BILL WOULD REQUIRE NOTIFICATION OF CIA UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100220003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 27, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APIEAR THE WASHINGTON POST
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ON PAGT 27 June 1980
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Bill' o i1 - Require ~
Of CIA Under~oerOjiertions :
Press' - - r~ . Lion, has-said the CIA is glad to give
bill ordering the CIA to share'its? priornoticermost of the time but that-.
secrets with Congress-and to give-ad .,A-flat demand,"for it is an infringe-
vance notice of undercover operations ment on executive branch authority.
}von narrow 8 to 6 approval yester? The bilj4 , approved., yesterday is all
day by the House Intelligence Com- that remains- of the once-lengthy CIA=
tnlttee. charter!' which- included CIA-backed -
;The committee's flue Republicans, provisions' toe jail people who publicly,
Who wanted to-=include ? wide-ranging identify-seeret- agents: and tot exempt.
It I..
ether provisions 'sought. by the- CIA, the agency..from: most of the Freedom
,joined Democratic Rep. Clement Za- of Information Act.
''blocki (Wis.) In opposing the bill 71The Senate, and now the House
We want to-do something to help committee, deleted those sections. af-
tore agency, Rep John Ashbrook',(R= , tec:failing to win wide agreement on a
1110-said. afteithe _ vote, complaining bill,that.,would balance such : provi-
that the Democrats "just want to lionswitii new "restrictions on CIA. ac-
crease congressional oversight: tivities. z~
ctually, the. CIA `also has favored.. .other complication for the future
ttie idea of revising the congressional- of the- remaining congressional?notlfi-
notification law, hoping' to reduce cation bill is the existence of still an-
from eight - to `two, the number. of. , other version, this one attached to for-
I-touse and Senate committees' the @ign .,aid `legislation by ' Zablocki's
agency must report to. Xf ~4 House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The intelligence bill,'like a..yersion` That provision;.; rejected so far: by
Walled 8S to I`:.-by-.,the Senateearlier , the Senate, would allow a president to
this month, ' would do just that, order forgo prior notice if he decided such a
ipg. the CIA' to , report, to the : intelli- -,move ,,"was essentia - to meet extraor
ice committees of both houses. dinary circumstances" 6r to save lives.
However,'It also demands: prior no- - ' After yesterday's vote on the intelli
tire... of !"special :activities"-under-'activities!'Bence: bill,. Zablocki asked 'that.the'-
cover operations' 'in which* secret .. Iegislatio~ be' sent- to his committee
agents try to influence events over- -for further- consideration-and possi-
seas. CLh' Director Stanfield. Turner;..,,.bly amendment-before being sent on
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the-,Carter: adminustra- to the House floor
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