WORLDWIDE EFFORT BEING LAUNCHED TO 'DESTABILIZE' CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000400040037-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: August 3, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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Woridivide effort
Being Launched to
Destabi1ize'CIA
By George Lardner.
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Perched just; below- Dupont, Circle. Is the appar-
ently temporary headquarters of a new. interna-
.ional campaign,to"destabilize"` the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.: i ... "
The anti-CIA announcements are, being: made in
Havana; but the vehicle is a magazine being put toa
gether . by .former-'CIA. officer-- Philip, Agee, "the
agency's No. 1 nemesis," and a number of colleagues
bent on - "exposing CIA personnel and operations
whenever and wherever we find them."
The new publication, which is expected to - appear
."roughly six times a year, is called the Covert ?Ac- a
tion Information Bulletin, and its tone is uncompro-
mising. Urging a worldwide effort to print the name
of anyone who works abroad for the CIA, Agee ad-
vises readers of the premier. Issue not to stop there.
Once. the_ names.: have been ?, niade!i~-:public,: he
recommends:
"Then organize public demonstrations against
those named both at the Americana embassy and at
'their homes--and; where possible, bring pressure on
the government to throw them out. Peaceful protest
will do the job. 'And when it` doesn't, those whom
the CIA has most oppressed will find other ways of
fighting. back."
Agee concludes: "We can all aid this struggle,: to-
gether with ;the struggle*for'socialism.in the United
States itself."
"This thing is incredible ... unbelievable, ex-
claimed CIA-spokesman Herbert Hetu.-"The..motiva-
:tion* of these people has got to-be' more than that
they're just ticked off at. the CIA.
"This goes beyond whistle-blowing," fetu. added
,of'the magazine. "Whistle-blowing, Is supposed to be
directed at wrongdoing: These people are operating
under the overall pretext that. everything. we do is
wrong."
Expelled.from Britain and a. succession of other
Western . European countries over .the.'.past. -two-
years, Agee Is reportedly living In. Rome, but the
magazine is being published here by. C. I. Publica-
tions Inc., a nonprofit corporation 'set up in . the
District on Dec. 22.
Its Incorporators, directors and officers are WII=
Iiam H. Schaap, a lawyer and editor In thief of a
newsletter called the Military Law Reporter; Ellen
Ray, a colleague of. Schaap on various boards and.
projects; and Louis Wolf, coeditor with Agee of a
new book entitled "Dirty Work:, The CIA. In ' West-
ern Europe."
It is designed partly as a how-to-do-it book aimed!
at "breaking the 'cover' of thousands of CIA agents r?
around the world."
The headquarters of C. I. Publications Inc. , is I
given in the incorporation , papers, as, 'a sixth-floor
suite in the Dupont Circle Building at 1346 Connect-
icut Ave. NW, which houses the Public Law Educa-
tion Institute.
The institute's president, Thomas P. Alder, told a
reporter yesterday he had not been aware of
Schaap's use of the address for his "sideshow" mag.
'azine and indicated he would put a stop to RIM
Institute p u b li s h e s the Military. Law Reporter
Schaap edits.
The financing for the new undertaking was un-
clear. Alder said Schaap, Agee and . all the others
who could answer such questions were still in Ha-
vana, where they have been taking part in an anti-
CIA tribunal that began last week as part of the In-
.ternational Youth Festival..
In announcing the plans there, Agee-and Schaap
have said they hope to establish a worldwide net-
work of "researchers" who will keep CIA officers
under close. scrutiny and forward their names to the
Covert Action Information Bulletin for publication.
.Others associated with Agee in the. so-called "CIA
Watch" are James and Elsie Wilcott, former CIA fi-
nance and support personnel who are also taking
part in the Havana festival. I .
In a joint statement in the first (July 1978) Issue
-of Covert Action entitled "Who We Are," Agee and I
the, others describe the magazine as a successor to
'Counter-Spy, which went out of business a year
and a half ago.
Counter-Spy folded after a welter of controversy
over the 1975 assassination In Athens of CIA station
chief Richard S. Welch. The magazine had earlier
listed Welch's name as a CIA official stationed. in
Peru.
Unlike Counterspy; Agee and the others said in
the first issue of Covert Action, "We are confident
that there will be sufficient subscribers to make thisI
publication a permanent weapon in the fight against
the'CIA, the FBI,. military intelligence- and all the
other `instruments of US. Imperialist oppression
throughout the world."
According to John IL Rees,_ editor of a .conserva
:ties newsletter called Information Digest and Wash-
ing ton correspondent for the Review of the News
magazine (originally put out by the John Birch.
,Society), Schaap is- a member of the National Law-
yers, Guild,. and, with Ray, served on the Counter
,Spy magazine advisory board. The two also partici
pated together in the National Lawyers Guild's
Southeast Asia Military Law Project and served as
the guild's observers in February 1977 at the
Baader-Meinhof trials in Stammhein. Rees reported
in Information Digest's latest Issue.
'Several hundred copies of Covert Action were re-
portedly sent from Washington, and more were dis-
tributed free In Havana
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Associated Ptber
Philip Agee testifies in Havana at "tribunal against
imperialism.", The 'former CIA officer and some
colleagues bent on "exposing CIA personnel aid
operations" are putting together the Covert Actin
Information Bulletin, published here.
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