FORMER CIA DEPUTY CALLS FOR TOUGHER ESPIONAGE LAWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100230003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 23, 1990
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Bill Gertz
VIN3HINGTON TIMES
The U.S. government needs new
espionage laws to counter the con-
tinuing problem of Americans sell-
ing secrets, a former high-ranking
intelligence official said yesterday.
UUEW Ad m. Bob Ray Inman
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"I think we need to begin re-
looking at the whole counterintelli-
gence issue by saying what are
modifications and clarifications in
the existing statutes, and what are
additional [laws], albeit of lesser
overall severity, but that offer a
much greater prospect that anybody
who sells secrets is going to go to
jail:' Mr. Inman told a gathering of
the American Bar Association
Standing Committee on Law and Na-
tional Security.
New spy statutes would be "a very
strong plus for deterrence" inside
government because current law re-
quires prosecutors to prove a spy in-
tended to harm U.S. security by his
actions.
"We've got one case that has cer-
tainly been very prominent on tele-
vision where the individual is likely
to never be prosecuted," he said.
"But if one in fact had the law that,
for a government official who had
access to classified information,
who had a meeting with an agent of
a foreign power and did not report
that meeting, he would be subject to
prosecution:'
Mr. Inman referred to the highly
publicized case of suspended State
Department official Felix Bloch,
who is suspected of spying for the
Soviet Union. Mr. Bloch, according
to American intelligence officials,
was filmed meeting a KGB agent in
Europe, although he has not been
charged.
Mr. Inman, who also served as
chief of naval intelligence and direc-
tor of the National Security Agency,
also said continued funding and
manpower for counterintelligence is
needed in the coming decade.
He is now working as one of three
special advisers for counterintelli-
gence reform to the chairman and
vice chairman of the Senate Intel-
ligence Committee, according to
committee officials.
Eli Jacobs, a multimillionaire fi-
nancier and owner of the Baltimore
Orioles, and Arthur B. Culvahouse
Jr., White House counsel in the Rea-
gan administration, are also part of
the study group.
The trio has been briefed by the
various U& intelligence agencies
responsible for counterintelligence
and is expected to make its recom-
msodatians to committee chairman
David Boron, OklahomaRepublicr^
and vice chairman William Cohen,
Maine Republican, sometime this
spring.
State Department legal adviser
Abraham Sofaer, who also spoke
during a question session, said he
supports the idea of reforming espi-
onage laws. Press leaks, foreign in-
telligence officiers and American
spies, currently dealt with under one
set of spy lutes, should be treated by
separate statutes, he said.
"VYb're trying to apply these same
laws to our traitors," he said.
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