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1v, 337, [3] pages. Wraps Illustrations. Charts. Footnotes. Appendices. Cover is soiled, creased and an ink notation on front and on the back page. A few ink marks in the text noted. These hearings were declassified for public release in December 1982. " Active measures" are covert activities carried out by the KGB within the Soviet Union, and by international Soviet fronts and foreign Communist Parties outside the Soviet Union. One of those testifying was Stanislav Levchenko, a former major in the KGB who defected to the United States in 1979. Active measures is political warfare conducted by the Soviet or Russian government since the 1920s. It includes offensive programs such as disinformation, propaganda, deception, sabotage, destabilization and espionage. The programs were based on foreign policy priorities of the Soviet Union. In 1974, according to KGB statistics, over 250 active measures were targeted against the CIA alone, leading to denunciations of Agency abuses, both real and (more frequently) imaginary, in media, parliamentary debates, demonstrations and speeches by leading politicians around the world. This hearing heard testimony from John MaMahon, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, Edward J. O'Malley, Assistant Director for Intelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Stanislav Levchenko, former Major in the KGB. The United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), also known as the House Intelligence Committee, is a committee of the United States House of Representatives, currently chaired by Adam Schiff. It is the primary committee in the U.S. House of Representatives charged with the oversight of the United States Intelligence Community, though it does share some jurisdiction with other committees in the House, including the Armed Services Committee for some matters dealing with the Department of Defense and the various branches of the U.S. military. The committee was preceded by the Select Committee on Intelligence between 1975 and 1977. House Resolution 658 established the permanent select committee, which gave it status equal to a standing committee on July 14, 1977. During the 1980s the HPSCI worked to acquire access to covert action notifications of the CIA, as well as to strengthen the role of the committee in intelligence agency funding. Under the Reagan administration, the HPSCI and United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) worked with the Director of Central Intelligence William J. Casey on what was known as the "Casey Accords". The accords required that covert action findings were to be accompanied by "scope papers" that included a risk/gain assessment of each such activity. However, the deal was not acceptable to the HPSCI, and after the Iran-contra scandal, more pressure was placed on strengthening the oversight of committees. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.
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