BIG BROTHER NETWORK

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By Henry Allen
the ACLU,. Quakers, ADA, Nader's'
people, the,... bortion rights fseople, In.
stitute for Policy Studies people all
steamiok up the windows ar the Foie
ger Tiseaterlyesterday afternoon:"
After all, the Campaign for Political
Rights, a group with backers ranging
from La Raza Unida to Sciantologists
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tensive intelligence-sharing network
of over 100 agencies at the local, state,
federal and international level."
Their again, "there's less of it now,
yes, because of the glare of publicity,"
admitted Morton Halperin; former
.Henry Kissinger aide whose .lawsuit
claiming he was wiretapped by his
boss may be in the courts "for years"
ute movie- entitled "The- Intelligence- he'says.
Network The point we're trying to make- is
So it should have seemed like old -that'wemight get back to it again,"
times. (Was it for nostalgia's sake that said Halperin, who heads the Center
they failed: to provide. a sign-language for. National -Security Studies, a pri-
interpreter,i who is to enlightened vately funded group on Capitol Hill.
gatherings powadays what. the token. It should have seemed like the old
Chicano farlnworker- was a few year;. days, then, ..with. the movie showing
ago?) still photos of the body of black Pan -
A flyer said the film "exposes an ex-, :Cher Fred . Hampton, or, the demo'-
ished car of exiled Chilear. Orlando
Letelier, or a mammothly intricate
chart linking everything from "state
and local welfare agencies" to the
Coast Guard in "the intelligence net-
work."
What would the public reaction to
the film be, Letelier's widow was
asked. (Along with Halperin, she
dominates the film, detailing the now.
familiar facts of her husband's assassi-
nation.).
"T would like to know how thewintel-
ligence community,'would react, but I
don't know anybody, in it," she. said,
unaware she was missing her chance.
Naturally, like old times, the recep-
tion was. watched over by an FBI.
agent. But he was-invited and even
wore a nametag .which="said "John d
Flotis= was . nice enough,,-+
however; to bark "no" whenever press?
approached..
David Truong,.,outan S250,000K,haii'L+
while appealing his conviction?iz1 a Vi- 4,{
etnamese spying case, said thaLltg'c&j:
in fact been spied against, and -thirt' ---1
why he was there: "There we e
many illegal acts in my case." ,`.w. *4}?yp
There was even a guy loping, aroun&
in work boots and. a backpack. :a.
Chris Bedford, who directed -the;
film, said that while it might hold rjo.t
surprises for Washingtonians, it *oi ld,
shock the hinterlands. Rep. -Mi e
Lowry (D-Wash.), who took pains to describe himself as a Jresa-e,
man"'and a "layman," said that '14e%
American public has this John Way1e,
Hollywood attitude, that these institp-
tions aren't -capable of doing..'jh se'i
things."
Maybe that's where the - good olA
days have gone '.=x, :. i
to the Women's Strike for, Peace -'waq
unfurling t4 e one-banner that alk, f
them had eber united under feair of
Big Brother` in the form of a 35-min-
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