THE FORMER DEPUTY CIA DIRECTOR, BOBBY R. INMAN, INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE ARE PROTESTING ELEMENTS OF THE HIGH-PRIORITY DRIVE TO EXPAND COVERT ACTIONS ABROAD.

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• Publication Date: October 14, 1982
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
14 OCTOBER 1982
By ROBERT PARRY
WASHINGTON
The former deputy CIA director, Bobby R. Inm
intelligence committee are protesting elements of
high-priority drive to expand covert actions abro
In an interview with The Associated Press, Inm
underlying reason the committee voted along party
staff report criticizing U.S. intelligence-gathering in Central America.
Committee officials promptly rejected Inman's claim that disputes over covert
action colored the report, saying the staff members who wrote the critique were
not even involved in reviewing covert activities.
Although no one disclosed what covert actions were protested, Inman's
statement is the first time any ranking member of the U.S. intelligence
community has suggested that an oversight committee has made a series of
objections about ongoing operations.
Inman said the committee Democrats have written letters to President Reagan
critical of CIA covert actions. He said he believed some of those letters were
critical of actions in Central America. Published reports have said Reagan
approved a covert action plan for Central America last fall.
Only one critical letter had previously come to light. In July 1981, sources
said the committee complained about a plan directed against the radical
government of Libya's tioamrar Rhadafy.
Inman said it was just such protest letters that sparked his concern.
"What really troubles me is that here In the oversight process they have let
sharply different views about covert action creep Into what appears to be a
critique on substantive intelligence," Inman said. "That's what really lies
underneath the split and the criticism."
Inman, who resigned as an unpaid consultant to the committee because of the
report, also complained that the 23-page document reflected a bias against U.S.
policy in Central America.
He also complained that it failed to say a key House briefing on alleged
outside control of the Salvadoran insurgency was given by operational officials
"deeply enmeshed" in covert actions, not by intelligence analysts.
Inman, a retired Navy admiral who stepped down as deputy CIA director June
10, said this distinction should have been made because these "operational
personnel" are less analytical and less objective than "substantive intelligence
people."
However, in a statement issued late Thursday, Rep. Charles Rose, D-N.C.,
chairman of the Intelligence oversight subcommittee, said only two of 18
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