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Inside the CIA

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by Kessler, Ronald


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  Marchetti, Victor, and John D. Marks. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. Knopf, 1974.

  Martin, David C., and John Walcott. Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America’s War Against Terrorism. Touchstone, 1989 (originally published by Harper & Row, 1988).

  Meyer, Cord. Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA. University Press of America, 1980.

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  Peebles, Curtis. Guardians: Strategic Reconnaissance Satellites. Presidio Press, 1987.

  Penkovskiy, Oleg. The Penkovskiy Papers. Doubleday, 1965.

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  Powers, Thomas. The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA. Knopf, 1987.

  Prados, John. The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Intelligence Analysis and Soviet Strategic Forces. Princeton University Press, 1982.

  ————. Presidents’ Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II through Iranscam. William Morrow, 1986.

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  Ranelagh, John. The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA. Touchstone, 1987 (originally published by Cambridge Publishing Ltd., 1986).

  Richelson, Jeffrey T. America’s Secret Eyes in Space: The U.S. Keyhole Spy Satellite Program. Harper & Row, 1990.

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  Glossary

  Agent—Person acting under control of an intelligence or security service to obtain or help obtain information for intelligence purposes. Also known as an asset.

  Analysis—Review of collected information to determine its significance, collate it with other information in hand, and draw conclusions resulting in intelligence judgments.

  Asset—See AGENT.

  Case officer—A staff member of an intelligence service who is responsible for handling agents. Also known as an operations officer.

  Clandestine operations—Operations carried out secretly.

  Collection—Acquisition of information to be processed for intelligence.

  Communications intelligence (COMINT)—Intelligence derived from intercepted communications.

  Consumer—Person or organization that receives and makes use of intelligence.

  Counterintelligence—Activities undertaken to thwart efforts by hostile intelligence services to penetrate or compromise one’s own intelligence service and operations.

  Cover—Protective guise assumed by an individual or activity to conceal its true identity and affiliation.

  Defector—Person who has repudiated his country of citizenship and may possess information of intelligence interest.

  Dissemination—Distribution of intelligence to consumers via written, oral, or electronic means.

  Espionage—Clandestine intelligence collection.

  Estimate—An intelligence product analyzing and assessing future possible developments and courses of action.

  Evaluation—Determination of the probable validity, pertinence, and utility of intelligence information.

  Finding—A written determination by the president required before covert action may be undertaken.

  Foreign intelligence—Intelligence concerning areas and activities outside the United States.

  Human source intelligence (HUMINT)—Intelligence collected by means of agents or informers.

  Imagery—Representations of objects reproduced on film, electro-optical display, radar, or other means.

  Information—Unevaluated raw data not yet processed to produce intelligence.

  Intelligence—The product of collection, evaluation, and analysis of information.

  Operations officer—See CASE OFFICER.

  Paramilitary operations—Operations undertaken by military forces separate from the regular armed forces of a nation.

  Processing—Manipulation of collected raw information of intelligence interest to make it usable for analysis.

  Product—Finished intelligence disseminated to consumers.

  Reconnaissance—Observation mission undertaken to acquire by various means information about a target of intelligence interest.

  Requirement—Statement by a consumer of an intelligence need to be filled.

  Security—Measures taken to protect sensitive activities, data, and personnel against compromise.

  Signals intelligence (SIGINT)—Intelligence derived from the interception, processing, and analysis of communications, electronic emissions, or telemetry.

  Strategic intelligence—Intelligence supporting national- and international-level formulation of policy, plans, and strategy.

  Target—Person, place, or thing against which intelligence operations are directed.

  Telemetry—Electronic signals given off by, for example, missiles or rockets during operational testing.

  Excerpted by permission from Dr. Lewis Sorley’s The Central Intelligence Agency: An Overview, published by the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.

