LETTER TO HONORABLE MELVIN PRICE, CHAIRMAN FROM W. E. COLBY DIRECTOR

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• Publication Date: October 20, 1975
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Honorable Melvin Price, Chairman
Committee on Armed Services
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
This is in response to your request for the views and recommendations
of the Central Intelligence Agency on Mr. Bennett's proposal, 1I . R . 7781, to
amend the Nationai Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 403). H.R. 7781, encom-
passes the legislative recommendations of the President's Commission on CIA
Activities Within the United States (the Rockefeller Comrriissi_on), which
issued its report in June 1975.
Several of the changes proposed in this bill would add the word "foreigner
before the word "intelligence" wherever it refers to the activities authorized
to be undertaken by CIA. I fully support this change. I have publicly
stated my view that the Agency's charter lies solely in the foreign. intelligence
field, and have attempted to insure that all CIA activities are so circumscribed .
However, I believe it advisable to recognize this Iii-nitationin the
National Security Act.
Section (4) of H.R. 7781 proposes to add the word "collect" in section
102 (d) (3) of the Act, so that this exposition of Agency duties would read:
"(3) to collect, correlate, and evaluate intelligence relating
to the national security, and provide for the appropriate dissemination
of such intelligence within the Government using where appropriate
existing agencies and facilities (emphasis added)."
Section 102(d)(5) of the Act directs the Agency "to perform such other
functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security
as the National Security Council may from time to time direct. " Pursuant to
this provision of law, CIA has long been authorized to collect foreign intelligence.
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comments by the House Oominitte-.
on Armed Services on H.R. 778 1, a
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