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Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 7 MARCH i, WEEK of PRESS ~., Ma,,oh L 7g PINGS 8p Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 CHARTERS Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 THE NEW YORK TIMES 3 Ma1rch11980 Get IWrLting From the Intelligence chief Stansfield Turner's? message to bill.- Having nominated as watchdogs 'members w h6, the Senate Intelligence Committee is. a setback for:.; know how-to keep secrets. Congress should now insist) those who have worked so patiently to create a legisla- on consultation prior to politically sensitive clandesttna tive charter for the C.I.A. And It Is a dramatic display operations. No one argues for a Congressional veto, but! of the need for that charter. . . I I the legislators can advise against operations that seem l necessary. Admiral Turner testifies that, yes, the Administra- Ill-conceived and appeal to the President if tion still wants a law spelling out what our spies may Admiral Turner resists with. unconvincing argu- and may not do. But he balks at a key section of the ments about leaks. He says he can't ask agents to risk pending charter bill - the one requiring the agency to their lives, or foreign agencies : to cooperate;: when give Congress confidential advance notice of the risks- there is danger or the appearance of danger of expos?I est covert operations abroad. He casually discloses ing an ongoing operation. But he points to no leaks from that he has not always given the notice the cotmttee Congress even under the admittedly excessive number s thought he had promised. And he implies that if Con. of reports currently required Like so many other invo- gress insists "national security," are exaggerated on advance notice, the entire. bill may be- cations of come stalemated and die it ill alie challeng thi ..... , s W- If Congress ignores risk more than its credibility as watchdog. The failure .' The Admiral's disquieting testimony underscores) will demonstrate that the nation: has not truly con in yet another way the need for written rules governing' quered the intelligence excesses of the past. Complai- intelligence activities. sant Congress as' have permitted unsupervisediforeign At his 1977 confirmation hearing, he promised to adventures - assassinations, coups, rigged elections ' try to report all covert operations in advance. But he -- in America's name without demanding that they be.. seemed to be promising more than that -The only ex- squared with America's values or even interests... ception he foresaw was. "an extremely rare occasion, when it.was not possible to provide information on cov- ? ertactions in advance..:." The post-Watergate proposals for Congressional "There is always the possibility," he said at that oversight captured the essence of reform. But the time, "that something might come up in the middle of system . itself became excessive, requiring re ports the night when a decision, has to be made right now, and 1 to seven or eight committees. It was also din- that is the kind of thing that I have in mind in not want. adequately grounded in law- an aggregation of legis ing to be pinned down absolutely." Now he tells the! lative riders, Presidential orders, regulations] and un- committee that he has made unspecified exceptions on derstandings . _ . _. I top of his middle-of-the -night exceptions.- . . These were always meant as stopgaps until a com- So the loose arrangements get looser. The C.I.A. prehensive charter could be enacted. But the C.I1A. interprets them narrowly or broadly to suit itself. andl now shows less interest in the charter than in relief tells Congress what it pleases. More than ever, having from particular restraints. The system is working well, an effective and responsible intelligence establishment Admiral Turner is saying, and needs only a few adjust- requires that Congress provide a legally binding com- gress should not settle for a G.I~ relief pact between that establishment and the rest of society ments. But Con Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 ARTICLE AP ON PAGE . CLEVELANDIPLAIN DEALER 3 MARCH 1980 tivities and spell out in law when, The proposed charter thus le- and how. such clandestine opera gitimiies the kind of secret,. infor-.'i tions s-may and, may not take place ` . ma-1 arrangements that have shielded recent presidents from Touted as at reform. measure, a public scrutiny for their .foreign. Carter administration-backed policy mistakes. This approach charter proposal '(Senate Bi11 2284} (which the Vietnam and Watergate has,'finally:.jemerged, but :it could t make, a bad experience was said to have buried) F or the .cold situation: even worse .. . not only contradicts basic demo ware revival has given -. i cratic notions of governmental ac- the,:.;intelligence bureaucrats they I countability, it leads as a practical perfect., opportunity:: to,. portray, a', matter,. to ill-considered and poorly .CIA -f ettered. by congressional I nudreioht and nn'inmrisitive nithlie l prepared foreign intervention.: By David Atkins Four years ago, candidate Jimmy: Carter: decried the. abuses and ex-. 'cesses1tcommitted..byi the Central Intelligence Agency:: in - the, name "of: national. security: Today; Presi "'dent-??Jiimmy Carter, is. leading the bandwagon to. remove, what he calls i "unwarranted restrictions on U.S.; ~ . intelligence. agencies;; The current cold: war "revival' has, blinded some to. the blunders? that took place during the "original production,":, many of,'which were committed bran unauthorized and .I :.) unrestrained army of iCIA."covert action":.operatives Since 1947, ahe CIA has operated under loosely defined standards ` which virtually ':exempted; the agency from congressional or pub- lic oversight of its. operations. or .even its expenditures of tax dollars. Although the agency was conceived of primarily as a, foreign intelli- gence collection "and.".analysis. I operation,. its- euphemistically =named' Directorate of Plans con- ducted,. according to. the Senate Se- lect Intelligence -(Church) Commit .tee's-:1976 report, close to .?'1,000 ` major coyert action projects . These: activities ranged"; from financial.:support for anti-Commu- , nist newspapers and-, political parties ' in Western' Europe; to the i.''destabilizing'T: ofr'governments ' in Guatemala and Chile, to exotic ::assassination-plots:against; foreign ?aeaders:in the Congo'and.Cuba -and. paramilitary operation's in Laos'and Angola. - Disclosure ofe CIA's sordid :. past in: the wake of'. Watergate: re-: sulted in several in-house restric tions on the agency's covert action machinery and a. requirement - contained in the 1974 Hughes-Ryan Amendment -` of "congressional' notification., of ,suciv operations. There' is, however; still' no legisla- tive"charter.-that-.would-set{. begun . specific standards :for.. agency ac Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 1 The debate over a comprehensive . intelligence Icharter has thus been turned inside out;' what began as- President ' John' Kennedy' con-I ceded as much, when after-the se- .1 cretly 'authorized, CIA-sponsored Bay of. Pigs fiasco, he. told. news= an- effort ,'t- prevent' the kind oft ,paper editors that he. wished they CIA misconduct which 'Jimmy had published details of the invasion ;.Carter once: abhorred, has turned'.; . so it-would have . ,never. taken into a? bill!.. that could . actually sanction such misconduct. The proposed'eharter would,au- thorize covert intervention abroad, but it fails to- state precisely when such operations should occur and who should {approve them. Except for political assassinations: which "" are; specifically forbidden; the bill provides that a host of vaguely de- fined `.`special activities" could be undertaken merely upon the presi dent's orders. In. other instances, there would be no need for presidential approval. >.of a--particular !covert adventure., once it is, deemed .to fall. within.. a? category of activities which the place. : The Churchcommittee concluded that. the most successful foreign operations occur in support of "policies which have 'emerged from a national debate and the estab- lished . processes of 'government." The record is replete with instances > of CIA clandestine operations,. au-: :-thorized "outside. of channels," o, `.which` not only failed to.achieve U.S.. interests. abroad, but actually undermined American credibility. Ironically, the hostage crisis in "Iran which has -in part rekindled the- romantic longing for cloak-. and dagger operations might never have developed-if-the CIA's Direc- presidenthas authorized in-advance torate of Plans hadn't helped "de= (thereby: allowing,, a -president to.. stabilize" the Iranian regime in plausibly deny'; knowledge of.;an 1953 operation. that proves tot be dis :The proposed intelligence charter tasteful or. embarrassing}'.~ , `fails `to -take. into account: another Moreover f the: legislation ex- Lesson of the. past. by not expressly presslydisclaims;anyneed forprior prohibiting, the wide .. range.' of congressional approval, the execu- domestic activities which. the. CIA ,Jive branchis only duty being to 'frequently conducted at presiden- "fully and currently inform"; the tial request: even while 'acknowl- Senate and House intelligence edging them to be "extralegal" or committees whenever an?.operation even illegal meeting- the) statutory definition' of a: special. activity", had :already- CONTINUED Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 The 'measure does. not' prohibit produced' a ' number "of 'proposals' the type of infiltration andi mail- aimed directly at .muzzling public opening conducted by the agency "discussion of CIA' activity.' One against.. civil rights-. and, antiwar . provision of the charter... proposal, activists as part of its Operation for example, would greatly restrict Chaos program, in the late, 1960s. ,citizen access to CIA records, under Apart from a.. general admonition the Freedom=-of Information Act, that the agency respect the '.`integ- currently one of the. most effective rity of private -institutions -the means for keeping the government legislation would not prevent the honest. kind of deceptive use of American, Several other'-measures now be- universities to which the CIA. re- . fore Congress (some of. which may: sorted in channeling money for its become' part of the charters in: its.: preposterous. but: deadly=.:MK- final form) would make it a. crime ULTRA drug experiments.:;; - for anyone including reporters, -1, - t0,3 disclose the' identity of.-.