PROTECTIVE SERVICES PROVIDED BY U.S. SECRET SERVICE

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PROTECTIVE SERVICES PROVIDED BY
U.S. SECRET SERVICE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND
GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
COMMITTEE ON THE .JUDICIARY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS
H.R. 1244
TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES AND REGULATIONS FOR
CERTAIN PROTECTIVE SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE U.S.
SECRET SERVICE.
FEBRUARY 6, 19.7
Serial No.. 5
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
47-CIS WASHINGTON : 1975
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JACK BROOKS, Texas
ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin
DON EDWARDS, California
WILLIAM L. HUNOATE, Missouri
JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan
JOSHUA EILBERG, Pennsylvania
WALTER FLOWERS, Alabama
JAMES R. MANN, South Carolina
PAUL S. SARBANES, Maryland
JOHN F. SEIBERLING, Ohio
GEORGE E. DANIELSON, California
ROBERT F. DRINAN, Massachusetts
BARBARA JORDAN, Texas
RAY THORNTON, Arkansas
ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN, New York
EDWARD MEZVINSKY, Iowa
HERMAN BADILLO, New York
ROMANO L. MAZZOLI, Kentucky
EDWARD W. PATTISON, New York
CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, Connecticut
WILLIAM J. HUGHES, New Jersey
MARTIN A. RUSSO, Illinois
EDWARD IIUTCHINSON, Michigan
ROBERTMcCLORY, Illinois
TOM RAILSBACK, Illinois
CHARLES E. WIGGINS, California
HAMILTON FISH, In., Now York
M. CALDWELL BUTLER, Virginia
WILLIAM S. COHEN, Maine
CARLOS J. MOORHEAD, California
JOHN Al. ASHBROOK, Ohio
HENRY J. HYDE, Illinois
THOMAS N. KINDNESS, Ohio
EARL C. DUDLEY, Jr., General Counsel
GARNER J. CLINE, Staff Director
HERBERT FucH9, Counsel
WILLIAM P. SHATTUCK, Counsel
ALAN A. PARKER, Counsel
JAMES F. FALCO, Counsel
MAURICE A. BARBOZA, Counsel
THOMAS W. HUTCHISON, Counsel
ARTHUR P. ENDRES, Jr., Counsel
DANIEL L. CoHEN, Counsel
FRANKLIN G. POLK, Counsel
THOMAS E. MOONEY, Counsel
MICHAEL W. BLOMMER, Counsel
Ai.EXANDER B. COOK, Counsel
CONSTANTINE J. GEKAS, Counsel
ALAN F. COFFEY, Jr., Counsel
KENNETH N. KI.RE, Counsel
SUBCOMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
WALTER FLOWERS, Alabama, Chairman
GEORGE E. DANIELSON, California CARLOS J. MOORHEAD, California
BARBARA JORDAN, Texas HAMILTON FISH, JR., New York
ROMANO L. MAZZOLJ, Kentucky
EDWARD W. PATTISON, New York
WILLIAM P. SHATTUCK, Counsel
ALAN F. COFFEY, Jr, Associate Counsel
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CONTENTS
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Text of H.R. 1244 ------- ---------------------------- ------------
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Statement by Hon. Jack Brooks, a Representative in Congress from the
State of Texas--------------------------------------------------
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Witnesses-
Boggs, Lilburn E., Deputy Director, U.S. Secret Service----------
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Crawford, Irvine M., Associate Director, General Government
Division, General Accounting Office---------------------------
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Hill, Clinton J., Assistant Director, Protective Forces, U.S. Secret
Service-----------------------------------------------------
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Keller, Robert F., Deputy Comptroller General, General Accounting
Office .--------------------- ---------------------------------
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Long, Francis A., Assistant Director, Administration, U.S. Secret
Service-----------------------------------------------------
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McBrien, Robert, Special Assistant for Special Legislation and
Projects, U.S. Secret Service----------------------------------
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Additional material-
Knight, H. S., Department of the Treasury, U.S. Secret Service,
memorandum, February 22, 1974------------------------------
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"Procedures for the Acquisition of Space, Alterations, and Services
at Locations Involving Protective Operations"------------------
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PROTECTIVE SERVICES PROVIDED BY
U.S. SECRET SERVICE
g THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1975
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SUBCOMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE LAZY
AND 'GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
OF THE COMMITTEE' QN THE JUDICIARY,
Washington, D.C.
The subcommittee met, pursuant to, notice, at 10:15 a.m., in room
2237 Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Walter Flowers [chairman
of the subcommittee] presiding.
Present : Representatives .Flowers; Danielson, Jordan, Mazzoli,
Pattison, and Moorhead.
Also present : William P. Shattuck, counsel, and Alan 7. Coffey, Jr.,
associate counsel.
Mr. FLOWERS. We can begin now, and, will call. as the first witness
Mr. Keller, of the General Accounting Office, and your assistants may
also take places at the -witness table, Mr. Keller.
I have a statement submitted. by our, colleague, Jack Brooks, who
is the principal sponsor of- the bill,: H.R. 1244, which I will, without
objection, have placed in the record at this point: along with a copy
of the bill.
