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THE LONDON TIMES
17 NOVEMBER 1982
Prime's role
inflated says
spy chief
From Michael Hamlyn,
' New York
A former deputy director of
the Central intelligence Agency
who was also the head of the
National Security Agency,
America's largest intelligence
operation, is playing down the ,
impact of Geoffrey Prime's
spying career.
Admiral Bobby Inman, aged I
51, told People magazine that
much of the information being
published about Prime's role is
disinformation.
"I believe someone is trying
to weaken the cooperation
between the United States and
its allies," he said. "I don't
know who's doing it... I just
think that a substantial amouni
of what has been published is
i not only inaccurate but, judging
I from the number of times my
I phone has rung. it's been
pushed to reporters."
Admiral Inman, who became
deputy head of the CIA only
after "the smoothest job of arm
, twisting I've ever encountered"
from President Reagan, de-
clared that a language translator
simply would not have access to
much of the information it is
alleged he passed to his Russian
spymasters.
"Any successful espionage
operation of an intelligence
agency is damaging." he said,
''no matter how minor
I access may be.
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THE WASHINGTON POST
15 NOVEMBER 1982
Stolen U.S. Technology Boosts
Soviet Strength, Report Says
By Dan Morgan
Wash:Nun Post Stat I Writer
The Soviet Union, in what appears to be a
carefully planned program approved by the
Kremlin's top leadership, has used large
amounts of stolen and legally acquired U.S.
technology to achieve -"giant strides in mil-
itary strength," according to a Senate report
released yesterday.
The report by the Senate permanent sub-
committee on investigations was based on a
declassified Central Intelligence Agency
study and on testimony that. -disclosed,
among other things, how Soviet agents set lip
a U.S. company that transferred $10 million
worth of sensitive microprocessor manufac-
turing equipment to the Soviet Union.
"The 'U.S. research and development es-
tablishment is viewed by the Soviets as a
mother lode . . . In fact, they tap into it so
frequently that one must wonder if they re-
gard U.S. R and D as their own national as-
set," Jack Verona of the Defense Intelligence
Agency told the subcommittee in a May
hearing.
Sonet efforts to obtain the technology
came at a time when Yuri V. Andropov, the
new Soviet leader, headed the KGB, the So:
viet security police and intelligence agency.
The Senate report cuhninates an investi-
gation of more than two years that was led
by Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), now the suh;
committee's ranking minority member.
It charges the Commerce Department
with slipshod enforcement of trade controls
arid calls on the U.S. intelligence community
and law enforcement agencies to be more ,
aggressive in stemming the flow of microelec:
tronic, laser, radar and precision
manufacturing technology to the So-
viet&
In detailing a pattern of at-
tempted theft, bribery and other
abuses by the Soviets, it appears to
buttress the Reagan administration's
ongoing campaign for tough restric-
tions on trade involving products
and Pfifillffle0V6ii foteRelesibe 2001
itary application.
_
On Saturday, President Reagan
announced that allies, including _Ja-
pan, had agreed to improve the mon-
itoring of high-technology trade with
the Soviets, while lifting trade sanc-
tions on oil and natural gas equip-
ment with no direct military appli-
cation.
Although there is broad agree-
ment that the Soviets are engaged in
a massive effort to acquire western
technology by any means, the extent
of the damage to national security is
a subject of debate.
A declassified CIA study released
? in April said the Soviets have. been
able to obtain aircraft catapult tech-
nology, precision ball bearings
needed for missile accuracy, and gy-
roscopes.
The study said western microelec-
tronics know-how "has permitted the
Soviets to systematically build a
modern microelectronics industry
which will be the critical basis for
enhancing the sophistication of fu-
ture Soviet military systems for dec-
ades."
Soviet Ryed computers, for exam-
ple, are patterned after IBM 360
and 370 mainframe computers pur-
chased in the West
Nevertheless, some industry rep-
resentatives have questioned wheth-
er the Soviets, given their difficulties
in mastering complex manufacturing
techniques, can use effectively infor-
mation they have been receiving.
Former CIA deputy director
Bobby R. Inman acknowledged in
his testimony to the subcommittee
that the agency is in the early stages
of examining the problem.
As a result, the U.S. government
_
has only piecemeal evidence of what
vrai*Osakti
Navy admiral said.
Earlier this year, a special pane of
the National Academy of Sciences
concluded that there has been a
"substantial transfer of U.S. technOl-
ogy?much of it directly relevant to
military systems?to the Soviet
Union from diverse sources."
But it maintained that very li tle
technology had been transferfed
through universities and scient fic
exchanges.
Scientists had expressed fears that
undue concern -about loss of technol-
ogy to the Soviets could result in
overclassification of government d
urnents and an end to exchan es
that in some cases add to .S.
knowledge.
While the report dealt only wth
the Soviet Union, law enforcem nt
officials note that 'U.S. firms hve
also been victimized by dom tic
competitors and other nations, s ch
as Japan.
Thefts of electronic technology
and commodities totaling $100 mil-
lion were reported in California's
Silicon Valley alone over the last f ve
years, according to Douglas K. S u-
thard. deputy district attorney of
Santa Clara County, Calif.
