STATEMENT OF VICE ADMIRAL E. A. BURKHALTER JR. U.S.N. DIRECTOR INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY STAFF BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY ON S.1762 AND RELATED BILLS CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF INTEL

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STAT
DIRECTOR
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY STAFF
BEFORE THE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE
OF THE
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
ON S.1762 AND RELATED BILLS
CONCERNING THE PROTECTION
OF INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL
MARCH 28,1984
11:00 A.M.
ROOM 2237
RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING
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Mr. Chairman
and members of the Subcommittee, I am ~
the Director of The Intelligence
Community Staff. I am pleased to be here today to discuss the
need for legislation that will provide federal criminal
penalties for attacks on United States intelligence personnel.
The Federal Government has a compelling interest in
assuring the physical safety of intelligence personnel. Except
in relatively unusual circumstances such as attacks within the
special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the united
States, violent attacks on these individuals constitute crimes
only under state and local laws, and those jurisdictions may
lack the capabilities needed to detect and prevent, or to
investigate and prosecute, attacks directed at intelligence
personnel. The need for federal law enforcement authority to
investigate and prosecute such crimes is particularly acute in
cases involving international implications or national security
matters.
Currently, there are three legislative proposals before
your committee. S. 779, the Intelligence Personnel Protection
Act, would amend section 1114 of Title 18 of the United States
Code to include probation officers and intelligence personnel
within the scope of the general federal law criminalizing the
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manslaughter of federal officers. Parts G and K of Title X of
S. 1762, also presently before your Subcommittee, would amend
the federal criminal laws to protect not only intelligence
personnel, but also their families. Finally, there is a newly
introduced bill, H.R. 5150, the Federal Officials Protection
Act of 1984, which has a similar goal. The Intelligence
Community defers to the Department of Justice concerning the
relative desirability of these three pieces of legislation.
Legislation similar to the bills before this Subcommittee
have been proposed in the past. Both the previous Carter and
the present Reagan Administrations have supported similar
legislation that would protect intelligence personnel. In the
97th Congress the Senate passed similar bills on two occasions,
first in 1981, as section 510 of S. 1127, the Fiscal Year 1982
Intelligence Authorization Act, and then as separate
legislation, S. 2552. The Intelligence Community urges
enactment of the provisions similar to these earlier bills to
remedy the practical problem of violence directed at
individuals whose physical safety is essential to the vital
federal function of determining the capabilities and intentions
of foreign powers.
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The history of violence directed at U.S. intelligence
personnel amply demonstrates the need for this legislation.
The problem first achieved major proportions in the latter half
of the 1960's, a period of great turbulence in America.
Intelligence Community personnel, particularly personnel
recruiters who interview prospective employees on college
campuses in the same manner as recruiters for American
business, were subjected to violence or threats of violence in
twenty-seven cases. The most dangerous of these episodes
~vs
involved the dynamite bombing of a recruiter's office in
n
Michigan. Fortunately, in all these instances, the
intelligence personnel involved escaped death or serious bodily
One would have hoped that the incidents of violence
directed at intelligence personnel could be categorized as an
historical aberration, a reflection of the violence of the
times in the late 1960's. Unfortunately, Mr. Chairman,
incidents of violence directed at intelligence personnel have
continued.
In 1975, an intelligence officer, his wife, and his
fourteen-year-old son asleep in their home in Colorado were the
target of a dynamite pipe bomb which damaged the roof of the
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house and shattered windows, but fortunately did not injure the
individuals. At a subsequent time, an office associated with
the intelligence Community was the subject of a dynamite
bombing. In 1978, a personnel recruiter was assaulted at a
midwestern university. In 1981, a man entered a personnel
recruiter's motel room in Illinois and threatened to kill him,
apparently for his intelligence recruitment activity.
This list of violence directed at intelligence personnel
includes only cases in which overt acts of violence occurred.
