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Justices Upset Ordinance Barring
Fund Appeals Without Proof
That Charities Get 75%
Special toThe New York Times
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 ? The Su-
egreme Court declared unconstitutional
today a Chicago suburb's local ordinance .
barring door-to-door solicitations by
charities that cannot prove that at least
75 percent of the money they collect goes
directly for charitable purposes.
e The Court ruled, 8 to 1, that the ordi-
nance,. enacted in 1974 by the Village of
Schaumburg, III., ayes an unconstitution-
ally broad restriction on the free-speech
. rights of the charities.
Writing for the majority, Associate
Justice Bryon R. White said, "Charitable
appeals for funds, on the street or door to
door, involve a variety of spee, ch interests
--communication of information, the dis-
sernination?and propagation of views and
ideas, and tbe advocacy of causes ? that
are within t e protection of the First
Amendment.'
Therefore, h said, a government can
constitutionall regulate such activity
only by narrowl drawn regulations that
serve a "suffici?ly strong, subordinat-
ing interest" that \the local government is
"entitled to protec ."
Vll1agArgment Rejected '
The Schaumbur regulation, Justice
White concluded, w neither narrowly
drawn nor adequatel ustified by the vil-
lage's argument that i needed to protect
its citizens from fraudhlent or intrusive
. solicitation. ? a .e. .
Z 4 Justice- White said th village could
have dealt directly with ?ntial fraud
by requiring charities to d close their fi-
nances. Referring to the 'liege's other
justifications, he said, "Th e is-no indi-
EL
cation that organizations d \rating more,
than one-quarter of their fun to salaries
and administrative- expens are any-
more likely to employ soli 'tors " who
? would be a threat to public s fety than
,are ? other charitable org izations.
Householders are equally dis rbed by
"solicitation on behalf Of orgaxt,izations
satisfying the 75 percent require ent as
they are by solicitation on behalf Of other
'organizations." '-'a . ?
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" The case, Village of Schaumburg v.
Ci6izens for a Better Environment, No.
'78..135, was brought by an environmental
grou`p that could not meet the 75 percent
requikement. Both the Federal District
Court and the Court of Appeals for the
Seventh \Circuit, in Chicago,agreed that
the ordinance violated the First Amend-
ment.
Sup rti rig Briefs Flied
The case ttracted attention' from
many of the na on's largest charities, in-
cluding the American Red Cross and the
American Heart ssociation, as well as
from less well es ablished groups that
argued in briefs a friends of the court
that lesser-known or ontroversial organ-
izations frequently Ir ve to spend more
than 2.5 percent of thel \ receipts on fund
raising. A half dozen triers were filed
urging the Justices to at irm the lower
courts.
According to some of the riefs, ordi-
nances such as Schaumberg' are fairly
widespread, but no preciser fiJ, res were
given.
The only member of the Court to dis-
sent from today's ruling was Ass.. late
Justice William H. Rehnquist, who . aid
the majority opinion "relegates any I. al
government interested in regulatin
door-to-door activities to the role of Sis
phus." He said the Court gave "abso-
lutely no guidance" on how to inclentify a
legitimate charity.
Suits Against Federal Officials
In other action today, the Court ruled
that damage suits brought against Fed-
eral officials in their individual capaci-
ties can be filed crily in the Federal dis-
trict where the official lives or where the
alleged damage occurred. In a 'single
opinion covering two related cases, Staf-
ford v. Briggs, No. 77-1546, and Colby v.
Driver, No. 78-303, the Court reversed
Federal appeals court rulings that had al-
lowed such suits to be brought in any dis-
trict where any one of a group of Federal
dependants lived.
A 1962 Federal law, the Mandamus and
Venue Act, allows a "civil action"
against a Federal official to be brought
"in any judicial district in which a de-
fendant in the action resides." The opin-
ion by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
held that the law does not apply to suits
"far money damages which must be paid
out of the poCket of the private individual
who happens to be ? or formerly was ?
employed by the Federal Government."
The Colby case is a lawsuit asa.inst 25
current or former top-rankine ottteials et.;
The Central rrio-7Ta Aeenc.y_brought
by inctivicivagWg-asind from the
Soviet Union was intercepetegeeede=eff;
without warrants. The Stafford case is a
lawsuit by members of the Vietnam ,
Veterans Against the War who charged
former Government prosecutors with
violating their constitutional rights dur-
ing a trial in Gainesville, Fla.
