IN WASHINGTON, SNOOPING IS A MAJOR INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100010024-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: September 28, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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23 SEFTE'-3E--i 1975
By FRAN3( JACKMAN ?
Of The Mews Was'ningfon Bureau
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TIIE CIA and the entire U.S. "in- - What Pike plane to do is to ana- in the fe
telligence community" has found lvze h,w the U.S. intelligence communi- budget f
itself on the spot in public, not t y has been doing. its basic job. And in. least clos
light of its record on the Tet offensive: -Accor
only for disobeying a Presidential order! in Vietnam in 1968, the Turkish invasion CIA offi,
and storing some deadly poisons for five; of Cyprus in 1974 and the October, 1973 ment int
years, but for a far more serious error, Mideast war, the Pike probe may be the, 16500 ar
- misreading the events leading up to most dangerous of all for the CIA ar}d' million;
the' ?vrab-Israeli War of October, 1973. its allies. employs
In c n action that touched ofd .a con- Far from-being a minor activity of 1 `Defense
frontation with. President Ford, House government. the gathering of intelli-. $900 mil
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lawmaker from Riverhead, fl., made 'i the FBI, an alphabet soup of other gence
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vided then-President Nixon on the eve to find out what's going on, both at billion;
of the Yom Kippur conflict of 1973. home and abroad. . r- . 1 Intelliga
The papers showed that' U.S. intelli- There's the National Security Agen- million;'
aennn nn.ew..a- i..t.i N;_.._ ?L_4 ~:i: a_M - _
~1. 1.... .. -~auas '. ' cacay (DIA); the various gAr a?v- clear Regulatory -lenc 's intelligence, j
maneuvers" or "exercises.." -What's nd io of th a, securi- 0 and more rye na^aM 'indicated +:,.,~ -
ty alu spy services of the Army, -navy .. division, 300 and -320,11:
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the avencdes persisted in their error
__-..,,..' fide" that is so secret its very name' Adm. William F. Paborn who was
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of vve v wue r_ce; director of Central intelligence from
can find no hard evidence o. a -major, -f the Internal Revenue Service's Intelli- 1965 to 1966, once defined the difference
coordinated -Egyptian-Syrian offensive, gence Division; Customs Service; Drag betwee-i "intelligence" and "informa-
a:ross the (Suez) Canal. and in the. Enforcement Administration; the Bu- lion" as the "process of evaluating the
Golsen 'Taig"ts area ss
Hill - the briefing papers raisedthel huntndownemoonshiners, among thers); in termy of national securiey."And that,
crucial ouestion of whether the nation .iil Postal Inspection Service; the. Treasury basically, is the job of the U.S. intelli-
getting full value for the more than S gence-commu ne -
Departments intelligence service; and -
billion it spends each year -fin intelli- The keystone of this community
the Iyuclear Regulatory Commission's, it does. L have the largest.,
CIA andthalf a doperat oe nlotherhtopgse ret cEn bvi s l'v p iiC4r `3e At9i?7-Q na] tho
umbe hofpe sonnelor spend the m et
outfit?. a >.. .+ 0v=a .." '~' :-=~ ??-? money -- is the. CIA. Headquartered in
While the heavily publicized heari -1~n addition, there area numibe:-bf a seven-story marble fortress surround--'
of the- Senate. Intelligence. Committee other. agencies with intelligence: fund. _ed by asphalt parkirik lots in Langley, i
headed by Sen. Frank Church :(D- tions: Agency for International Develop- Va., across the Potomac from Bashing-
Idaho). c-arnered the-headlines -with die= ment (AID); U.S. Information Agency; . ton. she CIA- is responsible under law
plays of CIA poison dart. guns and' re- Federal Communications Commission; only for putting together jigsaw pieces,
ports of zany schemes to make simula and..?the Departments of Commerce,. In-' of raw information and evaluating-them
eel germ attacks on the Sixth- Ave. terror, Agriculture and Justice. ai to 'security and significance: Of I
s;:o;vt"r, it gas Mike's committee -th?'tir 'Chen there are the oaf var- course, it does much more than chat and,
posed the key questions: Is what we'getI ions agencies keep on American citi- ? as the nation and the Rockefeller Com-1
:north all that money? Are we getting. zens. The U.S. Civil Service Com_mission,- mission have discovered, few govern-
so much trivia that poicymakers are for example, has more than l5- million. ment agencies have taken suchliberties
? overwhelmed with wh .t~ intelligence names in its "security" files. Gamshoes in interpreting their Iegally .assigned
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officials call
background noise
and from the commission's Bureau of Per- functions as the CI
fai! to hear the danger signals? ` - sonnel Investigations are active all over About 4,800 of the CIA's estimated !
When Assistant Attorney General J the United States, interview rg - -the 16,500 employes are in ".clandestine
Rex Lee appeared before Pike's commit- references given by prospective federal. - services," that is, spying. Eut the agen-
tee to urge a "return to the traditional jobholders, probing deeply the- back- ycy} 3D y ure tho4~a* bt- foreiA-4,A
approach' of dealing with intelligence - grounds of those seeking' so-called sensi- a tit y,,LgL1,g+~kpev ~gfo}~s~a; ;5n,`,q~i~i it I:at
matter- on Capitol Hill. the Long Island . tive posts.
congressman snapped: That is what is
wrong. Mr. Lee. For decades. other com- Even the Department of Transporta ~., , E T a f*_ 1 r , ?, v.,~f ,i}
' lion gets into the act It has an e'ecLron
mittees of Congress have not done their job, and you have loved it."
Too-Friendly Persuasion .
The "traditional - approach" has
meant that "the executive branch comas
up and ' whispers in one friendly con-
gressmetfs ear or another friendly con-
gressman's ear, and that. is exactly, what
you- want tc continue, and this is exactly
what I think has led us into the mess we
is dossier of almost 3 million Americans
who have - even had ?a drives license.
suspended or revoked. And -one of its'
semi-independent agencies, the National
Transportation" Safety Board, sends
investigators-:to the scene of?-every
major transportation disaster -. air, .
land- or- sea to search out "probable ,
corttjj
are in."'_awtz?_s~c=.r+i
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