MEMORANDUM TO(Sanitized) FROM DCI

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: March 14, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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Tape 51
Side A, 2 1/16 - 2 1/8
14 MAR 1979
Put on the conference phone call for Thursday efforts to identify what's
going on in the Iranian military, especially DIA.
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ESSAY
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Shiny
Toves ..
Came the mid-70's revolution at the I
C.I.A., a group of not-s&-Young Turks
I took over,led by William Colby, deter-
mined to salvage the agency by vilify- i
ing its old guard and making them
scapegoats for "dirty, tricks." The. i
Helms-Angleton types' were labeled
.`paranoid" - and part- of the be-
smirching of their reputations was the
charge that Nosenko had beeri.har-?
awed cruelly rather than welcomed.
The old guard lashed back: In
.'Leg-
end," by Edward J. Epstein, the case
was made that Nosenko was part of a
KG.B. carerup for assassin Oswald.
The old guard man who interrogated..;
Nosenko refuted the highly publicized
. ,. charges made recently by a,eeprasen-
tative of Director Turner, but his testi-
mony was suppressed by the House
Asses motions Committee.
'Fi br(mg.-arid thesllthyttnes.
Did gre ad gintbie in the wabe;,
(.lull Carrou
An empty. sloop named "Brillig,"
under full sail; was washed upon the
shore of tbesapeake Bay four months:
ago., Coest. guardsmen found doc u'
meats aboard analyzing Soviet mill.
tary strength, along with boxes of so..
phist cated electronic gear..:.,:..
The boat belonged to john Arthur.
Paisley, a Soviet analyst for the C.IA'
A week later, a waterlogged body was"
found with a ballet in the back of the
bead; the corpse was hastily
as Paisley's, andcremated,
Stanfield Turner, the former Naval
person now moaning the C-IA, put out
word that Paisley possessed no secrets
and,his death was a simple suicide:
"I'm standingon the fine statement by
the Maryland, State Police," he said,
"that they see no evidence of foul play
here."
Biit Paisley was a mar in the middle
of the great question that divides the
?:.. U.S. intelligence community: Is there
now a "mole"--a Soviet pee tr,ator
high In the C.IA?, who was responsible
for last year's incredible leakage of
our satellite secrets?
The backg ound: Soon after. the
sassinaticn of President Kennedy, a
K.G.B. officer named Yuri Noeeako :
defected to the West and assured the
C.IA that Lee Harvey Oswald bad not
been trained as.an assassin during his
stay in the U.S.S.R. But the -IA's
counterintelligence chief, James An--
gleton, believed Nosenko. to he a:
"plant"; with the tacit approval of At.'
Lonny General Nicholas Katzenbech,
Nosenko was axlfir)ed and interro--
gated for years. Unconvinced of the
defector's bona fides, the old guard at
theC.IA finally gave him a new lden.w
tity and let him go...-. - ,-:.. _ i .
champions being fed ' by both sides,
Mr. Turner brought defector Nosenko
the bosom of the CIA. and made '
a top analyst. There, the defector j
? was befriended by Jam Arthur Pais-
bdrd-liner Angler n; now Paisley is
dead:
The Senate Intelligence Committee
wants to know whether Paisley was
the mole, or whether Paisley learned
who the mole was-and was killed
fore be could pass It art.-Senators are
furious at Mr. Turner's attempt- to
minimize Paisley's agency signifi-
cance. An intelligence boss may have
to inane a false cover story publicly,
but it is against the law for him to mis-
lead an oversight committee in secret
session. (Tad Szulc, in the New York
,.Times Magazine; revealed that Pais-
ley was the. roan who drafted the con-
"Team, B" report warning
This schism in the world of U.S. in.
have been getting fired, indicted or
old-line doubters are right - and not a
: the "paranoids- they are depicted as
being - then our national security has
been seriously weakened..,r
"'T'hs concrete suspicions of No.
'senko have never been resolved," says
Tennant Bagley, former deputy chief
of the C.IA.'s Soviet bloc division. "It
is irresponsible to expose clandestine
Personnel to this individual." The cur-
rent top brass are taking unnecessary
chances to demonstrate contempt for
their predors.
Since the possibly murdered Mr.
Paisley appreciated the Wonderland
wordplay of Lewis Carroll, let us go
looking through a glass, darkly:
Beware the Family Jewels, my son
The is s that spring, the tips from
.. Smersh-
Taste not Nio.enko's Plant, and shun
The myriad Seymcurhersh!
Goiitzen to the Bagley man
Go flr4 who nerves another skipper;
Pmmotidt lies with thooe who can
But highin Langley's ranks he stands,
The Jabbermole, untouched is he-
Kampiies' heel, a )newd of Stan's,
He xo ckles it his glee.
'Board Brillig did the bearish spies
Sra cn Paisley's prints before he blabbed;
All flimsey were the alibis.
While the mole laths, ungrabbed.
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