NEWSCASTER: THE C.I.A. DEALS IN SECRECY.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000807500029-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: October 8, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
41 EAST 42nd STREET, N
NEWS STATION CNN-TV AND THE
CABLE NEWS NETWORK
OCTOBER 8, 1983 8 PM
NEWSCASTER: .The C.I.A. deals in secrecy. That's its
business. Reporters, it follows, have a tough time finding out
what's going on inside C.I.A. headquarters. But intelligence
expert David Wise has learned of some personnel moves not widely
publicized elsewhere. In his commentary tonight, Wise suggests
what implications those moves could have.
DAVID WISE: Covering a secret intelligence agency is a
little like covering the Kremlin. They don't talk much about
what happens inside the walls. So, reporters have to draw
conclusions from little things, like who shows up at public
appearnces, or what shifts in personnel really mean.
In the same spirit, it's valuable to explore some quiet
shakeups that have occurred inside the C.I.A. Little or nothing
has been said publicly about these changes, but word has a way of
seeping out to those who watch the walls.
In the first change, C.I.A. Director William Casey has
tapped two former clandestine operatives to handle the agency's
dealings with Congress and the press. J. William Doswell, a
former Richmond public relations man who headed Casey's
Congressional and press relations, has left C.I.A. Casey split
the job in two. He named Clam' George, until now the second-
highest clandestine operator in the agency, to handle Congress.
He put George Lauder, another former spook, in charge of public
affairs.
C.I.A. hands deny that the agency's desire to shore up
Congressional and public support for its covert operation in
Nicaragua was behind these moves.
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Perhaps even more significant is another inside change,
disclosed here for the first time. Robert Gates, director of the
C.I.A.'s intelligence arm, has been named, as well, Chairman of
the National Intelligence Council, the little-known body that
prepares the agency's vital national intelligence estimates.
These are the predictions of future events on which the
President relies.- Up to now, the Council had a separate Chair-
man. When he and Gates disagreed, that was reflected in the
reports flowing to the President.
Gates is not likely to disagree with himself. The result is
bound to be a tidy uniformity in C.I.A. estimates, instead of a
healthy diversity.
This is David Wise, for CNN, in Washington.
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