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Great concern, indeed. Nunn fingered the ugly truth that politicians on
both sides of the aisle would rather avoid: how the way they conduct their
personal lives can affect their public and constitutional duties. Nunn has
not spoken about the issue since and does not plan to, according to an aide.
He was unavailable to comment for this story. Both houses of Congress seem to
have washed their hands of the matter.
The question is, why? And that brings us back to Filegate. The KGB and
other intelligence services devote huge resources to investigating the
backgrounds of foreigners they seek to recruit. To limit the potential for
foreign-espionage recruitment of U.S. citizens, career civil-service,
foreign-service, military and intelligence officers place all their trust in
a bureaucratic vetting process designed to assess their good character and to
detect if they can be subjected to blackmail or otherwise be induced to
betray the country. They voluntarily submit to close scrutiny of their
private lives in order to be entrusted with the nation’s secrets. They have
placed their complete trust in the system that trusted them.
That is, until Filegate, when the FBI and the White House broke the
seal of faith.
Former FBI special agent Aldrich has conducted more than 10,000
background interviews on about 2,000 individuals. “We look at a potential
blackmail issue,” he tells Insight. “Especially when we know that a spouse
will generally cause great havoc in the person’s life. That is the hammer
held over the head of the person undergoing the background investigation.”
The hammer, he says, could be adultery, perversion, drug use or information
of a financial or criminal nature that the individual fears being exposed
lest it ruin a reputation, career or marriage.
“Once the [questionable] activity is discovered, the question is,
‘Are people who are close to you aware of your conduct?’ If the answer is
yes, we ask if we can confirm that. If the answer is no, we suggest that they
have to disclose it to the parent or loved one and then we confirm it, or
that they drop out of consideration [for a sensitive government post]. So
that’s one way it works,” explains Aldrich, who now heads the Patrick Henry
Center for Individual Liberty, which supports the right of government workers
to engage in ethical dissent from policy.
The system has worked for more than a half-century, with total
confidence that the material in one’s background file always would be
protected against leaks or misuse. However, says Aldrich, other former and
current FBI agents, officials from the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, or
DIA, and other security and intelligence services also believe that the
system has broken down under the Clinton administration.
Seasoned counterintelligence professionals are outraged, and some
blame not only the Clintons but the FBI director. “It was the height of
irresponsibility for Louis Freeh to allow this to happen,” a veteran tracker
of Russian spies tells Insight. “That was a disgrace. He broke faith with
millions of people on that one. The buck stopped with him. He knew what was
going on.”
Even Third World dictatorships ran operations to entrap, blackmail or
extort U.S. congressmen and senators. And it’s nothing new. In the 1980s,
Panama’s then-dictator Manuel Noriega kept some potential Senate critics at
bay, well-connected Panamanian sources tell Insight, by hosting them at a
special resort on exotic Contadora Island. There, in private compounds,
Noriega’s agents were able to cater to the senators’ every whim — and
recorded the activities. Those sources name at least three U.S. senators
still serving, two Democrats and a Republican, who allegedly engaged in
activity that could have subjected them to blackmail.
Panama is a hotbed of gossip and conspiracy theories, but former
senior U.S. government sources who served in Panama confirm seeing
intelligence traffic concerning Noriega’s operation to co-opt U.S.
politicians, including senators, at his Contadora Island compound. “That
could explain one of the reasons why Noriega escaped congressional scrutiny
of his atrocious records on human rights and corruption,” says a retired U.S.
military officer who dealt with Noriega and Congress.
Long-term intelligence operations can span generations, moving from
father to son. That’s how it was with Julius Hammer and his son Armand, who
laundered money to establish the first Soviet espionage networks in the
United States and who waged an espionage and agent-of-influence campaign for
Moscow that began under Vladimir Lenin and outlived the Soviet Union, ending
with the younger Hammer’s death. Some U.S. intelligence professionals have
viewed with deepening concern the two generations of relations between Armand
Hammer and the family of Vice President Al Gore.
In a recent cover story on Gore’s lifelong connection with Hammer,
Insight’s John Elvin quoted Center for Public Integrity Director Charles
Lewis as saying, “Al Gore’s relationship to the late Armand Hammer is
important for many reasons” (see “Gore Family Ties,” May 22). Among them:
“There is no U.S. company that Gore is closer to, financially or socially,
than Occidental [Petroleum Corp.], one of the most controversial in America.”
Elvin reported, “FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had been observing Hammer’s
operations since the 1920s and was well-aware of his role as a Soviet agent,
but Hoover also was aware of the political realities.
“During the Franklin Roosevelt administration, when Hoover was
gathering power and building the FBI into a first-class investigative agency,
Hammer was all but invulnerable due to close ties as a White House regular
and benefactor of Eleanor Roosevelt. Later, Al Gore Sr. chaired the Senate
committee overseeing FBI activities. Through Gore and other top Washington
connections, Hammer continued to checkmate Hoover.”
Former Hammer personal assistant Neil Lyndon said that the Soviet
agent liked to claim that he had the elder Gore “in my back pocket.” Lyndon
said that when he worked for Hammer the younger Gore, now vice president,
often dined with Hammer and did political favors for him. Gore Jr.
orchestrated VIP treatment for Hammer during President Reagan’s 1981
inauguration and the 1989 inauguration of President Bush. Gore and Hammer
appeared together in Moscow for a Soviet-orchestrated meeting in 1987 of
Physicians Against Nuclear War.
