OUR 'WATCHDOG' AGENCIES: THE NEED FOR OVERSIGHT

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE August 5, 1974
Clure, A.
United States
Columbia Circus
Decided Nov. 1
By a Judgmen
liam B. Bryant,
victed of crimes
llant. No. 71-1048
urtof Appeals, District of
1972.
1972.
embezzlement of funds
ging to a federal credit
loan scheme and
Appeals held th
were under crimina
Affirmed.
Speedy trial claus
ed by the prosecution
he was separated from
Law-573
of Sixth Amendment
criminal prosecution
only to those persons
in the course of that
OUR "WATCHDOG" AGENCIES: THE
NEED FOR OVERSIGHT
Mr. PERCY. Mr. President, Thomas
Jefferson wrote that "the God who gave
us life gave us liberty, but today we find
our liberties as Americans eroded by an
excessively large Government that seems
increasingly insensitive to our basic
freedoms.
On June 20 the Government Opera-
tions CQmmittee completed hearings on
a bill I introduced with Senator ERVIN to
establish every American's right to -keep
personal information private and to
safeguard that right with criminal and
civil protections.
As we draft this vital legislation, we
should also begin the long overdue
examination of a problem which, though
separate, is equally vital to the security
of our personal freedoms. We must act
now to gain control over the Govern-
ment's dangerously proliferating police,
investigative, and intelligence activities.
In September 1972, Attorney General
Kleindienst submitted the First Annual.
Report to Congress on Federal Law En-
forcement and Criminal Justice Activi-
ties. The report undertook the massive
task of analyzing the crime reducing
programs of 37 different departments
and agencies within the Federal Govern-
ment. The report was instrumental in
describing many of our Federal law en-
forcement and criminal justice assistance
programs, with an emphasis on crime
control activities. However the report did
not include any of the programs of the
Defense Department that relate to intel-
ligence activity, nor did it include the
Central Intelligence Agency. It also in-
cludes many programs related to crime
prevention-for example VISTA pro-
grams to assist ex-offenders-which
was no actual preju-
long delay in prosecu-
ent evidence was largely
would not properly be included-In a study
of Federal police, investigative, or intel-
ligence activities. In addition, the method
of presentation of the material, and the
fact that it contains incomplete and now
dated budget data, make it unwieldly and
inappropriate as the basis of congres-
sional overview and oversight activity,
though it will be very valuable in pro-
viding descriptive background on a great
many of the Federal Government's
varied law enforcement activities.
A list compiled by the Library of Con-
gress in 1973 showed that over 60 units
within the Federal Government are in-
volved in police, investigative, or intel-
ligence work. Information about many of
these units remains secret.
On April 9 of this year I requested a
further report on Federal Law Enforce-
ment Forces from the Congressional Re-
search Service. The report found that
the collective cost of 14 law enforcement
groups was over $1 billion annually.
However, the library was not able to in-
clude those departments and Federal
agencies whose records are not available,
even to an agent of Congress. -
Though we know the FBI spent $357
million last year, we do not know the ex-
act expenditures of other massive agen-
cies-the CIA, Army Intelligence, Air
Force Intelligence, and the National Se-
curity Agency-whose records are
cloaked in secrecy. One estimate places
the cost of all U.S. police, investigative,
and intelligence units at over $6.2 billion
annually.* The exact number of person-
nel employed remains unknown.
The massive size of our intelligence
community, and its duplicative, over-
lapping nature is exemplified by the
membership of the - U.S. Intelligence
Board, an interdepartmental body rep-
resenting the major U.S. agencies having
information gathering responsibilities..
The Board includes members of the CIA,
the State Department's division of In-
telligence and Research, the Defense In-
telligence Agency, the National Security
Agency, the Atomic Energy Commission,
the FBI, and the intelligence organiza-
tions of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
In addition, divisions of domestic agen-
cies such as the Treasury, Agriculture,
the Interior, and the Civil Service Com-
mission gather information relating to
their employees, and to cases involving
criminal violations.
The Government also supports police
units such as the Border Patrol, the U.S.
