BAD GUYS?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100160028-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: August 15, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED
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THE WASHINGTON POST
15 August 1981
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of the Hale Foundation:
The Post was incorrect in saying (editorial,
July 20) that Philip Agee's CIA exposures are
based on "on the job" information, while Louis
Wolfs sources are "in the public domain."
On unchallenged evidence, the Supreme
Court stated in Haig u. Agee that Agee goes
to foreign countries, consults "local diplomatic
circles" in them, and also "recruits collabora-
tors and trains them in clandestine techniques
designed to expose the `cover' of CIA employ-
ees and sources." Releasing a list of alleged
CIA agents in London in 1974, Agee said the
list had been "compiled by a small group of
Mexican comrades whom I trained [in discov-
ery methods]. Similar lists of CIA people in
other countries are already being compiled....
We invite participation."
His three books and two periodicals,
CounterSpy and Covert Action Information
Bulletin (CAIB}-all listing other contributors
and helpers-were launched when his "on the
job" knowledge was much outdated. Wolf co-
edited Agee'3 second book and, when legal prob-
Francis J. McNamara, executive director
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arose over Agee
s work on the third, took
over its co-editorship with three other CAlBers.
Agee and-Wolf have the same sources-and
they are not Agee's CIA memories or "public
records" Wolf allegedly combs. Any legislation
that criminalizes only exposures by ex-govern-
ment employees, leaving the CAIB apparatus free
to continue its work, will have no useful effect.
John Cavanaugh of the United Nations
Conference on Trade'and Development:
The Post, by claiming that those who publish
CIA names are "terrorists in spirit, and their
true purpose is to destroy democracy," demon-
strates that it has misinterpreted history, or
learned nothing from it. A quick inventory dis-
closes that it is the CIA that has "destroyed
democracy' through coups and destabilization
in Iran (1953); the Congo (1961); Brazil (1964);
Guyana (1962-66); and Chile (1973), to name
but a few. Most recently, we have learned that
present CIA Director William. Casey planned to
topple Libya's Qaddafi along with another (un-
disclosed) Third World regime.
In the face of the covert onslaught,
CounterSpy and CAIB provide an important
service to Americans and citizens in developing .
countries struggling to protect democracy.
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