CONFERENCE ON THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY AND COVERT ACTIONS

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CONFERENCE ON THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY AND COVERT ACTIONS
1202 New Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C.
Thursday September 12, 1974
9:00 9:15 organization of Conference - Robert Borosage, Director,
Center for National Security Studies
9:15 - 9:30 Introductory Remarks -Senator Edward W. Brooke
9:30 -10:45 The Structure and Scope of the Intelligence Community'-
Victor Marchetti and John Marks, Co-Authors,
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
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10:50 -12:10 A Review of Covert Operations Abroad: 20 That End.?
David Wise, Author, The Politics of Lying
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch Break
1:40 - 3:00 Covert Actions Abroad: A Review of the/ "Successes'?
Roger Morris, Director, Humanitarian Policy
Studies Program, Carnegie Endowment for '
International Peace
310 -,4.30 Surreptitious Entry: Covert operations in the United States
Thomas Ross, Co-Author, The Invisible Government
4:35- 5:45 National Security Comes Home: The CIA and Watergate.
. Walter Pincus, Associate Editor, The New Republic
6:00 - 7:00 Dinner Break
7:30 8:30 Covert Actions and International Law
Richard Falk and Marc Blaseus, Princeton University
Friday September 13, 1974
9:10 ,10:20 The Technology of Intelligence
Herbert Scoville, Federation of American Scientists
10:25 -11:30 The CIA and the Constitution
Robert Borosage
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11:35
- 12:45
Covert Operations and Decision-Making
Morton Halperin, Consultant, Center for. National
Security Studies
12:50
- 2:00
Lunch Break
2:00
3:00
The CIA in Southeast Asia
Fred Branfman, Director, Indochina Resource Center
3:10
- 4:00
The View From Langley
William Colby, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
4:10
- 5:30
The Unnecessary Intelligence
Richard Barnet, Director, Institute for Policy Studies
Adjournment
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Conference Participants
Writers-Speakers:
Richard Barnet, Co-Director of the Institute for Policy
Studies, is the author of numerous books and articles
on national security questions, including The Roots of
War and the forthcoming Global Reach (Simon and Schuster
1975).
Marc Blaseus is a Research Associate of the Institute
for World Order.
Walter Pincus is Associate Editor of the New Republic and
served as a Director of Special Investigations of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Robert Borosage, Director of the Center for National
Security Studies, is a Washington attorney formerly
with the Institute for Policy Studies.
Fred Branfman, Director of the Indochina Resource Center,
is an author of numerous articles on America`s role in
Indochina, Laos: War and Revolution and The Presidential
War in Laos, l9 -70.
William Colby is Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency. He was formerly Deputy Director of Plans, the
Agency's Covert Operations Division:.
Morton Halperin, formerly a staff member of the National
Security Council and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of
.Defense, is senior consultant for the Center for National
Security Studies.
Victor Marchetti, a former staff officer in the office
of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is
co-author of The CIA and the Cult.of Intelligence.
John Marks, a former staff assistant;to the Director of
the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
is co-author of The CIA and the Cult oe Intelligence.
Roger Morris, a former. staff member of the National Security
Staff, is presently Director of the Humanitarian Policy
Studies Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Thomas Ross, Chief of the Washington Bureau of the Chicago
Sun-Times, is. a co-author of The Invisible Government.
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Herbert Scoville is a former Assistant Director for
Scientific Intelligence of the Central Intelligence
? Agency and a former Assistant Director of the Arms
Control and. Disarmament Agency. He currently serves
as Secretary to the Federation of American Scientists
David Wise is a writer based in Washington and co-
author of The Invisible Government. His latest book
is The Politics of Lying.
Panelists and
. Discussants:
Edward Brown is a consultant to the Center for National
Security Studies.
Ivanhoe Donaldson is a.former ?member of.the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee andis currently
.writing a book on American foreign policy.
Richard Holbrooke, the current Editor of Foreign Policy,
is a former official of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Stanley Karnow is an Associate E ditor"th the New
Republic, presently writing a book.on aspects of
America's involvement in. Indochina.
Anthony Lake is a former staff member of the National
Security Council and is presently Director of Inter-
national Voluntary Services.
Terry Lenzner is former counsel with the Senate Select
Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities.
Admiral Gene LaRocgue (Ret) is Director of the Center
for Defense Information.
Thomas McCoy, presently with Washington. Information
Associates, is a former member of the.Central Intelligence
Agency.
Robert J. Pranger, formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense, NISA, is currently Director of Foreign and Defense
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Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute for
Harry H. Ransom, Chairman of the Department of Political
Science, Vanderbilt University, is the author of The
Intelligence Establishment.
Marcus Raskin, Co-Director of the Institute for Policy
Stud.ies,'is the author of numerous books and articles,
most recently, Notes on the Old System.
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Back round
The Center for National Security Studies (CLASS) is concerned with the
ominous growth of state power in the name of "national security." The
Center's primary objective will be to contribute to a public re-appraisal
of the purposes and policies of our.national security institutions -
exemplified by the National Security Council, the military establishment,
the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and
the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.
