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• Publication Date: May 4, 1972
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The Washington rilierry.Go4lonnd
By Jack Anderson
Spy Equipment .
American intelligence agen-
des are pefccting bizarre sur-
veillance devices which make
James Bond's gadgets look
Victorian.
,Some of the equipment is al.
ready in use by government
agencies engaged in snooping.
darkness and peek through
keyholes.
The ancient art of training
pigeons, for example, has
been combined with modern
laser techniques. Keen-eyed
pigeons have been trained to
fly wherever they see a split-.
second flash of red made by a
laser beam.
The devices depend on las- j The beam may be sublimi-
ers, infrared rays and micro- nally flashed on the window-
waves to eavesdrop, pierce thm sills, say, of a foreign embassy
- ? ? or military conference room,
A pigeon, with an adhesive-en-
cased '"bug" stuck to his chest.,
flies to the sill. He is trained to
snatch off the adhesive-coated
microphone-transmitter, which
then drops to the sill.
"The "bug" records all con-
versations in the room. When
the intelligence agency wants
to retrieve the "bug," it
flashes another laser beam.
The pigeon flies to the sill,
presses his body to the adhe-
sive packet and flies home.
'Another laser device simply
.focuses on a window pane of a
room in which people are talk-
Jing. Their conversation causes
.minute vibrations of the pane.
The pane acts as a mirror,
?bouncing back the laser beam
with an "image" of the vibra-
tions. These are "translated"
Into voices by a laser receiv-
ing set.
Still another eavesdropper
floods a room with micro-
waves and then "reads" the
changes in the microwave con-
figuration caused by voices in
the room. The Russians used a
?
Similar technique successfully
against our embassy in Mos-
cow for years.
Lasers have also been devel-
oped to heat up a spot on an
enemy tank or ship. Thep,
heat-homing missiles are'fired
which dart accurately to tho
heated spot.
Ingenious U.S. infrared
ports have fashioned giant
searchlights which illuminate
whole areas for those with
special viewers. The "spot-
lights" can be mounted on hel-
icopters to reveal troops in
pitch darkness. Or they can be
set atop buildings to expose
the movements .of rioters ?itt
the dark.
The infrared devices, how-
ever, also "illuminate" the
dangers of this new family of
snoopers. Tests on infrared
cameras showed that. a?
1/1000th flash at 20 feet
burned rabbits' retinas.
. A former consultant to the
Defense Department, Dr. MU-
ton Zaret has confirmed that
the lasers not only- bounce off :
the glass, but penetrate the
rooms. The lasers, microwaves?
and infrared beams can cause.
cataracts and, other long-range
injuries to people they strike.
Thus, electronic smog cre-
ated by the surveillance equip-
ment may be ruining the eyes
of spies, Communist diplomats
and innocent citizens who just
happen to be in or near the
rooms when the hazardous
rays are unleashed.
1972,'United Vekture Ey:Worsts ?
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President Nixon has ordered an
allout investigation' of columnist
PROBLEM Jack Anderson. He has warned
the bureaucracy that he expects
results or "heads will roll"!
Anderson's recent series of exposes have been
highly embarrassing to the Administration, and
Mr. Nixon has no intention of letting Anderson
continue . embarrassing him during the cam-
paign. He not only wants to discredit him but
he wants to prosecute him for the theft of classified
Government .documents.
. As pointed out in the last WO, Anderson pub-
lished the highly secret minutes of the meetings of
the National Security Council's Washington
Special Action Group beaded by Dr. Henry A.
Kissinger. The FBI was ordered to find the leak.
Unfortunately, the once highly efficient FBI,
which is now run by two senior functionaries, Alex
Boson and Mark Felt, has deteriorated. The
Bureau can't even find who filched hundreds of
'classified documents from its own files, nor has
it been able to find the persons or person who
bombed the U.S. Capitol a year ago.
The FBI is now largely preoccupied with
hiring criminals as stool pigions and agents pro-
vacateurs to frame patriots like Congressman John
Dowdy (D-Tex), Robert Miles and Robert De
Pugh.
Disgusted with the lack of effective action,
'President Nixon directed a full-scale investigation
by task forces composed of agents from several
investigative 'agencies. While persons interviewed
arc admonished by the agents not to tell they were
interviewed, columnist Anderson seems to be well
aware of the intensive inquiry. He writes: "The
White House, in its effort to discredit us and
whitewash the International Telephone & Tele-
graph scandal, is conducting a massive undercover
campaign.
"The manpower has been drawn from the White
House, Justice Department, Republican National
Committee and the Committee for the Re-election
of the President. Even the Justice Department's
Internal Security Division, which is supposed to
investigate spies and saboteurs, has been put on
our trail. Dozens of government gumshoes, Presi-
dential aides and political flunkies have been as-
signed to investigate us, and to plant stories in the
press against us.
