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...ostensible purpose of collecting foreign intelligence inside the U.S., partly through East European émigré organizations. Last week the division was accused of having had a more sinister function as well. Three former CIA employees told TIME that the DOD kept a still unknown number of Americans under covert surveillance within the U.S., sometimes at the urging of the CIA's Counter-intelligence Division, sometimes on its own initiative...
Spying Halt. Not even the name of the DOD's present chief is known publicly, though Watergate Burglar E. Howard Hunt claims to have been its first chief of covert action. In his book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, Victor Marchetti, a disaffected employee who left the agency in 1969, reports that the DOD at that time had a staff of a few hundred people and an annual budget of up to $10 million. It operated field offices in at least ten U.S. cities...
...furor over the domestic spying was touched off two weeks ago by the New York Times, which reported that in the 1950s and 1960s the CIA undertook wiretaps, break-ins and other covert means within the U.S. and accumulated illegal intelligence files on 10,000 Americans. These allegations were at least partially confirmed by CIA Director William E. Colby in a secret accounting to President Gerald Ford. Colby is said to have told Ford that the CIA had maintained files on thousands of Americans, although he contended that only a fraction were under active surveillance. He also is said...
Then, suddenly, he became a casualty of the constant tension that a covert agency must live with in an open society. As the New York Times was about to blow his cover, Angleton blew his cool. In a telephone conversation with Seymour Hersh, he let slip that the CIA had a "source" in Moscow who was "still active and still productive...
...into buildings that housed offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in downtown Beirut. The main P.L.O. headquarters for Lebanon, on the wide, busy boulevard called the Corniche Mazraa, was wrecked, as was the P.L.O. research center near the Rue Sadat. The office responsible for coordinating al-Fatah's covert terrorist activities inside Israel narrowly escaped heavy damage when the four rockets that had obviously been aimed at it landed instead on a nearby empty apartment. The rockets, which had been mounted inside boxes fastened to the tops of autos parked near the P.L.O. headquarters, amazingly killed no P.L.O. officials...