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AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL C r,;- 1-1 ( T Ca l ~)'
Supplement to September WASHINGTON REPORT
Friend:
Would you attend an Annual Convention
ffectua series of annual meetings for
Our National Security Seminars are, in e
various segments of our membership. lin turn Wdiscusslwh t we can all dot getherters
know what we are doing here ,
The monthly Seminars, conducted by the American Security Council Education
Foundation, provide an opportunity to hear noted authorities on military and foreign
policy. You will have an opportunity e friendly atmosphere of the drawing room and
session following each lecture, in
terrace of the lovely Norman Manor House and during meals which are served in the
beautiful new dining room in Arthur Ogle Hall.
The Center is located on an 850 acre retreat in the foothills of the
C Ourt f ul Blue
Ridge Mountains, some 80 miles southwest of Washington,
ease in
facilities are the finest available. Participants immediately
atmosphere of boththe Manor
gracious
the peaceful surroundings and the cordial and
House and Arthur Ogle Hall. ction Previous Seminar participants have expressed
hear such DistinguishedeGuestlLecturers as
and gratification for the opportunity rman
Staff; General Lyman Lemnitzer, former of hhe Air Fo~cet WChiefs illiam Colby, former D rector
Thomas C. Reed, former Secretary
of the C.I.A.; Spruille Braden, former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina; Ambassador
Walter Heitmann of Chile; and Ambassador James Shen of the Republic ~o here China.
Our Seminar participants tell of friendships they make
a chance to know key members and supporters personally. and varied The registration fee of $175.00 per person includes the Manor House meals
Arthur Ogle
refreshments and lodging (double occupancy) in
Hall, as well as transportation to and from either 0Washington airport. If you'd like a
room to yourself, the registration fee I have listed below the remaining Seminar dates for this year, and also our 1978
schedule. I hope you will try to join us for one of these Seminar/ Membership
Conventions.
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26 JULY 1977
James Angleton is
no longer with the Company,
but .he keeps his hind in
by Jeff Stein
I
t was the kind of afternoon in
Washington, D.C., when the city seems
to have turned into the capital of a
banana rept!blic. Rumors of another coup
in the higher levels of government swept
out of the press rooms, across Capitol Hill
and into the restaurants and bars last
week. There had been reports that the
deputy director of the..Central_.:.
Intelligence Agency and 20 other top
operatives in the CIA's Clandestine
Services Branch had been purged.
Working on the telephone in a quiet
corridor of a private club two blocks from
the White House, James Angleton -= one
of the agency's most feared men for 31
years and its counter-intelligence chief
until 1975 - was trying to find out what
had-happened. He looked grim.
-"I'm told that the reporter is reliable,"
he said a few minutes later, slipping into a
chair in the Army-Navy Club's cocktail
lounge and pulling a photostat of the
0briginal UPI story from his breast pocket.
"If it's true, and if no cause is shown, no
cause that is satisfactory to the cadres,
then it'll be damaging, very damaging."
The reported purge began to stir the
old man's memories of a similar day in
the spring of 1975, when he himself had
been unceremoniously dumped after the
appearance of a series of newspaper
reports describing his role as the head of a
massive spying operation directed at
American citizens. Two years later, the
memory was still a bitter one.
"'I'm still decorripre,-sing, and will be
for some time," he said, lighting the. first
of the 18 Virginia Slims he would smoke
during the next two-and-a-half hours.:
His firing he says, was "a complete
pulling of the rug, and what emerged n
the next couple months was the
deceptions they had worked upon us, and
lies - and to have that from your o n
people is a little difficult to swallow:"-.:
There were widespread reports that-..--'
Angleton had not really been ousted _
because of the domestic-intelligence
controversy, but because he had built up
too powerful an empire within the CIA
and had quietly warred against the
tente with
f d
t
Ki
i
e
egy o
nger stra
ss
Nixon-
accused by prosecutors of illegal wiretap
the USSR. in mail intercepts and break-ins.
