SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES/DEVELOPMENTS OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00148R000100370040-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: October 4, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2007/06/14 : CIA-RDP84B00148R000100370040-2
.nu.w~nuum run. II
Executive Secretary
Per your request, attached is the Report
of Significant Activities/Developments for
the Office of External Affairs.
TAT
 !,>~, n s ' ~ ~ ~ 7 y a W a y to Check SOn C I SLR est
By BURT oresert circumstaacs," a Foreign duril flight, tes. ts. The tats ^: sifnals!
5,e.-a! Y,^ Tu :'misty . sc ica. Icha-acteristics and are .h?- ccrsidered_
tL.at Turkey Des itets, c-t:ias os L-"a: accord Vital to veri.yia~ t^a:.^_a-,r t-,?risierts
rr-~ :? rot a::ul r=rcn^.a'ts : ce o'- Capitol Iii!t ma_; t .;d that, with or carr_ruicB mcdzc]:at:cn a-w>xcs.
1
r?1 azas over is ta.=to ;r. is crepar _t? _hottt the sea?!IIz-.c_ flights, the .>;.oilityof,
p . Critics Sz-:-Ho:_-sio ^??~c::?n
or. y o!: rt n- ~Sa a Ac: ariear. e;cp-.s :r :eoe that ice Cea yz~ioralc t?c ^?ultu
for o I . !a-ot Soviet +fs' hav- been "rice I -ely oa the horn i :?.d r?1-'
t!. ,_ t''.y >,: ! at c size. Ora '-toiaa is e(;uiv. rr.t to ~ 1.:a for ventt..a.,ca..ca 'rd v. a r-ae I
E * . r , a_..r-at C i:::p. ~?;e^-cu to et _r l rQ:;asoiThT. I systems vtnutd o^ly aa'a to n:c;c tuna i
t - I: ~- 1 3 - d ^^ 1' L- '` 1`ott_,It It is tl.d. =r ,c'- t:_er Ih3 s ;tall f. action o' t - ?: t?::y;
! , -, ~: toe a .f sCJr d d f }fj t ttSt exceeded t :e Li) li!oton limit, i obta'1-t1 orfvl0i ly t: a : tat
rata- ;ct-zd on . sst C - ? c.ic a!s said tae Ad tautneon has They said that a C.a,m. cf tax'
rautlat corri: Y' L^'_e a.-s t-eaty. as, d Moscow to exp thy- possible Iran stations had ben to co!'?x? missile
Area SaL'1933 LdLac ion. Idata transmitted! d!:-iaz tca.:i-n 60
`.teen while. ohiciaIS said that plans ssontis ofaC.'-st L,c ^_rd `..c:r:a;i"c7:it
"f n_y sai car 23 - a - _ as i933, C- were under way at the Central In:elli- could rot hz col?ec?_-ei sroc' ~er.~_ty or
Uai: S?_tC ?css s a r.e' Fence Agency aad ;.9 Lie Per.._go-t to i
from e:dsting sys[ecs is s;aua.
tarts! et at CO'=Id C:_r ._itt e co,l_.ct raissite te_s: data previously oh- Fra[agoa ohiciaas dC:ac&:r `?Sacosv
r::issiie test data fo-e-:y c3ta:n-d by I tar.=d by the stations in I-aa by usin a
:to b!ad anew missile tutu-::_?c:_-d? it 1
L:12! rnoritJrcg sizes; s:-Ili"' e in!'-named C?.'_ie z.dalarga:
void:^.avebsf`.ia!3 ^:7 p~sJ's;::,~~r!`_ti
j:a:rD~^y as e- te.l:ca'~e~inte~l oa radio iatapt ar.'zr-ra i:.\o-ap.
