RELATIONS WITH THE CONGRESS FOR THE COMING YEAR

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OCT 1958
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MORAN II FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
r.711.1BJECT:
4801
Relations with the Congress for the Corning Year
I. This memortuadum contains a number of recommendations for
approval of the Jirector of Central Intelligence. In view of the fact that
Incest at the matters are not susceptible of precise recommendation*, it
is believed highly desirsble that each of the matters be discussed to
determine the desired approach to 'tech. It is suggested that C4neral
abell, Mr. Kirkpatrick, Colonel White, Mr. Houston and Mr. Warner
%go included in such a discussion. 1/4'. / t ?
2. There is attached a report primarily of a statistical nature
pertaining to congressional roll/Lams for the second session of the 85th
Congress. The report is in some detail and clearly indicates the stepped-
up interchange between the Agency and the Congress in the past year. The
data in the report formed the basis for the previous memorandum forwarded
to you for discussion with the President's Board of Consultants on Foreign
Intelligence. Consequently. the attached report can be considereu as
reference material.
One of the most difficult problems in the area of congressional
relations is to inform, in an appropriate =inner, the Congress of our
activities. The first step in informing the Congress is to brief fully our
own subcommittees on the tasks and functions of the Agency and how these
are performed. Such a briefing would necessarily deal with the question
that is repeatedly raised concerning the large number of headquarters'
personnel. While some attempts have been made to accomplish such a
.,,rieling it has not been done in recent years and., in any event, probably
5hould be done annually. or this purpose I recommend that an informal
zroup composed of representatives of the three major components and the
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Legislative Counsel be instructed to prepare a presentation Qesigned
to inform our subcommittees about the Agency. This work should be
started now with the view of having reheersals or previews of the
presentation for your approval within the next month to six weeks in
order that the final presentation can be complete and the Agency ready
at a moment's notice to make the briefing when the Mith Congress convenes.
4. A second step in informing the Congress is the responsibility
of our subcommittees and their chairmen. it is normal practice for sub-
committees to report to the full committees and in turn the full committees
report to their respective houses as a whole. *We any such reports on
CIA could necessarily be brief and general because of the security problem,
there would seem to be no reason why the general practice of making such
reports should not prevail. I believe it desirable, at the time of the detailed
presentation to our subcommittees. that the UCI should request the chairman
of the subcommittee to report the feet of briefing and review of Agency
activities by the subcommittee to the full committee with the recommendation
that an appropriate report be made to the full Senate or House as the case
might be.
5. Another part of the problem of informing the Congress is the
vestion of a briefing of a select group of Congressmen on projects
AOUATONE and I I I think it would be highly desirable to have
a presentation prepared on these two projects in such a manner that it
could be a separable part, but in harmony with, the over-all Agency presen-
tation. Therefore. I recommend that such a presentation be prepared to
be available when the necessary approvals have been secured and when the
opportunity arises to brief appropriate Senators and Representatives. As
an alternative or supplement to such a presentation it might be desirable to
conduct a specia.1 briefing on AQUATONE and at the Stewart STAT
building.
6. A somewhat different problem has already been raised in the
CIA Appropriations Subcommittee of the House where Mr. Cannon has
queried if there could be established some method of briefing the Sub-
committee on world affairs on a periodic basis. A possible solution to
this problem would be to offer periodic intelligence briefings for the
members of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.
This could include such staff members as Kenneth Sprankle and Samuel
osby. A similar offer could be made to the other CIA subcommittees.
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7. Another problem to be considered is the question of
increasing the authorisation for our building. We are clearly on
record with our committees to the effect that the present authorisation
s not sufficient to house all of our headquarters' personnel. Certainly
he House Appropriations group is most sympathetic with our problem.
ne necessary cost estimates should be prepared in order to raise this
duestion with our committees during the first session of the 86th
Congress. It is neither necessary nor desirable to establish a time
schedule on presenting such a request at this time but we should be
prepared to raise it at any time when it appears opportune.
d. We are certain to see measures introduced in this new
grass calling for a Joint Committee on Foreign Intelligence. E4ually
certain is the fact that Senator Mensfielci (assuming he is reelected)
will be in the vanguard of those introducing measures. Some general
plans should be formulated to deel with Mansfield and the Joint Committee
problem itself. In the very near future we shall forward to you an
analytical paper on this subject attempting to discuss both the advantages
and disadvantages of a Joint Committee.
4?xnong the many individual members there are two whom I
believe should receive special attention. Mr. McCormack as the majority
leader, as Chairman of the ,Hotise Select Committee on Astronautics and
pace v.xploration, and because of his senior position should be contacted
end assistance offered. Also of interest is Senator Dirksen now minority
whi p and quite likely to become the minority leader in the 86th Congress.
