Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 19, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free november 1981 Cia May get out of Domestic Cage by George Lardner Post Washington a breakfast with reporters last Edwin counsellor to the stated flatly that the Reagan administration would not permit the Cia to spy on citizens Here at the White House is absolutely opposed to the Cia becoming involved in Domestic Meese we Are not going to put the Cia into Domestic espionage or the Fri into now comes a proposed executive order that would allow the Cia to infiltrate and influence Domestic Orga to conduct Covert operations in this and to retain or disseminate information la abiding americans for a variety of new Meese also held Forth earlier this year on another topic involving intelligence government secrets and their i think there is Way too much Meese told the Washington Post in an interview published in i think that one of the problems of government that the Over classification of you really should Only classify something if its revelation would actually harm National now comes the somewhat refined draft of another executive this one for handling National Security in it would eliminate the current Rule saying that a document should not be classified unless its unauthorized Dis closure would cause identifiable dam age to the National it would make the top secret and confidential Stamps mandatory rather than and it would turn the existing Rea sonar redoubt Standard upside Down by telling officials to keep information secret whenever they a reason Able doubt about the need to do so what is going on Here is the Reagan White House saying one thing and doing another has de Meese changed his mind the answer appears to be straight out of George Orwell ministry of the proposed executive order for the Cia and the other intelligence according to administration does not really mean what it nothing in according to administration would expand the Cias ability to engage in Domestic criticisms of the draft the same Are being assailed from the highest quarters As despicable news stories regarding Cia Domestic spying have been labelled deliberately the Public As Orwell newspeak dictionary would put has been double Pusun Good and in need of rewrite full As soon As All the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of the times had been assembled and that number would be the original copy and the Cor reeled copy placed on the files in its this process of continuous Al was applied not Only to news but to Day by Day and almost minute by the past was brought up to Orwell As for the proposed presidential proclamation to establish new classification officials is being in not saying youre going to have less classification under this says the Man in charge of the Steven director of the executive branches information Security oversight but from my per the draft order is not intended to increase the material that Classi fied by any appreciable the key word is a Garfinkel is expecting government classifiers to continue to act pretty much the Way they have always classifying about As much As they usually do which is to say too Garfinkel said Many of the pro posed changes from the existing issued by president Carter in were made primarily to get around court rulings and litigation prob lems concerning what should remain classified and what should but does the new proposal not have at least the potential of vastly increasing the amount of classified documents in the governments Garfinkel was asked Garfinkel said he would rather not the classification order is still weeks away from reagans but the new order on intelligence per haps revised As a result of criticisms and suggestions from the House and Senate intelligence is expected to be signed by the president at any at briefings for the Cia officials have reportedly insisted that their plans for Domestic activities Are really quite modest and but they have yet to offers Clear explanation of Why the language in the pro posed orders that has leaked out thus far has been so they just that what our lawyers worked said a congressional democratic lawmakers have expressed democratic senator Walter Huddleston of wrote the president of his concern under the draft submitted for congressional Cia activities in the United states have the potential to increase House intelligence com Mittee chairman Edward a Massachusetts said the proposal would tread on longstanding tradition and policy against Cia spy work in this Republican lawmakers appear to have picked up the Cia theme that the changes have been exaggerated in the press and that the House and Edwin Meese newspeak could let the Cia spooks Back into the Domestic spying Senate intelligence committees will be Ever ready to Ward off any Trust us is the underlying on the other was under the impression that the White or at least de was on his the Side of a Veteran of the Church committee investigations of the mid1970s that focussed on a stun and catalogue of Cia in his letter to the specifically cited messes remarks at the March break Meese could not be reached for com his Jim said there is a conflict Between what he has said and the drafts that Are but it is not at All Clear that Meese sees it that for this Exchange at a presidential luncheon with out of town editors one editor asked How the proposed executive and other changes in the squared with reagans pledge to get the government off the backs of the the president let Meese do the talk in in Reagan lets talk about the because that Meese there is absolutely nothing in the proposed intelligence order which will expand the ability of the Cia to engage in Domestic that is totally and its propaganda being put out by some staffers on the Hill who were part of Frank Church infamous Intelli gence committee that was so destructive of our intelligence authorities some years it seems there Are quite a few people in town who just do not know How to who controls the ran the 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