AFTER ELLSBERG: COUNTER-SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100370019-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: July 19, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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This is in part directed to Norman Mailer; but only in part.
Anyone interested in supporting a serious, systematic
probe into secret operations against the Constitution by gov-
ernment and private agencies can be of use.
It was Dan Ellsherg's hope,
after he had released the Pen-
tagon Papers, that others-both
former and present government
employes-"'Quid follow his ex-
ample and make public informa-
tion that the citizenry has. the
right and, as Watergate rather
emphasizes, the need to know.
Last year, Ef;sberg told me that
while he was disappointed there
had been no marked initial inove-
ment in that direction. "I do see a
very small beginning trend."-
A .. t?- nrT index of that
n
lrco a
and Secretary of State w ilham ,
Rogers on the effects of American
bombing in Southeast Asia. Butz
is also a former project manager
of Project Air War.
Around May .19-2. Winslow
Peck got the idea for what came
to he the Committee for . Ac-
tion/Research on the Intelligence
Community. The following is ex-
cerpted from a statement, "Why
CARIC?," in the second. issue of
the - committee's publication,
Counter-Spy:
There is no agency of
government-directly responsible-
e
.
to the public-monitoring U. S. in-
trend has been the formation of
1 telligence. Now former in-
CARIC: the Committee for Ac- i
tion/iti.eseareh on the Intelligence telligence workers, Vietnam Vet-
Community. I have talked to too Fans, and concerned citizens
of the three full-time organi=stirs have formed the Committee for
of 2+1-RIC and have read their ' Action/Research on the In-
reports. 'phe foundations for. what telligence Community (CARIC) to
Norman llailer has called. the serve as an independent
'
Fifth Estate already exist.
First, the organizers-
Winslow Peck worked for al-
most fcur years as an intelligence
analyst for the :Notional Security
Agency and was stationed in Is-
tanbul and Southeast Asia. "Dur-
ing the two years I spent in
Istanbul,.. Peck says, "I was in-
Vu;ved, I Icit7 in playing in-
telligence l ar,:r's with the Rus-
sians. I enloved it. Like most pco-
ple in I;ov err rr:rnr, I was apoh-
tical at the time. But. then I went
to Vietnam for NSA. and that was
no gamic. l \v; s killing people."
/ K. Barton ()=horn was an
.,Arent Uan,llrr" in U. S. Array
Intellioence and Security from
ln?d', to 1i'3:7. Iin-;t in Vietnam and
in }';ac'iia gon, he worked with
the murderous Operation
i'h'o....iX.
~-' Th-n Ihitr st'rri l in U. S. Air
}'tree, rerornai:,~ance units in
Vietnam am] i;crn,.urv.
in Lccrnt }i'ars, at three, have
been move-
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1^!i,
t?~;. t.. .,, t'... ,. :t t,;;r. the I tote
I'oreic n
?'rrC ii:n I;:tubeins Conimittrr~ in
watchdog on the government
spy apparatus. We have formed.
the committee to provide the vital
information an aware public
needs to know about government
operations. The secrecy with
which the government surrounds
itself must stop.
"CARIC will serve as an in-
dependent, - publicly sponsored
source of analysis and informa-
Lion on the practices, organiza-
tion, and objectives of U.S. In-
telligence.' What clandestine ac-
tions are being carried out in the
name cf. America'. Is the CIA
pr cparung ? to - ontanule us in
another war similar to Indochina?
'ghat information is going into
federal data banks on inncccnt:
American citizens. . . . Whose
phones are tapped in America?
These are some of the questions
CAIZ1,' ho:) ns to ar,svrcr
lthor rh CARIC doe, believe
that a massive goverrtrnent :,ov
apparatus is at work in the world,
we lone to dispel some of the
paranoia citizen; naturally feel
when there is talk of spies and
vyirctaps. A`re hn-n'.v that the I'l l
pelt Katie agent': behind
evm trt,, but there ",!ants in
e:'e;y majtn to'.;'') i:r this co,n trv
who have shied on innocent
private and t;r ttli': citianma.. Only a
i Cl'' :tIni i!1 ctnt'-in -nts b}' thF'Ir full and u'icasgu'setl lank at this
ranted fears, and guide the public
effort 16 end this illegal and unjus=
tified'espionage I.~y Big Brotherz-'
'CARIC' knows that tens of
thousands of American citizens
were mobili?ed over the past
decade to help b:'ng an end to the
government's war in Indochina- a
war that has taken new forms `
under the direct,on of U. S. in-
telligence agencies. CARIC hopes
that these same concerned citi-
zens will, continue to oppose the
government's policies and bring
an end to this new ford of covert
war... '
From their own backgrounds
land contzcts in inteliirence
agencies, the members cf CARIC
had a firm base from which to
star t gathering and analyzing in-
'formation, some of it ciassif ied.
However, as CARIC pointed out in
the first issue of Counter-Spy,
"none of the information pre-
sented (in our plebtications), no
matter how embarrassing to the
U. S. government, will pose a
threat to national security. It has
heed estimated by a cone res-
sional committee that 9o per cent
of government information now
classified. should not be classi{ied
Nonetheless, when CAIIIC
b fan, heira public co:inter
was kind o'? scar' for those in-
vol'ed. For peri;