Customs Service, and the U.S. Marshals
Service, which enforce Federal laws on
the domestic and foreign level.
Much of the work carried out by these
units is necessary, to be sure. For ex
ample, the Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs plays a key role in
stopping domestic and international drug
traffiking. The Customs Service combats
smuggling and frauds. Even the Postal
Service does investigative work-con-
ducting internal audits and postal in-
spections. The bulk of this work is
legitimate and necessary to the national
interest. But we have no comprehensive
overview of the relationship of these
agencies to each other. Moreover, we
have shocking examples of abuse.
Information gathering on the domestic
level has been coupled with improper in-
trusions by agencies normally involved
in foreign intelligence. The case of the
Army's investigation of the, political
activities of American civilians in West-
ern Europe has been well documented.
The Federal Government units that do
police, investigative, and intelligence
work are proliferating. We find ourselves
threatened by the specter of a "watch-
dog" Government, breeding a Nation of
snoopers.
We are threatened because we do not
know the facts about our intelligence
community. Billions are appropriated
each year, but we do not know enough
about which agencies spend this money
and what they spend it for.
There is an immediate, urgent need
for a comprehensive accounting of the
U.S. funds and Federal Government per-
sonnel devoted to police, Investigative,
and intelligence work. Congress is simply
not performing the oversight functions
our citizens expect of us.
As ranking minority member of the
Senate Government Operations Com-
mittee, I am requesting the General
Accounting Office. to conduct a thorough
investigation into the capabilities and
demands of all units, departments, and
agencies in the Federal Government
charged with police, investigative and/or
intelligence responsibilities. This com-
prehensive inquiry will attempt objec-
tively to identify those units which re-
ceive Federal funds, and It will attempt
to break down the annual budgetary re-
quirements of all divisions and subdivi-
sions within them. If the GAO is able to
do its job, we will know for the first time
the functions of these units, as well as the
number of personnel employed or as-
signed to them.
In implementing this request the GAO
will use the reports of the Attorney Gen-
eral and the Library of Congress to which
I have referred above. These, in particu-
lar the report of the Attorney General,
will be an extremely valuable basis from
which the GAO can work in gathering,
updating, and further quantifying the
activities of all the Federal agencies in
these fields.
When this basic compilation is com-
pleted, our committee can begin the
necessary hearings and oversight activ-
ity. Our purpose should be to determine
what Federal police and related activity
is duplicative, what is excessive and un-
necessary, what should be abandoned,
and to recommend procedures for more
adequate congressional control of these
units. Particularly, costs can be cut sub-
stantially and efficiently greatly in-
* The figure is excerpted from The CIA and creased.
the Cult of Intelligence by Victor Marchetti There is a reasonable concern that the
and John D. Marks, (New York, A. Knopf,
1974), p. 80. On appeal, this information disclosure of such organizational infor-
which is an estimate of the authors, was re, - mation might threaten the national
instated in the book, after it had been deleted security of the United States. But we can-
by Federal District Judge Albert Bryan in not allow the cloak of national security
May, 1972. to cover up practices abusive to the civil
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE
In one, the entire book or selected article is
transmitted at the maximum reception speed
of the user's facsimile recorder. Several hun-
d Faxnultaneous transmissions in time-di-
visx multiplex are possible with 6-MHz
BoN gannels and reasonable recorder speed.
"As X A alternative, a soft-copy display
reader has-1nished one page, he signals for
the next p aft, and this is transmitted in a
"To get a feelx for the capacity of a
broad-band channe it is of interest to note
that in the demonat tion described in Ref-
Wind" was transmitted, in facsimile over
a television microwave cult In slightly
M"If more channels are vftnted, a second
cable can be laid, and a ird, and a
(1972). See also Botein, Access bApable Tele-
vision, 57 Corn.L.Rev. 419, 424 X1972); 22
P. & F. Radio Reg.2d, 1759, 1981 (1971),
(Letter from Dean Burch, Cha imuF.C.C.,
"the economic barriers to entry into radio
broadcasting are . . . far less restrictive than
in the case of media such as newspapers"
Robinson, supra note 20, at 88. But of course,
the economic basis of scarcity does not yet
justify regulation of the content of printed
press although anti-trust regulation Is ac-
cepted, Associated Press v. United States, $26
U.S. 1, 66 S.Ct. 1416, 89 L.Ed. 2013 (1945).
