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Pre-picnic preparations
Alpha Phi Omega and the married students. Members
Apartment Council com- of both organizations put
bined efforts for some out- finishing touches on 10
door living furnishings for picnic tables Saturday.
Mail opened illegally
with CIA knowledge
Organizations
combine efforts
in table project
SERVICE CENTER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The CIA
opened more than 215,000 letters
over 20 years knowing it was illegal
and despite an internal study that
showed the operation was poorly
run and of marginal intelligence
value, according to evidence made
public yesterday by the Senate In
telligence Committee.
The disclosures came after it was
learned the CIA opened and read at
least three and perhaps eight letters
written by committee Chairman
Frank Church, D-Idaho, during
and after a 1971 trip he made to the
Soviet Union.
Church confirmed in a telephone
interview Monday that copies of two
letters he had written to the Soviet
Union “thanking our hosts for their
courtesies” had been found in CIA
files. The senator authorized release
of the two letters to The Associated
Press.
Statistics provided by the Central
Intelligence Agency and made pub
lic by the committee today showed
that envelopes containing more
than 2.7 million letters to and from
the Soviet Union and passing
through the New York City post of
fice had been photographed and
that 215,820 of these were opened.
Thomas Abernathy, formerly
with the CIA inspector general’s of
fice, told the committee he pre
pared a study in February 1961
showing that “no tangible opera
tional benefits have accrued” to the
agency’s Soviet division from the
mail-opening operation.
Abernathy also said he found a
lack of coordination among the vari
ous CIA units involved in the prog
ram and that he had recommended
reconsidering its value and prepar
ing of a cover story should the oper
ation be publicly disclosed.
“We assumed everybody realized
it was illegal, testified John Glen-
non, a former CIA official who con
ducted a study in 1969 that found no
evidence that the operation “pro
vided significant leads or informa
tion which would have proved a
positive operational help.”
Gordon Stewart, who headed the
inspector general’s office in 1969,
told the committee he had briefed
then-CIA Director Richard M.
Helms on the mail-opening project
and that “it was my understanding
that Helms knew it was illegal.’
Helms, now ambassador to Iran,
was sitting in the committee audi
ence while Stewart testified. The
former director is scheduled to tes
tify before the committee on Wed
nesday.
The mail-opening program began
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in 1952 as a legal mail-cover opera
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soon expanded into an operation in
which the mail was opened. The
program was not ended until 1973,
when then-CIA director James
Schlesinger ordered it stopped.
The Apartment Council and
student chapter of Alpha Phi
Omega completed a coopera
tive project Saturday.
They contributed 10 picnic
tables for married student use in
the College View and Hensel
apartment area.
Apartment Council members
and APO joined up in the work.
It took four Saturdays and sev
eral hundred board feet of
lumber from the old College
View apartments.
Judy Stearman, council pres
ident, said paint, nails and other
materials cost about $50. She
said the 14-member council
hopes the project will help show
apathetic apartment dwellers
how the governing group can be
of service.
Vice President Ron Epps said
that in a recent election, all of
ficer candidates were uncon
tested and no one filed for the
secretary post.
APO’s Xi Delta chapter
pitched in labor on the project.
Richard Scruggs* project
chairman for APO, said about 10
people including council mem
bers worked each Saturday.
APO conducts numerous
campus service projects, many
so regularly that they tend to be
taken for granted. The chapter
rises, early Saturdays on major
event weekends to set up
American flags on the MSC drill
field.
The national service frater
nity chapter conducts Campus
Chest drives at football and bas
ketball games, runs a ticket ex
change in the MSC on home
football weekends, helps run
student elections and twice a
year conducts the Aggie Blood
Drive, among other projects.
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