During five days of hearings in
May, witnesses detailed several
viet intelligence operations. agai s
"high-tech" industries.
. _
The boldest known espionage ef-
fort involved West German 3,Ve er
J. Bruchhausen, who set up a gr up
of companies in West Germany ad
southern California with the help of
a U.S. accomplice known as T y
Metz, a naturalized American bi
in the Soviet Union.
Between 1970 and 1980, Bru
hausen's companies bought comp
er-aided design equipment, photoli-
thographic devices for making in
R0005602600024d other itexs
needed to make quality microproc
sors.
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NE U YORK TINTS
15 NOVEMBER 1982
Government Restricting Flow
Of Information to the Public
By DAVID BURNHAM
Scettiol to The Neke York Times
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 ? In its first
21 months in office, the Reagan Admin-
istration has taken several actions that
reduce the information available to the,
public about the operation of the Gov-
ernment, the economy, the environ-
ment and public health.
The actions have included increasing
the authority of Government officials to
classify data, cutting back on the collec-
tion of statistics, eliminating hundreds
of Government publications and reduc-
ing the staff of the National Archives.
As critics increasingly question both
the actions and the motives for them;
President Reagan and his aides justify
? them on many grounds: slashing the
cost of government, meeting the re-
quirements of law, improving national
security and curbing what they view as
inappropriate promotional activities by I
the Government. The officials also note
that some of their efforts stem from
developments that began long before
Mr. Reagan entered the White House.
Impact of Changes Minimized.
"There is no central directive to cut
back on the availability of information,
and the effects of the isolated events
such as the reduction of publications
have not been that great," said Larry
Speak es, the deputy White House press
secretary.
Jonathan Rose, an Assistant Attorney
General involved in the Administra-
tion's effort to reduce the scope of the
Freedom of Information Act, also said
there was no unified effort to restrict
the flow of information.
"I believe, however, that there is an
effort to balance the value of collecting
and disseminating information against
other values we think are important,"
be said. "Freedom of information is not
cost free, it is not an absolute good."
Among the critics of the Administra-
tion's action is Representative Glenn
English, Democrat of Oklahoma, the
chairman of the House Information and
Individual Rights Subcommittee, who
said, "It's politics, nothing but pure and
simple politics."
And Dorothy Rice the former head of
%Trill affect our ability to measure the
impacts of the Administration's cuts in
substantive programs."
"We know that good, sound economic
policy and good, stamd social policy de-
pend on good, stitmd statistics," said
Markley Roberts, an economist with
the A.F.L.-C.I.O. "Without Such statis-
tics we won't know where we are and
we won't know where we are going."
Some of the actions to control infor-
mation date .from earlier administra-
tions and some were mandated by Con-
Beginning when President ? Carter
was in the White House, for example,
:Adm. Bobby Inman, as director of the
National Security Agency, initiated a
drive to convince scientists working on
? information-coding methods that they
should not publish their research until
the reports had been reviewed by the
Government. The effOrt succeeded;
most of the nation's cryptologists are
now subnaitting their scientific papers
to the National Security Agency before
-.publishing them.
As more and more information about,
individuals is stored in the computers of
banks, hospitals and credit reporting
companies, coding techniques to guar-
antee the privacy of this information,
are becoming increasingly important.
However, Admiral baman, who went
on to serve in the Reagan Administra-
tion as deputy director of the Central In-
telligence Agency, sought to expand the
areas in which researchers would allow
the Government to censor privately fi-
nanced papers. Too much material, he
contended, was rearhing the Soviet
Union where it was helping the Com-
munist nation to strengthen its military
forces.
In a speech in March, Assistant Com-
merce Secretary Lawrence Brady lent
his weight to Admiral Inman's argu-
ment when he contended that Soviet
operatives had blanketed capitalist
countries with a network "that operates
like a gigantic vacuum cleaner, sucking
up formulas, patents, blueprints and
know-how with frightening precision."
-
issue of limiting the export of =-
classified technology, begun in the Car-
ter years, is yet to be resolved. Next
year, for example, the Reagan Admin-
istration is expected to propose amend-
ments increasing the Government's
But the continuing effort to impose
restrictions on research that is not sup-
ported by the Government has upset
many in academic circles. A subcom-
mittee of the American Association of
University Professors reported in the
September-October issue of the group's
magazine that the trend toward tighten-
ing controls appeared to foreshadow "a
significant infringement" of "aca-
demic freedom.
' Also of concern to many academia is
the budget-cutting at the National Ar-
chives, where more than three billion
census reports, court documents, diplo-
matic letters- and other Government
papers are stored for erftrninarion by
? scholars and by people attempting to
.trace their family histories. In the last
year, a substantial art in the number of
archivists and support personnel has
meant a 60 percent decline in the rate at
which. old Government documents are
declassified.
"The entire way in which we preserve
?car cultural history is being undercut,"
said Joan Hoff-Wilson, executive secre-
tary of the Organization of American
Historians.