"Don't ask me that question, because I p I
i
f
h
F
d'
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l
i
ormer
rman,
eton
un
s c
a
Ang
s t
e
have too m ~" y stories to tell and too -
US d t S th Vietnam
ass.
o ou
many staterpents to make with people
who knew about many meetings which I
never knew," he said with unchar-
acteristic sharpness. "And some
day I'll write about that last meeting
I had with Colby." Former CIA Director
William Colby (who would himself be
fired by President Ford in 1976) told him,
Angleton says, that the domestic spying
flap would blow over in a couple of days,
that Ford would simply be informed the
program had ended. Angleton would
tis FALL n1~C f U1611
e calls it a cause. But others in or
close to the intelligence community see it
- as James Angleton's hand reaching back
from the grave. "He is a time bomb," said
one agent who understandably asked that
his name not be used. "He knows who
did what when."
Angleton's current base of operations
is in the offices of the American Security
Council, where he has formed the
"Security and Intelligence Fund," an
organization of former high-ranking
military and intelligence officers put
together to defend FBI and CIA agents
am
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Elbridge Dubrow its president, and
Brigadier General (ret.-) Robert C.
Richardson its secretary-treasurer. Board
members include several former agents of
the CIA and OSS (the forerunner of the
CIA), as well as ex-US Senator George
Murphy and former TV reporter Nancy
Dickersorc ?
A fundraising pitch by the group
complains that this are "upside down -
now", with the Car ter administration
'hiring anti-Vietnam activists who only
handled delicately. It didn't happen that i? yesterday were open adversaries of the
way. Angleton's wife heard about herj Department of Justice, the FBI, the
husband's fate on the radio. - military, even the government itself." It
"should 1. write a book someday;' warns that "the CIA and FBI have been
Angleton continued, reacl.;ngfor his rum so ba3ly shattered that thFv no longer
havt .raequ. tF? int? ?? al s-. it y -e
punch, "it would not be what l call a thee
diagonal nod. You know what I mean by ` ' -
that? I mean, it's not belly-to-belly with I
the KGB this time. The book would be to
advance the cause."
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M-wo
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Soviets Lead-U
Navy-Secretary J William Midden- sharks,. if you will, conceived and con minded council.
;`By George C. Wilson The July 3, 1974, agreement signed structed. in the Soviet Union, Kidd a
Washington Post start writer in Moscow between the United States. says in the film.
The Secretary of the Navy, two Air and Soviet. Union allowed each nation The "American Security Council
Force generals and an admiral warn to build one anti-ballistic-missile com - showed its film to -reporters and oth-
against the Soviet military threat in a ?plex. The United States decided to e~s at a luncheon yesterday. John NI;;
privately financed film that the Amer- scrap its ABM defense of the ".'Air Fisher, president of the council, which
ican Security Council said yesterday Force Minuteman field at Grand claims 200,000 dues-paying members,
will be offered to television stations Forks, N.D., while the Soviet Union said the Defense Department cooper
across the United States inNthe com limited its ABM deployment to Mos- ated in the making of the film but did'
: 11; cow - not contribute money to it. The AFL-
t
ing weeks. , 3v CIO.also cooperated, in the produc'
could prove politically em Air Force Gert- Russell E Dough. .
The filn""
erty; commander of.the Strategic Air , tion, he said,- but. did not help pay`
barrassing. to President Ford because ` the film. ? 'it portrays the United States as being ` Command, and Adm. Isaac C..,Kidd for The council said it intends' to buy .
far behind the. Soviet Union wean- Jr., also appear in commander the of American Atlantic forcesSecurity time on the three television, network3
onry. The privately financed Amer- Council. film - to --warn against the `-,soon to show the half-hour film, and-'
can Security Council said its- educa-? growing Soviet military might hopes also to get it shown on 1,000
tional arm produced the $60,000 film ...What used to be an-Atlantic lake affiliated. and independent television-
'
"to reach as many Americans as p the , in the minds of the alliance, and:: the stations. The film shown yesterday is
- -up . to an earlier one, ""Only
ble;. with the facts concerning the United. States is now, indeed < an At a follow
growing military unbalance." lantic moat filled with, ptedatory, steel the Strong," produced by the defense-:
ft
James- also says-that "The Russia ns
have.developed their anti-ballistic mis-
siles, around their center of government,
and they-haven't. cut it back at all. In.
fact `;I;think they,: are. continuing to try,.,
to refine itaothe point where it can- be
.freedom-that we may have left, let's
not' be found wanting," .Middendorf
continues. in the, film, entitled "The
Price. of Peace and Freedom."