In addition, during the years 1978 to 1982 between 25 and 50
telephone threats of violence per year were made to overt
intelligence personnel. Mail threats are also received on a
continuing basis. A recent example of these mail threats
occurred in September of 1983 when Intelligence Community
personnel recruiters in major cities across the United States
received a typewritten flyer written by the "Weather
Underground Peace Action" threatening their lives. From this
discussion of violence aimed at intelligence personnel, I have
excluded incidents of violence or threats of violence aimed at
the Director or Deputy Director of Central Intelligence who are
already protected by the federal criminal code.
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The need for federal criminal penalties for violence
directed at intelligence personnel stems not only from the need
to protect the physical safety of individuals performing a
unique federal function, but also from the practical needs of
law enforcement in such matters. Because close working
relationships exist among the departments and agencies of the
Intelligence Community, which includes the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the coordination mechanism and the basic
intelligence expertise necessary to investigate violent crimes
involving intelligence personnel already exists in the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation
will not be required to develop new law enforcement
capabilities to enforce the provisions of the criminal code as
amended by the provisions of this bill to include protection
for the officers and employees of the Intelligence Community.
I wish to emphasize that it is not the degree of frequency of
attacks on intelligence personnel that requires federal
jurisdiction. It is, rather, the nature of the crime; namely,
direct interference with a vital federal function.
In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, the protection of intelligence
personnel through the application of the federal criminal laws
is long overdue and amply warranted by the facts. The
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Intelligence Community strongly supports adoption of
legislation that will protect intelligence personnel and urges
your Committee to act favorably upon legislation that would
provide this protection.
Mr. Chairman, I would be pleased to answer any questions
the Subcommittee may have.
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OFFICE BOMBED IN ANN ARBOR-A fireman inspects the rubble of a
six-unit office building in downtown Ann Arbor after it was ripped by an
explosion last night. The front walls were blown out by the blast.
iv,0 -o in'. hurt in 7th blast
bombed oca
'r,icture on Page 13A )
to Tk. Detruwt Newt
A bomb plan:cd in front of
he ] _.f Ct:"::J lntcl:igt ice Arency (CIA)
,-? rt h r:c' :d downtown Ann Arbor.
:siast f:.:!owed aS bombings of police or
:acuities in the Detroit area ut recent
.eL.s.
Tt.r tomb a?e:ti elf at 11:15 p.m. in front of
.c ; :o.:nj?fit..or o'fice at 450 South Main. The
?!;tcc was cT p'y a::d no one was hurt.
The erp.C Ir?n t: eke windows in five other
''?-ts in the sane ba'idin;? and in the di. play
:Y:?ta of the :di:iao^_n Glass Co. across the
farm= Called to the scene said they be.
ie.sd fry the odor that dynamite was used.
P?aic' >rtid the tomb hl(,w a hole in th^ sidc-
v.allc in (runt of the huit hng.
o ic;als said they had no cxp'::nxiun for
the c?~,I:Iusion. The H ;l has ben cali.d into
the ra:.e, but CIA officials t+cic unavailable
for conuncnl.
The intelligence agency has had an office
lucre for . everal ycn::;, but has refused to say
.that it is used for. It is listed in the city direc-
tory as being operated by the Department of
Drfen.,e.
The explosion was the latest in a (cries of
Lun,bin:s that started Aug. 30-just one month
Police investigating the earlier bombings
said they appear to be linked to an "anti-
establishment" plot,
The first bomb exploded to the parking
nhj4 C=~u ~s
lot of De,I-cit's %%'oodward r.?tlie* ststionnTwo
d:. , later, it huh? w s blasted intle front of ?O
a h:iih!i: g !.h :red by hvo drat: to:rd;? at =39
Gr:ui.;t, ]tuscrillc. -
A h~mb was c::Yiodc,i Sept. 6 in the par%WA'''
lot at Livcrnois police stzticr? and another
borib went of Sept. 10 near We:.'ward static.
