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O WASHINGTON Arthur Jones Walter's Warning Walter Cronkite opposed it. Nonetheless, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA)—which makes it a crime to divulge the identity of American...
...Again...
...in 1945, Producers Oil, and in 1952, Staebler-Kempf Oil...
...That, allegedly, was caused by a grenade, but there were no fragments...
...But such fine details are fudged or forgotten when Congress turns to flag-waving...
...He lamented the Administration decision to limit the Freedom of Information Act and the Reagan policy of no longer declassifying Government documents automatically after thirty years...
...Is CAIB a covey of former CIAers...
...In fact, Ray notes, Kinsman's family was away on vacation...
...The unilateral disarmament candidate from Virginia's Loudoun County probably hasn't improved his slim chances—but he has had one satisfaction...
...Hence, the InterAmeri-can Press Association (IAPA) was one CIA ingredient floating around the Caribbean Basin...
...See "Darker Cloaks, Longer Daggers...
...That was the fish course...
...The Jamaican journalists assumed it was a CIA set-up...
...What we objected to is 'dirty tricks,' interfering in the affairs of other countries—covert operations, everything from paying money to assassinations and toppling governments...
...CAIB staffers are in a position to smirk at those newspapers and networks that hound them editorially, but they do not, even though major media reporters frequently rely on CAIB for leads and background on their stories...
...The National Aquarium...
...media...
...The 1970s brought renewed appetite: Torrence Oil (1971), Fuelgas Co...
...The Gleaner began running similar stuff without datelines, similar to the work going on around La Prensa in Nicaragua now...
...Department of Commerce Building...
...II "CIA Media Operations in Chile, Jamaica, and Nicaragua...
...Steel's first round of dessert...
...And who are those men in three-piece suits following him around...
...Would a lord really care...
...Nonetheless, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA)—which makes it a crime to divulge the identity of American spies—received overwhelming support in both houses of Congress...
...With that for background, on to the Jamaica "dirty trick...
...The New York Times labeled Wolf an irresponsible journalist and said it was fitting to shut down the CAIB...
...Not one single U.S...
...He sniffed the wind, looked at his empty gas tank, and switched to independent...
...Congress held a secret session...
...The tale begins with a bit of CIA opportunism in Jamaica in 1980—which snagged the Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB) and simultaneously snared the U.S...
...He scorned a plan to protect business information that would keep investigative stories and commentary—on topics ranging from pollution threats to dangerous drugs—at a serious disadvantage, and he called the free press "democracy's only fail-safe system against both the dangers of its own excesses and the approach of tyranny...
...Appetizers...
...All three were back in the United States in 1976, and several fates collided...
...Four years later, it was election time again...
...Kinsman never notified the police...
...Pokey, $1 admission, stinks of diesel, not worth a visit...
...Well...
...The membership committee, which includes Carrington, is seated around the oak table...
...Is there a moral...
...My April column left Park Teter seeking the Virginia Democratic nomination for the U.S...
...mercenaries tried to overthrow Grenada's government...
...McClure Oil (1960), Oregon Basin Oil & Gas (1960), Ross Oil (1961), Auto City Oil (1961), and Plymouth Oil (1962...
...1971), Consolidated Stations (1972), Holden Fuel (1972), P-M Gas (1972), Bonded Oil (1975), Pan Ocean Oil (1976), ECOL Ltd...
...The incident allegedly occurred, says Ray, at about 3 or 4 a.m., with machinegun bullets whizzing through the bedrooms and narrowly missing Kinsman's daughter...
...CAIB's staffers returned to Jamaica...
...The main course was spread over half a century and consisted of scores of delicate morsels ranging from the National Steel & Wire Co...
...t is appropriate that the National Aquarium is in the basement of the U.S...
...Sorry old boy, you were blackballed...
...Then, in 1916, it swallowed Mid-Kansas Oil and Gas...
...The eons-old survival instinct lately saw U.S...
...As recently as last April, a former Foreign Service information officer, Clifford P. Hackett...
...Steel come from...
...In fact, in 1976," says Ray, "the consciousness-raising of people against what the CIA was doing was accountable for [Michael] Manley's re-election...