Aid .Force' Gen.: Daniel.' James Jr ,
commander of the North Americas Air
Defense Command, 'says- in another' part "
of - the-film- - that- the.anti-ballistic-missile"
defense.;ahat';Congress:'canceled "was
the ,best,' one' that had ever been- devel =
oped in the: history. of -mankind''
He says: that Congress, "in its wisdom,
decided. that. it ,was too' expensive. to >;.
maintain` for-the small amount of sky
thati it-:protected,--and they voted 'it
4.,
out.','
"In the. few precious' moments of
thor Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whom
Democratic ? presidential nominee
Jimmy Carter has charged Ford with
snubbing, "is right when he' says we
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NATIONAL STRATEGY COMMITTEE
(Partial Listing)
Admiral John .1. Bergen, USN (Aet.)
The Honorable Elbrldge Durbrow
Former Ambassador
Robert W. Galvin Chairman of the Board.
Motorola, Inc.
The Honorable Loy W. Henderson
Former Ambassador
General Bruce K. Holloway, USAF (Ret.)
Former Commander-in-Chief
Strategic Air-Command
General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, USA tRet.)
Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs-ot-Statf
John A. Mulcahy
President, The Duigley Co.
General Bernard A. Schriever, USAF (Fiat.)
Former Commanding General.
Air Force Systems Command
Dr. William J. Thaler
Chairman, Physics Department,
Georgetown University -
General Nathan F. Twining. USAF (Rat.)
Former Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs-of-Staff
General Earle G. Wheeler
Former Chairman of the
Joint Chiefe?of-Stall
General Paul D. Adams, USA (Rot.)
Former Commander-in-Chlaf,
U.S. Strike Command
Lt. General Edward M. Almond, USA (Ref)
Former Chief of Staff to
General Douglas MacArthur
Bennett Archembavlt
Chairman of the Board,
Stewart-Warner Corp.
P alessor James D. Atkinson
Department of Government,
Georgetown University
G. Duncan Bauman Publisher
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Admiral Robert L. Dennison, USN (Ret.)
Former Supreme Allied Commander,
Atlantic
General Paul D. Harkins, USA (Rot.)
Former Commanding General.
U.S. Military Assistance Command.
Vietnam
Clifford F. Head Former President,
United States Steel Corporation
James S. Kemper, Jr. President.
Lumbermen, Mutual Casualty Co.
Vine Admiral Fitzhugh Lee, USN (Rat.)
Former Commandant of the
National War College
The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce
Former Ambassador
A, B. McKee, Jr. President,
Forest Lumber Company and
Imperial Valley Lumber Company
Or. Robert Morris President,
University of Plano
Dr. Nicholas Nyaradi Director,
School of International Studies
Bradley University
Dr- Stefan T. Possony
Director of International Studies.
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
General Maxwell D. Taylor, USA (Set.)
Former Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs-ofStatf
Dr. Edward Taller Nuclear Scientist
General Lewis W. Walt, USMC (Rat.)
Former Assistant Commandant
United Steles Marine Corps
Rear Admiral Chester C. Ward, USN (ReL)
Farmer Judge Advocate General,
U.S. Navy
General Albert C. Wedemeyer, USA (Rot.)
Chief U.S. Strategist, World War II
Dr- Eugene P. Wigner Physicist.
Princeton University
AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL
Washington Communications Center
BOSTON, VIRGINIA 22713 - TELEPHONE [phone]
January 7, 1976 John M. Fisher
President
Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
Central Intelligence Agency .`I l o 2 6e1 A
Washington, D. C.
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I am very pleased that you have. agreed to speak at our national
security Seminar of January 26-27. As Phil Carke may have mentioned,
we will be having the to officials o p f''it e Ameri rcan Legion in the
audience, including the current and incoming national commanders and
the current and incoming presidents of the Legion's Auxiliary. Colonel
Phelps Jones, the foreign affairs specialist of the VFW will be there.
