CIA BOSS OPPOSES CHANGES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001003840226-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 226
• Publication Date: March 13, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

4 THE DOMINION, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1
INTERNATIONAL
British spy
chief dies
NZPA-Reuter
BRITAIN'S spymaster, Sin
Maurice Oldfield, the in-
spiration for George Smiley
in John Le Carre's spy nov-
els and M in Ian Fleming's
James Bond books is dead,
the British Government said.
The Northern Ireland Of-
fice said he died in hospital,
aged 65, after an illness. It
gave no further information.
Sir Maurice, a pudgy,
bespectacled bachelor with a
reserved manner and dry
wit, spent four decades in
British intelligence.
For the last 12 years
before he retired in 1979, he
was C (Control) chief of the
British secret service
network M16.
Even the fact that he was
Control was secret until
leaked by an American mag-
azine in 1973.
He was recalled from re-
tirement for his last job, se-
curity policy co-ordinator in
strife-torn Northern Ireland,
after the 1979 assassination
of Lord Mountbatten, the
Queen's uncle, by Irish
guerillas seeking to end Brit-
ish rule.
Northern Ireland Secre-
tary Humphrey Atkins said
Britain had lost a great,
loyal and valued servant.
CIA
boss
opposes
changes
NZ PRESS ASSOCIATION
ADMIRAL Bobby Inman,
newly confirmed deputy di-
rector of the Central In-
telligence Agency says he is
doing his utmost to prevent a
"series of repugnant
changes" to legal and admin-
istrative restraints on the
activities of United States in-
telligence agencies and says
he might resign if such
changes are adopted.
Admiral Inman made the
remarks following an un-
usual press conference at
which he denied in some-
what less forceful terms that
proposals to relax restric-
tions on domestic spying by
the CIA had his approval.
He said he believed some
changes were desirable and
will be made because of an
apparent increase in the dan-
ger of international ter-
rorism.
But he made clear that he
opposed sweeping relaxa-
tions of restrictions sought
by some strongly con-
servative forces in Congress
and the Reagan adminis-
tration.
He said that ultimately
the question was to balance
legal protections against the
cost of giving up "a little in-
telligence" and said there
should be "a very clear un-
derstanding of what the gain
is you will get for the change
you ar going to make".