"ITT has also retained the world's most famous
and formidable private investigating firm, Inter-
tel, to assist with the investigation. This is the
same outfit that broke Swiss bank secrecy and ex-
.posed Clifford Irving's phony autobiography of
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material to Republican Senators for use against STATI NTL
Here is something that Mr. Anderson may not
know: about a dozen more private deteCtive agen-
cies have also been hired. One of these agencies
employed arranged the entrapment of Anderson
when be was caught red-banded bugging the hotel
suite of Bernard Goldfine. WO has a written state-
ment by one of the investigators who participated.
in the Goldfine investigation. This ploy almost
cost Anderson his career as a snooper. These teams
of clever investigators are quite capable of en-
trapping Anderson again. Moreover, the most
highly sophisticated electronic surveillance equip-
ment, including x-ray video tape that can pene-
trate walls, is being utilized. This phenomenal
equipment was developed by the CIA, and is oper-
ated by a CIA technician in the Anderson investi-
gation..
Anderson is not even aware that. this kind of
equipment exists.
"Intertel submits its investigative report to ITT,
$1,-, 1171,4n
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CHICAGO, ILL.
TRIBUNE
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BY RONALD KOZIOL AND
, THOMAS POWERS
Federal agents were investigating
!three Chicagoans yesterday in the plot
In which time bombs were placed in
!safe-deposit boxes in nine banks in three
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In Chicago, the banks were the First
National, Northern Trust, and Conti-
nental Illinois Bank and Trust Co.
Under saveillance were a Chicago
'jeweler, the person who leased an apart-
ment on the North Side to which mail
for the safe-deposit renter was delivered,
and a friend of the leaser of the apart-
itnent. The friend had been introduced
.to the rental agent as a part-time room-
mate.
Agents believe that altho only one
!Person planted the bombs in banks in
'Chicago, New York City, and San Fran-
leisco, a second person aided him in
'preparing the bombs.
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Mohr Is Absolved
Police definitely had learned:
? That Christopher Charles Mohr, whose
name was used in renting the bank
boxes, is not involved in any way. He is
'serving in the Army in Viet Nam, and
his identification was stolen in Decem-
;ber, 1970, in Los Angeles.
? That the person who signed a lease
ton an apartment, at 560 W. Arlington
At. in December, 1970, is not the same
;pe r son who rented the safe-deposit
,boxes, altho that address was used by
the person who made the rentals.
Tim rental agent for the apartment
:cooperated with federal agents in lo-
cating the man who signed the lease.
Be moved out shortly after renting the
'flat, owing $300 rent, and was tracked
down by a collection agency. ?
'F'rExPlosion Tips 'Plot 7:7"*.-7'
Altho mail addressed to Mohr began
arriving at the flat from the various
banks in 1971, agents were not aware
of the bomb plot until Sept. 5, when a'
bomb exploded in a San Francisco safe-
deposit box rented by a man who;
identified himself as Moh.:.
Investigators dertermined that the
lease signer was not Mohr and began
a hunt for the real Mohr. At the same
time, acting on a tip, the FBI placed
the jeweler and the other suspect under
surveillance.
NO been planted-in other Wks- liy" the
same man.
Surveillance on the two saspects was
doubled.
Letters Sent to Papers
However, no progress was made in.
locating the other bombs until the bomb-
er sent letters to columnists on selected
newspapers in the three cities.
The letters arrived shortly before mid-
,ight Thursday and the FBI immediately
vas notified. Agents were present when
he safe-deposit boxes were opened and
he devices deactivated.
? "
One of the men reportedly is an expert,t
on wiring devices and is a former
jeweler.
The FBI has pieced together a de-i
scription of the bomber from informa-
tion received from bank employes who
took his application for safe deposit
boxes.
A federal source said the suspect
in his late twenties, 5 feet, 9 inches tall,.
has short, well-groomed hair, and was
termed "very articulate." Those inter-
viewed said the suspect wore a business
suit and carried a briefcase.
All the bombs found in the safe-deposit
?boxes Friday were wired to electronic
calendar clocks, which could- be detonat
ed at any time during a 217-day period:
Opposed to Viet War
The man who is believed to have
planted the bombs' reportedly is not con-
nected with the radical faction known
as the Weathermen or other organized
militant groups but is violently opposed
to United States participation in the
?Viet Nam War.
Federal agents were forced to go thru
a namecheck in their search for the
real Mohr and were aided by the In-
ternal Revenue Service. They finally
learned that the real Mohr was em--
ployed by a West- Coast firm and that
he had been drafted shortly after his
credentials were stolen.
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The real Mohr, it was learned, was;
placed under surveillance by miiitaryi
intelligence, the Central Intelligence,
Agency, and FBI agents roT7rztiod of
time before he was interrogated.
After the agents became convinced.
that Mohr was in no way involved in
the early San Francisco explosion, the
focus of the search returned to Chi-
because agents feared other bombs
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PENTAGON SEARCHES
NEWS ROW DESKS
?WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (AP)
?The Defense Department ac-
knowledged today that, its se-
curity agents had again con-
ducted nighttime searches of
desks an the Pentagon press
room but said that it was a
mistake and would not be re-
peated.,
A spokesman said that Dan-
iel Z. Henkin, Assistant Sec-
retary of Defense for public
affairs, "was very distressed to
know this happened." The
spokesman said that Mr. Hen-
kin had been told by the se-
curity people this "was an
inadvertent check" and will not
happen again."