In addition, the Co-Chairmen of our BICENTENNIAL OPERATION ALERT,-
General Lemnitzer, and Ambassadors Henderson and Durbrow will be in
attendance (the National Commander of the American Legion is also a
Co-Chairman).
The other speakers at the Seminar will include Dr. James Dornan,
the chairman of the department of politics at Catholic University; Dr.
Stephan Gebert, Georgetown University; Professor Ray Sleeper, Space
Institute of-Tennessee; and Maj. General George Keegan, head of Air
Force intelligence.
The Seminar runs from 5:30 p.m. on January 26th to 4:00 p.m. on
the 27th.
We have scheduled you as the first speaker. You will. be on after
dinner on the 26th. We'd appreciate it if you could talk for about
half an hour to forty-five minutes with an equal time for questions,
answers and discussion afterwards.
I know that the audience is especially interested in how seriously
you view Soviet political warfare efforts and how changes have affected
CIA's capability to meet the challenge.
I am enclosing a map showing the way to the Freedom Studies Center.
Warm regards,
Sincerely,
%/t! l-/
rulm M W 4
JMF/CC
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Directional Guide D. C.
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AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL LUNCH
WITH
ADMIRAL THOMAS H. MOORER
OCTOBER 8, 1975
ARMY NAVY CLUB
ALEXANDER, Holmes
AMIGLIETTI, Len
ANDERSON, Jim
ANDERSON, William
ANDREWS, Bud
BAKER, Norman
BEAM, The Honorable Jacob D.
BINDER, David
BINDER, Jim
BORKLUND, C.W.
BRADSHER, Henry S.
CARTER, Stan
CARY, James D.
Columnist
Air Force Times
Westinghouse Broadcasting
Chicago Tribune
Reuters News Agency
Editor-in-Chief
Defense/Space Business Daily
U.S. Ambassador (Ret.)
New York Times
Editor, Army Magazine
Publisher, Government
Executive Magazine
Washington Star
New York Daily News
Bureau Chief, Copley News
Service
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Miring the last two years, the Arneilcail Security Council h s hel(I freatient luncheons and l)riefint's for the Wa;iti;l-Mil
press corps,., at which prominent experts have talked on time `% items reel;Itint to national Security policy. We have r'l)0rted on
S:'V'erai of thesa luncheons in past iVRs. The last Council-hv)>_ed lni1.C1heo ns te;1f11red South Korea's i 1i'li);liS l+it)r to the United
States, Hi Excellency Pyong-choon Hahrn, and Lt. Geri. Vernon A. Walters. USA Deputy Director of the C%-tat
Intelligence Agel;cy.
The about 35 members of the working press re,?lliarly parricipalim, in those luncheons represent leading newspapers, news
maL_;a/ine, radio and television.
At each lu ncheorl, the ghost speaker speaks and then :ill '.vers extensive questwwni.
Consistently these luncheon guests have generated AP and UPI wire service Stories, as well' ::> im Aorta i coltlnll?ti nod
editorials. V e are pleased that those stories have helpe+l proV1.=ic the public With important fads and, Yews a,,o i l ey
Sti:(:i.r:ty issue'?;, rend WO :ire encouraged that the interest of the press iii these luilciteO11N h s I'C steadily.
Since what Arnbassador Hahrn and Gerneral Walters had tO say way of particular llrlportance, we are Ellen c('_ to share: ` ith
you tlheir basic talks. Editor.
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 AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL
1101 17th .Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
John M. Fisher
~1 President
SATIOHAL STRATEGY COMMITTEE.
(Pantal Listing)
mirof Jahn J. Bergen, USN (Rat.)
e Honorable Elbridge Durbrow
Fanner Ambassador
ben W. Gatlin Chairman of the Board,
Motorola, Inc.
I Honorable Loy W. Henderson
Former Ambassador
floral Bruce K. Holloway, USAF (Re(.)
