NEARLY 500 RETIRED INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS, SOME OF WHOM HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN THE MOST SECRET OF SPY WORK, CAME OUT OF THE COLD TODAY FOR THEIR ANNUAL CONVENTION.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100040015-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 1, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/27: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100040015-1
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
1 October 1982
By DANIEL F. GILMORE
Springfield, Va.
Nearly 500 retired intelligence officers, some of w,om nave been engagea in
the most secret of spy work, came out of the cold today for their annual
convention.
The agents, many of whom operated for decades under false names or double
identities, wore name badges. But, as usual, they declined to be specific on
what they did, where or when.
It was the eighth annual convention of the Association of Retired
Intelligence Officers, now numbering more than 3,000 members of the CIA, the
Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, State Department
Intelligence and the intelligence branches of she armed forces.
After standing to pledge allegiance and singing the national anthem, the
invocation was read by Catholic Father John P. Gigrich.
Gigrich was introduced as a ''former member of intelligence," an
introduction that leaves more questions than answers.''
The priest, with a smile, said he also "did some chaplain's work'' while in
intelligence.
A panel of experts agreed that Soviet penetration of the United States and
intelligence operations were now concentated on American technology,
particularly computers, in addition to military, scientific and political
espionage.
Edward O'Malley, in charge of FBI counter-intelligence, said the FBI's rogram
# to con-bat the efforts by the Soviets, Eastern Europeans and other surrogates,
"are very .aggressive."
He said, the bureau ''was spending more resources than ever before'' in
identifying Soviet and surrogate spies who penetrate U.S government and other
institutions or subvert American citizens to supply information.
"There's a lot of severe damage also being done by the (American) volunteers
who walk in " to Soviet embassies and consulates and give secret information.
The nctives, he said, were predominantly money. But, revenue by government
and i;te2?ig~nce employees against their superiors for being passed over for
promaticns also was a factor as was coercion or blackmail.
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