SECRECY AND LIDDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200880005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 19, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PALM i3~'ACH POST (F.~.A ,
19 AP:2IL 1930
' fitansf
reld Turner and William
Webster came to town this week
ti- tell ?.why the CIA ,and FBI
shuuha ? once again- be unleashed.
7.'hH? Name day, G.. Gordon Liddy
cvaw orr? television .showing why
.
- they must.-not be: '?=t'~. K;:-~. ~ magazine. In: those he tells how
- i~addressing the -Palm Beach he: burned his arm nearly to the?
Round Table, CIA Director Tur- bone to test his courage and how
ner and ,FBI Director: Webster he. accepted the fact that the
rr..peated their oft-spoken .riser- White House.: might wish to kill
lions that the reforms decreed in him in order to defuse the Wa-
the wake of Watergate have done tergate scandal..
to~~ far, hampering the ability of A federal prison guard
their~? agencies. to colleca Intel- -summed it up very well when he
ligence and combat lawlessness, told Liddy, "It's true what they
..
respe.:tively.
ThNy see a common?enemy in
the Freedom of Inforniation~:Act.
To, Turner that.? art requires the
declassification of too much
material: To Webster, ~ it makes
it impossible for-the FBI. to use
paid informants.
.The CIA also is chafing under
the requirement that it report to_
eight congressional committees:
.
During his television. inter-
views he declared that murde~-is "
all right when your superiors tell
you it is. Even more chilling are ~
the excerpts from his just-pub-
Iished book printed in
Time
say. You're a fascist." And this
fascist was at various times an
FBI agent, a special assistant in
the Treasury Department and a
White House aide.
Turner and Webster assure us
the Liddys are out of vogue ?in
their agencies ~ and we believe
them. But it is hard to stamp out
such long-entrenched attitudes.
And what if another Nixon
Turner wants to see the number _ ,reaches the White House?
redur..ed back to the pre-Water- The best safeguard against fu-
gate two... .,, .i:~,r lure abuses- is effective public
-In a phrase,- they, are saying, and ? congressional oversight as
"Trust. us.". They would -have us provided under the present laws.
believe' that they-~??Nixon -years The FBI has been doing an ex-
?were a (hike, that there are no . cellent job under those laws and
more G.: Gordon Liddys' in high the CIA's problem with .them, as
government circles. ~`>Watergate -. Turner explained it, is how they
can't happen again" isr.their im- ,,: are perceived by our allies and
.
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'plicit`message. ? ,.. -: ;fir.:-,....
-We can't buy that:.Watergate
didn't exist in a vacuum; it. was
the natural outcome of~ the'amor--
al climate created by~ Richard
M. Nixon: And Liddy represented
the epitome of that amorality.
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foreign agents. That problem can
be.overcome, by time......--
The fact'.is there is-nothing in .
the present laws to prevent the
protection of .legitimate secrets.
or to hamstring law enforce-
ment. They should be left alone.. ?
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