[The prepared statement of. Hon. Jack Brooks follows:]
STATEMENT OF HON. JACK BROOKS, A REPRESENTATIVE IN 'CONGRESS FROM THE
Mr. Chairman, I appreciate this opportunity to present this statement in
support of H.R. 1244, a bill to establish procedures and regulations, for certain
protective services provided by the United States Secret. Service.
An investigation during the 93d Congress by the Government Activities Sub-
committee of the Government Operations Committee revealed that more than
$17 million had been spent on and in support of private properties owned and
utilized by former President Nixon at San Clemente, Calif.;. Key Biscayne,
Fla. ; and at the home of a friend in the Bahama Islands. These funds were spent
for improvements, maintenance, administrative support, communications facili-
ties,, and personnel. Not all of the funds were spent for improvements on the
privately-owned presidential properties, but none of the funds syould have
been. spent but for the ownership and maintenance of these several properties
by the former President.
The Government Activities Subcommittee, of which I was Chairman, was
alarmed not only at the magnitude of these expenditures, but also at the type of
expenditure we found to be occurring. It was discovered that the American tax-
payer had paid $66,000 for a fence around the Key Biscayne compound designed
as a replica of the fence around the White House.
The Government paid $2,000 for a shuffleboard at Key Biscayne. We paid for
heating systems in private homes at Key Biscayne and at San Clemente-the
latter one costing over $13,500.
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The American public paid for the property surveys used by Mr. Nixon's attorney
during the settlement proceedings when he purchased the property in California.
Those property surveys, costing over $5.000, were ordered by, delivered to, and
billed to Mr. Nixon's private attorney, Herbert Kalmbach, long before either the
Secret Service or the General Services Administration actively began planning
security at that location.
The American people. also paid for a new sewer line, over $5,000 worth of
lanterns. furniture for the den, and, at one time, were paying more than $40,000
a year for landscape maintenance on the Nixon property at San Clemente. Govern-
ment personnel permanently assigned to these private property locations in San
Clemente and Key Biscayne were costing over $1.6 million per year.
After an extensive and very difficult investigation, my Subcommittee revealed
numerous flagrant abuses of the public trust by high level government officials.
including some in the White House. We discovered that managerial responsi-
bility for the expenditure of these millions of dollars was virtually nonexistent.
Mr. Nixon's personal attorney and architect were being permitted to order items
costing thousands of dollars and send the bills to the GSA. People in the White
House were directing the GSA to perform or pay for routine home-owner services
and then generate after-the-fact requests from the Secret Service in an effort
to cover up the true source of the expenditures of public funds.
Not all of the fault lies with the Government agencies. The very fact that a
President of the United States chose to maintain three private homes in addition
to the White House and Camp David subjected the American public to the unwar-
ranted expenditure of millions of dollars.
The American people do not want to restrict a President's mobility, nor to
imprison him in the White House. Neither do we want to deny the necessary
expenditures to support the activities of his office and to protect his safety and
wellbeinz under all circumstances. The House Government Operations Committee
concluded, however, after our investigation that the generosity and trust of the
American people had been abused.
In a report adopted on May 20. 1974, by a vote of 36 to 0 with 2 abstentions, the
Government Operations Committee made a number of recommendations to avoid
a repetition of those problems. Along with several co-sponsors. I introduced legis-
lation to carry out those recommendations. That legislation was referred to the
Judiciary Committee and to this Subcommittee.
This Subcommittee held hearings on the bill during the 93rd Congress and made
a number of very beneficial suggestions which were incorporated into the legisla-
tion. The bill, H.R. 17311. was then adopted by the Full Committee and subse-
quently, on December 16. 1974, by a ,voice vote on the House Floor. Unfortunately.
there was not sufficient time remaining in the 93rd Congress for the Senate to act
on the bill, so I have again introduced virtually identical legislation in the 94th
Congress with minor technical corrections.
Several guidelines were followed in drafting the hill. One, the bill does not
restrict the Secret Service in carrying out its legitimate activities. Two, the bill
does require the Secret Service and other Government agencies to develop mana-
gerial and fiscal controls to reduce opportunities for the blatant misuse of public
money. Three, the bill unites obligational authority and accountability in one
Government agency-the Secret Service. Four, the bill does not restrict presi-
dential mobility, but does provide some guidelines that should preclude a repeti-
tion of the embarrassing and illegal practices we found. These guidelines should
be beneficial to the agencies and to the property owners as well. -
I will not take the time to discuss each section of the bill, but will summarize
briefly the major provisions. Under this legislation :
The Secret Service can provide permanent security for each person or family
under its protection at only one noneovernment-owned location at a time.
Procurements would have to be made by Government personnel acting on writ-
ten requests and with reimbursement from the Secret Service.
There would be no limit on other government agencies' providing temporary
assistance to the Secret Service.
Permanent improvements would have to be removed if economically feasible
or if requested by the owner : if the owner does not request the removal and they
are not removed,, the private owner would have to. reimburse the Government in
an amount equal to the increase in the fair market value of his property.