  Index

  Abscam, 227

  Agee, Philip, 275

  Agents v. officers, 5

  Allende, Salvador, 53, 234–35

  Al Shiraa, 90

  American Police State, The (Wise), 274

  An American Life (Reagan), 155

  Anderson, Jack, 103, 288

  Angleton, James, 12, 74–77, 133, 222

  Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., 50–51

  Arbenz, Jacobo, 50

  Aspillaga Lombard, Florentino, 44, 46

  Assassination plots, 52–53

  Assassinations, 253

  Associa
tion of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), 287

  Australia, 10, 288–89, 310

  Aziz, Tariq, 166

  Baker, James A. III, 237

  Baker, Robin, 241, 283

  Baker, William M., 116–17, 175–76, 187–88, 233, 281–87, 294–95

  Ball, George W., 57

  Ballistic missiles, 47

  Bane, Howard T., 14–19, 34

  Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), 290, 293, 316

  Barker, Bernard, 78

  Barnett, David H., 194, 197

  Bay of Pigs invasion, 51–58, 83–84

  Beilenson, Anthony C., 267

  Bell, Griffin, 194–95

  Bellinger, John B., 232, 251, 253, 257, 262–63

  Bergson, Abram, 154

  Berlin Tunnel, 61

  Birman, Igor, 152

  Bissell, Richard M., Jr., 51–52, 83–84, 99, 272

  Black, Edwin F., 289

  Boren, David L., 165–66, 312

  Bossard, Frank, 75

  Bouterse, Desire D., 55

  Bowen, Russell J., 57, 84, 128

  Boyce, Christopher J., 197–98

  Bross, John A., 84, 138, 274

  Brown, Jerry G., 191

  Bruemmer, Russell J., 56–57, 232–33, 252, 260, 294, 298, 302–09, 314

  Buckley, William, 41, 54–55

  Bugging devices, 12–13, 15–19, 64–65, 111–14, 202–05

  Bundy, McGeorge, 133–34

  Bundy, William P., 136

  Burrows, William E., 106, 108

  Bush, George, 70, 129, 158–67, 222, 228, 258, 265–68, 271, 276, 298

  Cable News Network (CNN), 162

  Cameron, D. Ewen, 308

  Camp Peary, 5, 172

  Campus ties, 276

  Canada, 10, 310

  Canfield, Cass, 136

  Career Training Program, 205, 206–15

  “Carlos,” 73

  Carter, Jimmy, 127, 228, 273

  Casey, William, 54–55, 70, 89, 91–92, 116, 131, 134, 153, 222, 224

  as DCI, 131–46, 226–27, 228, 236, 259, 260, 267, 275–78, 295–97, 302, 304, 319

  Castro, Fidel, 44–45, 51–58, 66, 83, 88, 189, 301

  Ceausescu, Nicolae, 68

  Cerf, Bennett, 274

  Chang, Hsien-Yia, 47

  Chile, 53, 234–35

  Chin, Larry Wu-Tai, 196

  Christian Democrats (It.), 49

  Christie Institute, 291

  Church, Frank, 82, 84, 85, 132

  Church Committee hearings, 54, 75, 76, 82–87, 115, 191, 192, 270–71, 288, 301, 309

  Churchill, Winston, 60

  CIA

  abuses of, 78–93

  bureaucracy of, 128

  charter of, 20

  creation of, 123–24

  disdain for Congress, 234

  financial controls system, 36

  future of, 310–20

  written reports of, 128

  CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, The (Marchetti & Marks), 274

  CIA Life (Gilligan), 43

  CIA Under Reagan, Bush & Casey, The (Cline), 134

  Clarke, John M., 36–37

  Clarridge, Dewey, 70

  Classified Information Procedures Act (1980), 307

  Cline, Ray S., 123, 134

  Clugston, Lynda Jo. See Webster, Lynda Jo

  Cointelpro (FBI program), 227

  Colby, William, 5, 39, 55, 77, 80–81, 84, 130, 174–75, 222, 224, 270, 272, 275, 288

