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I was born a Ch lean am a Chilean SPECIAL I will die a Chilean. They, the Fascists SUPPLEMENT were born traitors, live as traitors Viet Nam War Atrocities and will be remembered forever CBS Aids as Fascist traitors. Pentagon Cover-Up From Our Readers
On the evening of Sept. 10, just away with outside Chile instead of cracy upon which our nation was prior to an overflow rally at the Felt by the "on the spot" murders and founded. Forum in New York on behalf of the "disappearances" which have been In the hearts of his many admirers restoration of human rights in Chile, going on in that tragic country since in this country and Chile, Orlando I chatted with a dear friend and fellow Sept. 11, 1973. Letelier has not died. In history, humanist, Orlando Letelier, former If there is any forthrightness and Letelier, his former president, Salvador Chilean ambassador to the United "Founding Father" greatness in either Allende Gossens, and the many States and an opponent of the junta. of our present presidential candidates, Chilean heroes who worked and died He complained how on that very I believe that now is the time for their with them to bring political and day the Chilean junta had withdrawn platforms to include specific proposals economic freedom to the Chilean his Chilean citizenship. And, in for doing away with this monstrous people will live on forever. The mem- response, I told him how such a terror that is spreading throughout all bers of the junta and those who deprivation, coming from the junta, of Latin America. We now all know it assisted in establishing that junta must should be considered as a great tribute was aided and abetted by deliberate surely, soon we hope, share the fate of to him. He simply smiled and nodded acts of the Nixon administration and Hitler, MussOlini, and all their ilk. his head. We then chatted with mutual the CIA—an attitude that is still AJ. Rosenstein friends and I looked forward to being supported covertly and overtly New Marlborough, MA accepting his invitation to visit him by the Ford administration, and many soon in Washington. in the business world and the banking Later that evening, at the close of community. This growing cancer in About four years ago I worked with his speech to the rally, Letelier emo- the western hemisphere will surely the Committee of Concerned Asian tionally but with the utmost sincerity destroy not only our Latin American Scholars to write a pamphlet called declared: "Today is a dramatic day in brothers and sisters, but also our The Opium Trail. In it, we accused the my life in which action of the fascist America—just as our policy in Vietnam CIA of purposefully aiding the opium generals against me makes me feel came close to doing. heroin trade in order to build the more Chilean than ever. Now is the time—now before our economic dependence of allied "I was born a Chilean, I am a November election—for our next mercenary forces and tribal groupings Chilean and I will die a Chilean. They, President to obtain his mandate from in Laos. I talked personally with one the fascists, were born traitors, live as the American people to correct the ex-green Beret who said he delivered traitors and will be remembered evil that we have wrought; to state his forever as fascist traitors." CIA gold to village chiefs and loaded intent to go before the United Nations opium on Air America planes and How logical then—if monsters can and there openly acknowledge, with claim to use logic—for the junta to helicopters. He also said he later saw all the honesty that should characterize the same opium (village markings) take the next step in eliminating America, our government's part in what they considered dangerous on the Saigon market. I believe Alan stealing away the Chilean government Ginsberg has names of other G.I.s opposition to their cruel and inhuman from the Chilean people and our regime. Thus on Sept. 21, the Chilean who had similar experiences. anxiety to make amends and enable Around the time I was working on junta, acting through their secret restitution. the pamphlet, I thought of starting police—DINA—murdered Orlando Our next President should also Letelier—just as they murdered Gen. an organization to research and commit the United States to support- expose the CIA. I am very happy to Carlos Prats in Argentina and many ing all possible U.N. sanctions, includ- much others in Italy and elsewhere who find you proceeding with ing the ouster of the present Chilean effectiveness. My best wishes. Thank were "graciously" allowed to leave regime from that body, to bring about you for your efforts! Chile after months of torture and the regime's downfall; he should C. Knight imprisonment. insist that this regime be succeeded Cambridge, MA With the cynicism typical of their by a caretaker body in the hands of rule, they promptly denied any the democratically elected Popular involvement in Letelier's murder. Unity party and that early elections Moreover, with crocodile tears they be held under U.N. supervision and the Your Spring 1976 issue is just great; even "lamented" the assassination of constitutional laws that prevailed congratulations on your good work. a man for whom they so