An army recruiter "& car was d2st-cved Sept'
11 outside a recruitin offic at 15S_? Jarsrst
Cou:cas, Detroit. The f,,l!ouing d2: there W3i
en explosion in a panting led at Sccand and
Bethune, near a re: Iaurart,.v:he a three Detroit-
policemen sere estiir?
?htree youths have been ai,asted? to yet'-
another bombing, at a St. Clair Shores eehoo
edniinistraliou building, which police said was
apparently nut connected with' tke' other
bombings. :. f ? `4 r: :. .:: w sr ,
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(4'Office
Bombed in
Mill Aroov
S .CINI to me Pros Poets
ANN A1113O11-A dvrnmitn
blast it'll 4i d?tmnje,i n re-
I cruiting office for the Cewril
Intelligence A g r. n c y "h1a
some Connection" with recent
bombings in a number of
police prcclnct?station par':-
Ing lots in Dctr.,tt, I'011co
Chief Walter Iira:ny Bald
16tonday.
The explosion of four to six
slicks of dynamite hti ittcrc.1
the glass fronts of six ofriccu
in the bl,ildlhe:, of 450 :i. 7.T:-1n
to downtown Ann Arbor short.
ly before 11 :30 p.1n.
- IT ALSO broke windows In
a nearby secretary of Mate
auto license uffire, shattered
display windown st the f.lic:hi.
gan Glees Co., a e r o a. the
Street and errtckcd the wine.
Shield of a, parked car. No one
%?:a a injured.
The damage was estlnintcd
at from $3,000 to 35,000.
TWO niembcra of the FI1I
bomb'squad were flown to flip
scene on the orders of Paul
Stoddard, special a g e it t in
charge of the Detroit cffice.
TWO ofnecr, train the IM...
trait P o l i c e
Iirparhncnt?,,
bomb squad lmpec?ted thm. pre.
nllses at the requc,t of Chief
Kraslny to Int?estlgate limo tpos. 1
nibility of a r?nnnectlun hc.
twecn the CIA explosive and
ahnliar ones at police precinct
stations In Detroit.
The explosion blew a lints
about three Inches deep in
the sidewalk outside the. CIA
ofd, which Is on the ground
floor.
NO CLUES; VM s c l$.,
FBI to
i Sunj
df~
Ann Arbor BY DAVE SP~
Police and FI3I Invest
their second day of probing the
idowntotvn Central Intelligence Agj
parent positive clue, that might lea
Although it is belic%'cd dynami
wrest-ed brtv.ec?n $4,000 Lind $7,000
ment and Fence at 450 S. Main St., n
firm ly established..
Iii the absence of
f Police Chief
ull tt yc:acrd t , 8cnfor Capt. H
tits local invcstig1tion. In ?'tdditfoaro1, A
i-ilrton is chcckint'.r, _foot by foot," the
CIA bombed
in Ann Arbor
ANN ARAOR-A bomb planted in [run: of
the local. Central lntclligcn:o Agency (CIA)
office last night shattered teveral office w::;?
dotv3 in downtown Ann Arbor.
The bomb-went off at 11:15 p.iti, in front of
the ground-floor office at 450 South ltlaia. The
office was empty and no one was Lurt.
The explosion broke w?induws in five oilier
offices in the same building, and in the display
cases of the :Michigan G!nss Co. acroa the
street.
Firemen called to the cecne soul they be-
lieved from the odor that dym,amitc wa, used.
Police said the hnmh blew it ho!c in the sic!e.
walk in front of the building
Officials s id they had no etplanation for
the explu?.ion. The Fill has been called into tht.
case, but CIA officials were urrtvailablc for
comment.