? A drive to reduce the number of Fed-
eral statistical programs is another
area where the original initiative came,
? at least in part, tretla outside the Rea-
-gen Administration. In December 1980,
in the last days of the Carter Adminis-
tration, the Democratic-controlled Con-
gress passed a largely unnoticed but
tar-reaching bill called the Paper Work
'Reduction ML
The law, which President Carter
signed against the recommendations of
most major Federal departments, re-
quires the Office of Management and
Budget to seek to reduce "the existing
burden of Federal collection of informa-
tion" by 25 percent by Oct. 1,1983.
Last December, in its first report on
the effort, the budget office said the
number of hours that businesses, citi-
zens an dinstitutions had spent ?Wing,
out Federal questionnaires had been
trimmed by 13 percent since Mr. Rea-
gan took office. A report- dealing with
the second year of the drive is expected
shortly.
'Jim Torii, the assistant budget dine,
tor in charge of the program, acknowl-
edged that as "we reduce the burden Of
information gathering, we have less
data:" ? ?
"Some people worried about 'Big
'Brother' . think the reduction of data
gathering is good," be said. "Other peo-
ple see the Paper Work Reduction Act
as considerably enlarging the power of
O.M.B. My response to these criticisms
is that there is openness in our decision-
Malang, that there are checks and hal-
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15 November 1982
\ Ex-spy goes
on trial today
on Libya rap
Alexandria, Va. (UPI)?in a case his lawyers say
will "shake the CIA to its foundations," former CIA
agent Edwin Wilson goes on trial today on charges of
smuggling arms to Libyan
terrorists.
Wilson, a millionaire who work-
ed for the CIA from 1955 to 1971, is
charged with illegally supplying a
Libyan intelligence officer in
Europe with four revolvers and a
Colt M-16 automatic rifle. One of
those weapons reportedly was
used in the slaying ...of a Libyan
dissident in Bonn. ?
The trial in 15:S. District Court
is the first of four charging Wilson
with numerous criminal offenses 0;?;:4-.
Libyan leader
in dealings with
Khadafy and other Lib- Edwin Wilson
th
-yans. The court documents, with their tales of Swiss .
bank accounts, false passports and $1 million murder
contracts, are the stuff of which spy thrillers are
made.
The government is expected to call to the stand a
top Pentagon official?Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard
Secord, deputy assistant secretary of defense for
Near Eastern, African and South Asian affairs?and
a former CIA deputy director and former head of the
supersecret National Security Agency, retired Adm.
Bobby Ray Inman, to deny Wilson's claims that he
was working for the CIA while in Libya.
Wilson, who worked for the Office of Naval
Intelligence from 1971 to 1976, claims he was work-
ing for the CIA while he was in Libya.
ONE OF HIS LAWYERS warned after a court:
appearance, "If the government makes us go to trial,
my client will be forced to reveal information that
.will shake the CIA to its foundations."
Wilson, who the government says is worth $14
million, has been held at an undisclosed location in
Washington in lieu of an unprecedented $60 million
bail on all charges since his arrest in June in New
York City.
The bizarre case was further complicated last
month when the former CIA employe who first told
the government ofWilson's alleged Libyan connec-
tions, .Kevin Mulcahy, was found dead outside a
motel in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. He was a
key government witness.
The cause of death has not yet been determined,
although authorities believe it was from natural
causes. ?
..Charges in the other pending trials include con-
spiracy to commit murder, illegal export of high
explosives and recruitment of -ex-Green Berets to
train Libyan hit men and teach them how to conceal
explosives in refrigerators, televisions and flower
pots.
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THE WASHINGT( N TIMES
15 NCVEMBER 1982
?
agent goes on trial
in arms case
SY A WASHINGTON TIMES STAFF WRITER
- EX-CIA agent Edwin Wilson,
charged with smuggling arms to
Libyan terrorists, goes on trial today
at the U.S. District Court in Alex-
andria in a case his lawyers say will
"shake the CIA to its foundations."
The trial is the first of four charg-
ing Wilson, a millionaire, with
numerous criminal offenses in deal-
ings withlibyan leader Muammar
Qadaffi and other Libyans that began
in 1976. Wilson claims he was work-
ing for the CIA at the time.
....Wilson, who worked as a covert -
agent for the CIA from 1955 to 1971
and for the Office of Naval Intelli-
gence from 1971 to 1976, is being
charged with illegally supplying four
revolvers and an M-16 rifle to a -
Libyan intelligence officer in Europe.
One of those weapons reportedly
was used in the slaying of a Libyan
dissident in Bonn.
Two of the government witnesses
expected to be called to refute
Wilson's claim that he worked for
the CIA while in Libya are retired
Adm. Bobby Ray .Inman, a former ?
CIA deputy director and head of the
National Security Agency, and Air
Force Maj. Gen. Richard Secord,
depury assistant secretary of defense
for Near Eastern, African and South
Asian affairs.
Court documents to be presented
at the trial include Swiss bank
accounts, false passports and Si mil-
lion murder contracts.
The government estimates Wil-,
son's wealth at 514.1 million, includ-
ing estates in Virginia and England.
He had been operating out of_Trip-
oli since 1980 when he was lured to
the Dominican Republic in June by
a former associate working for the
government. Dominican authorities
put him aboard a nonstop New York-
bound airliner where he was arrested
? by 'U.S. marshals.
