SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES/DEVELOPMENTS OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

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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. 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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on July 21 wrote a top secret 'wide word letter to Secretary of State George Shultz asking that Burt's nomination be withdrawn.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"