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10/28/2011
CIA History of DCI William Colby Finally Qualifies as
"Non-Secret"
CIA Director Distinguishes "bad"/"good"/"lesser" and
"non-secrets"
Colby Bio-Documentary Opens in Washington October 28
Washington, D.C., October 28, 2011 - CIA director William Colby
rebuffed criticisms from senior Agency operators about disclosure
of CIA misdeeds by describing the difference between "bad secrets,"
"non-secrets," "good secrets" and "lesser" secrets, according to a
previously SECRET internal CIA history of the Colby tenure,
published today on the Web by the National Security Archive at
George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org).
Colby responded in March 1974 to the head of the CIA's clandestine
service, who claimed that any public discussion would "degrade the
fabric of our security" and "lead inevitably to a further exposure
of intelligence sources and methods," by writing:
"There are some 'bad secrets' which are properly revealed by an
aggressive press. there are some older 'non-secrets' which no
longer need to be kept secret and which we should gradually
surface, but there are some 'good secrets' which deserve greater
protection than we have been able to give them, in part by reason
of their association with 'secrets' of lesser importance." The
latest declassification (in August 2011) from a series of secret
studies by the CIA History Staff of the agency's directors, the
volume gains credibility from its authorship by veteran CIA analyst
and operative Harold Ford, who courageously presented to the
Congress well-documented internal critiques of CIA
director-designate Robert Gates during his confirmation hearings in
1991. To win confirmation, Gates had to promise Congress not to
fire Ford in retaliation. The history, William Colby as Director of
Central Intelligence, 1973-1976, provides detailed accounts of key
episodes such as the firing of counterintelligence chief James
Angleton, Colby's role in the revelation of the CIA "family
jewels," and the collapse of South Vietnam, where Colby had spent
much of his career.
The posting features an introduction and review written by Archive
senior fellow John Prados, author of the widely-praised biography,
William Colby and the CIA: The Secret Wars of a Controversial
Spymaster (University Press of Kansas, 2009). The favorable Prados
review points out some shortcomings as well, including the
history's lack of attention to Colby's fraught relationships with
Presidents Nixon and Ford, and most of all, Henry Kissinger.
Declassified Kissinger transcripts show Kissinger fuming about
Colby's airing of the CIA's dirty laundry, but Prados concludes
that Colby in effect saved the CIA from possible abolition as an
agency.
Opening in Washington, D.C. on October 28 at the Landmark E Street
Theater is a biographic documentary produced by Colby's son Carl,
an award-winning documentary filmmaker, The Man Nobody Knew: In
Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby.
10/28/2011
Some Nuclear Experts Question Ramp-up in U.S. Tritium
Production
By Elaine M. Grossman, Global Security Newswire
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. nuclear complex is expanding production of
an exotic gas widely seen as essential for keeping nuclear weapons
functioning, but some progressive issue experts cast doubt on just
how much new fabrication is required.
The Tritium Extraction Facility at the Savannah River Site in South
Carolina. A number of analysts have questioned a planned increase
in U.S. capabilities to produce tritium, a material considered key
in the function of nuclear weapons.
The Energy Department's semiautonomous National Nuclear Security
Administration plans over the next few years to more than triple
capacity to produce tritium at the commercial Watts Bar reactor in
eastern Tennessee, according to the agency's fiscal 2012 "Stockpile
Stewardship and Management Plan.
10/28/2011
Director of National IntelligenceI Releases FY 2011 Appropriated
Budget Figure for the National Intelligence Program
The Director of National Intelligence is disclosing to the public
the aggregate amount of funds appropriated by Congress to the
National Intelligence Program (NIP) for Fiscal Year 2011 not later
than 30 days after the end of the fiscal year.
The aggregate amount appropriated to the NIP for Fiscal Year 2011
was $54.6 billion.
DOD Releases Military Intelligence Program Appropriated Top Line
Budget for Fiscal 2011
The Department of Defense released today the MIP appropriated top
line budget for fiscal 2011. The total request, which includes both
the base budget and Overseas Contingency Operations appropriations,
is $24 billion.
Litteratur: Aftergood, Steven: Intelligence Budget
Data. - http://www.fas.org/irp/budget/index.html
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