A former CIA agent who first told
the governmentof Wilson's Libyan
' connection was found .dead last
month outside a motel in Virginia's
Blue Ridge Mountains.
The cause of death has not yet
been determined, although authcri-
-
ties believe the ex-agent, Kevin
Mulcahy, who was to be a govern-
ment witness, died of natural causes.
Charges in the other pending trials.
two in the District of Columbia and
one in Houston, include conspiracy
to commit murder, illegal export of
high explosives and recruitment of
ex-Green Berets to train Libyan hit
men and teach them how to conceal
explosives in refrigerators, televi-
sions, and gift ashtrays and flower
pots.
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THE WASHINGTON POST
15 NOVEMBER 1982
Ex-CIAAgent's Trial Begins
- By Philip Smith
Washington Post SUM Writer
Edwin P. Wilson, the tall, dour ex-CIA agent
who went from deep cover to deep trouble with
federal prosecutors, goes on trial today in an Al-
exandria courtroom on charges he conspired to
smuggle weapons from Virginia to the radical
Mideast regime of Libyan ruler Col. Muammar
Qaddafl.
The trial is the first in a six-year investigation
by U.S. authorities of the 54-year-old millionaire
and former-spy. Wilson, in custody under $60 mil-
lion bond, faces later trials in Houston and Wash-
ington on separate charges related to his alleged
training and supplying of Libyan terrorists.
A conviction in Virginia would increase Pres-
sure on Wilson to cooperate with the Justice De-
partment, ?which is investigating extensive over-
seas arms and terrorist activities allegedly touched
on by Wilson's globe-girdling career, according to
lawyers familiar with the case.
The sensitive nature of the Virginia case was
underscored earlier by a closed pretrial session
before U.S. District Judge Oren R. Lewis, during
which defense lawyers argued for permission to
subpoena a host of U.S. intelligence and executive
branch officials in Wilson's behalf.
Neither side is talking about the outcome. Pros-
ecutors may have had an ally, however, in the 80-
year-old, conservative Lewis, who mowed down a
parallel string of defense motions filed in open
court that challenged the legality of Wilson's in-
dictment and arrest last summer. .
Lewis wrote that he refused to believe Wilson, a
veteran agent and alumnus of Task Force 157, a
secret (now-defunct) Navy intelligence organiza-
tion, was "lulled into slumber" by prosecutors who
succeeded in luring him out of Libya and got him
aboard a plane bound for New York where he was
placed in custody.
Chief prosecutor Theodore S. Greenberg, citing
concern that Wilson might try to "graymail" the
government by threatening to reveal U.S. intelli-
gence secrets at this week's trial, forced the closed
hearing by invoking a recent federal law designed
to protect classified information.. -? .": "
-Greenberg also retaliated against,Wilson's claim
that he was working for the CIA in Libya in 1979,
when the alleged weapons offenses occurred., by
winning permission from Lewis to subpoena two
senior officials who are expected to deny in court
that Wilson had official agency ties at the time.
One, Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, is former deputy
director of the CIA and once served as head of
Task Force 157. The other is Maj. Gen. Richard
V. Secord, a Wilson acquaintance and top Penta-
gon expert on US. arms deals involving the Mid-
east.
Wilson is charged in an eight-count indictment
with conspiring to smuggle four handguns and an
M-16 rifle through Dulles International Airport to
Europe. Prosecutors contend one of the handguns,
a Smith & Wesson .357, was later used in the May
1980 assassination of a Libyan dissident in Bonn.
Wilson, who reportedly has turned down a plea
bargain arrangement that included substantial prison
time, faces up to 44 years imprisonment and a $245,-
000 fine if convicted this week in Alexandria.
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DATE November 11, 1982 11:30 P.M. CIN Washington, D.C.
.SUBJECT Panel Discussion/U.S.- Soviet Affairs
TED KOPPEL: With the cooperation of the Council on
Foreign Relations, we have assembled a panel of leading and, I
might add, very patient specialists on the Soviet Union to
explore further the question of what lies ahead in U.S.-Soviet
affairs.
Joining us live from the headquarters of the Council on
Foreign Relations in New York is Dmitri Simes, Executive Director
of the Soviet and East European program at Johns Hopkins Foreign
Policy Institute; Admiral Bobby Inman, former Director of the
CIA, now consultant to the House Select Committee on
Intelligence; Winston Lord, a former State Department official
who is now President of the Council on Foreign Relations; Leslie
Gelb, national security correspondent for the New York Times; and
Robert Legvold, Director of the Council's Soviet Project.
Admiral Inman, I'd like to begin, if I may, with you and
to ask you whether indeed our intelligence community is that
badly off when it comes to the issue of deciding or determining
who's going to be next. Do we ever have any way of knowing?
ADMIRAL BOBBY INMAN: We do very well on military items,
reasonably good on economic. And not only do we do poorly on
political items, but we're likely always to do poorly against
that closed society.
KOPPEL: Why is that?
ADMIRAL INMAN: Simply the enormous difficulty of trying
to penetrate the Politburo itself.
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American Spies Feel
Left Out in the Cold,
Seek Fringe Benefits
Members of Secret Task Force
Go to Court to Win Credit
For Their Years of Service e
' By JONATHAN K ITN)"
Staff Reporter of THE %'i.j.STruvr JUUKISAL.
