CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00552r000201230017-7: INMAN QUIT OVER STUDY, SOURCES SAY

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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/06: CIA-RDP90-00552R000201230017-7 ART I CL10 APP.c,AD PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER X63 PA G3 2l. APRIL 1982 ByMichaei`.f_Sniffen WASHINGTON wx=y C1A Deputy;.Di4 rector Bob ,7 R Inman submitted his resignatior dariri .a heated.internaj debate:.ov-er a secret?:counterintelli gence.stud c but since then,.:he-and other?intelligence ;''officials have- ;succeeded in narrowing the study's :.scope-, sources say '1' The sources' accaunr of the dispute supported' those :.wlia have, said the .study, was a factor: -~-:but 'not. the, major factor in. his. departure., Inmarr'sresighation' Was announced. Wednesday, a month after hesubrnit ted it o the White House. - - Three government sources, all' of'- whom"' .have access. i6. information about the counterintelligence.-prof ect, said Thursday that an agenda for the study was- approved Wednesday by an interagency, working group chaired by John Kohler, chief of'the intelligence community staff. Not.listedan the agenda were two, 'topics-that-Inman;-CIA Director Wil- Liam ltasey"and FBITDirector Wil- liam H: -Webster had fearedmight be included- in the, study. the:organiza?- tion of U.S. counterintelligence agen Gies and such esoteric` topics` as- dez' ''ceptive Soviet` missile telemetry, the sources said`', : ;Bobby R Inman Arzued with rnn.cvnLntivo questions had been resolved satisfac But those closest to Inman, 51, said ? the outcome of the discussionswas a= torily last year. "that'was :minor compared ~to "other 'study focused on counterintelligence; reasons such as his desire to go into threats, capabilities , and'resources~ Inman's .resignation letter wasf lucrative private work. that satisfied. CIA and TBl officials dated .March.22, which the sources Inman told the New York. Times - and was close to what Inman himself' said was near the height of intern-ii that his departure primarily: *as the; had been seeking. The agenda,ap dispufesoverthestudy. result ofa-long-standing .desire to proved Wednesday does not specifi-t, Some conservative members-of the leave government. but alsq. ,.was rally,-,mention counterintelligence National Security Council staff and prompted by other concerns,includ- . organization, the sources said. the Senate Intelligence-Committee-.14 ing."steadily diminishing. tolerance . In another development. Sen. Rich.' originally conceived .of the study for petty bureaucratic intrigue:' +-, ?. ardLugar (R:, Ind ?one of Reagan's I :.+r...,. . . x.._c,a ~:y a.. . GF. ~....; ....~r..R...,. ..a:.::..- _ -.s .H;-J For some-time, these'conservatives have ; said -.InmarrZ as .frustrting, some of.their-goals. and at least=ono ~CQl~~ , has a lauded his r s' ` a i to deceptive telemetry'was',really out .l `s ` side -'the? scope- of a- counte