-, an ig ifi tl th r o M can y e p ost s n op sed itllig ,neence agent. i e zes wir charter actually . author - mail openings and break- While legitimate intelligence tapping , operations deserve a de ree: of ins directed at American citizens g without any requirement confidentiality, Watergatethe se- abroad that the government show there is cret bombing of Cam'bo'dia and other misdeeds committed and then { "probable cause" to believe, .that a covered up under the familiar na= crime. has or is. about to. occur, or even that, the. target of surveillance tional is acting as a foreignagent: . reminders security that the, pretext threat of should be public disclosure is a necessary deterrent Finally, the current mood has to government wrongdoing. Although. the current interna- tional? tension certainly justifies an effective U.S. intelligence gathering apparatus, it does not justify re- storing unchecked. covert action .I abroad and political'-spying; at home. Indeed, as.'one former CIA intelligence analyst, E. Drexel Godfrey, asks, "Will not the,appro- priate ... functions of the CIA.and the other parts of the intelligence community be compromisedhby-:...4 heavy-handed -.clandestrine I activities?" - ~, Based on- a 30-year record' tflat shows such activities to be- both shockingly immoral and sho&ngly. ineffective, the 4nswer,'4s. yes. President Carter, and the . perrtbers of Congress now rushing ,to .'un- leash" the CIA--should knowaliat, but their, memories seem,:dg'r- ously short. Atkins a Greater Clevelander; is a student at they Yale University Law School and has done?swnmer 1 work in Washington for the.AJA,eri- can Civil Liberties Union.- Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 nL Lk TI ~_..~ ^:; PAGE By George Lardner weahinccon Post statt writer Toward the. endof the hearing, a senator from New York. began ridi- culling the White House for forgetting its promises to the voters- After the session- was over, a CIA lawyer strode up to the committee's staffdirector and. lectured him about the' law: until he grew red with anger. ..The -debate over the CIA charter, and~.particulariy its requirements for reporting to Congress, his beginning ton take : on a; harsh edge,! with each side accusing the, other of trying to change rules of the game. The.-.biggest contr oversy involves the question. of "prior notices" to Cap= itol Hill of covert .operations. And other significant intelligence activi ties. President Carter.l has come out strongly against such a provision.. The Senate Intelligence Committee is in- sisting on it. With customary dramatic flair, Sen.' Daniel Patrick Moynihan.(D-N:Y:)..be= gan wondering aloud at a CIA charter hearing Thursday just who'''-got elected.in 1976. when Jimmy Carter cam- paigned against' "the veils of secrec in Washington and 'Walter Mondale promised reform of the; CIA.. Moynihan. recalled one meeting. at the White House in the fall of 1973 when Mondale, a. former member 'of, the Senate .Intelligence Committee; -walked in. to review a;largely '.permis- sive draft charter that had been out together by the lawyers; for the various intelligence, agencies. ~ '- ?. - "The vice president :looked sternly at the four wretches ! assembled and said, 'You fellows don't seem to un- derstand who won the last election.'. A. member of the Church'. committee:[the,. first- Senate Ir telligences;Committee headed by, Frank- Church of .Idaho} is now vice president,"i Moynihan re- counted Now, dust -:18 months later; Moyni` ban observed; the:White-House is-ref-- using to o:.along; with. ,a--Taw,..that would require the executive branch to share all Its secrets with the Senate and House intelligence committees. "Now," Moynihan said, "it seems that we' don't understand who won the-last., election . What ever happened' to = those fine brave ideals that the vice-' president brought, into office?'',. THEIWASHINGTON POST 3 March 1980 - The reaction from the administra- tion has been just, as pointed. One White House aide close to the charter debate dismissed. the committee's posi- tion as. "juvenile and groundless." . He pointed out that. the-House. and-Sen-.. ate:.Intelligence -committees- -are ? usu- ally told ahead of?time?all intelligence. activities of any importance. And that - the president intends to continue the practice. Carter, it is said, just doesn't .want that nailed down: into law. "They.. [the_ _intelligence committees), haven't got one ground for:-complaint to date," this official said "They say; `well. what happens if we have a new president? What if we -get another Nixon?' My answer to that is. `What if we have another, Joe McCarthy?'"- The debate, j in short, is one over checks' and 'balances, a question of the dark. The chairman, of the Senate committee, Birch Bayh (D-Ind.)..who said 'several. -weeks ago-that he knew of only one exception to the "prior no- tice" :practice; confirmed' Friday that "we didn't know about' the Canadian situatio.n." . Would it have added to'the hazards .: to have, told ? the.,, traditionally close mouthed "committees when journal- ists_ were=.' already aware:' of the operation?- "That's a very tough ques- tion," allowed one . CIA. official-; Still, the -debate rages- on. Some. CLA,aides. have suggested President Carter feels. so strongly, about the is- sue that he will veto any 'charter con- taining a prior notice rule But. White House aides insist he hasn't addressed the question of a veto yet. ' - - . Some members of the Senate , corn-' mittee and their aides feel they, have already made more than enough con- cessions to the CIA, and the adminis- tration on the charter legislation. The bill'introduced Feb. 8 by Sen. Walter D. Huddleston (D-Ify.): gives the CIA an unprecedented exemption from the Freedom of Information Act, provides criminal penalties -for unauthorized disclosure of the names of CIA opera-. tives, and repeals the 1974. Hughes- Ryan amendment that governs covert operations. Under Hughes Ryan, 'no covert no- tivity-maybe undertaken "unless and until" the' president finds it -iinport3 it. -'o the natioial se'curity_ and reports the-. undertakinr.".- in a:rtmely fashion to: the appropri.ate.,committees.of the. Congress. The CIA has c^m ?!ained or -ears. that this rears c~.r'~+csr a ro-.'e committees, in'-o1-ing 200 membei?stvi? Congress.' nod. their stalfs. `-aut-'=Fhe number has been exaggerated. As Rep.. Les Aspin? ,chairman..of;.,he House Intelligence oversight subcom- mittee ' has pointed out, only. three of the eight committees" systematically review covert actions and only a few members of.the other committees are notified. - Moynihan argues- that Hughes-Ryan, should be amended- in any case 'he-, cause it is ambiguous and the "uniess and until" " clause could be read as re- quiring prior notice now. In practice,, the administration has;'as ' a-'genetal i?.ule, been supplying-prior notice'any way, under- a 1978 Carter :executive;'or- der.'at provides for. the Senate"'and`- 'House Intelligence committees to,-be kept informed-: by"the `.intelligence agencies of " "any : signifcant ' antieip ated activities.?'.'="_t-: :.; ;-:11...; + -; presidential' .prerogatives vs. the, ..power of congressional. oversight: CIA Director Stansfield Turner. has argued against a law. requiring prior notice on grounds 'there are some op- erations. that are -just too sensitive, that human lives might be endan- gered if Congress were told.' and word, 'leaked out - Coincidentally, the one big opera ;lion.- that, 'the select committees ..weren't told about-for fear- of leaks =leaked out- anyway. ,It was still a. success because. the outsiders who learned of it. kept the secrete them- :'selves. This was the so-called "Canadian ca- per" involving the escape in January o#, six American diplomats- from Iran after' they hid for three months in the Catladianf Embassy in; Tehran. Jean Pelletier,:therrFVashington :.correspon- dent?:of Monteal's . La Presse, knew. theircwhereabouts,' So -did Newsweek and the Washington bureau of NBC . News, among others. The Senate and House_Intelligence committees,, meanwhile, were kept in Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 rnrrmTN[TED Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 The administration,' however, wants. to'keep. that clause,- "significant anti-. cipated activities, from.. becgming law. I-t, proposes only to keep the two intelligence committees-and no oth- ers-"fully and currently, informed'A of, 'its undertakings....' At one point during Thursday's hearing. Bayh expressed his exaspera? tion.over the dispute. "It seems ' to , me we're picking. at gnats that have turned into the size of watermelons.." he told CIA Deputy Di- rector Frank Carlucci. "We're making a great big deal out of this. I think you can include 'signifcant 'anticipated 'ac- tivities' in a manner that does not breach security." Carlucci didn't, quite agree. -After -the hearing, a CIA lawyer marched-up to the committee's staff director, Wil- liam Miller, and began expounding on the niceties of the issue until'the normally unflappable Miller flushed 'and barked at him. "That's why we're putting ' itin the statute. ' ' At this point Bayh said "he doesn't see much point in further, argument. He said he.did not think it wiser- to rely on the good will of future admin-- .istrations instead of law. "We've'just got `to go ahead-'and see where the votes are," he said in a tele- phone interview. He said- no one: on ;the intelligence. committees, was trying--to dispute the president's leadership;:. in foreign policy or to assert a: veto power -over covert actions. But if the White House keeps insisting that the presi- dent's "constitutional authority" is'at stake.-he said, Congress might start asserting 'its constitutional, authority over appropriations. "If we want to play that game,"'he said, "we can say, 'No knowledge,- no money.' We still have the right. to Con- trol the purse strings." Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 ARTICLE APPEARED LOS ANGELES TIMES 2 MARCH .1980 ON PAGE ", . ~ I I ;Agency is as difficult to devise as 'it is easy to'; >~ deny the existence of such operations. = : define. The CIA 'should have, sufficient authority, Carter does not want to inform the intelligence clothed in necessary secrecy, _to :gather foreign committees of .covert operations in `advance, yet ck on ble ch t tit n uld e u e a reasona co s intelligence, but that power and secrecy should not prior notice wo beso unlimited that the agency could again become rash actiom a threat to liberty at home, or become unaccounta ...t Another proposal would: exempt the- CIA from ble in its operations abroad. I most requirements of the Freedom of Information While' Congress -isl considering ' legislation .that I Act.. For what purpose? The -CIA says that this is would. Set responsibilities. and- regulations for the necessary to dispel the belief that- the CIA can' be':. CIA, momentum is growing to "unleash" the agency ` compelled: to divulge secrets, and that.this hampers. -a movement -stimulated by a. sense of frustration : , its operations. However, under present law 'the over the crises in Iran land Afghanistan. agency already has the authority -to protect classi President Carter has complained about: "unwar fled data. - :restraints" on1 the CIA, and, among many The bill would permit the CIA, with a court order, supporters of legislation to .modify these restrie- to conduct wiretaps and -searches of Americans Lions, Rep. Robert McClory (R-Ill.) makes a typical believed. to possess "intelligence information" even` charge: He says the restrictions "have unduly ham . though not suspected of having committed a crime.: pered the ability of tiie United States to effectively This is ahighly_ dubious measure, considered in the" conduct foreign policy." light of illegal CIA spying on Americans just a few' Some changes are indicated the 'reformsun i years ago .posed on the CIA in the 1970s. But this- is a time to -The proposed charter would make it a crime -for, proceed cautiously. It is a time to remember that the present or past intelligence employees to reveal the restraints were instituted in response to the CIA's names ofsecret-agents. Such disclosure for the sake illegal surveillance of thousands of Americans, and of- disclosure should: be prohibited.' Another'. bill -to revelations :about its attempts to overthrow or, pending in.. Congress would have extended the assassinate foreign eiders. ~= - criminal sanction to the press.,That section has been: At present, a ht con essional committees must deleted in:recognition of the fact that exposure of be informed before the CIA can carry out "covert" illegal activities could'on occasion lead to the identi operations abroad. It! makes sense. to restrict . such ties of the individuals involved. .' information to the - House and Senate. intelligence " Many troublesome issues are raised in the charter committees. Yet a more effective reform than. this, legislation.. The. act would bar the intelligence we believe, would be the creation of a joint commit- i agency from engaging in assassination attempts, but ;-tee to oversee the. agency-a' committee modeled would not' prohibit the CIA from attempting to .after the Joint Committee' on Atomic Energy.. But overthrow foreign regimes. this proposal, first suggested several years agog at I '. -Sen. Daniel Patrick- Moynihan (D-N.Y.), ' who the height of the controversy over CIA activities, is , strongly . favors relaxing the- curbs on the CIA, not included in the charter legislation emphasized that the country must face "the reality Present law requires the President to approve all of the totalitarian. state in today's world, and the covert ..operations.,. Legislation before - .Congressconditions of confict which . the existence of the I would mandate presidential approval only for clan totalitarian state imposes on the rest of us." destine activities involving "substantial" risks This That is :a grim-reality, but-we must be wary, in proposal has `encountered- criticism. Sen. William confronting the totalitarian threat, not to undermine Proxmire (D-Wis.): says this change, supported by our: greatest. source.. of.strength-an open society. -Carter, is intended to give the President .plausible Congress..... must: proceed : cautiously-.. in ? weig deniability-that insi d uous doctrine that allows the every aspect of the intelligence bill Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 lk Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 ARTICLE HED WASHINGTON STAR ON PAGE 1 MARCH 1980 Cord Meyer s for the CIA charter pangfli " After nearly three years Church Committee, Vice cooperation by allied intelli- of gestation and prolonged President. Mondale brought gence services. This exten- labor pains, a new CIA legal with him to the White House sion abroad of American charter was recently deliv- an.-'urgent commitment to judicial authority will cer- ered by the Senate intelli- achieve this reform. Two tainly be resented by for- gence committee in -.the Church committee staffers eign governments as arro- form of a bill sponsored by who shared his fervor were gant hypocrisy. It is a Sen. Walter Huddleston, D-" given key-positions,. David perversion of our system of Ky., and three other sena- Aaron as Zbigniew Brze- justice designed to throw a tors. zinski's deputy on the Na- mantle of spurious legality To the evident- dismay of. tional Security Council staff over an illegal act. the senatorial midwives at andWilliam Miller as chief Overtaken by events in the initial hearing, the Car-' of staff of the Senate intelli- Afghanistan and Iran, the ter administration and gence committee. Huddleston bill was born as many members of the com- The first fruit of their an anachronism. in a time mit.tee seemed unwilling to labors was legislation intro- when the ineffectiveness acknowledge parentage of duced in early 1978 which rather than the power of the the sickly infant. Conserv- was so: festooned. with legal atives complained that the . restrictions and reporting legislation went too far in requirements that it died a imposing detailed restric- natural death before ever tions on the. intelligence reaching the Senate floor. agencies, while the Ameri= The new intelligence char- can Civil -Liberties Union: ter introduced by Senator has stated that it does not go Huddleston attempts to take far enough. a more realistic approach The ancestry of this legis- but it only succeeds in lation goes back 't6 the dramatizing again-the diffi- highly-publicized investiga- 'culty of trying to legalize tion by the Church Commit- espionage, which? is by its tee in 1975.76 of the real and nature illegal.,. imagined wrongdoing of the - One example will suffice. FBI and the CIA.-Urged on. In order'to bug an American by The New York Times, citizen abroad suspected of liberals made it an article of hostile intelligence connec- faith that the most serious tions, the new charter-re- threat to American liberties quires :,that a court order came not. from abroad but. first be obtained from a U.S. from our own' intelligence , federal judge. This bizarre services. procedure puts the federal To chain this "rogueele- phant" and to restrain .the excesses- of an "imperial" presidency, it was deemed necessary to?`enact:`into- statutory. law - with crimi nal sanctions a. detailed list of prohibitions to pr& vent intelligence officers from violating the rights of U.S: citizens. From his service on the CIA is. seen as a cause of major concern. In the initial hearing before the Senate intelligence committee, there-was little enthusiasm for the bill's 171 pages of tur- gid prose which Sen. Daniel P., Moynihan, D-N.Y., de- scribed as "a- mournful exer- cise in bureaucratic draftsmanship." . The House committe on intelligence has consist- ently taken a highly skepti- cal view of the attempts of their Senate colleagues to draft a comprehensive list of legal restrictions. Their attitude was summed up in the comment by. a House staffer that the new charter must have been drafted "by a group of political scien- judiciary into the business tists and lawyers who had of approving a violation of no experience in the legisla- the law of a foreign country tive or the executive where, :our- courts have no branches and no knowledge jurisdiction... '. of intelligence.",- The shorter bill which addresses itself to the urgent practical needs of the intelligence community. It would repeal the Hughes-Ryan amend- went ;hat requires the. president to notify eight committees of covert action operations and confine the reporting requirement to the House and Senate intelli- gence.committees ' Moynihan's , proposed legislation would also re- lieve the CIA of much of the burden.-of reporting. under the Freedom of Information Act and would for the first time provide criminal sanc- tions against present or for- mer government officials who disclose the-identities or agents under cover. Wisely,: Moynihan has agreed: to modify language in his bill to make clear that the, official.leaker. and not the' press would be held criminally responsible. There is widespread sup- port -in:. both. Houses for Moynihan's initiative but Democratic senators are de- manding as a quid pro quo that a reluctant White House guarantee prior notification of covert action operations and full access to all intelli. gence information as a pre- requisite to effective con- gressional oversight. Such oversight is the best protection against intelli- gence abuses. Whether a deliberately ambiguous compromise can be found to would clearly be a rubber bill's passage by the House settle this ancient conflict stamp rather than a consid- are remote. -between the president and ered judicial decision, since Anticipating that the new Congress will determine the( the judge is specifically to charter would be stillborn, chances. for real intellf- be denied such pertinent Sen. Moynihan has intro- gencereform inthis elec.! information as the extent of duced a separate and much tion year, . Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 ARTICLE APP, ON PAGE_,,/ NEW YORK TIMES 1 MARCH 1980 Letters. To Watch the. C.I.A.. To the Editor: In the recent debate on the C.I.A., I have heard nothing of a reform .that: seems ? eminently .. reasonable; espe- cially if the. number of, Congressional. committees to which the- C.I.A. must. "report is reduced: Provide for a rotat- ing membership, including chairmen,. on those committees which oversee the agency.' This will help eliminate' -cronyism between committee mem-' bers and the agency, insuring effective:. : oversight. EDWARD S.DERMON,,, Roslyn Heights.L.I., Feb. 24, Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 PARKERSBURG NEWS (W. VA.) 17 February 1980 ...Senator Byrd's decision. to help remove the unreasona- :ble restraints on the Central -Intelligence Agency means that tan almost. immeasurably powerful political arm is being :extended. the CIA.. Byrd indicated at a meeting last week .that some of : in e a e which has been. binding the agency :must be: cut in the 'interest of, keeping America abreast. of. what is happening-1n other parts,of the world. ' Byrd says, he_ favors reducing:: the number of commit- tees that now demand reports from= the CIA. It appears to be a. worthwhile_ move. Clearly the CIA's obligation to report to three. committees in both the House and Senate has provided' grounds for much of. the trouble the'agency has faced. Many members of Congress feel that if the-reins on the CIA had. been loosened months ago 'we would not be in so much trouble in either Iran or. Afghanastan..We were never .a strong,. believer in. many. of the sordid stories that. were associated .with CIA: activities: The. stories about assassina- tion- plots, drug;: experiments and' surveillance of United States citizens;:, we feel, were unfairly overplayed and aroused in. this country an animosity that never should have existed. The CIA is not in'wf!arrnn4ht be called a pleasant type, of work.. Their assignme "Ps are dangerous. They : must. seat h- the most. ruthless:' governments on.. earth . for information that would benefit America. Some times there is:not a pretty way to do these things. -The=_~a-agency has..been portrayed as:*, a bunch of murderers who :would go. to any :. length. to gain the desired ends..Perhaps that in ' a fashion is so. Gathering needed. intelligence requires courage and determination,: and if a few bodies- fall' here. and there when the CIA must go the :'distance to: protectAmerica- it is understandable that bloodshed is not always avoidable. Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 NEWSDAY (N.Y~. ) 13 FEBRUARY 1980 2 -on gilt. easi ) ''he ~~ - Still gfy Curtis,.8 Gans '4 There has been muchisaid and writ ten recently about how the Central Intelligence Agency is a pitiful, help .less ,giant, rendered ineffective to. serve the security needs of the nation by.,a cruel-web pf congressionally in-!' x in 'the conduct of a covert action; .: judgr*ient-within the agency itself..( ? The attempted assassination of?' It is, for instance, true that the CIA.! Fidel Castro and the likely killings.of failed to warn the nation of the seri- many lesser officials. Dueness of the threat to the shah in ? The destabilization and diamem-.,I Iran and .did not accurately predict. berment of, democratically elected his downfall. governments,, moat recently in Chile; .. But the CIA's failure was'due to but earlier in such countries as-Brit-J.- the fact that it made a political deci . The invasion of Afghanistan and ish Guiana :land Iran. Sion to draw its information only from f the seizure- of the U.S. Embassy in ? Operation Phoenix-the: system': ?: pro-shah sources and. to involve its Tehran have provided' a convenient stir' destruction of villages, defolia- 'operatives only with' pro-shah 'ele. pretext for repeating this fiction and tion of.foresta and murder of leaders 3?ments within Iran. for a renewed and concerted effort to: in Vietnamlin order to deny the Viet . '.. President Carter committed him-. get,the most important!and necessary- Cong sanctuary, the testing of gases' self in his State of the..Union Address i of these restrictions repealed: and drugs oil unknowing citizens and- to relax "unnecessary'; restrictions on: ? The requirement that the Presi=' other actions that show a lack of.re-.' the CIA. dent approve of and Congress be in- .: spect.for human life' 1 There is perhaps one such unneces= formed. about all American ? covert. ? Perhaps most importantly, the ~..sary :.restriction-the requirement intelligence actions. ;. is buttressing !of and the marrying of within the Hughes-Ryan Amendment ? The -.stricture that the ? CIA be' _ America's fortunes, in the name of governing CIA conduct which, man- fully? accountable to political leader: anticommunism, 1 to repressive, au- . dates eight congressional committees ship--the President end; Congress thoritarian and` unpopular govern = be informed of every CIA action. This for all of its operations. ments such as, those of the shah in ]` fre _probably carries dissemination. of Congress, if it is wise, ' wiltain Iran, Somoza in Nicaragua or Thieu, 7 --classified information beyond what is the essence of these controls over the' Ky and Mein in Vietnam. %i, wise for the security interests of the I intelligence community and keep this There. 16 no evidence that, any of the -nation; particular "rogue elephant". within. a -restrictions on the- CIA have either .d ` The President Should ensure that rational cage. undermined natidnal security or ren-..., only the' four relevant committees of The need for an effective American 1 dered the organization less capable of ..j : Congress-those dealing with intelli- intelligence service is not in dispute. doing its prim ary lob-.-providing the .I genre and foreign. policy'-monitor welfare and security bf the United conduct its foreign policy. States or peace in" the world can doubt ? " :. The. errors the CIA -has made. dur- the? need fo an effective American in--* i;:ing. the paste ears,. teTlt h2e^c p~lyilityw AcCh`eeck, Md.,, who plunged to.; legeof iaforraiaigyou. ,, , .. ; _~ W.. hls.death from a Maahattaa hotel win for our ability to maintain a free and open society. Them is something about the way the C.I.A. has been function ? , . ing that is casting a shadow over our historic position; and I feel that we need tocorrectit.11 Heis still right Williarn-Wilson, a specialist. in hwrwn rights. is an international law}+er Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 AtTICLE AI'Yi::.t2'D of PAGE THE WASHINGTON POST 4 March 1980 luchA presidential candidate hasl tecentlybeen in. touch with. former' CIA agent.John Stockwell, offering: to ' set-up lecture an&:television- appear- = ances? and'-"rfiake--opportunities"' _...... __^. for~ hiMto?conU ue to"be.criticaltof. the. .'CIA and President'Carter?'?: Stockwell ' won't..say, Not tilh lie has .decided, whether on not.. to take him up- on the offer rho Justice- Department filed' suit yesterday -against (Stockwell : for t, the profits from his 1978 book, `'IiSearch of Enemies,"which blew . tliexvhistle on CrA activities in' Angola = ~; `. Earlier yesterday, Stockwell said *that. if the government: sued ' him, he would probably accept` the, candidate's offer and spend the next::yea~.on the lecture. circuit, "raising hell:` Stockwell is currently busy In two. television projects. One, sponsored by `the BBC and \VGBH, ctherpublic.aelevi _sion channel in-Boston,.-is 'a; film study. W'ithv a telepision;i :producer Stock- well has made' a: couple of trips to Cuba, and is waiting: ? now- :for ? visas 'from-the. African countries involved: I Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 I CLE LPY.ra E. D DX PAGE ~ ties The e,Tusti eDepaitment accused anZ `.`andr other advantages' stemming oilier 1 formes :CIA;;,officer-turned.au from the book and it asked the courts thee yesterday of; violating his secrecy Wbrder an accounting -aandto direct: agreementwithr the-7ageney.and filed.. suit toe the profits from his-;booK.. ? Stockwell. to :"religquish the pro ..: Acting,, in th wake,of a-controver - eeds' ' J seal Supreme Court decision that bol L7ttdPr an agreementahe. signed one stered:its; censorshippowers;.the gow ioiung the CIA 1in 1964; Stockwell rged CI. veteran,John R h n nt me c a er pledged] "not to publish or participate StockwelLwlth!breach of contract for'. inthe publishin the~book :without first. sub Publication. of any information witting-it,to the CIA for. review ortmaterial relating to'the agency. its';- An:expose oft. CIA operations in n.-_ activitie's or intelligence activities generally." ' even`afrer "Iedvin-14be gola in?,19'776; the book, In search.. CIA."without specific, prior approval of Enemies=A- CIA. -Story accused, by the a?' enc " the?-agency-oftinounting'coverrinili:- g Y? . tary` operations and? 'thenrn ayin; - tw_ IN the foreword to d - book, l agree Congress anri the public- to keep them he) did not feel bound by the agree ~PrrP+~ - - mint' because hit;. CIA.* recruiters:-had lied about the true: nature of the agen 12 ear-~'eteran ntthe efA Stock cis, clandestine services: because?-he~; :tell gait the agency in March.1g7&a& was 'convinced they,. needed reform; 'ter=riln' eight=month' assignment ae?: and because he felt his right ,to fi eel: chief of'the CL'S Angola-raskForce don of speech took precedence. ``iii Washington The. charges-he-made 'The Supreme Court dismissed the, public:at she time triggered a Senate. First Amendment argument in a foot- investigation ti .,note to its Snepp decision. saying "the His?book as published x-'1878-bY. government has a compelling interest W W N'orton. Co- ot.?_New York ands in protecting. both the secrecy of in ?~~,entthrough>four' printings as well as formation important to the national a paperbackeditian t sa security and the appearance of confi The governments civil Suit; filed in'- dentiality-so essential to - the; effective. ,`,U.S. District Court in Alexandria was: operation of our foreign intelligence patterned after! a.- similar,action up- service'` held : by c the -,.Supreme Court last Although he signed-the standard Se - montli -.against] former C A offices ( crecy form on joining the CIA? Stock-: Frank Snepp well said yesterdayhe,refused. t0.sign. In -that-case; the high court sane the so,calted "exit agreement," repeat tioned the,CIA.'ssecrecy-agreement mg; the promise; when he left. He re C:under:which employes:. promise: to Sub-' called debating about it. with a CIA --mit any-writings about..the agency for security officer-. review.-'1w -' heithat'sthe?qyoverir4 " "H pent about 30 minutes trying mept'mag impose suih restetin- topersuade me to'sign and I spent:30 e~ en . iM: the .absence?-of~ an e~phcit minutes lsaying no. - Stockwell said agreemenW ,yesterday."Isaid,. `You cc not paying: Now cng-,- A stns ex: Stock me any money anymore: Why-should I.` eigi a contract saying?~, r - do.. son-se iiell~ said he little surprised *'thing.;for Ik that in, an;election year,the-go~ecn? , you?'. 'never occurred to meat;would: be soheavy anded E> "_. hiat to ask whether I planned to write ery- newspaper?I ve . read .,, as been. a book screamiag_about theSnepp decision Stockwell has- accused both former' In any' event ~Stocl well Fsaid sale? secretary] of state Henry' A:' Kissinger' and' former CIA ` director William of the.,.book, ;which he estunated ar about 40P009-Copies i_ncluding;;the Pa Colby of lying to congress about the said he is now: working `on`-other pro].. uiecivu war tnere: The Soviet. ects as ,.a- freelance television journal backed faction won: --- ist The overment~aid in the }sui n THE WASHINGTON POST 41 March 1980 Stockwell -yesterday also chided CIA - Director Stansfield Turner for ;;suggesting! that whistleblowers such, .as himself- get' "huge advances for their CIA exposes.. "Anybody knows that You don't get huge advances for,"book -like- th'a~t>",-7 'Stockwell said, indicating his advance -came - to about 520,000; "If my book made $50,000, he said, "it, aise' cost- me- -$10,000 in research and travel, costs' and, I'd say, about 515,000' fill taxes.'That leaves .aboutS25,000 to pay:-. the rent and everything else for three years.. By comparison,: I. would' have made about $80,000 working for:'the CIA." Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 TTr 1 -AP'0 :Fr:_.. 