Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit INTELLIGENCE N. 30 New Series, 5 February 1996 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; tel/fax 33 1 40 51 85 19; ADI, 16 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, France) ISSN 1245-2122 Copyright ADI 1996, reproduction in any form forbidden without explicit authorization from the ADI. INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA: THREE INTELLIGENCE OVERHAUL PROJECTS RUNNING PARALLEL In 1994, Washington had three projects for the overhaul of secrecy and classification, running in parallel: the National Industrial Security Program (NISP), the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) program, headed by Steven Garfinkel, and a CIA-Pentagon project which resulted in the CIA;-dominated Security Policy Board (SPB) headed by Peter Saderholm. The NISP produced a massive manual which was drastically simplified and reduced just before publication, and the ISOO continued its work, but with a new emphasis on declassification, while the SPB lives on in bureaucratic limbo trying to enforce Cold War security and keep things from being declassified. Now a similar situation exists in Washington with three independent intelligence overhaul projects running in parallel and certain specialists are just as sceptical about eventual results as they were about the overhaul of the classification system. The best known of the three intelligence reform projects is the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community, previously known as the Aspin Commission after its first chairman, former defense secretary, Les Aspin (INT, N. 16/31), but now chaired by former defense secretary Harold Brown (INT, N. 19/35). On 3 August 1995, the Commission heard its first witness, National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, who was followed by Robert D. Steele, head of Open Source Solutions, Inc.. On 5 June 1995, the Commission produced a report, "Scope of the Commission's Inquiry", outlining the panel's work plan for reforming U.S. intelligence, and presented its four key responsibilities (INT, N. 19/35). On 19 January, it held a public hearing and took testimony from former NSA director and CIA deputy director, Admiral Bob R. Inman, who wants a separate agency for clandestine operations, former defense secretary Frank C. Carlucci, who wonders why anyone would want to reform the Agency, and former ambassador to China and CIA station chief, James R. Lilley, who liked the clandestine life but has learned diplomacy and how to avoid involvement. The Commission's report is due on 1 March and, although it will probably not recommend any reduction in intelligence activity, there are rumors it will recommend serious restructuring. The Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Arlen Specter, is preparing its own plan for intelligence overhaul and wants the intelligence community to carry out economic espionage to back American industries. The House Intelligence Committee, under Larry Combest, is preparing, for this spring, an overhaul plan called, "Intelligence Community in the 21st Century" (IC21) which is supposed to be a "bottom-up review" of intelligence needs for the next 10 to 15 years. Outside Congress, the Council on Foreign Relations has set up an intelligence panel which proposes lifting barriers on spying so the CIA can "take risks" and send out agents as journalists and clergy (currently forbidden by law). Even the super-secret Lockheed Martin "Skunk Works", which works under Special Access Program (SAP) security, has gotten into the act by calling for the reduction of security and classification procedures which are expensive and not cost-efficient. The Skunk Works sent its white paper to the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy which is chaired by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. COMMENT - In this plethora of intelligence overhaul projects, one thing seems clear: the future lies with specialized agencies such as the National Security Agency (NSA) for electronic intelligence and the planned National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). Since the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is in the process of finally centralizing military intelligence, and has formed a specific Defense Human Intelligence Service (DHIS), the specific role of the CIA, involving both collection and analysis, is going to have to be carved out between the DHIS, for collection, and the Department of State Information and Research Bureau (INR), for analysis. * PEOPLE: U.S.A. - William C. Doherty, Jr. First clearly tagged as a CIA agent in 1974 by CIA-dissident Philip Agee, William C. Doherty, Jr., has been the immovable Executive Director of the American Institute of Free Labor Development (AIFLD) for 30 years. In 1994 the Clinton administration made the incredible blunder of trying to have him sent as ambassador to Guyana whose prime minister, Cheddi Jaggan, was the target of a CIA-Doherty destabilization campaign in 1961. The Clinton administration still refuses to declassify thirty-year old State Department documents on what Doherty and the CIA were doing in Guyana. But Doherty's cold warrior fire has burned out and he recently tended his resignation, apparently at the request of the new AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. The AIFLD is in charge of the AFL-CIO's international policy in the western hemisphere and has a long and well-documented history of collaboration with the CIA and supporting repression against Latin American trade unions. In recent years, Doherty and the AIFLD have been promoting free trade while their parent organization, the AFL- CIO, has opposed free trade measures. * U.S.A. - Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West. CIA psychiatrist and veteran of the Agency's MK Ultra "mind control" experiments, Dr. Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West, has been back in the news recently on KCAL-TV in Los Angeles. In the 1970s, West was the chief architect of the Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence as chief of the Neuropsychiatric Institute of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). On KCAL-TV, West commented on the murder of children by their parents, noting that parents too often "treat their children as objects". West was a proponent of "Remote Electronic Stimulus Conditioning of the Brain" for human beings and wanted to electronically monitor "hyperkinetic children" in an attempt to determine which ones would become violent later in life. None of these experiments got off the ground, in spite of backing from the governor of California at the time, Ronald Reagan. * For subscription info, write to: intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr or point your browser to Intelligence online: http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org =================================================================