H.R. 8152 - AMENDMENT TO TITLE I OF THE OMNIBUS CRIME CONTROL AND SAFE STREETS ACT OF 1968

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 3, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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3 July 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: CIA. Management Committee
SUBJECT:
H. R. 8152 -Amendment to Title I of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets.
Act of 1968
1. The subject bill is a basic restatement of the authorities
of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. On the floor of
the House an 18 June 1973, Miss Holtzman offered an amendment
which the House then accepted. The amendment is the underlined
portion of section 508 quoted below:
The Administration is authorized, on a
reimbursable basis when appropriate, to use the
available services, equipment, personnel, and
facilities of the Department of Justice and of
other civilian or military agencies and instru-
mentalities of the Federal Government, not
including the Central Intelligence Agency, and
to cooperate with the Department of Justice and
such other agencies and instrumentalities in the
establishment and use of services, equipment,
personnel, and facilities of the Administration.
2. The Senate, on 28 June 1973, was considering a Senate
version of the subject bill. Senator Kennedy offered a similar
amendment which `vas adapted. The House and Senate versions are
notiv in conference but with similar amendments. Undoubtedly,
section 508 will be approved as amended.
OGC Has Reviewed
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3. The effect of the amendment is to deny the Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration the authority to use the services, equipment,
personnel and facilities of the Central Intelligence Agency. It would .
also appear to deny the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
the authority to cooperate with the Central Intelligence Agency in the
establishment and use of services, equipment, personnel and facilities
of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administratian.
4. In the past the Agency has been of assistance to the Law
Enforcement Assistance Administration in a number of differing ways,
including making available to them the metal traces technique and the
explosives detection techniques. In the future all request from the
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration will necessarily have to
be examined closely in view of the Holtzman/Kennedy amendments.
If there are devices or techniques which the Agency develops in the
future which would appear to be of interest to the Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration, it would seem possible that the Agency
.could either offer such equipment or knowledge to the Department of
Justice or the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
STATINTL
(JOHN S. WARNER
~_Acting General Counsel
cc: Legislative Counsel
Director of Security
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