The intelligence agency has bad an office
here for several years, but ha?, refused to sav
what it is used for. It is listed in the city direc-
tory as being operated by the Department of
Defense, m
'76,
? sectlol
release
i P?for
In Ha
claimed
,the w'ul
mllitanti
said "hi,
a major
Lt, Eug
said. "Tl
ration of
(activists i
Citing
milltary I
ley: Calif
We knot,
network.
sitter.
Olsor. as
i wits attet;
instrLctioa
Plds are
The Dla-
Sundey pig
bullding'c I
A three-fine;
Out bid
hra::r.}' ae
'?iImrl'ratitng
bombing is
filar incident
[):I've In Detl
f?uid tlic? pur
Weis probably
Kru~My said
lerce have rc
University c
I Officials ha,
if Oil tchc?ther ti,
,the office for
terb In the fut
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Bomb Damage Repairs Under Way
This is bow the two-story office blilldInj at 450 S. Plain
St. looks today as repairmen been work on damage caused
by a bomb exploded Sur.day night. fhe charge was set off
ft the doorstep of the local recralttng office of the led?
eral government's Central Intelligence Agency, which ec?
copied an office on the first floor. Glass hosts on all six
offices were blown out by the esplo' on and the Win
placer have now been boarded up pending per.naneit
pr!r. I-Aral pc!icc and Tcdcia1.GuiCau of Investlgat
agents are making door?to-dogs inquiries is the area of i
building; In an effort to unearth c!n;s to the Lj. be'?
their probe of the explosion moves tnta Its f t i! day.
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NO CLUES:
Fifi
lEey
to Sirnhy
I fly f).11?fi ~rnr;R ;:::
Ann Arbor police and ,I3I lnvestiglltors continued through
their t3ccond day of probing the Sunday bombing
downtown Central Intelligence /),;racy offi of the
ce with no ap
parent )Positive clues that 111,11 11t lead to :ul arrest.
Aed ;h it j.,., believed dynamite was the explosi.vC that
wrecked be be
tween $1,000 and , 1,000 worth of buildin
UJP-
meat an space at 450 S. rf;lin St., not even Hint fact h be been
;firmly established. .
In the absence of police Chief Walter Krasny, who left
;to"?n ye;,terday, Senior Capt. Ii:uvold 01so11 is c
the local investigation. In addition, all FPI m oordinating
eat from Wash-
ington is checking, "foct by foot," the shattered debris before
? .rctiohs of the building are
rc le:l~cd to tenants.
It,'fore leaving for a convention
In Hawaii yc:;terday, Krasny
chahnt Ihnt the bombing may be
the work of "anti-establishment
nillitatits" nt the Universit AAT said ??hipples of coilegc arc are
a major i(Icus in the lnvcsth>8tion,
A Lt. Lue:ne Staudenlncler, though
said, .'There is no overt Imvstl-
- Batio 1 of any Individual student
~activlsts at the University."
b ' Citing a recent bombing of a
(military installation near Berke.
ley.' Calif
Y
.,
rasii) commented,
1 "We know there': a Pretty good
in front of network between these urtlver-
allies.
(..???.
office win.. Olson said that four of his men
? .who attcudcd it instruction "hon school
program In n Grand
in front of Rapids sic Working with FBI men.
".lain. The The bla.,a, which occurred lr.te
1t. ?- Sunday night, shuttered nl! of the
five other buildtnr's front Windows and left
:le display a three-Inch hole ill the cement
!cross the out:idr.
KNI-Mlu' said Monday there was
they be., "Icii;,o-lilg possibllity?'
F?as used. bombing is connected withe
th tsim-
the side. liar Incidents which have taken
phlre In Detroit; Shu?e Aug. 30. lie
.anon for .. , t:uid the purpose of the bombing
I into the WOS probably one of "harhssment."
Iablo for Krasny said ruui?rs of such vio-
Pence have reached 11im from the
en office U1111-171-SPY campus for several
d to nay weeks,
ty direr- I Offlcinl:. have declined Comment
:Weill of On whrihe:' 1110 CIA Will abalidoll
the office for more obscure;qua.
tera in the future .