Reporters were given a sim-
ilar assurance by Mr. IIenkin
several months ago but on ar-
riving for work yesterday
found cards on the desks of
correspondents for Time maga-
zine and The New 'York Daily
News that said:
"An inspection of this office
area by the Pentagon Counter-
intelligence Force revealed no
violations of security, regula-
tions.",
The Pentagon spokesman,
Brig. Gen. Daniel James, said
that the Counter-Intelligence
Force regularly checked all
Pentagon offices to make sure
that safes were locked and no
classified materials left out
overnight
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"It isn't ;just the spies that bring in. -the business,"
he said, "It's wh?tt thcly.bring in with them, teo. Every
time a Russian spy reserves a table for dinner, we also
,.3 get a i':servation fol.- .a table from the FRT, and one
(To aP from the CIA, and on6 from the KGB---the-Soviet secret .-
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cf0 (id service. .
h ti : "Why would the - KGB reserve an extra table if one.
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of their OWn SpieS WeTo haVing dinner thCre?" .
..13) -Aft 1.3ucliwa7d e'They don't trust each other.".
1 A hotel manager confirmed that U.N. spies were
!---NEW YORK----TI'llere was a Vey fAngrY ?r.eiletion Iasi' keeping his pla.co going; "When a Cuban U.N. delegate
,VC,telt by sonic, Americans to the United Nations vole on t.alu,s a hotel room, ims secret. servjec takes. the.1.001.31
-China. Seri. Bai.Ty Coldwathr suggested we .kick the next to him," he said.- "Navy intelligence takes the
United Nations oat of Now York? Se n? JnileS 3111e1 leY Yoom on top of him, the State . Department set;urity
called for:the United States to refuse to fund it people. take thc r00131 beieW him, and We rent out the
'!. In purely, econimic terms we believe that those call- entire basement for equipment to bug his room.
Jug for the end of the United Nations are making -a 'We couldn't afford to take care of New York police-
mistake. The United Nations brings in far more inonay men for free if it wasn't for money that U.N. spies
to New 'York than it takes out. - - ,bring in." .
1 - For example, the budget for spying among the U.N. Another hotel manager. said he had rented out an
members is estimated to be over $1 billion. entire floor to Arab U.N. delegates directly over Israeli.
i. We have the word of J. Edgar Hoover himself that Foreign Minister Abba Eban's suite, when Eban last
the United Nations has more spies in it than any -inter- came to town,
national organization.. And the most important thing He said, "Ile nice thing about spies at the United
:about this fact is that spies spen,d, money. . . - ? . - - Nations is that they don't cause any trouble. They are
A recent survey revealed that U.N. spies were the '?,cry quiet. All they're 'interested in doing is getting
'biggest spenders of any group in New York City. They incoiniation and they usually talk in a wl7lisper." .
ate at the hest restaurants, stayed at the best hotels, There is great excitement...over the Red Chinese corn-
hired the most attractive women, and were the biggest ing here to the United Nations. "They will have to
-tippers. .. . 'assume every Chinese U.N. delegate is a spy," a Chinese
An American. economist told me that if it weren't: for restaurant owner said, "and I understand the FBI has
the mone:,7.that foreign spies spend in the United States, already doubled its entertainment budget for its. New
our balance of payments deficit would be twice what York City office." ?
it is today. , Tut," I. said, "suppose the Red Chinese delegates,
'. A top restaurateur said, "We've been in . a terrible turn out not to be big spenders.". .. ..
slump in the past few years since legitimate business-. -"Who cares," he replied. "Every person in New York
men have been orde,:7d to cut out lavish spending at' of Chinese descent will be suspect, and what we don't
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lunch or dinner. If t wasn't for the spies attached to'inake on Re.d Chinese U.N. spies, we'll, recoup on the
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U.N.' delegations, we would have to close Our doors." FBI following Chinese' people who were born .. in.
;??? "I don't think they counted that much,". I said. --)3roolclyn." .:
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--- By Jack Anderton-
. Ever since we reported on
the drunken antics of an
Agency for International De-
velopment official during Vibe
.President Spiro T. A.gnew's re-
cent visit to Kenya, AID has
been tightening the lid on
classified messages, ' ? ?
FBI agents are grilling off!-
dais and giving lie detector.
tests to find out, who. leaked
the secret report. Copy- ma-
chines have been Moved to se-
cured areas where they arc!
constantly monitored.
All these precautions have
been taken . in the name- of na-
tional security. Yet our story,
which precipitated the Man-
hunt, had nothing to do with
security.
