PRIVACY INVASION CURB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200590017-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: September 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Senate took a heartening
step when it overwhelmingly ap-
proved a bill to curb govern-
ment agencies' interference in
the private lives of their em-
ployes. This measure, if it now
gets through the House, should
be an important step toward
slowing down the trend toward
invasion of individual privacy.
As enacted by the Senate, the
bill makes adequate provision
for inquiry where this is.essen-
tial for security reasons. Three .
agencies - the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, the Central In-
teli g n e Aye an e Na-
Iona Security Agency - are ex-
pressly permitted to use poly-
graph and psychological tests to
elicit data on such matters as
religion, sexual conduct andot'-:._
personal relationships in such
cases.
Much more rigid limitations
are rightly placed on personal.
inquiry by other executive agen-
cies of the government, however.
personnel or job applicants to
disclose information of a per-
sonal nature, including person:0
finances except where there ap-
pears to be a possible conflict
of interest. Moreover, pressur
by superiors to engage in lx,li-
tical or other outside activities.
buy U.S. bonds, or makepolitic.,''It
or charitable contributions l !
forbidden.
In the words of the hill`:
sor, Senator Ervin of tics: t`,
1Carolina, it is intenctrd to '
test the constitutional right.; c'
civilian employes of the e>er::-
tive branch and to prevent un-
warranted governmental in-
vasions of privacy." Thi:. iti of ni?
small importance. Action h..,:=
come in response to rising co- t
plaints about unwarr.snted:::1oii,:-
ing into private concerns. I"E
enacted into law, the 1n ' 1::i:re
will constitute a badly nc of l,?+!:
charter of rights for man .
work for the government.
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