SUPPORT FOR ADMIRAL INMAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100620061-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: May 11, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/23: CIA-RDP90-00552R000100620061-7
ARTICLE Ari> D
ON PAGE_ ,T
THE ?MALL ST[ 'ET JOURN :L
11 May 1982
Letters to the Editor
Support for Admiral Inman
Your April 23 editorial. concerning Ad- President is the final test for this political
miral B. R. Inman's resignation as Deputy appointment.
Director of Central Intelligence prompts The. post is a political one.. Its incunr
several copiments.' bent serves at the pleasure-of the Presi-
First,.you suggest- that Admiral In[aan . dent: -That is as: it should be. The top Intel
once, pirector- of..Abe, -National.- Security Algence post is an important one. A-Presll*~l
Agency. was hardly a leading-protector of dentshould always have the ability -to of-
civil liberties.,. V/Ithout. the Admiral's fect, a;change in intelligence. policy or
strong %. super' the-- Foreign%-Intelligence ? 'organizational structure. But the chief, toy-
Surveillance Act, the statute regulating the ; alty. that, a: DCI should' have Is not to`the
approval,: of `. national' security wiretaps, political. survival of the President, but to
would: not now. be.*w,.Further, .the strong the truth.. The. Secretaries of State or De-
procedures which ndw.goverti. all U.S. gov Tense,: whom everyone recognizes to be po-
ert~p!m entsignals intelligence activities are liticalfigures: can elucidate -a President's
dilect? testament tq Admiral' Inman's rec- ''
policies. .What the DCI and the Intelligence,
.
galtion:that protgeting. legitmate privacy community must do Is provide independent,
/does; not harm IptelUgence? missions ` but analyses. That is a nonpartisan function*:
rather. keeps -diem free, of dangerous and he nation can accept or reject a Presi
unnecessary dlv#sIons.::. dent's .foreign policy but It must depend on
You further syuggest that.. again' as DI the accuracy and impartiality of the Intelli-
Ignored Soviet
ous disservice
tee on Intelligencejsuggests :rather that ' dents do not pass over outstanding proles
- clearheaded- and' ofttimes forward-looking slonals like Admiral Inman. His kind are
miral's trademark: EDWARD P. BOLAND.
slonal, Admiral - Inman would not have '
qualified for the post of Director of Central
Intelligence because personal loyalty to the Washington
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/23: CIA-RDP90-00552 R000100620061-7
Perm anent: Select Commit- unfortunate one. I hope that future Prest
STAT