21 APRIL 1978 TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH DAVE BARRETT, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, REGARDING ATTORNEY GENERAL BALL'S TESTIMONEY ON THE NEED FOR AN FBI CHARTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000800030012-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2006
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• Publication Date: April 26, 1978
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Approved For Release 2006/11116 :CIA-RDP81 M00980R000800030012-8
OLC 78-1608/2
26 April 1978.
SUBJECT: ?_l Aprii 1978 Telephone Conversation with Dave ~;rr.ett,
bc,partment of Justice, Reg~.x?dizxg Attorney Gener.a.l 13,.1.1's
Testimony on the need fox? an 1.~ 131 Charter
1. Can 20 April 1.978, I spoke with I]ave Barrett with reg;.r:l to
Attorney General Bell's ?.0 April testimony before the Senate ,Tucii::iar?r
Committee on the need for an FBI charter. (Williarn V~claste~-, Dii-ect~~~~
of the FEI, and Jarrxes Adams, Associate Dix?ector of the F'BI, also
testified.) Specifically, I asked Mr. Barrett i.f. the question of over]al?
with. regard to Title V o:E S. 2525 (intelligence charter legislic of cha ?: I , ~ r.;
for the Intelligence Comrnunii:y, including the intelligence conzponc nts of the
FBI, and the topic of charters for the nan--intelligence functions of the ~~ l,J.
IVIr. Barrett said that the only reference t;o the Bureau's intcllig;er~ce
activities was a question to Mr. Webster about the Bureau`s count:r?-
intelligence activities. The question ii:s.;lf focused on an ACLU ccn.ce3 r,
with regard to the Bureau's techniques to disrupt or neutralise: dorc~,esti~
groups. In Mr, Barrett's opinion, this svgs the only time t]rr