LETTER TO EDWARD BOLAND FROM (SANITIZED) RE NEWSWEEK ARTICLE SAYING DEPT OF JUSTICE TO SUE WILLIAM COLBY

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2007
• Sequence Number: 116
• Publication Date: September 25, 1981
• Content Type: LETTER

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EDWARD P. BOLAND. MASS., CHAIRMAN
CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI. WIS.
CHARLES ROSE, N.C.
ROMANO LJ MAZZOU. KY.
NORMAN Y. MINETA. CALIF.
WYCHE FOWLER. JR. GA.
LEE H. HAMILTON. I,ND.
ALBERT GORE. JR., TENN.
BOB STUMP. ARIZ.
J. KENNETH ROBINSON, VA.
JOHN M. ASHBROOIC. OHIO
ROBERT MCCLORY, ILL.
G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST. VA.
C. W. BILL YOUNG, FLA.
THOMAS K. LATIMER, STAFF DIRECTOR
MICHAEL J. O'NEIL, CHIEF COUNSEL
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PERMANENT SELECT COMM`TTEI:
ON INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
October 5, 1981
Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
Roots H-405. U.S. CAPITOL
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The enclosed correspondence is forwarded for your
consideration. Please provide the Committee with any
pertinent information so that we may respond to
With every good wish, I am
EDWARD P. BOLAND
Chairman
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The US. Vs. William Colby
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
sell whole peanuts on the domestic market.
The compromise passed 51 to 47, but it was
clear that the peanut bloc had lost a round.
Stunned by the defeats on milk and pea-
nuts, the farm coalition regrouped to defend
sugar and tobacco. The loan-support pro-
gram for sugar had expired in 1979 and the
Administration had agreed not to fight a
move to reinstate it, again as a sop to boll
weevils. Still, Republican Dan Quayle of
Indiana and Democrat Paul Tsongas of
Massachusetts tried to scuttle the proposal,
arguing that it would fatten the bureaucra-
cy and that each 1 cent rise in the sugar price
would cost consumers $300 million. The
threat mobilized senators from sugar
states-Hawaii, Florida, North Dakota
and Louisiana. "All we ask is the same
sympathetic consideration that we seek to
provide in the areas of corn, wheat ahd
cotton," pleaded Russell Long. of Louisi-
aria. The Senate tabled the Quayle-Tsong93
amendment, clearing the way for the new
sugar loans.
Chastened: The fiercest battle came, pree
dictably, on tobacco. Oregon's Mark Hat-
field proposed scrapping the allotment, quo-
ta and price-support system, calling it "a
travesty" for the government to subsidize
tobacco grow e" while spending millions to
discourage smoking. Helms countered that
ending the tobacco program would throw
thousands of farmers out of work, creating a
"lollapalooza of a welfare program." Hud-
dleston argued that farmers' tobacco earn-
ings had sent pore Kentucky youths to
college than "aA other Federal programs
combined." Thz Serrate tabled Hatfield's
proposal and as Nelms went into uncharac-
teristic retreat to diffuse any personal re-
sentment, the farm coalition held together
to narrowly defeat two more modest propos-
als. The experience was still chastening: the
48-to-45 vote against a measure to reduce
loan levels was the closest in memory on an
issue dear to the tobacco lobby.
Late Friday the remnants of the farm bloc
beat back another Lugar amendment to
wipe out the entire target-price system for
commodities, but the Senate accepted a
compromise-at Kansas Republican Rob-
ert Dole's urging-that trimmed the pro-
posed increases in price levels for wheat,
rice, corn and cotton. "I'll be criticized by
some in my wheat-growing state for this,"
Dole conceded. "But the farmers want us to
stop spending and they are willing to make
some sacrifices." The Senate then approved
the scaled-back $7.4 billion farm bill 49 to 32
and sent it to the House, where farm-state
representatives had watched the assault on
the farm bloc with trepidation. How much
effect the compromises will have on prices is
uncertain, but the lesson of the week was
clear: budgetary imperatives had upset old
Congressional alliances, and not even the
Republican-led farm coalition was immune.