recently prior to the 1973 putsch, and he One little addendum to the infor- issued a decree depriving him of his should pledge our willingness to help mation on Larry McDonald: I was Chilean citizenship. Obviously, in their a democratic Chile recover from its traveling from Miami to New York diabolic reasoning they feel they can ',resent state of economic chaos. in early May and noticed an item in more easily escape indictment for the By taking such a stand, this country either a Georgia (Athens) or Tennessee deaths and disappearance of the Mild once again demonstrate to the (also Athens) paper that he remarried, former democratically elected leaders iorld community of nations that and his new wife, whose name I forget, and members of the Popular Unity .1rnerica is still capable of exercising from Glendale, California, is a long- party if these individuals are done the high ideals and purposes of demo- ..1111■■ COUNTER The Magazine For People Who Need To Know PY "Should the practice COMMENT of Spydom become universal farewell to all TRENDS domestic Confidence and happiness." 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Contributing Editors Sidney Lens RENDEVOUS IN GENEVA Edgar Lockwood Philip Agee exposes the woman who bugged his typewriter , D. Gareth Porter Anthony Russo 22 BOOKS: MOMENT OF URGENCY • William Turner Edgar Lockwood examines the Kissinger Study of Souther. Philip Wheaton Africa Correspondents In Bangkok, Berlin , Copenhagen, 'HIT IV RUN Frankfurt, Havana, West German Revolutionary Ulrike Meinhof Found Raped, Hong Kong, Undon, Luanda, Hanged in Cell Madrid, Mexico City, Paris, Rome, San Juan P.R., 26 EARTHQUAKE WARFARE A Preliminary Report on the Penta- Stockholm, Sydney, Toronto, gon's Unthinkable Plans By Robert' Friedman and the U.S. 27 CIA AROUND. THE WORLD CounterSpy Magazine,Vol- 28 Plan Mercurio; Round Up For Political Exiles By Philip ume 3, Number 2,• Deoember . Wheaton 1976, published by Fifth 34 Revelations from CIA's Former Korea Chief By Steve McGuire Estate Publishing Company, a 36 CIA and Local Gunmen Plan Jamaican Coup. By Ellen Ray District of Columbia not-for- 49 Bloody Wednesday in Bangkok By D. Gareth Porter profit corporation, P.O. Box 647, Ben - Franklin Station, 42 CONFIDENTIAL U.N..MEMO Discloses U.S. Covert Actions Washington, DC 20044, tele- Against Namibian Indipendence and UN. Commissioner phone (202) 466-3424. All for Namibia rights reserved; copyright © 53 TECHNOFASCISM 1976, by" Fifth Estate. Pub- lishing•Company. Technology News' Briefs Cover graphic by Johanna 54 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT Vogelsang of Art for People, Indochina War Crimes / CBS Aids Pentagon Cover Up / Military Typography by Art for People, Documents Verify War Crimes Charges of Col. Anthony Herbert and Myrna Zimmerman. By John Kelley and Winslow Peck . and Us Readers of. CounterSpy will notice some changes, beyond the lateness of this issue. We have decided to attempt . an expansion; we want to reach more people. We have incorporated, increased production, and modified our re- sources to present tighter, more comprehensive coverage. Our staff has changed , somewhat, with some former Them . . . members of the old Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate , going on to other things. Now we will draw on the vast Throughout the last five administrations, the State De- skills and knowledge of our contributing editors and advisors, , partment and the Central Intelligence Agency, have been at as we havedone in this issue. Future issues will carry more. war with Cuba. It has not been the war of. Vietnam, nor of of their own analyses of national security issues, as well as Angola or the Middle East. It has been a secret war, and for those written by independent journalists. We hope our 1?lie past eight years, one of Henry Kissinger's favorite readers will approve and welcome the new CounterSpy bittlegames. Whether the new administration will have ,the sense or the courage or the strength to end this war remains CounterSpy Magazine Advisory Board* to' be seen. During the recent, presidential campaign, the Sylvia Crane reality was Well hidden, and only glimpses of that secret , National Committee. Against Repressive Legislation war came into'fociis from time to time. But, with the assassination of Orlando Letelier in Wash- David Dellinger ington, and the bombing in the. Caribbean of a Otbana Institute for New Conununications 4irlines plane; the war escalate& and the tangled, convoluted Frank Donner • o,b Was exposed, interweaving the U.S. intelligence appara- "ACLU Political Surveffiance Project the,.., Tight-Wing Cuban expatriots—the gusenos; the Robert Katz ;.:Chilean Junta, and the transnational forces of destabilize- , Assassination Information Bureau tion. Caught in the web •are the banished Chilean exiles, WMiam M. Kunstler the brave Cuban: peOple, and progessive forces everywhere. Attorney and former OSS officer PeoPle in power have never given up their poiver without Dr. Ralph Lewis fight. As the age of. capitalism gives way' to the age- of 4 Criminal Justice Research Director, Michigan socialism the struggle heightens at points.of transition. And social 'progress is ,not,, smooth; while there are victories in. State University Vietnam and. Angola ;there are tragedies in Chile and Thai- COL (Rd.) L. Fletcher Prouty land.: The United States is always involved. The sphere of Former Military liaison to CIA North American counterrevolution is world-Wide. Kirkpatrick Sale As we demonstrate in this issue of CounterSpy, there is - Author .. a special emphasis now on Latin America and Africa. In . William H. Schaap the thiee years since the CIA-engineered coup in Chile, the Editor, Military Law RePorter southern cone of our hemisphere has become an inter- Stanley Scheinbaum , national testing ground for militaryputichestbreecling fascism American Civil Liberties. 