He too should be contactea and be given a general briefing on Agency
functions.
10. In the meantime. of course, the tnere routine activities of
this office will continue in the fields of debriefing after foreign travel
atm in special cases briefing prior to foreign travel. In addition, we
nope to make available to selected Senators and Kepresentatives, with
particular emphasis on the members of our subcommittees, briefings
from our Station Chiefs abroad. These will be brought up Individually
for your approval.
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JOHN S. W A.KKER
lative Counsel
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STATISTICS PERTAINING TO CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS
6511. CONGRESS, Znd SESSION
I. .a.xcept where otherwise indicated, the figures furnished cover
Agency relations with the Congress during the second session of the 85th
;engross. *idle there is some commentary on certain aspects of our
congressional relationships, primarily this is a statistical listing of our
activities.
%...ongrena......amt A arances
a. Since the adjournment of the first session of the 85th
ZS separate Agency appearances were made before congressional
committees or subcommittees. A full listing of these appearances is
attached as TAB A. They are tabulated below by (1) Agency representatives
and (2) by committee.
(1) Sixteen were made by the Director, one by the
Ottputy Director. three were briefings given by the Assistant
Director of OSI, and three were presentations by the Assistant
Director or Deputy Assistant Director of the Office of Central
Reference in connection with the translation and dissemination
of information programs.
(Z) Feitr appearances were made before the Joint
c Energy Committee, including an appeariusce before
itery Applications Subcommittee. The Senate Foreign
a Committee Wall briefed on three separate occasions.
Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
the CIA Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee,
the CIA Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee
and the Disarmament SV,bcostmlittee of the Senate Foreign
clations Committee were each briefed twice.
b. TA.b A shows the number of members of each committee
and the numbers actually present for the CIA presentation. From these
statistics it has been determined that CIA made appearances before 16
Offers:at congressional committees sr subcommittees whose membership
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totals 168. Thus it can be said that (without deducting instances where
several Congressmen sit on more than one of these groups) 168 Congress-
men were afforded an rteni.V. to be present at a CIA presentation.
one hundred and nine diLtsrent members of Congress act*ally attended;
Ii Senators and 68 Representatives.
3. In the past years the Office of Legislative Counsel has not
recorded detailed statistic* an routine office functions such as actions
on personnel cases and requests for information between the Agency and
the Congress. Feeling that these statistics would be of interest in
reflecting the activity of this Office, rough statistics were maintained
on these areas over a period of several months' duration. Statistics
were kept by the Legislative Counsel which are used as a basis for the
estimates contained in subsections a. and b. below.
a. Pieraonnel Matters
Luring the second session, the Office of Legislative
eunsl received telephone inquiries concerning 208 different
personnel cases. These inquiries included requests for
personal interviews, application forms and queries on the
status of applications in process. During this same period,
correspondence was sent to members of Congress on 1611
different applicant cases, advising the Congressman of the
status of the case. These letters were signed by the Director,
the Deputy Director or the Legislative Counsel.
b. Keq.e eta forDocuments and Information
iouring the second session there were 96 telephone
requests from the Congress for information. On 88 occasions
aocuments on these subjects were personally delivered to the
requester. There were 24 personal visits with members of
ngress and 64 meetings with staff members. In turn, the
Office of Legislative Counsel made approximately 85 requests
to congressional sources and the Bureau of the Budget for
documents and information.
4. Personal Congressional Contacts
:senior Agency officials personally met with 36 members of
.4.,angress. These meetings occurred on 30 different occasions. Full
details on the attendance at these visits and subjects discussed are
contained in TA8 B.
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5.
lags
We have previously reported in detail on congressional
flagsconducted during the fall and winter of 1957 in the memorandum
rector of Central Intelligence dated 17 March 1958. Fifty-three
Congressmen were debriefed during that period; 13 Senators and 40
Representatives. Although few Congressmen traveled abroad during
the second session, several members did make short trips.
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information. The Chief Cowasel and Associate Counsel of the House
Committee on Armed Services are traveling in Europe en committee
business. Arrangements were made for briefings of these two men by
cl. Legislative Counsel is watching the travel of 11 Congress-
men and selected debriefings will be conducted again this fall.
6. Contacts with Other Le isiative Liaison Officers
The Legislative Counsel has established close contact with
the legislative liaison officers in the Departments of State, Army, Air
Force, Defense and the USIA. Visits were made to the offices of 14ajor
General J. H. Michaelis. Chief of Legislative Liaison. Department of the
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Army and Major General W. P. Fisher. Director of Legislative Liaison.
Department of the Air Fore*. Legislative Counsel was conducted on a
tour of these offices and was extended every courtesy. Beth of these
offices have extensive facilities and comparatively large and specialised
staff*. These facilities were offered to us for whatever assistance could
be rendered.
