CIA'S PRIMARY JOB IS COLLECTING INFORMATION

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• Publication Date: February 3, 1984
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Pennsylvania State University
3 February 1984
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CIA's primary, job is
collecting information
-indicators,.he said,.include.the,
._. , in 1968 and of Afghanistan in 1979.:.-1
- It-ishighly.unlikely'that the 'Notable exceptions aretheArab United States could be surprised invasion of Israel in 1973,and the
with a nuclear .attack simply with fall of the Shah in 1979.
the push of a button as depicted in Hulnick also spent time
the film "The Day.After,"a senior spelling some myths about his
CIA intelligence analyst said last
assignment .for the CIA was in
Latin America.
Hulnick,partof a CIA entourage
visiting the campus at the
.invitation ofwthe University's
Geography and Political -Science
departments, said that providing
policy makers with intelligence
-based on such estimates is one of
the most well-known functions of
the:CIA. But while the agency
monitors indicators such as ,
military ,installations, -shipping
-employer..Ninety percent of CIA
work is devoted to collection and
analysis of information. "an
aspect that gets 'little attention in
the media," he said. Asked what
the CIA does the-other 10 percent
that nation's future actions, said -of the time, he said five percent is -
Arthur C. Hulnick, whose last - counterintelligence work and five -
night
Because tbe.Soviet Union is a
closed society where foreign ,
policy is not a matter of public
record,the CIA developed a
"surrogate" system of-estimating
:percent is covert actions. These ,
actions, he added, are ordered by
-high administration officials and
-are reviewed by House and Senate
,intelligence committees.
'Hulnick, who also served as a
liaison between the Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence
and the West German
government, was asked by ar,
Italian student about the many
Socialists in power in Europe y
including Italy'- Prime Minister,
and troop movements, "there are Bettino Craxi. He said most of the -
no indicatorssosophisticated asto Socialists are conservativeand he=.
tell us what theymouldliize to do. " ees:! no great swing to the Left"':
Successful predictions wising : ninlirope.
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