SEN. BAYH URGES KEEPING INTELLIGENCE AGENCY CURBS

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December 14, 1980
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/21 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000100440006-8 STA ON THE WASHINGTON POST 14 December 1980 ~Y~Jjrges sleeping . By George Lardner Jr. . genre operations and analysis ;.wanmstonPoetseatfWriter A proposal introduced by several 1 " Iria-parting assessment ' as chair Republican senators last' year after man of.-the Senate Intelligence Com ? consultation with Reagan advisers :mittee,-: Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) would split the CIA in two and create warned yesterday against growing de- a separate agency for covert actions. niaiids.,-to::undo many of the controls Bayh said that "the-best-way to im- ;iacLsafeguards-placed on U.S.:intelli prove the CIA, as a practical matter,-, dente. activities in the past five years.. - is by strengthening the quality of its ''_The secrecy necessary for those ac- efforts rather than forcing it to under- '' - of turmoil H >a tivnies, Bayh suggested, would make go The anoth --conservati period ve Herie.Founda -: abuses -all =too -commonplace if the guidelines that have been hammered tion, in a recent -report, has suggested out within. the, executive branch and - revoking guidelines that had: been laid; Secret~.activities are;-necessary to i p;otecG'"'our `freedoms -- and national well-being," Bayh said in a report to the Senate: But-he added that "secret power'' should not be 'used in ways that curtail those freedoms." -_''Defeated? ini `his bid for reelection after 18 years - in the Senate,. Bayh voiced his apprehensions about-pro- posals that are likely to gather fresh momentum with the onset of a Re- publican administration and a Repub- lican majority in the Senate.. ;The Indiana- senator said that he saw no "need for a new organizational -peal the Fore agn Intelligence Surveil structure for. the .intelligence `commu- lance Act of 1978, which established a nity and .maintained that any.: deter- special-court to issue warrants, under mined effort to create one would sim statutory standards for electronic. sur-- , ply distract- senior officials from the veillance within the United States in more urgent task of improving intelli- the national security field. ? withinthe limits of the ,Constitutioni and protect the right to privacy. . Alluding to such proposals as ."one of the most disturbing recent develop- merits,"' Bayh pointed out that the ex- isting -guidelines "were developed largely by the intelligence community itself, to ensure clear standards for their activities." He noted the guidelines have won the support of officials such as FBI Director William. Webster, who said last June that the FBI has ."found these controls entirely workable." . Bayh voiced alarm over calls to re- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/21 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000100440006-8