FIRST ANNUAL REPORT THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR A FIFTH ESTATE

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1974
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FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
The Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate
January 1974
(formerly Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community)
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1973 will be remembered as the year that brought to light "White House
Horrors" and open political compromise of the American Intelligence Community
and Criminal Justice System. It was also the beginning year of the first
organized effort to focus public effort to restrain, further development of
technofascism - the societal form described by George Orwell in his
prophetic novel 1984.
In February 1973, three people in Washington, D.C. began to implement
their ideas of a Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community
(CARIC). Simultaneously, a New York based organization, the Fifth Estate,
began cross country travel to organize a comminications network among
individuals concerned with the role of the Intelligence Community in a
democratic society.
In January 1974, CARIC and the Fifth Estate formed,an umbrella orga-
nization to further the common goals of both groups. The new organization,
The Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate, was created to develop ideas
and programs to create a Fifth Estate of campus and community based research/
action groups decentralized but united to investigate United States Intel-
ligence and secret government operations and to resist technofascism.
We will do this through research, educational activities, litigation
and campaigns to focus the effort of the American Public. Our philosophy
is as follows:
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STOP THE SPYING
Only a full and undisguised look into the hidden world of secret
government operations can displace unwarranted fears of reaction by Big
Brother and guide the public effort to end illegal and unjustified spying.
END CLANDESTINE INTERVENTION
-History shows that clandestine intervention by our government into
the sovereign affairs of other countries has only created an image for us
as "Ugly Americans" and has not improved our.national security. Before
the foreign clandestine operations of the CIA and other agencies involve
us in another national catastrophy, such as the Bay of Pigs or the Indochina
War, these operations must be exposed, restrained, terminated and prevented
from reoccurti.igg in the future.
END DOMESTIC REPRESSION
History also demonstrates that our government's foreign policies and
practices often come home to become domestic policies and practices.
Individuals and agencies long accustomed to clandestine espionage on a
global scale will implement similar activities here at home if the political
atmosphere allows them to do so. The repressive activities of the intel-
ligence community must be fully exposed and terminated by the American
people.
END EXCESSIVE SECRECY
Foreign and domestic espionage operates in a world of secrecy.
This atmosphere of government secrecy is what will surely usher in
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technofascism. An atmosphere of government openness and citizen access
must be created in America if we are to maintain our status as free
citizens in a democratic society.
END TECHNOLOGICAL HEGEMONY
There must be greater citizen-Is access to advanced technology if
that technology is to be used for the benefit of all humanity instead
of being used to rain destruction on smaller nations and to fill dossiers
on our families, friends, and neighbors.
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CARIC ACTIVITIES - CALENDAR YEAR 1973
The first year for CARIC was a year of experimentation to develop
the analysis and organizing vehicles necesdary to accomplish the goal
of preventing the further development of technofascism. CARIC first
came to public attention in March, 1973, when CARIC members turned over
the results of an independent investigation of the connections between
the George Washington University College. Republicans and the Committee
to Re-Elect the President's spy networ$.
CARIC's investigation showed that Ted Brill, the President of the
GWU College Republicans, had been a paid agent of'CREEP under the direction
of CREEP's Youth Director Kenneth Rietz. Brill was assigned to spy on the
pacifist vigil outside the White House and once attempted to arrange the
arrest of the other participants on drug charges.
As a result of CARIC's work, Mr. Brill was exposed in a front page
story of the March 10, 1973 Washington Post. Since Mr. Brill's salary
was never reported by CREEP officials, the Special Grand Jury has been
presented with evidence that could lead to further indictments of CREEP
officers.
In April 1973, CARIC consulted with the British corporation,
Granada Television, Inc., on the production of two films, one on Watergate
.and the other on the status of political prisoners in South Vietnam. Both
were broadcast on World In Action, the most widely viewed documentary news
program in the United Kingdom. The program on political prisoners,
A Question of Torture, has now been released as a film and is available
from the Intelligence Documentation Center.
