SOLDIER, AGENT, TAX MAN, SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100250053-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: February 2, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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l~ SEP1IR.~TE seindali- as they bs~ aho
`~ ~il~ot[ the d'~ '~ Qal,'ai~
csme` known one by one, read like a 'fit thesli g;actice~ as >~ c ~?ab _ utf_r;
The II.S. ArnLY was uptight about Oleo ~. ti'Oa[~;path: world: surely 'k`ad~ t~ jai. w-r;iaty ve
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drat; a GI coffeehouse outside Ft Hood;'
quite different from. the American ideal, a
-e:c., and so Oleo Strut. was pat Hader sat= . i place'where uaorthodo: ideas and tree ez'
e:Ilaace by military intelligence agents. ~' pression are permanently inhibited by the
The FBI, among other things, w,as busy ~goverament's compuLar mamart .`
Tying to penetrate the BLek Stndeat Union ?It L still not .'eatireu eleet? what deaf
.t Peaasylvania ~Iilita~r' College. a quiet. .dons produced this explodon oi? anryeil=
ampns is Chester, Pa. .. ..tan cad dirty ttidcs. There are at least trap
The IRS was scanning the tax retm'ns of competing theories: One, which might be
?:a Cummings Engine Foundation, looldag . called 'the; theory of "spostaa~eous oombns-
ar violations because that taz-exempt toun? tlo4" suggests that-these various breaches
iatioa gave some money to bLck activists ... of government,. watchipg the came itighten?
nd tiew Lett theoretidaas. ~ fag events,.. reacted individually bat is aims-,
The CL't, which is supposed to gather in lac ways: The other theory hoMs that flu i
ei.li3ence on foreign power,, instead was CIA or the FBI weren't acting irresponsibly i
railir.3 columnist Jack Anderson and h[s oa their oWn paaaioa but ,were following
tatr- ~ . 'orders from above." '.
'Iho$e disjointed fragments are now begin- ? Although the factual evidence isn't set?~
:lag to foam a rnore coherent picture: over fled, at least this much is clear. that these
~e past eight years, the American govern-? activities grew out of common reflexes of
peat denoted eaotmoua energy to a secret fear, that the regular inhibitions of decent
cdcitp-spying on American citizens. It men or traditional legal restraints which are
;?as done with videotape cameras and elegy supposed to prevent ouch abuses of power.
conic bugs,r witix undercover agents and proved inadequate, not dust is the CIA or
.rid informers, with fancy computers and . 'the Justice Departme~ or the FBI, bat is
rich the tacit consent or even encourage- the White House. Chiba were burning. Redi
Sent of two Presidents from both political cola were, indeed, planting bombe is public
cries buildings. The dtizena' protest movement
As usual, Sam Ervin. the retired senator against the aver is Vietnam~arhich seemed
nom Korth Carolina, acid . it well: ao impotent in terms of changing govern- .
L'n:ortunately, in the heat of political cri? meat policy-was most effective in frighten- .'
is, government and the men that wield its ~ the men who made that policy.
sower become frightened by opinions they Looking back, the circumstantial evideanj
.islilt. Their reaction is to combat those does suggest that aII of these activities wens)
iews by any power they have at hand - ex- iaterrelated,'at least to some degree. In :~
Qpt? the power of better ideas and better caeca, that is mitigating testimony for they
erataeat. ~ individual agencies. Ii one.coueiudes that all:
~_ ~,.__ ,z:,.e~ _. of these bureaucradea -were responding to
J:9 DID ]T happen? SVhat is to
~~ ,prevent is happening again? If the
:~?.v congres~io~.al committees on ~~t~l~
:~~::: seriou:!~? confront the com?~les his-
t c'y :~: then? epaodes, they a 1i Find that
::~ :post ia-?ort~nc questions at?e still
:-3ti~ uaans'?+ered.
'fps: a,ues u. 1~721ity wbicil surround
,:ern*':ent :~:r-:~iliarce are a; ~x?a unset-
ie3 a..^.d, r~?^a :~?~?.c. civil liber.rians argue
:i3C Li;rr: is n~ :ir, : l~~~al barrier to prevent
:^~3a^ cerrro?.c:sies ;f the ration finds it-
~L is a !uture ;.c: iucl of domestic turmoil.
.'':at is tre i~;a;-term c~aneer~ It may
v~d rneloc'r::rr.,~~i~: to in-rosc the image of ?
;nor;e Qn:?ell's ? 'S2~:' and yet, if, society
_~:: to punish political spurn; or to build
?:: cn..g preve::tit?es ia:o the law, it is easy
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cult to portray the CIA or the 'FBI as a
secret police force that has run alpok in a?
democratic society.
Two Periods of Rea~aio'u' .~
P~IIiE SLl?IPLIFIE!) historl? of et'ents runs:
j like this:
There were two distinct puiods of fear.
when the federal governa+anL~ rnol:iiized to
father intelligence on society's trouhle.mak-
ers, whether they .were aLt:.?avar dcrnonstra-
tors or black acti~3sts iu America's central
cities.
The first tivas in fate 1967, after a tut?tulttt?
ous summer of urban riot3, when the .lustice
D~partmeat under Attorney Ge~ne:"al Ram-
say, Clark formed its Inter Divisiotral Ir:iu:-
aiation Unit 'to_ gather .names .and :arQaniza?
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racing meetings tea Hera ..??-.-.... ~
speeches as extremist dull rlghb gsoups." 1
~Afllitary iotelligenn was equally interested
is monitoring. "snbva'sive? ettarb liYse the i
underground tiewspapets ~~ GI tortes- ~
horses which steri to ::riot "reststuub tc i
the Army." ' :. .
Tlie OU1, as the pudic recentbr learned.
also pfrticipatsd in its ow?a limited way. The
intelligence agency "inserted" 10 asWnts
inside dissident ^roupi.in the. Washington
area, oa the pretert that it was protectia?~
CIA buildings against ass~rult.
The second time of crisis . within the gov.~
ernmeat, which is better known prnbablyi
because it was weII e=posecl' during the;
Watergate acandai--came is 'the summer ot.
1970 when a young ~F'hite House aide named, .
Tom Charles- Huston ws'ote his famous`
memo calling .on. ail ageades, from Justice;
to the CIA to the Pentagon's National 3ecu-'
city Agency, to sign up for a broad cad ez
pllcitly illegal campaign of surveillance. Alt;
but J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI were wills
? .1
ing.'
The CIA, by its own aecouat, beeaau co-
five again, planting a down or so agents is-;
side "dissident drrles" allegedly to search
for foreign conaectioaa. The Internal Aeve?~
Hue Service, meantime, had ialtiated is the
summer of 1969 its own 'pedal .services'
start," collecting names of political ~ dissea??
tars and investigating thefr taxes. And the'
FBI was aendiag its agents onto .college;
campuses, with orders to start files on everyt
Black Student Union is the nation..
Tantalizing I.ead9
IN BOTH PERIODS; the record is stud-'
dad with taatal3ziag leads, essentially
unresolved, which suggest that these vari-
ous programs were more closely coordin-
ated than anyone has quite admitted. For
instance:
? tti'hen Ramsay Clark. issued his first
marchin:; order for the IDIU, he noted:
"You are tree to consult with the FBI and'
other inteLigence agercii's in the govern-,
meat to draw ort their experience in main-
twining similar units, to oxptore the possibil-
ities o.? obtaining i.?zforma;ioa we do not
nova receive ..:'
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