LEFTIST CAMPAIGN SEEKS TO LIMIT FBI, CIA ROLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200700009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 23, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
23 September 1985
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acn is met over the to orm
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on FB and CIA intelligence unctions
Representatives of the National Committee
Against Repressive Legislation gathered for
their annual national conference at the Capi-
tol Hill office of the United Methodist Church,
where speakers talked about civil rights?
criminal justice and, "control" of US. Intel
Jaen agce en ea.
National Committee to Abolish the House The group was formed in 1960 as th
American Activities Committee by activists
who were targets of HUAC and later were
targets of FBI intelligence investigations.
HUAC was abolished in 1976.
Along with the American Civil Liberties
Union, the-committee five years ago initiated
a $16 million lawsuit against the FBI,
charging that some of its domestic activities
during the last three decades were unconsti-
tutional.
One speaker said the group had obtained
132,000 documents from the FBI and that the
case was expected to come to court sometime
in 1987.
The meeting was open to organizational
observers and "concerned citizens;' but
reporters were barred from quoting speakers
by name. Among those listed on the program
agenda were two staff members of the House'
Judiciary Committee, which oversees the FBI
activities, ACLU lawyer and anti-intelligence
community lobbyist Morton Flaio r n and
Georgia State Senator Julian Bond.
Representatives of Women's Strike for
Peace and a support group for illegal aliens
known as the Sanctuary Movement also par-
ticipated in the meeting.
A congressional staff member told th
e
gathering that Congress could not do any-
thing if "you hear funny noises on the phone"
or if "your mail has been opened."
"But if an FBI agent shows up at your door
and leaves his card and says he wants to talk
to you about Nicaragua, there's a lot we can'
do;' the congressional aide said. The aide also
s
the uggested that the FBI might be investigating
policy o movement against South Africa's
An ACLU lawyer segregation.
told the approximately 40
attendees that the FBI was using "foreign
counterintelligence" guidelines to circum-
vent restrictions on domestic investigations
of Americans.
He said the ACLU was"ldoking for a client"
who had been the subject of an FBI foreign
counterintelligence investigation so the
organization could challenge the FBI use of
foreign counterspy guidelines to conduct
investigations. The client would have to be
someone with involvement in " gn poli-
tics;' he said.
During a discussion on curbing the U.S.
inte Bence community, participants stated
that the rote States faces a "threat of fas-
ism as a result o ea an a inistration
gui a es for flip intelligence community
Another participant stated that "when the
Reagan administration invades Central
America;'-American blacks will suffer most
since they will be used as "cannon fodder like
in Vietnam:'
Pamphlets distributed at the meeting Sat-
urday said the group would consider reorien-
ting their congressional lobbying efforts so
"that NCARL's primary focus be directed to
the protection of the First Amendment
against attacks from the federal govern-
ment's 'intelligence community.' "
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