REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: DRAFT JUSTICE VIEWS LETTER ON H.R. 3188

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M01152R001101390033-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: November 4, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

OLL 85-3371/1
4 November 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: DDA; D/OS/DDA; OIS/DDA; C/CI/DDO; C/PCS/DDO;
C/SECOM; C/ALD/OGC; C/ICAD/OGC
Legislation Division
SUBJECT: Request for Comments: Draft Justice
Views letter on H.R. 3188
1. Attached for your review and comment please find a copy
of a draft views letter on H.R. 3188 from the Department of
Justice to Chairman Jack Brooks of the House Government
Operations Committee. Also attached is a copy of the bill.
The letter has been sent to this Office by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in order to obtain the Agency's
views. We would appreciate receiving your comments no later
than the close of business, Wednesday, November 19, 1985.
2. The bill was drafted in the summer of 1985 at the
height of Congressional reaction to the Walker and other
espionage cases. It represents an effort to take advantage of
that reaction by including in one legislative vehicle a variety
of proposals which are in some way related to
counterintelligence/security issues. As a result, you will see
that the bill has provisions on a wide variety of subjects:
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) relief; diplomatic
reciprocity; increased polygraph use by the Department of
Defense (DoD); death penalty for espionage by members of the
Armed Forces; and, death penalty for civilian espionage.
3. The bill itself stands little if any chance of passage
in its current form. Many of the proposals contained therein
have been included in other legislative vehicles which have
passed or are close to passage as the Justice letter notes.
Others are so controversial within the House that any action on
them is unlikely. Further, the fact that the bill has been
referred to four committees indicates that little action on it
is likely.
 4. Even though the bill is not likely to pass, it is
important that the Justice letter not express views on the
issues raised by the bill which are objectionable to the
Agency. Accordingly, we ask that your review concentrate not
on the bill itself but rather on whether or not Justice's
comments are objectionable to the Agency. In this regard, your
attention is directed especially to the views expressed by
Justice on the polygraph issue.
Attachments:
as stated
Distribution:
Original - Addressees (w/atts)
1 - D/OLL
1 - DD/OLL
X- OLL Chrono
1 - Leg/Sub - Counterintelligence/Security
1 - PS Signer