...Two days after the CAIB held its 1980 press conference, there was "an alleged shooting and bombing of Kinsman's house," says Ray...
...In business, as in the sea, the big fish eat the little fish For that kind of talk, even America's retired Uncle is likely to be brushed off by the President as a "paid political complainer...
...When there are no small fish left in the sea, the big fish have to start eating each other...
...In the uncertainty and uproar that followed Welch's death, CounterSpy faltered...
...Steel in the next five years acquired still another eleven...
...In fact, the CIA is Well known for its poor intelligence analysis...
...Most Americans know little about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), less about the National Security Agency (NSA), next to nothing about spies...
...Viscount Mentus deftly follows suit...
...A CAW letter to The Times pointed out there was no way the Government could stop CAIB without stopping The Times...
...Discuss this with an ex-CIA agent and he will invariably admit that 90 per cent of the operation is covert'action, not intelligence...
...in 1936, Marathon Oil...
...If so, it worked...
...At a Jamaican press conference, Ray and Agee told about IAPA, CIA station operations, and the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), another CIA baggage-carrier...
...In the 1970s, Schaap and Ellen Ray worked together in Okinawa with GIs Against the Vietnam War, a project funded by the National Lawyers Guild...
...The story was front page news in the United States and as a result the U.S...
...11 CIA connections to the Seychelles invasion...
...is still hotly debated...
...CIA officials in Athens flaunted their position...
...11 "The Klan's Karibbean Koup Attempt," in which U.S...
...newspaper reporter went to Jamaica to check the story," says Ray...
...Carrington conspicuously drops in his black one...
...1960), Kinney Coastal (1960...
...And when you end up with a few big fish all about the same size, each incapable of swallowing the other, you find them in the National Aquarium, being fed contracts by Uncle Sam...
...CAIB has no problem with spying...
...No, the three members of the editorial staff came out of the protest movement against the Vietnam war...
...Was there a shooting and bombing...
...Peter...
...in 1924, Lincoln Oil and Refining...
...Carrington resigned as British Foreign Secretary over not anticipating and preventing the Argentinian Falkland excursion-incursion...
...The menu covers two columns of Moody's Industrial Manual set in six-point type-Marathon Oil probably qualifies as U.S...
...And the team also explained that World Features news service was a London-based CIA proprietary operation...
...1i "Green Berets Teach Salvadorans Torture...
...Then it relaxed, to digest...
...1959), Muskegon Pipe Line Corp...
...in 1941, Weber Oil...
...But the CIA did use the December 1975 slaying of Agent Richard Welch in Athens to press its case for an IIPA...
...Picture the scene: an exclusive Pall Mall club to which Carrington has proposed Haig for membership...
...Steel acquire Marathon Oil in what was described as a $5.9 billion merger...
...His call, at about 9 a.m., was to The Gleaner, and The Gleaner's account was picked up by the U.S...
...Schaap says the bulk of intelligence gathering these days is done electronically anyway, by microwave interception...
...and neatly palming both balls, has discreetly dropped one in the box which he slides to his left...
...In 1914, it organized the Illinois Pipe Line Company...
...CAIB is the magazine that would not reveal which of the U.S...
...In business, as in the sea, the big fish eat the little fish...
...Nine months earlier they had revealed in CAIB that Richard Kinsman was CIA chief in Jamaica, one of the largest agency stations in the Caribbean-Latin American region...
...The act begins by preventing the print and electronic media from exposing the CIA's dirty tricks abroad—and at home...
...The post hoc ergo propter hoc theory, Welch-is-named-therefore-Welch-is-slain...
...They investigated CIA operations, and found the usual CIA triple-whammy mixture of propaganda, paramilitary organization, and economic destabilization...
...Where did U.S...
...Cronkite deplored Administration support for Supreme Court rulings that permit police to raid newsrooms in search of sources and that compel journalists to disclose sources in court...
...Marathon then was known as the Ohio Oil Co...
...My March column left Lord Carrington whispering in Alexander Haig's ear...
...CAIB is not the magazine that named the CIA man in Greece who was subsequently assassinated...
...The Times wrote an editorial stating that any version of the bill would be unconstitutional...
