NEW SPY CURBS ARE GOOD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001200070009-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 24, 1978
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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24 April 1978
Monday, April 24, 1978
New shy curbs are
The U.S. Senate has voted over-
whelmingly to curb the indiscriminate
use of wiretaps and other electronic
surveillance by any branch of.govern-
ment.
It is a law that has been in the dis-
cussion stages for 10 years, and the
lack of it has led the nation into some
painful days.
The new bill requires that any" and.
all such surveillance measures first be
approved by a designated federal
judge, for a specified period of time.
It will be up to the Chief Justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court to name seven
federal jurists who can issue such
warrants, and each must be presented
to a judge by the attorney general
with the president's authority.
The thrust of the legislation is to
prohibit the excesses which have
grown through the years, some of
which led to Watergate, some of which
now are charged to former FBI chief
L. Patrick Gray, arid some of which
have been laid to other federal agen-
cies.
The practice of using warrantless
wiretaps and other electronic surveil-1
lance apparently had its genesis in de-
cades gone by, but the abuses have
grown with each passing year.
The new bill is the outgrowth of ex-
tensive hearings and investigations by ,
the House and Senate, whose mem-
bers sought to cure the problem with-
out hamstringing any of the intelli-
gence agencies.
It appears the probers did their
homework well, and that the proposed
law will protect the legitimate inter-
ests of the FBI, CIA and other agen-
cies while simu110ieously extending
constitutional protections to the pub-
lic.
The Senate vote was 95-1, and the
matter now is in the House where its
passage- seems assured; though by a
less dramatic majority.
Speedy House action would be a
benefit to everyone.
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24 April 1978
data,.,,. - SLo V - chh-t- " 'here
fared on choice of targets
By Bob Olmstead
Newly released CIA memos indicate that
the head of the Chicago police spy unit was
fired in 1967 because he was more interested
in fighting. organized crime than groups his
superiors considered subversive.
Capt. William J. Duffy. was demoted to
district watch commander two months after
CIA agents and one of...Duffy's superiors
discussed him as a "problem."
The inside look at 'dealings between the
CIA and Chicago police was revealed Sunday
in Central Intelligence. Agency documents
obtained by the Alliance to End -Repression
under-a court order. The Alliance is suing-
"DIRECTOR "DIRECTOR DUFFY, by background and'
inclination, feels that his division should be
concentrating on long-range intelligence op-
erations against organized crime. However,
for the past two years, his assets have been
pressed into service to gather tactical intelli-
gence on civil disturbances."
The documents state that the two agents
who - came to Chicago were personally
briefed before their trip by Richard H.
Helms, then the CIA director. One of the
agents (their names were deleted from the
reports) said Helms told them he wanted to
help improve local police spy units because
of the lessons from racial riots in Newark
and Detroit earlier in 1967.
"As a concer-net citizen, Mr. Helms - felt
in Chicago. CIA- has developed.in foreign intelligence
THE DOCUMENTS state that two CIA
agents met. with Duffy.. then-Supt. James B.
Conlisk Jr. and Deputy Supt. John F. Mulch-
rone to offer the CIA's help in improving the
police department's intelligence work. ?
At the. Dec. 11, 1967, meeting a memo
states, the CIA expertsrecommended "the
automation of special files on subversive
groups and on organized crime.... These
files are too sensitive to be incorporated in
the CPD General Name Index which is, in
effect, open to the public."
Intelligence Director Duffy was supposed
to follow up with a visit to CIA headquar-
ters. But the CIA. noted - problems with
Duffy, who was.--a -pioneer In developing.
police methods of spying on organized crime
gangsters.. max:,, -
"Another problem that the team noted is
'an uncertainty about. the mission of the
Intelligence Division'," a CIA-memo said.
operations should, be made available to law
enforcement agencies in this country."
In Chicago, Richard Gutman, attorney for
the Alliance to End Repression, called the
CIA's involvement with Chicago police ii-
legal and a spur to Chicago Red- Squad
abuses.
Congress' mandate creating the CIA, he
said, gave it no police powers or internal
security functions, and "thus implicitly re-
stricts the CIA to the field of foreign intelli-
gence." ,
BECAUSE THE CIA "helped streamline
-the Chicago Red Squad," Gutman said, "the
CIA is partially responsible for the, many
Red Squad abuses since 1967."
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WASHINGTON POST
'~~l, Chicago Police Link
Are Detailed 1
By Larry Green
Los Angeles Times
CHICAGO-Details of a mutual once-
secret and possibly illegal relationship
between the Central Intelligence Agency
and the Chicago Police Department dur-
ing the late 1960s have begun to sur-
face here.
Internal CIA memos, now part of a
court file, show that former agency di-
:?ector Richard Helms approved a plan
send experts in spying to evaluate
he police department's intelligence.
;atherirng machinery and to assist in im.
;)roving the local spy operation.
While the memos, disclosed in a law-
cuit, do not make clear ? the total as-
>istance the police department received,
;l- if similar assistance was given to
other American law enforcement agen-
:cies. one document contains a proposal
i.n train Chicago police officers at CIA
facilities and at CIA expense.
The documents indicate the CIA's as-
sistance was primarily intended to help
he police deal with civil unrest. But
' reviously disclosed Chicago police docu-
rents show the local spy effort was
1vventuallv directed toward individuals
no groups engaged in controversial po-
iitical activity but never investigated for
cr minal activity.
Court records show that the Chicago
Police Department's intelligence unit
compiled dossiers on almost 200,u00 in-
dividual and groups both before and
after receiving CIA assistance. Included
were files on prominent lawyers. busi-
nessmen, politicians, clergy and scholars.
There were also dossiers on church
groups, neighborhood organizations and
citizens concerned about such diverse
issues as pollution and police brutality.
Although there is nothing in the
court documents to indicate the Chi-
cago Police Department reciprocated,
for the CIA's assistance, informed
sources said much of the raw data
gathered on individuals and groups
was forwarded to the CIA for Incor-
poration into its files.
A presidential commision headed by
Nelson D. Rockefeller and a U.S. Sen-
ate committee headed by Sen. ;'rank
Church (D-Idaho), which investi