LOST LIBERTIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605570003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 29, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE (CT)
29 September 1982
Lost Liberties
"It's important that the public know
our committee is not afraid to go public
with criticism, even though that criticism
may not be pleasant for the intelligence
community." These bold words were
spoken by the House Intelligence
Committee's Charlie 'Rose, Democrat
from North Carolina. Rose and fellow
subcommittee members had worked hard
on a report showing the CIA and other
intelligence agencies hadiTred in-
formation on Central America to fit the
rhetoric and ideology of the ad-
ministration. "There has been slop-
piness, inaccuracies and over-
statements," ht said, that could logically
lead to administration policy
manipulating the intelligence operations,
"rather than policy being guided by
properly evaluated intelligence."
The subcommittee on Oversight and i
Edited and compiled by Jim Motavalli
,Qnd David Reid.
Evaluation found many instances where
intelligence agencies had determined that
investigating violence by rightists was not
considered "a suitable task for in-
telligence."
Voting to release the report went along
party lines in the Democratic-dominated
committee. CIA and other intelligence
agencies lobbied hard to keep the report
confidential, and were successful in
having controversial parts edited out,
although The Washington Post received
and reported on both versions of the
document.
In a related matter, a federal appeals
court ruled last week that former New
York Times editor Harrison Salisbury
was not entitled to National Secuity
Agency documents containing his name.
The court ruled that Salisbury was en-
titled to neither the documents nor
compensation (for violations of his
Constitutional rights to privacy). The
court also said that covert domestic
spying on U.S. civilians and political
groups by intelligence agencies could not
be prohibited. Twenty-one defendants
sued the government because government
agents involved in "Operation
Chaos"-conducted during the late
1960s to investigate the influence of
foreign governments on anti-Vietnam
War groups-had spied on them illegally.
In both instances, said the court,
national security necessitated violations
of the defendants' rights.
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