We :quoted from a message EYES ONLY and TOP SE-
that Robinson lilicIlvane, the (-317ET messages requires the
American ambassador to approval of the AID Executive
Kenya, ,sent to Dr. John Han- secretary, and such reproduc-
nab, the A.ID administrator.
The message was so sensitive
that it. was hand-delivered to
Hannah under seal.. He was
upset, therefore, when . we
printed it -for 45 Million Amer-
icans to read.
But the subject of the mes-
sage was the hijinhs of Bert
Tollefson, who is in charge of.
the AID program in Kenya.
Alleged the hush-hush mes-
sage:
. 'The problem started with
Bert's well-known pushiness
and general lack of sensitivity
and culminated in his getting
sloshed at Treetops (a night
club), making passes at the
vice president's secretary curltrying to drag her down the
!
steps to meet an elephant at!
ground level,"
. .
Tollefson assured us by tele-
phone from Nairobi that it
was all a misunderstanding,'
and blamed the whole episode
on unidentified Democratic
holdovers.
But Hannah took urgent
]steps to make -sure we don't
get any more of his secret,
messages, lie issued terse in-
struction, intended for the
eyes only of those who .handle
sensitive documents,.
As evidence that Hannah
hasn't yet plugged the leak,
here are his new instructions:
"The reproduction of the
State's NODIS,, END'S, and
TOP SECRET and the AID's
tion can be accomplished only
by the EXSEC Staff. . . ?
"All reproduction and copy
machines are being located in
in sccur6c1 areas, which vill be,
monitored. , During non-
working hours, all copy ma-I
chines will he secured in such
a way that they are inoper-
able,"
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3,?-nt cc months investigating the
=edit bureou industry in Chicago. This
- the first of his two-pert series.
Ely lakrirt nkcic
op, CMPTI. CULtIiiele.ago veleanan
with a wife and child, two-be-drown
home, One car, a dog and a color
TV?decided it was time to move up to a
better paying job. ;:_o Joe alz.pliecl to a
new conipany, was interviewed and
hired. Wonderful, right?
Wonderful, wrung. Because now, ;Yoe
is working day after day with a boss
who knows how fenei, it takce him to pay
bills, and what bills he didn't pay lest
-month, from whom and how Cain he
-borrows Inoney,wilom his close friends
are, what his neighb-ers think of
hhn?and worst of all, that he was sued
? by his former wife five years ago ter
nonpayment of -alimony.
Shoekin.g? Net to the boss, who chee_s
into the personal life of possible
employes every day. It's routine, and as
easy as picking up the phone and dialing
- the number or the credit hareem.
Every transaction you reLlso, cash or
credit, is a possible entry into your one
? credit history. Since you reached 21,
your life has been capsulized on
computer tape and indez- cards and filed
:,_ with. the credit bureau. . .
And that information is available, not
;only to cmPloyers and creditors, hut to
detective agencies, the federal govern-,
mut, and even your next (10Or neighbors.
It amounts to a giant credit shadow,
lurking behind you every step of the.
way.
redit defined is simply trust, freeo
the Latin word credo, which means "I
believe." A retail store or mail-order
hun,:3a will trust you with Mel ch:,KCise or
services on your promise to pay.
Without this in American
phencerreeen, large department stores
would lose CO per cent of their
business, chain stores 43 per cent, and
113 economy in general would shrivel.
Credit sales are so important that
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3 To illustrate how accessible thr..,se
3 confidential reports are, I obtained a fall
report on a business friend thru five
different bureaus. C. 13. C. C. released
(-21
million last year to snr,--;:td 11.
?charge and revolving charge account
department.
To minimize the high risk el' grantin,f,
credit, an entire industry has bee
created?the credit bureau industry. I
Chicago, creditors utilize three reaja_
consumer credit reporting bureaus---
Credit Bureau of Cook County CI'lePr7o
Credit Bureau and TRW Credit Deta.
Credit Bureau of Cook Ceunty, lergeet
in the world, ;stockpiles information en
five million Chicago-area individuals.
Each file contains an address and
-employment history, a complete list ef
existing ?
credit accounts or purchases,
the length of tune Ii took to pay the
bills, any existing unpaid bills, any
financial lewsojts includiur!, fifl docket
caLells, any liens, any bank accounts,
ray loans, any inquiries from any other
troMEOrS and anything else of surface
ielercst to any business concern con-
teinplating extending any credit of any
sire, on any terins.
Altho most of this data is now stored
manually in long rows of metal
C. D. C. C. by July 1, - will convert
totally- to CITRONUS, a gigantic com-
puter system that retrieves complete,
files in I.e-ss than a second. For under
this . information is available to any
registered C. B. C. C. subscriber.
the information to a doctor friend of
A
mine registered with the bureau. 711W
Credit Data released the information to
a clerk working in a small clothing shop
:Chicago Credit Europa/ blindly co-
uerated with a used car salesman. And
two ether minor bureaus co-operated
with me after I first pretended to-verify
the code number of a large department
store, and th.en called again using that
-cede lumber.
