NEWSLETTER OF AFIO NATIONAL OPINIONS, PERISCOPE EVENTS, PLANS & NEWS Association of Former Intelligence Officers Double Issue — Vol. XXVI, No 2; Vol. XXVII, No. 1, 2005 AFIO Celebrates Thirty Years of Service to the U.S. Intelligence Community hirty years ago David Atlee Phillips, a CIA officer concerned over the Tstinging Pike and Church Committee hearings which condemned intelligence operations—operations AFIO 30th Anniversary Symposium/Convention conducted at the behest of U.S. Presidents—took at FBI Headquarters & Sheraton-Premiere Hotel early retirement and formed the Association 28–30 October 2005 of Retired Intelligence Officers. His mission: to explain to Congress, the ven before the issuance of reports seminating for the intelligence commu- Press, and the American by several post-9/11 Commissions, nity, law enforcement, and national and people, the important role cautiously FBI Director Robert Mueller was international government agencies. weighed and sourced intelligence col- E making major changes to fight the grow- With the creation by Congress of a lection and analysis plays in a nation’s ing worldwide terrorist threat. The Bureau Director of National Intelligence [DNI], security. Two years later, the Association shifted resources, promoted new counter- the realignment of duties and responsi- was renamed the Association of Former terrorism executives, moved to give them bilities between the various intelligence Intelligence Officers when its headquar- enhanced investigative powers through the agencies is in flux. A new National Security ters moved to Whittier Ave in McLean, VA USA PATRIOT Act and other procedural Service, to be housed at the Bureau but run where it remains today. streamlining, and created an entire new jointly with the DNI and FBI, has been One of the first goals of the Associa- division—the Office of Intelligence—to approved and is hiring staff and aligning tion was to educate Congress, and it did collect, analyze and disseminate intel- missions with existing Bureau compo- so through testimony at hearings and in ligence. nents. One thing is certain, the Federal personal visits with various committees. The Intelligence Directorate estab- Bureau of Investigation has a bigger and In 2005, however, much has changed. lished basic definitions and requirements crucial role—and new tools to detect the Congress and their staffs are knowl- for the Intelligence Program, and included subtle actions of an enemy – from abroad edgeable, but the American public, in an the ramping up of production and analysis and especially from within – seeking understandable mood to place blame for of new products the Bureau will be dis- to attack American institutions. Those AFIO Early Years, continues on Page 14 FBI & Symposium continue on page 9 2005 • association of former intelligence officers’ periscope newsletter • page word “former” no longer fits as it did in years past. With these findings in mind, the Board periscope will start 2006 with exploration of a small Chairman’s proposed change in the name of the associa- ISSN 1044-3819 in 2005 tion. Mindful that the acronym AFIO has wide is published twice per year by the Message recognition [just try typing that, alone, in Association of Former Intelligence Officers your web browser] and is our “brand” of some 6723 Whittier Avenue, Suite 303A, McLean, VA 22101-4533 thirty years—we would keep the abbreviation Voice: 703-790-0320; Fax:703-991-1278; Peter Earnest but change its meaning to the Association For e-mail: [email protected] Chairman Intelligence Officers. Web: www.afio.com want to take this opportunity to thank all Please mail or email me [earnest@afio. Editors— Managing: Elizabeth Bancroft those Life Members for the large number com] your thoughts on this. I will take to the Mary Lynne McElroy of replies, donations, and thoughtful com- meeting a better sense of where our members Contributing: Dwayne Anderson Iments we received to my Life Member Appeal. stand. Should the Board then move that the Joseph Goulden While Life Membership is no longer offered in name change be adopted, it would go before the Susan Huck lieu of annual dues (to better enable the Asso- membership as part of a proposed amendment Hayden B. Peake Ward W. Warren ciation to grow), these members were the origi- to our bylaws, needing your vote. Copy: Janet E. Murphy nal seed that sustained the Association during Speaking of voting, I hope all of you will its early years, and continue to be a vital part of © 2005, AFIO, All Rights Reserved have voted for the new group of impressive can- its activities and historical underpinning. didates proposed for the 2006 Board. The ballot A F I O P UBL I C A T io NS As expressed in my note, your sustained appears on the back cover of this issue, but was WINs – Weekly Intelligence Notes—News, Issues, Commentar- commitment to the Association and its mission ies, Book Reviews, delivered by e-mail. also sent to all with email addresses. is valuable to us, and you showed it with that Website – www.afio.com – Fast-Breaking National and Foreign I look forward to greeting each of you at impressive response. We thank you! News, Events, Scholarships, Legislation, WINs, Careers, AFIO’s upcoming 30th Anniversary celebra- Store...and more. Updated daily. Like the Intelligence Community it tion, part of the October 28-30 Symposium at Periscope – AFIO Newsletter for National and Chapter news serves, the composition of AFIO membership and internal Association issues and policies of interest FBI Headquarters in downtown Washington, to members and donors. 