INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE/FORMER AGENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201740002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 27, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM ABC World News Tonight
DATE October 27, 1981 7:00 PM
Intelligence Committee/Former Agents
FRANK REYNOLDS: The Senate Intelligence Committee
today advised the President to forget about his plan to loosen
restrictions on the CIA. The Administration has proposed the
intelligence agency be allowed to operate more freely here at
home by infiltrating domestic organizations.
The Committee said the restrictions imposed by
President Carter should remain in effect.
The CIA is still investigating charges that some of
its former agents utilized their connections with the agency
in their own activities abroad, especially in Libya.
More on that in this Special Assignment report from
William Sherman.
WILLIAM SHERMAN: Muammar Qadaffi, accused by the
United States of financing terror throughout the Middle. East.
The Carter Administration refused to sell him arms. The
Reagan Administration condemns him as the world's principal
terrorist.
But ABC News has learned that the Central Intellig-ence
Agencyts Office of Personnelas.used. to recruit American advisers
to train Muammar Qadaffi's terrorist squads. This is the first
indication that the offices and the apparatus of the CIA were
actively used as part of that Libyan training mission, a mission
allegedly masterminded by two former CIA agents.
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