0 In light of the tremendous potential of
cable television as a source of information
concerning controversial public issues, and
in view of its potential for so increasing ac-
cess to the broadcast media, it is ironic to
note that the FCC activity In this area has
been characterized as focused, until recently,
on protecting the commercial broadcast sys-
tems. See Robinson, supra note 20, at 78-83;
Smith. The Wired Nation 45 et seq., (1972)
See generally Botein, Access to Cable Tele
366 (1965) . There are a wide variety o o-
nomic measures which might be t to
to gain assess to both =69 an rinted
media, See, e. g., Emerso; Con-
cepts of the Broadcast Media Un ' the First
Amendment: A Reevaluation a Proposal,
"Mr. President, to perpe in the hands
of a oamparatively few i rests the oppor-
tunity of reaching the lic mby radio and
allowing them alone eterine what the
public Shall and shall t hear is a tremen-
dously dangerous co for Congress to pur-
sue.... Are we to hsent to the building
up of a great pub ty vehicle and allow it
to be controlled b few men, and empower
those :Pew men t _ , etermine what the public
"Facts were ought out before the com-
mittee to Sh that already plans were on
foot to buy and monopolize stations. in
various are f the country, and that as high
as $100,000 ad been paid-for the transfer of
a broadca ng license;.in fact, if I remember
correc',ly was intimated that $250,000 was
paid in e ease. If any public question is
to be ussed over the radio, if the affirma-
tive i -o be offered, the negative should be
allow upon request also, or neither the
affi a.tive nor the negative should be pre-
The Congress did not accept proposed pro-
vidons regarding the presentation of public
isaQes. Apparently it was thought that the
weds "public questions" were so vague as
to raise more difficulties than the regulation
could solve. Id.
a Cronkite, Introduction to Part III: Points
of Coniiict-Legal Issues Confronting Media
Today, 60 Geo.L.J. 1001, 1003-04 (1972);
Statement of Bill Monroe, Correspondent,
ldl*C News, Before the Subcommittee on Con-
etitutional Rights of the Committee on the
Judiciary of the United States Senate, Feb-
ruary 2, 1972; Address by Julian Goodman,
President, National Broadcasting Company at
"(CIre-at Issues Forum", University of South-
er.t California, October 11, 1972.
n The effect of government's "lifted eye-
bryw" is discussed by both Goodman and
Munroe, supra note 59. The problem was
gel started. No matter may
"This puts us on the ZtheTalways even
sad about immunity fand
about our entitlement ees of
the First Amendment the
brooding omnipresence caster
is a licensee and If he e, he
w7 have, directly directly, power of life
an all! over very time we deal in our
ne public rs broadcasts with a pub-
lic oo over ncerning which there are
stiongl ding views, we can at least
eg;ect le om legislators, public officials
and privy tizens representing Important
organiza who accuse us of partiality
and ca for an accounting--line by
line n second."
i3p by Ri d Salant, Broadcast Li-
eel and the dom of the Press, before
Nq nal Associatio f Broadcasters, 1957.
"Think of the outcry me great daily
newspaper were requests government,
and so peremptorily request to furnish a
juoatification for printing the% we of Walter
Lillpmanni To answer a letter to be sure,
no great burden. But freedom - s I. no
an all part depended on awareness the dif-
ference between doing something a mat-
tea- of grace and doing it as matte f ob-
ligation. In the end there are atwo tart
aspects of the FCC dossier technique. at,
process which is really not public and which
is awkward to challenge. Second, as Mr. Sal
ant has pointed up, it serves to create psy-
chologically an atmosphere of surveillance
wl ich is destructive of the morale of a free
pr"ss
O7omments Goodman,
"A timid broadcaster who has gone through
one or two of these experiences mF,.y think
twice before he tackles a subject of strong
controversy-the kind that the public needs
most to know about. It is not that he wants
to avoid the obligation to be fair. But he
knows that where there is controversy, there
are advocates who will turn to the FCC, un-
de:, the umbrella of the Fairness Doctrine, to
ob ,in a broadcasting voice that may bear no
relationship to the interest or newsworthi-
ne.is of their cause. And once they invoke the
government process, the broadcaster knows
that he must defend himself from second-
guessing that will cgme not from a specialist
in journalism, but by a generalist in the
government bureaucracy"
514297
m See Press Freedoms Un iessure, Re-
port of the Twentieth C Fund Task
Force on the Cove rand the Press
(1972). The experienc CBS News and its
documentary, "The g of the Pentagon".
