'FRIENDLY' SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00134R000400130022-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: November 1, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2009/02/04 :CIA-RDP91 B00134R000400130022-2
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.When the Israefi government not,fied the U.S. State Depart-
rlent last summer that it knew precise details of a conver-
cation between Ambassador Andrew Young and.the PLO's
Zehdi Terzi, held in the Beekman Street apartment of the
Kuwaiti ambassador to the United-l~Iatiorts, reputable jour-
nalists reported that Israeli agents=had bugged the place.
These reports -were - soon followed by others, ~ ~equaliy
authoritative, that U.S. intelligence had intercepted the con-
Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, in responding to~the
allegations. of Israeli .bugging, was remarkably phlegmatic,
green light to do as they please. In the-v,ew o
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considering our? recent experience with other "friendly" been given
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forei~rt intelligence services?-- notably those of Chile, Iran, ; Washington's national security bureaucracy, the stakes are so
and South Korea. "The wonderful newspapers of this coon- great in the U.S: Israeli "special relationship" -that?acquiesP
try are filled with assertions and allegations,". he said "I've : , cence in Mossad's operations would sewn to lie justified .._
The early accounts of the incident, however, made a limited to intelligence gathering, propaganda, and an coca
strong case that, Israeli agents had, indeed. bugged the place. I signal black-bag job on Arab embassies and otherdliplomati
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such illegal' electronic surveillance. Asked whether that in~espionage operations directed against the Soviet ?Jnion
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portecs' .concern "It would depend on a lot of factors and able intelligence ally: Therein, of course, lies Israeli~i
circumstances," he said.
U.S. officials seem to have profound respect for Mossad,
the legendary Israeli intelligence service. Recent events
strongly suggest; however, that it is time for .the U.S.
Government (and certain quarters of the press) to come -
down out of this James Bond fantasy world and address some .
of the more murky issues raised in the Andrew Young affair.
Only. days before the Young-Terzi contact was exposed, a
preliminary. draft of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee
.study of intelligence operations in this country was leaked
first to columnist Jack Anderson and later to -The Washin~-
ton. Pasc Concentrating on operations of so-called allied in?
teiligence..servicas -Chile's DINA, the Shah's SAVAK,
Taiwan's National Security. Bureau; and agents of Ferdinand
Marcos =- the Committee?found, as The Posr reported, that .
"all had intelligence liaison agreements with the- CIA, and
they operated .with a relatively free hand here."
' SAVAK, the Committee found, also, had a close relation- .::
.ship with the FBI. The principal activities: ofSAVAK and our
other "foreign friends" was to harass exiled opponents of -
their regimes and covertly influence American public opinion
towards- the dictatorships they served. The most notorious
and`odious of such activities was the assassination of former
Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and.a young American _
woman, Ronni Karpon Moffitt, in the streets of Washington .
four years. ago, and .the: efforts of South Korean agents to
manipulate members of Congress, the press, and U.S. uni-
versifies.
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The Israeli government might have weighed the- outcome
of the Letelier and "Koreagate" rases when it decid.d to re-
veal details of the Young-Terzi meeting..The Chilean
~ovemment has successfully stonewalled U.S. prosecutors
ed with planning the Letelier murder. The "Korea-
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gate" rase firzled to a close during the summer when charges
were dropped against Tongsun Park,, the key actor in the
bribery scandal One U.S. Congressman and a South Korean
businessman, a minor figure in the Korean operations, went
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to jail
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The operations of Mossad were'not included in the Senate
study. The bland response of U.S: officials to possibly illegal
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.Israeli,: operations here suggests that Mossad agents hav
telligeace's ace.in the hole. Should the United States obj t
,tolsraeli intelligence operations here, Israel could threaten o
shut down the information pipeline from Russia . _ .s. - - " ".
The Senate Committee .found this was the reason U...
oflicaals looked the other way when "friendly" agents wee .
bribing officiak and beating up exile d,ssidents here. T e
Shah of Iran made .the quid.pro quo explicit. In Decerti
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1976; U.S. Ambassador (and former CIA director) Ric
helms cabled Henry Kissinger. "As you well know; we '
very beholden here in` the intelligence area and theref a ~, i
? correspondingly. vulnerable.'.' SAVAK ? went on its w y .
harassing Iranian students here, and the CIA kept its niissi e-
.monitoring sites in Iran. -? ~: -?. -?:.:; :-~.: -.: _ . ~ -::.:. ~ :? :.: ~: - . ? h
"~": The Senate should move" to ? convene. full heartngs n
American complidty in the operations of "friendly" fore, t .j
intelligence services here, using the Foreign.Relations Co - i'
mittee report as a starting point Allegations of illegal Isn li
"operations. should be included' in such hearings. Such a - `.
;~ forum might also be appropriate for probing the dark corn rs ~ ~'
-of the Letelier investigation and other past operations he e. ~a
Arid .it nught contribute to the development of realistic - ,
telligence guidelines: for the future.: ~ .....: _...=,; :. ; .
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(.TeJf Stein