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residen axon nominated William Egan Colby to serve as Director
of Central Intelligence
in mid-May, 1973. CARIC responded to Colby's
nomination by preparing a Fact Sheet on Colby and publicly denounced him
as "the most henious architect of mass murder since Adolph Eichman" for
his (Colby's) role in the Phoenix assassination program in South Vietnam.
When Colby's nomination came before the Senate Armed Forces Committee,
CARIC convinced the Armed Services Committee to hear opposition witnesses.
The hearings, unprecedented for such an official, heard seven opposition
witnesses, including Bart Osborn and David Harrington on behalf of CARIC.
In October, 1973, CARIC's investigations of the District of Columbia
police resulted in the uncovering of a female agent provocateur named
Ann Kolego. Ms. Kolego used the cover of "Crazy Anne" to infiltrate
both D.C. and National, anti war organizations between 1970 and 1973.
The exposing of Ms. Kolego proceeded the voluntary uncovering of
Mr. Robert Merrit, another informant for the FBI and District of Columbia
Police Department. Within eight daysof the Kolego uncovering, D.C.
police Captain George Sutter, acting director of the Intelligence Division,
told the Washington Post that his entire intelligence gathering network
had been paralyzed by the incidents.
Throughout the summer and fall of 1973, CARIC worked with Jim Dubro
and Bill McAdams of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on a documentary
special entitled The'Fifth Estate. The film was shown by the Canadian
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Broadcasting Corporation on January 9, 1974. The film immediately sparked
a debate in Canadian Parliament on the role of the U.S. Intelligence Com-
munity in Canada and for its revelation of secret Canadian intelligence
operations and organizations.
While the work concerning Ted Brill, William Colby, and Ann Kolego
were highlights of CARIC's year, most time was spent on the routine tasks
of compiling files for a data base, liaison with individuals and organization:
and discussions on future directions and activities. During the year CARIC
consulted with all the major television networks as well as journalists
from major newspapers and wire services, such as the St., Louis Post -Dispatch,
Washington Post, Washington Star-News, New York Times, and United Press
International. Our effort resulted in several magazine articles on
intelligence in publications such as The New Republic. CARIC also pro-
duced information and analysis which were distributed by major radio
networks and the alternative press.
During the year CARIC also provided litigation assistance to cases
we believed to be in accordance with our goals and philosophy. Memo-
randums on the FBI intelligence programs, analysis of domestic intel-
ligence operations,. and background investigations of informants were
prepared for several political cases. Among these cases were U.S. vs
Briggs et. al. (The Gainesville Eight), Socialist Workers Party et. al.
vs the Attorney General et. al., Higgs et. al. vs Colby et. al., and
U.S. vs Armstrong.
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(COUNTER-SPY) and seven issues of a newsletter (]NTELLIGENCE REPORT).
These publications examined such issues as the FBI's use of right-wing
paramilitary groups in Southern California, the CIA assassination program
in South Vietnam, the American Intelligence Community's private war with
Nordom Sihanouk, the U.S. involvement in the Chilean coup, and the efforts
by the FBI to neutralize the New Left in this country.
For CARIC, 1973 has been a year of experimentation which produced the
analysis and organizing vehicles necessary to further the accomplishment
of our goals.
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The Intelligence Documentation Center was established to provide a research
center and library on American intelligence. Information held in the IDC
is available to journalists, researchers, scholars, and any concerned
citizen investigating American intelligence.
The IDC is currently located in Room 523A of the Dupont Circle Building
in Washington, D.C.. One full-time staff person supervises a team of
volunteers who continually collect, catalog and store information on
intelligence. The majority of the information in the IDC's files is
from government publications, national and international news services,
past investigative efforts, and first hand interviews with former
intelligence workers.
Aside from answering queries from journalists and researchers, the
IDC has been called upon to provide information to members and committees
of Congress. While the IDC does not support or lobby for specific legis-
lation, its staff does assist Congressional aides and elected representatives
with information upon request.
