INMAN WARNS ON '90S INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100090012-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 28, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE BOSTON GLOBE
28 April 1982
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SAN FRANCISCO - US intelligence op- Wing to cope with the fervor of religious "We do substantially less well, in' po-a
bons have a "ion way to " if the _ movements. then.. we have a very long ; litical and economic areas 7' and "
g y go way to go; ' he said. -poor l very
y" in the "basic encclopedic
_main problem in, the next decade ruins -e y "data _or
Ovt to be worldwide instability. itot just The intelligenceand militarypf ~~~~?n.which national security ity and for
tidal delivered what he called the Inman eign policy decisions rely, he said:
Soviet activity-in Europe and Alta, the
~outgotng deput director of the CIA said report card" on Intelligence capabilities, . Along-range program to rebuild Intel-
yesterday. nearly a week after he announced he was .ligence capabilities, now moving throughr
i / resigning to enter private business. Congress; would. provide the Unitedr.i ,:.In a, speech to the American Newspa Inman, 51.: said he was quitting be. States with "the -quality of Intelligence
-' p~r.Publishers; Assn,: Adih.'?l3obby . Itic "lost . that it needs." he said. ... , "~
cause.,he had any zest ....for bo
'man.the.deputy director. said US inte}}i He said that amending _ reaucratic problems," not because of ma g the Freedom oi
Bence Is "marginal" for the threats that for policy disputes. He said there had been information Act to exclude the CIA and
will; arise in the. late 1980s and 1990s.. ., ; "disagreements!' with William Case,. the 'making it a felony to reveal the?identitiyof.~
-r if the nation's primary~probtem is`: = director of central intelligence, b t. de- .= US inte}ligence`agents: even from`public'
dealing with the Soviet Union in Europe:: ~~ their overall relationship as "very sources. would help 'intelligence opef-
g?.Od rations.. ;r ::.
ahd Asia;' "then you can relax about the*Z
!ctIrrenf capabilities of the US intelligence.. John N. McMahon, nominated to sum A bill by Sen. John Chafed (R-R.1.),
Ccfi nmunity" Inman-said. = ~..eeed Inman, Is a "super guy." Inman told would exempt the CIA from-di sclosing in-
~ reporters after his speech. formation except for a first-person re-
re more likely to find .... great'diffi, ' ` . Summing up the nation's Intelligence records on an individual _ f
?au}ties in..competition for raw materials. -capabilities, Inman said warning systems Excluding the CIA from tlieFreedom of'
X natural resources, markets. dealing wth about attacks fro m principal adversaries Information Act would lie."incich' more re-
?instability In many areas. of the world..., bfe', better than they have ever been.' assuring to our foreign-.friends," said In
t man.- _..:. ~f- :w~ii ti(arr-~t~
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