ACTIVITIES POSSIBLE OUTSIDE CIA'S LEGISLATIVE CHARTER

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• Publication Date: May 8, 1973

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Director of Central Intelligence
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT
: Activities Possibly Outside CIA's
Legislative Charter
1. This memorandum responds to your instruction to
report any activities which might be considered outside CIA's
legislative charter.
2. All Office and Staff chiefs in the Intelligence Directorate
have reviewed the past and present activities of their components.
I have received responses from all of them, and none reported any
activities related to either the Watergate affair or the break into
the offices of Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Although contacts with
three of the people allegedly implicated in these incidents were
reported, these contacts were on matters other than the two
improper activities:
Hunt:
Col. White, Richard Lehman, and I talked
to Hunt in late 1970 regarding his preparation
of a recommendation in support of the Agency's
nomination of R. Jack Smith for the National
Civil Service League Award.
Mitchell: While Mr. Mitchell was Attorney General,
an OCI officer was assigned the task of
providing him with daily briefings on
foreign developments.
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Young: Harry Eisenbeiss and of CRS
had frequent contacts with Young during the
summer of 1972 in connection with Executive
Order 11652 and the implementing NSC
directive. This involved visits by Young
to CIA to discuss information storage and
retrieval and several meetings of an inter-
agency group dealing with the implementation
of the Executive Order and directive.
3. In accordance with my instructions, several Offices reported
domestic activities which might appear questionable to outsiders.
Their responses are attached. Most of these activities are clearly
within the Agency's charter, but there are a few which could be
viewed as borderline.
DCS accepts information on possible foreign
involvement in US dissident groups and on the
narcotics trade when sources refuse to deal
with the FBI and BNDD directly.
DCS, for six months in late 1972 and early 1973,
was acquiring telephone routing slips on overseas
calls.
NPIC and COMIREX review satellite imagery
from NASA programs to identify photography
too "sensitive" for public release.
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- NP-IC-has examined domestic coverage for special
purposes such as natural catastrophies and civil
disturbances.
- OCI, in 1967 and 1968, prepared intelligence
memoranda on possible foreign connections with
the US anti-war movement and world-wide student
dissidence (including the SDS) at the request of
the White House.
FBIS has on occasion supplied linguists to work
directly for another agency, e.g., to the FBI to
translate Arabic in Washington.
- FBIS monitors radio press dispatches and reports
covered by copyright. These are circulated within
the Government and stamped "Official Use Only".
This has gone on for three decades without problems.
- FBIS has monitored and reported on foreign radio
broadcasts of statements and speeches of US citizens
such as those by US POWs in Hanoi, Jane Fonda,
and Ramsey Clarke.
EDWARD W. PROCTOR
Deputy Director for Intelligence
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: DCS Domestic Activity
To the best of my knowledge, DCS has not engaged in any
activity outside the CIA charter or that could be construed as
illegal. Some of the functions that we perform under HR 1-13f
(i) of providing operational support within the US to all
elements of CIA and to the USIB-member agencies, however, are
perhaps borderline or could be construed as illegal if mis-
interpreted. For example:
5. Collect information on possible foreign involvement
or penetration of US dissident groups, but only in'a
passive manner and only when the source has refused
to pass the information directly to the FBI.
6. Collect information on the narcotics trade, but again
only in a passive manner when the source has refused to
pass the information directly to BNDD or the FBI.
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SUBJECT: DCS Domestic Activity
10. Acquire routing slips recording the fact of overseas
telephone calls between persons in the US and persons
overseas and telephone calls between two foreign points
routed through US switchboards. This activity lasted
for approximately six months but has ceased.
Director; Domestic Contact Service
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Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director for
Director of Current
Activity Related to
Intelligence
Intelligence
Domestic Events
1. OCI provided current intelligence briefings
to John Mitchell as Attorney General. With the approval
of the DCI, this practice began in the pre-inaugural
period in New York and continued until Mr. Mitchell's
resignation as Attorney General. The OCI officer
assigned to this duty had a daily appointment with M
Mitchell in his office at Justice.
2. The briefings provided were strictly on foreign
intelligence, and were a legitimate service for CIA to
provide to an official advisor to the President� who sat
on, among other bodies, the 40 Committee. It must be
presumed, however, that our man's daily visits were
known and speculated on elsewhere in Justice. The
problem comes in the potential press treatment: "CIA
Officer in Continuous Contact with Mitchell."
Richard Lehman
Director of Current Intelligence
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM Director of Current Intelligence
SUBJECT Activity Related to Domestic Events
1. OCI began following Caribbean black radicalism
in earnest in 1968. The emphasis of our analysis was on
black nationalism as a political force in the Caribbean
and as a threat to the security of the Caribbean states.
Two DDI memoranda were produced on the subject: "Black
Radicalism in the Caribbean" (6 August 1969), and "Black
Radicalism in the Caribbean--Another Look" (12 June 1970).
In each a single paragraph was devoted to ties with the
US black power movement; the discussion primarily concerned
visits of Stokely Carmichael and other US black power
activists to the Caribbean and other overt contacts.