Former Commander-In-Chief
Strategic Air-Command
natal Lyman L Lemnilzer, USA (Rat,)
Former Chairmen, Joint Chiefa-ol-Start
to A. Mulcahy
President. The Quigley Co.
neral Bernard A. Schriever, USAF (Rat.)
Former Commanding General,
Air Force Systems Command
William J. Thaler
Chairman, Physics Department,
Georgetown University
carat Nathan F. Twining. USAF (Rat.)
Former Chairman of the
Joint Chieh-ol-Stall
natal Earle G. Wheeler
Former Chairman o1 the
Joint Chiets-of-Stan
yd Wright Pant President
The American Bar Association
neral Paul D. Adams. USA (Rat.)
Former Commander4n-Chief,
U.S. Strike Command
General Edward M. Almond, USA (Rat.)
Former Chief of Staff to
General Douglas MacArthur
mmett Archambault
Chairman of the Board,
Stewart.Werner Corp.
Vessel James D. Atkinson
Dapartmertl of GOwrnment.
'Georgetown University
Duncen Bauman Publisher
St. Lewis Globe-Democref
miral Robert L. Dennison, USN (Rat..)
Former Supreme Allied Commander,
Atlantic
Iseral Paul D. Harkins, USA (Rat.)
Former Commending General,
U.S. Military Assistance Command,
Vietnam
iKOrd F. Hood Former President,
United States Steel Corporation
mss S. Kemper, Jr. President,
Lumbn nnnns Mutual Casually Co.
:e Admiral Fitzhugh Lee. USN IRet.)
Former Commandant of the
National War College
e Honorable Clare Boothe Luce
Former Ambassador
8. McKee, Jr. President,
Forest Lumber Comoany and
Imperial Vahey Lumbar Company
-. Robert Morris Presldent,
University of Piano
Nicholas Nysradi Director,
School of International Studies
Bradley University
Stolen T. Possony
Dnecror of Inlefrotinoel Studies.
Hoover Institution, Slanlord Uniwrsitg
tperal Maxwell D. Taylor, USA (Rat.)
Former Chairman of the
Joint Chiels-of-Stall
Edward Teller Nuclear Scientist
eneral Lewin W. Walt, USMC (Rat.)
Former Assistant Commandant
United Slates Marine Corps
tar Admiral Chester C. Wald, USN (Rat.)
Former Judge Advocate General.
U.S. Navy
tneral Albert C. Wademeyor, USA (Rat.)
Chief US. Strategist, World War 11
Eugene P. Wagner Physicist,
Princeton Umversity
ajar Gervrral W. A. Warren, USMC (Fiat,)
Retired P,es(denl
Amer,cen L,brary of Information
July 30, 1975
General Vernon Walters
Deputy Director,
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
ec~,~~ auruC'
Under separate cover, we are sending you a tape
recording of your remarks on the CIA, contained
in the-WASHINGTON REPORT of the air program.
We thought you would like to have this for
your files.
-L~,i "_&,)
You are featured on the WASHINGTON REPORT Wednesday,
August 6, 1975, broadcast over the Mutual Radio
Network at 10:45 a.m. and 5:25 p.m. and heard
locally over WAVA-FM, (105.1) 9:40 p.m. the same
day.
Thank you again for your cooperation and interest.
Cordially,
CJ)CL__1e_L~_
Philip C. Clarke
Capital Editor
Washington Report of the Air
Separate Cover - Mail
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Clifford :Tr-yes Liriii
ia, CIA, 4cvities
41? '? By William Greider
Washington post Sratt Writer
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and presidential adviser sight is the reform which . tudes change.
Clark Clifford
s
t
d
.
a
ser
e
yes
would make the most differ-
terday that "covert 'opera- ence.
?tions" in foreign countries I1Ieanwhile, CIA Deputy
should be taken away from. Director Vernon Walters
the Central Intelligence told a luncheon meeting of
Agency so the CIA would do the American Security
nothing more than collect Council that any new con-
Intelligence.. gressional guidelines for the
Clifford, addressing CIA should be flexible
breakfast meeting of report-. "We are being called up
ers, suggested that a new and investigated 'now. for
and separate agency could. what we did or what we al-
be . established to handle legedly did," Walters said.