mea yes-erday by Lae T,-:as4 f?-em American stn..::?_'ce _s:_ s for,
that the 15 ? slgztaa Can Belntercepted more than a year. T ^ay c^c:-bri_ :.tt
miy_ still oe oerc:i:t"; to Cy o.er t:^.- They said bunt the satett c and the'rnadst improvenen:> :o e:c,':cz rw'r..-
cc?_ trr. A:tboup,; a raa? Tu:-~.isa 3auad station in Noway could be naissance caoabilits.as rae-t cc: the Army said ea__ter this r--< that adjusted to pick: up some or the radio oossibilitr or a la-ge-scale-covert pm.. ;
the fE g is could not b' c--i ted "under siy.ali broadcast by Soviet missiles R? f this sort. - _
 Approved For Release 2007/06/14 : CIA-RDP84B00148R000100370040-2
oza prey 27lSEp^EI'2ER 1982
Old leak may sink Burt norJ n
JOHN LO ILLEGIB
FIOIV'S JOURNAL
A whit
h
k
- -
e-
ot,
nock-down-drag- ~
out, behind-the scenes battle is
rapidly coming to a head over the
nomination of former New York
Times correspondent Richard Burt
to be assistant secretary of
state for European affairs. The
issue: should an ex-reporter
who wrote a story containing
classified information damaging
to the national security be named
to such a high government post?
The critics of Bun include:
? Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Barry
Goldwater, R-Ariz., who on July 21 wrote a top secret
'wide word letter to Secretary of State George
Shultz asking that Burt's nomination be withdrawn.
IV-explicably, Goldwater's request was neither
acknowledged nor answered. And Burt's nomination
was sent forward to the Foreign Relations
Committee.
? Sens. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., Don Nickles, R-Okla.,
John East. R :N.C., Orrin Hatch R-Utah, and James
McClure R-Idaho, all of whom wrote a letter about
Burt on September 15 to Foreign Relations Commit-
tee Chairman Sen. Charles Percy R-III. In this
'letter the senators call Percy's attention to two
-things: (1) "the most serious questions" raised by
a, three-year old Burt article in the Times and (2) "a'
record of indiscretions committed by Mr. Burt ," a
record supposedly compiled by the State Department's
Security Bureau. Bun denies any such indiscretions.
? And finally, although its recommendation was
-ignored by Secretary Shultz, the White House
Presidential Personnel Office also opposed Burt's
nomination.
Among Burt's defenders are: U.S. Deputy Perma-
nent Representative to the U.N. Ken Adelman;
former Kissinger Protege Helmut Sonnenfeldt; and
Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs
Alark Palmer. In recent weeks, all three have phoned
various Senate staffers to lobby for Burt's
nomination.
-, In separate interviews, here's what I've been
told. Adelman says the case against Burt rests on
"lousy grounds." Sonnenfeldt thinks Burt is get-
ting a "bum rap:" And Palmer believes the issues
jeing raised against Burt are "outrageous" Burt
refuses (o talk on-the-record about his situation.
So, what is the beef about Burt? Well; the
central controversy revolves around an article he
wrote for the Times on June 29, 1979. In this
piece, quoting only "officials," Burt reported in
detail how the Carter administration - concerned
that Turkey might not allow U-2 reconnaissance
'planes over its territory - was preparing an
alternative plan for verifying the new strategic arms
treaty with Moscow. This plan, it was said, called
for several improvements to existing methods for
monitoring Soviet missile tests, including the
upgrading of an electronic listening post in Norway
and the use of a satellite that was programmed to
collect other information.
Now. there's no doubt that the information in
Burt's story was classified. When asked this question
directly in his confirmation hearing on Sept. 15
before the Foreign Relations Committee, Burt replied:
"Well, I will be quite honest. I assumed that it
probably was (classified material)...! presumed it
was sensitive information:' In fact, Burt said that
following the publication of his article he was made
aware "by people" that his story had created
"concern" within the intelligence community. Noting
thathe was "somewhat alarmed" by this, Burt
says he "immediately sought appointments with (at
.the time CIA Director) Stansfield Turner about
this problem:" ,,A source I consider reliable, says that Burt's
story compromised one of this country's "most
secret and fragile" intelligence gathering systems-
It did this in three ways, according to another
equally reliable source: (1) It named the satellite;
(2) It named its original mission; and (3) It revealed
that this satellite could be reprogrammed.
