mr.
Gates, who is considered an expert on the Sovi-
et Union, has been operating the agency as dep-
uty director during Mr. Casey's illness.
Mr. Casey'., who is recovering from surgery
for a brain tumor. signed his post amid con-
troversy over the role of the CIA in the secret
sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of some
profits from those sales to buy, arms for the
contras in Nicaragua.
Despite Mr. Casey's attempt to character-
ize his role as minimal, a staff report released in
January by the Senate Intelligence Committee
criticized the director for- giving misleading in-
formation to the committee last year. Some
members of Congress have also been critical of
the CIA for failing to abide by legal require-
ments to inform congressional intelligence over-
sight committees about the sale of arms to Iran.
Since the mistakes of the CIA are more
likely to be publicly aired than its clandestine
successes, it will be some time before Mr. Ca-
sey's impact on the agency can be fairly judged.
The extent and emphasis of Mr. Gates'
participation in CIA policies in recent years is
riot clear. He received some praise in a book by
John Ranelagh. "The Agency: The Rise and De-
cline of the CIA." Mr. Gates, who returned to
the CIA in 1980 from a stint with the National
Security Council, was credited with defining an
expanded role for the CIA and dealing with
some knotty problems, including recruitment of
agency operatives, relations with congressional
committees, the problem of obtaining reliable
information from other nations and the need to
broaden the reservoir of intelligence obtained
by the CIA.
All of those areas are critical to the suc-
cessful operation of a revitalized intelligence
gathering agency. But a careful look at the
CIA's recent history will be necessary in order
to focus its role for the future.
Now is an excellent time to conduct such
an analysis.
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Control sale of weapons
T TURNS OUT the secret arms sales La_
' Iran sanctioned by the Reagan adminis-
tration are but a small part of the total
arms transfer to that nation during the
past-three or four years. It also turns out
that attempts have been made to funnel a
vast array of military equipment to the Ira-
nians through private sources and third na-
tions, despite laws to the contrary.
Congress should clamp down on these
dealings, including private arms shipments
to the contra rebels in Central America, be-
fore this country suffers further embarrass-
ment.
A bill has been proposed in Congress
that might be helpful. It would require con-
gressional approval of most arms exports to
all but America's closest allies. As could be
expected, lobbyists for the arms industry
are opposing the measure, as well as the
administration, which claims it would in-
fringe on the executive branch's foreign-
policy prerogatives.
But something must be done in light
of revelations that a variety of people, in-
cluding retired U.S. military officers and
:ormer CIA employees, have been engaging
in what'r to be illegal sales of arms to
Iran. The transfers involved some fairly so-
phisticated missiles and replacement parts
that are badly needed by the Iranians as
they prosecute their war against Iraq.
The New York Times says it has infor-
mation that high Pentagon intelligence offi-
cials learned some time ago that private
arms dealers were trying to ship 39 fighter
planes and vast amounts of other weapons
to Iran, but they did not attempt to stop the
sales because they hoped to gain intelli-
gence data on Iran. One of the most bizarre
aspects of the Iranscam episode has been
that several people who were arrested as a
result of a government "sting" operation
and indicted for attempting illegal arms
sales to Iran are now proclaiming their in-
nocence on the grounds that the administra-
tion in effect sanctioned their dealings.
U.S. arms sales to foreign nations that
are not close allies, or to factions that may
or may not have our best interests at heart,
should be tightly controlled, not only by the
administration, but also by Congress.
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faulted
on Iran
Nominee criticizes
not telling Congress
By Richard Whittle
Washington Bureau of The News
WASHINGTON - Robert Gates,
the deputy CIA director nominated
to head the spy agency, told the Sen-
ate Intelligence Committee on Tues-
day that the CIA should have fought
a White House order to conceal the
Iran arms sales from Congress.
"The CIA made an error in not
pressing to reverse the directive ...
once the operation began to string
out in February 1986," Gates ac-
knowledged under intense and crit-
ical questioning. "The entire under-
taking was a unique activity that we
are all determined not to repeat."
