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Are Ideology and the Cia Compatible? (1981-01-05)
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Because of things the participants are not at liberty to say, this show is less easy to follow than some. But there is good discussion, particularly of the recent congressional investigations. Mr. Meyer: "The Church committee investigation did provide an opportunity to educate the American people in a very serious way. This was a chance to lay on the record what the KGB is, what the opposition is up to, what the real world is like out there--and yet so much of the Church committee went forward as if we were living in a perfectly friendly world, with no opposition whatsoever." ... Mr. Snepp: "The agency itself laid the ground for those very destructive investigations. .. --that is to say, [James] Schlesinger's decision in mid 1973 [during his brief tenure as CIA Director] to dig up all the agency's wrongdoings and put them in one particular place. William Colby was assiduous in pursuing these 'crimes,' if you want to call them that, and therefore the docket was there--and the only thing the congressional investigators did was to get hold of it and play it for all it was worth."
Directors & creators
Southern Educational Communications Association
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, CIA, Intelligence Oversight, Covert Action, National Security, Church Committee, United World Federalists, Communism, Cold War, Vietnam War, Espionage, U.S. Congress, Frank Snepp, Cord Meyer, Secrecy and Confidentiality, Congressional Oversight, Federal Legislation, Judicial Rulings, Ethics in Intelligence, Foreign Relations, Public Information, Intelligence Policy, Government Accountability, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Intelligence Reform
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