It may not be exactly the way Nathan
Hale would have reacted but some 30 U.S.
spies who were iaid off lour years ago are so
upset at having to stay out in the cold that
they have taken Uncle Sane to court over
their lost pension rignts and other dimin-
ished federal benefits.
The men once belonged to a super-secret
Nary operation called Task Force 157 that
clandestinely gathered intormataon about
maritime affairs all around the world. To fa-
! cilitate their work, the Navy allowed the
men to set up business fronts an their own
, land to recruit foreign nationals as agents.
This kind of intelligence gathering was
curtailed after congressional investigations
in the mid-1970s uncovered embarrassing
' abuses (not involving Task For 157). But
now it seems to be coming back. The Rea-
gan administration has said that CIA Direr-
toi William Casey intends to use business
and commercial "cover" much more than in
the past.
Says one former 157 operative: "My job
was to find out what the Soviet navy was do-
ing here, here and here (pointing to loca-
tions on a ma)e-believe mapi. I had a great
deal of leeway in how to go about it. If I
wanted to set up a shipping company. I be-
came president of a shipping company.''
During the Vietnam War, Task Force 157
penetrated North Vietnam's transport indus-
try, according to Adm. Thomas H. Moores,
the retired chief of naval operations. "157
gave us the exact schedules Of ships enter-
ing and leaving Haiphong Harbor," he says,
adding that this helped in planning how to
mine the harbor.
BOOB to Kissinger
Partly because it was small and self-con-
tained, the task force developed such a se-
cure system of coded cornmunications that
former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
preferred it to standard embassy communi-
cations when he warned to send messages to
the White House while he was visiting for-
eign dignitaries.
In 1977, however, the nine-year-old task
force was scrapped by Adm. Bobby Ray In-
man, then the deputy director of the Defense
intelligence Agency. Even Adm. Inman.,
who later went on to become the deputy de
i rector of the Central Intelligence Agency be-
fore resigning last July, praises 157's work.
He says it was just a victim of federal bud-
get cuts.
Members of the task force were furious?
and still are. More than a dozen of them
agreed to interviews with this reporter. al-
though, as might t* expected, almost none
wanted to be quoted by name. Spying is a
secret business, and Judge John McCarthy
of the aleril Systems Protection Board, a
federal employee appeals body, is enforcing
special secrecy around 157 pending his ad-
m.inistrative-court decision on the federal
pay status and benefit issues. His ruling is
expected any day. The case?heard in total
secrecy?has dragged on for four years, and
the former spies say that if they lose, they
will sue in federal court
There is outspoken bitterness among
some of the men who believe that dropping
the task force was a maneuver of Adm. 1n
-
man to advance his own intelligence career.
Others say R represented a victory for the
aowerful corporate suppliers of expensive
"black box" satellite and electronic systems
Of strategic information gathering over "hu-
mit" Ian intelligence-community bureau-
cratic term for information systems relying
on human agents). They raise the possibility
that the death of 157 has left the U.S. dan-
gerously short of important strategic intelli-
gence.
Former Spy Indicted
Muddying the argurnents both pro and
con about Task Force 157 is the fact that the
notorious former spy Edwin Wilson. facing
trial next week on federal charges of selling
high-technology war materiel to Libya and
other alleged crimes. was a 157 operative af-
ter his official retirement from the CIA. Mr.
Wilson joined 157 as a full-bine employee in
1e71. and his contract lapsed on April 30,
1e76. despite his efforts to continue R. Al-
though his 157 salary is said to have been no
more than $35.000 a year, Mr. Wilson made
millions of dollars throug'n his various deal-
ings and established a lavish estate in Vir-
ginia.
One theory is that anticipation of the Wil-
son scandal by Adm. Inman may have led to
ha axing the task force. Adm. Inman, how-
ever, says it was just luck that 157 was cut
by the budget before Mr. Wilson embar-
rassed the Navy.
The Navy won't even say why it won't
pay the claims. Comparatively little money
is believed to be involved, and the fight is
making a public spectacle of a supposedly
secret operation. One reason may concern
the use of business cover for spies. Says one
former Navy supervisor. "If these guys are
allowed to collect, then you are going to
have thousand I mean thousands. of
people (spies) who work for Lockheed and
everybody else going to want to collect."
(Lockheed Corp. won't comment on what It
says is classified inforniation, but it is one of
many companies _that are known to have
provided cover for U.S. spies in the pasta
The seed of 157 was an order from Presi?
dent Kennedy in 196: for the Navy te gather
more information about Cuba from Cuban
employees at the Navy base in Guantanamo.
The Navy dispatched an egg-bald. 6-foote4,
290-pound veteran intelligence officer named
Thomas Duval to get the job done. Mr. Du-
val iooks like Daddy Warbucks but goes by
the nickname "Smoke." The name refers W
the oversized stogie he usually clutches. but
friends say it suits his character, too.
Pick a Number
Originally an' enlisted man, Mr. Duval
helped U.S. intelligence forces infiltrate Eu-
ropean maritime unions in the 1950s and was
commissioned an officer. Hs work in Cuba
was admired enough by the Navy that in
1965 it assigned him to organize a world-
wide maritime spy,effort. On Aug. 7, 1966, it
was designated Task Force 157 (the number
was arbitrary?maybe someone's room
number, one operative suggests).