Starting with no books or records in February 1973, the IDC has
now eclipsed the Library of Congress's section on Intelligence. The IDC
now contains over 400 volumes of material and over 500 active files.
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THE FIFTH ESTATE - CALENDAR YEAR 1973
The primary activity of the Fifth Estate in calendar year 1973
was to send author Norman Mailer on a speaking tour of the nation's
campuses. During this tour the Fifth Estate made contact with ap-
proximately 150 student organizers interested in developing the Fifth
Estate. The following is excerpted from a news letter sent by the
Fifth Estate to those contacts.
"In the course of twenty lectures at different colleges and univer-
sities in the month of October, I began to talk seriously about the Fifth
Estate at perhaps the.last ten schools. If you attended these lectures,
remember, I tried to emphasize the difficulties, and did my best to put
down any interest which would be superficial since I felt the very notion
of a Fifth Estate had sinister extensions. To attempt to proselytize
too quickly, to build a campus movement without proper preparation, to
whip up a quick interest which.one could not fulfill because of lack of
organizational ground, all seemed to me good and sufficient reasons to
point out the difficulties rather than the advantages of a Fifth Estate.
I confess I was also curious to see what kind of response there would
be if it was presented against the grain, presented against all the
criticism offered by all of you and myself as well. The returns were
interesting. About 150 people wanted to receive the newsletter, which
is an average of 15 people to a campus, not bad. Particularly, if these
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esen w at I have in mind, rh?eh is a
cadre ready to develop skills and not altogether isolated from that
most difficult of modern notions, a sense of fealty to a group engaged
in politically unique activity whose demands eventually could be far-
reaching. You will also remember that my notion of a Fifth Estate was
that it should be various. I thought it ought to have groups and cadres
of all sorts, take on different coloration at each campus, each of the
campus cadres in fact to be autonomous, accepting guidance if they
desired it from a parent or umbrella organization, and yet still capable
of functioning on their own. It seemed to me that if the idea worked
we might be able to call eventually upon skills so varied as high
technological competence with computers, able even to track down some
of the more hidden if massive economic movements of the last twenty
years through student and faculty economists in order to determine
whether the Invisible Government, for example, is working in massive
ways on its own clandestine funds. This of course is just one example
of a highly developed technological activity we might eventually be
able to set up as a campus project.
But I foresee other types of action altogether different, including
campus groups of CIA scenario interpreters, a modern society, if you will,
of Baker Street irregulars who might hardly do much more than sit around.
and discuss some of the various theories and possible crimes of our
recent history and the relation of the Invisible Government to these capers.
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What I was looking for was an idea sufficiently wide to attract every
kind of talent on campus which was concerned with these questions, and
yet be a movement which was good enough, and incisive enough to keep
anh develop one's loyalties.
When the tour was over, I felt the idea had life and would work.
I felt a political vacuum was there to be filled. I also felt there
was one near-to-insuperable problem. Between the conception of such a
movement and that point where it might begin to function purposefully
after a year or two of development, there seemed nothing at the center
but myself, and I knew that that could not work well since I was obliged
on the one hand to earn a living and could not begin to give real and
full time to such a project, and on the other hand had the gravest
questions about my own talents as an organizer. If we think of the
idea as a ship, we can continue this newly minted metaphor by saying
that if we were ready to sail, we were nonetheless beached on the
unmitigable rock of my own special local incompetence in organizational
matters.
