LETTER TO THE HONORABLE HAROLD BROWN FROM JAKE GARN

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• Publication Date: August 11, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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BARRY GOLDWATER. ARIZ.. VICE CHAIRMAN
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AOLAI E. STEVENSON, ILL.
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MALCOLM WALLOP, WYO.
SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE.
ROBERT C. BYRD, W. VA., EX OFFICIO (PURSUANT TO S. RES. 400, OATH CONGRESS)
HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., TENN., EX OFFICIO
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WILLIAM G. MILLER. STAFF DIRECTOR
EARL D. EISENHOWER, MINORITY STAFF DIRECTOR
August 11, 1977
IN RESPONSE PLEASE
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The Honorable Harold Brown
Secretary of Defense
The Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20301
Deanne Siemer and I have discussed a number of ques-
tions associated with 5.1566, the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1977. It would be helpful to me as
Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Intelligence and the
Rights of Americans of the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence if you could respond formally to a few of
these questions before we reconvene on September 7.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Original Signed by
cc: Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Attention: Mr.-Tony Lapham
The Honorable Griffin Bell
Attorney General of the United States
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
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QUESTIONS FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
HAROLD BROWN RELATING TO S. 1566
1. In your opinion, does the present wording of this
bill authorize the surreptitious entries which may be re-
quired for installing electronic surveillance devices if such
were to be directed at a foreign power or its agents in order
to obtain vital foreign intelligence information? Is any
amendment or legislative history required to cover adequately
or clarify this point?
2. What, if any, amendments or legislative history
would be required to assure that neither the Vienna convention
nor this legislation would impair this country's ability to.
continue our current embassy surveillance activities in order
to obtain foreign intelligence information?
3. Should the bill be amended in any way to minimize
the likelihood of the judges becoming targets of foreign
intelligence surveillance by foreign powers?
4. What effects, if any, would the amendment which
Admiral Inman proposed to the definition of foreign intelligence
fif - to
information have-on' dtlj.er provisions of the bill?
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5. In subsection (E) of the definition of "foreign
intelligence information" (page 6), is not the phrase "of
an intelligence service or network of a foreign power or an
agent" unreasonably limiting?
6. Would the judges' ability to make the determination
required by the bill be impaired if, for foreign power target-
ing, the certification did not require a designation of the
type of surveillance to be used, but instead required a state-
ment as to whether physical entry would be required to effect
the surveillance?
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