Pressed on the issue by Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen,. D-Texas, Gates de-
clared that he would "contemplate
resignation" as director of central
intelligence if the president ever
refused for more than a few days to
let him inform Congress of a covert
operation after it had begun.
But the 43-year-old career intelli-
gence analyst - who would be the
youngest CIA director in history if
confirmed by the Senate to replace
former CIA chief William Casey -
defended his failure last fall to tell
the committee of CIA suspicions
that Iranian arms-sale profits had
been diverted to the Nicaraguan
contras, as the rebels are known.
Before Attorney General Edwin
Meese disclosed the Iran-contra
connection Nov. 25, Gates testified,
"I regarded what little information
I had as worrisome, but extraordi.
narily flimsy."
Gates also reiterated that, as he
said Dec. 4 in closed-door testimony
before the Intelligence Committee,
the CIA "actively shunned" infor-
mation about funding for the con-
tras during the period Congress had
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18 February 1987
barred direct US. involvement with
the rebels.
According to a transcript of his
Dec. 4 testimony, which was re-
leased Tuesday by the committee,
Gates said, "We actively discour-
aged people from telling us things.
We did not pursue lines of question-
ing."
Democrats and Republicans
alike repeatedly criticized Gates for
failing to act more forcefully on
what he knew, saying the affair had
revived longstanding distrust be-
tween Congress and the executive
branch over intelligence oversight.
Gates pledged to seek improved co-
operation in the future.
Much of the questioning during
the daylong open hearing centered
on why Gates and Casey, 73, who re-
signed after surgery for a brain tu-
mor in December, failed to investi-
gate thoroughly after learning in
early October that the Iranian
money might have been diverted.
Rather than inform Congress,
the Justice Department or the Presi-
dent's Intelligence Oversight
Board, Casey and Gates took their
information to then-National Secur-
ity Adviser John Poindexter, who
resigned on the day that Meese re-
vealed the Iran-contra link.
"Were I to confront similar cir-
cumstances again, I think I would
be more aggressive in raising ques-
tions," Gates said.
It was unclear whether Gates' ac-
tions had persuaded any members
of the committee to vote against
him for CIA director. But Sen. David
Boren, D-Okla., the committee
chairman, said Gates would face
further questioning in closed ses-
sion and a vote would await release
of a report on the Iran affair by the
presidential board headed by for-
mer Sen. John Tower, R-Texas.
The report is due next week.
Boren said the panel was withhold-
ing its vote to see whether the
Tower board, which last week
gained access to National Security
Council backup computer files, had
uncovered any new information
about the role Gates and the CIA
played in the Iran affair.
Gates said the CIA's top Middle
East intelligence officer had told
him on Oct. 1 that he suspected
funds were being diverted from the
operation, which was run by the Na-
tional Security Council staff out of
the White House using American
and Iranian middlemen to ship the
weapons and handle the money.
The officer's "speculation," as
Gates called it, was based on evi-
dence that Iran had been over-
charged on its purchases of anti-
tank and anti-aircraft missiles and
that the private citizens involved in
the Iran deals also were involved in
private contra aid efforts.
Gates said he took this informa.
tion to Casey on Oct. 7 - the same
day New York businessman Roy
Furmark, a former law client of Ca-
sey's - warned the CIA chief that
middlemen who had financed the
Iran deals were "unhappy" because
they had lost money and they might
reveal the operation's existence.
On Oct. 9, Gates and Casey had
lunch with Marine Lt. Col. Oliver
North, the national security aide
who was fired for his. role in the
Iran-contra affair, and North made
a "cryptic remark" about "Swiss
(bank) accounts and the contras,"
Gates testified. But Gates said nei-
ther he nor Casey pursued the re-
mark.