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is to go into trouble spots as a small team Levi Threatens U.S. of specialists: The CIA makes 'initial 7, a conservative na- contact with ideal insurgents, and Spe- Gangs Linked to Police Human /Events, ' Cial Forces enter to supply and train" tional weekly, has concluded that U.S. them. second functiOn is to conduct A police scandal is brewing in DeltsOit, Attorney General Edward Levi is a threat direct operations against ' the enemy: where sources report that officers in ,the to our internal security. In the Septem- raids, ambushes, intelligence-gathering gang intelligence, unit of the Detroit ber 25 issue it accused him of weakening operations, etc. Police Department and members of „the our republic by ordering the FBI to stop Presently, the Special 'Forces doctrine Detroit Police Officers Association illegal burglaries, stop infiltration of is:designed frir rural areas only. Recent (DPOA) have 'made plans to feed guns, political parties, and stop COINTEL-' urhan guerrilla activity` leavesleaves them money and drugs to the Errol Flynns and PRO-type sabotage, particularly against a Special, Human totally disabled, according to rival gangs. Although DPOA and Dep- the Socialist Workers Party. The Forces Agent who wrote a story for article encouraged the Attorney , uty City Mayor William Bechham have Events liaipers Weekly. ' ' termed such reports "ridiculous and ir- General to allow the FBI to harass the responsible," at least one aide to MiiifOr SWP. /Coleman Young is reported to be inves- Bugging Aliens tigating the rumors.-. Possible motives Torture Survey for the crime-intensifying actions include In March 1976, President Ford, Attor- the' heed to• force rehiring of laid-off Amnesty International, an organize'. ney General Levi and Senator Kennedy officers and the desire to embarass or tion devoted to the release of political announced a bipartisan bill to govern 'destroy the mayor and strengthen the , prisoners, reports in its latest survey that , electronic suiveillance for national secur- DPOA. suppression of human rights is continu- ity ` purposes. On its surface, the For- At least one gang member, Keith ing on a disturbing •scale in 107 •nations. eign Intelligence Surveillance Act (S. 'Harvey (known as a publicity-seeker and Persecution of dissident individuals, in- 3197) appears to bej... a constructive not entirely credible), says that members cluding the use of torture that almost response to the abuses and atrocious of the Detroit Police gang intelligence defies belief, is not limited to a few , practices of U.S. intelligence agencies. It unit gave a list of black police-officers, countries; it's widespread. Amnesty In .is not :ames and addresies to gang members. ternational, which sent investigators into 'T The bill establishes a procedure for Thellist was recently found in the posses: 31 countries last year, reports that -obtaining warrants for electronic sur- sion of a' gang member. The list, Harvey torture experts exchange knowledge and veillance of an "agent of a foreign contends, was given to the gang by Abdul that torture equipment is exported from power" in the name of collecting "for- Mohammed, Who was found murdered one country to another. eign intelligence information." An agent in. Highlind Park last winter. HarVey of a foriegn posyer is defined as ayone :-contends that hiblianuned was a policet Green Berets Train Local Cops , "who is not a permanent resident alien or Provocateur. ' _ limn of ,the U.S. and who is an . A, recent article in the Los AngAir• Although it is illegal for the military to ' employee of :a foreign power." But it Times alio charged that gang violence in aid 'civilian law enforcernent 'agencies "foreign power" includes net.only gov Detroit was precipitated by Mayor members of the Special Forces Reseive ernments '(friendly or otherwise) and Young's enemies to embarrass his Units have been holding informal meet- military forces but also 'factions, parties, administration. ings with local law enforcement officials or enterprises controlled by such entities. over the summer. -* Foreign intelligence information includes The U,. S. military's Special Forces any information with respect to foreign:, RetielVe Units 'held illegal training Ses- powers which is deemed essential to U.S. Feed Back on Reeses sions, for local police in counter insur- national security or to the . conduct of gency strategies: The sessions ',are com- U. S.,foreign affairs. Christopher Pyle, in and Louise Rees were stib- pletely unofficial and not in