ABSTRACT
Most of the special investigations carried out by the Office of Security over the years have been directed against current or former CIA employees who were suspected of security breaches: leaks, improper behavior, association with known or suspected foreign intelligence personnel. It conducted almost a hundred personal surveillances, some thirty wiretaps, thirty microphone installations, and a dozen surreptitious entries. As the Year of Intelligence proceeded, the constant stream of revelations about this hitherto most secret agency created a heightened climate of public concern. Each new exposure was labeled "shocking," "sordid," "unsavory." The CIA was a "monster," a "cancer" requiring radical surgery, "a world of grotesque shapes and shadows," "a many-chambered house of deceit, fear, power, and intrigue." In an unguarded moment Senator Church, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, labeled CIA "a rogue elephant rampaging out of control."