  Cold War, 9, 47, 59–63, 315

  Cold Warrior (Mangold), 75

  Commercial cover, 7

  Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), 227

  Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation (COMIREX), 104

  Common Interest Network Luncheon, 287

  Communication levels, 35

  Congress, 317–18

  Conrad, Clyde L., 285

  Contract employees, 7

  CORONA, 101

  Counterintelligence Center, 74–77, 190

  Counternarcotics Center, 73–74, 317

  CounterSpy, 41

  Counterterrorism Center, 70–73, 160

  COURTSHIP (CIA-FBI jt. oper.), 24–31

  Covert action, 4, 49–58, 90–91, 238–40, 301, 311

  Covert Action Review Group (CARG), 238–39

  Covert Action Staff, 49

  Covert Action (Treverton), 50

  Cryptonyms, 35, 43

  Cuba, 44–46, 51–58, 83, 111, 126

  Cuban missile crisis, 108, 131

  Dead drops, 116

  Debugging, 202–05

  Decent Interval, 273–75

  Deep Black (Burrows), 107, 108

  Defector handling, 66–67, 313–14

  Defense Department, 68

  Deputy Director of Operations, 235

  DESERT STORM, 160

  Desist, 72

  DeTrani, Joseph R., 298

  Diplomatic immunity, 6–7

  Directorate of Administration, 167, 171–73, 208–10

  Directorate of Intelligence, 36, 122–34, 160, 213

  Directorate of Operations, 313, 159–60, 206, 208, 242, 254, 273

  Directorate of Science and Technology, 97–104, 157, 209, 212

  Director of Central Intelligence, 219–25

  William Webster as, 226–45

  Documents, false, 114–15

  Domestic Resources Branch, 21–22

  Donnelly, William F., 244

  Donovan, William J. (Wild Bill), 5, 123–24, 183, 186–87, 276

  Double agents, 44

  Drug smuggling, 290–91

  Dulles, Allen W., 99, 136, 177–78, 222, 303

  Eastern Europe, 311

  Edwards, Don, 234

  Edwards, Sheffield, 52

  Egypt, 126

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 99, 101, 178, 219

  Elder, Walter N., 178, 222, 269, 270

  Ellsberg, Daniel, 79

  Engelberg, Stephen, 278- 80, 296–97, 299

  Enterprise, 291

  Ermarth, Fritz W., 130

  Espionage cases, 197–98

  Estimative Intelligence (Ford), 122

  Evaluation and Plans Staff, 36

  Fabiew, Serge, 75

  Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA (Meyer), 193

  Fadlallah, Mohammed Hussein, 55

  Fahd (King of Saudi Arabia), 159

  Falkiewicz, Andrew T., 269–70

  FBI, 23–30, 70, 195–96, 226—28, 243, 251, 252, 271–72, 284, 295, 297

  Fernandez, Joseph F., 307–08

  Fielding, Lewis J., 79

  Fiers, Alan D., 304

  Fitzwater, Harry E., 179–80, 254

  Ford, Gerald, 53, 161, 163, 224

  Ford, Harold P., 122

  Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), 98

  Foreign Resources Branch, 21–23

  Foster, Gary E., 311

  France, 10, 12

  Freedom of Information Act, 173, 305

  Freedom of Information Office, 173

  Frei, Eduardo, 53

  FR stations, 21–23

  Fuller, Graham E., 139–43

  Gandhi, Rajiv, 57

  Gates, Robert M., 88, 129, 143, 145, 155, 236–37, 243, 266, 268, 284, 304, 313–17

  George, Clair E., 235, 253, 283, 305

  Gerth, Jeff, 285–86

  Ghana, 198–99

  Giancana, Salvator (Sam), 52–53

  Gilligan, Tom, 43, 244

  Glaspie, April, 158

  Glomar Explorer, 102–03

  Golytsin, Anatoliy M., 74

  Goodwin, Joseph A., 269

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 127, 132, 150, 153, 237, 312

  Graham, Daniel O., 151

  Gray, L. Patrick, 80

  Great Britain, 10, 310

  Greenleaf, James W., 297–98

  Grogan, Stanley, 269–70

  GRU, 24, 61, 62, 75

  Guatemala, 50, 84

  Gutman, Howard W., 246
, 248

  Hakim, Albert, 291

  Halpern, Samuel, 287

  Hamdan, Jamal, 70–71

  Hand, Michael J., 289

  Hansen, Chester B., 269

  Hart, Howard, 73

  Hart, Howard P., 317

  Harvey Point, N.C., 5

  Hassler, William T., 246, 248

  Hathaway, Gardner R. (Gus), 74

  Helgerson, John L., 154

  Helms, Richard, 34, 79, 83, 135, 221–24, 234–35, 270, 288, 302, 319

  Hersh, Seymour, 80, 82

  Hetu, Herbert E., 222, 272–78, 283

  History Staff, 173

  Hitz, Frederick, 245

  Honorable Men (Colby), 80, 272

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 23, 187, 227, 234

  Horan, Eugene J., 208

  Horton, John R., 141–43

  Hosenball, Mark, 293

  Hotis, John B., 232–33, 239, 247, 252, 262

  House Select Committee on Intelligence, 88–93

  Houston, Lawrence R., 301–02

  Houston Post, 292

  Howard, Edward Lee, 65, 1–90, 200, 255, 279, 296

  Hugel, Max, 236

  Hughes-Ryan Amendment, 90

  HUMINT (human intelligence), 98n

  Hunt, E. Howard, 78, 79

  Hussein, Saddam, 129, 156–67, 240, 318

  Hussein (King of Jordan), 159

  ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile), 100—01

  Inlow, Roland, 110

  Inman, Bobby R., 141

  Inside the Company: CIA Diary (Agee), 275

  Inspector general, 243—45

  Intelligence community, 220

  Intelligence Community Staff, 220

  Intelligence Identities Protection Act (1982), 285

  Intelligence reports, 35

  Invisible Government, The (Wise & Ross), 274

  Iran, 50, 127, 156

  Iran-Contra affair, 90–91, 144, 243, 244, 253, 268, 291, 302–07, 309

  Iraq, 58, 156–67, 240, 310, 312

  Iron Curtain, 60

  Israel, 10, 12, 126, 163

  Italy, 49

  Izvestia, 65

  Jantzen, Robert (Red), 289

  Japan, 12, 48, 122

  Jeanmaire, Jean-Louis, 75

  Johnson, Kelly, 99

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 79, 82, 83, 134, 135, 136, 221–22, 224

  Justice Department, 77, 190, 195, 196

  Kalaris, George, 24

  Kampiles, William P., 194, 197

  Katzenbach, Nicholas de, 79

  Kelley, Clarence M., 23

  Kelly, John, 159

  Kennedy, John F., 52, 53, 57, 81, 83, 100, 107–08, 131

  Kennedy, Robert F., 83, 174

  Kerr, Richard J., 73, 144–46, 158, 159, 167, 237–38, 267–68, 318

 

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