MELINDA PECK with HOWARD FINEMAN
in Washington
arlythismonth,AttorneyGelleraiW117 ?-
lfam French Smith revolted Carter Ad-
ministration guidelines that limited legal
recourse against current or former govern-
ment employees who publish information
about intelligence work without clearing it
with the governm~eennt first. Smith obviously
meant business:tNEWSWEEK learned last
week that the Justice Department plans to
sue former CIA director William E. Colby
for publishing his memoir, "Honorable
Men," without clearing all editions with his
former employe justice officials said the
Colby case did not portend a barrage of
lawsuits against leakers of sensitive infor-
11";i
Colby. His loyalty to the CIA isn't at issue
I't -
mation; the idea was to send a message that
the Administration would not tolerate
breaches of the legal contracts between gov-
ernment workers and their employer.
The Colby case was also designed to "get
at the heart of the question of whether we
deal only with the little fish," said a senior
Administration official. (-Colby's alleged
breach of security occurred in 1978 when
galley proofs of his book reached a French
publisher before the CIA could demand
that its former chief delete certain passages.
In those passages, Colby revealed that the
CIA spy ship Glomar Explorer had failed in
its attempt to recover nuclear missiles,
steering and transmission devices and codes
from a Russian submarine three miles be-
low the surface of the Pacific Ocean )
Consent: There was no question that
Colby's book was entirely loyal to the
CIA-but according to Smith, that isn't the
issue. "Neither the political views of the
author nor the fact that the writing is favor-
able to or critical. oltha intelligence agency
involved will be a factor in deciding wheth-
et to sue," he said. Colby's case, govern-
ment sources said, probably would be set-
tled with a consent agreement-perhaps
forcing the former CIA director to turn
over some profits from his book to the
government.
The Colby case is the latest example of the
Reagan Administration's effort to stop
leaks of information it regards as sensitive.
It was learned that the Administration has
ordered several investigations of possible
national-security breaches: the disappear-
ance of State Department policy papers on
southern Africa, the removal of MX-
missile studies from the Pentagon
and the acquisition by NBC's Marvin
Kalb of position papers on Pakistan.
Similarly, CIA director William J.
Casey has asked for a special FBI
team to conduct an internal investiga-
tion of agency leaks-a request the
bureau has rejected because its top
officials do not believe that the FBI
should be working for the agency.
Irritated: Less sensitive leaks are
"more of an annoyance," says Presi-
dential Counselor Edwin Meese, but
the White House is tracking them as
well. After The New York Times sug-
gested in June that Reagan was will-
ing to compromise on his tax bill,
irritated aides checked Secret Service
computer logs to learn which officials
the reporter had seen. The leak was
traced to budget director David
Stockman. Stockman's job isn't in
danger, but it is the chilling prospect
of being found out-and possibly
fired-that keeps most potential
leakers in line.
Intimidation may be thebest weap-
on against leakers simply because it is
so difficult to prosecute them. Feder-
al law prohibits the unauthorized dissemi-
nation of national-security information, but
the statutes are "so vague as to be virtually
worthless," says a former CIA official. De-
fendants also can resort to "graymail:" forc-
ing the government to disclose even more
sensitive information so that a jury can de-
cide the relative importance of the leaked
material.
Given the legal and practical pitfalls, the
Administration is searching for more effeck
tive ways to stop leaks: not passing son1
information to leak-prone departments amp
routinely collecting important briefing
books after meetings. Attorney General
Smith's new edict on unauthorized publica+
tion of sensitive information may help td
keep such information in the files-but
leaks of less sensitive material may simply
be beyond control.
JERROLD K. FOOTLICK with ELAINE SHANNON,
JOHN WALCOTT and THOMAS M. DeFRANK
in Washington
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