SOUTHWESTERN BELL CORP. ANNOUNCED FRIDAY THAT FORMER DEPUTY CIA DIRECTOR

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INMAN
ST. LOUIS, IL
STATINTL
that former deputy CIA director
d Frida
y
Southwestern Be11 Corp. announce
L -f a nman o Austin. exas has been elected to its board
and retired Adm. obb
o directors.
Inman is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Microelectronics
and Computer Technology Corp, a 21-member advanced computer research consortium
based in Austin.
Bell Communications Research Inc., of Livingston N.J., which does research
and development for Southwestern Bell and the six other regional telephone
companies created by the divestiture of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.,
recently joined MCC.
''We are fortunate to have Admiral Inman join us in the formative years of
our corporate history as we prepare to examine the vast opportunities opened by
the information age,'' said Zane E. Barnes, chairman and chief executive officer
of Southwestern Bell.
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~.F CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITSR
INTELLIGENCE
OPERATIONS
USIs
beefing up
its covert
activities
By Peter Grier
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Washington
N the late 1940s, the US Central Intelligence
I Agency (CIA) provided funding for guerrilla
fighters in China, Albania, and the Ukraine
section of the Soviet Union. These operations -
among the first covert actions by the agency -
were but minor annoyances to their communist
targets.
Forty years and much experience later, and
half a world away, the United States is involved
in "covert" operation, this one highly contro-
versial. The country in question is Nicaragua;
the US allies are an estimated 7,000 to 12,000
contras fighting their country's ruling
Sandinista' regime.
As covert actions go, this is a modest affair.
But intelligence experts say that since there is
no national consensus on overall US policy in
Central America, aid to the contras has raised
old questions about when and where secret ac-
tion is justified.
It has also focused attention on the capabili-
ties of US intelligence agencies, which are re-
building after the budget, and staff cuts of the
mid-1970s. Covert action, after all, represents
only a small fraction of what US intelligence
does. Today, there is much debate among ex-
==work quality of the major portion of
- research and analysis.
"There have been some successes, and some
significant improvement in the quality of US in-
telligence," says a former military intelligence
But this source adds that there is still a
fficer
.
o
tendency for reports to be too bland.
? The US has long been ambivalent about the
means required to produce good intelligence.
There is something abou
does not fit our image of
This attitude was expres:
tary of State Henry Stim:
down an operation that de
grams on the theory the
read each other's mail."
But the fact is the US h
the not-quite-gentlemanly
vening in other nations'
following World War II, th
and moderate worker groups throughout West-
ern Europe to help keep the region from turning
to communism. Paramilitary teams of partisans
were dropped behind the Iron Curtain.
In the '50s, US envoy Kermit Roosevelt and
a suitcase of money helped topple Iranian
Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq, restor-
ing the more pro-Western Shah Muhammad
Reza Pahlavi to his throne. A somewhat
gaudier campaign in 1954, including covert ra-
dio broadcasts and US-supplied warplanes, de-
posed Guatemalan head of state Jacobo Arbenz
Guzman (who had expropriated US corporate
property).
Then came the Bay of Pigs. The US-backed
partisan invasion of Fidel Castro's Cuba in .
1961 was a military and propaganda flop.
By the mid 1970s, these and other operations
had come back to haunt the CIA. A pair of con-
gressional committees, angered by what they
perceived as CIA abuse of power, proposed a
number of reforms, most aimed at tightening
control over the agency.
These committees considered a blanket ban
on covert action. They backed off, however,
after deciding the US did need-a foreign policy
tool in between meye speech and sending in the
Marines. "We decided there were circumstances
where you wanted to do it," says an academic
source who was a staffer on one of the panels.
But the CIA, branded a "rogue elephant" by
the public investigations, was not eager to rush
back into undercover actions. When President
Carter took office in 1977, he inherited "zero"
covert actions, according to his director of Cen-
tral Intelligence, Adm. Stansfield Turner.
President Carter and Admiral Turner eased
the CIA back into secret operations. This pro-
cess has continued under the Reagan adminis.
tration and its agency director, William Casey.
By most accounts, Mr. Casey is a director pre-
occupied with covert action. Under his direction
the CIA proposed (but did not get) such an ac-
tion against the small South American country
of Suriname, intelligence sources say.
