FILM EXPOSES GOVERNMENT SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300110003-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 16, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

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A film by the Campaign for Political Rights,
201 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Washington,
D.C., tel: [phone].
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having weathered a long series of revela-
tions concerning the abuses of intelligence
agencies like the FBI and the CIA, many
people may be ready to believe that a
congressional slap on the hand has taught
them a lesson that they" .won't forget.
Adamant in its warning that we not be
footed, "The Intelligence Network" reminds
us that the structure for official spying is still
intact at home and abroad. _
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The film was produced by the Campaign
for Political Rights (formerly the Campaign
to Stop Government Spying). This is a coali-
tian of over 80 organizations, both
left-liberal? and progressive, committed to
ending covert . operations abroad and
political spying and harassment in the
United States. The film introduces people to
the issue of political surveillance and harass-
rnent and shows how such activity is used
against political groups with many different
constituencies, ranging from the woman's
movement to the student movement, the
peace movement and the Black movement.
At times the agencies did more than just
spy, as in the case of the police raid on Black
Panther headquarters in Chicago, which led
to the murders of Fred Hampton and Mark
Clark.
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.The CIA has historically engaged in many
covert actions abroad, as in the 1973 over-
throw.: of Chile's President Saivadore
Allende. What "The Intelligence-.Network"
forces the viewer to confront, in an alarming-
~ly clear and forceful- way, is the connection
between illegal action abroad and at home.
To make its point, the .film examines the
connection between the coup in Chile and
the 1976 assassination of t~rlando Letelier,
who was Allende's minister of .defense
before the coup. Letelier was murdered in
Washington, D.C. by Cuban nationalists,
working with the t~hilean sec7et police
(DIVA). A colleague, Ronni Karpen Mott
was killed in the same bomb blast which
kilted Letelier.
The film contains interviews with
Letelier's widow, Isabel, and with Robert
Borasage, Director of the Institute for Policy
Studies, where both Letelier and Mott
worked. Isabel Letelier recounts the election
of Allende, the mood of the country, the
coup which overthrew the government, and
finally, her husband's assassination. Bora<
sage analyzes the structure of CIA opera-
tions and uses the Chilean example to show
how that structure worked. He also explains
how CIA activity led to the murder. .
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Important too is the film's coverage of
domestic spying. Political organizers from
across the country-minis#ers, lawyers, or-
ganizers, professors--often with their police
files in hand, describe how they were
harassed by intelligence units.
The film's final message is that politic:,:
spying is still going on, with the intelligence
agencies' new targets including the anti-
nuclear power movement and the American
Indian Movement (AIM). .
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