SPOOKING THE NAMERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100160056-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: November 18, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/04/20: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100160056-9
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By Jeff.
---It was during the craziest -daysof the.
early 1970s when the Movement had spun.
out of control and existed only on asiogle
piston's worth of black comedy . and, third-
-.rate street theatre. Vietnam vets taking
over the Statue of Liberty and flying the.
'flag upside down: Leslie?Bacon bombingl
the men's room of the' capitol. And . then
-there were Ellen Rayand Bill Schaap; twgi
-crazy Americans - 'ay- out,there ~! on the..
Pacific rim of the' empire,' in''Okinawa;'
organizing workers at the big'air base and
helping GIs get-out of going to Vietnam:
And they had these kites :.. these kites to'.-l
bring down B-52s, kites with tinfoil string-
ing from them that they'd :fly' right up
there in front of these huge jets loaded,
with 10,000-pound bombs lofting off_ the.;
'runways of Okinawa on another run to th-e
Mekong Valley` Bill and Ellen; standing-
there at the end of the runway with their,
kites, trying to lasso a goddamn,B-52!
`1 'Ellen Ray is remembering all 'this.10
years later.in the bar of the National Press
Club in Washington,' four blocks from the
White House. Bill Schaap; now her hus-
band, fills in -the details. And across. the
table, Louis Wolf takes it all in with. his
permanently etched visage of. gloom, suf-
fering this interview and wanting only to
be back in the- womb. womb-of' the ?National-'
-'Archives, from where,". every month,.he!
emerges with another,list=of.CIA"agentsi.
ready for the pages of Coders. Action: In'
form ation:-IBulletin.?
Wolf, Schaap,. and Itay_-aiong?"with
former CIA agent Philip Agee=are.the
people who Hanle the names of CIA Agents-.
Every other month,' they publish., iheir
THE VILLAGE VOICE
12-18 November 1980
that drives.the intelligence agencies up
-"all: This is the section where they upd
their lists of CIA staffs around the worl
from Burundi to Bangkok: Along the w
they've published two books, Dirty. W
They CIA in Westerri, , Europe, and Di
Work;(II);`"The_,CIA.'in' Africa.
!, Theyare driving everybody up the wall.
Euerybody:No;!matter that they get the
-names from poring through old diplomatic:
? lists in the archives-just move your finger
down:. the ~listof the Biographic. Register
tjlFybu find. the'guy who came into the
State Department in '58, spent three years
as ? an?',(analyst'--. with the U.S.- Army in
Laos. from '61 to '63, }'temporary duty'at'
the Pentagon in 1965, on leave in."private
business"=for another couple years, and:
then back to the State Department for!
duty-1n Chile when Allende was over-1
thrown=it's easy. enough for a saran year
aId to figure 'out who the spooks are, but.
Wolf;: and-'Schaap: and- Ray are driving.
people crazy
And it's'not just the CIA that has been1
trying to put~thein out of business. Mem
bers of Congress are so angry, they've taken
the-First - Amendment- by the neck and.
strangled. it with 'a bill, likely to pass soon,
that will make it a crime-three years in
jail, $1.0,000-fine-to. print the names of
CIA agents:even-if they've been gathered
from public 'sources and `printed.. before.'
The first people `to go"to jail will ,be
Schaap; Rey;'Wolf;"and Agee, once one of
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and
leak
the CIA's best agents in Latin America, it: (Presumably; -Arnbro;will;`const
ruct an,
,now,an apostate in Europe, lobbing his nmebdment?-exefnpting '>Zbigniew!
books like grenades from across the Atian Briezinski.)