Tomorrow the Senate Intelligence Committee will
turn over to the Foreign Relations Committee a
damage assessment report which will evaluate the
damage done by Burt's three-year-old article. My
sources say that while this report will be understated,
tt'will be "devastating" to the contention by Burt
and his backers that his Times story did no real harm
,_IaU.S. national security. Even Ken Adelman, one
of Burt's defenders, tells me he has "no doubt" that
the information Burt published "damaged the
national interest"
What's astounding about this whole affair is the
nonchalance on the part of Burt's backers regarding
the very serious issue of his having disclosed
classified information. Adelman argues that Burt
was just "doing his job" and "that's what happens
in Washington - people are given information and
publish it:" Sonnenfeldt says he doesn't see how a
defense or national security reporter "who is given
stuff" can avoid pubishing it. He observes:
"It would be a shame if Rick was singled out. If
journalists once get pilloried for having used stuff
given to them by people with access to classified or
sensitive information, it's going to go a long way
- maybe even to some of the people attacking this
particular journalist:'
Mark Palmer, who says he doesn't want to go into
who he has called in Burt's behalf, says only that
the charges against Burt are "outrageous:' Both
Adelman and Sonnenfeldt readily admitted that
they had not investigated thoroughly just how
"damaging Burt's article in the Times was.
At Burt's confirmation hearing before the Foreign
,Relations Committee, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., -
%who is also a member of the Intelligence Committee
- treated the whole subject as a joke. He got a
laugh when he said that he had heard it rumored
'that on occasion senators have leaked sensitive
-'information for political purposes."
:Just exactly how the flap over Richard Burt's
-'nomination will turn out remains to be seen. But,
-the relevant question has been raised by Sen.
;'Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., Who asks: is Burt's article
-in the Times material to the consideration of his
--appointment? The answer must be: it most cer-
tainly is and Burt's critics are absolutely correct in
"raising this issue.
 4 '
Approved For Release 2007/06/14 : CIA-RDP84BOO148R000100370040-2
TILL P??.!?~D WASHII_GTON POST
p
22 Stn to 1982
ON PAGE 4-3
Hill Panel to.`I)isclose Criticism of
Intelligence on Central America
By David Hoffman "The basic concern is that tenden-
and George I.ardner Jr. - tious rhetoric, including occasional-
%V=hM wneouswrwno-n - oversimplification and misstatement,
The House intelligence committee can drive out some of the needed
voted at a closed-door session yes- 'cop tin d an vsis." the study
terday to brush aside objections conccuc~es. ra study repeatedly em-
from the CIA and other U.S. Intel- phasizes what the committee staff
ligence agencies and make public a described as the high quality of most
staff report critical of those agencies' intelligence reporting from Central
performance in Central America in America. But the staff said that it
recent years. wanted to "sound an early note of
The report, scheduled for release concern about the larger costs that
today, was heavily edited to tone might be incurred by the particular
down several criticisms and satisfy kinds of weaknesses' found. Short-
complaints of intelligence agency comings-included:
backers on the committee. For _ex- ? A major intelligence 'briefing for
ample, the phrase "rightist violence" the committee last March 4 on out-
was changed to "terrorist violence" side communist support for the Sal-
several times in reference- to the vadoran insurgency was "flawed by
weakness of reporting on rightist several instances of overstatement
violence from El Salvador. and overinterpretation."
A draft copy, reflecting the edit-
ing, was obtained by The Washing-
ton Post.
At one point, the committee was
told that "lots of ships have been
traced"from the Soviet Union to
The study was commissioned unloading points in Nicaragua, but a
months ago by Rep. Charlie Rose later, wntten response conceded that
(D-N.C.), chairman of the subcom- "only a small number had actually
been tracked all along the route."
tee on oversi
ht and evaluation
mi
g
.
t
He told a reporter yesterday that the
National Security Agency, the De-
fense Intelligence Agency and the
CIA had opposed public release. .
"They felt it should be a confiden-
tial slap on the wrist," Rose said. "I
felt strongly otherwise. It's impor-
tant that the public know our com-
mittee is not afraid to go public with
criticism even though that criticism
may not be pleasant for the intelli-
gence community." -
The 47-page draft covers intelli-
gence reports and assessments dur-
ing the Carter and Reagan admin-
istrations and raises repeated ques-
tions about instances in which ad-
ministration policies may have had
skewed intelligence gathering. - .
? A slide at the same briefing on
"guerrilla financing" indicated that
Salvadoran guerrillas were receiving
about $17 million a year in addition
to weapons, but the calculation was
an extrapolation "based on a single,
piece of evidence indicating the
monthly budget for the commander
of one faction on one front"
On closer questioning, the com-
mittee was told that the $17 million
Figure was "not an estimate" but in-
tended "only to indicate that 'rela-
tively large sums of currency' were
going to the guerrillas."
