OI erases? ae Reagan aims to unleash CIA at home and abroad By BOB RUTKA WASHINGTON (PL) — The U.S. Congress took a giant step toward unleashing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from public or private scrutiny by approv- ing legislation that would bar the naming of agents even if obtained from open and public sources. By 354 to 56, the House voted to outlaw the un- authorized identification of covert agents by anyone “‘with reason to believe’’ such activities would impair or impede U.S. intelligence operations. The measure calls for jail terms of up to 10 years and a $50,000 fine for present or past government officials who had access to classified material and up to three years imprisonment israeli plan will continue occupation The Israeli regime’s plan for so-called ‘‘self- government”’ for the Arab people in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip is running into the ex- pected roadblocks and is being denounced by Palestinian leaders as a trick to perpetuate Israeli rule. The plan, scheduled to come into effect Dec. 1, will offer some token administrative respon- sibilities to ‘‘moderate’’ Arabs, bypassing the real elected leaders such as mayors of several large towns. Real power will be retained by the Israeli army which has occupied the regions since 1967 despite world-wide and UN demands they return the terri- tories to the Palestinians. At the same moment it announced the phoney “‘self-rule’’ plan, Israel also announced it would step up its settlements program in the occupied regions. It will add 12 to 18 more settlements to the exist- ing 85 on the West Bank, thus increasing its stranglehold over the occupied region which Begin calls *‘Judea and Samaria’’. The announcement, made by the World Zionist Organization’s Settle- ments Department, Oct. 4, says Israel plans to increase the present 25,000 Jewish population to 120,000 by 1985. and $15,000 fines for journalists or other citizens who _ make such disclosures. The bill, which is supported by both the White House and the justice department, has yet to be passed by the Senate, but prospects for passage are considered likely. Critics are charging that the bill would prohibit the exposure of illegal CIA activity both inside and outside the U.S., effectively giving the spy agency a free hand. New York congressman Ted Weiss reacted to passage of the legislation by charging that the section applicable to journalists and other citizens ‘‘presents an incursion on the First Amendment (guaranteeing free speech) un- paralleled in the history of the nation during peacetime. “*Never has the publication of information in the pub- lic domain by private citizens made an offense,’ he said. Californian congressman Don Edwards said the bill would be ‘‘devastating to reporters’’, pointing out that the current mood in Congress over such issues is placing U.S. libertiés in danger. The intelligence identities protection legislation i only part of a general move within Congress and the executive branch to gut legal access to government in- formation in the U.S. : Already this year, more than 20 pieces of legislation have been introduced designed to restrict access to government records. A major target is the 15-year old so-called “‘Freedom of Information Act’’ that permitted access to records except in the case of nine broad areas. It was such legal access that led to exposure of many illegal activities by numerous government agencies. CIA director William Casey recently told a Senate judiciary sub-committee on the constitution that U.S. spy agen- cies should be completely exempt from the regulations of the Act. * * * Following the PL story, other news agencies reported that the White House has sent a draft executive order to Capital Hill which would remove previous restrictions on the CIA’s conduct permitting the agency to again infiltrate domestic groups and influence their activities. The draft will replace former president Carter’s 1978 guidelines restricting intelligence operations against domestic political activities following disclosure of mas- sive illegal CIA operations against civil rights and peac organizations in the 1960s and 1970s. Naming Raines This issue (4/8 details the whereabouts of fifteen CIA Liberia personnel, including four Chiefs of Station, one Chief of Base. two Deputy Chiefs of Station, and one Deputy Chief of Telecommunications. Two of these have hot previously to our knowledge been exposed. The others have been Embassy. His full biography appeared in DW2, Ithasnow —~ noted. in prior postings. in “Dirty Work: The CIA in been learned that Johnson was transferred, at least as of Western Europe” (cited below as “DWI"), “Dirty Work 2: March 1981, to the Monrovia, Liberia Embassy, where he The CIA in Africa” (cited below as“DW2"), or in previous is Deputy Chief of Telecommumcations. He works under issues of CAIB. Telecommunications Chief Donald L. Miller, whose bio- graphy appears in CA/B Number 8. In CA/B Namber 2, telecornmunications veteran Asrom ‘itiam Johnson was located at the New Delhi, India Malaysia Canede James L. Pavitt, a case officer whose biography appears in DWI. has been stationed. at least as of January 1981. John: P. Marx, whose biography in DWI notes prior. the Kuala Lampur, Malaysia Embassy: under ci postings in Rome, Italy and in The Hague, Netherlands, Second Secretary was, according to the November 1980 Ottawa Diplomauc and