For over twenty-five years, we have witnessed the alarming growth of
national security institutions, and the expansion of Executive power and
perogative. Through five administrations, these institutions and the
policies which they implement have led to repeated intervention and war
abroad, and to the erosion of our liberties at .home. Indochina and Watergate
are shameful monuments to the widely shared assumption that matters of
"national security" are above the limits of law, and beyond the. control of.
..the Congress or the people. And while the Watergate revelations have
encouraged some to question Presidential claims to national or internal
security perogatives, neither the reduction of our involvement in Indochina
;nor the removal of a President has greatly circumscribed-the powers of the
Executive or the license of our national security institutions.
The Center has been established to help foster public consideration of
national security issues. The Center will seek to worktwith other groups
.and with concerned citizens to expose policies decided in secret to public
discussion and questioning. Only if citizens demand a restructuring of
these institutions will we be certain that these institutions do not beccune
a permanent threat to the liberties and security they claim to protect.
The Center for National Security Studies is funded by grants from the
.Abelard Foundation, the Field Foundation and the Stern Foundation.. It is
sponsored by the Fund for Peace, a non-profit institution concerned with
world peace and justice.
The Functions of the Center
The Center for National Security Studies will engage in the following
activities:
sponsor conferences, assemblies, and public meetings designed to
open national security issues to public discussion
co-ordinate the efforts of numerous citizens groups and concerned
citizens to foster a broad public debate on selected national security
issues
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Earl Ravenal is a former member of the office of the
Secretary of Defense, and is currently a professor
at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns
Hopkins University.
Roberta Salper holds a resident fellowship at the Institute
for Policy Studies and has written extensively on Latin
American affairs.
Neil Sheehan is a free-lance journalist, currently working
on a study of America's involvement in Vietnam.
R. Harris Smith is a Professor of History at the University
of California, Berkeley, and is the author of The OSS.
Laurence Stern is a reporter with the Washington Post.
Jeremy Stone is Director of the Federation of American
Federation of Scientists and has written extensively
on national security matters.
Tad Szulc is the consultant th the Rolling Stone
Washington supplement, and Contributing Editor to the
Washin onian magazine.
Paul Warnke, a Washington attorney, is.a former Assistant
Secretary of Defense.
Melvin Wulf is General Counsel for the American Civil
Liberties Union.
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-- develop alternative policy proposals, suggesting ways in -~fhich
these institutions may be made accountable to the Congress and
responsive to the people
-- challenge assertions of Executive perogative, and provide a con-
stant voice against a military definition of security
-- serve as a resource and information center for concerned citizens,
the press, and the Congress
Current Projects
Over the next year, the Center will be working, either independently
or in conjunction with other groups, on the following projects:.
-- Project on Militarism in the Community: An investigation of the
growing intrusion of the armed forces in civilian affairs. The
project will focus on the impact of military recruitment, public
relations and domestic action programs on the young.. The Center
will initially provide alternative information to professional,
civic and educational organizations currently subject to intensive
armed forces public relations campaigns.
-- Project on Intelligence and Covert Actions: This project will encompass
an extensive investigation on the activities and objectives of our
intelligence institutions. A conference on the CIA and Covert Action
will be held in Washington on September 12 and 13. An intelligence
policy working group has been established to study the entire intelligence
community. Independent research and writing on the Agency continues.
-- Project on the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration: The Center
will monitor the activities of the IEAA, focusing on the developent
of computerized data banks, and the distribution of military armaments
to local police. Work will be done with local communities to inform
them of the new programs of their police departments.
-- Study on Classification and Secrecy: The project will detail the
extent of secrecy in academic and industrial research and development.
The Center will encourage professional associations to explore the
effects of secrecy on academic freedom.
-- Project on American Police and Military Aid Abroad: The Center will
be sponsoring research and writing on the nature of American aid to police in
other nations, and the trade and aid in armaments throughout the world.
-- Project on National Security and the Constitution: The Center will foster
continued debate on the proper scope of Executive power over questions
of national security. A conference on the law of national security
will be held at Duke University in-the spring, co-sponsored by the
Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs.
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--Citizen's Projects on National Security: The Center will work with a
broad spectrum of citizen's groups to design ways in which national
11 security issues can be placed before the public. The emphasis will
be on designing a forum in which concerned citizens might discuss
various questions. Town meetings, workplace seminars and regional
conferences are a few of the methods which will be explored.
Staff of the Center
Director: Robert L. Borosage
Administrative Assistant: Connie J. Hooker
Associates: Sarah Carey
David Cortwright
William Florence
-John Marks
Robert Musil
Nicole Szulc
Project Consultants: Edward Brown
Morton Halperin
In addition to full-time staff, the Center is sponsoring research on
topics related to its concerns. At present the Center is supporting research
by Sean Gervasi, Jack Nelson and Neil Sheehan.
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