any ,Special his analysis of S. 3197; in 'The Nation. Forces capacity. , They met with local states: "The scope of this definition is poened by the Socialist Workers Party as part of its suit against the govern- police officials and also personnel from truly breathtaking. Fourth Amendment certain county sheriffs' offices. They protection against unreasonable national ment for harassment. The FBI admit- created realistic seenarios,• in which they security wiretapping would be denied not ted to its lawyers that 66 FBI agentAre , would act One went like this: a lame- only to suspected spies (whose agencies inside the campaign committee of SWP duck president is in power. He should are omitted from the list) but'to doctors Presidential Candidate Peter Camejo, resign but can't give up his point from Sweden; profesiors frOm France, despite the ruling by the court to cease Military leaders decide they need a • railroad' engineers froni, England, • poli- spying. The SWP suspects that the Rees strongman government They demand . tiCians from • Canada, and UNICEF apparatus may have worked for'the the ' federal government step in and workers 'front Australia: Indeed; given government to spy on the party. 'The declare martial law, a police state ' m hai Reeses have also been subpoened 'by the milliond'of people thataocialis a ' pronouncement - . , • . put on—foreign government payrolls, the Institutue for Policy:Studies iii similar suit. Special Forces has two functions. ,Cone • about the ' only foreign visitorsvisitors clearlyclearly
.kausOli: (right) A sample of John Rees'hand- , writing in a letter sent qs recently as June 1976 to a radical left, organizatio. John Rees has been active infiltrating a number of leftist organizations in Bal- timore claiming he worked for a dog kennel or worked as a freelance writer. He, also bragged about his many con- tacts in the Left movement. When, the Senate Internal Security Subcominittee published its analysis of the SWP- largely written by Louise Rees who• Works for Rep. Larry McDonald—John Rees rushed ,a copy of the document over to the local officer of a SWP splinter group, the Biiltimore Marxist Group, to gauge their reactions. An of- ficial Baltimore , police press sticker' is on John Reees automobile license plate. His I. D. says he works for "Capital, Reports." But 'Capital -Reports, Am.," which answers his telephone as Mashington Credit Let- ten" denies. Rees worked there. .'The National .Lawyers Guild in Washington, ; D.C. has formed the Guild investigative Group to examine the works of the Reeses and Larry McDonald.
(below) JOHN and LOUISEREES as they appeared in 1972. In August, the Committee to Combat'Communist Aggression held a banquet in Virginia in honor of the Reeses and Rep. Larry McDonald (D—Ge). The three spies received awards for their ''great efforts at infiltrating radicals until their exposure recently in CounterSpy magazine." Unknown to the 45 guests attending the dinner,' there were also three counterspies enjoying dinner and McDonald's wicked remarks about' this Magazine been created by the CIA and the Drug sleep, food and water. Although these • Enforcement Administration (DEA).techniques do not leave any physical IRS Spies On Own Workers SCAP charges that the DEA in Argen- scars, the report concluded these Three IRS employees, Paul Stuchlak;. tina can be directly linked with the methods are indeed torture. Frank D. Fueco and Albert J. Schibani, paramilitary death squad, AAA (Argen- •charged that the IRS engaged In whole- tine Anti-Communist Alliance), which Sale violation of the 1974 Privacy Act by has been responsible for as many as Border Harassment Continues maintaining illegal files on its workers. 5,000, murders since August 1972. In They filed the suit in Washington, D.C., September, 55 young-men and women, The U.S. Supreme Court has autho- . seeking damages and other relief not /opponents of the Argentine military dic- rized the Border Patrol to reestablish only for the three plaintiffs, but for the tatorship,tatorship were murdered on the out- highway checkpoints alOng the Mexican "thOusands" of other IRS employeei skirts of Buenos Aires in one 24-hour border. In its July 6 decision, the court allegedly affected. The files, which are. period.. The, most grim mass killing reversed a 1975 order by the circuit not the files the, IRS , admitted and involved 30 victims; they were found near court of appeals in San Francisco that disclosed they had last pecember 1975, Fatima on . August 20, their bullet- shut down checkpoints because they violated the Fourth Amendment ban on ' are kept in the supervisors' offices. The riddled bodies blown apart by explo- -seizure. The plaintiffs' names are on the outside:of the sives. This method is now common in unreasonable search and notebook • or binder and each folder AAA killings.. new decision also scraps the court's contains handwritten notes on the • The man responsible for organizing earlier rulings • requiring "reasonable . ployeei, evaluation forms, lafters, Mem- the AAA was former Argentine Social cause" for stopping and searching cars. oranda and other personal information Welfare Minister Jose Lopez Riga. While The court described the checkpoints as on the employees. They're called "docu- exiled in Spain; Riga was recruited by "minimal" intrusion, on constitutional rights, justified by the number of undOc-' mentation folders" and are not kePt.Vdth Robert, Hill, , then U.S. Ambassador to - appro. ' •the Official Personnel Folder:- , • . Spain and a suspected CIA agent When umented workers the system • Hill was assigned as 'Ambassador to Argentina in 1973, Lopez Riga became The checkpoints maybe "minimal" the Welfare Minister. Hill and Rigs for whites but not for Mexican-Ameri- HUD Refuses M;Olve Up cans. There have been many incidentsbf ; arranged for the DEA to enter Argentina Workers ListU.