PREVIEW OF FILM, 'THE INTELLIGENCE NETWORK'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300110004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 22, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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22 February l'979
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director of Central Intellige ce
FROM: Herbert E. Hetu
Director of Public Affairs
SUBJECT: Preview of Film, "The Intelligence
Network"
In response to an invitation to you or a member of your staff
to attend a preview of the film, "The Intelligence Network," I
designated
from the OPA to attend. Attached is his
report on the film which will be of interest
Attachment: a/s
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16 February 1979
FROM:
Chief, Media Relations Branch
Office of Public Affairs
SUBJECT: Preview of film "The Intelligence Network"
1. On 26 January the Campaign for Political Rights, an organization
devoted to ending covert operations abroad and "political spying and
political harassment" in the United States, invited the DCI or his
representative to attend a special preview of a new film produced by the
CPR called "The Intelligence Network." I was delegated to attend
the showing, which was presented at the Folger Theater on 13 February.
2. Although representatives of the Administration, the intelligence
community, members of Congress and the press were invited, there was
no visible evidence that anyone other than critics of intelligence and
law enforcement agencies attended the showing at the originally scheduled
1600 hours. Approximately 30 individuals viewed the film, including
Morton Halperin, the director of the Center for National Security
Studies; Robert Borosage, the director of the Institute for Policy
Studies; and Isabelle Letelier, the widow of former Chilean ambassador
Orlando Letelier, who was killed in a bomb explosion in Washington, D.C.
in 1976. We learned subsequently that a second showing attracted a
larger audience.
3. The three individuals named above appeared in the film, which
was a disjointed, propagandistic effort to describe an extensive U.S.
intelligence and law enforcement network "that today continues to
carry out political surveillance and harassment at home and abroad."
The 35-minute film is designed to portray these agencies as enemies of
democratic principles and individual freedoms by exploiting events
related to Chile, the Letelier assassination, U.S. domestic surveillance,
the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, etc. The examples utilized
are historical but the narration raises the threat of continuing and
future abuses. Scenes of mass demonstrations, Chilean political prisoners,
and victims of domestic surveillance are interspersed with eyewitness
accounts by some 15 individuals who relate the evils of the "network."
4. At the conclusion of the showing, it was announced that wine
and cheese would be served in an atmosphere that would promote
discussion on the questions raised by the film. Although I passed up
the opportunity for refreshments and enlightenment, I noted that some six
cases of wine were on hand and the "cheese" consisted of several
lavish platters of obviously catered hors d'oeuvres.
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5. Attached are materials mailed to CIA and distributed at
the event.
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