Is a ease in point. airman of the House
Committee on state and Foreign Com-
merce subpoe the president of CBS,
directing h' submit "all film, 'work
prints, ou s, and sound tape recordings.
written is and/or transcripts utilized
in who part by CBS in connection with"
the mentary. See also Address by Vice
Pre nt Agnew, Midwest 'Regional Repub-
1 Committee Meeting, Des Moines, Iowa,
During the 1972 Presidential campaign,
charges of political bias have come from all
sides. Goodman, supra note 59. What this
suggests is that the potential to subject the
"fairness" theory to political abuse is in-
herent in the operation of the doctrine.
Professor Emerson clearly expresses the
potentially harmful effects_of trying to solve
the problems of scarcity and access through
government policies like the fairness doc-
trine:
[A]ny effort to solve the broader problems
of a monopoly press by forcing newspapers to
coverall "newsworthy" events and print all
viewpoints, under the watchful eyes of petty
public officials, is likely to undermine such
independence as the press now shows with-
out achieving any real diversity." Emerson
at 671.
His conclusion that such efforts will or can
work via a via radio and television Is based
solely on the argument of tradition-that
government is involved with radio and TV
so it must be all right. Id. at 565, 668. With
all respect to Professor Emerson, this is a
distinction without a difference.
= See, e.g., Lamar Life Broadcasting Co., 38
F.C:C. 143 (1985), reversed for hearing,
United Church of Christ v. F.C.C. 123 U.S.
App.D.C. 328, 359 F.2d 994 (1966); Palmetto
Broadcasting Co., 23 P. & F. Radio Reg. 483
(1962), aff'd sub nom. Robinson v. F.C.C., 118
U.S.App.D.C. 144, 334 F.2d 584 (1964); Trinity
Methodist Church- v. F. R. C., 61 App.D.C.
311, 62 F.2d 850 (1932).
14 See, e.g., comment of Senator Howell,
supra note 58.
~ It has been said that the average family
has its television turned on for nearly six
hours out of every day. National Association
of Broadcasters, Television and the Wired
City, A Study of the Implications of a Change
in the Mode of Transmission 113 (1968).
Clearly the impact, and audience, of the
nightly news is far greater than any one
paper or magazine. Furthermore, most Amer-
191%A A Report by The Roper Organiza-
tion, c. 1971.
hat v. F.C.C., supra note 19, 132
U.S.A_% .C. at 34-35, 405 F.2d- at 1102-1103.
Cox, s the FCC Really Do Anything?
11 J. Bros sting 97, 104 (1967) ; Note, The
newals: ain Line Radio, Inc.,
Fairness NCommunications roadcast License Re-
71 Col.L.(1971) .
419In re of Public Issues Un-
der the Fne and the Public In-
terest StAct,
Unlike my Brothers, th C never char-
acterizes Brandywine's actin "fraud and
deception." Instead the Corn esion found
"there was a substantial fail . to inform
the Commission fully concerai program
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rights of our citizens, as well as expend-
itures which are fiscally irresponsible.
A careful, tight definition of national
security is needed, but I do not believe
that disclosure of certain organizational
information about our intelligence com-
munity would be harmful to our interests.
Rather, such a disclosure would, for the
first time, subject that community to
h ive oversight which is the
Bureau of Accounts.
Internal Revenue Service.
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Secret Service.
