MEMO TO FREDERICK P HITZ FROM IKE SKELTON

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• Publication Date: October 14, 1980
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riuu= -ur KtrKESENTATIVES,, U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
October 14 ,19 80
Respectfully referred to
Mr. Frederick P. Hitz
Legislative Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Dear Mr. Hitz:
I would appreciate any
verification you can give
regarding the enclosed article
sent to me by my constituent,
Your attention to this
matter is very appreciated.
Please return to Mary NewbouId,
1404 LHOB, Washington DC 20515.
Very respectfully,
I E SKELTON
STAT
4th District.
MO
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iarxist Philip Agee Stars.
PUS Airs ANTI?CIA Film
Conservatives have long-criticized the Public Broadcasting
System (PBS) for the liberal bias contained in its programs.
But last May, the liberals at PBS outdid themselves. Calling it
"a highly responsible overview of the CIA's history," PBS
aired "On Company Business," which turned out to be a
distorted leftwing hatchet-job on the Central Intelligence
Agency. The show featured, as narrator, the CIA's most
ardent enemy, marxist Philip Agee.
Agee's Distortions and Lies
"On Company Business" is filled with Agee's distortions
and outright lies about the CIA and its activities. To take but
one example: In the film Agee states as a fact that the CIA
fueled the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende of Chile in
1973. The Church Committee's investigation of CIA activi-
ties, however, concluded that there was no evidence of CIA
involvement in the overthrow of Allende. Yet Agee chose
to ignore this information, and instead dredged up a now-dis-
credited New York Times story that asserted the CIA was
involved in Chile.
"On Company Business" allegedly presents the pro-CIA
side of the story. But that turns out to be far from the truth.
While it is true that former top CIA officials William Colby
and David Phillips appear in the film, their support for a
stronger CIA is never made clear. From their taped inter-
views with Colby and Phillips, the film's producers excerpted
certain statements and placed them in the final product in a
manner that makes it appear as though Colby and Phillips
actually support Agee's anti-CIA positions!
"I aspire to be a communist and a revolutionary."
To know that Philip Agee was a mover-and-shaker behind
"On Company Business" is to know a lot about the film's
message even before viewing it. The man has that kind of
radical trackrecord. Before going communist, Agee sent ten
Philip Agee?Marxist
Agee's chief means of sub-
verting U.S. Jo reign policy
is to expose the identities of
CIA agents working under-
cover in foreign countries.
years (1959-69) with the CIA. He told Esquire magazine in
1975:"! aspire to be a communist and a revolutionary."
Agee's marxist, pro-Soviet views, however, are never
mentioned during "On Company Business."
:Beginning with the publication of his first anti-CIA book,
Inside the Company, Agee has been serving the communist
cause quite faithfully. His chief means of subverting U.S.
foreign policy is to expose the identities of CIA agents work-
ng undercover in foreign countries. Agee has worked closely
with the Cuban DGI, Castro's secret police. Agee himself has
To know that Philip Agee was a mover-and-
shaker behind "On Company Business" is to
know a lot about the film's message even be-
fore viewing it.
stated that the DCI provided him with information for his
first book.
You may recall that back in 1975 Agee's dirty work caused
the death of an American intelligence officer. After Agee and
his fellow travelers exposed Richard Welch, then a CIA man
working in Athens, Greece, Welch was gunned down outside
his home. More recently, this year in Jamaica an American
agent's house was shot-up after his cover was blown in the
pages of Agee's latest anti-CIA rag, Covert Action Infor-
mation Bulletin. As for the Soviet Union's intelligence
agency, the KGB, Agee most definitely approves of its acti-
vities. During a 1975 interview with a Swiss newspaper Agee
said: "The CIA is plainly on the wrong side, that is, the cap-
italistic side. I approve KGB activities, communist activities
in general, when they are to the advantage of the oppressed.
In fact, the KGB is not doing enough in this regard, because
the USSR depends upon the people to free themselves."
It is not exaggerating at all to state that "On Company
Business" is a piece of marxist propoganda. Yet the film
is not a product of the Soviet Union or Cuba?it is funded
to a large extent with American Taxpayers' dollars! What
can taxpaying Americans who are outraged to learn they
funded this pro-Soviet, anti-American film do?
CALL for ACTION
In the near future, Congress will be voting appropriations
for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS's funding
arm. Reed Irvine of AIM writes: "The law stipulates that
programs funded by the Corporation for Public Broad-
casting have to be strictly objective and balanced, if they
deal with controversial issues. CPB claims that it tries to
observe that requirement, even though courts have ruled that
no one has the power to enforce that provision of the law
except Congress."
It is obvious that "On Company Business" is not objective
or balanced. And evidently Congress is the only organization
which can do something about the distorted view of the
CIA that PBS has fostered by broadcasting this film.
Therefore, instead of complaining about the film directly
to CPB or PBS, we strongly urge you to write your represen-
tative and senators in Washington and urge them to vote
against appropriating even one dollar for PBS until this
obvious wrong is righted.
Nonprofit Org.
U.S. Postage
PAID
Wash.. D.C.