- • •• in order to establish a program to "wipe racist abuses by the •Border. Patrol,' This maybe the-first case Where the out drug traffic- in Argentina." Riga including verbal insults, , physical vio- Privacy Act conflicted with the Freedom claimed, while on 2, television, with Hill lence, women molesting, and good •old- 'of Inforniation Act-4nd the latter pre- when they signed the U.S:' Argentina fashioned American shakedowns. Justi- vailed: The housing and Urban Develop- Anti-drug .Treaty, , that the "anti-drug ces Thurgood Marshall and William ' ment Dept maintains promotion lists on campaign will, automatically be an anti- Brennan, dissenting from the ruling, which employees are ranked numerical- guerrilla campaign at well" The DEA declared the searches "a dragnet-like ly. The lists are major factors—though has over 400 agents operating through- procedure offensive to the sensibilities of , not the only ones—in. promotion • deci- - out Latin America. ' . free citizens." -The court noted that sions. When HUD refused to grant a 17,000 "illegal aliens" were caught at a / local of, the American Federation of single checkpoint last year. Brennan 'Government Employees access • to the . added in his remarks, "That law in this lists, the union filed a grievance which country ' should tolerate use of one's Sensory Deprivation Report ancestry as probative of possible criminal eventually went to arbitration. The arbi- -- trator declared' the union is entitled to The August, 5, 1976: lime of New conduct is repugnant"; any and all information available to Scientists hal a remarkable article titled individual employees. He ordered HIM "Taking the. Hood off'British Torture" to make the promotion lists available documenting the Clinical resuns of Brit- within. fifteen days. He further ordered - 'ish "sensory deprivathin" techniques on that management Must advise the, union prisoners in northern Ireland.: The ard- Framed Tokio Rose? of the promotion ranking of any em- de, using evidence from a report by the ployee who asks the union to seek such European Hiiinan Rights Commission, information for him. He also said that reveals'that this modern form of torture, The Workers News Service of Ewa when rankings are questioned, manage- . Beach, Hawaii; recently sent Counteispy used by the British at their Combined Honolulu Adviser ment must make the lists available in full Services Intelligence Centre, has long- an interview from the to both the employees and the union. range medical and psychiatric ,effects which indicates the FBI may have including paranoid delusions and visual framed Iva Tciguri d'Aquino, the Japm: and auditory hallucinations which can anese-American • woman convicted of ... continue long after initial treatments. treason in the 1949 "Tokyo Rose" trial U.S. Nares Accused of In 1971, the British placed hoods over concerning, pro-Japanese radio broad- Assassination Program fourteen priscmeis, forced them to stand casts during World War IL The inter-.4 again.* a will in a frisk position, view was with Norman Reyes, a Honobilik.4 The Solidary Committee with the supported' only by their fingertips, and public relations man,' who, while a Argentine People (SCAP) and the Man- dressed in loose-fitting boiler suits for POW, helped write some of ‘the broad- - chester Guardian have released separate periods up to sixteen straight houri. If casts by d'Aquino. Reyes was a defense . witness at the trial of two other POWs reports about an assassination" program they fell, they-weie forced back to the , They all E. similar to the CIA's Phoenix Program in, position. IfAheY fell again, they were who worked at Radio Tokyo. sithjecied to continuous loud "white" agreed d'Aquino was innocent and that Fll Vietnam, but operating throughout , to sabotage Japanese Latin America. (See story) It may have noise Of high intensity• and deprived of they had conspired
• propaganda efforts. .toBut the judge threw ‘out Reyes' testi- twiny because it directly contradicted a YOU'RE UNDER SURVEILLANCE !! statement, prepared by the FBI slid AND COMPUTERS ARE signed by Reyes, in which he stated there 01600, PEOPLE, AGENCIES,: Were no efforts to sabotage Japanese 'BUSYSPYING ON YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS EVERY propaganda and _that he ,did not trust diAquino. On the stand, be said he 'DAY, OFTEN ILLEGALLY wsuld trust her with his life. Reyes now claims the FBI statement was a total lie, HOW TO STOP, IT OR DO IT BACK! composed by the Bureau, which he was • &wed to sign. Reyes and many others age, urging President Ford to pardon Iva Toguri d'Aquino.
