The-CIA Vs. Philip Agee Editorial
- - Number 8 • , March-Apri"J 1980 $2.00 Special: ATTACKS AGAINST AGEE ESCALATE ." м INFORМAТION BШ,IET_IN The-CIA vs. Philip Agee Editorial lnternational events-most nota~ly Iran and Afghani message he mentioned the "need for а strengthened and stan, but also Nicaragua, Grenada, El Salvadщ. and else clearly defined role for our intelligence coпimunity." "We where-have created а climate ofhysteria arid McCarthy will not shortchange," he wrote, "the intelligence capaЬili ism unmatched in ne~rly three decades. The media have ties needed to assure our national security." We must "de begun, with consideraЫe justification, to refer to Cold War velop new technical means of intelligence co\lection while II. Critics of United States foreign policy must swim also assuring that the more traditional methods of intelli against the current, and the current, not to mention the gence work are also given proper stress." undertow, is strong. Unfortunately, the victims of"more traditional methods of intelligence work;' have had little say in this national tJnleashing the Monster debate. They are the dead, the tortured, the maimed, in Vietnam, in Iran, in Uruguay, in Guatemala, around the The cuttlng edge of such swings to the right is, а~ it gl.obe. · always has been, national defense and national security,. and cгitics ofthe defense and inte1Iigence apparatus will, in such times, Ье drawn to the front of the fray. The Administration's "Charter" . - . As we Iearn inschool, the United States government has In.recent months there has been а flurry of legislative three branches: the executive, the \egislative, and the judi activity centering around the role of the CIA and other cial; all three branches are fighting to "unleash" the CIA.
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