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East
Denver
Hone
of CIA
e
Aide
Bombed
+.7tie east Denver home of a Central In-
" ea APncy (CIA) official was d3m-
by a bomb shortly before midnight
'ay.
?ftloe said James AI. Sommerville,
Osf of the CIA's Denver field offie ,
Waaa't !tee at the time. Sommerville's
e? Allan, and their 14-year-old son
&3Je P in the rear of the house and
p
may. Felice said.
The bomb, which apparently was placed
Cap the ground against the front of the one-
daly brick hone, damaged the roof and
Sprinkler system and also blew out
windows, Caps Robert ShaVlnessy, heado
o! the police to b
aid windows also were shatters He
!domes peat door and across the street in
Shaughnessy said the device Was a piN
bomb, and the explosive probably was dy.
laemfte
.
He said the U.S. Treasury Department's
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
pfd the Federal Bureau of Inve3tigatlon
W M Called in.
Pbltlee said they didn't know whether
*as any oormection between the
and a bombing eats in the day
the American National Bank fr down-
Dbnver In which four women were
That explosion apparently was
h by a piastic.typ, explosive, police
;A spokesrnan for the CIA Denv, Bell
which nerves Colorado, Wyoming,
Mexico and parts of several other
said there was no Indication that
bonlbtn was related to Sommerville's
''It might have been the work of
kook or related to the thing dawn-
said. ~ bombing),,, the spokes-
,A FBI 3Pokesnan said the FBI
th
e pee at thi
s time because
dOpT ~
ve any ldi
caiion that whoev.
jj~7
r alpongZL
knew whose residence
DENVER PAt1CE dOM3 D__ -fth by tnr. Labe
SQUAD M1t1E1tS EXARL
Roof was domeped by what w Nic DAMAGED RCP
was reported o? pipe bomb with d; ncmite,
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THE NEW YORK TIM ES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30,.1915
B041B BLASTS HONE
OF A CLI, OFFICIAL
DENVER. Apr;! 29 (UPI)-A
pipe bomb explosion vatsida
the suburban home of o Central
Intelligence Agency official
1tn3y have been caused by radi
pals inspired by the bombing
of a bank hours earlier, cry
P ay have been the work of,
"crackpot", the police said
ay.
The bomb expic' in front!
1f the home of James Sommer-'
tmlle a C.IA. regional director,'
X30 minutes before rnidnight
olonday, shat:erin;; windows
?rr.:i shredding port,ons of the
-roof on the ono-story brier)
souse In South Denver.
. bricks were blown from the
front wall and it sprinkler sys-,
torn inside the house were dam-
ed, but neither Mr. Som-
mprville's wife, Allzne, nor,
their 14-year-old son, asleep
at the time of the blast, were)
hurt.
A bomb squd detective,;
Fred Stevenson, said that the
blast did not appear related to,
the explosion of .t satchel of,
dynaniit: at t'::: American Na
tional Bank of Denver 12 hours
earlier. Six employes received,
minor injuries in that explo-
sion. But he said that the pipe,
bomb, pushed against the foun-,
dation of the 3ornerville home,
might have been planted by
radicals who sot the idea from
the bank explosion. -
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U.S. Lab
Gets
BombEvidence
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turtu?d o;cr fu Ihr a'Cn rur?rt,fl ? Mm?
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uh(rt ShtnRltne ,ry vtfhnatfu
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tnen,)It, chief of the ('entr.,!
Intr1llRc0cc .1R,?nc~ . I~n(er
bolo' ,:flue.
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'be a hero, he said, "because all the
heroes I know are dead." But yesterday
,N~1!1r. Sweeney earned hem strifes when
-he saved as many as eight people from
.eertatn serious injury rod perhaps
,death and lived to reminisce.
