CIN - AN UPDATE

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CIN - An Update
by
Captain Richard W. Bates, USN (Ret.)
and
Constance Bates
The founding and the first year's activities of the Common Interest Network (CIN)
were reported in FILS, Volume 2, number 5, October 1983, pp. 5-7. What follows is
an update on Thomas Troy's report.
Professional intelligence officers have traditionally been opposed to publicizing
their work - shouting their good works from the housetops. The idea of having a
professional association which would bring public attention to secret work was
simply not the thing to do. But Congress changed all that.
As Tom Troy wrote, "retired intelligence officers, old pros, had reacted to the near
ceaseless round of accusations, investigations, revelations, and condemnations of
the intelligence agencies. They had organized in defense of themselves, their
careers, their craft, their agencies. At the same time, they had found natural
allies - retired military, defense specialists, some academicians, public-spirited
citizens - whose concern for national defense made them also supportive of a
strong, effective national intelligence system."
"Out of the collaboration there came on the Washington scene, in the last decade,
more than a baker's dozen of either new intelligence organizations or old
organizations with a new interest in intelligence. From them came in the
aggregate much talking, meeting, fund raising, and promoting of causes and
projects. So much, in fact, that retired Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow of the
Security and Intelligence Fund (now the Security and Intelligence Foundation) was
laughingly moved to complain, 'There are too damned many people barking up the
same tree. There's need for some coordination.' "
There had been some suggestion of a super-organization, to which all others could
belong, which would act as a coordinating body for their efforts. Some
organizations talked of combining, but as is normally the case, the question of
which organization would be subsumed brought all these efforts to naught.
At the October 1981 convention of the National Military Intelligence Association
(NMIA) at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., leaders of four
professional intelligence groups discussed the profession, and particularly the role
of their organizations. 0 In addition to NMIA, the National
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Intelligence Study Center (NISC), Association of Former Intelligence Officers
(AFIO), and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
(AFCEA) were represented. One thing they agreed on was that there could be no
super-organization but that there should be some sort of informal coordinating
effort to make sure they did all "bark in unison." A periodic luncheon meeting of
organization leaders was suggested.
But nothing more happened until December 1982 when the AFIO board of directors
voted to host a meeting of leaders of the several intelligence, and intelligence
related, organizations. About fifteen persons accepted the invitation to a luncheon
hosted by AFIO and its new president, retired Major General Richard X. Larkin, on
March 28, 1983, at Fort McNair in Washington. NISC endorsed this AFIO initiative,
agreeing to serve as an informal clearing-house for information and to help
coordinate the scheduling of meetings of all organizations representing professional
intelligence officers.
As Tom Troy reported, "enter CIN, the 'Common Interest Network,' an effort to
bring these and many other people together, to discuss their common interests, cut
out needless duplication and competition, and better promote the common cause.
It is, in other words, a community of intelligence organizations, an unofficial
intelligence community."
CIN is a network. It is not an organization. It has no charter, no list of officers,
no by-laws, no regular obligations, and it does not contemplate acquiring any or
developing into a distinct legal structural entity. It is only a loose, informal but
regular gathering of representatives of the organizations with offices in the
Washington area. Because of this looseness, Dr. Ray S. Cline, a CIN activist as
well as President of the National Intelligence Study Center, commented that a
"vague term" like "Common Interest Network" seemed appropriate, especially since
its acronym was bound to be pronounced as in "living-in-sin." The name has come
into common usage by the network.
There are fifteen groups listed at the conclusion of this article. They fall into
several sub-sets. There are those who participate in CIN and those who do not.
There are those who are purely intelligence related organizations and those who
have an interest in intelligence. Then there are those who are social and those who
are activist. Some listed here have attended CIN meetings but decided that their
interests do not fit the mold.
Those who regularly participate in CIN are the American Bar Association's
Standing Committee on Law and National Security, the Association of Foreign
Intelligence Officers, the Conflict Analysis Group (CAP), the Hale Foundation, the
National Intelligence Study Center, the Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP, our
newest addition), and the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. Accuracy
in Media is also a regular participant, although not an intelligence professional
organization nor one with intelligence as a specific function.
Those who occasionally participate are the American Security Council (ASC); the
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA); the
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Association of Former Agents of the U.S. Secret Service (AFAUSSS); the
Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, also representing the National Strategy
Information Center (NSIC); National Military Intelligence Association; and the
Security and Intelligence Foundation.
Again, to quote Tom Troy, "if ticked off by their abbreviated titles, the member
organizations make an alphabet soup...If looked at more discriminatingly, if their
differences in size, composition, charter, and activities are considered, the soup
turns out to be a rich minestrone."
