HILL PANEL VOTES INCREASE OF 3% FOR INTELLIGENCE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2011
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• Publication Date: May 15, 1985
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r WASHINGTON POST
LI APPEARED
15 May 1985
Hill Panel -Votes Increase
O 3%
f' for Intelluience
By Margaret Shapiro
1laahywa Pant Snf Wnter
The House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence yester7
a nearly 3 percent in-
crease in funding for the intelli- _ clear that the CIA is allowed to re-
ence community ? next Year, main in contact with the contras to
sources said, collect intelligence data. . I
I The details of the 1986 author- The amendment Pad 9 to 7, ,
ization measure, including money apparently with three of the com-
totals, are classified. But sources mittee's 10 Democrats siding with
said that the increase approved by the panel's six Republicans.
the committee for fiscal - 1986 is The bill is not expected to come
substantially less than the Reagan to the floor for weeks, officials said.'
administration requested. It also is When it does, the GOP is expected.
a smaller percentage increase than to fight to restore the administr-
Congress has provided before. ' . tion's request for $28 million 'foi
The legislation authorizes spend-. the contras next year, in either mil:'
me levels for the Central Intelli- itary or nonmilitary, humanitarian
pence Agency, the -FBI and other in ence agencies. covering -'.The Democratk-conUoned,
erything from computer eauinment House voted several weeks 'ago to..
to covert operations..-,',. v .... --;. ; deny further funds for the contras.
The committee's action, by voice this year. Since then, Nicaraguan
vote, leaves intact its vote last President Daniel Ortega has gone
week to eliminate all funding for to Moscow in search of Soviet . aid
contras, or counterrevolutionaries, and many House members. have,
in Nicaragua. President Reagan had said they would change their votes
requested that the CIA receive 1198 and support some form of nonmil-
million next year in military aid for itary aid to the rebels.
the contras. ? Nicaragua was the only major
The Democratic-dominated com- source of dissension during the
mittee voted alon Party lines committee's, consideration of the
THursday to deny that reauest and 1986 authorization, members said-
to leave intact a provision. in ir- On almost all other issues there was
rent law prohibiting use of U.S. in- general agreement, members said.
telli ence funds "directly or indi-
" to support "milita or Dara--
military" operations In Nicaragua-
.
Yesterday, the committee voted
to amend that prohibition to include
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