Today's opinion does not affect the out-
come of the suits, which can now be trans-
? ferrecl to the appropriate everts.
Associate Justices Rehnquist, Harry A:
. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell Jr. and John.
Paul Stevens joined the Chief Justice. As-
sociate Justices Potter Stewart and Wil-
liam H. Brennan Jr. filed a dissent. Jus-,
' tice White and Associate Justice Thar-
; good Marshall did not participate in the
case.
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February 20, 1980 7:00 AM Washington, DC
The CIA and New Laws to Keep Secrets
JANE PAULEY: The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that
Frank Snepp, a former CIA employee, violated his contract with
the government when he published a book without CIA permission,
and the court ordered Snepp to turn over all his profits from
the book. Coincidentally, Senate hearings on new rules for un-
leashing the CIA open tomorrow.
Bob Abernethy has a report.
BOB ABERNETHY: What the CIA and its friends want most,
and quickly, are new laws they think will make it easier to keep
secrets. With the shocks of the '70s, the disclosure of assas-
sination plots and poison dart guns, and so on, Congress required
that anytime the President approved a secret operation, covert
action in some foreign country, the CIA had to notify what am-
ounted to eight congressional committees.
MAN: I, as an intelligence officer charged with put-
ting people into a dangerous situation, where they may get cap-
tured or killed, I'm not about to do it if two or three hundred,
or four hundred people over on the Hill know.
ABERNETHY: Even the CIA's critics agree that fewer
committees should be told. But they want those committees told
before a covert operation, not after.
MAN: The committees, except in the most unusual and
extraordinary cases, should be notified in advance, so that they
have a chance to talk the President out of it, they have a chance
to try to persuade the President that these actions are not ap-
propriate and don't fit the standards that have been laid out.
If you late till it's started, then it's too late to try to turn
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19 February 1980
BTed -G?Up'
Syri:piiinsciput7pc.4 Staff:Writer rk..6
%VILL1AMSBiJRG ...-
have leaned to"the? exotic:
r?
Code- pork-;lock picking. ;(called
"Picks and :Locks"); opening packages
without detection, ('Flaps and -Seals"), 4'
hOw--- to evade -hostile pursuers;,?("De--3
lensive Driving") and arranging; tick?
up of
pland6stine.materials
For-arly 25 -years, neophyte- spies '
have left Washington toi-attend.Vvhah
:some call trainingbaSe.;here7::;'
Operated: bytthe?'CentraPIntelligei-ice :
,-.Agency t o..prepare its agentscionlealli4,.
life. cloa4-and-dagger, work-. overgenS?v-t4
The heavily-forested,-10,000acre'Site:
k>l'secretive, but-hardly remote. Known ?
_as Camp,i-Pearyto,;,.outsitlemandw.Th-6.33k._,..
? Farm" to
complesiineseled
in, leei-
filled woods- and-....tidal recesseslwithim
tv't.t-'1t4
minutes, ofwc of Vuginia ', biggest
tourist ittidctinnst7ciolenial
.burg and Busch Grdens. '.
Stitlf-feW'''ofLtSei,areals, one-
, annual Visitors iktiOWCarrip-peary ex--;
: ist4; even: fetier Mcal,reildents=usect:
t6.rie.re6trtetesclearea.'.atf-the_ dozen-odd. much:
.Curiositr'abont
'? The that 'way
...`.,Xoupcan!,tycoridu4., ct-lo
Atie.4.rniddl&.;..?bfi5G,379,!?,SA3rs,WiUiat:::
rrt; Col by),...";the... former CtAdirec;,'
"tor- who.t
7,1th:ea "
?
Chain-link fence
; and s.feic'n:gae
ilttFiesetc7ke0:7:aw4F.A4wAy,T1-4
come ontsiders;:. altliouglii'Toe al -,r6p.41C-
k tneeo cc,as i allY:?,',A're Perriiitte,d?von4he
p erf rm ma in t en a n
woik.,Whena softball team gi-Y.61Y17s
4,4 sk, 1.3rer SAO.
sork:by-LeevWillinmsa Exon ii Wil-
"liamsbu'gpIyed,Carnp Pear , ,
ye-,
? centlY;: the, Squad was. Met at- the gate
anil.faccon-tpaniedVoVia4f)laying
WOM both-
.,: games of,
dQutheheadei', then 'we're prOmptly
es-
cort?aekoffthebaser.