CIN now meets once a quarter. There is no chairman, no agenda, and each
luncheon is voluntarily hosted by one of the participants. There is not even the
formality of a rotating host list. At meetings, notes are compared on the activities
of organizations -- when they will meet, new projects, resolutions to be offered to
the membership at conventions, and who will speak at meetings. Participants
discuss legislation before Congress which will impact on intelligence, books and
papers about intelligence, and how the press is reporting intelligence developments.
While no vote is taken, from these meetings joint effort is often the result.
Tom Troy concluded his report on CIN by saying, "despite much diversity among its
members, CIN hopes to achieve much unity when it comes to speaking out publicly
or testifying before congressional committees on such important topics as
amending the Freedom of Information Act and protecting government employees
against civil damage suits arising out of the discharge of their official
responsibilities. At least CIN members hope to eliminate any working at cross
purposes."
"As an informal, unofficial intelligence community, CIN has no intention of being
the echo of the official intelligence community or any particular agency. Whether
it can become, on occasion, a loyal opposition, however, remains to be seen. In the
meantime there is much time, talent, effort, and some money being spent to
promote public understanding of intelligence as a first line of national defense, and
CIN is getting behind it all."
May 15, 1986
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Standing Committee on Law and National Security
Chairman, John Norton Moore
Background:
The Standing Committee on Law and National
Security, an entity of the American Par
Association, focuses on intelligence and
national security issues. The CIN repres-
entative is RADM William C. Mott, USN(Ret.)
Membership: The Committee has 11 members, including the
chairman.
Activities: The primary focus of the committee is on the
impact of existing and proposed legislation on
the conduct of national security and on
development of the field of national security
law in general.
Publications: The committee publishes a monthly eight page
newsletter, Intelligence Report, which presents
discussions of current intelligence matters
before the courts and the Congress, as well as
other matters of interest in the intelligence
and national security fields.
Background:
Established in 1955, ASC and now its parallel
organization, the ASC Foundation (ASCF), work to
improve public understanding of national
defense. ASC is an advocacy organization, and
the ASCF is educational.
Membership: ASC has 300,000 members nationwide. Open to
anyone interested in internal and external
threats to national security, and defense and
foreign affairs. Annual dues are $20.00
Activities: ASC is active in pushing pro-defense policies.
Lobbies in Congress, conducts polls, provides
leadership awards. Its political committee
supports candidates.
Publications: ASC publishes an B-page monthly Washington
Report. ASCF publishes numerous studies,
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brochure, a few books. Conducts seminars.
ARMED FORCES COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS ASSOCIATION (AFCEA)
Director, Intelligence/Special Projects
Colonel John B. Pozza. USMC (Ret)
Background:
AFCEA was officially founded in 1946 as the
Army Signal Association. A non-profit pro-
fessional association providing government-
industry cooperation in the areas of Command,
Control Communications and intelligence (C31).
Since 1979, AFCEA has become active in support
of the Technical Intelligence Community.
Membership: Membership is open to all citizens of the
U.S. and the Free World. AFCEA has over 29,000
individual members, 650 corporate members and
100 chapters worldwide. Individual dues are
$16.00 annually.
Activities: Under its Intelligence Program AFCEA Inter-
national and individual chapters hold annual
symposia for government, military and industry
attendees on vital intelligence issues. Conducts
Professional Development Courses.
Publications: AFCEA publishes the monthly SIGNAL magazine,
sent to all members. Includes "Intelligence
Highlights" in each issue and has one issue,
usually in September, devoted to Intelligence.
ASSOCIATION OF FORMER AGENTS OF THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE (AFAUSSS)
Background:
Membership:
Founded in 1969 as a national fraternal organ-
ization with the aim of assisting the Secret
Service. Holds five to six meetings a year.
Staff is all voluntary.
Begun with 25 members. AFAUSSS now has 572,
chiefly on the Eastern seaboard. Annual dues
are $10.00. Membership is open to former Secret
Service agents of good moral character.
Activities: AFAUSSS annually awards two Deitrich-Cross
Scholarships to students of law enforcement;
also annually grants the U.E. Bowman Award to a
student at Ocean County College, NJ. Holds an
annual three-day convention, usually in the
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Washington, D.C. area.
Publications: Publishes Pipeline, a quarterly, for its members
printed and illustrated, it runs 10 to 25 pages.