About 30 Navy officers and 70 civilian in-
telligence officers were assigned to the new
group. The Navy incorporated some com-
mercial shipping companies in Alexandria,
va., to serve as employment cover for them.
Task-force members were stationed in ma-
jor ports around the world. They created
still other business fronts and recruited local
nationals as agents.
Eventually 157 encompassed "more than
600 reporting human sources," Sen, Strom
Thurmond said in a letter protesting its de-
mise and written at the urging of Adm.
Moores, the retired Navy boss.
Besides posting informers in most of the
principal ports of the world, 157 also learned
a lot by infiltrating maritime unions. its for-
mer operatives say. Adm. Moores, a strong
defender of the task force, says, "It's impor-
tant to know where ships are coming from,
what kind of flag they're flying, what's in
the hold when they offload it. There's no
way you can photograph this from satellites,
or even low-flying aircraft." Along with its
value during the Vietnam War, "the system
: -was useful in the Middle East, and in the In-
dia and Pakistan war" and is missed now,
! he addS.
Former supervisors also note 157s cheap-
.
; ness, especial)), compared with the cost of
intelligence from satellites? "a drop in the
bucket,' says one retired admiral. Sources
. familiar with 157's budget say it never ex-
ceeded ?5 million a year, not counting the
salaries of 30 Navy officers and the cost of
electronically outfitting some boats. which
the Navy paid for. The boats, disguised as
pleasure yachts, shadowed Soviet and other
suspicious shi is and lurked around critical
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USA TODArS SPECIAL REPORTS FROM THE CAPITAL
hu-nan to receive subpoena in Wilson case
? Retired Adm. Bobby Inman and Defense Department
official Richard Secord will be called as prosecution
? witnesses in the trial -of ex-CIA agent Edwin P. Wilson,
accused of training Libyan terrorists. A federal judge
granted a prosecution request to subpoena the two, court
clerks said Wednesday. Inman is former head of the super-
secret National Security Agency and former deputy direc-
tor of the CIA, Secord is deputy assistant defense secretary
for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs. They may refute
claims by Wilson that he was working for the CIA when be
, allegedly smuggled arniis. Wilson's trial begins Monday. ?
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10 NOVEMBER 1982
Top Officials to Testify
At Trial of Ex-Agent
. By Philip Smith
washingLon Post Staff Writer
A fearljudge has granted a. request by pros-
ecutors.to?subpoena a top Pentagon official and
the CIA's former deputy director in the upcoming
Alexandria trial of ex-CIA agent Edwin P. Wilson
on conspiraq and firearms Charges.
Prosecutors said testimony by the two--Rich-
ard V. Secord, deputy assistant secretary of De-
fense,i4 charge of Mideast arms sales, and Adm.
Bobby Inman, once No. 2 man at the CIA?will
be used to counter Wilson's Claim he was working
for the.CIA -in the Midealst at the time of the .al-
leged:offenaeS.
Wilson, scheduled for trial Monday, is Charged
with conspiring to smuggle four handguns and an
M16 rifle from Virginia to Libyan agents in 1979,
The government's request was approved Mon-
day by District Judge Oren R. Lewis, who is ex-
pected to rule this week on similar subpoena re-
quests by Wilson's defense lawyers.
In court docurrients, prosecutors also said Wilson
confidant Paul. Kaiser, who was assisting U.S. law
enforcement officials, was paid $250,900 by Wilson
earlier:this-year to help him move undetected from
Libya to the Dominican Republic where he thought
he would find a safe haven from arrest?'
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8 NOVEMBER 1982
The Crippled CA
hen Adm. Bobby Inman retired
last spring as deputy director of
the CIA, he denied his departure
was caused by policy differences with the
Reagan administration. ?
Indeed, Adm. Inman's recent remarks be-.
' fore the Association of Former Intelligence
Officers (AFIO) commended the president's
efforts to upgrade the agency's covert capa-
bilities ? capabilities that were crippled by
previous administrations. And he pinpoint-
ed some of the problems that plague the
CIA..
Chief among them is that the United
States is no longer the world leader in intel-
ligence gathering.
Adm. Inman said that, iwhile "we have
some good organizations doing first-class
work," 14 years of personnel reductions and
spending cuts have relegated the agency to
second-class status. He was especially crib--
cal of an education system that failed to
produce people with the skills in linguistics
that would "quickly give us the surge to
deal with a whole range of burgeoning prob-
lems in the outside world."
And though he conceded that the CIA has
maintained a technological edge over the
Soviet Union, he believes "we're far short of
the skills and trained manpower that -we're
going to need for the coming decade."
He was particulsrly concerned about the
agency's ability to accurately assess the
evolving power struggle within the Kremlin.
Another worry is whether the new Soviet
leaders will be tempted to press their mii-.
tary's potential for projecting their naval
and air power around the globe.
Adm. Inman praised President Reagan's
long-range plan' to increase the CIA's budg-
et and hence its ranks, but-he warned that
sustained support for strengthening the spy
agency will be difficult. He is aware of the
congressional penchant for second-guessing
the CIA.
