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Even for many officials of the Central Intelligence Agency, the activities of the Domestic Operations Division were an impenetrable secret. Few CIA employees knew more than that the DOD was set up in 1962 with the 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...
...domestic spying. The operation was originally thought to have been primarily conducted by Counterintelligence, which combats the activities of potential enemy agents round the world. It now appears that many of the home-front spying operations, at least in the late 1960s, were actually carried out by the shadowy DOD. An ex-CIA official told TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "CounterIntelligence performed mostly a policymaking function where domestic activity was concerned, including helping to decide which groups and individuals should be watched. But it was the DOD that did the dirty work...
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...
...Shakeup. Despite the secrecy of the DOD's domestic spying, the CIA sometimes took pains to work smoothly with other federal investigative agencies. For example, the CIA informed these agencies of its surveillance of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Representative Claude Pepper of Florida, former Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher of New Jersey and the late Senator Edward Long of Missouri. At other times, however, there was friction among the agencies. FBI agents once discovered that a Manhattan-based CIA man was in close touch with a Pittsburgh Mafia chief who was being probed...
Later, Geller caused a nearby compass needle to turn about five degrees. Lawrence, noting that Geller had moved his body and vibrated the floor, did the same, causing the needle to deflect even more. Geller, startled, accused Lawrence of using trickery, and Targ insisted on examining the DOD man to see if he had magnets hidden in his clothing. (He did not.) Hyman notes that Targ did not feel that it was necessary to search Geller. Hyman's impressions were admittedly based on observations made on a day when normal testing routine was not in effect. Nevertheless, Hyman wrote...