MONEY SOUGHT TO CATCH MORE SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100010011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 8, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/17: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100010011-8
DETROIT FREE PRESS
8 October 1986
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By FRANK GREE
Free Press Washington Staff
WASHINGTON - Too many U.S. officials
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too many secrets too loosely, according to a
pessimistic congressional report released Tues-
day on the nation's ability to fend off spies.
Sen. Dave Durenberger, R-Minn., chairman of
the Senate Intelligence Committee, which pro-
duced the 141-page study, deplored what he
termed a "totally abysmal record" of protecting
gpvernment and industrial secrets. These losses,
he said, already had cost the United States
"billions."
Durenberger wants the annual U.S. counter-
espionage budget increased by at least $500
illi
m
on and a central authority created to manage
spy-stopping efforts. They noW are carried out by
the FBI in the United States, the CIA abroad and
any of a half-dozen milltary security agencies
when defense secrets are involved.
Durenberger said he sppported the purchase
of $1.2 billion worth of "scrambler" phones for
U.S. officials over several years and a high cost-
of-living allowance for the 400 FBI agents as-
signed to counter-espionage duties in New York
City.
The Intelligence Committee report also calls
for "many more" rechecks of personnel cleared
for secrets, with tougher background probing,in-
cluding a credit check.
To the traditional Warsaw Pact counter.
Intelligence targets, the Intelligence Committee
would add such nations as Israel and China, each
involved in recent spying episodes.
Defense Intelligence Agency personnel would
be stationed for the first time inside the opera-
tions of defense contractors, and security-sensi-
tive civilian satellite communications would be
scrambled.
Banks should be required to turn over records
to the FBI Without a court order in counter-
espionage caste, subject to "a framework of
attorney general guidelines and congressional
oversight," the committee recommends. Disclo-
sure of telephone records also would be required
and searches permitted without warrants.
For the first time, Senate personnel with
security clearances would be required to report
contacts with known or suspected foreign agents.
In addition to the Intelligence Committee's
measures, a planned five-year, $44 billion State
Department security upgrade of embassies
abroad Includes numerous new measures to de-
feat spies, Durenberger said.
The committee's recommendations, produced
In co-operation with counter-espionage agencies,
are likely to encounter little resistance in a
Congress alarmed by what Durenberger and
others have called "The Year of the Spy."
Between 1984 and 1986, according to the report,
25 people were convicted of espionage charges.
Durenberger said that a classified package of
administration legislation would be introduced
next week to carry out the proposed changes.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/17: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100010011-8