One reason 'they. handled the
matter as they did, Gates said, was
that the CIA had "tried to build in a
buffer" between itself and- the pri-
vate contra aid network because
Congress had banned CIA aid to the
rebels in 1984 and kept.tight restric-
tions on agency contact with then
in 1985.
Gates also told the committee
that the Iran operation and Central
America were matters to which Ca-1
sey paid more attention under an
"informal division of labor."
Noting that President Reagan
had signed an order on Jan. 17,1986,
that specifically forbade the CIA
from reporting the Iran operation
to Congress, Gates also said that
with no hard evidence of illegality,
he had been under no obligation to
pass on the CIA's suspicions to Con-
gress or other authorities.
Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine,
told Gates after five hours of ques-
tioning that he believed Gates
failed to press the matter because
he was an "ambitious young man"
who, having become deputy direc-
tor of central intelligence only last
April, was "the new kid on the
block."
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CIA nominee, labels Iran
policy `a bad idea'
By Richard Whittle
Washington Bureau of The New
WASHINGTON - Robert Gates,
President Reagan's nominee to suc-
ceed William Casey as CIA director,
testified Wednesday that he told Ca-
sey last September that the secret
U.S. arms deals with Iran should be
stopped.
"I told the director that I thought
the entire activity should be called
off immediately and the whole pol-
icy was a bad idea," Gates told the
Senate Intelligence Committee dur-
ing his second day of confirmation
hearings. Gates said he made the re-
mark after two more Americans
were kidnapped in Beirut.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who
emerged as Gates' chief critic dur-
ing two days of confirmation hear-
ings, charged him with contradict-
ing his testimony during a closed
session with the panel on Dec. 4. In
that session, Gates said he never
told his superiors that the Iran
arms sales were "bad policy."
Gates responded that his Dec. 4
testimony had been hastily pre-
pared and was in error on that
point. He said that in preparing for
his confirmation hearings he had
been reminded by a CIA officer of
his September remarks to Casey.
After the hearing, Gates was
asked by reporters how Casey -
widely viewed as backing the policy
of trading arms for hostages and
trying to open relations with Iran
- responded when Gates told him
the policy was "a bad idea."
"Let me just say that I think the
director was not necessarily as en-
thusiastic as he may have been por-
trayed in the media," Gates said.
Specter also accused Gates - the
CIA's No. 2 official and acting direc-
tor since Casey, 73, underwent sur-
gery for a cancerous brain tumor in
December - of trying to "distance
yourself" from "skimpy, scanty ...
really misleading testimony" that
Casey gave the panel on the Iran
arms affair last Nov. 21. In that testi-
mony, Casey did not tell the com-
mittee that he had learned that
some of the profits from the Iran
arms sales had been diverted to the
Nicaraguan rebels, known as con-
tras.
Gates acknowledged that he or-
dered the drafting of Casey's testi-
mony, but he told the committee on
Dec. 4 that he was in the Middle
East during much of the time Ca-
sey's remarks were being prepared.
He also said the testimony was nec-
essarily incomplete because the CIA
was still gathering facts on its role
in the National Security Council op-
eration when Casey testified.
Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine,
who is the panel's vice chairman,
declared at the end of the hearings
that "no new information" had
been gathered in the grilling of
Gates and that he would "guess"
that Gates would be confirmed by
the Senate as the CIA's 14th direc-
tor.
Sen. David Boren, D-Okla., the
committee chairman, said the panel
would vote on Gates' nomination af-
ter a closed hearing to be held in
two weeks, after release of a report
on the scandal by the commission
headed by former Sen. John Tower,
R-Texas. Boren refused to predict
whether Gates would be confirmed.
Gates, who at 43 would be the
youngest CIA director in history,
told the committee that as director
he would strongly resist any future
attempts to bypass regular proce-
dures for covert operations by us-
ing the National Security Council
or other agencies.
"I would not tolerate the NSC
being involved in operational intel-
ligence activities," Gates pledged.