Consular List, posted to the Ottawa, Canada Embassy scmetime prior thereto. He 1s listed as Second Secretary, M but is in fact a CLA case officer Central African Republic According 10 State Department 5 learned that the new CIA Chi Central African Republic i: that Printing the goods on CIA agents abroad as in this recent note in a Washington-based journal is one of ’ the loopholes the new laws aim to plug. = Uf UY Gy lea SN Obvious targets of the intelligence protection bills are publications in the U.S. which have been targetting U.S. spying at home and abroad including CIA covert actions against national liberation movements, the labor move- ment and foreign governments considered ‘‘unfriendly”’ to the U.S. The bills are also aimed at stopping the activities of former CIA agents who have exposed the dirty work of the CIA, at home and abroad. : The new directives permitting renewed infiltration of domestic anti-administration groups is clearly aimed at heading off the massive upsurge against Reagan’s econ- omic and social policies and the renewal of peace senti- ment in face of Washington’s unprecedented arms drive. INTERNATIONAL FOCUS By TOM MORRIS A sick plea for a war Criminal . With all the issues in the country and around the globe, readers of the right-wing To- ronto Sun woke up Oct. 5 to the paper’s editorial, “‘Free Hess’’. The Sun devoted its space that morning to a plea for the release of Hitler’s deputy fuehrer Rudolph Hess from Berlin’s Spandau prison where PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCT. 16, 1981—Page 8 he serves a life sentence handed down by the Nurem- berg war crimes trial. Using the occasion to vent it’s anti-Soviet spleen, the paper charges the Soviets with being vengeful. It calls Hess’s imprisonment ‘‘obscene’’ and continues: ‘Especially when Hess was not convicted of any war crimes — but with the retroactive crime of ‘conspir- ing against peace’, whatever thatis’ =<" The ‘‘whatever that is’’ just happens to be World War Two which cost close to 100 million lives. Rather than telling its read- ers about Hess’s role in for- mulating the hated nazi ideol- ogy (he sat with Hitler in Landsberg jail and took down his leader’s ravings which be- came Mein Kampf), or Hess’s ~ key role as deputy leader of the nazi party in stamping out all opposition, subverting the courts and sending thousands of German anti-fascists to their deaths, the Sun attacks the USSR. It omits the fact that it was Britain which held Hess from 1941 until he was brought to trial in 1945. It forgets to say it was the Nuremberg court, composed of the USA, Britain, France and the USSR, which sentenced Hess and the other nazi leaders for crimes so monsterous as to boggle the mind. We’re waiting for the next pro-nazi editorial from that paper which could tout the line that there really were no con- centration camps or gas ovens ... that World War Two is a Soviet invention. $1,000 boots, ¢ six french fries Ever wonder what it’s like to walk around in a pair of $1,000 cowboy boots? Reagan just bought four pair last week, complete with gold presiden- tial seals. Ever have an urge to eat your ‘lunch on a 4,372-piece china set costing $209,508? Ronny and Nancy will be doing just that. The irony of the new dishes at the White House (bought with ‘‘private money’’, we’re assured) is that their purchase comes at the moment Reagan’s budget cuts are gutting the U.S. federal school lunch program. A new menu (devised by the Agricultural Department) cuts the meat portion to 1 0z., bread to one slice of white, and prescribes six french fries, nine grapes and 6 oz. of milk. The Department even tried to re-classify catsup as a veget- able but backed down red- faced amid public hoots. The present program which feeds 27 million school children is just too much, say administra- tion officials, who are project- ing big budget savings which can be plowed into such neces- sities as rockets and tanks. But these American kids and their families will undoubtedly take solice in Reagah’s new boots and dishes, the cost of which could have provided 190,000 of them with a meal. You’ve come a long way? In a revealing story on sex- ual harassment, U.S. Daily World writer Patricia Ginoni reports on a meeting held in New Haven, Conn., where these points were made: “‘One woman is sexually as- saulted every minute in the U.S. Many people blame the woman for the attack despite the fact that assaults occur re- gardless of a woman’s age, looks, economic status, race or ethnic background. ‘*Sexual harassment is any repeated and unwanted sexual advance, look, joke or inuendo from someone in the work- place which embarasses women and causes problems on the job. It is the single most widespread occupational haz- zard women face in the work- place. : ‘‘Several speakers tied the violence of rape, wife-beating and pornography to in- Stitutionalized forms of vio- lence — the nuclear arms race, cutbacks in social services, ra- cism and the Reagan administ- ration’s proposals to turn back ‘the clock on reproductive rights, civil rights, affirmative action and the struggle for equality. Others emphasized that the dangers women face are politi- cal and economic as well as physical. They pointed to the closing of women’s centres, rape crisis centres and battered wives’ shelters, as well as the Reagan cuts in services to women and families. "Let's keep that one -- she's got nice legs."