BOBBY RAY INMAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100620059-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: October 4, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
4 October 1982
By DANIEL F. GILMORE
WASHINGTON
Retired Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, one of the nation's t rts,
said Monday he has resigned his post as consultant to the House Intelligence
Committee because the panel Is politically biased.
Inman, who retired as deputy director of both the CIA and the Defense
Intelligence Agency in April, said In an interview he quit because he was not
consulted before the committee issued a paper on U.S. Intelligence activities
In Central America.
''They didn't ask my views," he said. "I found the report seriously
flawed."
Inman, director of the super-secret National Security Agency during his term
with the CIA, has been serving as a consultant to the Democrat-dominated House
oversight panel.
Inman, who left the CIA last April, said congressional oversight of
intelligence ''has to be bipartisan" to merit credibility, but the subcommittee
report, which focused on El Salvador and Honduras, was ''put out on party lines.
It shouldn't be a party Issue.''
Inman said he announced his resignation during a speech Saturday night to the
eighth annual convention of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers at a
hotel In Springfield, Va.
He said he also wrote a letter to Rep. Edward Boland, D-Mass.,?chairman of
the House Intelligence Committee.
A committee spokesman said, however, the panel "has received no'
communication from the admiral' on his resignation.
The spokesman said the committee never discussed consulting him on the report
Issued Sept. 22, to which he objected because it involved areas for which he had
been responsible at the CIA, adding: " It would be unusual to ask him to
consult on matters under his own stewardship at the CIA.
During his speech, Inman said ''political tinkering'' with the House
Intelligence oversight committee was the reason for his resignation.
To avoid leaks, he said, ''None of the staff should have any personal
relations with the media."
" I-f this country doesn't establish a bipartisan approach to intelligence, we
are not going to face the problems of the next 50 years," he said.
Inman had kinder words for the Senate Intelligence committtee, which has
eight Republicans and seven Democrats and is chaired by Sen. Barry Goldwater,.
R-Ariz..
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