EX-C.I.A. CHIEF CALLS REAGAN ORDER HARMFUL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100150073-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: December 16, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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16 D~ce,:o~r 1931
.'. WASHIhiGTON, Dec. 25 (AP) _
President Reagaz's recent order giving
the Central Intelligence Agency freer
rein to carryon domestic operations gill
harm lather than. help the agency, the
maa.. who headed the agency wader
.,President Carter testii?ed today.
"I admire the intent of the new execu.
Live order." Stansfield Ttuner, the for-
mer Director of Central=Intelligence,
told a House subconuaittee. Bnt he said
he: believed 'the order::"is> seriously
. flal?red" and would eventually weaken
"the agency's capabilities;."much to'our
country`s detrimeat." -~~ K~;? ~ ; , ...- .
'~>'' I';I*, ~Tluner..told-;the~udidarv_-.$ub-
t-
committee on Civil and: Constitutionsl
Rights that while the order was intended
to improve the aaencv's mllect;nn ~t ;,,_
"I believe itposes_risks?tnourirrtelli:
dent Carter's 1978 di ~ j ? ~`.
~~ the
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agency to collect s~
~
" 'gi??ficaat foreign
tirt7e, to conduct covert-actions in th;a
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_Mr_' Ttir.:er said that intrusion by the
'? 'He ~ said ,.C.I:A. ~:'oifieera has .='t;~,.
than having to worry about w3iether con-
, stitutional rights m~ut be respecteii:....= .
~ ? 1liraingthese atStcers~ into.dorriestlc
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Lhat caused the GI.A. to be severely
cridciz2d by Go9er:tntent investigators
in the 1970's, he said.
These revelations of past Misconduct
"were extremely damaging" to t2:e
C.I.A. and no repetition must be perait-
SsysCurhsWer$Noiiladraace ~..?
tiir. 'I1t-,ter said that while he headed
the agency from 2977 to I98I, "we did not
.forgo sigaincazt opportunities to gain
intelligence because of tae restrictions.
on not iatrueiag into the lives otAmen- ;
subcommittee, represeatatf~es of t,'ie
Ainercan Civil Liberties Unien aAIA
-by Ftesidenis Carter and-Ford, which
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- "In enacring 'the Natlonai Security ~
Act of 1947, it is clear that Congress
is
,
setting uD the C.I.A., intended tv pre
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