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (REGULATION AC-
TIVITIES, SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS)
CABINET COMMITTEE ON OPPORTUNITIES FOR
SPANISH SPEAKING PEOPLE
CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
compre constitutional mandate of Congress. Appeals Examining Office.
imous con- Bureau of Personnel Investigations.
n
una
k
I as
ident
P
,
r.
sent that the report of the Library of
Congress and my letter to the GAO be
printed in the RECORD at this point.
FEDERAL POLICE, INVESTIGATIVE, AND
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
1. Federal Investigative Agencies; Compiled
September, 1973, by the Library of Congress:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service (Market-'
ing Services, Perishable Agricultural Com-
modities Act Fund)
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Serv-
ice.
Commodity Exchange Authority
Inspector General.
Packers and Stockyards Administration.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Defense Intelligence Agency.
Defense Investigative Service.
National Security Agency.
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
Inspection and Safety Center.
Inspector General.
Office of Special Investigations.
Security Service.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Assistant Administrator for Enforcement
and General Counsel.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
COMMISSION
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
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U.S. SECRET SERVICE-DEPARTMENT OF THE
TREASURY
Budget
1973 actual, $84,573,000; 1974 estimate,
$66,588,000; 1975 estimate, $79,500,000.
V.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE-DEPARTMENT OF THE
TREASURY
Budget
Investigations and Law Enforcement
program.
1973 actual, $53,904,000;. 1974 estimate,
$54,343,000; 1975 estimate, $57,530,000.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE-DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR
Budget
Park Management Program.
1973 actual, $150,876,000; 1974 estimate,
$187,493,000; 1975 estimate, $203,976,000.
FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE-GENERAL SERVICE
ADMINISTRATION
Office of Consumer Affairs.
. Budget
Office of Economic Opportunity.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Field Engineering Bureau.
Public Buildings Service.
Buildings Management--Operations and
Protection of Government-Owned Spaced.
t
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION
e,
1973 actual, $247,655,000; 1974 estima
FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION
$266,663,000.
O
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD
pera-
Buildings Management-Rental,
tion and Protection of Leased Space.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
1973 actual, $313,089,000; - 1974
estimate,
GENERAL ACCOUNTINGOFFICE
$362,656,000.
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Security and Special Guarding.
1973 actual., $15,052,000; 1974
Public Buildings Service.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
Central Intelligence Agency.
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
Criminal investigation Command Inspection Service.
Inspector General.
Military Policy Corps.
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
Inspector General.
U.S. Marine Corps, Inspector General.
Naval Intelligence Command.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND
WELFARE
Food and Drug Administration.
Office of Civil Rights.
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT
Assistant Secretary for Equal opportunity.
Inspector General.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Mines. -
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division.
D s
ru
PRICE COMMISSION
Now defunct.
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
U.S. TARIFF COMMISSION
II. Federal Law Enforcement Forces Com-
piled April, 1974 by the Library of Congress.
"Because of the varied nature of Fed-
eral activities it has been necessary over time
to establish a number of organizations with
protective and law enforcement responsibili-
ties. The following is a brief survey of Fed-
eral law enforcement groups currently op-
erating under statute or administrative,
order. A description of each group's respon-
sibilities and, when possible information on
size and budget is included."
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION-
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Budget
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
g 1973 actual, $357,516,000; 1974 estimate,
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Immigration and Naturalization Service. $391,724,000; 1975 estimate, $435,600,000.
N_
ATIO
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Labor-Management Services Administra-
tion.
Occupational Safety and Health Adminis-
tration.
Office of Federal Contract Compliance.
Employment Standards Administration.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Coast Guard.
Federal Highway Administration.
Federal Railroad Administration.
National Transportation Safety Board.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Bureau of Customs.
res
M
THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTR
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Budget
Law Enforcement Activity-Criminal En-
forcement.
1973 actual, $59,787,000; 1974 estimate,
$80,383,000; 1.975 estimate, $104,109,000.
BORDER PATROL-IMMIGRATION AND NATURALI-
ZATION- SERVICE-DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Budget -
1973 actual, $39,336,000; 1974 estimate,
$42,765,000; 1975 estimate, $50,908,000.