"dirty tricks". aimed at for- "What I fear is that in 1990
r eign governments. Congress, ~Ir. Colby's successor will
he suggested, should estab- be called up' and investi-
lish a? joint committee to gated for what we failed to
oversee these intelligence do."
activities and to approve Public attitudes change
"covert actions" in advance. over time, he noted, so that
Clifford, who served for the congressional guidelines
-many years on the Presi- drawn now to prohibit what
dent's Foreign Intelligence the public dislikes might be
:Advisory Board, outlined a too rigid to meet some.fu-
number of other steps which
he regards as necessary re
forms.
"The CIA has just'
wheeled separately with no-
body watching," Clifford.
said. "It could have gone on
and on ... Just think-for
30 years nobody has con.
trolled it."
Clifford suggested that
Congress enact new author- .
Izing legislation which
would define more strictly
the CIA's functions, includ-
Ing a blanket prohibition
against any domestic activt:.
ties. "I know of no impor- '
tant domestic function that
the CIA need have," he said.
The White House, Clifford
said, should appoint a staff
officer who is responsible
for all intelligence agencies
to tighten presidential con-
.tj.?pl but be-suggested that
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"We've spent an enormous.
amount of time rummaging
through the garbage bins of
history, poring over the
1950s and 1900s," Walters ;
said. "But the question of
whether we survive as a.
free nation Is going to be de.
cided in the '70s and '30s."
Walters complained about
.people whom he described
as "American t4rongers"
who are anxious to find
fault with everything the
United States does while
apologizing for its adversar-
ies. The current atmosphere'
?of : criticism aimed at the
Amendment and he violated
the Fourth Amendment."
as domestic spying and bur-
glaries, will help restore
constitutional government.
"Mr. Hoover,' I'm sure did
not believe in our form of
government," Clifford said.
"I've thought that for a long
time. He violated the First
CIA, he said, includes "a
torrent of accusation and
mud and innuendo" which
unfairly smears loyal CIA
employees who are continu-
ing to do an effective job,
despite the attacks.
Clifford told reporters
that the current exposure of
CIA and FBI activities, such
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TEXT OF ADDRESS BY VERNON WALTERS
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
TO AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL
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July 23, 1975 < ce-rte%~'
I'd just like to say, first of all, a few words about
what is intelligence. Intelligence is information that is
vital to the making of sound decisions by our Government,
informations concerning foreign countries and information
concerning the policies of foreign. countries, concerning
the armament of foreign countries, concerning the economics
of foreign countries that must be properly analyzed and
must be properly disseminated.
For instance, a lot of intelligence, if you don't get
it out in time, is simply history. It is not intelligence
unless you get it to whoever needs it right away. Why do
you need it? Why do we need it today?
Well, we need it today because, in my opinion, the
United States is in a tougher power situation than it has
been since Valley Forge. Not since Valley Forge has any
foreign country had the ability to destroy or seriously
cripple the United States. That capability exists today.
We all know that detente is, we hope, something that will
work and will serve to lessen tensions between the countries.
But at the same time as detente, we can't help seeing the
Soviet Union deploying four new different types of ICBMs,
signs of a fifth on the horizon. They're third generation
misssiles, they're not anything they've just cooked up.
We see them building larger and more powerful submarines.
We see them increasing the number of tanks and modernizing
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Lt. General Vernoii Walters, Deputy Director of the CIA,
says that the United States may be able to succeed in
canying out' intelligence operations in a goldfish bowl. But
he adds that if we do it will be like going to the moon. We
will be the only ones ever to have done it.
General Walters* made this remark at the American Security
Council luncheon.in Washington on July 23, 1975. News
media treatment of his candid remarks on the CIA and the
dangers facing America today is symbolic of what is wrong
With the approach of important elements of the news
media's coverage of the CIA investigation.