01 PJ...x THE NEW YORK TIMES 4 March 1980 --77i dEx C.LA.:Agent Sued by U.S. for Profits WASHINGTON, March 3 (AP) -The Justice Department tiled suit in Fed- eral District Court in Alexandria. Va.. today to obtain the profits of a book on activities by the Central Intelligence -Agency in Angola. written two years ,ago. by. a former: agency employee, John R. Stockwell.:... On Feb. 20 the Supreme Court upheld the Government's victory in a similar suit against Frank. Snepp. , a former C.I.A. -agent who wrote an unauthor- ized. book on the agency in- Vietnam, "Decent Interval: ._~. ?f'~r :..::, "We feel: that. it's,iaiportan'i that `.the American public be aware of- the. type- of espionage and intelligence activities that are. occurring;' he saidr.: He said the' agency was at a crucial :stage in resettling Colonel Herrmann, his .wife and son, and that once he assumed a new identity as a private citizen it would be too late to make him available to re- porters for questioning. Administration sources, who declined .to. be identified, said that the decision to put Colonel Herrmann on display was cleared in advance by Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance.'Colonel Herrmann's ap- pearance follows by three days the disclo- sure by retiring FBI intelligence chief William Kregar that five communist dip- lomats had been quietly expelled from this country in the last year for spying. Colonel. Herrmann... who, said he was about 45 years old, said that when the FBt apprehended him they offered. him :?? a choice of being prosecuted or cooperating. He said his arrest ..was due to the blunder of my KGB contact- Colonel Herrmann lived in Hartsdale, N.Y.; outside New York City. During an. election year. he said...-"l would study the results of all primaes, approach many of 'my neighbors, study: every source about the true picture of how Americans felt about the candidates. to prepare for getting close to candidates, so { that in case they won I could have some- how gotten a foot in the door." He said the closest he got to a presi- dential candidate- was a? brief accidental discussion with one at: the San Francisco airport while the-candidate was talking with his aides. Colonel Herrmann refused to name the candidate because he said the .man was never aware of his activities. -Aside from information on political candidates, he said he was badgered by the KGB to report on U.S. public views on U.S.-Soviet trade negotiations, the neutron bomb and detente.. Colonel Herrmann said he received in- structions by radio from transmitters in the Soviet Union in a "foolproof" code. He said the- instructions came every -week, lasted from, 5 to- 30 minutes and 'were 4re- peated three times. He said he sent his re- ports mostly'in secret writing in letters to various addresses in Europe. { The FBI said he also traveled periodi- cally to KGB headquarters in the Soviet Union for retraining and debriefing, the last of the trips coming in 1977. The FBI -said that on one of his: first missions in' the United States, the KGB radioed him: the exact text of an anony- mous letter he mailed from Atlanta to U.S. authorities alleging that a manned space vehicle may have been sabotaged. Colonel Herrmann said he believed this was an Apollo spaceshot; and the FBI said the ploy was unsuccessful. , Colonel Herrmann said he came to the West in 1958, entering'West Germany as a refugee from East Germany. He stayed there until 1982, then spent six years in Canada before entering the United States as though he were a legal immigrant. "From the first moment I got my im-I migration card, I strictly observed laws in the United States," he said. "I'spent a lot) of time figuring out my income taxes just; to not make a mistake and to not getj scrutinized." - Mr. Boynton said Colonel Herrmann's' role as a double agent. ended several months ago because of fear the KGB sus- pected he might be cooperating with U.S. agents. _ Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 AF T1 L 0Z /1 ON F-'11. T n.*.,. so .Ar r Iles tic-,Soviet Spy Agrees THE NEW YORK TIMES orrress, I r.B.I. Sayst r ;, By ROBERT PEAR gested that the latest disclosures were. personally approved and perhaps orches intelligence or counter-intelligence operations. Intelligence experts-_ sug-. departure from the normal Federal prac- tice. The Government rarely publicizes: enforcement officials in the White House:- The recent publicity about foreign es- pionage activities in the United States is a 3pectnm? inn raw ro, IImw WASHINGTON, March 2 - A forme Soviet spy who, is now working for the United States will be presented to report ers tomorrow by the (Federal Bureau o Investigation, Government officials, said tonight. The officials said that the agent would discuss Soviet intelligence' tech. niques in a news conference at the reau's headquarters here. The scheduled appearance follows by just three days an F.B.I. official's disclo sure that the United States quietly ex., pelled five diplomats from Soviet bloc countries in the. last year. for alleged es. pionage activities. William O. Kriegar, assistant director of the F.B.I. in charge of the intelligence division, made the dis. closure in. an interview Friday the day before his retirement! President Caster praised Mr. Kriegar's blow a major Soviet intelligence networks in this country," although the former spy has been a "productive" asset for the. United States._;` It. was not ;immediately possible to ,gauge the importance of the agent who is to aunear tomorrow! An Administration tween the United states and the ? Soviet "crease in the espionage war to match the { Sovietagents. Other officials said that the news coa4 Terence tomorrow was a signal of an in- cial, suggesting that; r. Carter wanted to focus a. spotlight on- the suspected rowtthe size of jthe target," said the off!- Bence official said he believed that Pry- dent. Carter had reached a. point of dis. gust and anger with Soviet intelligence operations similar to that of the British when they expelled more than 100 Soviet A former top-ranking counter-intelli- CarterAagerReported> _ Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 & ' Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 ' .=1iiEil THE BALTIMORE SUN 3 March 1980 Ex-spy to-speak out Washington (AP)-A former Soviets spy, now working for the United States, will explain some of Moscow's espio- nage methods to reporters at an FBI briefing today,: ABC News- reported yesterday. The report described the man as "a major double agent". who used to spy .for the Soviet- Union in the United States He "is reported to be.intimately fa- miliar with the Soviet spy apparatus) here and his conversion is said to be a major breakthrough," the report said. FBI officials refused to comment on the ABC report. But the. FBI did an- nounce yesterday it would hold a news briefing this morning on an "FBI inves- tigative matter." According to ABC,.the FBI will not disclose to reporters the agent's identi- ty "out of fear that the lives of rela- tives still living in'a Communist nation will be endangered." The account also quoted unidenti-~ fied FBI sources as saying the man has) "personal reasons for going public with! his story." . . , _:! Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 ARTICLE APPEL ON PAGE / .was often the case under former Director J. Edgar Hoover, who once cut off formal liaison with the C e n t r. a 1 Intelligence ',Agency. Cregar, who will be in May, said he. was. retiring ?now despite being granted. a waiver by the attorney general to work, one, year past mandatory retire- ment because! the , federal pension sys- tem makes it economically more advan- tageous for him to leave at this time... Cregar once' played. linebacker ~ for the Pittsburgh Steelera pro1ootball team. day tthat in the last: year about, five diplomats of communist count tries have, quietly, been asked'-. to leave th4 country.-Assistant FBI Director- William Cregar, who retired. Friday after 29 years in the bureau, refused to name. the countries:: But he. said' that asking diplomats to leave was. one response the United States has taken when it uncovers spying by persons having diplomatic immu- nity from criminal prosecution. He said the cases had not. been made public because every time they are disclosed "the enemy will . manufacture a retaliation against one of our diplomats." Reflecting in an interview on his career, almost all of which was in counter-intelligence for the FBI, Cregar said the agency has made excellent progress over the years in counter-intelligence. "WE KNOW MORE. about their method of operation, we have a better appreciation of who . their intelligence officers. are, we have a better appreciation of the equip- . ment and techniques _ they..,. use against: us, and. we. have a.. better CHICAGO TRIBUNE 1 MARCH 1980 ~d _~~aies -Nd W` Ut qWe ?tbi USS* WASHINGTON [API-The. FBI's : retiring intelligence:chief said Fri. understanding..tot. tier long-range plans," he ;He said that'ln recent years the FBI had become: an active partici- pant in the intelligence community rather than making Its own lade- pendent decisions in:; spy : cases as Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 ARTICLE : AR D ~. - 3. c; P THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS I March 1980 Washington (News Bureau) =:William. Cregar, the i FBI's: top counterspy,. revealed :yesterday that.the United States secretly booted out five Soviet-bloc spies posing as diplomats lithe last year. 1 Gregar?-who is-retiring as chief?of.the intelligence! division-, declined! to name the spies- or. the countries they-worked,.forl The1 major Soviet?block espionage activities operating in the: U.S. are, the Soviet Union'sl KBG and the intelligence services of East .Germany,; PolandCzechoslovakia.and-Hungary. He- said the cases had- not been, made public when) the. spies were. expelled because "the enemy would( have manufactured a 'retaliation against one of our, diplomats. The.;U.S.. and the Soviet: Union quietly; agreed recently to?play ldown the departures after they 'engaged in a-bitter series of expulsions and_ counter expulsions :.Cregar said that the'diplomats wera not believed to :have harmed U.S.,national security' because FBI agents "were monitoring them and we were able to prevent- ;any damage." FBI agents watch virtually every diplomat assigned to Soviet bloc embassies ?here under the assumption that more than half of the "diplomats-", are actually.: spies. Through the years the'FBI.has bugged embassy. telephones, broken into the embassies to steal code books on behalf of the, supersecret National Security! Agency and tailed'the diplomats.. , -:-'The diplomats enjoy diplomatic immunity from] prosecution but can be asked to leave the country. _ FBI. sources said yesterday, that five to 10 Soviet- bloc diplomats have been kicked out of the country each year- over the last. decade. But high Justice. De- partment officialsisaidthat the timing of an expulsion is often related to a foreign policy decision and doest not necessarily restilt.from successful Soviet espio-1 rage activity. ..Y .Mat Cregar made any revelation at all;. with - thapproval of Attorney, General- Benjamia-Civiletti, indi= cates that the Carter administration is using the expul- sions :.as-: another, weapon .in - its post?Afghanistan invasionget-tough". policy. --- By JOSEPH VOLZ '. ` : . Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 C. AF'rf::_n: J ARTICLES 011 PAGB4, THE WASHINGTON POST 1 March 1980 Five Sm ied-Bloc D iptoru~zts iA U* .S. Ousted, foi Spyying By Charles R. Babcock Washington Post Staff Writer The Fars retiring counterintelli gence chief said yesterday that 'five communist-bloc diplomats were qui- etly forced to-leave the United States in the. past. year. after they were caught spying.. Williams' Cregar,. head- of the bu- reau's intelligence division, said that such. expulsions: usually are. not publi- cized because the communist nations would feel compelled to retaliate. Cregar's remarks capped a recent series of exposures by American and allied intelligence officers of Soviet bloc spy networks in New Zealand, Canada, Spain and Japan. It has been suggested that the stream of disclosures. is part of a U.S. policy decision to change the usual rules of international spying and re- taliate against the Soviet Union for its invasion of Afghanistan. ..Spokesmen for the State Depart- ment and Central Intelligence Agency refused, to comment on the- matter yesterday. A White House official said he was unaware of any policy change. But it seems clear that'at least some of the disclosures were orchestrated. Last month, for instance, John Me- ..Mahon, the CIA's deputy director for operations, told a House Intelligence subcommittee in closed. session about Soviet forgeries of U:S. government documents. Last ? week the testimony was suddenly made public,. exposing to publ}c'view more than.: 100 pages of examples of alleged Soviet-bloc props-. ganda.: ; The release was to. "dramatize" re- .cent increases in such forgeries; a sub- committee spokesman said:.. The:.Chicago Tribune- reported -on Monday that. the.- CIA has disclosed the names of 'many Soviet-bloc agents of influence- to allied ' intelligence in recent weeks.- In his' 'testimOny McMahon- noted that a forged U.S. Army field. manual. --purporting to 'show plans for Ameri-_ can interference in allies'" domestic af- fairs--showed up in Spain in?':1977' in. the hands of a Cuban intelligence offi. cer. The Tribune story, said'the CIA gave the names of those involved' in the fabrication to Spanish intelli- .gene: Another exposure 'bf?a 'Soviet' espio. nage-,network occurred in: January:in.- New Zealand, - where Soviet: Ambassa dor V'sevolod.: Sofinsky ;,was: ;expelled:. after he` .was accused-- of funneling money to: a socialist political party. In retaliation,' the Soviets expelled the, New Zealand; ambassador from Moscow a month before the end of his scheduled tour of duty. In Canada in January, two Soviet embassy of- ficials were expelled after. being charged with. pay= ing money to an American undercover agent. In Japan, the army's chief of staff resigned after a Soviet-run spy network was closed down by police. Intelligence officials refused to say yesterday whether these events were connected. - There. has long been a dispute within the , ina telligence community about how to treat foreign diplomats caught as spies. The traditional theory is the one the-FBI's Cregar noted yesterday: expel the person quietly, so the other. country doesn't feel compelled to respond in kind. . There's another. argument against even quietly expelling the discovered spy, intelligence officials note. At least you know who he is and can monitor his activities. If' he's kicked -out, he'll be replaced by someone your. counterintelligence will; have to find all over again; they= said. Last fall, in the wake.of.the controversy-over the Soviet brigade of troops in. _ Cuba, columnist Jack Anderson reported' that national security af- fairs adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was. quarreling with Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance about tak- ing a hard line in generating anti-Soviet propa- ganda. around the world. " In a press conference at the time;:Vance took pains to say there was' no dispute between State and Brzezinski. He didn't deny the anti-Soviet-cam- paign was being considered, however. 'The last publicized expulsion of a Soviet diplo- I mat from the United States occurred" in 1978. via. . dimir P. Zinyakin, an official at the Soviet mission to the United Nations,. was forced to leave for his role in a spy case. ? . The . case involved two Soviet" employes who didn't have diplomatic .immunity, and : were pros. ecuted for buying U.S. defense secrets;.. from a Navy officer cooperating with the FBI:: ' . Attorney General Griffin B. Bell decided to press the-case. to; show. the United' States wouldn't tolerate. spying by non-diplomats at all. The FBI's Cregar said yesterday that he feels the FBI has made excellent progress in its silent counterintelligence battle with- communist=bloc ..spies. ' "We know more about their; methods of opera- tion.' We have a . better appreciation of who their intelligence officers are and of the equipment and techniques they use against us," he said. 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Intelligence ,=gent' about various as- _ pects of the Story m yr " rc , ;'. ur~~y[becaase va Caasiu~' & cutues- tI2eti 'at'the .u}S.?1R'.A~6~P~"~R'.`A~isBN?ILiZS17'LYl6:b~ THE WASHINGTON POST 6 March 1980 yesterday =to- avoid suggesting "they'd "prevalled? foIl'owmg a. "confronts. tioa' witlse_th mite House over, the ;segment, as? . SndicatedtFiyr Leonard's gest:that_the repeated calls amopnted' to : considPsabin ptesstu to drop~Fthe One source, who s asked{ not to identified ald xthat' the .callers wart- Swrong weekends to'`do it,'~imp~Ythgi tionsiver'e:?underwayfor_he?Amer z icaahastages-ieId at.;tire embrassy.in Tehrato meet : the ,Unitedt',,,Nations- commission,?orthat;it;was: a matter said `'yesterday: -that: the.` press : secre tart' "was really saying.in effect 'don't do'it'but- .frankly I never fully- under stood'.wliat his arguments against.. our, s 'hfa::source wiio~a}so+asked-no1 e a_?sltoiitiag match with.. the Whiter: Hous;;y: said . that "as far as-y_[hej~' kne9 -Powell vas pretty circumspect Ia';Iti?~ tills, although did hear"that (As Received) Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 ntng,:.o , the eve of the Massachusetts', pruelection. )1a fflcfals of:'CBS News were'careful ', segm=ent, as..indicated by I:eonard's; brief - Bui burces At the network. did -sug? .. gestc ligt the repeated calls amounted to ~coi}sid.. . _ e_ . pressure . to drop Jh 7,7 7, ously?tiisuggested that !"it; - was's:the. wcbttg=weekend ths "some 'kind delicate, negotia Tehran: to meet the _United; Nations of ?ga fotism ,nof,.to .broadcast aa?~ anti. h h program aC;this'3iuhe F `' One person. who talked ? t Powell do-jt' ut frankly- i never fully under stoo *ihat his:arguments _againstyout, This ~'source,: who also asked` not `to a slfaiiOng thatch with ..the' White: House` said .that "as far.: as ;The] knevekk"dwell'.was.pretty circumspect he .:aiid Don Hewitt .finally:-had , a;" Neither Powell;?'Hewftt norv Wallace; Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 AitTICLE AP2'iLAi2D ON PAGEJ_ THE WASHINGTON POST 4 March 1980 Joseph Kraft YIN hi e ra i ran.. Abundant signs -stamp fiasco on the special United Nations commission now visiting Iran. Even if the hostages are eventually released, the price promises .to be a black eye.for the United States. -; : So the administration. ought to - be taking active measures to control the damage. It should at the very least pre- pare and publish: an official white pa per, setting out in full detail the role= played by this,country in Iran over the-. past 35 years: , The U.N. commission on Iran rests on a. series of political judgments made by Secretary General. Kurt Waldheim and accepted by Secretary- of State Cyrus Vance and President Carter. The prem- ises are as follows:. Abol Hassan -BaniSadr,. Iran's new president, wants to settle the hostage affair quickly. in order to get on with. 'the. business of, governing. To' make settlement, however. BaniSadr - needs the support of.Ayatoilah Khomeini To get the ayatollah's support, BaniSadr has to fob off the. militants holding the hostages and their allies in the ayatol- lah's entourage notably Foreign. Min-, ister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh. To . that end; -'the- commission -was loaded with members sympathetic to the. Iranian revolution and prone to think of the United States as a dirty. lm-. periallst power. It. was empowered to hear-and to.validate_by_implication at least-Iranian : complaints, against.. the.- de posed shah and the. steps taken..by. the United States in his support:' In return-the- commission was:sup?-; posed to visit the. hostages-as'the first- ;:step toward their. transfer out of :the embassy and the ,. physical; custody of .the militants. Once 'thee?first 'transfer.' had been effected; the eventual releaser z.=:Numerous developments--especially A he ayatollah's statement that the final. ` disposition of the hostages would be left to a parliament named in elections. this month and next-have cast doubts - on that approach.. The Carter adminis- tration is in poor position to-dig in its heels at. this juncture. It has. staked everything on release; of. the hostages, and can do nothing-that would shatter that hope. The more so as an acknowl- edgment of. failure would be an admis-. sion,in the midst of the primary cam- paign; that: the president' had been, duped once again:::..::. Unfortunately. 'the weakiiess- of 'the administration is fully apparent to all parties. The-Iranians are playing Wash-. ington-day- after day and week after week-for a- yo-yo. The U.N. commis- sion is- going along with. the charade. It is a mark of its lack of seriousness that the cochairman, Andres- Aguilar. of: Venezuela, flew- back to Caracas last Friday forthe-purpose of being induct- ? 6d; into an honorific academy. So even if the hostages are eventually released, the United States will have shown itself in the process to be a total' patsy, ready .to put up with any indignity... :. . It is in these circumstances, as a min- imal barrier against public abuse of this country, that the white paper suggests it self..The document would not show that 'the United States acted in a perfect way. ..It would indicate that the regime of the shah was highly. corrupt It would show that the shah's - regime ? was brutal= though far less than generally imagined. and. sometimes.. in',,retaliation for the murder of American citizens by.terrorist. groups.. But-it would' also show that. in several major matters, the United States 'treated--Iran in ways wholly consistent. with its constructive postwar record. First;. there was: the Soviet invasion of''Azerbaijan.and the. establishment of ; c a; puppet goverament~'at~Ai o&en& oL -World, War lLHarryTruman took a. :strong stand against.that piece of Sovi. et--aggression. =Working'through-%ther United Nations, he forced the Russians! tastand.dowa and'yfeld-up the.terri: G:tory they had Then .there wasthe Point N program I. for.