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PREPARED STATEMENT ON H.R. 15845 BY WILLIAM E. COLBY, DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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July 22, 1974
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STATEMENT
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PREPARED STATEMENT ON H. R. 15845
BY
WILLIAM E. COLBY, DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
22 July 1974
Mr. Chairman, I welcome the opportunity to testify today on H. R. 15845
introduced by you and Mr. Bray. The amendments proposed in this bill would
be the first changes in the charter of the Central Intelligence Agency,found
in the National Security Act of 1947. In conformity with our American
constitutional structure, the existence of the Central Intelligence Agency stems
from an Act of Congress. This is a unique contrast to the tradition and
practice of most intelligence services, but it is a necessary reflection of .
our free society. The result, I believe, makes us a stronger nation; whose
citizens live in a freedom envied by most of the world.
The amendments would add the word "foreign" before the word
"intelligence" whenever it refers to the activities authorized to be undertaken
by the Central Intelligence Agency. I fully support this change. While I
believe the word "intelligence" alone in the original Act was generally under-
stood to refer only to foreign intelligence, I concur that this limitation of the
Agency's role to foreign intelligence should be made crystal clear to its own
employees and to the public. I hope this amendment will reassure any of our
fellow citizens as to the Agency's true and only purpose.
Section (3) of the bill reenforces the charge in the original Act that
the Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for "protecting
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