"One of the most important lessons
of this affair is the dangers of allow-
ing people who are not in CIA and
who do not know how to do these
things carry out these activities."
In their questioning Wednesday,
Specter and Sen. Bill Bradley, D-
N.J., focused on why the CIA failed
to inform Congress that an.. air
transport company it secretly
owned had been used in late No-
vember 1985 to fly a shipment of 18
anti-aircraft missiles, identified as
"oil drilling equipment." from Is-
rael to Iran.
After Jan. 17, 1986, the CIA wall
barred by an order, or .finding,"
signed by Reagan from reporting
the Iran operation to Congress -L
but no such finding existed whet
the November 1985 flight was mid1.
Gates said he had no direct
knowledge of how the November
1985 flight was handled because at
the time he was in charge of thi;
CIA's analytical staff and had no rd-
sponsibility for operations.
Specter argued that "the Into -
gence Committee should have b
informed that a covert activity
been undertaken without a fin -
ing."
Gates said that, as acting direct.
tor, he had told the CIA's director of
operations that no such activity i$
to be undertaken in the future with-
out a presidential finding to author-
ize it in advance.
"It will be in writing soon. 1.
Gates said of his order.
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"You basically didn't want to
rock the boat," Cohen said. "You're
not prepared to lay your career on
the line for a program you didn't
have much to do with."
After further discussion, Gates
conceded that, "I didn't want to
challenge the program."
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THE CIA, AMERICA'S premier distiller
of information from around the world,
apparently has some members as ad-
contras were being funded, in part, because
we were concerned it would get us involved
in crossing the line imposed by the law.
And so we actively discouraged people from
telling us things."?
Mr. Gates' testimony before the Senate
Intelligence Committee raises serious ques-
tions about promoting him to director of the
agency. A career intelligence professional,
Mr. Gates seemed all too willing to turn a
blind eye to events that were crucial to
American foreign policy in two sensitive
parts of the world: the Mideast and Central
America.
Of course, that doesn't mean everyone
in the agency was deliberately uninformed.
It isn't clear at this point how much former
ept at avoiding information as they are at
ferreting it out.
What else can be made of the testimo-
ny of Robert Gates, the CIA's deputy direc-
tor, that, "We didn't want to know how the
director William J. Casey knew about the
arms-sale operation or how deeply he was
involved in it.
As for Mr. Gates, he came across in
the hearings as a careerist eager to protect
his own position. That's hardly unusual, but
it'doesn't suggest that he will be a director
to equal Richard Helms or John McCone.
It may be that given the current crisis
surrounding a lame-duck administration,
Mr. Gates, who, after all, is already on
board, is the best person available to take
over the job he now holds on an acting
basis. Chances are others who might be
more distinguished choices are unwilling to
sign on for only a two-year hitch in the
waning days of the Reagan presidency.
But the Senate is well advised to hold
up a final decision on the nomination until
after the panel headed by former Texas
Sen. John Tower completes its investigation
of the Iran-contra affair. Only after review-
ing the CIA's role in the arms-sale operation
can the Senate make an informed decision
about a new leader for the agency.
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EDITORIALS
WHAT NEXT?
Tower report isn't the last word on affair
The Tower commis-
sion's scathing critique of
the White House's han-
dling of the Iran-contra af-
fair is by no means the end
of the matter. It simply
can't be. There still is too
much unfinished business
requiring the president's
and Congress' attention.
^ For starters, PrpWent
Reagan must respond to
thrtammission's damning
conclusions and go much
further than he has previ-
ously in accepting the
blame for the Iran-contra
debacle. He needs to admit
in his address to the nation
Wednesday-if not sooner
- that he made serious
mistakes.
^ At the same time, the
president needs to change
the detached leadership style he has fol-
lowed for six years and to install advisers
who will brief him on all White House opera-
tions. He has made an excellent start by re-
placing chief of staff Donald Regan with
Howard Baker.