-..technical=assistance': initiated by., ;.Truman inn 1950' and 'maintained by sub-: z sequent administrations:w thkfran: as a:' ;-'principal. beneficiary:-;';The` = United:. Stites: not: only:pourreUin in. lions. tn- would follow quickl support programs for literacy and rural. development, but it trained the basic .cadre of Iranian civil servants. Then there was the intervention, in, 1953, which restored the shah after he- had-been forced to flee the country by' the regime of. Mohammed. Mossadegh.' It is true that-American and. British in- . to i ence worked an in ban . to co- ordinate 'Iranian resistance to : ossa- degh. But otherwise, the CIA's role has. been enormously exaggerated. The ba- .sic resistance to ossa a came from- Iranians, and the shah was - welcomed -back to. Tehran with an outburst - of. spontaneous enthusiasm. He went on . .whatever.. the corruption-to play a. major role in moving to modernize his. country and maintain a semblance of -security in - the region of the Persian` Gulf and the tier of countries ranging; from Turkey and Iraq through Iran to- `Pakistan and- Afghanistan. - The record, in short, is not one that. justifies the wholesale condemnation now. being -prepared in Tehran and at the United Nations. The president and' the secretary of state-who are themselves due for harsh judgment by history in this: matter-would strengthen. their hand if-,. they at least worked to make public a full' and fair account of. what actually hap-. pened between the. United States and Iran over the whole postwar period. Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 ARTICLE APP EARZD THE BOSTON GLOBE ON PAGE 3 March 1980 Carter~ eve urt shah - reoort WASHINGTON A "furious" 'resident Jimmy Carter abruptly halted CIA payments supporting Iran's islamic-, religious affairs in 1977, despite warnings. the cutoff would undermine the shah; according to Politics Today magazine. -.ar . In the magazine's most recent issue, writer Daniel Drooz said details of the events were provided by "six agents, former agents and intelligence analysts." --Drooz, said the CIA payments began_in 1953 after the shah's ouster by Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq. The CIA assisted in restoring the shah.to the throne and began payments to the country's ayatollahs and mullahs - in essence buying support for the shah, he said. . "For the next decade the shah and Iran's religious leaders coexisted more or less peacefully, while the CIA quietly sent regular-payments to help support the mul- lahs,". Drooz said: But the payments came to an abrupt halt shortly after Carter became President in 1977 when-the,Washington Post revealed payments of $10 million a year to Jordan's King Hussein, Drooz said" "Carter was furious," Drooz said.."The new President, who had waged his campaign- on the need for honesty in government, ordered that all such payoffs to Jordan - and any other.foreign governments - be stopped." Drooz said the-payments cutoff was followed by a re- ligious upheaval that ended in February 1978 with the ouster of the shah - . The cutoff. was not the only reason, or even; the main reason, that the shah faced opposition, Drooz added. But, he said, `?.'The President could not have failed to under stand the .increased pressure that his secret decision wouldput.or the shah. and his chances to remain in of n;~`S-:4rst.~?:~s:r::.x:.,~~?:ir'. . _ =_ii.r:.:~'ti"vZ`Ra'. Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 I ' L Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 C:i i?4GE 4 -L_ ..- a takes in Iran -an ally Ptesi. dent Carter had once embraced as ai (1) When &U,.& Embassy inTehe. great friend - became an embarrass.! .ran was invadsA n.rar o vm~ ...,.. ?t.- '! - couraged other terrorists to seize 1?. k. on Y would all, oe forgiven, but that, L Akes. U.S. as, in Ican would commence. This i ambassadors in Colombia. That's only." was, in effect. a ransom offer, further the beginning. i Wilis it An enumeration.of.some ofour.mis ~.. I underscoring our desperation. (8) When the Sh h .. U.- .N.. a.Naa.av a va., anaaua `-:1UC: ua -? otwar 8 .. A - garnet the U.&, Mr. Carter and flip appeasement of terrorists ' fioipped, letting it be known that not who seized diplomats.in Iran has en.;. THE NEW YORK TIMES 3 March 1980 V ng t pro- ki. apper propaganda-i week before the hostage seizure was a : drawbacks, Carter officials said it was. before, rather than after, the hostages blunder that helped ihe.radicals bring "ridiculous " to use food as a weapon are set free. Which. brings.us to this down the well-meaning moderate (a policy later reversed in regard to week's mistake: (4) When our embassy was invaded the Soviet Union). Instead, much fan- (10) When,the "gentlemen's. agree. and our citizens ' kidnapped, Defense. fare accompanied feeble attempts to meet" was broken, Mr. Carter failed Secretary Harold Brown rejected a harass Iranian students here and to to call for the immediate return of thel plan to land two-planeloads of., U.S.. order Iranian diplomats to leave; both . U.N. panel. Instead of thus putting commandos in Qum to counter-kidnap poeturings were soon abandoned. pressure on the. kidnappers, he was the Ayatollah Khomeini -then lightly :.(7) , When mild J economic sanctions' suckered again'. by the BaniSadr/ guarded-so as to arrange a trade. On were finally, announced, the Soviet in. Ghotbzadeh nice-guy/tough-guy. rou- the contrary, as a future: Congres vasionof Afghanistan- invited by the tine: sional investigation will show; Mr display of American weakness both in One result of the surrender to terror- Brown ordered the Joint Chiefs to send Cuba and! in Iran . provided the Car- ism has been to lengthen rather than the carrier Midway,:thenin the Indian ter'men with an excuse to rescind their shorten the hostages' stay in bondage. Ocean, farther away from Iran; . lest threat of minor pressure on the terror- The other result is the kidnapping of I the terrorists think that U.S. military ists. Instead of holding to his position more diplomats last week and thee{{I Carter erred Meanwhile, I that the return of the hostages would threat .to thousands of other iifnocen President ts! force t be .a 1by publicly rut- not in itself settle the score for the act in years to come c !m rci es an raised promptly dishonored;-, now the corn. I Brzezinski s. meeting with . Prime prices in Iran and shown that kidnap. emission is under pressure to deliverI Minister Bazargan I In : Algeria one ping Americans was not without its h .acaaawr ruwaru renneaynrgmgmore first embassy takeover encouraged !i concessions, Mr. Carter. agreed to a thesecond take-over in November. mg out the tse of force, there. U.N. forum for an anti-Shah. anti.U.S. (2) When our diplomats in Teheran hand. brengthening the kidnappers' advised publicity. orgy. The quid pro quo for gtori that admission of this world obeisance. to kidnappers the Shah to the U.S.Ifor medical treat.. (5) When Mr. Carter sought. to ne- . was supposed to be. the release of the went might provoke attacks, the Car- gothic with they terrorists, he desig- .. hostages. Now even that policy of pre. ter State Department failed to reduce'-. nated as his representatives Ramsey emptive concession has failed. the U.S. Embassy staff or to direct the Clark, the friend of Hanoi who had. .. The ''gentlemen's agreement" with securing of our records. On.the-con- been soliciting the Ayatollah's. legal Mr. Ghotbzadeh was negotiated in trary, the Administration urged . business, and William Miller, the Mon. Paris by Hamilton Jordan and Harold American. businessmen . to increase . dale ally who had done so much to trip. Saunders, the State . Department's their vulnerability. . pie the C.LA This signal of obsequi- friend of the P.L.O. But Jordan and-1 (3) When. assured by the interim ousness was met with contempt and Saunders - were- unfamiliar. with. the I Prime Minister- that our: embassy' the.Carterenvoysweresnubbed. Persian trick of agreeing first and?ne-:I would be protected; the Carter men . (6) When urged by U.S. hawks to gotiating afterward.. The supposed completely misassessed the political ` embargo food to Iran, which would deal of commission-for-hostages was realities in Iran. Worse - Zbi law - have caused S a 'ti d Uy w. ranama; - irdnian--toreign Lions of our territorial integrity. The Minister Ghotbzadeh accurate! Carter men did not want to offend Aya. , I . called this American acquiescence to tollah Khomeini, whom they had . Iran's pressure "a " helped to power by blocking a coup of great vt- breat irinian nenn-ata ,s....~~~___ -..~ By Wt7ham Safire ' (9) When he felt the hot-breath, of Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 C. !: r i c"r tt N-' R ED 0;%i' jP Ail PROSECUTOR SEEKS U.S. HOSTAGE IN. IRAN. Letter Urges the Foreign Ministry to Yield American Held There By RsirtM TEHERAN, Iran, Monday, March 3 - Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh was asked by the Public Prosecutor's Of- fice last night to hand over Victor L. Tom- seth, a United States Embassy official who is being held at the Foreign Ministry here. An unsigned letter sent to Mr., Ghotbza- deh by the Prosecutor General, Hojatolis- lam Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili,. and broadcast on the state radio asked him to turn over Mr. Tomseth for closer exami- nation of alleged links between the United States Embassy and the extremist guer rilla group called Forghan. The letter said the request was made because members of the Forghan group were on trial and the militants in the em- bassy had revealed a document indicat- ing a connection between the -embassy and the guerrilla organization. Forghan took responsibility for attacks on leading Moslem clergymen last year, but its or- ganization appeared to have been shat- tered when revolutionary guards raided secret hideouts in Teheran in.early Janu- ary-The development came as. the, United r THE NEW YORK TIMES 3 March 1980 Nations commission inve'stigating'Tran's grievances against'the deposed Shah ap- peared to be a step closer ?to visiting the American hostages being held by Islamic militants at?the embassy, as a. compro- mise agreement. with the.captors:on the :format;of"such,'a visit appeared" ta: be. near? I onieini Leaves Hospital#v~ Ruhollah'.IOto ;Meanwhile; Ayatollah. ateini,,.the Iranian' revolutionary leader. was released yesterday from the Meh Rezaf Heart Hospital here where. he had been confined. for five weeks because of a heart ailment, and rode is a motorcade to ahomenearby:: Before ? his departure the 