MEETING BETWEEN DCI AND SENATOR BARRY M. GOLDWATER (R., ARIZ.)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000700120077-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: July 11, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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OLC 78-2243
11 July 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting Between DCI and Senator Barry M. Goldwater
(R., Ariz.)
1. ( U ) The DCI expressed his thanks for Senator Goldwater's
help in opposing the role of ambassador amendment offered by Senator
George McGovern (D., S. Dak.) to the State Department Authorization
bill. The Senator replied that he hoped we would be able to knock it out
in conference. He felt that his colloquy with Senator McGovern had
sufficiently muddied the record and he thought that we might be able
to find enough votes on the Senate side -,uch that if the House held firm
the amendment might be dropped.
2. ( U ) Senator Goldwater commented on the recent articles
respecting S. 2525. From his standpoint these newspaper stories are
correct. There is decreasing enthusiasm in his view among the Senators
to restrict further the activities of CIA and the Intelligence Community.
Indeed,. he referred back to several comments at this morning's meeting
with the President, in which apparently it was stated that an effort ought
to be made to reduce the size of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
and its staff and indeed perhaps go back to the former jurisdiction in the
Armed Services Committee. He claimed that this may have been a palatable
idea but the votes are not there to sustain it.
3. ( U ) The DCI went on to thank Senator Goldwater for his
June 22, 1978 letter expressing the Senator' s views on the proposed
IC Staff reorganization. Senator Goldwater summed up his thoughts
by saying that most Senators do not wish to create another bureaucracy
and implied that an addition of positions for an IC Staff may permit it
to become an entity of its own which would be coming back to the Congress
in future years seeking additional slots. The Director replied that this
clearly was not his intention and he intended to strengthen the IC Staff
by virtue of contributions from existing intelligence committee components
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and that there would be no net increase in size. Senator Goldwater
replied that there was a depth of feeling in the Senate at the present
time against creating another "bureaucracy." The Senator thanked
the Director for his visit and offered to continue to be of help on the
State Department Authorization matter. He referred us to Tom Quinn,
on his staff, who in the absence of Earl Eisenhower he indicated, would
be of some assistance. With this, the meeting broke up.
4. Others in attendance were Lyle Miller and the undersigned.
Frederick i z
Legislative Counsel
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