Legislation
During the second session of the 115th Congress. 6.591 measures
were introduced in the two Houses. A resume of congressional activity of
the 85th Congress is attached as TAB C.
a. Daring this session the Office of Legislative Counsel
prepared reports which stated the Agency's position on U
pieces of proposed legislation. These reports were coordinated
internally and with the Bureau of the Budget. The legislation
concerned is listed below with a notation as to the final action
taken by the Congress.
(1) H. R. 3527. Overseas Employees Fringe benefits
no action;
(2) H. R. 6141? Overseas Employee. Health and
Medical Services Act - no action;
(3) H. R. 10278. Educational Development Act -
modified bill (H. R. 13247) passed (P. L. 85-864);
(4) H. R. 10381, National Defense Education Act of
1958 - revised and passed as H. R. 13247 (P. L. 85-864);
(5) H. R. 11042. to Revise the Laws Relating to
Depository Libraries - no action;
(6) H. R. U345. to Terminate the Publication of the
tidal Register - no action;
(7) H. R. 11985. to Establish within the National Science
k out:Wirt:ion a National Scientific and Technical Information
t:Iervice - no action;
(8) H. R. 12534. to Lstablish a Joint Committee on Foreign
Intelligence - no action;
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(9) $. 315, Government mp1oyees Training Act -
ieed (P. L. 15-507);
(10) S. 3126. Science and Technology no
action;
(11) S. 4127, Foreign Service Act Amendment. of 1951 -
no action;
(12) S. 4153, to Authorise the Processing of Virginia
filwage by the District of Columbia Sewerage System -
passed (P. L.. 85-703).
b, In addition to the above, this Agency took SA active part
in proposed legislation in the field of atomic energy. Our activity
involved proposed amendments to the Atomic Energy Act covering
the exchange of information and Restricted Data clearances.
(1) Upon learning that the AEC was proposing amendments
authorising the additional exchange of scientific and technical
information on atomic energy for military purposes, this
Agency injected itself into the conferences being held on the
subject. We were interested in obtaining authority for the
exchange of atomic information for intelligence purposes.
Although the precise tannage which we proposed was not
adopted, the desired authority was obtained in H. R. 12716
(passed as P. I... 015-479). The AD/OSI made a presentation
to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy supporting this
legislation.
(2) This Agencj also suggested to the Atomic Energy
Commission that legislation be proposed to facilitate the
clearance procedures involved in the granting of clearances
for access to Restricted Data. Present procedures require
a full field investigation by AEC even though an Agency
employee has been the subject of a full field investigation by
CIA and has been granted a TOP SECRET clearance by us.
Oespite approaches at the working level and to the
Commissioner of the AEC, this Agency was unable to
convince AEC that such I* islaticni should be introduced.
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c. During the second SeatMOO six separate riiii&SUre* were
introduced providing for the establishment of a Joint Committee
on Ioreign Intelligence. The authors of these proposals were
benator Mansfield and Representatives Frelinghisysen. Bentley.
Brom:mon. Felton and Snntangelo. While these measures differ
slightly, the basic purpose of all is the establishment of a CIA
.'watchdog committee. " Though none of the bills was reported
out of committee in this Congress. it is reasonable to assume
that similar proposals will be introduced in the 66th Congress.
d. Senator Langer introduced a resolution (Senate Resolution
338) calling for an investigation of CIA by the Senate YoreifFa
Relations Committee. While any proposal calling for an Agency
investigation is of extreme interest to as. Senator Langer's
resolution carries with it another important aspect. The unique
point Is whether a Senate investigation of CIA is properly within
the jurisdiction of the Foreign Relations Coalmine*. A similar
question was raised but not pursued by the Subcommittee on State
Department Organisation and Foreign Operations of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee.
. Conclusion
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Darin 1951I the Agency has maintained a wider congressional
contact than in the past. %We criticism and dissatisfaction remain, there
is ale? a greater degree of knowledge about the Agency's activities on the
part of an increased number of Congressmen. and there is some reason to
believe that at least a portion of those who had been dissatisfied or skeptical
are now willing to believe that CIA is competently staffed and effective in its
function. At the very least, there is a somewhat broader understanding of
the difficulties encountered performing the intelligence role and the
limitations on forecasting events throughout the world.
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E ca,cusS1CNAm CO
ry Applications Subcommittee el the Mat
Atemis Energy CommMee
29 August 1957 Dna
Senate *vexedness breestigating Subtessmittee SI
the Some* Arssed Services Committee
24, 27 Noveniber 1957 - DCI
*I the House Armed Services
Zesutury 195$ DCI
Committee on Atomic Energy
15. 17 Xiatuary 195$ - DCI
Je Subcommittee of the House
Committee
ZS 0 Jonunry 1955 - DCI
Committee on Atomic Energy
* Irebruary 11511 - AD/ 051
***rely' Relations Committee
7 rob:waxy ins - DCI
I. Seuste Apper?Oriations Committee
24 Telaroary 1952 - DAD/ CR
Disarznimmt Sobcommittue of the Senate Foreign
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Roisktiuue Committee
13 22 March 1955 - ADIOS!
