'BELL OPINION' LET PRESIDENT WITHHOLD REPORTS ON CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100190018-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 11, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LOS ANGM,ES TIMES
WA5HINGTO~F=A previously fin= ord raccorthr1 to one source with
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The "Heil opir-iori' may explain the surprise of the yen--
ate group Feb. 2L..when..Turn er testified that it.had not
been, getting all the information it believed it was getting. '
Turner strongly objected to language in the new intel-
Iigence charter, proposed by the committee after years of
,negotiating with the Administration, because it would re-
quire notice in advance. of covert CIA. actions. That.was'
"unneces_sary'.im:proper and unwise'. he said. _--
Yet the charter language is again precisely the same as
in the Senate ?resolution- and-the' executive-order-under=
which the CU has been operating:
that President Carter did not
however
? It`is understood
,
,
notify the committes in. advance of operations involving
'the secret return of six Americans who had: been hiding in 1
thz'Canadian Embassy in Tehran. The Canadian govern--?
ment said, according to sources, that it.would not help.in
the escape if members of Congress were notified, since any-
leaks of such information would jeopardize Canadian diplo-
mats in Iran as well as the six Americans.': :
The story broke after the Canadians withdrew all thOir.
? Whether this was the single exception ; rot'ti-no' n but
Administration sources said -it.illustrates the need for any
President to retain power, to withhold sensitive info-ma