REAGAN REVIVES INTELLIGENCE WATCHDOG UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404440178-1
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 178
• Publication Date: October 21, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
21 October 1981
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President tReagan--breathed new,
life: yesterday. into the -?President'sl
Foreign. Intelligence Advisory-Board,
`?a. watchdog panel that will help him
tgrade. information. gathered by the
Reagan - named former - anmb -
,dor to-,BritainAnne~Arrnstrona
chairman and Washington economist
=l. eo Cherne as vice chairman.'.
The rest of the panel was? heavily-
'Yarded with corporate executives and
3people well connected to the Repub
iican Party, but--members include'
former Watergate special' prosecutor'
Leon Jaworski,_riow a- Houston.?a
-torney.
The task of the 19-member board,.
'hstablished by President Eisenhower
5n 1956 and- abolished . by-President
''Carter in ' 19 7 7, is to- assess the qual-
ity, quantity and adequacy of U.S.
intelligence gathering worldwide.
Reagan also appointed _ all new
members to the three-member r In-
telligence Oversight- Board, which
checks the legality -of..'intelligence
gathering by the. United. -States.: As
.chairman, he named W.. - Glenn
Campbell, director of Stanford--Uni
versity's Hoover, Institution on War;
'-a
Revolution and Peace: I,
The naming -of. 'thetwci, boards, is5
consistent with Rag an's ? desire:to
have the best possible, intelligence;
available.to American,.officials; said;
national security:adviaer?Richard V.;
Allen said reestablishment of- the'
President's Foreign Intelligence Ad=
Reagan is dissatisfied, with the infor-,
the Central Intelligence .Agency. but
improved." r ? ,, '.tf,, Mtn r +L
lMMeannwhile,.the ranking,Democrat.'
on the Senate - Intelligence Cor pipit
tion yesterday of "politicizing Uve
CIA and demanded that FBI Direc-
tor -William H.. Webster testify on
tlie'WhiteHouse plan to expand the-
powers of the CIA.
Sen.- ?Daniel . Patrick ,Moynihan
` (D-N.Y) said .Webster's failure='to
- testify:,is becoming an issue in the
congressional debate over 'the' pro=
posed presidential order on U.S. in-'
. "We want to hear from the direr
tor," Moynihan said.'.'-They keep;
sending up assistants." Websterhas
posal so far and the FBI had no im
mediate comment on Moynihan's
statement:....
Moynihan, at a news conference,
said the dispute over the presidential'
order on intelligence agencies threat-.
ened to harm 'the CIA by putting the:`
spy agency. back 'in "the public' spot-
light and reviving memories of_ intel-
ligence abuses uncovered by a Sen-
ate committee in the 1970s. ',
Administration .sources, have in-
dicated that high-ranking. FBI :offii-
cials have reservations -.about-Abi
draft order .which would - give- the:
.CIA'. its. first.' authority to'. infiltrate
and influence domestic' groups-,but
':FBI -officials-have not -publicly Grit-
icized the plan.
The draft order would- replace'-re-
strictions, imposed ion -U.S. -,
agencies by President Carter
in January, 1978.. Carter's order. ba-
sically limited'infiltration of- o-me's
tic groups. to the-TBI:?` `='
"They [CIA officials: were back at
work," Moynihan said. "We had got-
ten it [the agencyl back'.to ijuiet
again"
`In addition, the-senatorcntf
.the; Reagan: administration foi
:litfcizirig' theTCIA with ita choice. o
Wi1
*agan's= campaign manager,,-,
ham-J Casev.. as.director. '-` `
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