NATO/WARSAW PACT DEFENSE SPENDING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A002300060014-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 1, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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Honorable Griffin B. Bell
Attorney General
Department. of Justice..
Washington, D.C. 20530
early in. the 95, th Congress:
appropriate bill, endorsed*by the Justice Depa;~tment, might be introduced
zs a need fox- such legislation, and .1 seek your support _ott' e-end that arz
disclosure-. This proposa? was subsequently introduce.: as 32006, bu4
no similar legislation was introduced in the Senate. I feel stro'ii-1v that there
its you .Know, the ?'resident, in his message of IF, - ebruary 1976, propo5
legislation to protect intelligence sources and Methods f%-om unaiithorizec-E - - -
lig once sources and methods. In most cases, the sources of these leaks have.
resulted from the unauthorized disclosure cf inforr.:at o i related to intel-- =
Over the years, serious damage to our foreign in;_" 1 pence eff"or has-
such, proof,- the existing laws are seldom invoked any t ei deterrent value
the understandable reluctance to incur the add_tior_zL czc-age occasioned, b
'which is the subject of the prosecution. Given the diEic? 'ties of pz-oof, and
the very least, the fureher dissemination and confirmation of t'fLe ixifoxznation
or give such aid _ The evidence required to establish these elements Commonly
requires the revelation of additional sensiti