Word: nsa
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More than once during the tangle that led to the disclosure to Ramparts of the CIA link, the NSA members involved must have felt like the non-heroes in LeCarre novels...
Destroying NSA, Brown is convinced, would only set back the movement toward a more powerful national student union. NSA at least has the advantage of being a going concern, with personnel and money already committed to a number of successful domestic programs. It has taken a strong stand in favor of civil rights legislation and educational reform, and sponsors a nation-wide, PBH-type tutorial program...
...only way to save "what is good in NSA," Brown believes, is to purge the organization of all underground connotations. This cannot be done, he feels, through a Presidential commission like the one President Johnson set up in immediate response to the disclosure. This three-man commission, with Richard Helms, CIA director, as one of the members, is not an adequate means of restoring NSA's credibility. "Helms Investigating Helms -- the executive investigating the executive--wouldn't even satisfy domestic critics, let alone foreign critics," Brown has said...
Brown would like to see a "full public investigation," conducted by Congress, in which the CIA would be encouraged to declassify its files on domestic organizations. NSA has already offered to open all its files to a Congressional investigation. Such an investigation may be the only way to determine the extent of the CIA's influence over the NSA and other domestic organizations...
Tomorrow: How NSA's secret was disclosed, the nature of the CIA link, and NSA's future now that the link has been broken...