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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100220011-4
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 15, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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15 February 1981
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future ev naddect Casey)-'wt11'concen
gate to a; tpl;degree on thei covert operations;:
claadestfrie_' lIectioasidesofttieb";~.
thatwas left of.
~OversightActo
.thetwo:inteliigenee committees prior notice of "signifi
.cant" covert operations-but allows him to e plain later
if:'he Chooses,notto comply..Ttie law does.require the i
-Presiderit-arid.the CIA to furnish-;"any information on,
intelligence demanded by the coni mittees, but it is a far
cry_ from the?ma9sive."charter" legislation once euvf ;
?4ioned. Y fi { ;3d'* .a ,..:,.YA'?'.. i q: o . }''u ,. f - X ~'t ! ti
,Williatti-E. Colby. a former director of the CIA; sa y
that` covert= activities-both politi caL and paramilitary
action-now; account for only 3%. or: 4 % .of the ' CIA's
budget; compared with 50% in the IM And 19600. '.'I~
.Hope it will increas ", he said;-.because I ihinkcthere are`
: areas of the world where a little cover[ action can fore
stall much moreserious problems later"Covert-action;
Colby maintains, can .,avoid a situation, of seeing a place
descend into chaos or, alternatively, being tempted to
send in the Marines" r;
...Casey. answered cautiously'when the senators asked
about, covert operations at his confirmration.heaitig
Rigging elections, intervening in the internal affairs of
another nation, he replied, "that kind of thing you onlpj
do in the highest interest of the country... :~41
Just how far will the CIA be unleashedV"No one can;
predict whether. the;new.:oversight 'system is' going?to ~
World" said Jerry J= Berman. legis~afivt_ ~fq_tiie
American CiviFLibertie? :Union. one of the groups that
fought and lost-the battle-for charter legislation.."..Your
:have.Goldwatec who. has said ; there. are. secrets=hear .
gather nOU nove=l e;wishes he knew lees On tb Houk
side;'the Intelligence Committee is,=ore . conservative
'arid lessbaIanced." -;'
Utis also clear:that,one.of Goldwater' tog;norltiess
`will be passage of a bill to proteetthe identities of tel
In1
ligenee agents. Such' legislation failed to pass Year;;
last
butan identitiesbill was reintroduced on Feb: 3 by Seri:'
John H: Chafee, a moderate Republican'from Rhode Is~
land; and four bills have been introduced in
the House-- 1
Pressure for suchlegislation.has mounted as .a result?:j
of several factors: the exposure of the names of dozens
of agents in the book by Philip Agee, a former CIA offl-
cer, and the assassination in. 1975 of Rich. Welch. the.
Agency station chief in`Athens;'who had several months`
earlier been identified as a CIA man by the magazine
CounterSpy.' -More recently: in July:198O, gunmen at=:
tacked the Jamaica home' of N. Richard Kinsman, who
.had two days earlier been named as t e CIA station
;opening.:. _-.. ;?tiading. donieatic.Y~spyittg Cointelpro~ ._~: ~1~.~ U,~D
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its'heariag is'3aniiairy oa%fh-TresderiVij ``""` rVAa,.F_publicity,.Presi
coinoentratt cn,the CIa'sr;
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;?:?,~ faaian's comment', niiiirth4ess.
in tti? nd It suggests ihat,;uader
clincateisrigh Casey;andlittanhave'
Rted to?a stronger military and inteingencer
t:Fcr the firsttime in.the nation's history: _
Republicans?incontrol cf the Serrate, the
a good friend; ;conservative Sen:' Harry ?
Aria), gas chairman of the Senate corn-,
4 c There is' lmportant structura~ cltai~ge aa.welL:Th&
CIAkhas. ed. in: abolishing:;lhe~Hiighes-Ryan'
,AID endnien - which hadrequired it to.report on covert.
'liperatfons ' eight; committeee'of Congress:: Under, the .i
new law th 'CIA need only report to two congressional-,
panels; the' telligeaee; committees'of;the Senate aid!
the Houses .. ? the: mid-1970w, Congress investigated'
=rind reveal .q-Idespread abusesby:tbc,CIA.-the FBI;
and. .other - tdligence agencies-drug=testing..mail'.