CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS AROUND THE WORLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100550035-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: February 18, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS,
PUBLIC AFFAI.RS STAFF
ABC Nightline
February 18, 1982 11:30 PM
STATION W J L A TV
ABC Network
Clandestine Operations Around the World
Washington, DC
TED KOPPEL: The U.S. intelligence community. Its main
task is the collection and evaluation of information. But there
is another, less visible side: clandestine operations. Under
the Reagan Administration, they seem to be coming back into favor.
We'll discuss that apparent trend tonight with four experts:
former Deputy CIA Director Ray Cline; E. Howard Hunt, an intelli-
gence officer for more than 20 years; Senator Joseph Biden, who's
on the Senate Intelligence Committee; and former Senator Frank
Church, who used to chair that committee.
KOPPEL: Our focus tonight, what is sometimes referred
to as covert activities or clandestine operations. It is that
gray area, as it's been called, between diplomacy and combat,
the means by which an Administration can act against its adver-
saries while maintaining deniability. It was, until the U.S.
Senate began stripping away some of the classified wrapping paper,
among the CIA's better-kept secrets. During the-Carter Adminis-
tration in particular, clandestine operations were reduced to a
minimum. They seem to be on their way back into favor.
Again and again and again today at President Reagan's
news conference, reporters gave the President the chance to deny
what is customarily denied in public -- namely, even the sugges-
tion that the U.S. Government would try to destabilize the gov-
ernment of another country by covert means. As White House cor-
respondent Sam Donaldson reports, however, Mr. Reagan chose to
rule out nothing.
today.
SAM DONALDSON: President Reagan at his news conference
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