...The Intelligence Identities Protection Act rode through Congress on the crest of the Kinsman wave...
...But not before Carrington had had time to read that Haig regarded Carrington as a duplicitous bastard...
...Steel swallowed the whole thing live...
...1976), and then: snap...
...Only Kinsman and a maid were in the house and the maid did not awaken...
...They found a few bullet holes in the garage, and a hole scooped out in the lawn 100 yards from the house...
...Explains co-founder William Schaap...
...By 1978 CounterSpy's absence disturbed the trio and CAIB was launched...
...There was much haranguing, and that gave new impetus to passing the Agents' Identities Bill," which had lain dormant since 1978...
...And look how long the mackerels have been eating the sprats: Marathon Oil, until the Standard Oil combine was broken up in 1911, was part of the happy Rockefeller family...
...Not that CAIB is bashful...
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...And not by the CIA but the NSA...
...In 1976, before the Jamaican elections, Ray and Agee were invited to the island by the Jamaica Council for Human Rights...
...Next day: "Hello, Alex...
...We went back and discussed it with Jamaican reporters who had covered the alleged affair...
...Wolf, Schaap, and Ray were working with Philip Agee, the former CIA agent now on CAIB's board, on a manuscript that became Dirty Work I: The CIA in Europe (Lyle Stuart, 1978...
...Steel was incorporated in New Jersey, at which time it acquired virtually all of the issued capital of the Carnegie Co., the Federal Steel Co., National Tube Co., and, and, and eleven more companies...
...It takes a dirty trick to explain what the CIA accomplished in having the IIPA made law...
...By contrast, the "CIA people out in the field are spies sent there to corrupt, manipulate, or recruit...
...Late in 1975, the magazine CounterSpy had published Welch's name...
...In 1901, U.S...
...When World Features was exposed, said Ray...
...The March 1982 issue offers: 11 The CIA's bank in Australia, "run for drug trafficking, arms smuggling, and political payoffs in the 1970s...
...Each committee member has the white ball for approval and the black ball for rejection...
...1907) to the Metasa (Nicaragua) (1968...
...There, speaking to the National Association of Broadcasters, Cronkite attacked the Reagan Administration's "pattern of restriction" on press freedom...
...Ready to eat, U.S...
...hostages in Iran were spies, even though it knew...
...in 1930, Transcontinental Oil...
...The 7.000-paid-circulation publication (it aims at being monthly and sometimes is) abounds with the case histories of CIA operations...
...Lord Cum-ley of Wrath, chairman, has called: "Haig, proposed Carrington...
...We try to expose the abuses, operations, and personnel of Western intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA, because we believe it is wrong for the United States, or any other country for that matter, to interfere secretly in the affairs of other nations...
...1958), Aurora Gasoline Co...
...Journalist Louis Wolf worked on a similar project in the Philippines...
...World Features was a mainstay of The Gleaner, Jamaica's opposition paper to Manley...
...General Sir George Grabmire palms in his ball, undetected...
...The vote was widely touted as an example of Middle America's opposition to the arms race...
...said in a letter to The New York Times that the theory was a "misleading charge...
...And while The Times was importantly pronouncing on the differences between responsible and irresponsible journalism and the bill was in conference being tidied up for its final version, Walter Cronkite was in Dallas...
...Most Americans are unconcerned about the First Amendment—a sad reflection on the journalists protected by it, those who have failed to use two centuries of First Amendment liberty to instruct the people in the value of a free press...
...The distinction, says Schaap, is this: "We made clear in our first editorial (July 1978) that our objections have nothing to do with traditional intelligence gathering in the standard sense of trying to find out what's going on...
...The CIA celebrates a sort of Black Mass First Amendment: It worships the exact opposite of press freedom...
...Without resort to Turns or Rolaids, it went on to swallow James R. Hines Corp...
...Counter-Spy was later resuscitated...
...and Speedway Petroleum Corp...
...The bipartisan Loudoun County Board of Supervisors—in an area that went for Ronald Reagan in 1980—voted unanimously to call for a U.S.-Soviet nuclear freeze...
...Senate...
...press...
...O yes...
Vol. 46 • June 1982 • No. 6