TRW Credit Data is a national service
that stores all its records in an expansive
computer complex in. California. Tl-31,7
has information on four million Chicago
area residents along with millions of in-
dividuals in other cities, but limits its
reports strictly to consumer credit
reports [no character reports]. - It
maintains a unique "protest code" to.
indicate whether a consumer disputes an
unpaid bill and will not deliver in-
formation to any seekers except those
Who grant credit. This at least excludes
detective agencies and Haired snoops.
.Chicago Credit Bureau, the city's first
credit bureau, is as yet uneemputerized.
It follows a credit cheek philosophy
similar to TRW's, but cars an extra -
service to its hundreds of Chicagoland
clients: confidential character reports
which are written evaluations of a.
consumer's "personal history, char-
acter, integrity, credit ? necerd and
health." to einete the carrant paniphlpt.
These confidential reports are available
to subscribers for 0 each and to:
nonsubscribers [inquirers with only an
occasional need] for !:i1.0 each.
While Chicago Credit Bureau -
hese profiles to its credit extending -
clients, ether bureaus offer much more
letalled reports to almost anyone. For
15, Credit Bureauof Cork County sells
chat they call a "P-code" report ["P"
8O 0115011R0002.00/800alaco ?
nvestigations that include. past associe-
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f- . .
IAD can subscribe? rtetail establish- .
merits, ell companies, airlines, hanks,
loan companies, detective agencies;
government agencies, private social
clubs, doctors, dentists, lawycrs:--any
legitimate businessman or company.
The subscriber merely phones in his ?
idant'ilication code and the facts are
Immediately found and read- over the.
phone. For an additional charge, a typed
copy will be mailed. No purpose need be
given. It's that simple and happens
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By Betty Meclsger
? ? Wastanton Post Staff Writer:
A secretary at Swarthmore
College has been an FBI
source for at least six years,
?-ticcording to a copy of an -r-Br
document received by The
Washington Post yesterday.
the FBI has no business c
piling dossiers "on million
Americans who are accuse
no wrongdoing."
In regard to investigations'
of applications for government'
jobs, an April 1957 document
calls for caution on the part of
the agent and urges him not!
to conduct such investigationsl
on campuses unless it is neces-
sary. Persons being inter-
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viewed for such background
information; said the -docu?
ment,--
should be fully - in.
formed of the reasons for the
interviews.
One of the four copies re-1 But there was a very differ-
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ceived yesterday Pon eat attitude to,ard "on cam.
Miss Webbs ;lams05.a tottl.ce pus" FBI. work last fall when,
was of a -Ncye,r,t)ei. 10,33 i,c1.? another document says,
ministration-faculty mcmorcn- dent agents" were asked to
dum, furnish information -about t!e
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confidentially.ved "current number of university
or college sources on the aca-
from Miss Webb" was hand-
Marjorie Webb, secretary to
the college registrar was written across that momoran- dc?tnic or aclministrative st!oif
,
. unathe _ubjl g ?.1 ? , ineiuding security officers . .
tilled in -earlier copies of doe ho college .0c,.t.:,),thei shouid the niimber of current stmlent
uMents sent out anonymously respond to "inquiries concern- security informants or Ptils
?by the Citizens Commission to Ing applicants or nominees for (potential student inform-
ants)."
Investigate the FBI as "an es- g?`;`)rnill''t1111 Pc1,;ition-j."
That college document, later Names Listed
tablished source" whose ident-
ity should "be protected." passed on to the FIJI, said.i
Four copies of FBI docu- -L.n.fav?1.able information per.'
taming to an individual's char-1
ments with Miss Webb's name
on them were among 23 re-
actor, morals, conduct or inert
ceived yesterday. They were -tat condition should not be
sent to The Washington Post
by Martha .Shirk, editor of
The Plioeniz, the S!.varthmore.
College student newspaper.
Miss Shirk said she received
the copies of FBI documents
last .1,veck from the Citizens investigation of the daughter
Commission, the croup that
oi Rep. ,Henry S. Reuss (D.
has taken credit for the March. ?
8 raid on an FBI office in "-'s?'?
Media, r:3, Documents received yester-
The Swarthmore College clay indicated that surveillance
secretary is one of several col. of Miss Reuss, now a senior at
lege employees cited as Swarthinorz..., was mor:e elabo-
lar FBI informers in the more
than 60 copies of documents rate than had earlier been re-
that have been distributed by voided.
the Citizens Commission. Miss One document received yes-
'Webb's identity has been re- terday says what -grades Miss
vealed in articir.s.s-in the Phila.
delphia Evening Bulletin and Reuss achieved in her courses.
the campus paper. Other documents reveal that
Swarthmore president Dr, surveillance of Miss Reuss in.
Robert D. Cross said April 0 volved the CIA, the Milwau-
that faculty, students and staff kee Police Department and
=Others of the Philadelphia.
the Philadelphia Police De-
area -college risk. dismissal if
Dc-
they divulge confidential in. Partment.
formation to the FBI or other
? rgoverament agencies.