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CALL for ACTION
What can be done about this potential threat of a western
financial collapse? The immediate task is to make the Ameri-
can people aware of what is happening. Net, it is essential
that you inform your representatives that you are aware of
Bureaucrats Insensitive ?
U.S.
the problem and that something must be done. But finding
a solution is the immediate responsibility of the President
who should not allow the situation to occur in the first place;
This is where your immediate attention should be focused:
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. 2000.
Sends Sensitive Info to Enemies
At first glance, section 1719 of Title 44 of the United
States Code appears to be harmless enough. The statute,
which dates back to the 19th Century, requires the United
States to distribute U.S. Government publications to foreign
countries. But when Senator James Sasser (D-Tn) took a
closer look at how the law was being carried out, he was
shocked to find that the government has been shipping sen-
sitive Army field manuals, as well as CIA and Defense Intel-
ligence Agency documents, to the Soviet Union.
Sasser disclosed that the United States spent about $1.1
million last year sending 1.6 million copies of 20,441 docu-
ments to the Soviet Union, Cuba, Iran and other foreign
countries. One of the more disturbing examples of what this
ancient law has brought about is the sending of the opera-
tion manual for the Lance Missile to the USSR. Or, to take
another such example, in 1977 our government shipped two
issues of the Defense Intelligence Agency's monthly "Review
of Soviet Ground Forces" to the Russian government. "Most
of these documents are being sent automatically with no
thought as to how they may be used," Sasser said. "It is
a classic case of ineptitude."
Sen. Jim Sasser
It is a classic case of
ineptit ode.''
The Senator from Tennessee also released a list of U.S.
documents sent to the Soviet Union during the Vietnam
War years. The list included, among other documents:
"Jungle Operations," January 1970; "Air Ground Opera-
tions Systems," 1970; "Troop Movement Guide; " and
"Tactical Communications Doctrine," August 1968. There
is no way to know for certain that the Soviets passed on
these obviously valuable documents to the North Viet-
namese communists.
But it stands to reason they did just that, as the Soviets
were of course providing "active support to North Vietnam
;at the time," as Sasser puts it. "It is appalling to think that
enemy forces fighting U.S. soldiers may have been helped
through bureaucrats blindly stuffing documents into boxes
to be shipped to other countries."
Another fault with the document exchange program
(besides the cost) is that foreign governments are not re-
ciprocating in kind. In return for the documents sent over-
seas, the United States receives only 275,486 documents in
One of the more disturbing examples of what
this ancient law has brought about is the
sending of the operation manual for the
Lance Missile to the USSR.
return, about one-sixth the number shipped by the U.S.
The Soviets, for example, send a measly 1,000 publications,
mostly innocuous cultural publications ("Moscow Street
Guide, 1975" for instance).
Clearly Uncle Sam is being ripped off?not just by any
foreign countries, but by the USSR, Iran and Cuba, countries
which 'do not exactly have America's best interests in mind.
Brezhnev, Castro and Khomeini must be amazed that the
U.S. voluntarily relinquishes such sensitive materials like the
publications listed above (and others).
CALL for ACTION
If you are outraged that your own government is supply-
ing sensitive information to America's most implacable
enemy (the USSR) and the stone-age "government" holding
52 Americans hostage (Iran), communicate your feelings to
your Senators and Representatives in Washington. State the
facts given here. And urge them to stop the Washington
bureaucrats from giving aid to America's enemies.
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ARTICLE APi).2.11RED
? ON ?AG': q
THE WASHINGTON POST
3 August 1980
?
Jr- By Warcl Sinclair
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? w.hinuon ?pit 3tiff Writer '
For nearly 100 Years, as the govern-.
, ^ rp.ent printing presses Spewed out offi-
,c;cial documents, federal.workers have
dutifully packed them, in boxes and
sent them : to libraries around the
world. ? ' ?
return, as -part of the Brussels
COnvention of 1885, the U.S. Library
? Congress has been receiving - gov-
i?
:.,ernment publications . from about 30
?
,her countries. -
-The program was working ??? well
? se,emingly without a hitch, until this
?
A-ear, when Sen. Jim Sasser (D-Tenn-.)
-,made a discovery that tionaed his eyes
4-saUcer-size.- -
asser learned that the' shipments
of U.S.. document S 'included military
*-irlan5 tials? that., he :considered highly
Izensitive, were being sent routinely to?
'the _ Soviet Union, . Cuba and Iran,.
among others. : -
T??.' The more Sasser -looked, the more
3innazed and dismayed," to use his
.Tegiorcis he became. 'U.S. intelligence as-.
lessments, CIA maps and atlases and
:?,-forei'na policy position documents
iviexe among the publications ? going
zeabro ad. ..,
t?nat bothered him most was an.
Army technical manual outlining _uses:
-and operation of the Lance surface-tot
. .
surface missile. system deployed. here .
and in Europe.- ? ? ; .pf
i'r-"L".?'''s
Apparently none ofthe government--
printed matter- being; kSent abroad is
? -
dasified
-ane apparently it all is
, shipped- with the l- approval.. of =-7.the,
?
agency
whichori,ginated i the .2 d0611:
? lit 47*;;;,'.
