FOREIGN AGENTS' CRIMES IGNORED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100070031-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: July 30, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100070031-0 -STATE
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THE WASHINGTON POST
30 July 1979
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_t _iarE ins, top-secret Senate report
ci,_: _-2s that foreign intelligence
a,er.=s hav-e been badger-n-2. threaten-
i^ : aid spying on U.S. residents with
virtual impunity, their criminal activi-
ties deliberately winked at by the fed-
al government.
The report is a preliminary study of
` the operations conducted in the
United States by six foreign countries'
intelligence services directed at the
harassment, intimidation and monitor-
ing of United States residents."
Countries involved were Chile, the
Philippines, the Republic of China (Tai-
wan), Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and
pre-revolutionary Iran. The activities
of their agents included a wide range
of covert crimes, from simple spying
to assassinations.
At least three federal statutes were
violated, constitutional rights were
trampled on and treaties and "custom-
ary international law" were blithely ig-
nored by the foreign agents and their
hirelings, the report concluded.
The explosive, 1501-page report was
completed last January for the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee by its
legal counsel, Michael Glennon. De-
spite elaborate security measures, our
associate Dale Van Aria was able to ob-
tain an unauthorized copy from a
State Department source.
Four federal agencies should have
been cracking down on this wholesale
flouting of our laws but did little to
stop it. The reasons ranged from self-
protection to bureaucratic laziness and
jurisidictional pettifogging, the report
concludes.
The Central Intelligence Agency was
reluctant to take any action for fear of
retaliation against its own agents over-
seas. il!.e Glennon Krp')r t for ex-
ample. that "the ~' err: ent of Iran
has. several times, tore: t,ned to retali-
ate against the CIA if actions were
taken against its inteliigjence opera-
tives in the United Sates."
The FBI has gathered very little in-
formation on the foreign agents rrimi-
nal activities and `mikes no affirma-
tive effort" to do so. the reports tates.
The National Security- Council sim-
ply , "does not collect significant
amounts of intelligence" on the sub-
ject, the report says.
The State Department has adopted a
"let George do it" attitude, relying on
the CL-X. the FBI and the NSC to give it
what little information is obtained.
"Because the pieces are not put to-
gether," the report concludes, "assess-
ment of the problem and the develop-
ment of a solution have `fallen through
the cracks.'..
Noting that "available evidence in-
dicates that certain residents of the
United States have valid reason to fear
abridgement of itheir rights and pro-
tections by members of foreign intelli-
gence services." the report questions
the wisdom of maintaining friendly re-
lations with countries which ignore
those rights.
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100070031-0