CIA: TIGHTER SECURITY, GREATER OPENNESS

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
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• Publication Date: November 13, 1978
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CIA's 'Openness' Policy;:
HE FOCUS of the m4dii4fth,
. T respect to intelligence for_at-:
most four years-now ha-s-
and. alleged abuses of t}:g
past I sincerely bellevethethreat
to our country oftexcesses:urintelr
ligence. operations is:=:i?av., aea'a
today than" any time. in our histc><
ry. The real danger is that wez will.
be unable :to-' conductenecessar
operations..because n!tbe:;ris>t:tha
they would be dlsclosecL bat; me:
give you someexampleg .. t E
First;. allied.intelligenceserv '
ices are: losing confidence shat Wei ,
can keep?a-secret. We suspectthat
some:are:holliargbackinform&
tioh: One:recently vilthdrew= a
proposal;16_r-a,,joint covert action'
which would have?beeu..beneflcial_
to.both nations: It. didso when rep
minded. that.I must.notify eight
committees'ofsthe Congress of
every cove rt*action They could-
not imagine that the plan would
not leak,
Beyond-this,-agents overseas
who risk theirlives tosupport our
country eventhouglr.they are not
even citizens-of it ask `{When will
my-name- appear in. yourpresst!?
This-is' not a transient?'problem.
it is a trend that. could undermine
our human, intelligence-capabil-
ities fora decadeormore -
Accordingly, we can and are
tightening our' internaLsec, urity
procedures .We..are:'also:doing
things externally We?have.a poIi-
cy of greater openness
How will. openness-help us-pre..:
serve--secrets?; Well,-simply.-by
reducing the excessive corp'uso
secrets: that, no*exists.-withinsour
govertunent.a
Today. so ;much iziformation=is
unnecessarily: classified' that'we
havq.lost respect for-the classifie
label. BT making~as witch:: as=
.r ? - - ?r -if_ a_ .L _. ...L12. ~....
secret ;in tuM this.makes:it,easi-
er to engenderxespect foi? tha'k
however, to preserve. secr t w
newed-acknowledgment in the
'media and in the public that seer
cy is
Cleafty ere is a=very.fine `n`e"
which we must tread; Too much
secrecy can`iinpede justice;,or::
staunch-the flow of information:
within- our- socfety:=:ToaZlittle
secrecy can give a .,, of vital impoz7lnci
It is a ~'e~icate balance , ",~~1dm f
Stanfield: Turk Directorotkthe
-Central: Intelligence :Agency,.
speech attNational-Press Club:
?Washington,.October2S
Warby Other rMecns
,:Tfie Amertean ~capacit .,for
intelligenceh as been-syste mat?=
call !;shattere&by atta ks^from
Congress.front its own employees
and-from-rtesnos idely b
lieved' the pen - etration' of Sovi;
ets"agents high into the CIAitself
Meanwhile,: West`.German.intell
genceestimates that the Sove.'
KGB maintains more than;1100,000
agents in Western. Europe In re=
cenVyears Soviet,penetration
reached"as higl asChancellor
Willy Bran dt'spersonalsecre=
tary It alsa netted atop genera
in Switzerland "Liberation
armies;' ln:a.'score of countries
are given salaries and supplied
froitii outside E"= r~
Peace,..--no adays$ar
carried out by other means. If the
U.S. does not have the-capability
to= conduct.; covert---operations; - it
has no intermediate instrument
between diplomatic rhetoric, and
open warfare..This is`acceptable
to those- who believe that-interna~
tional politics:. is.conducted::by:
reasonable and moral-men.. In a
humane and re4sonabl ..world,.
some belleve,.fbice is. animprop
. er instrument of policy;. But this is.
-aserious.mistake::
Reasonable: discourse,iT. always
affected by superior fo ce:-T&
orce; the}person
those with lesser force,-the"
with greater forc"ebegins=tq sound
reasonable.--When the:=costs of
disagreement-goi=up, the..;weak
quietly:="acquiesce It becomes
reasonable to-choose surrender
rather than useless .bloodshed
;Globalrwarfare' is -unpleasantkt
VYD~ contemplate:' Better to jog;
, winep
and nibbte cheese;-to seard
for one'sown identity, and to be--
lieve that~:the-world: is..run??by,
morality, andLreason..-Call thos
-the uperso
wlfoworry , a gout s
capabilities of the enemy. "Cold
War warriors
But this is not therCold War. The
Cold War ended years'aga;:when
the. Soviet: Unionwas relatively
weak. Now the Soviet,Union is. a.
military empire governed-by se-
cjet police;, with capabilities for
r Relea 9v~ V ev
have put the Cold War. behind us.
We lost it. What we face now is too
awful to contemplate. Most prefer
not to.
Young PhDs looking for jobs
might well- consider the CIA ?-? or
preferably, a.nevi and'more effi-
cient organization. We need a cov-
ert force of high-minded and.skill-
ful talents. We need it urgently. -
Michael Novak;, Washington Star,
How Much Is Enough?.-
it is. usually evident in most-dis-
cussions on national defense that
none of the debators,truly appreci
ates the value of military force in
achieving our national security,
objectives. Rather, most such-de-
bates concentr.ate~on military
budgets, the merits of the nuclear
-carrier, small ships..against=big
-ships, .the- trade-offs, against
equipping NATO forces and so on.
. In fact, there is. no generally
held view of what-constitutes- a
sufficiency of military power. We
don't know what to-expect or want
our military forces to accomplish;
And -we don't understand how to
relate military power to other
components of national power__
political,`psycl-ological ttechno
Logical and economic power :? z n
We rattle- numbers in assessing
the-values of deterrence without
any idea about. what deters whom;.
andwhy. We debate the-value of a,
U.S~ military presencein Korea,
and Europe".withoutan apprecia
lion of.whetheror.not forward d .
ployed forces really give-'u&-:i.
strategic advantage. We negotiate
onarms_control.lv._}~ d,:off
weapons systems; y bean eoun_
instead-of-assess*.-the-broade
implications of. the systems. on,
fense:
Why da.we-havessuch a poop
understanding of the. contempo-
ra:value,of military for
--One reason is thatthe.contem-
porary world (fortunately) lacks
a body of evidence upon which to
make judgments about the nature
of nnuclear: war__The:post-194__
power of.nuclear weaponry is in
`credible because it?hasneverbeen
used. -'John C...Scharfen,Balti
more Sufi, October.2p.,