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More CIA Around the World NCLC: Brownshirts of the Seventies The Great Africa War: Blood test of U.S. Foreign Policy Winter, 1976 Vol. 2, Issue 4 $1.50 The Quarterly Journal of the Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate GARDENPLOT & SWAT US Police as New Action Army • CounterSpy presents its Ent Letters to the Editor column. We have received some 500 letters in the past month. A cross-section of them appear below. We'd also like to express our thanks to all of you who wrote. couNTERSpy We appreciate the criticism as well as the support. We encourage you to get out your pen and paper and tell us what you think about CounterSpy, the CIA, your local SWAT team, or any other national security issue. The Quarterly Journal of the Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate I just wanted to drop you a note We work on a farm, On January 8, we sent you a contri- of support on your statement and homesteading. Any contribution has bution of 12,000. A note should have my expression of solidarity with you. been to difficult to come by. But accompanied the check, but we It is quite amazing to watch so- now we'll forsake next Spring's neglected to write it, so here it is now. called critics of the CIA show their replacement plow-points so that We are very glad to send along colors at a time like this. I would Fifth Estate can expose just what this check, as we have been glad to like to take the liberty of pointing ex-agent Welch has been doing to support you over the past few years. out that I don't think it is quite ac- Third World people for a living. It seems to both of us that you have Vol. 3, lama 4 Winter, 1976 2 Comment: curate to ascribe the outcry against Please stick it out, for all of us. been responsible and effective in The New Liberal Consensus / The State of the Empire / Abolish the CIA / you to "reactionary elements of the Stanardsville, VA your efforts to bring to public view Demilitarize the Police / FBI terrorism / Senate Bill One Press" or to "tightest cowards" the excesses of our country's secret alone. Certainly they are in the muckrake (Webster's Third New In- "intelligence" mechanisms as well forefront, but what seems to be even ternational Dictionary/: as the unpleasant filet that secrecy more important really is the facile 'to search out and charge with itself has become the accepted /1 Trends: way in which some liberal jour- and seek to expose publicly real or framework for our government's Agriagents at Work / David Fine Free National ID Cards / CIA on Campus / nalists and the liberal establishment apparent misconduct or vice or dealings with us. Women Mercenaries / KGB Agents Named !More Grand Jury News / Dennis in general is so willing to go along. corruption on the part of prominent Although we have never sought Banks Arrested Even the Laurence Stern article individuals (as public officials)" publicity for support we have given which you enclosed falls far short of "to investigate or go over to any organization, we would like what he might have said in a news assiduously with the purpose of to suggest that in the present GARDEN PLOT & SWAT: U.S. Police As New Action Army: analysis article. digging up scandal or in- situation it might be 16 a good idea for The first documented overview of domestic counter-insurgency capabilities in In general I think your statement criminating" you to make a public statement is excellent and makes all the im- "obs. rake for gathering dung in a about where your funds come from. the seventies, including Operations GRAM METRIC. LANTERN SPIKE. portant points of your (our) position heap" We would be willing to be listed CABLE SPLICER extremely well. Part of what Stern's I'm proud to know people in the among your supporters, and we article does is to try to take some of tradition of Lincoln Steffens. Upton would have no objection to having the blame off you by,talling you "an Sinclair and Ida Tarbell. the amount of our help listed as obscure left-wing group" and saying S.R. well. that you have scruffy offices. You Washington, DC Since people who live in an am- may be obscure and unimportant to biance of conspiracy seem to find it him but not to us and to me. With Warning to Harvey Kahn, Doug hard to imagine a simple, disin- love from us all. Porter, and TRAITORS Ef AL II! terested act, members of the CIA Editorial Board Dick Goldensohn You bastards better clear out of are presumably trying to figure out Seventla,gs Magazine our country! We, veterans will not if your support comes from a Julie Brooks tolerate degenerates who help mur- "foreign source," "subversive Tim Butz der our Americans who