U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE-DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE
Budget
1973 actual, $38,112,000; 1974 estimate,
$45,244,000; 1975 estimate, $52,588,000.
$15,900,000.
Federal Buildings Fund-Real
Management and Operations.
1975 estimate, $417,651,000.
(Protection: 1975 estimate, $38,000,000).
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Budget
Science Information Exchange-Protec-
tion, general Administration, and Support
(Salaries and Expenses).
1973 actual, $7,330,000; 1974 estimate, $8,-
240,000; 1975 estimate, $10,523,000.
National Gallery of Art-Management and
Operation (Salaries and Expenses).
1973 actual, $5,545,000; 1974 estimate, $6,-
140,000; 1975 estimate, $6,681;000.
V.S. POSTAL SERVICE
Budget
Law Enforcement.
1973 actual, $80,703,000; 1974 estimate,
$94,129,000; 1975 estimate, $111,129,000.
U.S. CAPITOL POLICE
Budget
Capitol Police General Expenses (Budget
Request).
1973, $236,450; 1974, $394,295; 1975, $474,-
900.
Capitol Police Board (Budget Request).
1973, $1,009,865; 1974, $1,214,255; 1975,
$1,214,255. . -
SUPREME COURT -
SKY MARSHALS
OTHER
United States Coast - Guard-Department
of Transportation.
Federal Aviation Administration-Depart-
ment of Transportation.
Metropolitan Police Department of the
District of Columbia.
Military Police within the Armed Servies.
U.S. SENATE,
Washington, D.C.
Hon. ELMER B. STAATS,
Comptroller General of the United States,
GAO Building, Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. STAATS: As Ranking Minority
Member of the Government Operations Com-
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE August 5, 1974
mittee, i am concerned with the apparent I had made quite clear my opposition to
proliferation of policing, investigative, and these broad across-the-board cuts, using
intelligence units within the United States
Government. This situation, more than ever the meat ax instead of the scalpel.
before, threatens the basic liberties of Amer- A cut of 31/2 percent may not appear
icans. large until an examination is made of
Cu April 9 of this year I requested a re- the Coast Guard budget. As a resident
port on Federal Law Enforcement Forces of the Oregon coastal town of Newport,
from the Congressional Research Service. I have a firsthand opportunity to view
The report found that the collective cost the Coast Guard at work every time I
of :14 law enforcement groups was over $1 return home. Anyone who has seen a
billion annually, However, the report did search and rescue operation knows the
not include those investigative departments kindfl
o ungamorous work that the Coast
and Federal agencies whose records are not
available to the Library of Congress. Though Guard does every day in saving lives and
we know that the FBI spent $357 million Property along the Oregon Coast. I recall
last year, we do not know the exact expen- from earlier hearings about how the
ditures of such massive agencies as the CIA, Coast Guard personnel in Oregon and
NSA, DIA, Air Force Intelligence, and Army Washington was working overtime--
Intelligence, whose records are cloaked in some very high weekly and monthly
secrecy. I am alarmed to learn that the cost r;otals-because of manpower shortage:;, int be all .S.2 n ell g annually.
a units is estimated to 'ro think about cutting funds for this
Another list compiled by the Library of critical phase of Coast Guard operations
Congress showed that over 60 units in the is to ignore the lifesaving aspect of
Federal Government are involved in invests- their work.
gative work. The spectre of proliferating gov-
ernment "watchdog" agencies is a concern
for every American citizen.
The facts about our intelligence com-
munity have been hidden too long from
comprehensive oversight, which is a man-
date of the Government Operations Commit-
tee. :1 am thereforerequesting that the GAO
conduct a thorough investigation into the
capabilities and the demands of all units, de-
partments, and agencies in the Federal Gov-
ernment charged with police, investigative,
and/or intelligence responsibilities. This
comprehensive objective overview is neces-
sary so that the relevant Congressional com-
mittees can begin effective oversight work
on this critically important, sadly neglected
area of government operations.
Your investigation should attempt to iden-
tify the following:
(1) All Federal police, investigative and
intelligence units, departments and agencies.