Inquiry Ifruler Way
A campus Investigation into
whether campus employers
were. acting Wrongly in collab-
orating with the FBI is now
under way ApprOved Fo
The names of agents and
the colleges for which each of
them is responsible is listed in
that document,
Among the documents re-
made available unless re-! I ceivcd yesterday were copies
cluired under subpoena." ? . of the Swarthmore campus
Miss Webb's relationship newspaper that had been filed
with the FBI first came to by the FBI and copies of mem.
light in a document received uranclums from the Swarth-
more Police Departme
earlier that described an FBI
. Two of the police documents
t,were lists of car license num-
ISers, names and addresses.
One list was data about cars,
cycles and -scooters on the
campus without college per-
,m its.
!
Former SDS Member
Miss 'Reuss formerly was a
member of Students for a
Democratic Society, -hut she.
said she is not involved in any '
organizations now. Her father
s been criticial of the invcs-?
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The twentieth century has been mark-
ed by a succession of different forms
? of restraint. on politierd expression:
criminal. 'anarchy statutes, sedition
laws, deportations, Congressional anti-
subversive probes,. loyalty oaths, en-
forced 'registration. These. and related
measures. 'still' survive. But in recent
years ? new, more formidrible ways
ciC responding to political and social
-n4oYements. on the left have emerged.
The. most important of these- is - the
system of .Political- intelligence, which
is ?-rapidly coalescing into a national
nc.twork. I
Despite. the? effort s of intelligence
officials' to keep intelligence operations
secret, reliable information about our
intelligence? system is 'steadily accumu-
lating. We now have a clearer picture of
the methods and. targets of political
stir-valance. As a result, -we can no
longer se?riously doubt that the main
purpose of such activity is political
control of dissent or that the fre-
quently advanced justifications of law
? enforcement or national security are
often no more than a "cover,"
On March 21, 1971, a group calling
itself the. Citizens' Commission to In-
vestigate the FBI mailed or delivered to
a .Congre:ssman and sehator as well as to
the Washington Post, The New York
Times, and the Los Angeles Times a
packet containing fourteen documents,
selected from over 1,000 stolen from a.
-small FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania,'
a suburb of Philadelphia. The fourteen
docunients, all of them of recent date
and undisputed authenticity, shOw that
the FBI concentrates much of its
investigative effort on ,colleite dissenters
and black student groups. According to
a memoranduM from J.,Edgar Hoover
. such groups "pose a
the Nation'sAskA
? conclusion tErfre
definite threat to
tices.have spread throughout the nation.
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Frank Donner
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challenged. ? the SiXties. Pplicy makers and officers
When conducting surveillance of a of intelligence' agencies were then faced
Swarthmore College philosophy .1) ro s- with the need to identify and control
SW regarded as a "radical," the FBI new actors on a new political stage?no
enlisted the assistance of the local easy matter in 'view of the anarchic
police and postmaster as well as a radical milieu, characterized by highly
campus seeinity. officer an switch-. mobile and anonymous young people,
board operator. In one of the docm who teY to be.. hostile to formal
merits, the FBI agent in chiuge. of the organization ancl leadership. The social
Philadelphia bureau instructs his aitents ? TC11.10ICIleSS or new radicals concentrat,
at Media that more interviews are 'ed in "tribal," ..sellcontained groups
... in ? order , for plenty ? of made it all the more difficult to.
reasons, chief or which are it will - identify them.
enhance the tar-anon endemic. in Most ? of the existing intelligence
. age'ncies at tint time were no 'more
elf&tive than other institutions in our.
society. Their techni:paes were as out-
moded as -their notions of subversion . .
by the overwhending personalities
?dominated -by an. old Left composed or
or the contacting agent and will
"Communists," -"fellow travelers," and ?
volunteer to tell all?perhaps on a ;,
cemtinuing basis. ? "fronts," Intelligence files were ,choked
? with millions of dossiers of aging or -
dead radicals. At the same time, new
these circles and will further serve
to gel the .point across that titcre is
an FBI agent behind everymailbox.
In 'addition, some will be overcome
Dram'atic disclosures of this sort : as
well as the recent Senate hearings on "gadgetry?miniaturization, audio-dee-
'Army intelhgenee will undoubtedly tronics, infrared lens cameras; comput-
? ? ens, and data banks?gave intelligence .
help to cure the surviving, skepticism
about these practices. Until fairly re-'
cently .even the targets of surveillance
? were reluctant to credit the .e?xistenee
of police activities which violate -the
most deeply held premises of their
society. But political suiveillance has
become so obtrusive and. 'itstargets so
numerous- that it can nO longer .be
easily ignored or justified. A sharper
awareness of intelligence has, in turn.
opened up new sources of data about a
field which I have been researching,
? since the McCarthy- cra.2
, Of course dossiers, informers, and
infiltrators are hardly new. But since the
early Sixties;when attorneys general in
the South formed a rudimentary intelli-
gence network. in order -to. curb the
integrationist activities of students, po-
litical surveillance and prac-
poSsibilities undreamed of by the inost
'zealous practitioners of the repressive'
arts of 'the nineteenth century. . .
