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'Overts', 'Illegals' Play Important Roles for Intelligence By HARRY FERGUSON (The third of lour articles) Washington - RIPU - Persons who work for the Central In telligence Agency are roughly divided into "overts" and "il legals." The overts work in the open, keep fairly regular of fice hours and are forbidden to discuss the type of job they perform. The illegals are the ones who fan out across the world as spies, usually under assumed identities. Some of them penetrate the Iron and Bamboo curtains in the full knowledge that discovery Executive Strengthened by Constitution (This is the fifth in a se ries of articles about the revised Constitution pro posed by the Oregon Con stitutional Revision commis sion. The articles were writ ten by Hans A. Linde. pro fessor of constitutional law at the University of Ore gon and a member of the commission. The revised Constitution, as has been explained in the last preceding column, strengthens the executive branch, headed by a gover nor responsible for all execu tive officers, and establishes a strong "watchdog" In the new officer of the Controller wholly independent of the ex ecutive. Reports that the governor is to be the sole elective state official erroneously overlook that the Controller may nlso be elected. The Controller takes over the "watchdog" functions of auditing and giv ing independent legal opin ions, which are now said to justify the separate election of tile Secretary of State and Attorney General. But why did the Commission not rec ommend a second elected offi cial within the executive branch itself? The Line of Succession A second elected executive officer seemed justified only if he could take over for the governor in case of the gov ernor's death, resignation, dis ability, or prolonged absence from the state. The present constitution provides no such officer within the state admin istration. Rather, by the indi vidual, partisan election of ad ministrative officers for over lapping terms, it makes such a transfer of authority within the executive branch impossi ble. The present system almost assures that the elected state officials will be political com petitors. A secretary of state is commonly regarded as the most prominent candidate to replace the very governor in whose administration he is serving. In 1958, Secretary of State Mark O. Hatfield and State Treasurer Sig Unander cam paigned against each other in the primary of one party for the right to run against Gov ernor Robert D. Holmes, the candidate for reelection in the other party primary. Again in 1962, Governor Hatfield and Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton spent much of the year campaigning against each other. ?YMOUNCEIiEHT! flermitade is now 0 Superbly smooth and mellow Fine Straight Kentucky Bourbon 0 Taste Favorite since 1869 nti nitiiiiit 1l tit mini means death It takes many months to equip an illegal for his job and it may be many weary years before he comes up with a useful piece of information. The virtue of patience has a high priority in espionage. Gttt New Identity The first thing that happens to an illegal is that he loses his identity. He gets a new name, a new birthplace, a new family. If he is going to operate in Italy, for instance, he not only must speak flaw less Italian but with the pre cise accent of the province in Branch Would Be The present constitutional system makes such situations common and unavoidable. Yet together these several offi cers are supposed to consti tute the administration of the state of Oregon. The Consti tutional Revision commission concluded that the elemina tion of such internal division and political competition within ' the administration must be a key reform in the revised Constitution. The present line of succes sion in Oregon runs to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House. This may lead to the replace ment of a governor by a new governor of the opposite par ty, who may in fact have been chosen by a narrow ma jority of his fellow senators. The Commission considered continuing the Secretary of State as an officer to be elect ed on a single ticket with the governor, like the U. S. Presi dent and Vice President. This system, used in the modern Alaska constitution, would provide a midterm successor to the governor when needed, who would be of the same party as the governor and have been elected by all the people of the state. However, a majority of the Commission decided that there was not sufficient cause for dissatis faction with the succession of Presidents of Senate, as at present, to require changing that system. This made the creation of a second elective executive officer pointless. The so-called "Alaska" plan is, however, before the legis lative committees considering the revised Constitution as an available alternative that would continue an elected Secretary of State, For how many separate agencies can a chief execu tive be actually responsible? In 1960, Governor Hatfield's Advisory Committee on Re organization reported that Oregon then had "at least 89 boards, committees, authori ties and commissions in rule making, advisory, or manager ial roles." Fifty-two agency administrators report direct ly to the governor. Such num bers make executive respon sibility a fiction rather than a practical fact. The Constitutional Revision commission did not prescribe a form of organization for the executive branch. It left tills to be determined by stat utory law, as it is today. How ever, following a precedent which is universal in the mod ern state constitutions, it im- o veais uiu .Sits m JhermitageJ co.. ioiimii..t" et noof which he is to operate. He re peats his new name and the details about his new identity endlessly until they automat ically come quicker to his lips than the true facts. Then he is "papered". He is equipped with every sort of document he could conceiv ably need in his new environ ment, and he is taught how to manufacture new ones if the need arises. The next step is to arrange a "drop," a place where the Illegal can leave in formation and be sure that it will wind up at CIA head quarters in Langley, Va. posed a constitutional limit of 20 on the number of top administrative departments that could be placed directly under the governor. Smaller agencies need not lose their separate identities. But some of them would be grouped together by major categories so as to stay within the ceiling of 20. There is no magic in the number 20. It is the maximum recommended in the Model State Constitution and recent ly enacted in New York, New Jersey, Alaska, and Hawaii. A smaller number may suf fice. The 1960 Oregon reor ganization plan proposed no more than 12 departments. But more leeway and flexi bility is desirable in a con stitution. Likewise, the Constitution al Revision commission did not recommend a "cabinet" form of state government. Whether the major depart ments should 'be headed by single directors, as recom mended in Governor Hat field's 1960 reorganization plan, or by boards or com missions, as many of them are now, will continue to be de- termined by statute. The re vised Constitution, like the present one, remains silent on this choice of organization Contrary to some early re ports, the present Oregon sys tem of major boards and com missions to manage highways, education and higher educa tion, fish and game, liquor sales, workmen s compensa tion, etc., is not precluded under the revised Constitu tion. The commission saw no rea son for a new constitution to force an end to a system of citizen participation in state government that has given sat isfactory service in many areas of administration. Ad ministrative organization is left for future legislatures to consider in the light of chang ing experience. The revised Constitution should not be confused with specific recom mendations that have been made by other studies of ad ministrative reorganization. (Next) The judiciary) Rug-Making-Fun Win praise, have fun- make your own rugs in the exact color scheme you want. Accent a room with an area r u g choose to crochet, weave, braid, hook. 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There probably are about 10,000 em ployees at the organization's headquarters which covers nine acres some 20 minutes' drive from downtown Wash ington. Next to the Pentagon, CIA headquarters is the larg est government building in town. Much of the work done by the overts probably appears to theni'as routine office chores. That is because their assign ments are highly compart mented and a person in one small office cannot be exactly sure what his neighbor is working on. Each overt turns in a small piece of informa tion, but only the top echelon CIA men get all the pieces needed to complete the pic ture puzzle. The CIA buys or obtains about 200,000 pieces of liter ature each month from Rus sia, the Soviet European bloc and Red China. 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