::..Mr. Sweeney, the assistant agent in
charge of the Defense Department's of-
dice at 342 Madison Avenue, near 43d
Street, determined a bomb was there
yesterday morning. and ordered agents
and clerks to leave the area only sec-
onds before the device exploded.
No one was injured in the blast,
which destroyed a table and chair, blew
a hole in a concrete wall, shredded
point and plaster and broke most of
the windows in the 21st-floor office.
"it was heroic what he did," said
William Coogan. the agent in charge
of the office, which has 14 investiga-
tors looking into the backgrounds of
Defense Department employees and
cnnducting security checks on them.
"He saved the lives of the people who
would have been near it."
?ii. Sweeney. who has been involved
in security work for the Defense De-
partment since 1955. lives in New Jer-
sey with his wife and three children.
He is a short baldish mm-, wrr;i thick
arms and chest and a very firm hand-
shake, and he had trouble with the idea
of himself as a hero. Only reluctantly
did h, talk ablaut Neslcrdav's events.
"It was about 9:28 and one of our
agents and our chief clerk were (Ni the
way out of the office when they saw
the handbag on the window sill out-
side;' the 50-year-old Mr. Sweeney
said. "it was it woman's handbag and
they brought it in, thinking it might
belong to one of our girls."
'I Knew It Wai a Bomb'
Mr. Sweeney, whose office is toward
the back of the large, L-shaped suite
was near the door when the bag was
brought in. He looked inside and saw
the face of a clock and some wires.
"I knew it was a bomb." he said.
"So I told everybody to go in the hack
of the office and somebody called 911.
Then it went off."
Sitting later in his plaster-littered of-
fice sipping coffee and listening to
radio reports of the second blast and
threats in the city, ?1r. Sweeney was
obvigusly shaken.
it was terrible," he said, sighing and
king blankly ahead. "You have no
ea how close we came. About 10 sec-
onds."
Mr. Sweeney, who was born in New
Bork, served in the Navy in World War
I was no hero, I'll tell you"-and
n,graduated from St. John's Univer-
bity with a degree in accounting. From
1949 until 1952 he was a New York
The New York irmes/Nui 1130na
Thomas J. Sweeney who discovered
the first bomb before it exploded
in time to evacuate the office.
City policeman. He has
Department assignments
and Washington.
had Defense
in New York
Several other clerks and agents in
the office, which has no identification
on the door but is listed in the tele-
phone directory, described Mr. Sweee-
ney as "a very friendly guy" and "a
great man to work for."
His hobbies, he said, are golf and
tennis, adding that "I'm not very
grind." Asked if he liked his work, he
said:
"Until today, I thought it was won-
derful."
V
,
e was in?
volved in the theft of dynamite used
F.A.L.N. bombs. bl
Two other recalcitrant witnessci
imprisoned here. They are Maria T.ionCuetu,
director of the National Co:nmss on
Hispanic Affairs for the Protestant EpiS.
copal Church, and her secretary, Raisa'
Nemikin.
According to law enfarrement autyod.
ties, their first real progress in the cuetu
l
cam" a
most by accident last Noverr.*
in Chicago. An addict broke into an U..
tended apartment there and stole d;sa.
mite and explo:,ivc paraphernalia that tti
began to sell in the city. After ma4n g
an undercover purchase, the Chicago pf),
lice were led to the apartment by till
addict.
The apartment was rented by Carty
Alberto Torres, a quiet young man
was a member of the Episcopal Churct;t,
Hrpanic commission ar.d who helpe;.1
.:rite hyrr,nr;tc and religious texts ill
Spnih. When the F.B.I. searched ti,.','
~'e
apartment, they found a piece of evidesce,i
more important than the expansive-a
copy of an F.A.LN. ccmmcmque. Tb: >,
gave the first clue to the identities o!
memtcrs (if the group.
