HOUSE PANEL REJECTS PLAN TO GIVE SURVEILLANCE POWER TO WHITE HOUSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600250068-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: April 19, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE NEW YORK TIMES
ARTICLE APPEARED 19 April 1978
ON PAGE A-40
House Panel Rejects Plan to Give
Surveillance Power to White House'
1
WASHINGTON, April 18 (AP)-The)
House Intelligence Commi tee today re-!,
jected'a plan that would give the White,
House and the Attornej General the last;
word on' whether electronic surveillance
could. be used- against foreign powers o
agents: operating in the-United States.
Thus, the coinmietee gave tacit approv
al to a plan that would set up a specie
judicial panel that would screen request
from: intelligence-gathering. agencies 10
surveillance authority. This-is the ap~
proach. favored: by the Carter Administra
tion., .. ;
~? The vote, came??as the, committee began)
to write legislation designed to both gov-4
ern foreign: intelligence-surveillance 'ac-
tivities and to protect the rights of
American citizeirs. against:illegal search
and seizure: Similar legislation is await-
ing floor action in theSenate: ?:_R,.
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