THE CANDIDATES ON THE ISSUES: #3 DEFENSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505410144-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 144
• Publication Date: October 28, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
28 October 10.80
Jirpmy Carter in 1978 promised reforms in the
intellio e,:- agencies. As President; he did .teorga-
_nize the'ags eles and placed clubs on covert acttvi-
ties, electraahc counterespionage, and surveillance
of American cWx ns and residentaliens -'-`
Among position takeia by Curler tltePresident or
his director of Central Intelligence, Adm. Stanfield
Turner, regard gsttllpendinglegislation for an in-
telligence "charter". are: that the-chartershould
give the Intelligence- corn uoity greater leeway,'
rather than less. to conduct its operations; that con-
gressional oversight continue to be restricted to two
-Committees;-ibat="prior notification" to?Co ogress
on covert activities Is "ezcessive intrusion" into a
president's conduct of forelgp_affairs;'that the
president not be required toapprove all covert oper-
ations perseeaUy: that the CIA bb exempted from
most requireenets of the F eedom of Information
Act; that tb& CIA not be barred from using the news
.media, tbr,etes$t; or acadeMlc;Institutions as
"Icover' for falsiligeoce operations,-'and that any-
one - not just present or former government em-
ployees - be subbect to criminal penalties for dis-
closing tixe names of purported'-covert agent'.' . I
The Republican platform states A Republican-
administration will seek toimproveUS intellioence'I
caYb.biFities for technical and clandestinecollectfon
cogent analysis. coordinated counterintelligence.
and covert action: -;re-establ2sh the President's=
'Foreign Intelligence-Advisory Board- abolished by
the Carter administration, as a permanent nonpar-
tisanbody of distinguished americans to p2rforrn
constant audit of national iatelligenc 1 researcic an
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performance'::..: undertake an urgent effort'to
reubildtheintelligence ageedes?. ; :?; supportlegis_
Iation to invoke criminal sanctions against anyone
who discloses the identities of US intelligence offt-;{
cers abroad or who makes unauthorized disclosures
of US intelligence' sources and method, pro-a
vide our government with the capability to help iu- -
fluenceinternational eventsyital to our national se-
curity . interests .... ' and- "see$,; ? adequate
safeguards. to ensure that past abuses will not-re-
cur." while seeking "the repeal of i I conssdered re-'
strIctlons sponsored by Democrats, which have de:
?bilitaterl US intelligence capabilities white easing
the Intelligence collection and subversion efforts of ouradversaries." i- ?z:' _? - -
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