Circle of Treason by Sandra V. Grimes

Author:Sandra V. Grimes [Grimes, Sandra;Vertefeuille, Jeanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781612513058
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2016-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

CIC FORMATION

AT THE BEGINNING OF 1988, plans for the reorganization of the CIA’s CI staff began to move into high gear. Various permutations and combinations were proposed and, as part of the front office, CI/STF inevitably became enmeshed in the lengthy discussions. The formal reorganization took place in April, when the old CI staff metamorphosed into the new Counterintelligence Center with the accompanying set of logistic and bureaucratic upheavals unavoidable in any large organization.

A certain amount of controversy surrounded the transformation. The preference was to have the center directly under the CIA director. However, the FBI protested that this would erode the FBI’s charter for domestic counterintelligence. In the end the center was subordinated to the Directorate of Operations—a strange solution because it implied that the other CIA directorates had no counterintelligence problems and no need for counterintelligence awareness. It thus perpetuated one of the weakest aspects of the CI staff, even though the reorganization had been meant to overcome this shortcoming. Furthermore, although the FBI was invited to send a representative to the center, it declined.

As part of the transformation, Gus Hathaway would now wear two hats: Associate Deputy Director for Operations for Counterintelligence, and Chief of the Counterintelligence Center. Senior DO officer Ted Price was brought in and also wore two hats: Deputy Chief of the Center, and Chief of Operations for the Center.

Price was a Chinese-speaking officer who had served as a senior officer in Asia. No two people could have been less alike than Hathaway and Price, and they had problems co-existing. Hathaway ran his component by gathering around him a staff of people whom he liked and trusted, with little reference to organizational charts. Jeanne doubts whether he ever attended a management course, or read a book on the subject. Price, on the other hand, was the consummate modern bureaucrat who knew how the system worked and how to use it to achieve his goals. Before coming to the center, he had served as chief of the Career Management staff, a job that well suited his talents and interests.

The new center was divided into three groups: Operations, Analysis, and Security, plus the usual support elements. Our task force was subsumed into the Security Group, which had two branches: Investigations and Technical. We formed part of the Investigations Branch. Ray Reardon came over from the Office of Security to serve as group chief. Jeanne was appointed deputy chief, and also functioned as chief of the Investigations Branch. The branch was responsible for all investigations of penetrations of the Agency, not just those emanating from the KGB. Fran Smith came with Jeanne to this branch, filling the position of chief of the Soviet Section. Dan Payne joined the center and worked in Fran’s section, with specific responsibility for continuing the investigation of the 1985 losses. Jeanne and Fran also worked on the problem, time permitting, but were often drawn away to concentrate on other matters.

As a consequence, the investigation became somewhat diffused. It also lost some of its priority, because SE Division was running successful operations against the Soviet target.

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