79-year-old leader; in a strong voice, told a crowd of hospital workers gathered under the bil- cony of his room: "Now that I am leaving' you;Ithankyouall.".' :- In -hts.1ll-minute- talk"_the ? Ayatollah called. on: Iranians to vote- for. faithful Moslems, in the parliamentary, elections .'scheduled to start on March 14. - . '"'Now we have an Islamic republic and-' :the parliament will be an Islamic.assem- bly'and all our morality should be Islam- : ic," he said. "So I ask you to.elect people who are committed to Islam'and are nei- Aher Eastern nor Western:" Ayatollah Khomeini has said that the new parliament. would decide terms for the release of the American hostages in :the embassy, but he made no reference to the hostages yesterday. The prosecutor general's letter to Mr. Ghotbzadeh last night asked the: Foreign 1Minister to "order Mr. Tomseth who is .one of the hostages of the Iranian nation, "be handed over to the Islamic Revolution- _ary Public Prosecutor's Office. The:: ailitants, who seized. the embassy: ,t,oa Nov. 4 and.are. holding about 8o.hos- tages-there have asked that Mr. Tomseth and two atherembassv ciIIicialswho-were in,the-Iranian-oreign Ministry at .the time of the. seizure be' handed over to them. The two others are L. Bruce Lain- gen, the United States charge d'affaires, -. The five-member United Nations com- mission continued its work in private yes- terday. amid reports that. it might soon meet with the American hostages in the 'einbassy. But.the.exact time for a possi- ble meeting was-still uncertain because fthe. militants: said crucial details - re-mained to be worked out..., ::. .: The key' to the matter appeared to be whether the-commission would accept as evidence documents, seized by the mill- .tant_a'and whether it would interview the ---" he commission' wanted to see' the hostages as witnesses;' Mr. Habibi said. "There is progress because the commis- 'lion in principle is going to agree to take the documents discovered is the embassy' n Titnlag ""..` Aide Won't Speculatee source' close to.: the `commission :'said; Yes, it's somethiaglike that.', Asked when: thee: piojected`:.meetingg would : take' place,: the commission's spokesman, : Samir Sambar. said:.:. ''r. would not speculate on the exact timing.'.'. But there were strong indications that it,. Since taking over .the embassy: the ing o.s ow at at east members .o etat so o ow the apparent agreement had: come ?: about were : unclear, _ .but to a surprise visit paid early yesterday by chairman of.the'cbmm saion:.,x Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 AFGHANISTAN Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 ;tom ARTICLE' AP?y:B!D 03 PAGE THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR 5 March ,1980 NewAfghan atrbcte alleged by the CIS By Daniel Southerland .. Staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Washingto>o The US Central Intelligence Agency has revealed new re- Observer who said he had recently seen the ports of atrocities alleged to have been committed by Soviet- ',. destruction of 80 percent of the villages along supported troops in Afghanistan. ., one of Afghanistan's main roads and with new, In a letter to Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D) of Texas. CIA direr- reports from other US government sources- tor . Stanfield Turner. listed : the following until-now that the Soviets have used nerve gas in trying ; unreported events said to :have occurred in Afghanistan in to crush Afghan guerrillas. ..: _ 1979: ; Admiral,_ Turner's letter. to Senator, a In retribution against: a village that refused to cooperate Bentsen came in response to a. letter from the'. with the Kabul regime, Afghan troops destroyed the village senator asking for information about a report and killed ZO of its inhabitants. The children among the vic- in The.Christian Science-Monitor Feb. 4 which time were mutilated in front of their parents before the entire quoted survivors as saying that Afghan group was slain. troops. under Soviet orders, had murdered .. ? In another incident reportedly motivated by retribution, 1,170 unarmed men and boys last April in the Afghan soldiers killed 300 villagers.... I . village of Kerala in eastern Afghanistan. . In addition, the letter from Admiral Turner said that there . The CIA director said. in his response that had been reports of several cases of: rapeperpetrated by the agency was "almost certain" that the: al- leged massacre did occur. He said CIA bad no on-the-spot confirmation from its own sources but noted that a strikingly similar account ap- I I peared in a Pakistani newspaper on April 29, 1979. I As a result of Admiral Turner's report to him, Senator Bentsen has urged President, Carter to seek a UN Security Council investi- gation of the alleged massacre at Kerala. In a letter to the President dated March 4,, the sen- ator said that if the Soviet Union were to veto such an inquiry, then "the veto itself would speak volumes about Soviet conduct, and. the..j insure that the. debate leading to the veto will whole world will. watch the`debate and evalu-- atethe charges." He suggested. that as .alternatives _tbe. President might warit.to consider an invests--. gation by the full - UN General. Assembly; or; .: one by the international Red Cross.'_.. On March 3.- Shyam Bbatia'of the London; .Observer, who. was held captive by Afghan?,: guerrillas, reported that 8o percent.of thevil-' bul= g Afghan soldiers, some of which were alleged I to have resulted in the victims' deaths.. The CIA director said details of all of these incidents had to be omitted in order to protect sources of . information. He also said that there have likely been numerous unreported, incidents of this kind. The CIA reports coincided with one from a ..-'-- ~---~ .....ie..? i... Fl.- T-Ann a lages along most of the 220-mule maun Kandahar road "were just flattened" by rock- ets fired, by -'Soviet-supplied helicopter gunships. According to a,United' Press,Inter- national report,:' the correspondent further said'. that. hundreds of.-civilians,- including women - and children..-were killed' in indis- . a crirninate attacks by such gunships- "~' - Carter . administration:: sources. mean- while, said reports on the use of-nerve gas by the. Soviets in Afghanistan were based not on . "clinical evidence" but. on, numerous:: ac- counts from refugees gathered aver,a period of several months US State. Department . officals: began re , porting;some weeks ago that the Soviets had , taken chemical warfareand decontamination-, eauinment with them into Afghanistan.. X `' Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 1RTICL$ APP~:AB r) _4q lid olt P A G 1133 THE.BALTIMCRE SUN 5 March 1980 CIA: is. `almost certaa Washington (AP)-Tl a Central Intelli '.'in eastern Afghanistan, last ApnL ? Aggravated rapes. by. Afghan sol- genge Agency is "almost certain" Afghan Admiral I Turner said the. CIA has re- diers, . some resulting -in the. victims' troops acting under orders from Soviet ad ports of other "atrocities"' last year in of-., deaths.. visers massacred 1.300 civilians last year, ghanistan, while it is likely that additional:. Mr.:. Bentsen responded by calling for the agency's, director says in a letter. to incidents have not been reported.. an investigation by the United Nations or- Senator Lloyd Bentsen. The CIA director said the incidents that:. other international: organization of alleged We have no on-the-spot confirmation have come to the attention. of the CIA in-' atrocities in Afghanistan. from our own- sources,I but a strikingly dude The senator said he understood that be- similar ' account appeared in a Pakistani ? The destruction by Afghan troops of hind-the-scenes negotiations, might make. newspaper;' Adm. Stansfield Turner, the a village ttiat- refused -to cooperate with discretion necessary. director of `central intelligence, wrote Mr the Kabul regime and the. killing of 20 of "At., the same ,time,. I_. believe very Bentsen (D, Texas) can.critics of'the agencies, On and oft. ::Capitol Hill; bepteased.witlt the intelli- genre that: the agencies are expected. to get . what they-, want frorir the full Senate,. perhaps, before this; summer. Still,. last weekend, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia! the Senate ma- jority leader. :insisted_that'account~. ability" must be a matter Of laii not an informal understanding. ,Congress, he said, won't give the C.I.A.- "or.any. otheragencycarteblanche." : Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 Approved For Release 2009/06/05: CIA-RDP05T00644R000501360002-8 ARTICLE APPL.tED NEW YORK TIMES ON PAGE 1 MARCH 1980 Carlucci a rs C.I.A. iwas tot Used Reporters, C1erlcs,or:Academics WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 (UPI) - A spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency said yesterday that, contrary to a previous indication; the agency had not in recent years used United States. report- ers, clergymen or academics for intelli- gence purposes. The agency's deputy director, Frank C. Carlucci, told the-.: Senate- Intelligence Committee that he was clarifying re- marks made to the panel last week by the Director of Central. Intelligence, Adm. Stanfield Turner, about the use of such Admiral Turner had said that using "internal" powers he had "in very lim ited occasions" waived provisions of x- 1975 Senate resolution forbidding the use of journalists, clergymen or academics for "cover'-"for intelligence purposes.: Admiral' Turner said he did not con- Sider himself bound to give prior notice to the committees about very sensitive, planned covert ; events. because "leaks" could risk the lives of agents. The remarks created concern in the. Senate and House Intelligence,Commtt- tees and brought protests from religious,: leaders. The committees asked for clari- fication of the remarks: At yesterday's: hearing on:proposed' charters for some branches of the intelli- gence community;.--Mr- _ Carlucci said that, although Admirat.Turner: had au-. thorized waivers for the use of the pro- scribed groups, the waivers-had not been Mr. Carlucci said that the agency was in favor of a charter for its operations but wanted latitude in exceptional cases ?t6. waive some of the restrictions. Mr. Carlucci aoneared before the cor ,. -fence Intelligence Agency, ? and Adm: 'Daniel: J. Murphy; Under- Secretary of Defense for Policy..:.. - None objected to: charters ?or reason. able regulation governing the gathering of intelligence-or-in counterintelligence solong.as sources and methods were not compromised. ' ' ? All strongly objectedto disclosure re- quirements of the Freedom of Inforina: tion Act that they said tied up hundreds of their employees in search and analysis, cost millions of dollars a year and could disclose classified. material unless most carefullymonitored.' aau