INTELLIGENCE CHARTER LEGISLATION

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OLC 78-0399/137-
7 December 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
FROM
Chief, Legislation Staff/OLC
SUBJECT Intelligence Charter Legislation
1. On 27 November 1978, the undersigned spoke with Mr. Mike
O'Neil, Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
on the matter of Intelligence Charter Legislation. Mr. O'Neil said
the overriding question for HPSCI at this time is, "Will there be,
in the near future, coordinated and agreed upon Executive Branch
views?" Mr. O'Neil implied that the Committee would not really be
interested in becoming more actively involved in the Charter Legisla-
tion process until that sort of Executive Branch position developed.
2. Mr. O'Neil said he had heard there were numerous and
substantial inter-agency disagreements on the matters covered by
Titles II and III of the Charter bill. I told Mr. O'Neil the whole
point of the NSC/SCC Working Group procedure was to develop consensus
Administration views and that hopefully these would emerge, although
there were obviously a number of complex and controversial provisions in
Titles III and III. We discussed very briefly a couple of the more
obvious and important of these issues, such as the criteria for special
activities and restrictions on collection of intelligence relating to
foreign persons in the U.S. and U.S. persons abroad. Mr. O'Neil concluded
our discussion by suggesting that in his view, there would be no
Charter Legislation for at least two years.
3. We discussed very briefly the intelligence exemptions in the
Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (Title XI of H.R. 14279, the
Financial Institution Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978).
In this context, we agreed it would be extremely helpful to develop
language in the Charter Legislation that would have the effect of
exempting us from the various sorts of legislation placing restrictions
on Govezanent access to particular' categories of information (e.g.,
information maintained by banking, medical or academic institutions).
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