The former Senate majority leader should
buy the president a lot of credibility with
both Congress and the public. As a key
player in the congressional inquiry of the
Watergate affair, Baker enjoys a wide reputa-
tion for getting at the truth and doing what
is right, regardless of the consequences.
The time also may be ripe for a Cabinet
shakeup. With two years remaining in
Reagan's presidency, there still is plenty of
time for the administration to pursue its
agenda. The president shouldn't have to put
up with advisers whose only objective at this
point is to serve out their terms.
^ The Tower commission's findings pro-
vide a good foundation for the work of the
congressional committees
investigating the Iran-con-
tra affair. Above all else,
those panels need to find
out what happened to the
money from the arms sales
to Iran. If the contras
didn't get it, who did?
Unlike the commission,
the congressional investi.
gations can issue subpoe.
nas and compel witnesses
to testify by granting them
immunity from prosecu.
tion. But the committees
shouldn't let anyone off
the hook too quickly - es-
pecially key players like Lt.
Col. Oliver North and Vice
Adm. John Poindexter,
who apparently deceived
other advisers and the
president himself.
^ The Tower commis-
sion's report also raises the possibility that
.some high-ranking officials broke laws in
both the Iran arms sale and the diversion of
funds to the contras. The independent coun-
sel. Lawrence Walsh, needs to determine
whether there was any criminality and, if so,
to prosecute.
0 And finally, the Senate should delay
confirming Robert Gates as CIA head until it
is convinced that he didn't help tailor the
agency's assessment of Iran to fit the needs
of White House policy-makers. As the Tower
commission has noted, the CIA can't let polit-
ical judgments influence its -aMlysis.
The president no doubt would like to put
the Iran-contra debacle behind him and to
get on with other business as quickly as pos-
sible. But that just isn't going to happen, at
least not until he faces up to the magnitude
of the crisis and acts to correct the
weaknesses in himself and his administra-
tion.
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Date?
tes' withdrawal right move
ert Gates as director of the CIA was
the only logical action President Rea-
gan could take if he is to restore some mea-
sure of his administration's credibility along
with public confidence in his ability to han-
dle foreign policy.
The Tower Commission made it clear
that regardless of whether one views the
Iran affair as an arms-for-hostages deal or a
'legitimate political overture to Iranian
"moderates," the operation was fatally
flawed because it lacked an indispensable
ingredient: accurate intelligence information
and analysis.
And blame for that breach must be
laid partly at the feet of Mr. Gates who, as
deputy director for intelligence, was
charged with acquiring critically needed in-
formation on the intricacies of the various
negotiations. But, according to Sen. Bill
Bradley of New Jersey, the CIA "tailored its
intelligence assessment on Iran to fit the
needs of the policy makers of the White
House."
More importantly, the Tower Commis-
sion report was a litany of missed opportu-
nities, faulty analyses and just plain silliness
ranging from sending a kosher cake baked
in Israel to the Ayatollah Khomeini to ig-
noring Iranian interest in expanded political
contacts and focusing narrowly on the hos-
tages and weapons.
It is readily apparent that the CIA
needs a different breed of leadership. The
world's pre-eminent intelligence gathering
organization must be directed by someone
who has a firm knowledge of foreign affairs,
understands the need for accurate intelli-
gence, respects the law, has personal integ-
rity and is not tainted by the Iran-contra
affair.
Mr. Reagan and the CIA would be bet-
ter served by a director of national stature
- like former Texas Sen. John Tower, who
did a fine job as head of the Tower Com-
mission, or former CIA Deputy Director
Bobby Inman, who was an advocate of lim-
ited use of covert action and would not like-
ly have tolerated the privatization of foreign
policy.
By withdrawing the Gates nomination,
President Reagan has indicated he is seri-
ously heeding the recommendations of the
Tower Commission and moving to shore up
his administration. Replacing Mr. Gates
with a highly qualified nominee would con-
tinue that restoration process.