-According to the herald of the
"technetronic" society, . Zbig,niew
Brzezinski, new developments in tech-
nology will make it. "possible to assert -
almost continuous surveillance over
every citizen and maintain up-to-date
files, containing even personal ihrorma-
tion about the...behavior of lhe'cit-
izen, in addition to the, more eustoin-
qtry data." 'Full access to?critical data,
?he adds,- will give the undercover agent
and the- roving, political spy greater
flexibility'in planning and, executing
countermeasures.3
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as not wen e to
support and that both the Washington
the protest movements that emoted in
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'WASI-TINGTON, Echr:
The United States Passport Of-
fice acknowledged today that
.it keeps a secret, computerized
- file. of 243,135 Americans
?whosc applications fpr pass-
-ports may be of interest to it
or to Government law enforce-
ment: agencies. Persons listed
in the file may never he awar--;
of it. -
Miss Knight said she had
been ill for the last three weeks
and away from her desk. Un-
til she summoned aides to her
office this afternoon, shE,.
she Was unaware that Senator
Ervin had made official inquir-'
ies about the file or that it was
a Matter of controversy, The
State Department's reply to Mr.
Ervin'S questioimaire.v,7.s dated
Jan. 4. ?
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Senator Ervin has scheduled
nine days of public hearings
before his subboramittee start,
jug Eel). 23 on what he has
called the growth of "police
state" surveillance and dossisr-
keeping on perhaps 50 million
Americans, most of them ac-
cused of breaking 7'.o laws.
The North Carolina Demo-
crat, a former judge on his
? The existence of the fib V,,:ls' state's Supreme Court, said last -.
disclosed by Senator Sam J. night that while there might be
?T!:rvin Jr., the chairman of the le,:,:;itimP to reasons foe maintain-
Senate Subcommittee on cein? ing portions of the Passpor Of-
sffiutioriat Rights, who is a per- flee file, many of the justifica-
.sistent critic of what lie coli. tions for it given to his sub-
alders Governme.nt surveillance committee by the State Depart-
and file-kcapim; abuses. .- ment were "beyond any reason
, ? In a speech 'last night before whatsoever."
a symposium at Dickinson Co?- Ile said a State Department
lege in Carlisle, Pa., Senator reply to a subcommittee ? cues-
Ervin said he had discovered tionnaire listed these cate-
the Passport (Mice file through 1;011es: .
a reply to his subcommittee's cl"individual's actions do not
questionnaires. Ile called it reflect to the credit of the 13..S.
More proof that uncontrolled: abroad (l ,E0, persons)."
.and undercover Government] cDefectors, expatriates and
.surveillance was a serious i repatriates whose background
threat to the cNercise of the; dcmands further incluiry prior
'First Amendment rights of free' to issuance of. a passport.
speech and freedom to asso.: ciPersons V.-anted bY a law
ciate.. 1 enforcement agency for c.riliki-
. - ? File is Defended - nal activity.
i()Individuals involved in a
... in .an interview today Miss
Frances Knight, th,-, Passport child custody or desertion case..
Office director since 1055, said, (Delinquents or suspected
."A passport is a United States- alincluents in mnitarrY service.
document addressed to foreign
Governments in which we are
saying, 'This person is an
American citizen.'" Sens 'Eur Ervin ssicl other Cate-
She s.aid that "a V a st majori- gork, mclnued in Dl orank,t_.
ty"--perhaps 00 per cent ofcare and ?!ruiscemm,,ens."
those listed in .the file were
"I don't know whiat 'orange
'persons of "que.stionable eiti- card' means, and I don't think
zenship" about v,rhom it was they know either," he told the
lice obligation to be curious and Dickinson College gathering. '
'cautious in issuing an, official Asked if he thought the Cell-
document.tral Intelligence Aryne.,, had in-
A spokesman for Senator Er- serted names in 'the jfilo, Mr.-
vin, however, said today that .Ervin said, "1 c?-.Ti't prove It but
the State Department ti7ld re-
, I suspect the CIA. giAs just
ported to him in writing to ii about 500 shin it mnts." V
the largest group of ii in on Ile said the 'State Dapsrtment
the list was in the "known or had acknowledged maintaini?g
suspected Communists or sub- a secret surveillance file of.
versives" category and that the passport applicants in which
number of n?aracs under "doubt- ."the indiVicival 13 not told that
ftil citierlShip" ranked second. 'he is in the file" until and un-
Th.e number in each of these less "adverse action" is taken.:
categories was not immediately
avnilable. . It was not clear today ho',v this:
Would operate in actual prac-i
"We are guarding the integ-i
rity of the passport by verify-, Miss Knight said her office
itig Unitcd States citizenship, ' would 1110rely report cj",tie.ly to
Miss Knight said, But she ex-. "the interested agency" ---- the
pie ed surprise at the la 11; e Federal Bureau of Investigation
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for example ? that kk person
listed in the file had applied
for a passport.