(2) The annual budgets of such units, de-
partments, and agencies, and a breakdown
of the budgetary requirements of all divi-
sions and subdivisions within them.
(3) Number of personnel employed or as-
signed to such units, departments, and agen-
cies, and all divisions and subdivisions.
(4) The functions of all units, depart-
ments, and agencies and of their divisions
and subdivisions, with particular reference
to the covert capabitities of each.
I would appreciate your prompt action on
this request.
Sincerely,
CHARLES H. PERCY,
THE TRANSPORTATION BUDGET
AND THE COAST CARD
FAA, and other related agencies, the
Senate debated and passed an across-
the-board cut in the bill by 3'/2 percent.
The amendment passed by a vote of 58
to 15.
During the debate on the floor, I wa
tee markup of their Interior Appropr -
tions bill. As a result, I was not le
to speak about the effect of this ki of
a cut on programs such as the toast
Guard. On Thursday, during debate on
the Public Works Appropriations bill,
where I serve as the ranking Republican,
Foreign fishing surveillance along our
coast by the Coast Guard has not been
as effective as some of us would like, and
has been hindered by lack of funding.
Foreign fleets operate close to Oregon
west fishery resource. If we cut
Guard funding, we risk curtailin
i nportant task even more.
Along with this aspect of Coas
activities is-the proposed extensi
mile economic zone. If the
undertakes to patrol this e.
Is funding would be stra
While I would hope th
trying to do.
I found out that
tc? spend about $1
North B
amendme
nded area,
an idea of the
Coast Guard is
Sleepy Hollow story, and near Irving's
home, "Sunnyside" at Irvington-on-the-
Hudson. This is truly timely, In that the
village of North Tarrytown Is celebrat-
ing its centennial this year.
New Yorkers are proud that
snare with my colleagues
the announcement of 'thi
postal authorities.
I ask unanimous co:
red to be printed in
umbers of Halloween cards each year.
The stamp will be issued at North Tarry-
town, New York, the setting of the Sleepy
Hollow story and near Irving's home, "Sun-
nyside," at Irvington-on-the-Hudson. The
village of North Tarrytown is celebrating its
centennial this year.
In the opening paragraph of the story,
Irving says "Tarry Town," was so called "we
are told, in former days by the good house-
wives of the adjacent country from the in-
veterate propensity of their husbands to
linger about the village tavern on market
days.'.
The stamp is the sixth in the American
Folklore Series, which began with the issu-
ance of the Johnny Appleseed stamp in 1966.
Other Folklore Series subjects were Davy
Crockett in 1967, Daniel Boone in 1968,
Grandma Moses ,in 1969 and Tom Sawyer in
1972.
Leonard Everett Fisher of Westport, Con-
necticut, designed the Sleepy Hollow stamp.
Mr. Fisher also designed the 1972 Bicenten-
nial block of four Colonial Craftsmen stamps.
He is well known for illustrating books on
colonial crafts and craftsmen.
The two riders on the stamp are shown
passing under the menacing tulip tree which
figured in ghost stories Ichabod Crane had
heard in Tarrytown.
Hollow,"
U. S. Po
less
seho
Coast Guard plans
million on its ac-
'n Oregon coast. tive of the polite and imitative tradition in
these reasons, Mr. President, I pp- American letters rather than the vgorousof
ngs
pioneer spirit which typified the this cut, and I hope the Coast other Am i
rd funds are restored in conference. more cooper can authors like James Fe.ni-
At 17, Irving voyaged up the Hudson River,
and the new and wild country had a witch-
ing effect upon his young imagination which
was to bear fruit in later years as the charm-
ing stories he wrote of the region.
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" appeared
in The Sketch Book, a collection of tales
which Irving wrote under the pseudonym
Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His deft and whimsi-
cal humor and polished style made the work
immediately popular on 'both sides of the
Atlantic. The Sketch Book also contained
"Rip Van Winkle," probably Irving's best
known story.
The Sleepy Hollow stamps will be printed
by offset and Giori presses. The offset colors
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