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12 April 1987 '
Ex-agent recounts game of
Former CIA Havana operative finds
g recent U.S. indignation hypocritical
By Richard Whittle
Washington Bureau of The News.
WASHINGTON - Melvin Beck is
73 and retired today, but back in
1960 he was working under "deep
cover" for the in Havana. That
1@aves him especially bemused by
the furor over Soviet "bugging" of
the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
..In Cuba, I tried to bug the Soviet
embassy," said.Beck;whose exploits
in Cuba ,and Mexico as a CIA spy
during the 1960x:-Were grudgingly
cpnfirmed as authentic by other re-
tired CIA men.
Beck find's hypocrisy in the out-
rage expt^essed by President
Reagan, Secretary.o State George
Shultz and other US.-officials at ap-
pprent Soviet efforts to plant eaves-
dropping devices in the US. Em-
bassy in Moscow.
'"They're being very self-right-
epus about it," he said, "but it's just
nonsense, because this is the name
of the game, :.and It always 'has
been."
The "game".is espionage, and no
one denies that the United States,
like other world powers, has always
been a player. But in the past week,
officials from Reagan on down have
contended that the Soviets went be-
ypnd the rules in Moscow.
"I intend to say to the Soviets
that they can't expect to continue,
iicessantly, massively, to work to
create a hostile environment for
our people overseas without cost to
themselves and to their relations
With us," Shultz declared before de-
parting for long-planned arms talks
i;L Moscow this week.
Others say the Soviet use of
women to compromise Marine
gliards at the U.S. Embassy is a de-
parture in espionage immorality.
But Beck and other intelligence vet-
erans say such indignation is un-
founded at best, at worst disingenu-
ous.
? "It shouldn't be a surprise to any-
one that all major powers engage in
espionage when they can," said Da-
v~d Atlee Phillips, who retired from
the CIA in 1975 as head of its Latin
America operations.
"Certainly the record indicates
that the United States has done it
just as the Soviet Union has," Phil-
lips said. "Morality for intelligence
officers might be quite firm at
home. But once beyond the two-
mile limit, there's a debatable posi-
tion with morality and personal
ethics to get the job done."
It was during the early days of
Fidel Castro's Cuba that Beck, Phil-
lips' former colleague, was ordered
to ferret out in advance where the
Soviet Union would locate its new
embassy in Havana, then hide elec-
tronic devices inside so the CIA
could eavesdrop on the Russians.
After some "research," Beck re-
called from his home in a Washing-
ton suburb, he and his CIA col-
leagues decided a Havana hotel was
the likely site.
"We cased the joint," Beck said.
"Found out there was a very lovely
room at the top of this hotel, the
penthouse. We decided that would
probably be the ambassador's office
and where meetings of the KGB and
other senior officials would be
held. So the object of the exercise
was to bug this room."
To get into the penthouse before
the Soviets moved in, Beck and his
peers rented a room in the hotel
and staged a party. During the
fiesta, a local CIA agent and two
technicians from the CIA's Langley,
Va., headquarters sneaked upstairs
and into the penthouse with a skele-
ton key and planted bugs in the
ceiling.
"We thought we were set for the
day when the Soviets would occupy
that site," Beck said. But then, he
said, "almost the impossible hap-
pened."
The Soviets chose another loca-
tion, in a Havana suburb. Beck
found out about it one Saturday
morning when a Cuban electrician
sent out to look over the prospec-
tive embassy chanced to knock on
the door of Beck's home - a house
in the same suburb - by mistake.
"He asked me in Spanish, 'Is this
the Soviet Embassy?' I knew then
that the other location was out, and
it was much too late to do anything
about it," Beck said. "Out of all the
people in Havana, he came to my
door."
As for morality in espionage, he
recounted with amusement how
later in his career, when he was
working in Mexico City, "I also
tried to entrap a Soviet code clerk at
their embassy by putting a prosti-
tute in his way."
