BROCK CALLS CARTER INTELLIGENCE REORGANIZATION TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE: PROPOSES RESTRUCTURING OF INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

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• Document Release Date: September 13, 2004
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• Publication Date: August 6, 1979
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x3ROCK CALLS CARTER INTEi,LIGEidCE REGRGi.~JIZA1^i.Oi1 TOTC,LLY lilk~_~C:CrPTti$LI;;
PROPOSES RL'STRUCT;IR..NG OF TtiTELLIGE~CE CO`~Z`~tUNI~i
Republican National. Co;nmittee Chairman, .Bill Brock and Ric:~ard
-?~ien. Chairman of the Intelligence Subcommittee of the RNC Advisory
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M:,L~-rci1 cn i`?~t-7asnal _~e~u.x'it,~ ar_d International Affairs, today rPJect~d
?residtnt Carter's intelligence roorganiza.tion proposal as "total?y
i ,.adec;uate and ul,acceptable" and called for a restructuring of cur
~ntell:igence cozr-nunity.
In a P~'Per .released by the Subcomumittee, Brock said, "`x''ho prob? u?m-
~:nd t~:o challenge-is to breathe nevi life, a near morale and spirit, a
r,e:: : e.:..U of dedication into a professional com-~iznity ,~hich has bean.
trau?auizeci and imriobilized in recent. ~.?nars. The cL~rnulative impGct
o~ these past few years has been har;^ful miscalculations, massi.?e
intelligence failures and setbacks in our foreign_r_olicy_"
C.ting pest attacks on our intelligence cor:~-auniry as indispu4aa~ly
?ec~ding to a weakEning of our intelligence capabilities, Brock called
for "a cor^.prehensive, searching and extensive set of Congressional
hearings to elicit the best available information on our intelligence.
require?~ents to be conducted under a Joint Coml~nittee on Intelligence,
`^~ be croUted by Congress." Brocv also called for_
-rr~e~zse'res to insulate the intelligence community From political
:infl~~ence and bias.-
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-presidential appoint~~~nt of a chi4f ad~~isor for intelligence
;,utters wh~~ would serv?~ as a liaison bc?twe?n ti~? c?;hite House
and tho intelliga:l~^.E', COP.1IIlL1?'llt7, ~)l?t 41f~0 C~TOuld i~Ol_ S?_iVE_' as
resc-~L~. ?f i?~ L:itt~'.l~ :t~jE'_i7CE'. ~1C3EnC1%-
-retistabl_ishment ai the Foreign I_ntelli~~:not' Advisar_y 3oard,
ub0115i1E_d .'~,T t_'!~ Car"ter r~Ci?Tl.lniStZ:c!.tlOn and aSSitrli"~J 1tS
3'_1dE'p2:tdC'1CF' t0 provide ~-znal;~s's fze U~ a~:c~~ 1nSt~_tuti0-zal,
c?-aar.izaticnal o.r policy bias.
-- ,t.rer~gtifening of counterinteilic;er.ce ca~aabilities
-r_evi_~ s?n_c~Fre~dom of Inforzr~at_zo_n ~1c_t_aizd the 'ri,vac~=Act tc;
prevQnt abuses and ~aGs~e of intelligencE resources_
DrOC'r'.. rE'_]FCtec~i President Carter's "N4t1onal rntelllgence
Re-Or;a;;izatz,o;: arld Reiorrn Act of 1?"18," (S_2525) for u~zduly
politicizing ar.u bureaucratizing the intelligence co:~~munity.
"Our. reed .for a vigorous and produc rive intelligence ctz::.r~unit}-
has n?v?r ~?-~~..~n gI'E'c11:-~^- ~ , " T3~'OC~ Sc~.1Cap r'j,+2 Can 111 cti~0?=~. an
ir.t?tligence system suffering systemic Heakness or inad^cuacy.._
DZ^n;;plod leadership in the intelligence field--indeed in the er~tire?
~? nld os foreign and r.ati onal security policy--is ~zn ? ngredier~t r:urr
;, ; ssy:-,g; ar:d the resulta:zt confusion and chaos in policy:-~.aki-~g a:zd
e~_=~c~.tion ~.~nderscoros this cxucial, ele~!ent."
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