-i*Sasser said his inquiries: fo the Li-
brary 'of :.Coness about ap-,
proved sending the:Lance manuals to
foreign countries .brought the .answer
. that, "Oh, no one. Everything .is 'ship-
ped automatically .unless someone 'ob-
jects" ? ? %,;:.
The TenneSsie . senator .also-com- '
p^ lained that 'niost iot- the doctithenti.
.'coming here from participating coun-'
b_tries -seeme& to-be innocuous' and of
?.:far less sensitivity than items mailed-
'from Washington:-.?
, . ?
l'.7.':The fuss that Sasser stired up has
-.sent-Waves all the way to. Moscow,
. where the press has 'criticized him,.
and touched off a legislative reaction
that could endanger li.S.compliance
with the 1836 convention.; -
?
Sasser's.lead;.," Rep. Silvio
Os" Conte (R-Mass.) ap-
,proval last month of an amendment.
banning use of federal:- money. foi-.
book: exchanges with the Soviet UR-
ion,,Cubaand Iran. . ??._,?
. ? ..?
Sasser didn't mean. for:Congress .to
go ..that far, for the. exchange of less
? sensitive government publications- on
.broad range of . subjects,. is consid-
ered important by scholars and tech-
. . .
nicians??3?;,.'
The program came to congressional
attehtion earlier this 'year.: when the'
? House passed a bill transferring book-
'exchange authority from the Srnithso-
. niar(Institution to the Government
-Printing Office.
? The change was viewed as a house-
keeping improvement since the Smith-
sonian was contracting, with. GPO to
,:mail the. documents .anyway. Under
the .change, 'the Library of Congress
ould become the chief administrator.
'But the change also meant that the,
program, for the ,first-time,;
I show up in the budget Congres,
t.rather than the executive:branch. Sas-._
ser, chairman of legislative appropria-,-:
tions and :well-known for hiskensitiv
?ity to.: -rising congressional CoStsi.took???
. - ?
,a closerlook.
He was able,- meanwhile to -bottle
.UP -i?-the:-House-PasSed t!' bill, on :',the?
,
.ground that the- -?prograrri -"Ought-- to
.executive 'branch, but-- be:
more closely monitored ..;?
.- Library' of ?Congress7officials; who,
!as.employes of the House 'and Senate,'
:are reluctant to take.:a'SWine. at the-
-boss...7are. privately bitter.'abotit the-
legislative maneuvering: ? - .
1.;-.7.0nei library' official;...noting that
'hone of the shipped documents is etas;
,sified,'-pointed out 'that almost every-.
?
?
thing that goes abroad. also goes auto-
raaticaLly to scores of U.S. libraries.
"It's up to the individual agencies to
decide if a document is too sensitive
to be distributed," he said: "If the con-
cern is the Russians,. I'm sure they
know more about our. Army ? than .a
manual will tell them. .- ?
.?
"If we don't send it,.all they have to
do is go to one- of the libraries in this
country. Or they can go to the Na-
tional Technical Information Service
and buy many of these same things. If
we Stop shipments;:they. probably will
retaliate.". .
-Sasser and Conte have not. proposed
that_the U.S._libraries not', be given
...the .7 same -docurnents that now" go
abroad. -"If. -the ,-Russians? .want this
stUff;InakettlierdWork for it," said an
aide to Sasser. 'It's just dumb, for us
to send it, postpaid, to the Lenin.State
Library in Moscow." .."
Meanwhile, Sasser reported.* U.S..1
defense and intelligence' agencies
have indicated to him liTarthey.wifr
begin a closer reviiw or"documents
approved for shipment aoroaK.-..
.,The document - exchange program
'costs the United States about? $1.1 mil-
lion for printing' and mailing. 20,441,
publications to about 30- .countries in
fiscal 979 ?
In return' for the' 1.6 million' copies1
sent out; the United States . reCeived
275,000 documents froin exchange par-1
tieipants abroad. ?:-:' ?
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ART I OLE
OI ? FACE
JSHINGT0:KLY
8 July 1980
ILLEGIB
-_Through lack of supervision, training manuals
for troops and other information of vital concern
-- from the CIA, Defense Intelligence and military.'
-..--branches have gone forward to the Soviet Union
under a 19th century law permitting exchange of
documents. Sen. James Sasser, D., Tenn., says all
the Soviets sent tis-iveie suChlitres "Dir. v-el to the
USSR," Soviet Women," and "News From the
Ukraine.". . . At an expenditure of $1..1 millions,
the Library of Congress and Smithsonian Institu-
tion sent them our secrets on training for jungle
warfare, ground-to-air defense and missile firing
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2 SEPTRIBM 1980
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- Since Senator James Sasser of Tennesses
denounced the widespread mailing of important
technological Information to Soviet Russia by the
obsolete statute permitting this in the Library of
Congress, Commerce Department, Central Intel-
ligence Agency, and elsewhere, the Department of
Defense and. the CIA are working on new rules
tightening up -the free flow of information con-
sidered- in tlie public domain, so that Sasser can
write a better law . .
EXCF2t,?=)
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