2. In June 1970, of OCI was asked to
write a memorandum with special attention to links be-
tween black radicalism in the Caribbean and advocates of
black power in the US. The record is not clear where
this request originated, but it came through channels
from the DCI. The paper was to be treated as especially
sensitive and was to include material provided by the
Special Operations group of the CI Staff. The CI Staff
material was voluminous but did not provide meaningful
evidence of important links between militant blacks in
the US and the Caribbean. This, in fact, was one of
the conclusions of the paper. The memorandum was produced
in typescript form and given to the DCI.
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3. For several months in the first half of 1968
the Caribbean Branch wrote periodic typescript memoranda.
on Stokely Carmichael's travels abroad during a period
when he had dropped out of public view. Our, recollection
is that the memoranda were for internal CIA use only,
although a copy of one was inadvertently sent to the FBI.
Richard Lehman
Director of Current Intelligence
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM Director of Current Intelligence
SUBJECT Activity Related to Domestic Events
1. In late spring of 1968 Walt Rostow, then
Special Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs, tasked the DCI with undertaking a survey of
worldwide student dissidence. Confronted by blmult at
campuses like Columbia and mindful of the violence
accompanying student outbursts at Berlin's Free University
and elsewhere, Rostow sought to learn whether youthful
dissidence was interconnected: spawned by the same causes;
financed and hence manipulated by forces or influences
hostil!to the interests of the US and its allies; or likely
to come under inimical sway to the detriment of US interests.
2. The paper was prepared by of OCI
with the assistance of the CA and CI Staffs. The DDI,
D/OCI, and met with Rostow to elicit the reasons
for his or the President's. concerns and to agree on the
sources to be examined, the research methods to be followed,
etc.
3. Written during the summer of 1968, the most '
sensitive version of Restless Youth comprised two sections.
The first was a philosophical treatment of student unrest,
its motivation, historY, and tactics. This section drew
heavily on overt literature and FBI reporting on Students
for a Democratic Society and affiliated groups. In a sense,
the survey of dissent emerged from a shorter C30 pagel
typescript study of SDS and its foreign ties the same
author had done for Mr. Rostow at the DCI's request in
December 1967. (We no longer have a copy.1
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4. Because of the paucity of information on foreign
student movements, it was necessary to focus on SDS which
then monopolized the field of student action here and
abroad. A second section comprised 19 country chapters--
ranging from Argentina to Yugoslavia--and stood by itself
as a review of foreign student dissidence.
5. Because SDS was a domestic organization, the
full paper Restless Youth, including the essay on world-
wide dissent went only to nine readers. A copy may be
in the Johnson Library.
6. Following the paper's favorable reception by
the President and Mr. Rostow, the DCI briefed the NSC
on student dissent. The sensitive version subsequently
was updated and sent to the White House in February 1969.
7. The less sensitive text was disseminated in
September 1968 and then updated and issued again in
. March 1969 and August 1970.
Richard Lehman
Director of Current Intelligence
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security of the United States within the meaning of the espionage
laws, US Code, Title 18, Sections 793, 794, and 798. The law prohibits
its transmission or the revelation of its contents in any manner to
an unauthorized person, as well as its use in any manner prejudicial
to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any
foreign government to the detriment of the United States.
THIS DOCUMENT MUST BE KEPT IN COMMUNICATIONS
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It is to be seen only by US personnel especially indoctrinated
and authorized to receive COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE
information; its security must be maintained in accordance with
COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE REGULATIONS.
No action is to be taken on any COMMUNICATIONS INTELLI-
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Director of Current Intelligence
Activity Related to Domestic Events
1. In late 1967 OCI participated in the preparation
of several short intelligence memoranda dealing with the
foreign connections of US organizations and activists in-
volved in the anti-war movement. The main purpose of
these reports, prepared at the request of the White House,
was to determine whether any links existed between inter-
national Communist elements or foreign governments and .the
American peace movement. The conclusion reached was that
there was some evidence of ad hoc contacts between anti-
war activists at home and abroad but no evidence of
direction or formal coordination.
2. In October 1967 President Johnson expressed
interest in this subject and ordered a high level inter-
departmental survey. - In response to his personal request
to the DCI, Mr. Helms asked the CI Staff to collect what-
ever information was available through our own sources and
through liaison with the FBI and to pass it to OCI, which
was directed to prepare a memorandum from the DCI to the
President.
3. A book message requirement was sent to all stations
to report whatever information was on hand relevant to this
subject. Although agent reports on Communist front opera-
tions overseas were of some value, the primary source of
information on the activities of US activists--and that was
quite limited--was sensitive intercepts produced by NSA,
which had been similarly tasked by the White House.
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4. A draft memorandum was jointly prepared by
OCI and CI Staff and forwarded to the DCI. He passed
this typescript memo, dated 15 November 1967, to the
President personally. The White House copy is now in
the files of President Johnson's papers at the library
in Austin.