“Why did Gore Jr. allow himself to be so closely embroiled in a
compromising connection with such an unalloyed crook?” asked Lyndon. “He had
little choice. He inherited from his father the mantle of being Hammer’s
principal boy in Washington. Gore’s father effectively delivered his son into
Armand Hammer’s back pocket.”
Even though Hammer has been dead for eight years, the vice president
and would-be successor to Clinton still is in the pocket. He recently told
reporters that he does not own any stock, except for a chunk of Occidental
shares in his late father’s trust that he administers for his mother and the
rest of the family.
“Are you unwilling to ask the public if they want a president who owes
his personal family wealth to a known Soviet agent?” challenges a retired
senior CIA official. “That’s not in the past. That’s the future. One of the
first [Soviet] goals is to perpetuate the value of the operation. They fill
up files with information the subject knows is there.” Gore has stated that
there was nothing improper about his relations with Hammer, but he is
notoriously sensitive about the questions.
Blackmail has a variety of targets in Washington. Secret personnel
information has been misused, often illegally, to blackmail career officials
within the federal bureaucracy to toe the administration line on a range of
defense, foreign-policy, national-security and law-enforcement issues,
sources say. “They will pull such things as your financial-disclosure forms
and find a variety of ways of putting pressure on you,” a longtime
intelligence officer at a large security agency tells Insight. “They have a
number of leverage points that they can use against people in the structure
that constitutes blackmail.
“People get the message on that, and they behave accordingly,” the
security-agency source says. “You’re dealing with human nature. People have
jobs and families, and when they get into a position of GS-15 or SES [senior
civil service and senior executive service pay grades] and colonel or general
or admiral, their kids are in college, right? They’re vulnerable. There are a
lot of leverage points on people. From my experience in the bureaucracy, I
have never seen, never ever seen, it this bad.”
“When you have the abuse of power and authority at senior levels, it
has a very corrosive effect on the bureaucracy,” a military-intelligence
veteran tells Insight. “The bureaucracy refuses to stand up to that kind of
pressure. You never get a senior official in the DIA or anywhere else going
to bat for their people. They don’t protect their people any more.”
Those who don’t submit to blackmail, under the Clinton-Gore rules,
simply are destroyed. “Look at what happened to Linda Tripp,” says a former
Pentagon colleague. Tripp is the career civil servant stationed at the White
House in whom Monica Lewinsky confided her liaisons with Clinton and who
recorded the conversations and passed them to the special prosecutor when
Lewinsky allegedly asked her to commit a felony. “There was a youthful
indiscretion in her personnel file, and look at what they did with that,”
says her former colleague.
“Once you get the politicians abusing power, the protection of the
bureaucracy itself is only as good as the integrity of the senior civil
servants. If they’re intimidated by power, they lose their protection. That
is accessed by them, the same way [Assistant Defense Secretary Kenneth] Bacon
betrayed Linda Tripp’s file, which should have been protected. Once the
pattern of abuse from on high for violating confidentiality starts, it’s very
hard to protect down in the bureaucracy.”
It happened to Tripp and to volunteer Kathleen Willey in the White
House as well as in the Office of Naval Intelligence to Lt. Cdr. Jack Daly,
who angered the administration by refusing to go along with a cover-up of a
Russian spy ship that injured his eyes with a laser (see “Fixing a Photo to
Fit a Policy,” Feb. 14).
The Clinton-Gore politicization of private personnel files has
shattered many a professional’s faith in the system. “My civil-libertarian
nodes are more sensitive than they were before,” says a 30-year intelligence
veteran. “I have a little sensitivity for the civil libertarians that I never
thought I would have. I don’t trust the government any more.”
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What Would an Individual’s FBI File Contain?
Individual security background files can be full of the most
embarrassing and damaging information — and disinformation — imaginable, say
those involved in the security-clearance process. Almost everyone has a
skeleton in the closet. It’s up to government lawyers and review panels to
try to determine what aspects about one’s present or past might preclude
someone from holding a sensitive post.
“Background investigations turn up raw, raw data,” says a senior U.S.
intelligence officer. “Hear-say, vendettas — that’s raw stuff. That stuff
doesn’t get filtered.” It all goes into the file for evaluation: childhood
offenses and youthful indiscretions, mental-health records, past substance
abuse or venereal disease, employment histories, financial records and more.
For people holding senior posts, the investigations are even more
intrusive. “Your spouse is investigated, too. Your personal life, your bank
accounts, your investments, everything is in there. If you’re GS-15 or above,
the excruciating detail, down to the numbers of your bank accounts” go into
the file, according to a senior officer at a large security agency. “And they
get down to the neighbors, friends, relatives. Anything can get [into the
file]. A lot of people have this inordinate respect for power, and they feel
like they have to tell everything [to investigators]. All of this goes on,
and it’s raw, raw, raw data. Would you like Hillary playing with that stuff?
Or any of those other creeps? Snakehead Carville, plowing through your
personal family life?”
Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a
snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become
nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey...
Patrick Buchanan
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