COLONEL CLEO S. FREED'S CALL REGARDING QUESTIONS LEVIED ON LT. GENERAL DONALD V. BENNETT BY SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE

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• Publication Date: November 30, 1971
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30 November 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Colonel Cleo S. Freed's Call Regarding Questions
Levied on Lt. General Donald V. Bennett by
Senate Armed Services Committee
1. Today Colonel Freed called to say that James Kendall,
Chief Counsel, Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of Senate
Armed Services Committee, had, in behalf of Senator Stennis,
requested General Bennett to come to the Hill and provide Senator
Stennis with answers to the following questions:
a. Legal or directive basis for DIA's existence.
b. DIA's mission.
c. Relationship with service intelligence
activities and regulatory basis for these relation-
ships.
e. Relationships with CIA and the statutory or
regulatory basis for these relationships.
Mr. Kendall said similar questions were to be levied on CIA.
2. Colonel Freed said General Bennett would appreciate our
advice on how to respond. I cited the relevant sections of the National
Security Act of 1947, explaining that the Act provided the broad frame-
work for relationships within the community but the specifics were
spelled out in NSCIDs which were classified, had never been made
available to Congress, and indeed could not properly be made available
by any members of the intelligence community since they were issued
by, and the property of, the National Security Council. I said my own
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advice would be to explain to Senator Stennis that the interrelationships
within the intelligence community were governed primarily by Section 102(d)
of the National Security Act of 1947, which directed the Agency, under the
direction of the National Security Council, to carry out certain community
functions. I said, as far as we were concerned, it would seem unwise
to identify the existence of NSCIDs as such, but one could safely say that,
under the Act, there were of course implementing documents which were
not the property of any of the intelligence agencies and could be obtained
only from the National Security Council. Colonel Freed said he would
so advise General Bennett.
JOHN M. MAURY
Legislative Counsel
CO E T1AL
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