SENTE PASSES PRIVACY BILL FOR U. S. EMPLOYES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200590033-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: September 14, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Measure to Curb
'Big Brotherism'
Is Sent to House
By CECIL HOLLAND
Star Staff Writer
A. measure to protect federal
employes from "big brother-
ism" rested with the House
CPYRGHT
today , after overwhelming
Senate approval.
If finally, approved, the meas-
ure would outlaw lie detector
and psychological testing and
prying personal questions
involving sex, religion and
family affairs in most ? of the
government's executive agen-
cies.
Limited exceptions would be
made for three agencies dealing
with the nation's security-the
Central Intelligence and Nation-
al Security Agencies and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Restrictions were placed on
these under the Senate bill.
Victory for Ervin
For Sen. Sam D. Ervin Jr., 'D-
N.C., it was amajor victory for
what he called-"the preservation
of individual freedom."
Ervin, chairman of the Senate
Judiciary subcommittee on
constitutional rights and chief
sponsor o the bill, said the
practices the measure would
ban were widespread in the
government.
PIRGhT was supported by
Sen. Roman L. Hruska, R-Neb.,
who said the'subcommittee had
received reports of case after
case involving "flagrant viola-
tions" of the rights of govern-
ment employes.
Afte a brief skirmish over
exempting the CIA because of
its super-secret spy activities,
the bill was approved by a vote
of ?9-4.
Before the vote, Ervin accept-
bill through with a minimum of
opposition. One involved the CIA
and NSA and the other the FBI.
As the bill came?to the Senate
floor with unanimos approval
of the Judiciary Committee, it
would have permitted the CIA i
and NSA to give he detector and 1
ther tests under the specific:
direction of the directors of
those agencies. This was modi-
fied so that it would be permit-
ted by the director or "his
designee."
Young Proposal
The bill would have exempted
the FBI on the ground, as Ervin
said, that the agency did not
indulge in the practices at which
the legislation was directed.
However, Sen. Milton R.
Young, R-N.D., proposed an
amendment that would wipe out
this exemption`, and place the
FBI in the same situation as the
CIA and NSA, and with the
same limitations. It was ap-
proved by a voice vote.
Voting against the bill were
Sens. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga.,
who had just returned to the
Senate after an illness with a
throat ailment; John Stennis, D-
Miss., James 0. Eastland, D-
Miss., and Ernest F. Hollings,
D-S.C. Their opposition was
based, they indicated, on the
restriction placed on the CIA.
Both Russell and Stennis are
ranking Democratic members of
an informal Senate watchdog
committee that overseas CIA
activities.
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