serve to elements," or whatnot. Eda Gordon protect the security of our country. It might be educational for them Harvey Kahn The preposterous charge that you You have the list of our security to find that your backers are Winslow Peck are responsible for the death of an agents. We have the list of you citizens who adhere to American Doug Porter --- American official shows how afraid traitors. We will make it our traditions of openness in govern- Margaret Van Houten the CIA is of the growing con- business to get rid of you. Dirty ment, honesty in international sciousness that plain citizens ran do bastards!!! You don't belong in our dealings, and an informed elec- Coordinators for this testae something about the rat-hole world country. You belong in Moscow with torate. We count ourselves and you Julie Brooks of government-sponsored secret the KGB. Traitors you'll die. among that number. Harvey Kahn societies. The person who can only Several of us veterans, Vietnam Carol Bernstein Ferry watch passively at the worst excesses and World War II have met and W. H. Ferry 26 CIA Around the World of his age is no citizen in any voted not to allow you spies for a Scarsdale, NY Who was Richard Welch? / CIA Agents named in Europe and Zaire / David traditional sense, for he has no part foreign country and traitors to our Phillip's ARIO / CIA Drug Trade / The Great Southern Africa War / in the most important decisions own to exist. Get out of the country The ferocity of the attacks and the including new mercenary recruitment tactics determining the policies and the or die!!! low-level ilk making them, proves moral character of government. Don't expect the C.I.A. and F.B.I. the strength and the righteousness CouritorSpy sends special thanks to: Hopefully the public will be able to protect you. You dogs!!! of your work. In solidarity with our Liz Anderson. Chip Berlet. Christine to understand the insidious stage. P.S. Better be physically prepared. sisters and brothers, we remain. Bond. Robert Borsage. Minton Brooks. 40 TIP: Terrorist Information Project managing of the news by in- We will make sure to waste you!! The Wounded Knee Legal Frank Browning, John Burgess. Carol National Caucus of Labor Committees: the Brownshirts of the Seventies / The telligence organizations. Call the F.B.I. to protect you. You Defense/Offense Committee Bernstein Ferry. W. H. Ferry. Morton Hal- Rise of Posse Comitatus You are showing the way. Keep it scum. You'll never have the nerve to Rapid City. Lakota Nation perin. Anne Hess. Dana Johnson. Kathy up. ask an American to protect a Johnson: Daniel Morris. Janet Raffel. Sel- John foreign spy. Dogs!!!! ma Rein. Ron Ridenhour, Beth Stone. Jim 60 Keep on Keepin' On Stanford, CA Anonymous Con', on inside back corer True. Georgia Van Houten. Bill Wallace. Dale Wiehoff and the Counterspies of the Fifth Estate Annual Report / New Organizations / Legal Actions / Literature Fifth Estate. List 2 3 . Advisory Board • the secret bombing of Cambodia for the Organizing Committee fora Fifth Estate. • massive illegal physical and technological surveil- lance of law-abiding American citizens by the CIA and Philip Agee COMMENT NSA Former CIA case officer • ', • hundreds of burglaries and the organization of vio- Sylvia Crane lent reaction to social change by the FBI National Committee Against Repressive LegislatiOn "There is, clearly, something wrong with the system. " • conspiracies to assassinate foreign leaders David Dellinger • involvement of the Presidency and the CIA with or- Institute for New Communications - Senator Edmiind V. Muskie ganized crime and drug traffic Frank Donner January 21. 1976 • the overthrow of a freely elected, lawful regime in ACLU Political Surveillance Project Democratic Party reply to the Chile following 30 years of CIA and corporate coup Robert Katz - President's State of the Union Message d'etats and secret wars disrupting and destroying mil- Assassination Information Bureau lions of lives WlBiam Kunstler While Ed Muskie and Jerry Ford obviously had op- • the collective crime known as Watergate Attorney and former OSS officer posing world views in their respective speeches on the • rampant crime as the dominant fact of life in mod- Mark Lone State of the Union there was little to indicate their dif- ern American society Citizen's Commission of Inquiry ferences would move beyond simple election year rhet- • executives on the boards of multinational financial Sidney Ian oric to Offer the electorate a clear choice on program. institutions "executing" and encouraging crime to main- Author, labor organizer Jerry Ford, speaking for his faction of the Republican tain the corporate hold on America Dr.