The largest "covert" operation currently be-
ing run by the US ("It is a little bizarre to be
debating covert action in public," says former
CIA director William Colby);,4s probably its
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WASKIkGTON POST
2 l^larch 1985
r LI leers Spur EmbassyB"
i s Dnr! Oberdorler
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The State Department has un-
dertaken what is likely to be the
biggest embassy-building program
in the history of the United States
after learning that more than half of
the 262 U.S. embassies and other
diplomatic posts do not meet min-
intum security standards estab-
lil,ed after last September's ter-
rorist bombing of the U.S. Embassy
annex in Beirut.
A high-level advisory panel head-
ed by retired admiral Bobby R.
Innis!;, former director of the Na-
tora' ecu~?ty Agency, reported to
Secretary of State George P. Shultz
last month that 139 of the overseas
posts must be replaced or "signif
ica^.tl, overhauie to meet the new
standards.
According to initial State Depart-
ment estimates, it will cost $3.3
billion to bring these embassies and
consulates up to the new standard,
including purchase of land and the
design, construction and furnishing
of many new buildings. About two-
thirds of the funds would be needed
in the volatile Middle East, officials
said.
These sums would be, partially
offset by the sale of existing U.S.
!and and buildings no longer suit-
able for American missions in the
age of the terrorist bomb.
One of the most important and'
most expensive new standards for
U.S. embassies is a security zone of
at least 100 feet outside major
buildings as protection against car
and truck bombs such as those'thal
have damaged or destroyed U.S.
Embassy buildings in Beirut and
other Mideast capitals and a U.S.
Marine headquarters compound in
Beirut.
Such security zones are almost
in~nossible to arrange in crowded
downtown areas, where many U.S.
dip'omatic buildings have been 13-
cated for public and offic;al canve-
Other stand ards . eq.rre unusu-
ad v heavy structures and spwciii'
construction to withstand esNv-
ons and hcav y-du' y windows ^d
doom that include shatterproof
glass.
inman's group, the Adyisort' Pan-
Z1 on Overseas Security, was ap-
pointed by Shultz last Jule to advise
on security threats overseas in the
next 10 years and how to counter
them.
A preliminary report was sub-
mitted to Shultz Feb. 6, with a final
report expected in May. Shultz last
Wednesday made the first partial
disclosure of the panel's findings to
the House Foreign Affairs sub-
commmitee on international oper-
ations.
State - Department officials said
the truck-bombing of the U.S. Em-
bassy annex in Beirut last Sept. 20;
in which two Americans and about
20 Lebanese were killed, was a ma-.
jor spur to the new security stan-
dards and large-scale progr am' be=
ing undertaken to meet them.
Senate and House committee in-
vestigations of the incident were
sharply critical of security arrange-
ments and precautions. Some. law-
! makers also said culpable officials
should be held accountable for the
failure to install adequate barriers
to slow or halt vehicles entering the
embassy compound.
Among recommendations of the
Inman panel, according to the State
Department, is to convene a board
of inquiry,in the event of terrorist
acts to assess accountability for
possible security lapses. The State
Department investigated respon-
sibility for the Sept. 20 bombing.
No action was taken against U.S.
Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew
because of recognition that he was
dealing with a situation involving
many threat,,. Thinking that kidnap-
ing posed the greatest threat, Bar-
tholomew had set aside most of the
spare vehicles for shuttling embas-
s~' c fficial to and from work. rather
than blocking access to the embassy
riding, according to State t)epart-
;uent sources.
As the result of ;jr, administration
request immediately after the
bombing. Congress authorized $361
million in supplemental funds to im-
prove security at U.S. missions
abroad and diplomatic buildings at
home. Only $110 million has been
appropriated. -
Eleven U.S. Embassy or consular
buildings are to be constructed or
reconstructed at a cost of $175 mil-
lion under last fall's supplemental
security plan. Another 11 new over-
seas buildings are to be built at P.
cost of $139 million under security
provisions of the administrations
recently submitted budget for fiscal
1986.
In typical recent years, only two
or three new embassy. buildings
have been undertaken.