,
,
7 Like a-longtime'neighbor'who keeps-
.
to --himself, ';,Cainp7 ppal-yy ,kas ?gone
abouits quieebusitiesS sincethe days ??
wheni white-hairect!pipsmoking
Al-
- len -Dulles,: then - the.' CIA's director,
established-ir.tO'i)rbyrdeaiii;imilitary.
; trainihg agency operatives.'
,..Before,that,-it,was n prisoner-of-war
camp foi captured; German :soldiers,.,,
and; before that a' training. base" for-
yrNavalcOn?Struction, --13"atta1ions:, (the'
_Seabees) ' IclincrleYremembers
...wheriAt waS ILIA a ildepy'llttle Tide
aeei.', colinnunity known as"-Magrud-er.
l'4Biriley-liirett in a house- therefrom,
; 1921 to 1943.. In 1976, he wag permitted
to ,'visit house. ,_under military
; ; ? ,
escntt,but..was- not-allowed.; to enter..:,:r
kt's. a r, ...big secret. -Haste( much,
,leal,ed- Out '.'. al) Out: it. is right-
Fatriek--MeGarvey.--: in ? a. l972
book! 7called The The Myth ?
vandkthesiaIadrieSs,idgse-ribed an' . or-
..;s-nateTirro,ck border scene nm-The ?Farm,
."replete with high'barbed, wire fences,,:z..
plowecirstripsWatelitowers,,.roving pa-.
?,ftrOlg:-and. ahts
-.searchli,": The -recruits'. '
b ?
,..-xnissio?'sasto,case the- place";
?
4,17
441.4 er1l-...p490.grappsxltakein,bn. local
at.41:gip fiesf41 a x--? pyiepOes a-II& avail-
.(ableqo'..the public, shocW;widely. scat- .
tered; Ousters -of,,barrack,s ancr .cruest-
nitouses, enormous.:- warehouse, a
gy,ninagrurn;;trget ranges .an-ct a '1Ong4
'?:private air Ltrip witty:a hli?e-"R" for.'
.painted
pararniIi,
tary activities a, the .Farm have been
on the T''declirie.'Tbitay the basie.train--'
?ing:-courses, continue,. but ,there are
also top-secret confererwes-andl"think-,
1-_tank"'se-ssions-: there: 7
There?., are 7-.occasional _signs of ;hu-,
?
mar:: A Imovie shown ntcently 'at the-
base 'theater was The
. spoof about a CIA agent's adventures,
.in afictitious Latin ,Americani courk-
;trki3One-?alumnus of the Farm 'he'
asked not to he named talked'', of en-:-
countering`,... new, ..',..recrults ' wearing
trench coats in the,middle of. summer
because:they _thought-, it ?vould 'fit:the
CIA image. -
. Whatever the -base's business :I many
;civilian in the Newport Nel,vs-Wil,
liarnsburg area which is thickly popu-
lated by retired miltary officers re-
" fuse'even to acknowled that Camp
Peary'is- run ? bY the CIA:'
If it is" says' Williamsburg
city manager Frank Fon -e: "We try to
be good': neighbors. Vier quite
?-? patrio-
tic here ' -t?
..Ostensibly;'' Canip Peary" is 'n't.e-=''
. fens& Department not,- in-!
,stallatiort:;-2knoWn as. , the ? ? Armed
..Forces- "Experimental- Training
Aetw-
:.ity. It is: carried on'the Navy's hive&
tory,. of bases but the Navy 'refers
calls4b4he Defense-Dejaartment-...:, De?-??`;
fense sakvonly?thatit is "top secret
For -;_the .?..insatiably..; curious;--.Camp
peary,;-haKt.a,:-.-Publidi..affairs officcr;.:"
John'tTurnickYi'qcrhand!e.,:?obtsidors';-',
Inquiries Contacted recently Tur-
nicky;said: there-:was 'nothing he .could
reveal:
:My jobs .very enjoyable:. Its very.-
: siniple.1.-..:.Goodbye,"..'e ? said ..1 Politely;
; hanging up the?plione4.-.-,,
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THE WASHINGTON STAR (GREEN LINE)
5 February 1980
?
tri Critics Despair
That Spy Agency
Can't Do Good lob
Second of two articles
By Henry S. Bradsher
Washing,ton Star Staff Writer -
Looking Casual in a navy blue
cardigan but speaking intensely,
Stansfield Turner gazed out the glass.
wall of his office, atop the CIA head-
quarters at Langley, over the bare
dusky woods toward the distant
lights of Washington and ekuded
confidence about his organization.