Whether "adverse action"
would. ensue was none of her
interest, she said, aid she would
not notify the. subject -of his
listing in the file. ?
Miss Knight said she would
not necessarily notify_ anyone
that be was included in the file
even if the "adverse action"
were taken in her own office,
through the . denial: of
1?brt.
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. ? . ? ? . ? ?
. . cheaper, than at home in Vir- agencies do have internal sel
? - ginia or Maryland. He might
even be violating state laws by
taking too much untaxed
whisky in at one trip.
However, if the stuff is
found in the locker of a low-
paid postai employee (as it
often is) or near a printer,.
most people assume the fellow
was tippling on the job. Even,
if it hadn't ? bean opened we
could assume he was planning
to take a snort at the first op-
portunity.
The stigma of half-pint pur-
chases is especially strong
among the more affluent, who
sonal work areas of the lesser realize it is cheaper by the
half gallon.
Assuming that drinking on
the .job is bad no matter who
does it, is there any real dif-
ference between a boss tossing
down a couple during an
ex-
tended lunch and his lesser
paid subordinate, who may
have a shorter break, having a
drink in a friend's parked car?
fly"
igifze ;
Catesey"
The government's gitardians
? ,of morality' rarely frisk an
agency head, or require R hal-
? loon tet of a chief returning
from his favofite luncheon xya-
'tering hole. But they do make
spot cheeks of lockers and per-
ranks, seeking suspected
? booze, guns and dope. ??
? On Jan. 14, a surprise locker
check" at the. Government
Printing Office turned up a
.half pint of strong drink. The
security people say it was
found:. in a printer's coat
.pocket, in his locked :locker.
He says he Was framed. A
1.1.1)ion representative was in-
vited to, and did attend, the
search party to make sure it
' .was done legally.'
Whether he was framed. or
-
? ? .not isn't too important, except
to this particular man and his
?future federal career. But it is
Interesting when youconsider
.Who .gets searched, and who
doesn't get searched.
The idea, of course, is that
? people aren't supposed to
drink on the job, except at
lunch if they have the time
and money. Nor are they sup-
posed to shoot dope or co-
workers while on the 'federal
payroll.
- But suppose for a minute
The search question is a
problem. On certain military
installations, and in places
like the CIA or NSA, it's as-
sumed that just about any-
body may get the hands-up.
.
treatment, to insure he isn't
taking home state secrets.
Likewise, the Bureau of En-
graving. and Printing, has ways
to make sure that people don't.
carry off "bricks" of new
money, or the plates that
would enable them to print
their own at home for fun and
profit. Pew people would,
knock that kind of security.
But at a place like GPO,
where the hottest item to steal
micTht be yesterday's Congres-.
that the locker that was sional Becord, one wohders. It
searched had belonged to the seems more likely that
deputy director of an agency, searches are made at agencies
who would have a nice desk where rules permit it, or
and office instead. of a dual key where there are large num-
locker. What then? hers of low-paid people.
.?
If building guards found a -General Services Adminis;
pint.- or fifth. in Mr. Super tration, which supplies guards
'grade's belongings they would to many non-defense
naturally assunie that he. was jugs, says it would never search.
taking it home. He probably a locker or personal work area
. bought it in the District be unless there was a report of a
cause It was handier, and bomb planted. Still, most
?
eurity, inspection or audit
i
units that are authorized to!
make searches.
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WAUKEEGAN, ILL.
NEWS?SUN
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JAN 6 .1071
Supports surveillance
On Dec. 16 it was revealed that in Illinois
some 800 persons were under socket surveil-
lance by the CIA, as told by a former mem-
ber in CIA
Then followed much criticism by some of
those who were mentioned as being under
?:. surveillance by the military. Such secret sur-
veillance should be permissable in order to
determine grassroots classification and identi-
fication of activities of selected persons who
object to procedures and policy making policies
of the U.S. government. When an .elective or
appointive public servant takes the oath, he or
she should be a subject to secret surveillance
by the U.S. Government and-or its government
I support such secret surveillance by the /Tal-
1 itary and-or the U.S. government. I feel that
; every elective or appointive -public servant
under the oath, shOuld be a subject to such sur-
veillances without the invasion of privacy.
Such surveillance could produce concrete ;
evidence that a member of Congress, or the
, U.S. Senate, could possible be working with
, underground anarchists, and revolutionary
groulm in a direction to reject gociety, foreign
policies and other administration policies.
This could easily apply to government em-
ployees and professional educators, as well as
' civic organizations. It should be noted with all
die revolutionary movements in the United
States, and throughout the world, that more
secret surveillance should be conducted of in-
dividuals, group organizations and elective
officials.
Any political party member who rejects
secret surveillance by the CIA or ? the U.S.
government should be subject to rejection by
the voters on election day. ,
CHARLES BREEDEN
34101/2 Kehm Blvd.
Park City
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