AGEE'S COVERT ACTION HON. LARRY MCDONALD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300010057-0
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: August 1, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN

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aa` v~. y,.sucu UlfuOr tiilaalt:{1aw40 w1rO.Y4?~ now being held in Havana, a small group of
,sAmerican leftists including members of the
nswer and those soldiers should at the Taking advantage of the opportunity for
sty least have been suspended from duty. making foreign contacts presented by the
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helming evidence that there is a case to
OCTAL RECORD - Extensions of Remarks August 1, 1978
y the postmortem that the boy was shot in IFrom the I ormation Digest, July 28. 10 I
AGEE'S COVERT ACTION the formation of a new counter-intelligence
operation, Counter-Watch (CW).
$iON, LARRY IbxcDONALD The July 28, 1578, announcement of the
formation of Counter-Watch was made at a
ve jurisdiction over our internal secu-
tteliigence agencies have languished be-.
use the House committees who now
king of intelligence agency documents,
posing of covert programs, and iden-
cation of-intelligence personnel.
ave been unimpeded in their selective
riod since January 1975, when the
ouse Committee on internal Security
as ended; we have witnessed a broad
tack on this country's foreign and do-
estic intelligence. agencies. The enemies
the U.S. intelligence community, many
whom openly have supported Soviet,
OF GEORGIA
iN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, August 1, 1978
Mr. MCDONALD. Mr. Speaker, in the
and intelligence agencies have
ided to the clamor of the anti-inteI-
ce lobbies and sensationalist press.,
g r Federal intelligence agencies lack
lative mandates. to take action,
e our enemies are redoubling their
orts to demoralize and destroy the re-
ining: U.S. Intelligence operations.
A defector Philip Agee, who could have
ught the notorious Kim Philby lessons
treachery, joined by a handful of U.S.
dicals, has launched a new attack on
e CIA's covert capabilities.
The parameters of the new attack on
nciai policy s 1u-trcm, irr1.1u1,CaAr e CIA and Western intelligence agen-
hall trying to justify- what has been hap- ties by turncoat Agee and company from
peeing in the. Interrogation, centre In Can--. Cuba is reported in detail in the latest
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arrassed as they are about the issue of the Irl_fo_r_mation DigeBt, a news-
findings of the Amnesty investigators? letter on ?: terrorist, political,- and social
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Havana Libre Hotel news conference by
Washington, D.C., NLG attorney William H.
Schaap who said that the new group would
develop a worldwide network of agents that
will expose CIA personnel and methods, or
operation. The C W group will also publish
or) a bimonthly- basis the Covert Action In-
formation Bulletin (CAIB) [t10/pr:), several
hundred copies of which were distributed
this week in Havana and in the U.S., in
Schaap's wards, "to people interested in our
.
work."
usnea by Covert Action Publications, Ine?.; a
District of Columbia nonprofit corporation,
from P.O. Box 50272, P-Street Station. Wash.
According to the CLUB, several of those now' .
viously involved with the Agee faetioi of-'
wnicn Counterspy had becomefamous. Y e --
That Counterspy and Its uncovering of CIA.
Suspected of h@in iny019ed In terrorie ?y UVAIL tltluu 4411,C 41U1V Lgilea. Gilu Im- - - "" '- -1 - -. -- `' _-++v+-r I.uo: yCVllacr,..^,
m' '` mediate attention of m COIIea The - who perform it. The exposure-of past opera-.Y:;.
expect awe subJected to ill-treatment with- ay.ticle demonstratPe. the.. nature, of the tions_is valuable, but it ia only half the jolsa =?
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clearly embarrassed by having to defend the,- by the facilities of. our Marxist totals posed,, 'Oh yes, "but we don't do that-any:
British case-at Strasbourg. He should now be : tartan enemies; .and will again, as Agee more.' We believe that they do
and thattlis
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asked to clarify his Government's attitude on, has done before. attempt to endanger the same people are often involved.
Another matter for' justifiable anger came officers by the disclosure of classified in gressive people araund the world, we will'con
to" light in the House of Commons -yester- - .,.?.,_..~_
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lieved to be members of the S.A.S., who were those persons engaged in furthering the preparing the premier issue,rwe have been
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uct much of our regularre-
involved in the killing of young John Boyle
oreign intelligence operations of the
at Dunlop, Co. Antrim, recently are - still United States, and the restorations of the search; and have one item for our readers., `_M
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Mr. Mulley told the SDLP leader, Mr. Ger- intelligence community to cope with the Foreign service includes posts as a poutical',3_~a
ry Pitt that the soldiers would stay on duty newest sabotage tactics directed toward officer in Indonesia, Malasia, Philippines and,,
,until it was established that there was a CS SS
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