! "I'm just very optimistic these
days," Turner said. "I've been very
impressed by the quality of our ,
human intelligence activities," the I
CIA director said. And U.S. technical
intelligence is superlative, he added.
? In other government offices in the
city, most of them looking across
concrete courtyards at other offices
instead of having spacious views, in
the priVate. offices of people who
have left the government, in small
. restaurants, in telephone calls from
coast to coast, others talk about the
CIA, too:
Some, like former. CIA Director'
. William E. Colby and former Deputy
Director Enno Henry Knoche, talk
? for quotation about things like re-
' strictions on the agency. But most
prefer to discuss the agency's prob-
lems from the protection of
anonymity. '
Turner understandably is angered
? by this, especially on the most emo-
tional aspect of his three-year tenure
at Langley, the forced retirement of
people from the clandestine serv-
ices. He. argues that hd rejuvenated
an aging agency.
"The. next. time someone tells
, you," he said, "that Turner Is the
' stupid bastard who cut the size of.
? the agency. out here, look at the
? color of his hair.. . . This is a young ,
man's game, and we are better equip-
ped today than we were three years I
, ago" for clandestine operations. an" ,4
-The CIA is composea of three main
branches. The clandestine or opera- ,
tions branch handles spying and !
covert operations, like 'intervening !
secretly in other countries'. affairs !
or organizing guerrilla movements.
Another branch supervises techni-
cal intelligence, including recon-
naissance satellite photography anti
communications intercepts. An ana-
lytical branch pulls information
together for government policymak-
ers.
The 'controversy that has marked
Turner's almost three years at the
agency focuses on the operations
branch. There is also widespread bnt
less publicized distress around
Washington about analysis.
, In both cases, Turner inherited
problems. His critics say he exacer-
bated them; his supporters contend
that he has done much to clear them
up.
Once Was Twice as Large-.
The Vietnam war and-the CIA's
"secret army" in Laos, added to
worldwide spying, pushed the num-
ber of agency operatives to 8,500 in
the late 1960s ? roughly double its
present size. As the Nixon adminis-
tration began to reduce U.S. commit-
nients in Indochina, personnel had
to be reduced by attrition, transfers
and other means.
During his brief tenure as CIA
director, James R. Schlesinger
speeded up a cutback. Colby, his
successor, continued the program,
and so did George Bush during his
year as director. Most sources agree
that they were handled sensibly. ?
Then President Carter took
Turner from his navy admiral's com-
mand and sent him to- Langley. He
arrived with what the old CIA hands
considered to be a skeptical, even
hostile, attitude.
This set a chilly tone to his take-
over, despite his own explanations
that he simply wanted to bring bet-
ter management to a sometimes un-
coordinated operation. His suspi-
cions of the need for drastic changes
were quickly reinforced by the
resignation of John Stockwell, a 40- ?
.year-old agent in the unsuccessful
. CIA effort in Angola.
sent out the first 212 pink slips on' I
Oct. 31, 1977. I
Although. smaller than previous ?'
cuts, this one was handled differ- j
.1ently and hit harder at lifetime
professionals in the Spying and para- !
military trades.
Says Cuts Helped Agency
"The cuts in personnel that every-
one still complains to tee about have
strengthened the agency's covert ac-
tion capabilities,'"it'irrier said.
"You don't run a good, strong
paramilitary or covert action pro- ?
gram with a bunch of 55-year-olds;"?
he said. "What I've done is cut out
high-grade superstructure . and
doubled the input into the clandes-
tine services . . . so that we have a
group of young tigers, and there's
enough accumulated experience
and expertise around to guide
them." - ?
This is strongly challenged by peo-
ple in a position to know.
