ABSTRACT
A tangle of scientific and political issues has set the condition for the acid rain debate both in North America and in Europe. In the United States, this policy dispute has become a political stalemate at virtually every level of decisionmaking, pitting one constellation of political power against another. Secret operations like diplomacy and military action, are no better or worse than the foreign policy they are designed to support. A fundamentally defensive strategy, containment leaves the initiative to the other side. For a generation Soviet national aims have dictated the shape of American purposes in the world. Counterespionage work is the rock bottom of any secret intelligence service. If it were determined that American policymakers no longer require secret intelligence on foreign targets, and that American covert action would be totally outlawed, there would be a need for overseas counterespionage operations. If they were banned, there would be little hope of protecting the nation's genuine secrets.
