PFIAB REPORT ON DEFECTORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G01116R000100110024-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: May 30, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
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ACTION INFO DATE- 1TIAL
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Remarks To 7: Please have requested info available fo
DCI upon his return.
Ex tive Secretary
30 May 86
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30 May 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: DeDUty Director for Operations
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1203/2
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: PFIAB Report on Defectors
1.
defectors
3. I would like to have this looked into and be advised as to the
appropriate response.
(L'
William J. Casey
SVRET
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EXECUTIVE SECRETARI
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EXDIR
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D/ICS
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DDI
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DDA
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DDO
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DDSBT
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Chm/NIC
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GC
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IG
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Compt
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26 March 1986
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TO #7: Please advise who will be the focal point
for this PFIAB activity.
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SECRET
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Execu:~~o ~= ;:;;ry.
86- 1203/1
22 March 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: DDO
FROM: DCI
SUBJECT: PFIAB Study on Defectors
I told you about the PFIAB study on
defectors. Dick Helms and Walter Lacqueur
have accepted as my designees. Webster
will appoint two members.
You ought to assign somebody to
follow this. I enclose material that
should be put in the file by whoever is
doing this.
William J. Casey
Attachments:
Letters from Leo Cherne
dated 21 January and
21 February 1986
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sus -u tie xr next month - is tell. next summer, friends say.
LOSE JOB.OF
HANDLING DEFECTORS
WASHINGTON -
The Reagan admints-
tration happy
with the " CIA's' hen-
r filing of Soviet KGB
agent Vitaly Yur-
chenko - may cut its
role In dealing with
defectors and give
the job to the FBL
"I think it's a great
move," said a senior
White House official.
He contends that
defectors..; invariably
establish closer rela-
WASHINGTON- Senate Foreign Relations
Committee chairman Richard Lugar - in a
dramatic turnaround predicts Congress
will .--allow-! military aid -- to r Nicaraguan
rebels. The Posthas learned
Last. April. Lugar (R-Ind) killed President
Reagan's aid request, saying the mate would
than with their CIA
handlers.
The official said the
proposal to give the,
FBI primary respon-
sibility was. spurred
by Yurchenko's deci-
sion to return to the
Soviet Union last fall,
after three months in
CIA custody.
White House
spokesman Edward
Djerejlan acknowl-
edged that the defec-
tor. issue is being re-
viewed, but declined
mvy arm colnrras Lugar
never pass IL
'Z ugar, thinks there is a chance that Con-
greys .would- approve. military aid for the con=
tsas.':said Mark Heimke, a spokesman for the
*,The mood Is different, this year."
.3d. ; ... RACHEL FLICK
further comment.
FBI and CIA of-
flclals also refused
comment.
Other experts, all
anonymous by re-
quest, said the gov-
ernment is weighing
various proposals to
entice disillusioned
Soviet bloc agents to
defect.
The options in-
clude granting high-
ranking defectors
permanent.,, income.
cutting the five to
10-year waiting
period for U.S. citi-
zenship, and? the
creation of a defec-
tors' "think tank"
for policy-makers to
consult.
Ye rchenko, . who
defected. last. July,
fled his CIA han-
dlers. 2 and re-
turned to Moscow
four days later, -via
the Soviet Embassy"
??Red beat on Ynr-
chenko: P. 49` 'r
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Alan Greenspan
January 14, 1986
26 FEDERAL PLAZA
NEW YORK CITY
You were most kind to write as you did with
regard to my remarks before the Mid-America
Committee and the address to the Pumpkin Papers
Irregulars. I was naturally very pleased to see that
Bill Casey gave the speech high marks but surprised
to see the New York Times carrying 1,500 words from
the speech on its Op-Ed page. The Times, to put it
mildly, was not one of my editorial supporters during
the time that I was conducting the investigation.
I found your 46th annual forecast on economic
and foreign policy issues fascinating. I am putting
it in my file and will check your predictions at the
end of the year. It will be hard for you to exceed
your past track records.
I hope your modestly optimistic predictions for
1986 prove to be accurate, although speaking
politically, I would much prefer to have a slow down
or even a dip in the economy in the latter half of
1986 than to have it come in 1987 when it would be
devastating to the chances for Republicans to retain
the White House in 1988.
I thought you might find interesting the
enclosed memorandum in which I set forth my
evaluation of the political effects of Gramm-
Rudman and tax reform on the economy. I hope my
pessimistic concerns prove to be unwarranted.
Sincerely,
Mr. Leo Cherne
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Confidential Copy for William Casey
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February 21, 1986
Judge William H. Webster, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
Washington, D.C. 20535
Dear Judge Webster:
I just wanted to tell you that Bill Casey has suggested
the two individuals who will be serving with Ed Bennett
Williams and myself, and, hopefully, James Q. Wilson in our
projected 5 or 6 month study of how we handle defectors.
That study will probably also, in lesser degree, examine
how emigres are handled, especially in those circumstances in
which they are used as sources of information. The two individuals
Bill Casey has identified for our group and whom he will
ask to serve are former DCI Richard Helms and social scientist
historian Walter Laqueur. Laqueur has superb knowledge of
intelligence, has had contact with the intelligence role in
England, Israel, as well as the United States, and is an
important member of the staff of scholars with the Center for
Strategic and International Studies. He has recently written
a major book on U.S. intelligence. He has spent much of his time
overseas and is of foreign birth and, therefore, this adds a
particular sensitivity to the aspect of foreign cultures with which
we will be dealing.
I know you have been hoping to be able to suggest someone whose
strength is in social psychology and, of course, that discipline
would be very desirable. Let me throw out one suggestion. You
may even know him.
Until several months ago, Lionel Olmer was Under Secretary
of Commerce for International Trade. That, however, does not
describe his particular competence. He is in his early fifties.
He is now practicing law with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
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Judge William H. Webster
February 21, 1986
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Garrison, but until he was tapped for the Commerce job, had spent
his entire life in naval intelligence and was, in fact, the
Executive Director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board when I was Chairman of that Board serving President Ford.
To my knowledge, he has had no contact with defectors, but his
knowledge of intelligence and law are first-rate.
Let me be clear, however, that this is only a suggestion. As
soon as you have identified the two individuals you would
recommend, I hope you will do, as Bill Casey is doing, and
personally invite them to serve. The amount of time they would
spend during the several months starting at the end of March
is not likely to be more than two days a month to sit and hear the
observations of people within the community, the Federal Bureau,
private organizations, defectors, and others who can add to our
evaluation.
With my warmest regards.
LC/cl
Leo Cherne
P.S. Earlier this week I addressed the National Strategy
Information Center on the subject of intelligence requirements
for the late 1980's. I am enclosing a copy of the speech just in
the event that you will find it interesting, even though. it is
almost entirely devoted to the problems which confront the CIA.
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