."Whatever Turner says, they can't
put on a show" says a Pentagon offi-
cial who is- very familiar with the.
CIA's present operational capabil-
ities. "We know that over in this
. . :?J - ? en a
Other sources spell this out in:
more detail. One saysthe CIA's carps.
of paramilitary specialists who could;
help organize, for instance, a more'
effective Afghan resistance to Soviet!!
control has declined from about 200-
to.80,?and many of the 80 lack the
broad experience needed for effec-.
. . ?_ -.1
- But Colby comments that, if the
people in an operational area feel
CIA help is vital, they will find ways. I
to-speed it up.
The worst. part of Turner's.
-changes, numerous present and 're:. ?
tired officials say, is what they did to:
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0.3 PAGE 3 KEI.IRI.TARY 1980
1
By Robert PuriOw,.., /-
? r
aCmccla:cdPrer..
s
WASHINGTON In a polite dis-..
pute over dangerous secrets, otme.,
CIA diroctor.William Colby strongly
disagreed yesterday with magazine 11
editors Who. detail,. CIA ,Ibperations
and identify agents
Colby Compared eXpOSure of agentS
on risky Undercover assignments to
soldiers "being shot in. the back by,.!;
fellow Americans
William H. Schaal), c0-eciitOi Of th:,
Covert Action Information
said that magazirie's nainifig of
names has brought physical harm to .;
no agent. lie said the editore motiVe.
is only "exposing what we view as
tbe abuse' by the CIA.
Both Schaap and Rep., RiMiano
Manoli (D., Ky.), chairman of,, a ?
House Intelligence ' subcommittee
that heard the testiMoriy, character-
ized it as'"prefolnid disagreeMenf,"
but no harsh words were exchangeil.
,:The' Panel .is considering various
:bills that call for the imprisonment
or fining: of PeOPle who , publicly
identify US. foreign. agentS or their
secret informants.;.,,:,.;.,,
There is wide stippiiit lot the bills':
previsions to penalize disclosure by
anyone who uses hisformal access to
,classified .documents to:identify ,an
t'lloweyet the Justice Department..
`ppposeanother provision ?'of the 1
vertion' that the. full Iloiise Intelli
gence Committee backs, saying it I
might violate Constitutional guaran- I
.tees of free speech through its penal..
ties for private citizens using publici
4 Information to name a CIA agent. -
Asked by Mazzoli whether suppOrt-',;
ers of the :bill& are overplaying
pOSsible dangers in IdentifIcation'of
agents, Colby replied, "I don't think."
Whether or not past identifications.
'actually have led to physical harm,'
he said, "people are scared ...people
'.don't want to go to a dangerous.as-
signment where there are 'known.
terrorists out there and then,haye
their hilLrLeS revealed.",,
? Schaap said he knew of no instance.,
in which publication of an.-ag.ent's
' name had led to physical, harm, and
he added that if such herrn had
.; curred, "the CIA would have immedi-'
tately Called a press conference.anci
.We would know about it.7
:Colby did not directly assert that; I
any agent has been harmed as a clear: ;
result of public identification, but he
cited various publications'
' cation of Richard Welch, forrner.CfA
Station chief in Athens, as one c6nse:,-.;
thOi.,laying of- Welch' in..
::1975; ., I I
? Schaap said he and others with his :
'publication have no,. objection to ?
straight intelligence-gathering by ,
the CIA- or,, other intelligence ..,!gen-,
? cies.' ?' , .
:But he added,' "We believe that the I
.covert inanipillatioii for 'Which the:
has become notoriouS under:1
; cover Officers: and agents corrupting
-.- and .bribing ,Officials,'...buying. elec-
.
tions`4;,'all the way to bombings and
assa'ssinationS.cH that this manipnla-
Aion does not,strengthen.demOcraey!
here in the United States but in fact}
;weakens '1
-
In that light. he said; his fnagaiiiie
.conc?-?ntrates,i ,on exposing whet, we
:view ens' the :abuse of the :Western
.
ageneleS, primarily the
ICIA.-.and,expos.ing the people .re-'
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THE WASHINGTON POST
1 February 1980
.4-
riticS
Tells
{onges
By George Larclner
171ahiristtorr Po!,t taq Writer
The publisher of a. Washington-
based Magazine that has exposed the
names of. hundreds .-of ? CIA. officers
.working abroad.defendeci the praiftice
Yesterday on grounds that the CIA is
still carrying out "dirty tricks" in for-
eign countries; ??? '?::
. It Schaap, publisher of 'the
Covert Action Information Bulletin,
,?'protested that legislation to outlaw
the identifcation of U.S. intelligence
? operatives would make it virtually im-
?-..possible to-expose illegal or improper
activities conducted in the name of
national security.- . . ? *, ? -.
