- - 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. intelligence agencies. Late last year а spate of"Intelligence The intelligence agencies and their b6osters within the ldentity Protection" ЬiHs were introduced-purportedly Administration have been quick;to take advantage of in­ .aimed· at this Bulletin; but in fact threatening the entire ternational tension. The preposterous argument that а . journalistic community. Then, under the aegis of Senator stronger CIA with fewer restrictions would have Ied· to Da.niel Р; Moynihan, two new elements were added to the different results in Iran щ Afghanistan is taken off ihe cauldron-a proposed law to exempt the CIA frorn the shelf, dusted and polished. · provisions ofthe Freedorn oflnformation Act and another to lirnit, if not elirninate altogether, Congressional over- In his State ofthe Union Address, President Carter said, .· sight of covert .action. Finally, the Senate version of the as Aфniral Turner appeare'd <щ the TV s~reen smiling long.:awaited Foreignintelligence Charter was introduced. broadly, "we: need to re~ov.e :f!-n:~~цanted restraints оп . America 's aЬility to collect intelligence." In his written · The Ыll was, in sorne respects, worse than anything the ~~:~_·'~- ~•.. р .co:NtENTS Editorial News Notes 23 Philip Agee: CIA in Zimbabwe/Rhodesia 26 Man Without а Country? 4 CIA Recruiting in Florida 27 PuЫications of lnterest 1 MI-6 in Northem Ireland 29 Congress Considers CIA Legislation 8 Naming Names 30 Testimony on Sources and Methods: H.R. 5615 11 CIA Assassinations 36 CovertAction lnformation Bulletin, Number 8, March-April 1980, puЬlished Ьу C~vert Action PuЫications, lnc., а District of ColumЬia Nonprofit Corporation, Р.О. Вох 50272, Washington, D<; 20004. Telephone: (202) 265-~904. All rights reserved; copyright@ 1980, Ьу Covert Action PuЫications, Inc. Typography Ьу Artfor Реор/е, Washingto!.1,; QC. Washingtori Staff: I:llen Ray, William Schaap, Louis Wolf. Board of Advisors: Philip Agee, K~n Lawrence, Karl Van Meter, Elsie Wilcott, Jim'W.ilbott. The CovertActiol'l lnformation Bulletin is availaЫe at many bookstores around the world. Wr1te or call for the store neare~t you. Inquiries from distributors and subscription services welcomed. 2 CovertAction Number 8 (March-April 1980) Administration had been puЫicly asking for, authorizing, statement, excerpts ofthe questioning which followed, and in some instances, burglaries and mail openings against some selections from the presentations of other speakers. U .S. citizens not suspected of crimes, specifically authoriz- . ing the use of journalists, academics and the clergy as agents, and other clear steps backwards. Senator Walter The Anti-Agee Campaign Huddieston, the chief sponsor of the bill, noted that the committee members had been аЫе to overcome "purist The beginning of the 1980's brought with it а new, so­ attitudes" about such minor inconveniences. as bugging, phisticated, and well-coordinated campaign against Philip tapping and burglarizing innocent people. In all the discus­ Agee. А barra.ge of false newspaper stories, passport revo­ sions, of course, it seems to go without saying that the U .S. cations, attempted book bannings, and injunctions, and can do anything to "foreigners"-other peoples in other other legal maneuvers followed one after the other during lands. the first two months of the year. They are described in ful1 in another article in this issue. We can only reiterate our This legislative potpourri is discussed and analyzed in admiration of, and support for, the battle which Agee has detail in this issue of the Bulletin. waged for more than five years. As his lawyer, Melvin Wulf, said, "Anything that increases puЫic knowledge of the CIA 's clandestine activities contributes to world реасе." The Snepp Decision We have never been political admirers of Frank Snepp, but we have supported fully his right to puЫish whatever he wished about his former employer. Sho.rtly before we went to print with this issue, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in