SEN. BAYH URGES KEEPING INTELLIGENCE AGENCY CURBS

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• Publication Date: December 14, 1980
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THE WASHINGTON POST
14 December 1980
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. 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-
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of turmoil H >a
tivnies, Bayh suggested, would make go The anoth --conservati period
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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-
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