GUILD EXPOSES RIGHT-WING SPY UNIT

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CIA-RDP90-00845R000100440003-6
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December 22, 2016
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June 10, 2010
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January 11, 1978
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/11: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100440003-6 A1;; T. CL -"'tSTAT O1V P.?1GE THE GUARDIAN (.'+ational 11 January 1978 The intelligence community's "private sector's Spying, wiretapping, assassinations-the SPYING ON THE LEFT LINKS TO CONGRESS... . crimes of U.S. intelligence agencies have t, Another issue records names and phone r-~= BY the early 1970s Rees; now working with been unearthed and exposed with numbing numbers of celebrities deemed likely to + ,=his wife; Louise- managed to . nf1Itratea regularity over the past five years. : support left and liberal causes-with entries number ' of. Washington, D.C., . area left Now evidence is emerging that a parallel as varied as Dustin Hoffman, Sal Mineo and = groups-including- the Institute for Policy right-wing intelligence network, working Barbara, Dane To protect sources,' ID Studies and. the- NLG-as agents of the with government agencies .and tied to the warns; "this material should not be used in -Washington and '.Maryland- State Policy. John Birch . Society. corporate- security this format.. It. Is also noted that' every After a:. year with the -NLG. Louise services and church groups. is in operation attempt was made to restore this list,. to its ' disappeared, only' to show up in 1974 as i across the U.S.Extensive investigations by' owner, without success, as it is realized that staff memberforthe HouseInternal Security the. National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and under certain circumstances the publishing committee'. That-same -year, NLG'.investi- others have begun to piece together a of stolen.lists is illegal." Obligingly. the gators discovered. the Maryland State Police picture of the intelligence community's New York State Police stamped every page:- ! -.obtained and paid fora post office box for private sector.'' The information contained herein is of a ' Information Digest' correspondence:-. Also classified nature, intended solely for the use .: authorized to pick up the mail was' John INFORMATION DIGEST of the N.Y. State Police .and any - other Norpf_until 1975. research director for the s :'?. .... ~ .Senat e.lnternal Security Committee At its center is a mysterious right-wing agency authorized by them." t. figure named John Rees. For the past 10 More recently 1D turned up as the New.] Louise Rees is presently staff assistant to years Rees has written and distributed - Hampshire State Police's intelligence source E Rep. Larry McDonald (D-Ga.),whoserves as' Information Digest (ID), a sophisticated.' on the:-antinuclear Clamshell Alliance. ID's .the congressional outpost for -the ' ID right-wing intelligence newsletter which has material on' the group was passed to the network. A member of the John Birch supplied police departments throughout the police by the U.S.. Labor Party-itself a 'Society's national council. McDonald regu- country with derogatory information on the suspected right-wing front group-and used larly inserts hundreds of pages of material left. Other'. subscribers. to the biweekly by New..Hampshire Gov. Meldrin Thompson on -'subversives" into the congressional compendium of "left-wing intelligence in a widely publicized speech denouncing record, most of it either -written by. the have included the CIA, the National Security Clamshell as a "cover for terrorist activity " Reeses or culled from the.file*s of the Church Agency and the FBI. And:,. last:;, month Rees launched-;- a? League or other right-wing gawps. ID first came to public attention through a McCarthyite .smear campaign -'against' -Journalists and researchers investigating 1976 investigalion of police abuses by the -Guardian correspondent Wilfred Burchett in McDonald's activities believe.ID's files have .New ork Office of Legislative Oversight. It ' one of ID's favorite above-ground outlets, been secretly transferred intapthe congress- was theJohn Birch Society's Review of theNews. ? -man's Capitol Hill office. apparently to avoid di covered then that the New York State Police regularly used ID as a "confidential - Whilethe,N.Y. State report characterizes -court stibpenas for the material. Both the ID as ;the- .'stria that held together -a? Reeses are the targets of lawsuits brought by informant," g? the Institute for Policy. Studies. the Socialist ??N....uc- ...a.r..:nn.d .. nsa~livoty ?'in ?' ihe?i .-nationwide-network of hidden informants.: - a rep does sto s th th -.-. - :, .. ?.... e inquiry ere p . - .. _1-,,t,.,&-- publication. inc New torn report stales. Z were .used "to c develop ':.dossiers r on explain how the ID network is funded or its r -.thousands of Americans who had committed information distributed. However, according ` CORPORATE POLICE i th tri i t of th R Y ' t ` ano er n gu ng aspec ees e e - . ~= no . crime and were?~ not, - suspected.. of to a recently released investigation. by_the.. committing -a'?'crime.' Over 60'tipolice' National Laywers.Guild. Rees-,has received operation is their connectioq to corporate .departments-- used 'ID..'- and according to _ample,,support from cooperative police = police forces. John Rees has worked on and. records released under the Freedom of departments and right-wing organizations off for the Wackenhut Corp.; one of the Information- Act;.- the CIA regularly in since his arrival here from Britain in 1963 -nation's. largest security' and investigative tegrated.,111 s rcpot'ts-into' their own, In 1969 Rees, surfaced as the_e*ditor of the intelligence files. National- Caymans Digest , a blacklisting services as 'including "preemployment lD : itself" -is.~ A.' mixture- of,.newspaper publication of the ultraright Church' League screening, polygraph examinations; counter . clippings;:left-wing gossip;. stolen-:docu. `of America;`;. According . to - .the -.Church business espionage. internal intelligence nicnts ..and . intelligence - gleaned` from Leagues.: publicity. its research library. in ..and general criminal, fraud and- .arson ' activt: in radical so-called revolu. Wheaton,ill: contains the nation's "largest investigations." John Ammarell. the com- r " ces sou ;?? ?o,?. ?: and most comprehensive files. oil subversive pany's vice president. '=recently admitted tionary groups. ? .P . the before a congressional commission that t y, . -Wackenhut has maintained 300.000 files for NLG contains 'detailed' reports 'on.-the ?FBI_...instantly:.available to every.'.police .Vietnam Veterans Against the War. an anti- departmen4 and. security -agency in.:the the purpose of keeping industry. informed about subversive activities. The data was war planning conference .,together::-with. a -country. 4 list of participants." Puerto Rican 'nation- obtained - from 'the House - Un-American alist" groups and "brief notes:', frcim cities Activities Committee and the Church League of America. ' r . around the country. -.? ~+=i, `?r Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/11: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100440003-6