CIA'S OBJECTIONS TO BILL APPARENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200600023-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: August 31, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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i. WASHINGTON - Although
the Central Intelligence Agency
wi l
not say publicly why it
e wants exemption from a bill
Protecting the privacy rights of
federal employes, its objections
are beginning to be known here.
In fact, it takes only a care-
ful reading of the bill to see
Why it might disturb an agency
government ages.
ties from asking their employes
1. Questions about their sex life,
personal finances, relatives and
religious beliefs. It also gives
employes . the' right to take
nosey supervisors to court,
that must pro.
tect itself from
penetration b y
unfriendly agents
a n d maintain
strict Internal se-
curity.
Ara o n g other
things, Sen. Sam
J. Ervin'sbill
mediately, and could take his
,supervvisors to federal district
court for violating his privacy
rights.,
. The,' (A is said to be es-
pecially .'concerned about the
pbsslbilfty' of being dragged Into
s, even if these are sus-
pect activities.
Could See Lawyer
Furthermore,- if the employe
were called on the carpet and
asked such questions, he could
demand to see his lawyer im.
nerable to bribery.
that,mighto omehohwrmake the
e!pploye. Vulnerable to family
Pressures"
1 _Organizations that the em-
ploye . bglongs to, or meetings
that hn attends
hour In his off-duty
Implication
Ervin has impaled that the
CIA primarily wants to retain
the right to administer lie - de.
tector tests and psychological
tests to its employes. But with
or without such tests, under the
bill the CIA and the National
Security Agency could not ques-
tion employes, or even prospec-
tive employes, about:
-Charges or indications of
sekual: problems which might
make the employe susceptible
to blackmail.
-Financial problems that
might make the employe vul-
FiX dIv ge
The Ervin bill has been
amended to give directors of
the.CIA and the security agen-
cT some latitude in personnel
matters. It would permit them
to waive the questioning re-
strictions if they felt they had
to do so in the interest of na-
tional security.
This probably would give the
directors enough leeway to ask i
an
y questions they please. But
the bill provides that the direc-
tors must personally decide
when a specific case Involves
security,
national e in an orga nize.
be cunlberso
tion with hundreds of employes,
all of "whom must be known
to be trustworthy.,
Would Run Risk
Even in this type of case th
e
agency would run the risk of
being taken to court by a pro-
testing employe.
These are said to, be the es-
sential reasons the CIA is trying to get out from under the,
Ervin bill. Its spokesmen have
also argued to some senators
that since the Federal Bureau
of Investigation was excluded
from the bill by a committee,)
the intelligence agencies cer
tainly should be. The FBI
. was
exempted, apparently, on the
ground
hat
s t
th
it
or
1
y to investigate employes
of other agencies
CIA has been extremely say
this week in trying to make is
case for exemption. The a
e
g
ncy
was successful Tuesday in get-j; ,~
ting the Senate to post
o
fl
'
p
ne
oors
action on the measure until!
about cent 'e
Floor Speech
j It was this last-minute re
quest for delay that irked Ervin,'
and prompted his angr
fl
I
y
oor
speech about the CIA. He con-j.;
tends that during the --_ _
t
declined numerous invitati
t
ons to
'
state its objections to the'
he Sen-
ate Judiciary Subcommittee, On
one occasionhe s
id
h
a
, t
e agen.j
cy submitted a 10-page memo,
on the bill - marked ------
Some of the objections raised
In the memo, Ervin said, were
satisfied by committee amend.
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