POLICIES ON INTELLIGENCE EFFORTS BY ALLIES IN U.S. ARE LACKING, SENATE PANEL SAYS

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• Publication Date: June 23, 1978
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CIA OPERATIONS CENTER
NEWS SERVICE
DISTRIBUTION II
Date. 23 .Time 1978
Item No. 1
Ref. No.
Policies on Intelligence Efforts by Allies
In U.S. Are Lacking, Senate Panel Says
By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON The government
doesn't haves i ie the in
to igence services o i a res that carry out
improper or illegal activities in this country,
the Senate Intelligence Committee said.
The panel reached its conclusions after a
lengthy review of the government's response
to U.S. intelligence information about the ef-
forts of the South Korean government to buy
influence in Congress and silence potential
opponents to the South Korean regime here.
According to the report, between 1970 and
1972 U.S. intelligence services collected de-
tailed information about Korean payments
to members of Congress and political par-
ties. But the intelligence findings, which fo-
I cused on Korean influence buyer Tong Sun
Park and the Korean Central Intelligence
Agency, werent fully i_ vesti a_t_ed b the
Federal Bureau of n veshon,-t a report
says.
In addition, starting in 1963, U.S. intelli-
gence operations knew of KCIA efforts to
monitor the activities of Korean residents in
the U.S. and later gathered evidence that
Korean operatives were working to block
Korean-Americans from criticizing the re-
gime of Korean President Chung Hee Park.
While the findings aren't new-they've
been disclosed over the last few years by
the press and several congressional commit-
tees-the committee's focus on the govern-
ment's failure to curb the activities is likely
to provoke controversy.
"It is clear that no means have yet been
designed to prevent 'friendly' foreign intelli-
gence services from acting in ways that
have and still could subvert our laws and
subject our citizens to intimidation by for-
eign powers," the panel stated in its 50-page
report.
The activity of foreign intelligence agents
stationed in the U.S. by allies is a matter of
growing concern within the-government, al-
though for diplomatic reasons very little has
been made public.
Because of the highly publicized Korean
influence-buying scandal, a lot of attention
has been paid to the KCIA in recent years,
but the government is also concerned about
the U.S. operations of five or six other intel-
ligence services of friendly nations-includ-
ing Israel and Iran. Some_ officials worry
that these countries may go too far in deal-
ing with their own citizens or other potential
troublemakers in the U.S.
In addition, the report comes at a time
when the Carter administration is focusing
on a counterintelligence matter of far
greater concern-the' activities of the Soviet
intelligence service, the KGB, in the U.S.
The administration is currently trying to
bolster its ability to track Soviet intelligence
operations here.
The Senate report concludes that "the
FBI should devote greater resources to their
counterintelligence effort in order to be
able to counter the threats posed by both
hostile and 'friendly' foreign Intelligence
services." In particular, the report says it
should keep track of agents of friendly coun-
tries here.
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