President, LtGen Eugene F. Tighe, Jr., USAF(Ret)
Executive Director, John K. Greaney
Background:
Organized in 1975 by former Intelligence
officers led by David Atlee Phillips, to
defend and promote a strong U.S. intelligence
service as vital to national security.
Membership: AFIO, open to U.S. citizens only, has two
kinds of membership: Full (former U.S. intellg-
ence officers) and Associate (any citizen sup-
porting AFIO's purposes). Dues are $25.00 an-
nually. There are 3,500 members and 21 chapters.
Activities: AFIO conducts research, provides lecture
materials, speakers, a speaker's kit, and fac-
tual information on intelligence. It provides
congressional committees advice on intelligence
legislation. AFIO holds an annual 2-day con-
vention and, in the Washington area, three
luncheons annually.
Publications:AFID publishes for members a quarterly,
Periscope, 8 or more pages. Is publishing a
series of monographs on intelligence; The Clan-
destine Service of the Central Intelligence
Agency, National Security and the First Amend-
ment, and The KGB: an Instrument of Poc'er.
Background:
CIRA was formed, under the leadership of the
late in 1975 as a CIA retiree's
STAT organization. Camaraderie is its keynote. Its
activities are social.
Membership: CIRA, with more than 2,000 members, is open to
CIA retirees and other government retirees with
10 years of service in CIA. Dues are $10.00.
There are six chapters in Florida, Texas and
California.
Activities: For the Washington area CIRA hosts three
luncheons with guest speakers. Of the three -
fall, winter, spring - the last is also the
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annual business meeting.
Publications: CIRA publishes for members its quarterly
Newsletter - 48 pages of news, articles,
speeches, letters and photographs.
CONFLICT ANALYIST GROUP (CAG)
President. George H. Olmsted, Jr.
Background:
Founded in the mid 1970's, CAG is an educ-
ational foundation working to increase public
understanding of the nature of low intensity
conflict (LIC) and the degree to which this form
of international conflict endangers our national
security. The Group maintains an extensive
bibliography of current material available
on matters related to low intensity conflict,
including terrorism. This bibliography is
available to the Group's membership and to
serious researchers writing or speaking on the
topic.
Membership: CAG is a membership organization open to all
members of the LIC community and the interested
public. Annual dues are $50.00.
Publications: The Group publishes a periodic newsletter
for its membership on topics of immediate
interest in the LIC arena.
CONSORTIUM for the STUDY of INTELLIGENCE (CSZ)
and Washington Office of NSIC
Director, Roy Godson
Background:
Founded in 1979, CSI is a group of political
scientists, historians, sociologists, and inter-
national affairs specialists interested in
promoting the study of intelligence. It is a
project sponsored by the National Strategy
Information Center.
Membership: Not a membership organization. CSI has a
small staff for carrying on its work.
Activities: CSI has sponsored seven research colloquia
with scholars, current and former senior
intelligence officials, congressional special-
ists, lawyers and media personnel. CSI also
has sponsored several courses on teaching about
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intelligence for college teachers.
Publications: CSI has sponsored the seven volume series
Intelligence Requireeents for the 1980's, as
well as resources for teaching about intelli-
gence, and also Bibliography on Soviet Intelli-
gence and Security Services.
President, Lawrence Sulc
Background:
Hale was organized in 1477 by former intelli-
gence officers reacting to assaults on CIA and
other intelligence agencies. Its trustees in-
clude Sen. Alfonso D'Amato, Amb. Clare Booth
Luce, MaiGen. James Dozier and Amb. Richard
Helms.
Membership: The foundation is a nonmembership, publi-
cally-supported group working for a strong
intelligence system. It claims 56,170 active
supporters. It has a small staff, some ad hoc
contract researchers.
Activities: Hale is a registered lobbying organization.
Its informational and educational adjunct The
Nathan Hale Institute. publishes on intelligence
subjects. It has a speakers' bureau, conducts
research on, and disseminates information about,
intelligence.
Publications: Publications include studies on Soviet
"active measures" terrorism, U.S. counter-
intelligence, intelligence history and pro-
con piece on a joint intelligence oversight
committee.
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE STUDY CENTER (NISC)
President, Ray S. Cline
Background:
Established in 1977, NISC labors to improve
public, academic, and journalistic understanding
of the role of intelligence in the American
political process.
Membership: Membership, now at about 300, is open to
those who support NISC objectives and programs.
Annual dues are $25.00. Advisors and directors
include DCI William Casey, Paul Nitze and
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former DIA director LtGEN Eugene F. Tighe.
Activities: Each year since 1978 NISC has awarded
finanical prizes for the best writing on U.S.
intelligence by an American author. The awards
are for book, scholarly monographs, and
journalistic reporting.