The exciting news I promised therefore is that I think a few. of us
have discovered a way to get around this difficulty. There's been an
organization in the field for the last two years called CARIC. (The
Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community.) I met
with the three organizers of CARIC, Winslow Peck, Bart Osborn and
Tim Butz, while spending time this summer in Washington. on Watergate,
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had conversations with them, and further conversations in late November
during the Georgetown Seminar of the Committee to Investigate Assassinations,
and now thought on the basis of studying their literature and their pos-
sibilities that the time had come to pool our resources. This was also
agreeable to CARIC, and the unification of forces has begun.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norman Mailer announced today that his New York group, The Fifth
Estate, was uniting with the Washington, D.C. based Committee for Action/
Research on the Intelligence Community (CARIC). The alliance of CARIC
and the Fifth Estate will be called the Organizing Committee for a Fifth
Estate, and will develop ideas and programs for a citizen's based
Fifth Estate of regional and local, campus and community groups which will
.seek to prevent that vision of George Orwell in his prophetic novel 1984
from becoming the social and political reality of America.
The Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate, a noa-profit, non-partisan
endeavor will sponsor two resource groups in Washington, D.C. to serve the
development of the Fifth Estate.
The Intelligence Documentation Center is a library of information on
U.S. Intelligence and secret government operations available to Journalists,
researchers, scholars, and concerned citizens.
The Counter-Spy Campaign is preparing an organizing manual and other
materials to focus on a public effort to combat technofascism -- the
societal form described by Orwell.
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"Big Brother may be watching us, but now the Fifth Estate will
be watching Big Brother", said Mr. Tim Butz, one of the three full-
time coordinators of the Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate.
Citizens wishing more information may contact the Organizing
Committee for a .Fifth Estate, P.O. Box 647, Ben Franklin. Station,
Washington, D.C. 20044."
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In-From-The-Cold Hearings
The In-From-The-Cold Hearings are tentatively scheduled for early
Fall 1974, shortly after Congress reconvenes. The hearings had been
scheduled earlier for 1973 by CARIC, but financial limitations precluded
staff from traveling to investigate. the testimony of prospective witnesses.
Approximately thirty individuals have been cleared for testifying at the
hearings. Currently two days of testimony are planned, but it is possible
that a third day will be added to the scanario..as time passes.
The In-From-The-Cold Hearings will be an educational project of the
Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate. The hearings will focus on
American intervention abroad, domestic repression in this country and the
effects of secrecy on the individual's personality and lifestyle. Testimony
from former intelligence workers, scholars, and those who have been
victimized by secret operations will be featured. For more information
contact Mr. Tim Butz, In-From-The-Cold Hearings coordinator.
Intelligence Documentation Center
The IDC hopes to receive enough funding in 1974 to hire a full-time
library scientist to facilitiate growth of the IDC. In addition to
refining existing storage and retrieval methods, the new staff person
would cross-train other IDC staff in library science.
The IDC is an established institution among members of the Washington
Press Corps. With the unification of CARIC with the Fifth Estate, the IDC
has become an independent organization sponsored by the Organizing Committee.
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Although independent the IDC will serve as a national information source
for the developing Fifth Estate. We are incorporating the IDC as a
library and are seeking 501(c)(3) status from the IRS. This status
should help us to raise the funds necessary in 1974 for the growth of
the IDC. The projected growth of information in the IDC by the end of
1974 is at least 150% of current material. For further information
contact Mr. Bart Osborn, Director.
Counter-Spy Campaign
The Counter-Spy Campaign was established as a separate organization
sponsored by the Organizing Committee to facilitate the development.of
the Fifth Estate. The Counter-Spy Campaign located in the Dupont Circle
Building, utilizes the facilities of the Intelligence Documentation
Center, located next door, to prepare educational materials, analysis
and organizational tools.
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One staff member of the Counter-Spy Campaign coordinates an
Internal Security Watch Group of concerned citizens monitoring and
analyzing the domestic programs of the intelligence community and the
criminal justice agencies. In the past year the ISWG has formulated
the action strategies of the CARIC's projects on internal security.
Another full-time staff member coordinates the Intervention Watch
Group, composed of concerned citizens examining the intervention policies
of our government. The IWG has coordinated the activities of CARIC
opposed to clandestine intervention.
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a Secrecy Watch Group or Technology Watch Group but we hope to
do so
later in calendar year 1974.