Beck and other CIA officers got
as far as hiring a prostitute from
Vera Cruz and renting an apart-
ment for her in Mexico City, where
she was to lure the Soviet code
clerk. The CIA men would then pho-
tograph him in compromising acts.
"We had this operation rolling,"
Beck said, "kqt-,jhen the_prnstitute
chickened out:"?!
The Sovietsk apparently were
more successful in Moscow, where
two Marine rguards allegedly were
so thoroughly,:spduced by'Soviet
women that they not only allowed
Soviet agefits.into the embassy but
escorted them asthey spied.
The shpck of those charges has
focused.new and; intense attention.
on equally embarassing suspicions
that the Soviets were given. the op-
pdrtunity to. burg; I lie new ~~,
bossy office building, or ch' a :-e
during construction.
Concrete parts -of the chancery
were fabricated by the Soviets at a
site where no U.S. personnel were
allowed to inspect the work.
"No one can explain to me the
logic of it," said John Ziolkowski, an
aide to Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
With two other Senate aides, Ziol-
kowski studied the new embassy
and reported on its massive con-
struction and security problems
last September - months before
the issue came into public focus.
The reaction to the security
breaches has been loud and angry
in Congress.
During a hearing last week on
FBI Director William Webster's
nomination to head the CIA, Sen.
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C., said
U.S. law carries a penalty of up to 10
years in prison and a fine of up to
$10,000 for officials who allow gov-
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ernment secrets to be compromised
through "gross negligence."
Hollings said that law should be
applied to Arthur Hartman, who in
early March completed five years-as
U.S. ambassador to Moscow, and
Frederick Mecke, who as the State
Department's regional security offi-
cer..in the Soviet Union was in
charge. of managing the Marine
guards in Moscow and Leningrad.
"If you really want to get secur-
ity In' the embassies around this
world, you nail an ambassador and
a regional security officer and you
won't have to worry about the Ma-
rines and whether they're married
or old or nude or what," Hollings
said.
"How nice," Hartman replied
grimly when informed by tele-
phone of Hollings' view. "I don't
doubt that we all have faults in this
situation. Things went wrong,
that's quite clear. But I think it's
more important now to find out
what went wrong. and to correct
those things."
The administration already has
begun three special studies of the
Moscow security situation. If the
new embassy is deemed too riddled
with bugs to use, Reagan has
pledged to demolish it.
The $192 million, 10-acre com-
plex, including red-brick resi-
dences and amenities for the 200-
plus U.S. Embassy personnel in Mos-
Ernest HotWtss William Webster
cow, was begun in the 1970s under a
US.-Soviet agreement on construc-
tion methods signed in 1972. All fa-
cilities other than the chanceries at
both compounds are completed and
in use.
Ziolkowski said the agreement
provided that the US. facility would
be built by Soviet methods and
workers while an American firm
built the Soviet facility. A team of 40
to 50 U.S. Navy Seabees construction
experts monitored the work as the
Soviets put together the U.S. com-
plex.
But Ziolkowski said the fatal
State Department error was to ac-
cept parts of the eight-story build.
ing, such as columns and beams,
that were fabricated away from the
construction site where the Seabees
were not allowed to go.
"I said to the State Department
people, 'Did it ever occur to you that
this could happen?' They seemed
happily ignorant about that," Ziol-
kowski said. "I can't blame the Rus-
sians. They saw a good chance and
they took it."
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CIA operation: Bay of Stamps
STAMPING OUT EVIL abroad is the
primary mission of the CIA. but the
agency has been known to run covert
domestic operations occasionally. much to
the chagrin of the FBI and civil libertarians.
But the CIA's latest domestic foray can
only be applauded by a capitalistic society.
Following a successful stamp-buying mis-
sion to McLean, Va.. in March 1986, the
CIA found itself in possession of 95 mis-
printed postage stamps. The Bureau of En-
graving and Printing had printed one sheet
- 400 stamps - with a vintage candlestick
upside down.
