REAGAN WIDENS INTELLIGENCE ROLE; GIVES C.I.A. DOMESTIC SPY POWER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000707220017-7
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: December 5, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TI'.-3
5 DECE I3ER 1981
Began ~~ erisInte i nce: o! .
Gives C.I.A. , Domestic Spy Powe
abroad. It authorizes the Central Intelli- order restricted such collection to el
fr.rznation irons Americans at home and i and corporatica . President Carte
. that broadens the authority of the na- f effort is not aimed at learning about
Reagan issued an executive order today' secretly within C*, United States if
` By 3 UDITH MiLLE R
Speaa~ eo T rM' w1at tlas
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 President fact "significant" foreign intelli
ra
ear
mast of U provisions o an er Representative Don Edwards,
members of the porteu to the rio> ana zam inteui- 1
that were opposed by cyst of California and chairman of the genceoversight panels. The official ac-
Text of order, pages I8-29. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil owledged that tpanels had not dur-11
and CcustitutxrAl ?Ughta, described as ing this Adminisiratfon opposed any of
Iverp disturbing" that ptmnsion in .'the very few" covert action cases it!
House and Senate Intelligence commit- particular and, more broadly, the :over- had reviewed, but he added that the -
tees and civil liberties groups, inchAing all order. mcnitor ing sessions had not been.
a section that would have permitted. the The order, he said, creates a "secret " endlYPat-cn situat;ors."
C.I.A. to infiltrate and influence Amerf- police that can operate - clandestinely l:_ PbysicalSurseillanceAbroad -
can organizatiam without a court war: aborad and domestically." The new order also permits physical
rant -- "Big Brother has returned," Mr. Ed- surveillance of-Arnerican citizens and s
The order signed today replaces an wrards reatarlced. corporations abroad in-anyeounterintel-
erecutive order signed by President Leaders of the Senate Select Commit- ligence investigaton or in any investiga-
Carteron Jan. 24. 11M that is the basic tee on Intelligence disagreed.- - `