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CAPITAL L- COMMENT
CIA MYSTERY MAN
cry man: he once climbed from a
Post truck over the u ali of the
Soviet Embassy. Alleged)y, the
-Is-John Paisley Really Dead? Coact Guard called the Post im-
Vas He Really Deep Throat?
Here's a dark-horse candidate for
the identity of Deep Throat: John
Paisley.
More than a decade after W1,'2-
le-Cate forced Richard Nixon to
resign the presidency. no one yet
knows the identity of the prime
source for Washington Post re-
porter Bob Woodward.
The 55-year-old Paisley, a
long-time CIA agent, disap-
peared in th,, Chesapeake Bay on
September 24, 1978, after using
the radio aboard his 31-foot
sloop. the Brillig, to tell friends
he would he out past dark and to
ask them to leave the lights on at
his dock near Lusby. Maryland.
A day later, his unoccupied
yacht ran aground near Point
Lookout. at the mouth of the Po-
tomac River. One week after
that, a' badly decomposed body
with a bullet hole in the head and
two diving weights strapped
around the torso was found float-
ing in the Bay at the mouth of the
Pan-txeniR7vet.
The body was identified as
Paisley's-based on dental
records and fingerprints-and
was cremated before Paisley's
family could view it. Suicide was
tentatively listed as the cause of
death.
The CIA initially downplayed
Paisley's CIA connections,
mediately after the bogy s as rc -
covered from Chesapeake Bay
claiming that he was a lo-level Paisley's death has been
employee who had retired four cloaked in myster.\ for more than
scars earlier. Actually, Paisle\ six years. The bode recovered
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had joined the Agency in 1954.
had risen to the post of deputy
director of strategic research.
and had served as a 5200-a-day
..consultant" since his retire-
ment, overseeing a team that as-
sessed the quality of the CIA's
studies of the Soviet Union.
Furthermore. Paisley was re-
vealed to have been the CIA's
liaison with the White House
Plumbers, the group including G.
Gordon Liddy and E. Howard
Hunt that was created to plug
White House leaks. The Plumb-
ers planned such actions as the
break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's
psychiatrist's office and the June
17, 1972. entry of the Democrat-
ic National Committee's head-
quarters at the Watergate.
Paisley's links to the Post are
murky, yet substantial.
He is said to have participated
in a swingers' club in the Virgin-
ia suburbs whose members in-
cluded several CIA officials and
a member of the Post's Water
gate investigative force. Pais-
ley's nickname within the sex
ring: Deep Throat.
And Paisley supposedly car-
ried a card that falsely identified
him as a Washington Post deliv-
from the Bay was substanua N
shorter and lighter than Paisley:
the position of the bullet wound
in the head makes it unlikely that
a right-handed man such as Pais-
ley could have shot himself there.
Members of his immediate fami-
ly doubt that the body identified
as Paisley's was his.
So questions remain about
Paisley: Is he dead? If so. did he
commit suicide? Or was he mur-
dered? And by whom-the CLA,
the Russians, a -ival lover? Or
did he defect? And was the
swingers' club the only place he
was known as Deep Throat?
Washington author Jim Hou-
gan, who has just published a
controversial analysis of Water-
gate, Secret Agenda, has another
Deep Throat candidate: Bobby
Ray Inman, the former deputy
director of the CIA. Like the 41-
year-old Woodwa_Inman, 53,
once held a sensitive post in Na-
val Intelligence, finally rising to
director. Inman also served as di-
rector of the National Security
Agency.
When Hougan asked Inman re-
cently if he was Deep Throat,
Inman denied it, pointing out that
he had left Washington during
John Paisley
Was Deep Throat Deep-Sixed?
the Watergate period Inman ac-
tually left for an assignment
in Hawaii in December 1973.
Woodward's last conversation of
substance with Deep Throat was
one month earlier.
But, Inman insisted, he
couldn't have been Deep Throat.
After all, he had called Bob
Woodward and asked him if he i
was Deep Throat, and Wood- 'II
ward had said no. Hougan argues I
that this suggests Inman was at i'
least 2 key source for Woodward;
otherwise, why would he have to
ask if he was the main source?
Inman resigned from the CIA
in 198'_. It was major news at the
time. The reporter who got the
scoop: Bob Woodward.
-ROBERT PACK
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