During calendar year 19742. the emphasis of the Organizing Committee
and of the Counter-Spy Campaign will be on structure,building.rather'than
personal research or direct action. As a result the Counter-Spy Campaign
will not be responding to crises and events to the same degree as CARIC
did in 1973. Our Watch Groups will continue to function but with less
emphasis and time spent on specific projects. The projects Of these
Watch Groups will be re-energized later in the year as additional funding
g
is secured.
The Counter-Spy Campaign is producing organizing-tools for the
developing Fifth Estate. An organizing manual is in production and
will be published by Summer,'
The manual will provide the basic infor-
mation for the establishment of local organizations within the Fifth Estate
to study and work on terminating experiments with technofascism in their
areas of the country. The manual will cover organizing techniques for
both campus and community based organizations; research methodologies
and action strategies to accomplish the goal of the Fifth Estate.
The Counter-Spy Campaign will also continue to develop the multi-
media project began by CARIC. Currently a display on pacification in
Vietnam and the Phoenix program is available for, display by campus and
civic groups. A slide show
presentation on the development of techno_
fascism will be available late in the Summer of 1974.
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The Counter-Spy Campaign also recognizes the need for a journal
of research, analysis and opinion on government operations similar to
CARIC's Counter-Spy. This publication is temporarily discontinuedk.until
additional funding is secured. This will allow more time for the staff
of the Counter-Spy Campaign and the Organizing Committee to complete
the 197+ goal of structure building. Those who subscribed to CARIC
publications will continue to receive all publications of the Counter-
Spy Campaign.
With the addition of new staff in April 1971+, the Counter-Spy
Campaign will begin publishing a monthly four-page, tabloid size,
free, mass-distributed newspaper called INTELLIGENCE REPORT to serve
as the nationwide mass organ of the Fifth Estate. The first three pages
of the INTELLIGENCE REPORT will cover national and international news
and will be prepared by the staff of the Counter-Spy Campaign. The
fourth page will be reserved for use by local groups of the Fifth Estate.
The Counter-Spy Campaign will mail gallies of the first three pages to
local organizers who will be encouraged to publish and distribute the
INTELLIGENCE REPORT locally. The INTELLIGENCE REPORT can be used by
them to organize their local group in the Fifth Estate. As more funding
is secured by the Counter-Spy Campaign we will expand production of the
local Washington, D.C. issue of INTELLIGENCE REPORT for use in organizing
the Fifth Estate on the D.C. campuses in the 1971+-75 school year.
Later in 1974, the Counter-Spy Campaign will irritate writing of
the WholeSpy_Catalog, if funding is secured. This will serve as a
research too]. and citizen's access guide to secret government operations.
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Along with the organizing manual, The Whole Spy Catalog will be
an essential working tool for the developing Fifth Estate. For more
information contact Winslow Peck.
Advisory Board
Shortly after the unification of CARIC and the Fifth Estate and
the establishment of the Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate, the
organizing Committee began building an Advisory Board. The Advisory
Board is composed of major critics of government operations and individuals
with particular knowledge of United States intelligence.
The Advisory Board's role is to provide, when requested, guidance.
and advice on specific operations of the Fifth Estate. Adiisor's.donate
their time and advice with compensation or renummeration.
Although the viewpoints of our advisors may be contradictory on
specific topics, we believe these differences of opinion will only
broaden the perspective'of the developing Fifth Estate. All publications
will.carry the disclaimer that they do not necessarily reflect the
viewpoints or opinions of advisors, sponsors, or associates.
Citizens for a Fifth Estate
Along with our advisors, many prominent national and local figures
have expressed their sponsorship of our activities. Those persons who
were either sponsors of CARIC or subscribers to CARIC publications may
become Citizens for a Fifth Estate by contacting the Organizing Committee.
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A partial listing of Citizens for a Fifth Estate as well as the developing
Advisory Board will soon be reflected in thim stationary of the Organizing
Committee as well as future publications. Citizens for a Fifth Estate will
receive copies of all publications of the Counter-Spy Campaign and the
Organizing Committee.