? Assurances by a CIA official last
February that Salvadoran autlitiri-
ties had made much progress in.re-
ducing acts of violence by, their
forces turned out, on further com-
mittee inquiry, to. have been based
solely on statements from the Sal-
vadoran Defense Ministry about dis-
ciplinary actions for infractions such
as drunkenness and thievery..
A four-page section of the draft
report said the intelligence commu-
nity had denounced a Washington
Post report Feb. 14 about a bloody
Salvadoran military sweep operation
as "propaganda" by a writer travel-
ing with a guerrilla fighting unit. No
intelligence data was found to con-
tradict the writer's statement that he
had been with noncombatants. -
 PHILADELPHIA INA UIREyf
ON PAGE__ 4 30 SEI gf 1982
Ex-U,
dfflciafdescrib(s '
meetings
between Wilson, active
eCIAomcer
By Michael J. Snitfen
Ana
A,ia?aAea cause he bad been present at meet- from, the
WASHINGTON - ings between Wilson and Theodore materiel that the vernment Unijed States:
A former federal Shackley, then associate deputy CIA w?as sian trying to get. Wilson agreed
official told a judge yesterday that a director for clandestine operations. n
CIA officer met with former agent But Assistant U.S. Attorney Carol with Ted Shackley.' to
this. We did meet, ad I was present
obtaining Bruce told the judge that the go vern. Shackle , w
a EdwiSoviet P. \4anti-aircraft discuss missile and a jet merit believed Wilson had just been agency, could not be reached yester-
fghter from Libya, offering Y ho has since left the
The disclosure by the former offi- g assistance in an effort to kill day for comment. CIA spokesman
cial, Paul Cyr, represents me first a federal investigation of him.
assertion in court that a CI.t Officer i Cyr's attorney, Daniel Grove , said Dale Peterson said Yesterday
that
ustive search of our files
on active duty had deal? with nthere was no indication that Wilso an exhau evidence that
in the late 19705 - had ever obtained the Soviet equip- has nCIA ot asked Wed any
after Wilson bad ment equipment qusf Wilson to left the agency and had begun work. Cyr disclosed the meetings to US. rom Lib bya."
ment of Libya., Cyr yr said f said there had been discus-
ing with the radical Arab govern. District Judge John H. Pratt before sions of obtaining a Soviet SA-8 anti-
being sentenced on two counts of aircraft missile about 1977 or 1978
of suWilson pplying explosives fo a-Libyan while tworking forte Federal Ener and of obtaining a MiG-26 jet fighter.
terrorist-training school and con- gY Administration. Cyr had pleaded Cyr told the judge: "I thought Wil-Libya
the
two
CIA dentrHisoattorneys have said h is de. bargain wi h the goovernm nta plea i ng was in kon and f sat in h meet
'tense would be that he was working Cyr said he was describing the in s with Wilson and Ted Sackley,
for the CIA. and Wilson was telling him what the
Cyr's disclosure about the meet.
r meetings another his behalf Cyr was charged with accepting.
Russians were doing there." to put on ings between Wilson and the CIA to aid the US. government. Wilson for official came as Cyr W Cyr said he first met Wilson in 1969 a money
as
computer company, which was'
yesterday h, unrelated charges. tenet r , _ ,
are. while working for the U.S. Army hfa- Seeking fen,._-,
ring ISOn Tr said, that Wilson exactamounthereceivedtistulndeter-
Libya the time he was dealing with Provided a home for Cyr's youngest mined, but
Libya. However. Justice De son for several yea
the
gove
rs
rnment
g ayr mates it and-
durin C meet
sources have said that CIA officials partment
family crisis. was between and.
active at the time might become tar- Cyr said that in the late 1970s, S Cyrcould have received four Years,
gets of prosecution as a result of the when Wilson was traveling back and in prison and a 520,000 fine, but Pratt'
gets on case. forth between Washington and Lib- sentenced him to three years' probe-'
Cyr said he believed that ;'ikon ya, I met with him and one thing ir
for on, a 55,000 fine and community
had been working the CIA b~ that was strongly suggested was that service as a counselor with a north-'
Wilson use his position to obtain ern Virginia alcoholism group.
