SENATOR ERVIN REQUEST IN RE S. 942

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SUBJECT Senator Ervin Request in re S.942
1. This memorandum is in response to your request to the
DDI for comments and suggestions for the preparation of a reply
to Senator Ervin's request for our views regarding,S.942, a
bill introduced by Senator Ribicoff.
2. The Ribicoff bill mentions CIA by name only once (in
Section 10), but there are provisions in the bill which would
certainly have an indirect effect on CIA. The DCI is a member
of the CCINC, and the CIA would be affected by provisions of
the bill. having to do with the CCINC and the CCINC substructure
Under Section 5 of the bill the CCINC would be abolished and
would be replaced by a "Policy Committee on Narcotics and Dan-
gerous Drugs," and under Section 13 this new Policy Committee
would be chaired by the Attorney General (instead of the Secre-
tary of State, who chairs the CCINC) and the Vice Chairman of
the Policy Committee would be the Director of the FBI. The
membership of the Committee is not detailed in Section 13, but
presumably CIA would be represented. The bill evidently would
increase the FBI role overseas.
3. The language of the Ribicoff bill seems to reflect a
lack of full understanding of the present structure and functions
of the CCINC. The stated purpose of the bill is "to transfer
and reorganize all existing law enforcement functions. of the
Federal Government related to trafficking in narcotics and
dangerous drugs in a Division of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
established in the Federal Bureau of Investigation." Section 5
of the bill, however, would transfer to the Attorney General
(and thence to the FBI; see Section 6) "all functions of the
Secretary of State which are administered through or with res-
pect to the Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control."
But the functions of the CCINC have by no means been limited to
law-enforcement matters, and actions under CCINC related to law
enforcement abroad are in large part matters of diplomatic action
or approach, hardly something to be handled by the FBI. And so
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on in other areas. It may be noted that the CCINC structure in-
cludes a Foreign Intelligence Subcommittee (chaired by Seymour
Bolten) among its various committees and subcommittees.
4. Having said all that, I would also note that this is
probably not the best time for us to comment on a bill dealing
with reorganization of narcotics functions. The organization
question has been under consideration by the Administration for
months now and some organizational changes could be announced
at any time. I do not know what changes may or may not come.
It may well be that FBI will get a role; but the FBI is hardly
likely to get the role Ribicoff would give it.
5. All in all, I am suggesting that the reply sent to
Senator Ervin be not too detailed. I do not know exactly the
type of reply you would normally send in response to a request
of this sort. A full commentary in this case would be rather
lengthy and I doubt that that is wanted. Whatever is wanted,
however, I will of course be happy to cooperate. Please let me
know if I can do anything further.
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