C.I.A. DISCLOSES IT TRAINED POLICE FROM 12 AGENCIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100200072-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: February 6, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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6 FE-i3 1973
~- t,~ s T~ J ? - Mr. Koch, in his statement
,n s ,r ti,~ F for 7'he Cong;r: to l Record,
t" c . o . ~ ' c.,i.i... n~,..~? 4t tW c . G i t-wc y i . s: id that the C.I.A. !,-id provid-
ed !um with t!' name, of some
~T"`. F ? 7'1 or the jurisdctiuns whose po
y r y ~9 E,d ?/~. s Vic' "' ti4 r~ /"a a", lice: teo 1:,.ci n 1,..-n traincd but
'~ E i.e.,: v..c1
asked him "to l:rp the epecific
locations cor:!ic'.ential because
By DAVID UcL:IIAhi the agency pledged this con-
fidentiality to those police de-
The Central Intelligence covered a variety of subjects partments."
Agency has acknn',vledsedgain-! uc;t as the procedures for thel Though Mr. Koch said the
ing policemen from about a.processing, analyzing, filing of request for secrecy "makes it
dozen city and county police information, security devices even more incumbent that th
forces in the United States on!and procedures, and metal ands C.I.A. be prohibited from an
the handling of explosives, the explosives detection tech- training of this nature," he (lid!
detection of wiretaps and the.niques." Inot disclose the locations in his
organization of intelligence in a statement prepared for statement. Mr. Koch, however,
files. insertion in today's Congres- did make their available to the
The acknowledgment that the sional Record, based on both House and Senate committees
C.I.A. has trained policemen ?lr. Maury's letter and an he asked to investigate thel
earlier telephone conversation, training activities.
from app oximately 12 domestic '?'t Ali independent, and reliable
police agencies in the last two ltilr. Koch described the train- source has told The Times that,
in addition to the 14 policemen
years eras made by John M. in-, as involvin "the handling
;
IOaury, le~islative counsel for 1,01a New York, tLe C.I.A. has;
r.; explosives and foreign ,achrow;edred train ng
the C.I.A., in a letter to Repre?` weapons, as well as audio con- 11officials in Poston, Washington, police)
sentative Edward I. Koch. trot measure techniques." D.C., ?,iont oniery County, Md.,l
Mr. Koch, a Manhattan Demo-l The Representative said ir. !and Fairfax County, Va. Its
cent, said that tine training ac-1 M..ury had explained that i,,.cr'?:t;d not be determined where;
balance of the juridictionl
tivitics of the C.I.A. violated "a,ldio control measure tech- ,re situated.
the existing law and should be! niqucs" involved the detection
investigated by Crm tress. lie; of wiretaps and .hies "in which
called the matter to the atten-j foreign interests are involved."
Lion of Representative Chet l 'loo Cost to Recipients'
Holificld, Democrat of Cali-
fornia, chairman of the Iious-e C.I.A. Mr. . "L. rMaurv iefi . said that the
,rse.,^,s have been pro.
Government Operations Cow-' vided at no cost to the recipi-
mittee, and Senator Sa:n J. outs." He added, "Since they
Ervin, Jr., Democrat of 'north 1-,a\ e been acconnr?tished merely
by Making a?:ait.e Ie, insofar as
Carolina, chairman of the Sen? t,te r? Own duties permit, quali-
ate Judiciary Subcommittee on! find ~.gency expert, and ir,struc-
Constitutional ki ;hts. tors, the cost to the agency is
.ninimal."
Mr. Koch on Dec. 28 had
asked Richard Ilcinms, the re- In his request to`.ir. Iioli-
cently retired Director of Con- fhe!d for an investseat nn by the
I'.0:2 e Government Onerations
teal Intelligence, about the Conunittee, said that
agency's domestic activities "since the C.I.A. is 1? ;reed by
after it was d!:-closed that 14 ststt:te frettt pencCin:atilg in
New York policemen had been i :~.' cr.forc. mart activities in
trained in the hawdling of polit- the United Steins, I consider
tL r di:;re,gard of the law most
ical intelligence fifes last Sep. Serious."
ten bar, Mr. Maury, h;o?rrever, In his
Responding to Mr. Koch's in- 11ttcr to Representative Koch,
quiry, the C.I.A.'s legislative .s,id that "we jt'l: C.l....] do not
counsel wrote on Jan. 29 that co;,-r the the activities in
r?;cstie i vi>incto the Liter or
fewer than nO pulicemen, from the spirit" of the law. Tt;e Na-
a total of about a dozen city t'.enal Sc,eurity Art of 1S,17,
and county police forces, have which authorizes il:a cs`lahli