2x/year. has greatly changed, as the chart on page and at the Sheraton-Premier Hotel in Tyson’s Intelligencer – Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies—AFIO’s 14 reveals. We now have the majority of our Corner, VA. While much needs to be done to flagship publication—substantive articles ranging from members currently working in active intelli- advance our mission, we have many reasons to historic surveys of intelligence practices, to current gence roles, either in their first career assign- celebrate our 30 years of activity. cutting-edge concerns and directions. Includes book ments, or back on long-term contracts. The reviews, essays, reprints and columnists. 2x/year. C O N T E N T S painting of it as a well-planned withdrawal. Is that to be how the world sees us leave Baghdad? National FBI Intelligence Symposium 1 Thirtieth Year Celebration 1 How easy is it to predict, this late in the game, Message from the Chairman with so much at stake to depart gracefully? — Peter Earnest 2 In This What is certain while in the heat of the Message from the Executive Director — Elizabeth Bancroft 2 Issue moment, or even years later in recall, often can Intelligence Analysis Paralysis still be clouded by the “fog of war.” Much of — Gene Poteat 3 Share Missions, Not Just Information human experience faces this clouding, and his- — Frederick Harrison 7 Elizabeth Bancroft torical accounts vehemently differ as a result. Symposium Agenda 9 Executive Director After several important lead articles by Of This and That — Dwayne Anderson 10 AFIO National Events in 2005 12 Poteat, Harrison, Anderson, Wheeler and Le Composition of AFIO Membership 14 ur 2005 Symposium is being held, for Gallo, we present a collection of fascinating Members of the AFIO Board of Directors 14 the first time, at the FBI at the moment first-hand accounts on precisely those mo- Current AFIO Chapters 15 it undergoes significant transforma- ments in Saigon—thirty years ago on April Chapter Activities in Recent Months 17 O 29—when many of the same decisions had to tion. The tentative agenda [all agendas are “ten- Donors in 2004 20 tative” in this field of the unexpected] appears be made. CIA Chief of Station [Vietnam] Tom Lingering WWII Mystery: Leslie Howard Story — Douglas L. Wheeler 22 on page 9. If you have not sent in your forms Polgar tells of the increasing sense of doom and The Fall of Saigon — Tom Polgar 23 from the mailing that went out separately, we the inability by some to accept the situation, the The Fall of Saigon - Marine Perspective hope you will do so with the form with this urgency required and the difficulty conveying — Col. Steve Hasty 28 it to a government unwilling to embrace the A CIA Officer in Saigon — Richard W. Hale 30 issue. The Symposium will be a look at an “We were playing God, kicking back people” otherwise very closed Bureau that is normally facts until it was nearly too late to depart. An — Suzanne Goldenberg 34 hesitant to talk on these topics—so this is a account by U.S. Marines guarding the embassy, Covert Action — Andre Le Gallo 38 followed by a totally different recall of the situ- rare event not to miss. Profile: Derrin R. Smith, Ph.D. 40 ation by Henry Kissinger, shows how fear, em- Profile: Art Lindberg 42 This issue of Periscope touches on a barrassment and distance impacts the assess- Professional Reading - Intelligence Omnibus number of sensitive topics. The main one being — Joseph C. Goulden 45 ment of fast-breaking, emotionally charged A Job of Cutting — Sue Huck, Ph.D. 52 where we are heading in Iraq. How and when life-changing events. Richard Hale gives a Intelligence Bookshelf Candidates will we depart? How will we leave it—better — Hayden B. Peake 53 view from a different perch, followed by three off, or worse for our arrival? Often, these past haunting accounts presented in The Guardian Incoming — Ward Warren 60 months, I’ve heard people on all sides of the Forthcoming Books — Elizabeth Bancroft 63 [UK] from others who were present. issue cite our departure from Saigon as a wor- Ballot for Board of Directors 2006 68 Enjoy these articles and the large collec- risome moment in history when we appeared to tion of book reviews of professional titles.