CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00552r000403850048-1: INMAN QUIT OVER STUDY, SOURCES SAY

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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/25: CIA-RDP90-00552R000403850048-1 ARTICL3 APPEARED ON P~..G ByMichael.'.f.Sniffen the study was approved Wednesday by an interagency- Working group chaired'by John Kohler, chief of'the intelligence community staff. Not-listed-on the agenda were two: topics-that-lnman,-CIA Director Wit- Liam Stasey and FBI Director Wil- liam H: Webster had feared- might be included in the-studyrthe=organiza. lion of U.S. counterintelligence agen= . ties and such -esoteric' topics as- de cepiive Soviet ' missile' telemetry, the sources said. _ + ' -~?. ted it to the White House. Three government sources, all of. whom: have access.-to. information' . about the counterintelligence,-proj= ect, said. Thursday that an agenda for . rector Bobty P--Inman submitted hilt resignation darinigta heatad.internal: debate,over a secretcounterinielli= gence-study. but:sbce then,'-.he''and? other-i;lmelligenceysaffrciais.,, have= succeeded in narro ng the-study's scope, _ources say,--. .-The sources' accottnr'of the dispute supported thosei he have-said the ..studywas a factor-w~'but -not. the, major - factor ?= in his - departure:: Inman sTesi iarion'tvas arinouriced.. -Wednesday. a month after hesubmit. "~V $RL4GI'Ov CIA Aeput A a>.v'ciwsd Yxai. ~ .. torily last year. s decision. In any case, the sources said that-- , gence study and.tliat organizationat been one .factor in Inman questionshad beeifiesolved satisfac M But those closest to Inman, 51, said the outcome of the discussions was a: PHILADELPHIA Iii'aUIRER 21t APRIL 1982 ,. . ; Bobby R. Inman { ;Argued with conservatives deceptive. telemetry`3yas"really out = , +~ w March over this and generated a, lot= .:_ ` -' side -the scope=of a- counterintelli'-dispute over the study may have of conflict' and' heat.": ' Inman s.-resignation: -Metter ,; wasi" lucrative private work. that satisfied CIA and FBI 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 internal- that his departure primarily Was the, had been seeking, The agenda, ap- disputesoveirtbestudy.--- - result long-standing .desire to' proved Wednesday does not specifi-1 Some conservative members'of the- leave government. but also...was; cally-;.mention?:.counterintelligence; National Security Council staff and prompted by other concerns,.includ- organization, the sources said. the Senate Intelligence-'Committee - ing 'steadily diminishing tolerance . In another development, Sen. Rich. originally;. conceived',Qf,.the-,study Q for petty, bureaucratic intrigue::' and Lugar (R-.. Ind,),,oneof Reagan s;~ For some-time, these conservatives!, - have. said< _1nmanZwas.?.frustrating3_ some.of?the;r-goats, and at leastonea` has applauded his resignation::;. ,Sortie' sources hive: said that the' ,C1V=VUF. The conservatives-who pushed thee study,, .have . called. for, centralized co