Publications: In 1985 NISC updated the Koplowitz report
and published the new version under the title
Teaching Intelligence in the Mid-1980s. In
1986 NISC will begin to prepare a second edition
of the Scholar's guide to Intelligence Litera-
ture, first published in 1983. It will also
take over editing and publishing of the Foreign
Intelligence Literary Scene (FILS), a bimonthly
edited for four years by Thomas F. Troy.
President, Lt.Col. Carol Bessette, USAF(Ret)
Executive Director, Col. Charles E. Thomann, USA(Ret)
Background:
Established in 1974, NMIA seeks to enhance
the craft of intelligence in the military
services. It has chapters in Virginia, Massa-
chusetts, Texas, Colorado, California and the
Washington, D.C. area. Chapters are forming in
Arizona, Washington State and Nevada.
Membership: Membership is largely active duty Defense
Department military and civilian personnell,
but retirees and others are welcome. There are
now 1,400 members. Corporate memberships are
available. Annual dues are graduated with a
top of $25.00.
Activities: NMIA has an annual two-day convention, usually
in the Washington DC area. Chapters hold regu-
lar meetings and luncheons.
Publications: NMIA's The American Intelligence Journal -
a quarterly offset - is in its ninth year.
Includes articles and book reviews and is sent
to all members. Individual copies retail at
$4.00 each.
President, Frank R. Barnett
(Washington office; see Consortium for the Study of
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Intelligence)
Background: NSIC is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution
organized in 1962 - CIA's William J. Casey being
one of its founders - to conduct educational
programs in national defense. Promotes defense
innovativeness in military, intelligence,
and geopolitical affairs. Derives funds from
foundations and individuals
Membership: NSIC is a nonmembership organization. It
does have a Washington, D.C. office, consultants
in Los Angeles, and representatives in Chicago,
London and Paris. It employs some 200 special-
ists on an as-needed basis for research and
writing.
Activities: NSIC publishes numerous long strategy and
shorter agenda papers. It conducts
post-doctoral seminars in national security on
university campuses. Provides briefing sessions
for business, labor, media, etc. at home and
abroad.
Publications: NSIC publishes monographs and longer
studies on a variety of national security re-
lated issues. Recent titles include, Natural
Resources in Soviet Foreign Policy, and
Special Operations in US Strategy.
President, RADM Donald (Mac) Showers USN(Ret.)
P.O. Box 9324
McLean, VA 22102-9998
Background: Established in 1985, NIP is intended to comp-
lement and offer a nautical perspective to
other national intelligence associations through
a cohesive organization of retired or former
officers and other professionals who served in
Naval Intelligence.
Membership: Membership, now about 250, is open to former
Naval Intelligence professional officers, Naval
Intelligence Sub-Specialists, civilian profes-
sionals, enlisted professionals, and other
selected candidates. Annual dues are $12.50
Activities: NIP is still in the formative stages and has
not yet initiated activity programs. There will
be local chapters and general membership
meetings. Future activities will aim toward
increasing knowledge, promoting training, and
providing leadership to enhance Naval
Intelligence.
Publications: The NIP Newsletter is issued three times
a year.
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Chairman, James J. Angleton
President, Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow
Suite 500, 449 South Capitol Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20003
Tel. (202) 484 2343
Background: Established in 1977 when the Carter Adminis-
tration went after the FBI on the Weathermen
case. Has only a small staff.
Membership: SIF solicits members by mail. Now has about
25,000. Annual dues are $15.00
Activities: SIF"s objective is the rebuilding of both CIA
and the FBI and the promotion of national
security.
Publications: SIF issues a quarterly Situation Report -
eight printed pages of news and commentary sent
to members.
SOCIETY of FORMER SPECIAL AGENTS of the FBI
(Washington Chapter)
President, Charles J. Wyland
CIN Representative, W. Raymond Wannall
STAT
Background:
Society organized in New York, 1938-1939 to
preserve and promote in retirement years the
camaraderie experienced by special agents when
on active duty. D.C. chapter was established
in late 1940s.
Membership: Membership is open only to former special
agents. 8,000 nationally; 675-700 in Washington
chapter. Membership fee is $40.00 per year.
Activities: D.C. Chapter now working for FBI exemptions
from FOIA, legal protection for agents, relaxa-
tion of Levy guidelines, rebuilding FBI's
ability to conduct domestic security investi-
gations. Holds monthly luncheons.
Publications: Issues a newsletter to members 5 to 6
times a year.
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