Not content with their authority to over-
see intelligence activities, some
congressmen now charge that CIA reports
are tailored to support the .administration's
foreign policy. The latest example occurred
recently when Democratic Rep. -Charles
Rose of North Carolina asserted that Cen-
tral American intelligence reports were rig-
ged to fit the president's preconceptions.
This type of harassment explains, in part,
why Adm. Inman decided to leave the intel-
ligence agency. It also accounts for his
resignation as s volunteer consultant to the
House of Representatives Permanent Com-
mittee on Intelligence. .
During an interview last summer, Adm.
Inman said he had rarely seen an adminis-
tration twist intelligence data to fit its for-
eign policy. Discretion probably prevented
him from commenting on those
congressmen Who play their roles -on over-
-sight committees largely for political advan-
tage.
The irony is that Congress, through its
misguided attempt to reform the nation's
spy network, has not only crippled the CIA,
but it has driven dedicated professionals
like Bobby Inman from the intelligence
The retired admiral didn't say this to the
AFIO gathering. But, then, he -didn't have
to.
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7 NOVEMBER 1982
Counterspy
Unification
Bid Argued
Battle Brews Over
Plans to Bring US.
Efforts Tokether
By ROBERT C.
Times Staff Writer
WASEINGTO/s4:-A-inajOi:figlitis
'brewing within the -government
over efforts toreform-U.S...counterg-,i
intelligence activities after
-tion of a .secret. study ordered by
President Reagan on the Threat to
the nation posed by Sovietapies trod;
other ftsreign agents.
- A central element inThe deVelop-
ing controversy is the -tjuestion or
how far the United States six:Kik!
move. toward creating,
counterintelligence agency.' r..Soine...1
intelligence officials believe greater
.centralization is Deeded to fit.?
'foreign spying, but 'others 'believe
that such a move would reIdralleold
Jeers of a Big Brother in Washing-
ton spying on private citizens.
The presidential study of U.S. ca.-
pabilities and resources in counter-
intelligence, overseen by WilliarnI
Casey, director of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency, made more than
100 recornrnendatioris last:August..
Administration officials ,
? ?
Broader Limes Ignored ?
-Arid the -President ? bai-linierecl
Casey to examine ways to imple-
ment the fmdings, an Administrii,.z
tion official said. ' : !f
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? But the study .w
. looking into the broader, More con-
troversial issues underlying tr,,S2
- counterintelligence performanceL-
such as whether the various Agin-
cies in the field should be better
coordinated, whether. they ? should
issue a combined analysis of collect::
ed information and,. ..ultimately.
whether they should be reorganized
into a single central agency: :
instead, this broader 1:32unination
has been assigned to the Presidents
--Foreign Intelligence ? Advisory ?
-.Board, oorriposed 19.private citi- ?
zens under the chairmanship of for-
mer Ambassador and 'White Bowe
counselor Anne Armstrong of
Teams It has been directed to exa-
mine all aspects of the counterintel-
ligence picture, including possible
organizational changes.
Fear of Single Agency
This has raised fears within the
intelligence community that a sin-
gle counterspy agency may emerge
and, if given police powers and au-
thority to keep files on Americans,
would raise the specter of a national
security organization to spy on,U.S.
c itizens. ? . .
?"It would become thelocus not
only of liberal attacks for the rest Of
the century, reviving ghosts of the
FBI files and (former FBI chief.
Edgar) Hoover, but also a target for
? penetration by .the Soviets," said
one, government official. who, asked..
not to be identified:: _
" -DecentraliratiOn abiciproVidell"
way to. get competitive analyriel of
the threat and of other data.::_th
avoid the government being.sent off
in a wrotig direction without
:ade-
quate review," another official said.
On the other hand, there appears
to be a unanimous view in the
'government that improvement' is
Deeded in the present decentralized
rAs now structured., the FBI
spends 80% of ? the nation's total
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
2 NOVEMBER 1982
WASHINGTON
Lawyers for renegade CIA agent Edwin Wilson have filed a laundry list of
subpoena requests seeking testimony at Wilson's forthcoming trial from Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak and Vice President George Bush as well as from a series
of top intelligence officers, AFL-CIO officials and a White House lawyer.
Wilson, accused of aiding Libya in the training of terrorists, is to stand
trial Nov. 15 in nearby Alexandria, Va., on charges involving the alleged
shipment to Libya of four revolvers and an M-16. One of the handguns allegedly
was used in the assassination of a Libyan dissident living in Bonn.
Wilson and associate Frank Terpil face a variety of charges involving
training Libyan terrorists and shipping weapons and explosives to Libya in the
late 19705. Wilson, 54, was lured back into the United States earlier this year.
Terpil remains at large and was last reported seen in Beirut.
Lawyers for Wilson also filed late Monday with U.S. District Court Judge Oren
Lewis a lengthy list of CIA and other documents. Lewis will rule on which
witnesses with flag-rank or Cabinet status will be called and what classified
documents will be allowed. The government's document list was filed in a sealed
envelope.