This kind of error sends stamp collec-
tors into a frenzy, and the spooks were
quick to react.
Nine agency employees formed a con-
sortium to deal with this serendipitous bo-
nanza. In April 1986, 86 stamps were taken
in a plain. brown envelope to Jacques
Schiff Jr., a New Jersey stamp dealer. Mr.
Schiff declined to reveal how much he paid
for the stamps, but one of his employees
said it was in the "low five figures." One of
the stamps has been auctioned for $17,500;
the value of the others could reach millions.
given time, said Mr. Schiff.
Although this particular CIA operation
bears the stamp of distinction, there remain
several unanswered questions.
^ What happened to the nine stamps
purchased by the ('IA and not sold to Mr.
Schiff? One report is the sLt npts were inad-
vertently used on CIA mail; another ver-
sion, which, all patriotic Americans should
prefer. is that each spy in the consortium
kept one stamp for a rainy day.
^ Where are the other 300 nikprinted
stamps? Mr. Schiff said, They could be
anywhere, at any post office in the United
States." We hate to believe the CIA could be
that careless. Surely the agency either ob-
tained and destroyed the missing stamps -
to boost the value of the 86 -- or secreted
them at Langley.
^ Did the entrepreneurial agents break
any laws or act improperly? They reported-
ly replaced the valuable stamps with ordi-
nary ones, the kind of trade of which the
Dallas Cowboys are generally victims. The
CIA may be stamping its feet in anger, but
the agency is characteristically mum, refus-
ing to confirm or deny it is investigating its
renegade employees.
^ Will the CIA ever run a covert oper-
ation that remains secret'.'
Such questions aside, next time the
contras need money. the CIA can send
stamps.
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Pfringate reform bill
P RESIDENT REAGAN should follow Yet Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci
the lead of his new CIA director, Wil- told the Senate Select Committee on Intelli-
liam Webster, who has'?hoved deci- gence on Wednesday that the president is
sively to reform his agency. likely to veto a "48-hour bill" drafted by
Instead Mr. Reagan is resisting a law Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine.
that would require him to inform Congress The bill is a reasonable approach that
of any covert operations within 48 hours of would preserve discretion where necessary
their inception. It is the only substantive while promoting a more effective working
legislative reform to come out of Irangate. relationship between the president and con-
Mr. Webster lost no time in ridding his gressional leaders who specialize in intelli-
department of those involved in Iran-contra gence matters. Mr. Carlucci doesn't think it
improprieties, sending the clear message is necessary, but he is mistaken.
that such abuses as lying to Congress will The key to Sen. Cohen's proposal is
not be tolerated. Mr. Webster canned two that it calls only for he intelligence com-
field officers and reprimanded three senior mittee to be informeJ. The committee is
officials. given no additional power; it would simply
In addition, Mr. Webster established be allowed to know what the president is
rules to prevent recurrence of Irangate up to. As Sen. Cohen says, "This would not
abuses - rules designed to assure candid take away one yard or one foot of the presi-
testimony to Congress, untainted analyses dent's power."
and regular review of covert actions. In an Aug. 7 letter, the president said
Unfortunately, cleaning up the bottom he would notify the intelligence committee
rungs of the ladder won't help much if the of covert activities within 48 hours "in all
upper rungs remain dirty - which is what but the most exceptional circumstances." In
the president is trying to achieve, using the' other words, he will inform Congress unless
tired old excuse of "separation of powers." he doesn't want to.
Apparently he still doesn't understand -the That won't do. The exceptions must be
true dimensions of Irangate. removed, and that is what Mr. Cohen's leg-
It seems likely an administration islation would do. Congress should ignore
would be less inclined to bypass laws writ- Mr. Reagan's veto threat and approve the
ten by Congress if it first had to inform notification law. If the president vetoes it,
Congress it was going to do so. Congress should override the veto.
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Date I q Dec. '67
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