5. Brief follow-up memoranda were prepared and
forwarded to the White House on 21 December and 17
January 1968. According to our best recollection, no
further finished intelligence reports on international
connections of the peace movement were produced.
Richard Lehman
Director of Current Intelligence
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SUBJECT: Contacts with David Young
1. In the summer of 1972, I had frequent
contacts with David Young. He was in this
building under my control once. These contacts
related solely. to Executive Order 11652 and the
NSC directive concerned therewith. Young was
apparently at the time in the process of drafting
the NSC directive. The visit to the building
under my control was for a briefing on CRS processes
for storage and retrieval of documents and is
apparently reflected in the paragraph of the
directive concerned with the Data Index. I visited
him in his White House office at least twice in
the company of an inter-Agency group concerned
with the Data Index.
2. In August of 1972, also
visited Mr. Young's office in the company of an
inter-Agency group to discuss CIA compliance with
the data index instructions. To the best of my
knowledge no one in CRS had any contact with
Mr. Young in his role as a "plumber."
H. C. EISENBEISS
Director, Central Reference Service
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MEMORANDUM FOR: 0/DDI
SUBJECT: Involvement In Domestic Affairs
1. This memorandum responds to the DDI's
request for a listing of any questionable
involvements in domestic affairs. I do not believe
that CRS is doing anything that a reasonable
man could construe as improper.
2. CRS does, of course, have several programs
to acquire still pictures, movies, videotapes
3. CRS files do not generally bear on U.S.
citizens or organizations. The biographic file-
building criteria specifically excludes U.S.
nationals unless the person has become of such
major importance in the political life of a foreign
country that the file is essential. (To my knowledge,
only 2 persons so qualify./
/Our Cuban files probably include
some persons who are now U.S. citizens but we
have no way to separate them; we have files on
U.S. defectors to Cuba.)
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SUBJECT: Involvement In Domestic Affairs
4. The CIA Library has several informal
snag files intended to aid the librarians in
answering the kinds of questions that they know
they will get on a continuing basis. An
appointments file is a collection of clippings
on appointed federal officials: who holds what
job when and what is his background? The extremist
files are a collection of folders on a variety
of organizations and a few people with intricate
organizational links. Any sort of extremism
is grist for these particular files. And a few
persons, e.g., Rap Brown and Eldridge Cleaver,
have dossiers consisting almost exclusively of
clippings from public media. These files are
unclassified and consist mostly of clippings
from the public press: U.S., foreign, underground,
scholarly.
5. I am not aware of any other kind of
involvement in domestic activities that is not
related to development of techniques or logistics
or legitimate training of CRS personnel.
H. C. EISENBEISS
Director, Central Reference Service
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DDI
SUBJECT : Sensitive Activities
1. FBIS has been engaged in no activities related to the Ellsberg
and Watergate cases.
2. FBIS operations occasionally extend to the domestic arena. From
time to time, FBIS linguists are made available to DDO or Office of
Communications components for special operations (usually abroad) involving
On one occasion
recently DDO, on behalf of Iths FBI, requested the services of several
FBIS linguists skilled in Arabic to work directly,for the FBI on a short-
term project here in Washington. The arrangements were made by Mr. Oberg
of the DDO CI Staff. He said the project was very highly classified and
that FBIS participation was approved by Mr. Colby and the Director. FBIS
participation was approved by the Director of FBIS after a check with
the ADDI. Other examples of sensitive linguistic support work are help
the recent assignment of
an employee to the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs to transcribe
recordings in a rare Chinese dialect, and the detailing of another
Chinese linguist on two occasions to assist in the U.S. military training
of Chinese Nationalist cadets.
3. Within its responsibility for monitoring press agency trans-
missions for intellide4O'finformaLon, FBIS publishes and distributes
some material which falls in a "gray" area of copyright protection, libel
and privacy of international communications. Press services controlled
by national governments and transmitted by radioteletype without ,
specific addressees, e.g. the Soviet TASS service and the PRC's NCNA,
are monitored by FBIS and the material is disseminated without restric-
tion. The legality of this has been affirmed by decisions of the
Office of General Counsel.
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4. The routine FBIS monitoring of foreign radio broadcasts often
involves statements or speeches made by U.S. citizens using those radio
facilities. Examples are statements made or allegedly made by American
POW's in Hanoi, by Jane Fonda in Hanoi and by Ramsey Clark in Vietnam.
At the request of FBI and the Department of Justice, and with the
approval of the CIA Office of General Counsel, we have on occasion sub-
mitted transcripts of such broadcasts to the Department of Justice as
part of that Department's consideration of a possible trial. In such
cases, we have been required to submit names of FBIS monitors involved,
presumably because of the possibility they might be required as witnesses.
(In one case in 1971, an FBIS staff employee was directed to appear as
an expert witness in the court-martial of a Marine enlisted man charged
with aiding the enemy in a broadcast from Hanoi.) FBIS views all this
with misgivings. Monitoring of such broadcasts is incidental and we
rue attribution of their news to FBIS, and we should not be considered
policemen maintaining surveillance of traveling Americans.
E. H. KNOCHE
Director
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
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