APRIL 4TH MEETING ON OMNIBUS DIPLOMATIC SECURITY & ANTI-TERRORISM ACT

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• Publication Date: April 7, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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OCA 86-1099
7 April 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: DDL/OCA
SA/LEG/OCA
Office of Congressional Affairs
Legislation Division
SUBJECT: April 4th Meeting on "Omnibus Diplomatic
Security & Anti-Terrorism Act"
1. On April 4, 1986, I attended a meeting chaired by Craig
Coy, Office for Combatting Terrorism, Executive Office of the
President on the "Omnibus Diplomatic Security and
Anti-Terrorism Act". Also attending were: Jim Kelly,
D/NIO/Terrorism; Cary Copeland, Attorney Advisor, Office of
Legislative Affairs, Department of Justice and another
individual from the Criminal Division, Department of Justice;
Marc Johnson and two other individuals from the Department of
State; a Mr. Grimes from the National Security Council (NSC)
staff; Lynn Sachs from the NSC Staff; and John Schmitz
(456-7034) from the Vice President's Task Force on Terrorism.
2. First, various preliminary matters were discussed.
Indications from SFRC staff were that they did not care for the
"terrorism" titles of the House-passed H.R. 4151. They were,
instead, presently inclined to deal only with the "diplomatic
security titles", i.e., Titles I through IV, and perhaps even
return to the original Administration version of these titles.
This is reflected in the fact that on April 30, 1986, the SFRC
will hold a hearing advertised not as a hearing on H.R. 4151
but instead as a hearing on "embassy security". At the
hearing, Ron Spires, Under Secretary for Management, and Bob
Lamb, Director, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, both of the
Department of State, would be testifying (and apparently will
be the only Administration witnesses). It was also noted that
the Committee was looking toward a May markup of IP_oislatinn
3. It was also noted that the SFRC itself and/or other
Committees and Senators might try to add to the bill various
provisions including the following: S. 1429, the Spector bill
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to create overseas jurisdiction for murder of United States
citizens abroad ("indirect" criminalization of terrorism);
S. 274, a Denton bill to require the fingerprinting of persons
employed in nuclear plants; S. 276, a bill to provide a blanket
FOIA exemption for counterintelligence or terrorism matters;
and even S. 239, the Administration/Thurmond comprehensive
death penalty bill.
4. With further regard to S. 1429, it was noted that on
March 6, 1986, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on
Crime reported out H.R. 4294, the Rodino terrorism bill. That
bill was much broader than S. 1429 as passed by the Senate. It
had several features objectionable to the Administration
including a definition of "terrorism" as an element in the
crime and extradition reform provisions (see attached letter
from Justice to Representative Rodino, dated March 17, 1986).
At the markup, Representative Gekas added a death penalty
provision. This has placed the full Judiciary Committee in a
quandary. All want to vote "against terrorism". Many
Committee opponents of the death penalty, however, do not want
to vote for a bill which includes that penalty yet neither do
they want to go on record as voting for deleting it from a
terrorism bill. Therefore, the belief is that the Committee
would "pigeon hole" the bill. This would mean that S. 1429
would become a candidate for addition to the ultimate Senate
version of H.R. 4151. It was also noted that on March 18, the
Vice President sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee
endorsing S. 1429.
5. We then proceeded to review the bill section by
section. I provided Agency comments, noting that in most
instances no final decision had been reached but would be
reached in response to the request by the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for comments on the bill.
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