 1rti, D TFE s T .Trn? pc~sT
Approved For Release 2007/06/14 : CIA-RDP84B00148R000100370040-2
Appeals Court
Backs CIA on
Campus Secrecy
United Pres, International
The CIA may keep secret not only
the names of American colleges
where it has intelligence sources, but
also those where it doesn't, a federal
appeals court ruled yesterday.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
here, upholding a lower court, re-
jected a student's request under the
Freedom of Information Act for the
CIA either to confirm or deny that it
had covert contacts on any campus
of the University of California.
"To admit that the CIA had such
contacts at this university would
allow foreign intelligence agencies to
try to zero in and identify specific-
ally what where the nature of those
-relationships or_ with whom," the
court said.
But it also would be dangerous to
order tjie CIA to deny whether it
had a contact at a certain university,
the court said. It noted the agency
has received more than 125 requests
for information on covert contacts at
about 100 schools.
"If the agency were required to
indicate those schools with which it
had had no covert contact, the work
of foreign intelligence bodies would
obviously be much easier," the court
said.
"They could and would concen.
trate their efforts on the remaining
American colleges and universities,
and their sphere of activity could be
appreciably narrowed," the panel
said.
The CIA has acknowledged it uses
American academics and students at
American schools as intelligence
sources.
Some, who have traveled abroad
or are experts in a particular field of
study, are sought out for confidential
information, advice or help in re-
cruiting foreign intelligence sources,
court papers said. The agency also
has contacts for scientific and social
research.
 Approved For Release 2007/06/14 : CIA-RDP84B00148R000100370040-2
ARTICLE AFPE.R'..?1
ON PAGE __ 24 SEEPT- 3 R 1982
panel probes allegations
of Soviet tie in pope shooting
By John McKelway other waymightproveirresistibleagain,
WASHINGTON 1MES STAF as it has so frequently before"
A Hill panel began collecting testi- Sterling, under questioning by Sen.
mony yesterday linking the Soviet Union Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., said she has
to the 1981 attempted assassination of not been questioned by the Central Intel-
Pope John Paul II. ligence Agency (CIA) despite months of
The Helsinki Commission, made up of gathering information on the gunman.
12 members of Congress and formed "I find it shocking that you have not
af ter the Helsinki Accords of 1975, moni- been approached by the intelligence
tors violations of the agreement. community," D'Amato said-
Author Claire Sterling, an expert in D'Amato, meanwhile, revealed that he
terrorist activities, continued to suggest may have
been the source for an NBC
that the Soviet Union, through the KGB y
and the secret service of Bulgaria, were report earlier this week that the pope
the "hidden forces" behind the gunman, threatened to resign and return toPoland
Mehmet All Agca. if Russia moved to crush the Solidarity
Sterling recently wrote a Reader's - movement. The threat was contained in
Digest article tracing the path of Agca a private letter the pope sent to Soviet
from hisbirthplace inTurkey toSt.Peter's President Leonid I. Brezhnev, an NBC
Square in Rome. spokesman said.
"InItaly, as nearly everywhere else in D'Amato remarked during the hear-
thelVest,governing leaders could hardly ing that he knew the "monsignor" who
welcome hard evidenceof Soviet Russia's carried the message. Later, outside the
complicity in a terrorist hit deliberately hearing room, he said he could not name
designed to outrage and shock the world, the monsignor at this time.
she told the commission. "The impact The theory that Russia wanted to
on international relations might be remove the pope because of his close
ties to Poland and the growing strength
of Solidarity has been suggested by both
Sterling and NBC. The Vatican, mean-
while, remains silent on whether or not
the letter was sent by the pope. Polish
authorities eventually clamped down on
the Polish labor movement while the pope
slowly recovered from his wounds.
D'Amato told the hearing, "I am con-
vinced that the Soviet KGB had full
knowledge of, and, at least tacitly,
supported the plot to kill the pope." He ,
said the pope's actions toward human
rights movements in Poland "clearly
annoyed officials in the Kremlin:'
In a report to members of the commis-
sion, the staff said new evidence sup-
ports the claim that the assassin "did
not act alone:"
It said: "He is not a Muslim fanatic, or
religious at all; he is not an active right-
ist or nationalist in Turkish terms; he is
not stupid, ignorant, mentally unbalanced
or a psychopath. Agca is an international
terrorist, trained to kill, managed and
financially supported by some'organized'
element"