DETECTIVE IN SPYING CASE LINKED TO BIRCH LEADER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201180065-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: May 24, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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XICLE"APPEARED LOS ANGELES TINS
4 24 May 1983
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linked to Birch Leads
Suspect in Police Probe Ran Private Computer
Operation That Keeps Records on Leftists in U
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A Los Angeles police_?detective.
under investigationfor.stashing in-
telligence files in his 'home ..and
garage was deeply Involved in a
privately funded apezatioa ilded..
by the chairman of theJohn Birch
Society to eomputesize-mfgmation
about Americans on the political
left, The Times has learned.
Los Angeles police -officials are
investigating whether Detective
Jay Paul illegally channeled mate-
rial from confidential,pobee intelli-
gence files to the data bank run by
Western Goals, a tax-exempt foun-
dation based in-Alexandria, Va .
The foundation was created in
late 1979 by Rep. Larry P. McDon-
aid (D-Ga.), who this year bye
the Birch Society's chairman.
McDonald. noted for his anti-
com-munist attacks in the Congressional
Record, has praised the late Sen.
Joseph McCarthy as "a real hero"
-and denounced Martin Luther King
Jr. as a man "wedded to violence."
Paul ran the computer system
from his wife's law office in Long
Beach, using about $100,000 worth
of equipment provided by the foun-
dation. He was the data bank's-chief
programmer and. for .two years
computerized vast amounts of in-
formation sent in :him by Western
Goals from numerous sources.
Paul has told I.APD internal
affairs investigators that be tapped
into the computer system to compile
intelligence reports-for-Los Angeles
police officials. According to an
official of Western Goals; Paul was
not paid by the foundation, although
his wife. Ann Love, had an undis-
closed financial arrangement with
the foundation. She .. could _ not be
reached for comment'
An East Coast police intelligence
source, who asked not to be identi-
fied, said that Western Goals has a',
reputation of serving as a "clearing-
house" for certain police depart-
izensnotrangagedin criminal.activ-
ityc. $3~ f nneling jsuch information
to Weq== I ls=Whlch -operates
free government control-the
police can fain access to A broad ;
source.,
eng d the ~
who -bi en'. involved in police
intelligeflpeworklor a decade.
?Paifl%-;attorney, Robert Loew.
said"peilite` higher-ups in the
LAPD'i;` soon-to-be-disbanded
Public''Illidrder Intelligence 'Divi-
sion-not9rdy knew of Paul's West-
ern Goalia!fluation but considered
the computer; -a good intelligence
resource. and 'advocated" Its ust
and continued?development.
He1nosted,: however, that:She
detective passed no information
from undercover police investiga-
tions-to the foundation.
War}c evaluations written by
Paul'e"superiors hint at the founda-
tion connection. One, from May,
1982, states that as "a trained
computer technician," Paul has pro-
irded "valuable information for the
department." Another, written in
late 1981, praises Paul for develop-
ing "valuable contacts for intelli-
gence information" during two trips
to the East Coast at his own ex-
pense. Attorney Loew confirmed
that those trips were to Western
,that he showed his bosses in the
Public Disorder Intelligence Divi-
sion how a video display -terminal
located in -the division's -seventh- 1
floor office in Parker Center could
be used to retrieve data from West-
ern Goals' system. The 'limes was
unable to determine whether Intel-
ligenceofficers in the division actu-
ally took advantage of the set up.
In fund-raising literature, West-
ern Goals has cited the existence of
its .'sophisticated" data bank, but
said it was keeping its location
under wraps for "security reasons."
.A lg
`$55,000 said --that Western Goals'
computer 'capabilit es -made .it "the
first rand vrily.-VibW-foundation to
enter this area and-fill the critical
causedby.2he Crippling of the
FB1, the disabling of the House
Committee an Un-American Act$v
?ities and the destruction of c recial
governmeitfiles'' =
The foundation's literature boasts
that "thousands of documents relat-
ing to the internal security of our
country and the protection of gov--
ernmentand institutions from Com- I
munist-controlled penetration and
subversion" have been computer-
ized and am-'just apush of a button
away from our veteran analysts,
who will continue to work closely
with the official agencies in charge
of ourprotection."
As for the future, the foundation'
promised daily "updates"-via
computer-about the activities "of,
those who would seek to bring
revolutionary change to America."
But the operation never got that far.
In January, Western Goals' ambi-
tious plans were derailed when Paul
became the target of investigations
by the Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment's Internal Affairs Division and :1
the Los Angeles County district'
attorney's office. In the course of
those investigations, Paul s irren-
dered more than 100 cartons of
intelligence -materWs that he had
stgred in his home and garage. The
m,kterials included folders on police'
commissioners, judges, politicians
.and Police Department critics. .
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