FORMER FEAR AN AMERICAN ARMAGEDDON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100140084-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: November 2, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'where-no one chats about the weather.-_,,
. There is no small talk about charity prof-'
ectsor how the grandchildren are doing'...,
The problems are toograve for that.. -_I
Thy frightened-. men and women :who
gather. on Saturdays in.-a. back room of.
the- tort "dyers Country Club have but..I
one goal: 1.0 save western civilization-.,::-
To-them,.detente,is-a bad joke. Pearl=-?;
Harbor could happen tomorrow. And the
= bleeding ,heart -- Americans . ? who ,, haver'
- weakened America's once. proud intelli
: ge ce agencies: are 'some "of the. b est.-
friends 'he Kremlin ever had - -`'
For- years, -Southwest--4. FIorida has-.;
sere i as a retirement haven for former 5;
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sS?aryew ;T_TB recent years the. retired.
spooks hale watched r .horror as Ameri
iliigence"agencie;; have weakened
under share.attacks'avei alleged abuses
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congressional rnvesigattons..
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s=4Members speak;atchurches and`club'
`meetings, pyrite letters: to'newsoaper edi-
-tors. and appear,on.radia:talk=shows.;
;-Nonetheless,,, the-,-32: local members: re-
main frustrated:
'"They warn-that the Soviet threat is in '
t..creasing_. There are more communists-!
:,-throughout the-world than ever--.before,'.
they caution, and their'abifit to in~il
~trate our way of lifeLis;:as strong-as ever
'-because we don't recognize'their- power--I
-"We are our. own worst: enemies," .mem, J
bers'repeat. over anover
r ='If.nothing'else;-associatio' Members .
give-support'--to ote anothe It has_'not.
been'easy Sot therm to-see='their-once
noble- profession = disgrace& At. a: recent y
" three-hourineetzng: in ' Fort -Myers, th
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wmembers -nadedxwar-stories, .recor-I
mended pro-o-intellia nce.books'. M :each:+
'other and discussed the latest news of the
Soviet. invasion ` of -Afghanistan..' Still,'!
amid all their despair about the future, a
tiny streak of hope could be. found in at"
least one old spy who rose to speak:, -"(
"I'm-an old intelligence officer- who-'.;
reads and watches the news, and I'm.
worried," former military. intelligence
officer Gateley Daniel told his. peers.
"I'm not going to sell. us-short yet.. I'm'!
still an optimist - I don't. believe. we're 1
that close to Doomsday. There's still a lot.:
of strength- in- this country mainly_ be
cause -people like us are-sitting around.:
and 4oin&what we're doing. today.',':. ;
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