'I hi- suspicion is that Mr. Torres uses
the church commise'ioi: as a .r,ver, ;,rd pocsihly as a s?~:rrce of funds, fo: terroris!
activities. ictr his v;iie, anti twi.
other. pcr~.ui.s whose find rprir,tc were t.
f
i
ound
s the :.,~artr,!cnt have d:;a;,reared
data art- being for gi2 .tinrunr?,.
10
x
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Cont-aued From 1'uRo All
- - sa
a bomb when he sac: an.I the face i-.
of clock. at
Mr. Sweeney left the pu4,e on a ts''c, I I,;
urged the staff to move to tar o:' er erJ
of the lung office and moved 'With thr^?'?' T'
Seconds later the bcmb wc-a f, bh;vrrng
a hole in the co-! ruts Wac. or .-k:'
most of the windows in i h tl
That explu...on occurred ~rOu! 9:3i
A.M.
About an hour later, a second erp ^rion C'
ripped through the first-floor personnel
office of the Mobil Oil Corpora!ion in C
the Mobil Oil Building, i!tsta-tly k!!ling A
Mr. Steinberg, a partner in as e:rPI?Y- (5`
ment service who had stop, by to see 2
if there were any jobs for hi,!;cants. b
The explosion, caused by a device the
police think may have Lec?n hung from IT
a coat rack or placed nn a high shelf, I:
bent a metal door in ha!f, shattere,' large . tt
l p !ate-glass windows and splatt?red the
office curtains-with the blood of t:rr vie- s!
t tims.
At the time of the blast. two men from
a , Police Departments cnsergency sere-
one ata lty ices unit were searching fora bomb y.. s
Mourns
The Family
frontof the building and in the lobby.
In Two Midtown Terrorist Blasts'
By HOWARD BLUM
The only fatality in yesterday's mid- Harold Liebman, Mr. Steinberg's father-
town bombings was sitting with his part- I in-law, held back tears as he said: "He E 1.
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his recruitment activity. At this time our ffice is STAT
being barraged with daily calls from soneone who refuses to identify
himself but who is suspected of being violent. It is likely that there
will always be the potential for acts of violence against our employees
because of the very nature of intelligence work. Legislation which would
provide federal criminal penalties for attacks on our employees would
serve to ease this burden on our representatives.
of one of our recruiters in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Other incidents ranged
from verbal harrassment to picketing to the throwing of animal blood on
a recruiter visiting Mary Washington University in Virginia.
Recent years have seen a decline in such protests but incidents still
occur. In 1978 a recruiter had red paint thrown on her while at a large
midwestern university and the personal anguish of the attack left her
shaken for many months. A recruiter in Philadelphia was subjected to
severe verbal threats in 1980. Another representative had a man enter his
motel room in Chicago during 1981 and threaten to kill him as a result of
During periods of turbulence over national policies and priorities,
the Intelligence Community is an attractive target for radical elements
and individuals. Since Agency personnel recruiters are public
representatives of the Community, they are often subjected to the violent
threats and acts of such people. This type of activity reached its peak
in the 1965-69 period when our recruiters had a rough time on college
campuses. An article in a protest magazine caused an avalanche of
unfavorable publicity for the Agency and resulted in 27 incidents of
either interference or cancellation of college recruiting visits. One of
the most dangerous episodes in this period involved the bombing of the office.
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14 OCT 1982
FROM :
SUBJECT:
REFERENCE:
Deputy Director of Security
Policy and Management
Intelligence Personnel Protection Legislation
(S. 2552/H.R. 4940)
Memorandum from C/LD/OGC, dated 30 Sept 1982,
same subject (OGC 82-08895)
i. Pursuant to your request, Office of Security records
were searched for threat/assault/murder statistics pertaining to
intelligence personnel engaged in the per ance of official
i
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tors.
s
duties, defectors and liaison v
2. It is estimated that from 25-50 anonymous telephone
threats against openly listed CIA employees, such as Domestic
Contacts Division personnel, are received annually. We are not
aware of any killings or assaults on any Agency employees with
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the exception of Richard Welch, C
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fice. In essence, what occurred was that on
our
3 August 1977 a purse containing three sticks of dynamite was
left on a windowsill adjoining the entrance way to the office.
