INTELLIGENCE WIRE - AN ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, TERRORISM, AND POLITICAL STABILITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100030172-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2012
• Sequence Number: 172
• Publication Date: January 1, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/17: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100030172-8
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INTELLIGENCE
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An analysis of international politics, terrorism, and political stability.
BY DAVID A TLEE PHILLIPS
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ormerrintelligence'officers'who write and''lecturein- rnirement art irkedBR _time,v carter' In hie
memoirs, the tormerpresident had divulged espionage secrets in.a-manner-which might have resulted in
- prosecution if :revealed by.CIA chiefs bound by secrecyoaths. Carter described,- for instance, details of a.-'
swap, worked out with the Soviet-Union' to release five Russian dissidents from prison in exchange for
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revelation as "an indiscretion"' others have used saltier language Even top former clandestine managers=
suchow-Admiral Stanfield Turner'and William.Colby are obligated to clear-their accounts of history
` before publication, or face the' consequences. Colby -in face. was hit With o 510,000 fine when a French
-edition- of his: memoirs inadvertently printed an item? Colby .had:deletedat CIA request from- the U.S.;?:'
Wilson Incident's Ripples
The Association of Former Intelligence officers proposed a new code of conduct for espionage operatives
recently. one "ensuring- that -12 1_ -
of law and ethics so that in every endeavor they can clearly define the connections i
between the ac actions
-and those principles." The CIA has promulgated a similar in-house code. This concern comes in the murky
"`-wake of the indictment of Edwin Wilson, the renegade CIA agent who has embarrassed the intelligence
fraternity. ,Sacs one former friend and
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I hoDe the bum rots in jail.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/17: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100030172-8