TESTIMONY ON CHARTERS BEFORE THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

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• Publication Date: February 12, 1980
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The Director of Central Intclli~cncc
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MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT: Testimony on Charters Before the Senate Select.
Committee on Intelligence
With reference to the charters for the Intelligence
Community, once you make your decisions on the points of
difference between the Administration and the Huddleston
Bill, we all need to communicate those differences to the
Senate Select Committee in precise language. One of those
points, I believe, should be the organization of the Bill.
We have proposed a logical sequence which would successively
describe our authorities, the restrictions on us and the
system of oversight to check on use of the authorities or
possible abuse of the restrictions. We need, I believe,
this emphasis on the oversight process to help us ward off
amendments that would add restrictions to the Bill. The
Huddleston draft obscures the oversight process.
I would, therefore, like to approach my testimony on 26
February with a marked up revision to the Huddleston Bill.
It would reorder the sequence of articles as noted above and
it would insert the appropriate language where we differ
with the Committee's draft. This would not be the tabling
of an Administration Bill, but simply a means of clarifying
for the Committee the points on which you differ with the
Huddleston Bill. It seems to me there is some merit in
having before the Members of the SSCI a legislative vehicle
which contains the precise Charters language you would like
to see them pass.
/s[ Stan3Lre] 5urner
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