SECRETLY OBEYING THE LAW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100150157-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 157
• Publication Date: December 28, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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>. > ?.:Something: funny about. this. The FBI, v The FBI explicitly renounces the use of
lvhich is charged .with enforcing federal illegal break-ins for intelligence gathering
> laws, has signed a secret agreement _ to .and promises not to engage in any activity to
;respect the law. Th,~~ch operates_~ impair, the lawful conduct of
groups or
under the Constitutiorl~has signed? a secret individuals. The conduct agreed to is what
~agreemeattocomplywitlitheConstitution.~'~ might. be. expected of alaw-enforcement
. ~ ThaQ;~may. seem; to put:;the two federal agency at any time. The CIA, for its part,
agencies through the looking glass, turning agrees to comply with the Canstitution and.
things upside down and inside out, yet the federal laws, one oI which prohibits it. from i
facts provide a glimpse of life in America as domestic spying; which. the CIA .was rot'
it has recently been. In 1974'suits were filed supposed to be doing at any..time... The
.against. the; CIA, the. FBI. and the Chicago Chicago Police Department,- however, has
Police. Department:~:~?,accusing; them ~.of :: not agreed not to do anything..it.should not
breaking the law in investigations of many have been doing at any time, and apparently
citizens' groups during the past 20 years. ~ will go to trial.....- _ _
:Now;, court documents show; the two federal Whatever the federal court does about the
agencies have :signed ,. agreements still ~ federal agencies' agreements, we hope it will
subject to court. ,,approval;, which is: not find novel the idea that law enforcement
presumably why theyare secret:... .: ~.. ,_ ~.,_,;: ,~ -agencies suld not break the law:. -
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