Covert Action Information Bulletin, Number 35 - Friendly Enemies: The CIA in Eastern Europe

Washington DC. 1990. Fall 1990. Covert Action Publications. Magazine. Very Good In Staple-Binding. 63 pages. magazine. Cover Photo: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, September 17, 1990. Credit: Wide World Photos. Back Cover Photo: Members of the Ukrainian Nationalist Organization. Credit: Associated Press. keywords: Magazine Politics. DESCRIPTION - EDITORIAL - The Cold War, we are told, is over. The winds of change have swept over the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Through covert and overt encouragement, the West, especially the United States, has been an active observer of these events. In parts of the Soviet Union and in many Eastern European nations considerable power is now wielded by friends of the United States. In particular, the convergence of U.S. and West German interests and the headlong rush to unification calls for some sober reflection. With the assistance of a CIA President in Washington and a CIA Ambassador in Bonn, the new Germany has emerged as the leading force in Europe. As U.S.-instigated propaganda insinuates that the cornucopia of foreign aid will soon flow to America's new allies in the East, the economy at home continues to plummet deeper into a depression. Yet the intelligence community pursues, unrestrained, expensive investments high-technology through satellite surveillance, an expansion of human and military intelligence capabilities all in response to the changing global requirements. As cuts occur elsewhere, the CIA budget persists at an estimated $10-12 billion. The shift is towards economic espionage, and the KGB and CIA have entered into a limited partnership. The curtain may have been lifted but the actors have not left the stage. PHILIP AGEE - The U.S. continues to make life difficult for Philip Agee, former CIA operations officer and, since 1975, potent critic of the Agency. In 1979 the U.S. revoked his passport for exposing CIA officers and publishing material without clearance. Agee's challenge to the constitutionality of the State Department regulations under which his passport was revoked was denied by the Supreme Court in 1981. Agee, who has remained a U.S. citizen, was given first a Grenadian, then a Nicaraguan honorary passport. This September, the Violeta Chamorro government at the urging of the U.S. revoked the latter passport. In 1987, Agee applied for a new U. S. passport showing that, for years now, he had not divulged the identity of CIA personnel, and that he had submitted for clearance everything he had published. The State Department denied the application, refusing, contrary to its regulations, to present any of the alleged witnesses against Agee. Despite a ruling by its own internal appeal board, State continues in its refusal. This has forced Agee to file a suit in Federal Court, which is pending. This action is the latest in nearly twenty years of efforts to prevent Agee from speaking, above all to people in the United States. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial; Analysis: The Changes in Eastern Europe by Philip Agee, Ken Lawrence, Melvin Beck; Reinhard Gehlen: The Secret Treaty of Fort Hunt by Carl Oglesby; NED Meddles in Lithuania by Philip Bonosky; The Destabilization of the Soviet Union by Sean Gervasi; Balkan Nationalists Peddling Fascism by Howard Goldenthal and Russ Bellant; The Free Congress Foundation Goes East by Russ Bellant and Louis Wolf; C.D. Jackson: Cold War Propagandist by Blanche Wiesen Cook; Cuba: Braving the Storm by Debra Evenson; Publications of Interest - The CIA and Banks by Rebecca Sims; The Middle East in Crisis by Jane Hunter; The Other Iran-contra Cases by David MacMichael; The Indonesian Massacres and the CIA by Ralph McGehee; The Indonesia Transcripts by Kathy Kadane; Book Review: The Terrorism Industry by Jane Hunter; Book Review: Tortillas, Beans and M-16s by William Vornberger. inventory #47881.…