Military Retreat - During the August 10, 1976 hearings ,beforeshi‘.,.Senati•Artneff Services Com- mittee., on Ihel.-.NoriiinetiOn of Daniel Orrin Graharnictlie promoted to Lieu- tenant General on the Retired List of the Aimy, SenatOr Stuart `.'.,, Symington (.0-itin-) was able tn'forne Gen: Graham that the CIA Was "the brightest and most flexible piece. of the Federal Bureaucracy that I have ever run into.",' startling ,,When one remembers. . Graham-led-the Pentagon effort to take over many intelligence activities. especi ally strategic estimates from the CIA. _ Under questiotthig from the Senator , though, Graham admitted that tbe fense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was not.. ...- very acctitata4e threat estimates: Like ' e most military intelligence agencies, the DIA ticistt `enforce the command •- staff's operational 'plant and Most often - •.; WIRETAPPING delivirs intelligernte. Rlea.se.-" Most A-AILING not6tiour were the military intelligence;, ; ."OPTICAL AND" estimates' of the Indochina War, which •;- ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE only reinforced Pentagon 'contentions ENTRY that the S. was winning. SURREPTITIOUS pg7rOTIVE TECHNIQUES WEAPONS COUNTERMEASURES Are You an Interpol Victim? The National Commission on Law En- forcement and Social Justice has been conducting an investigation into INTERPOL, the quasi/private Inter- "A Virtual Encyclopedia on surveillance . . . everything you've always national Police Organization working wanted to knPw about spying." — Playboy Magazine. out of the U.S. Treasury Department If INTERPOL officials or associates have abused or harassed you overseas , by possible false INTERPOL files, we want you to contact the Commission. If you know or suspect INTERPOL harass- ment, please contact: The National Commission on Law Enforcement and To Order Write: Big Brother Game, Box 647, Ben Franklin Social Justice, 944 Market St, Rm. 607, Station, Washington, D.C. 20044. Send Money Order or San Francisco, CA 94102 or call 415) Check for $7.95 to CounterSpy. 397-2678. '
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• . • In 1971, Attorney General John Mitchell, in an attempt to stave off further criticism of the FBI's practice of keeping huge lists of dissidents--,alleged subversives—for who knows what nefarious reasons, announced that all of the lists had been abolished, and were replaced- by one short "Administrative Index," or "ADEX,'" of leis-than 10,000 'names. Since • that list was also unrelated to proven, or even suspected criminal activity, in 1974 Acting FBI Director .L. Patrick Gray announced that the ADEX had been abolished. Howev'et, in 1976,,a politically active attorney from New York, requesting his FBI' file under the Freedom of InfOrmation Act; discovered, buried in his dossier, a copy of his:ADEX entry Memoran- • dum and Report, ADEX, it appears,-was not abolished, simply moved around. NO explanation of.the four categories Wei given. The New York office recommended that the lawyer be put in the lowest category, IV, "beeause of subject's apparent influence with New Left leaders." However:the home office stated: In addition to the foregoing,:a..review of subject's activities clearly depicts hinvaa a revolitionary attorney and sympathizer who during a time of national emergeity, be likely to commit acts:iniinical to,the national -defense. In view of the above, subject is being included in Category of ADEX" What fate is in store, we wonder, for people put in Category I? The names and addresses have been change&; . Otherwise the document below is an exact replica of an ADEX Memorandum: • -• -;-ci
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