WALLOP ISSUES CALL FOR PROBE OF KGB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100440032-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: July 29, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
?9 July 1985
Wallop issues call
for probe of KGB
By Arnold Beichman
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Sen. Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo., has
called for a public congressional
investigation of Soviet KGB activi-
ties in the United States.
Such an investigation, he said, is
one of the more urgent tasks before
the Congress today" and one that is
long overdue.
"At a time when we have seen
highly successful KGB attempts to
penetrate our most secret defenses
and technology, at a time when we
know that the KGB has increased its
`active measures' program to unpar-
alleled heights in this country, it is
the duty of Congress to study the
KGB and to educate the American
public to the machinations in the U.S.
and in other democracies of the
KGB;' the senator said.
He added that he was including
East European and Cuban secret
services as part of the KGB, which
"has become a multinational corpo.
ration of espionage and 'active mea-
sures: "
The senator's proposal was
contained in a keynote address deliv-
ered at a weekend conference of
Causa International at the May-
flower Hotel. The sessions were
headed by retired Air Force Lt. Gen.
.John R. Kelly.
Mr. Wallop, one of the Senate's
leading experts on intelligence, has
recently completed eight years as a
member of the Senate Select Com-
mittee on Intelligence. The House of
Representatives has its own select
committee. Both congressional com-
mittees engage in oversight of the
Central Intelligence Agency and
other U.S. intelligence services.
Mr. Wallop said that investiga-
tions b Congress or the CIA in the
mid-197 s arose anion of er rea-
sons from a concern that t e agency
might ave in rinse on t e ctvT
liberties of American citizens. -
KGB activities in this country,
such as eavesdropping on telephone
conversations, are a clear violation
of civil rights, which American citi-
zens should enjoy without interfer-
ence, Mr. Wallop stated.
In 1982 a Senate panel held hear-
ings on Soviet "active measures;' but
they were limited in their scope and
of relatively short duration. nnyes-
ti ations in 1975 by the Senate ann
Ouse intelligence committees into
CIA activities led to legislation
restricting covert operations an
revised Justice Department
guidelines for U.S. intelligence
activities. The proposed Senate investiga-
tion, as Mr. Wallop sees it, would fea-
ture public testimony from U.S.
intelligence officials, former KGB
or other Soviet bloc intelligence offi-
cers who have defected to the West
and scholars engaged in Soviet stud-
ies.
Mr Wallop noted that, while
probes into CIA activities are con-
tinuous an itensive, actions by fie
KC:B hav e en arge) i pore in-
on ress. Except for a handful o
writers and academics, there are
few newspapers and television net
works that subiect the KGB and its
subsidiaries to the same scrutiny as
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