One of our employees, thinking that the purse belonged to one of
our secretaries or to one of the cleaning personnel, picked it up
and took it into the office. Fortunately, the bomb was dis
covered in time to evacuate the office before it went off and no
one was injured.
WARNING NOTICE - INTELLIGENCE
SOURCES OR METHODS INVOLVED
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MEMORANDUM FOR: OChief, ffice of General Counselon
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4. If you have not already done so, it is suggested that
,,Inct the Office of Personnel and the Directorate of
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so c
you a
Operations rrt!nrding this matter. If we can be of any further
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W EA THER
UNDERGROUND
Peace * action
THE CZI iES OF THE CI' AGAINST PEAC::, AGAINST Till POO?L
AND AGAINST IIUi?LANITY' S HOI''r'. FOR LIFE ITSELF, HAVE NOW P.L!1CtI: D
TII1: POINT 11II1:Rr TUIEY CAN NO 'LONGER BE TOLERATED.
CM- MEMBERS HAVE MURDEROUSLY &ND R CK1.I:SSLY PLOTTED VA?11 1"M
KILLING- UNTIL THEY THE:!S. LVCS NO LONG 1, HAVE TH,? :tIGHT TO LIVE.
AS INDIVIDUALS THEY SHOULD NOV BE ELI'?:I?ATED AND TIMIR ILL`_'GAT.
UN-CONSTITUTIONAL CONSPIRACY DISSOLVED.
TILT: INTELLIGENCE SE:tVICES Or THE. U.S. AIMED FORCES -SHOULD
IMMEDIATELY REPLACE' ALL FL CTIONTS Or THIS DISCI;EDTTi:D AGENCY.
THE CIA HAS ILLEGALLY USUItP'r.D 1i 1.~= AKING POW; E1 S FAIL Bi-YOND Till'.
CONGi? SS, BEYOND TV.? PRESIDENCY, AND BEYOND THE CONSTITUTIONAL
MILITARY ESTABI.IS1I_[i,.:'."NT.
FOR THIS REASON, W :1TI1EP LT.~i)j: zG'IO D PEAC*E:-!ACTION Br;LIL'Z r S THAT
A BOMBING CAMPAIGN SHOULD BE INITIATED yG%TNST A-.TL CIA OFFICES
AND PEflSON N?EL IX TiL, U.S. Al:-f) FORAER CIA
SUPPLIED SPECIFIC INFOR'IATIO:d TO ACCOMPLISH THIS,-.1-201.
BELIEVE TIEAT TILE CHIEF OFFICERS AND AS MANY CIA PFRSONIi2. AS
NECESSARY SHOULD BE KILLED BY Bo:n3I'-GS .UNTIL T1! ILLEGAT. MXD
PERNICIOUS CONSPIRACY OF T{ CIA IS ELIMINATED.
WEATIIE R LTNTDERGROUND PEACE-ACTION WILL AT NO TI::TE OPPOSE On
TAKE ACTION AGAINST ANY OTHEi INTE-11A.I(G:.NCh: AGENCY Or TILE
U. S. GOVERN)" N-T.
WEATHER UNDE:IGROUN1.) PEACE-ACTION I?'ILL BRING THIS JUST WAR
AGAINST THE CIA TO AN ND AND CEAS KILLI'.% G ITS ::i:T?IIi:1R7,
I?FIIE'v Ti?E U.S. ARMED FORCES A'tE ONCE '10:2 CONSTITUTIONALLY
R S"_'O JIBLE FO L THE I\Ts.i,i. ('FEN S_.;:S ICES OF T t. LT'_.IT:.D STATES.
WEATHER LT\5,)-r.RrrP.01T%-D PEACE-ACTION
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