REPORTING S. 782 FROM THE SUBCOMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00337R000100130030-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2006
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: May 27, 1969
• Content Type: MISC

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2 7 MAY 1969
This is to request. your vote on the question of reporting from the
Subcommittee S. 782, the bill which you have cosponsored to protect the
constitutional rights of employees of the executive branch to-prevent
unwarranted governmental invasions of their personal privacy.
JAs you recall, two years ago the Subcommittee favorably reported
a imilar bill. At that time, the bill had been amended to exclude the
FBI from its terms
and to deal with problems the CIA and LISA said they
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would have under the bill. Further exemptions were given those two
agencies in the full cormittee, before it favorably reported the bill.
These amendments were drafted after careful consideration of the written)
reports of those agencies and after lengthy discussions with their
representatives.
I On the Senate floor, still another amendment was added to give those
se~urity agencies additional powers. The Senate then voted to delete the
total exemption for the FBI and to accord that agency the same exemptions
as~the CIA and the NSA.
The CIA has renewed their request for a secret hearing and for to-."
exemption from the terms of the bill. I have informed the Director, Mr.
Richard Helms, that the Subcommittee would be happy to receive his views in a
public hearing, an invitation which he has apparently rejected. Enclosed is
my letter to him and his response.
In that form, the bill was passed by a 79-4 vote, and by the time
abaonteee had recorded their approval, the total vote was 90-4. Unfortunately,
the bill died in House Committee, but, as you know,?we reintroduced it in
January with 55 Senate cosponsors. S. 782, the new bill, is identical to
S.i1035 and contains all the. Senate amendments providing certain exemptions
for the three agencies.
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exempt the CIA, the NSA, and the CBI from the terms of the bill.
While I personally am not disposed to grant his request, I am polling
t~e Subcommittee to determine whether the members still retain their
d9terminationof1967 to accord to these agencies only the exemptions now
Mr. Helms has again submitted amendments, which in effect would
The extensive hearings conducted in the last Congress on S. 10351, and
t}e staff invest iga;,ions since then convince me that there is a continuing
n ed for the bill, a need which will be even greater in the years ahead:
I propose to report S. 782 in its present form, to the full judiciary
Committee, using the same report which accompanied S. 1035, with language
tq cover the amendments which were inserted after the bill left the
Subcommittee in 1967. Would you advise me, of your views on this matter?
It is my hope that we can obtain prompt action in the full committee.-
With 4xl1 k;Lnd wishes, I am
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