Speakers Bureau
The Organizing Committee also maintains a Speakers Bureau of
individuals available for speaking before campus, civic, church or
community groups. These individuals are familiar with United States
Intelligence, secret operations and/or the concept of the Fifth Estate.
These people include members of the Organizing Committee and other former
intelligence workers. We are happy to announce that Norman Mailer has
joined our Speakers Bureau, donating his-honoraria to the building of
the Fifth Estate. For more information contact Mr. Winslow Peck.
Comments/Self-Criticism
The functions described in the 1973 Annual Report will continue and
expand during the coming year due to our emphasis on structure building
rather than personal research. The primary setback to operations in the
past year has been our serious financial limitations. A long-term
analysis of-financing is now being formulated by the Organizing Committee.
Our hope is to develop a plan for funding all our projects and adding
additional staff as needed.
Again due to the financial limitations of 1973 we have over-extended
ourselves in several directions. As a result you will notice in this
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report not only reorganization for 1974 reflecting our new emphasis
but also a restructuring of priorities especially in the-area of
publications. Most notably our journal will be appearing on an un-
scheduled basis. Our desire is eventually, with adequate funding and
new staff, to produce this quarterly. We can not do so now.
1973 was a good year; a year that marked the beginning of an
historically unprecedented effort to educate and focus the public's
resistance to the development of technofascism in America.
1974 will not only be a year of growth and structure building for
the Organizing Committee, the IDC and the Counter-Spy campaign but-.also for many
other similar groups across the country. These groups taking the ideas
presented in our soon-to-be published organizing manual and the other
ideas we will produce will begin to build their local organizations.
It is this development of a network of research and action organi-
zations which will be the Fifth Estate. We do not believe that this
development will be easy for those already engaged in this development
or those who will come along later. It will take great effort to
fulfill our goals. But the interest shown in the work of CARIC and
the Fifth Estate convinces us that we will succeed.
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STATUS REPORT. 1973 FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR
THE COMMITTEE FOR ACTION/RESEARCH ON THE INTELLIGENCE COMM L ITY
Now The ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR A FIFTH ESTATE
Income for 1973 Calendar Year
$7,000.00
Grants
Income from part-time employment
x,500.00
Subscriptions/Sponsorship
1,124.00
1,500.00
Loans
unter-Spy
f C
120.00
o
.Bookstore sales o
TOTAL INCOME $1lt, 21+1}.00
Expenses for 1973 Calendar Year
Administrative costs:
Payroll $ 8,524.98
Office rent 1,328.00
Furniture and supplies 1,068.30
Miscellaneous expenses 12l.8
SUBTOTAL $11,343.13
Program development 1,088.80
Public relations (brochures, etc.). 300.00
Intelligence Documentation Center 302.08
(resource acquisition)
Publications
Counter-Spy printing $601.1+0
Intelligence Report printing 301.09
Counter-Spy postage 121+.60
Intelligence Report postage 103.10
$ 1,130.19
TOTAL EXPENDITURES $11+,1614.20
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Timothy Butz. 26, served with Air Force reconnaissance units in Vietnam
and Germany. He attended Kent State University in 1969-1970, leaving
Kent State to work full time for Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He is
the former Project Manager of Project Air War (Indochina Resource Center)
and has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the
effects of Indochina bombing.
K. Barton Osborn. 29, served for three years with U.S. Army Military
Xntelligence, and later as a consultant to Agent Motivation Problems
for the Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program. He is a graduate
of the American University School of International, Service and has
testified before the House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and
Government Information and the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Winslow Peck. 27, after joining the Air Force in 1966 served for nearly
four years as an analyst for the National Security Agency in Europe,.
the Middle East and South East Asia. After separation, he joined the
anti-war movement working in various capacities of research, logistics,
negotiation and planning for local and national anti-war activities.
He has written-and contributed to several major articles on United
States Intelligence.
Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate
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