10. Nesse Select Committee en Astronantics and Space
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Zolooration
24 March 1952 - DCI
U. COnIsrCe Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Is
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12. CIA Subcommittee of the Hoe.. Appropriations
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1 Miry - DCI
I) Sisal. rereign Relations Committee
19 May 19311 DCI
Senate Armed Services
Appropriations Committees
May 10$ - DCI
risen Affairs Subcommittee ef the
71weiSs Affairs Cesernittee
Am* 1931 DCI
14. Disarmomost Siabconnunitfts of the Sonata
Sisrolipt Reistiese Committee
19 Some 1931 - AD/OSI
IT. Subcommittee on Itoorganisation of the
Exeestt
*mach of the Government of Sie Senate
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10. Joint Comndttee ea Atomic Euro'
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I Aiwa 195S - DCI. rma. DB/S. Comptroller.
Chief. Dadra Division.
Sotheonnuattee on State Department Organisation and
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at:SLIONAL VISITS
1958
ntative
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N!....mmtatuesentative and Subject
Matter
Representative Clarence tAnancon DCI:
Summary briefing on world
situation
(t., Missouri
Representative .Antont N. ,5adlak Mr. Warner:
Radio tree Europe -
(R. Connecticut)
I S Senator Wallace r. bennett
(It. Utah)
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Representative Glenard P. Lipscomb Mr. warner:
Burgess and MacLean case
, California)
Senator Allen 3. llender
(D.. Louisiana)
attar Henry C. Dwerehak
Idaho)
Mr. 14 artier:
Tito
Mr. Warner and colonel Matthew
Baird:
rriculum of University of
Hawaii
CI and Mr. Warner:
k *reign affairs briefing, new Agency
building, retention of personnel on
:r.ove, and functions JD processing
and coordinating field arnon,g intent
g nee agencies
Senator William F. knowland DCI:
(A.* C.;4ifornie)
Radio Free -irope
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Visits, 158
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Congressional sentative Ageztcy e reit
'..tatter
Z4 Scnator Margaret C. Smith
(R. ? Maine)
STAT
Paul A. bassi, Assistant Director
Central Reference:
-itet with Senator in company at
Commerce and National Science
,.oundation officials re Commerce
request for supplemental approp-
riation to finance clearinghouse to
coordinate governmental programs
Z. 4 Senator Carl Hayden Paul A. Sorel:
(D.. Arizona) (See 24 February meeting with
Margaret Smith .for
utioje ct matter)
MARCH
7 Senator Lyndon
(D., Texas)
? Johnson DCI and Mr. Warner:
Senator Margaret C. Smith
(R., Maine)
STAT
DCI and Mr. Warner:
General discussion to Agency. the
IAC structure and CIA Congres-
sional Subcommittees
Senator Ralph W. Yarborough DCI, UDC", DDI 5. IG. Messrs.
(D.. Texas) Fitzgerald. Sheldon and Warner:
Luncheon meeting - organization
briefing and review of functions in
coordination and exchange of
information among intelligence
agencies
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L;ongreasioaal Visit 1958
Ate
n regal ko).2Eresentative
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12 Senator Ft. Alexander Smith
(S., New Jersey)
25 4epresesitative Walter
(R., Iviinnesota)
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JUNI.
19
jency 1iepre&entativc and Subject
Mr. irk rner:
biecussion o mittens pertaining
to hearings before Senate Foreign
.!elations Committee on 7 k'ebruar
1958
ltdci Mr. W,a
Representative Walter H. Judd
(R., Minnesota)
Representative Antani N. sadlak
(R., Connecticut)
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Vt7 itiva.rs ovr
presentative Glenard P. Lipscomb
Mr. Warner:
(H., California)
Representative Walter ki. Judd
(R., Minnesota)
Senator John J. Wiliiams
(R., Delaware)
Representative Olin E. Teague
(4.)., Texas)
none
STAT
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Mr. ',Warner:
STAT
Representative John i. Baldwin Mr. Warner:
(R.. California) Kadio /Yee ope
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Congressional. Visits, 1958
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JUNE
24
Rvon iusentative .Npaia....tative and Subject
Aatter
Repres attire
California)
.14 L. Jackson 10, 91)/S. Messrs, Scott. Houston,
La d Warner:
STAT Luncheon meeting - discussion of
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and new Agency building
SOS ca(see attached list) Da, 16, DIVS, Messrs 5heldon.
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