his case-a travesty of legal reasoning, further proof., if any were needed, that the Court is just another institution which makes political, not legal, decisions. It bodes ill for all the present and would-be whistleЫowers, who remain, in some ~ases, our only hope for exposing · governmental atrocities. The courts; like · the other branches of governmerit, are wrapping themse~ves in the flag. ТЬеу don't realize that to do so is to Ыindfold oneself, Also In This lssue We continue our regular features, Naming Names and Sources and Meth0,ds.'Our reasons for continuing to do so are explained in our testiinoriy before the House Commit­ tee. The CIA, we are sadly convinced, remains beyond reform. Several other items of interest to our readers are present­ ed. We apologize for the Ьit of delay in the puЫication of this issue, but, as we hope is evident, we have been kept busy Ьу the co_nstant attacks. То our many charter subscribers who have renewed their subscriptions, our thanks for your continuing support. - The Boland ВШ We have reported previously on the lntelligence Identi­ Correction ties Protection Act,.introduced in October 1979, which In Bulletin Number 6 we printed the document would make it а crime for anyone-former CIA employee authored, in 1975, Ьу former Director of Central or private journalist-to disclose the identity of any intelli­ Intelligence, William Е. Colby. Through our over­ gence employee, agent or source, or even information from sight in layout, а large section of the document was ·which one might ascertain such an identity. After consider­ inadvertently repeated. The section beginning on aЫe discussion among ourselves, the staff of the Bulletin page 20, column l, with "Part 111" through the first · requested, and were granted, the opportunity to present full paragraph on page 21, ending with " ... proprie­ our views in testimony before the House Select Committee ty" should Ье eliminated. on Intelligence. In this issue we present the full text of our ~ , Number 8 (March-April 1980) CovertAction 3 The Man Without а Country: ATTACKS AGAINST AGEE ESCALAТE For а number of years the CIA relished its· description .of for the New York Post~the paper that Australian press Philip Agee as its "only ideological defector." Although the barori Rupert Murdoch has turned into а scaqdal-monger­ writings and speeches of J ohn Stockwell, Victor Marchetti, ing rag, the current joke in journalistic circles: Rose, des­ Jesse Leaf, and others belie this, still the Agency reserves cribed in а rece.nt Washington Star arti~le as а djsaffected inordinate hatred and vehemence. for Agee. Romors f oп:ner.membei of-th.e U.S. Lab.or· Patty·of cultist"Lyndon spread, after "lnside the Company" was puЫished, that EaЦ9uphe, wante,d.~:gee's.phope iJ.:u!Dber:in Germany right tl;lere we.re serious offers within .the Аgещ:у to assassinate ·a:·way,; to cal(.hi~ a·nd get his ie&P'on'se :to the news item him. Whenever ajournalist wants а suitaЫy juicy quote, Rose had been "handed" to write up~that the Iranians any CIA source can Ье asked about Agee-most recently, . ~anted Agee'to.sit on.a tHЬ:uщ1J which, there wereтumors, according to UPI: "lf 1 can get him with my bare hands, 1'11 щight Ье estaЫished to.tiyihe pr.ls6ners . .Jt was З a.m., and kill him, I'H kill him." Rose•wa~ to~d·th~t; as faтas CAJ.hknew there w~s rtothing to sЦch а ru·mo.r,.arid in any event CA/Bwould try to reach Agee has lived with this fool.ishness with some equanimi­ Agee later that day'; However, within a-few hours', the early ty: "lf 1 were constantly lookin.g behind me," he once said; edЩon. of the'Post was on the standsinNew York City. "1 would. just trip ov,er my own feet." Still, he. has been .. forced to pack up and move wi.th his family froщ his homes :. · · 'rhe«banner hea.dJine, which t.ook up half th~ front page, in England, in Fтance, a·nd in Holland, one after the other, ~,, 1'r~a.d.: "CIA Traitor м~y.·J;.udge ,(lpstages." (fhis was'ap­ as the local authorit'ies.have bowed to petty pressure from .