WASHINGTON CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100620023-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: September 22, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
22 September 1983
WASHINGTON
CIA
BY EL*ZR W. LAMMI
Chairman Edward Boland, D-Mass., of the House Intelligence Committee
indicated today a bill requiring the president to obtain the consent of Congress
before ordering secret military operations abroad may not have the votes needed
to pass it.
But Boland, at a final day of hearings on the question of congressional
control of clandestine operations, suggested the panel may seek tighter
restrictions on a ''contingency fund'' the CIA uses to pay for some covert
activities.
The chairman noted that the House and Senate intelligence committees are told
of covert operations, but ''nothing they do'' can prevent such an operation f ros
beginning.
Both Boland and some of the witnesses at the three days of hearings have
suggested Congress use its power of the purse to rein in the CIA.
STAT
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