The Washington Star on the day following General V alters'
talk carried three stories on the CIA, occupying 70 column
inches of the paper (over half a page). The stories were
headed: (1) "Did CIA Cause Colonel's Death?" (2) "CIA
Panel Will Call Kissinger" (3) "Nixon Tied to CIA Effort in
Chile." Not one word was said about General Walters' talk,
even though The- Star had a reporter present. The New
York Time also ignored the story. The Washington Post
devoted six inches to General Walters, burying the report in
a story headed: "Clifford Urges Limit to CIA Activities."
We were informed that both the AP and UPI carried stories
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on the Walters' talk on their wires, but no paper we ex-
amined used their stories.
The only respectable report we found was in :ha conserva-
tive weekly, Human Events, which led its Augu;t 2 "Inside
Washington" report with a 375-word story on the Walters
talk.
The reporter who covered the talk for The IVashin.,ton Star,
Norman Kempster, told AIM that he did not do a story on
it because Walters had not said anything new. It would
appear that in the minds of some journalists the only thing
that is newsworthy is material that is critic-31 of the CIA.
Statements that put our intelligence activities in proper per-
spective, defending what has been done, are simply not
deemed to be worth reporting.
On February 3, 1975, a top reporter for Thie New York
Times, Peter Arnett, stated in a talk at the Air War College,
"It seems to me that this is going to be the year that the
`spooks' (CIA) get theirs, or they have to start answering
questions. . .Many reporters that I rviw are starting to go
to Washington and are trying to find all the security people,
all the discontented CIA officers and others who could feed
the grist for the mill to find the story of what went on. I
thin'.; there are going to be some embarrassing stories about I
this in the next few months and the next year."
At that time, Reed J. Irvine, Chairman of the Board of
AIM, made this rejoinder to Mr. Arnett: "I am afraid that
the big story is one that the press is missing entirely. It may
be that this is the year when Nye are going to destroy our
internal security establishment,. when we are Doing to
destroy or greatly weaken our defense establishment, and.
when, indeed, we are laying the groundwork for the demise
of democracy, or the citadel of democracy, the United
States, because of the intent of the press to bring about an
immediate end without thinking of the ultimate conse-
quences."
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From Inquirer Wire Services .
WASHINGTON - The Sen-
:e . Foreign Relations Corn-
_ittee intends to confront
,rmer CIA Dierctor Richard
Helms with apparent in-
oasistencies in his state-
tents regarding domestic
tivities of the CIA, an. aide,
a Sen. Clifford P. Case (R.,
J.) said Friday.
Helms is scheduled to ap-
ear before the panel next.
week to explain a statement
nat he made under oath in
come of.an expected vote on
ly/S oenymg any KIIOwteUge mCSLiC 41S1- vau~w? c,'en Charles McC. Mathias
that the CIA was ever in- ? Al a Feb. 7, 1973, Foreign , (R., Md.) plans to reintro-
volved in an effort to gather Relations hearing, Helms duce his proposal, - which
information on the antiwar was asked by Case if he would probably serve as a
movement in the ; United knew ."anything about any ~ model, for a two-year select
States... , . activity on the ' part of the committee with a. bipartisan
Helms -told told the 'Senate CIA" in response to a White membership of eight..;
Armed. Services Committee House request "that all intel- . In another development, '
on Thursday that the CIA an- ligence agencies; join, in the ' Johri Fisher, president of the
alyzed information on .Ameri- effort to learn as much as American Security Council,
can radical groups during.:. they could about the antiwar' confirmed that Gen. Lyman
the 1960s in response to "the movement. Lemnitzer ' is a member of
express concern of the'Presi- Helms replied, "I don't re - his conservative group, but
dent" that there was a for- call whether we :were asked,; described as "hokum" alle-
eign influence behind do- but we were not involved be-1 agtions that it maintains se-
cause it seemed to me~ that cret files on subversive Amer.
was a clear violation of what tl icans.
our charter was." Lemnitzer, a retired Army
Sen. John C. Stennis (D.,' general, is a member of the
14liss.), chairman of the Sen- Rockefeller commission that'
ate Armed Services Commit- President Ford recently ap-
tee, said Thursday that his I pointed to investigate
staff has found "no substan- charges that the CIA illegally
tial discrepancies" between spied nn r1ti7