Mr. Chairman. most of the members of this Committee are too familiar with
the abuses that have occurred in the expenditure of public funds in connection
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with the privately-owned properties of Mr. Nixon. We cannot again subject the
American taxpayers to such abuses. Neither can we continue to make such ex-
penditures at an unlimited number of locations.
Passage of this legislation will be beneficial, not only to the American tax-
payers by precluding the misuse of public funds in this manner, but will also
assist the President, the Vice President, and the Government agencies involved
by setting forth basic guidelines -and limitations as to how public money can be
spent on privately-owned properties. This legislation will protect an innocent
President from embarrassment caused by over-zealous aides seeking to gain favor
and will protect Government officials from pressures of a President or his aides
who fail to respect the public trust they hold.
[A copy of II.11. 1244 follows:]
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s Tyr CONGRESS sIo Re. 1244
1sT S]:Sstov
J.1\rerr 14,1975
Mr. I3aooxs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
)nittees on Government Operations and the Judiciary
A BILL
To establish procedures and regulations for certain 'protective
services provided by the United States Secret Service.
I .Be it enacted by the Senate and house of lRepresenta-
2 lives of the United States of Ainericca in Congress assembled,
3 That this Act may be cited as the "Presidential Protection
4 Assistance Act of 1975".
5 Snc. 2. In performance of the protective duties of the
6 United States Secret Service pursuant to :section 3056 of
7 title 1.8 of the United States Code (pertaining to the protec-
8 lion of the ],'resident of the United States and other persons)
9 and the first section of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize
10 the United States Secret Service to furnish protection to
11 major presidential or vice presidential. candidates", approved
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1. June 6,' 19G8" (Public Law 90-331; 82 Slat. 110) ; Federal
2 departments and agencies shall assist the United States
3 Secret Service by=
4 (1 } providing, with reimbursement, personnel,
equipment, or facilities on a temporary basis;
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(2) providing, upon advance written request of
the Director of the United States :Secret Service or his
authorized representative and upon reimbursement by
the United States Secret Service of actual costs, such
'facilities, equipment, and. services as are required by the
United States Secret Service to provide full-time secu-
rity for each protectee at no more than one property at
a time not in Government ownership or control, such,
property `having been designated - by a President,
President-elect, former President, or any other person
entitled to protection under the above provisions of law,
as the one property to be secured under this paragraph.
Where more than one family member is eligible for
Secret Service protection, there shall be only one such
designated property allowed per family. However; such
limitation shall not be construed to apply to members
of the immediate family who do not permanently reside
with the person entitled to protection;
(3} providing, upon advance written request of
the Director of the United States Secret Service or his
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1 authorized representative and upon reimbursement by
2 the Secret Service of actual costs, such facilities, equip-
ment, and services, as are required by the United States
4 Secret Service to secure any other property not in Gov-
5 ernment ownership or control to the extent that such
6 expenditures do not eunnmlatively exceed $10,000 at any
7 one property owned, ]eased, occupied, or otherwise
8 utilized by persons entitled to protection under such
9 sections of title 18 and such Act unless approved by
10 resolutions adopted by the Committees on Appropria-
11 tions of the House and Senate, respectively.
12 Si,c. 3. Expenditures by the United States Secret Service
13 for maintaining a permanent Huard detail and for permanent
14 facilities, equipment, and services to secure non-Government
15 property owned, leased, occupied, or otherwise utilized by
16 persons entitled to protection under the above provisions of
17 law shall be limited to properties described in section 2 (2)
18 of this Act.
19 'Si,,(,. 4. All- purchases and contracts entered into pursu-
ant to sections 2 (?), 2 O, and 3 of this Act shall be made
in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Property
and Administrative Services Act of 1940.
.5. NO payments shall be made pursuarnt to t:bis Act
for services, equipment, or facilities ordered, purchased,
leased, or othcrwi=c procured ley persons other than officers
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7 of employees of the Federal Uovennncnt duly authorized by
the Director of the United State,s.Secrot Service to make sucl,
procttrcinents,
4 Sic. G. All imp,rovemenis arid- other' items acquired par-
5 suant to tlti>> A.ct shill remain the property of the Federal
6 Government. l',pon termination of ent.itlcmctit, to Secret Serv-
7 Ice protection or if a President, President-elect, former Presi
8 dent; or other person entitled to protection under section
0 3050 of title 1, of [lie United States' Code and the first sec-
7o tion of the Act entitled "Au Act to 'authorize the l trited
1 States Secret Service to farms], protection to major Presi-
2 dential or Vice Pi esidentud candi(latcs", approved June 6,
1(305 (Public Law :)0- t 82 Stat. 170) designates a:'dif-
14 ferent; property to he So secured, all..improycmcntS or .oilier
15 items shall be removed from the original property unless it
7G is economically unfcasilde to do so, as determined by the
17 United Sta[CS H ecret Service, except that, sueli improv'c-nent3
IS or other items shall Inc removed and the property restored
]i to its. original state, regardless of the deterinin'