Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!faustus
From: faustus@ucbvax.ARPA (Wayne Christopher)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: Star Wars Defense...
Message-ID: <1782@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 2-Sep-84 12:01:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.1782
Posted: Sun Sep  2 12:01:19 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Sep-84 04:24:31 EDT
References: <302@ihu1e.UUCP>, <406@oliven.UUCP>, <740@flairvax.UUCP> <1238@druxy.UUCP>
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Lines: 18

> Private statements, actions, and policies of the KGB (also reflective 
> of the Soviet government's position) indicate that an active unremitting
> campaign has been in progress for at least 30 years with the principal 
> goal of undermining Western and Western-sympathetic governments, 
> institutions, and philosophies. (yes, yes, yes, I know; we have the
> sometimes suspect actions of our CIA as an albatross--all the more
> reason to keep them under control and prevent them from making de facto 
> policies and taking unilateral actions).

All the more reason, I think, for giving it more power so that
it can effectively challenge the KGB in these countries (and
undermine USSR-sympathetic governments). You have to fight fire
with fire, and if half the country knows exactly what the CIA is
up to all the time, and whether or not it will do some espionage
must be determined by a vote of congress, it can't be very effective. 

	Wayne