In additon to Mubarak and Bush, who once ran the CIA, those sought by
Wilson's -Inseers included Adm. Bobby Inman,.former deputy CIA director and
former hean of the super-secret National Security Agency; Maj. Gen. Richard
Secord, deeoty assistant secretary of defense for Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs, A.L-CIO officials including President Lane Kirkland; several CIA
figures ant Egypt's assistant military attache in Washington.
Also on the list are White House lawyer Fred Fielding, former presidential
national security adviser Richard Allen and his successor, William Clark.
The docements defense lawyers Harold Fahringer and John Keats asked for
include all CIA documents dealing with Wilson's collection of intelligence
information in Libya, the Middle East andelsewhere, the "book cable" on
Wilson sent to all ,CIA stations by Adm. Stansfield Turner, 2 CIA chief, in
1976 and 1277, all'Tnformation on ths Glomar Explorer, a vessel involved in an
attempt to salvage a sunken Soviet submarine Un the Pacific._
The two attorneys said they wanted the AFL-CIO to be asked to provide data on
labor problems and information on what was deScribed as WilsOn's cooperation and
work with vie labor group concerning CIA operations.
' They also sought from various agencies any documents on Wilson's relationship
with an intelligence operation known as Task Force 157.
The Defense Department was asked for data on Wilson's collection of
intelligence data in Libya, the Middle East and elsewhere, documents on an arms
pact between the United States and Egupt, and all records on an enterprise
called EATSCO.
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SUCH
MINUTE
DETAILS of en.
emy bctivity an
troop dispositions can nov.
be photographed by airborne or
spaceborne high-resolution "elec?
Ironic cameras" from long stand-off di7-
tarices and relayed instomanensisly to
small ground read-out stations that a angles
NATO cornmander could liteyally tell? ?thus a
and show?the White House when the most 12 hours a
from road wheels of a an leading a Rus- day in average climes,
sian attack into Western Europe have compared with the four
crossed the East-West German border. hours B day (roughly 10 a.m.
The first such photo ever made public is until 2 p.m.) in which conven-
shown here. tional cameras provide their high res-
It was taken three years ago. by a sys- olution imagery. ?
tem similar to the new ltek miniature elec- Photos like this can now be relayed in-
tro-optical imaging system shown on ihe stantaneously to mobile ground process-
experi-
right. which weighs only 26 lbs. (end ing and control stations with no degrada- ments in Eu?
which could be reduced in the near future lion in resolution (or quality of the rope to find effi?
using. the latest manufacturing lechnolo? imagery). In fact. mobile ground process- dent ways to incorpo-
gy). ltek produces such electronic cam. ing stations small enough to fit in a medi- rate such information in its
eras in versions weighing up to 1.600 lbs urn size van can instantaneously "en- targeting process. In one such
The film strip on this page was taken hence" the digital imagery using many field experiment, the BDM Corpora-
from a 12-mile slant range over the center different algorithms to provide even tion is using off-the-shelf equipment to
of Los Angeles and covers an area about grecner detail than what is apparent bring the chip revolution into division and
three miles wide by 22 miles. There is a here?making the photos brighter. lighter, corps operation centers without waning .
power station toward the lower right: in or darker: sharpening the contrast so that 15 years.
the original film from which this half-tone edges show up better; and filtering out The imagery is transmitted and pro-
was primed, the number of wires or power smoke haze. or smog. cessed in digital form, and storeci on mag-
lines emanating from it are clearly visible An operator in the same station can netic tape for post-flight analysis and
without further magnification, as are the zoom the camera in for a closer look at comparison with earlier or subsequent
condensers on those lines. (Some of that any particular area;. focus the camera imagery. or for-correlation with data from
detail inevitably is lost in even the Most more precisely: and cause it to roam over other sensors.
?
precise commercial' printing process other target areas. He can "freeze" por-
The imagery shown here is comparable
available. which AEI uses.) Toward the lions of the image and project individual to that produced by a prototype of lick's
upper left is a football stadium and sports frames on separate displays for closer model 2KL."mini-E01S"?miniaturized
field on which one can count the number scrutiny; enlarge them from two to 15 eiectro-optical imaging system. The 2KL
of people playing soccer. again with the times (with no degradation in resolution was designed for extended border surveil-
naked eye or a small magnifying glass. up to about )0 times magnification); and lance and real time tactical battle manage-
Elsewhere throughout the photo, one can obtain an immediate hard-copy, film ment, and can be mounted in a small air-
distinguish between Volkswagen sedans print-out of equal clarity. Using even a craft such as the OV-10 Bronco used by
and Ford coupes, whether parked in a commercial telephone line, he can in- USAF forward air controllers in Europe.
driveway or moving along a freeway at 55 stantaneously transmit the imagery to Qualny?of the tactical imagery varies,
miles per hour. distant, mobile read-out stations (or more of course, but does not degrade signifi-
The photo p4nted here appeared at a sophisticaocessing centers). again cantly, as function of distance or slant
ground read-oePPraVIMFOr Releaseh2011U4 07e:ICIAADPMQ16002600020t and vis-
away from the sensor platform within lution. (One version of a mobile, ground ibility con00904R00F itions.
thousandths of a second after being processing station is shown on page 72.) The unique two-dimensional arrange-
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