Testifying before the House: Intern-
: gence Committee. Schaap acknowl-
...eclqed that his.emblication's persistent
attacks on the CIA might not be popu-
Aar, but he contended'that 'they 'are
sincerely based. and ought to. be con-
? stitutionally protected. ,
- 'Patriotism- is to Some extent in the
eyes of the beholder," he said. ?
Schaap testified, "Our aim is to. stop.
what they are doing today. I'm sure
there are politicians being oaiu off by
CIA representatives right now. I'm
sure there are elections being bought
right now by our CIA."
The crA is seeking a new law that
would make it a crime to disclose, di
?rectly. or indirectly, the names:of its.
officers, agents- or sources abroad,
even if the information is obtained
from public sources.?
Former, CIA. director William ,
Colbv.:. who- also ? testified yesterday,..
? urged passage of* the bill .as "a major
. sten forward for the-protection of 'in-'
dividuals -Who- serve -our -inte114,sence
? community;!,:lie said Americanintelli-
gence officers abroad have become in-,,?
crea.singly vulnerable. in recent years, '
'partly as a result of the transparency .
:of their diplomatic status or ,t`criveCT
arid partly as a result of "unauthorized
revelations" by-former colleagues-and ?
publications, seeking to. destroy. , the.
?
agency st ' . - -?!':
? T.he CIA contends the bill_ N vitally
needed to.niaintairi its effectiveness,
btit other. witnesses, including . a ',ins-
tige ..Department spokesman, said at .
an, opening :hearing Wednesday ..that.:
the bill seems unconstitutional be--
.
cause it would lay down criminal pert-
? alties for the use of unclassified as
well as classified information.
. ' ?
In his testimony, Schaap denounce
as a "myth!' the notion that naming
the names_ of CIA operatives?a regu
lar feature of his and similar publica
tions?subjects them to the danger of
physical harm or death.
"Of the more than LOCO CIA peopt
who have been named over the pas
five or six years by many-people- an
many publications in many countries
not one has been physically harmed
on account of it," he declared.
? Colby contended that publication o
the name of. Richard Welch, CIA sta
tion chief in Athens, was a factor i
Welch's- assassination in Decembe
1975,, but be allowed that there were.
other reasons, such.. as-, the weak
"cover" Welch had as an ---Arnerican
diplomat. ? ?e
Schaap, however, asserted, ancrsail
the CIA knew, that Welch-"was mur-
dered by people who were origina0y
. stalking his predecessor arid had noth-
ing to do with his having been named
many times"?in publications as far
back as 1963?as a CIA officer in both
Smith America and Europe.
The publisher also declarer] that he
magazine's identification of CIA oper-
atives comes riot from inside infor,
mants but rom dozens of public
sources and research as uncompli-
cated as a telephone call to, say, a U.S.
embassy: r? ? ? '?
. The CIA. bill is part of a concerted
effort, partly White House sponsored,
to unleash the agency from the re
-straints- of --congressional- investiga-
tions and, public criticisms that hare
kept it in .the. spotlight since. the mid-
1970s.
Clvilliberties groups are preparing
a concerted campaign to preserve
-.these controls. At a press briefing yes-
terday, two American Civil Liberties
Union spokesmen, i',Iorton Halperin
and 'Jerry :Berman. questioned Pres;:-
dent Carter's as,ertion, in his State of
the Union 'message last -week,. that
-"unwarranted restraints" have been
placed'on -"our ability to collect intel-
ligence."
'Congress has not passed a singlu
restriction on intelligence 'gathering,"
*Halperin said. He also challenged the
administration's plans-to limit. its re-
porting. of covert _operations, saying
the new law being sought-here would
simply "codify" the fact That icis not
reporting all such ntivities now..
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