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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100440002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 1, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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halt trying to justify- what has been hap-
pening in the, interrogation centre in Cas-
tlereagh, embarrassed as they are about the
findings of the Amnesty Investigators?
-It? Is, bad enough that people In Belfast or
wherever,, either . Loyalist. - or Republican,
suspected of being involved In terrorism, can ,
expect to be, subjected to ill-treatment with-
out the British Government trying to escape
Its responsibilities In the matter. The British -
Attorney General.:- Mr. Sam 811kin, was
clearly, embarrassed by having to defend the:
British case at Strasbourg. He should now be.
asked to clarify his Government's attitude on
this matter at once.
Another matter for' justifiable anger came
to- light In the House of Commons yester-
day when the British Defense Minister, Mr.
Fred Mulley, revealed that the soldiers, be-
lieved to be members of the S.A.S.. who were
Involved In the killing of young John Boyle
at Dunloy, Co. Antrim, recently are still
walking the- streets, armed with their
Armalites presumably.
Mr. Mulley told the SDLP leader, Mr. Ger-
ry Pitt that the soldiers would stay on duty
until it was established that there was a case
to answer, to which Mr. Pitt quite rightly re-
piled that if there was not a case to answer
concerning _ the shooting. of John Boyle, he
did not know what else It might be. -
- The 13UC have quits clearly exonerated the
Boyle family from all suspicion. of involve-
ment in terrorism and it has been established
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lming evidence that there is a case to Taking advantage of the opportunity for
wer and those soldiers should at the making foreign contacts presented by the
least have been suspended from duty,
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NAL RECORD - Extensions of Remarks August 1, 1978
the post mortem that the boy was shot in I From the Information Digest, JuIY 28, 9:81
ri mertcan leftists including members of the
rs_'ational Lawyers Guild (NLG) and CIA de-
fectors led by Philip Agee have announced
LION. LARRY McDONALD
OF GEORQU
'Q THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, August 1, 1978
r. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, in the
od since January 1975 when the
use Committee on Internal Security
ended,. we have witnessed a broad
k on this country's foreign and Bo-
stic intelligence agencies. The enemies
he U.S. intelligence community, many
whom openly have supported Soviet,
an, and Red Chinese-sponsored ter-
t movements in the Third World,
e been unimpeded in their selective
king of intelligence agency documents,
sing of covert programs, and iden-.
cation of-intelligence personnel.
features to strengthen our Federal
lligence agencies have languished be-
Ise House committees who now
e jurisdiction over our internal secu-
and intelligence agencies have
ided to the clamor of the anti-intel-
nce lobbies and sensationalist press..
ur Federal intelligence agencies lack
islative mandates to take action,
e our enemies are redoubling their
its to demoralize and destroy the re-
ining U.S. intelligence operations.
defector Philip Agee, who could have
ght the notorious Kim Philby lessons
treachery, joined by a handful of U.S.
icals, has launched a new attack on
CIA's covert capabilities.
he parameters of the new attack on
CIA and Western intelligence agen-
cies by turncoat Agee and company from
Cuba is reported in detail in the latest
issue of the In;formation_DiBeat, a news-
letter on terrorist, political, and social
movements edited and published by John -
Rees. I commend this article to the im-.
mediate attention of my colleagues. The
article demonstrates the nature of the
attack on the U.S. intelligence commu-
nity. namely. that the attack is backed'
tartan enemies; and will again, as Agee more.' We believe that they do, and thatthe
has done before, attempt to endanger the same people are often involved. lives or personal safety of our intelligence "As a service to our readers, and to pro
officers by the disclosure of classified in gresslve people aroundthe world, we wilt' con-,
- tinue to expose high-ranking CIA ofpcials -` -'
intelligence community to cope with the Foreign service Includes-posts as a politigi .
newest sabotage tactics directed toward
our Nation. I urge you to join In cospon-.
soring House Resolution 48 to restore
the internal Security Committee. and
H.R. 8718 to provide protection to the
operation, Counter-Watch (CW).
The July 28, 1978, announcement of the
formation of Counter-Watch was made at a
Havana Libre Hotel news conference by
Washington, D.C, NLG attorney William H.
Schaap who said that the new group would
develop a worldwide network of agents that
will expose CIA personnel and methods Of
operation. The CW group will also publish
ox) a bimonthly basis the Covert Action In-
formation Bulletin (CAIB) [$10/yr.), several
hundred copies of which were distributed
this week in Havana and In the U.S.. In
Schaap's words, "to people Interested in our
work."
Schaap told the well-attended
- - - - - press con-
cers under close scrutiny. Their the re-..--
searchers). role will be to check and double--?t
check the work that has been done."
Members of the CW apparat incude Philip
Agee, now a resident of Rome, Italy; Ellen -, i
Ray, 1842 California Street, N.W., Washing-
ton,
D.C.; William H. "Bill"Schaap, also of '-.
1842 California Street, N.W.; Elsie and James 'k. -- - i
Wilcott; and Louis "Lou" Wolf. ' :.?~
Covert Action Information Bulletin is pub- .' I
lisped by Covert Action Publications, Inc, a I
District of Columbia nonprofit corporation,
from P.O. Box 50272, F-Street Station, Wash-
ington, D.C. 20004 (202/298-6788). The tele-
phone Is listed to Schaap at 1348 Connects- I
cut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20038: -?. 6
According to the CAIB, several of those now
associated with Counter-Watch were pre- f
Counterspy Magazine, and when Counter- ??' 7. t1
Spy split during the summer of 1976, they - p
decided that "there is an important and vital" - -? d
role to be played by the sort of exposes for ,; .. tl
which Counterspy had become famous. ? ? L
That Counterspy and Its uncovering of CIA
personnel and operations around the world '-A- Ir
were so violently hated by the Agency was, .. re
our best endorsement."
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In its premier Issue (July 19781. the CAIB ' ?
makes the point that a regular feature will' Pi
be a section "naming names." They write:::: vii
"We do not believe that. one can seoa?ats.
the dirty work of, the CIA from the peoples-' 1 In
lions 1s valuable, but it Is only ball the job:+;::r.- ; . ga
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officer in Indonesia, Malaafa, Philippines and., 1ze
Spain. In an Interview following the Havens.?2? - Viel
announcement, Schaap told a newsman that tion
their expose had been carried by the Jamal-- _
can newspapers and that the alleged CIA- ]'V. that
station chief "was nowhere to be found.": r ;.'.rya
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men and women who serve as our front- According to Counter-Watch, a "major.: tutlo
line eyes and ears in the protracted war step" in the battle to destroy the CIA's covertr: mAf
with the Communists. capabilities has already been taken. .. ?, n'^
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