LETTER TO DEBORAH K. OWEN(SANITIZED)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01370R001501890083-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: September 18, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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Central Intelligence Agency
OLL 84-3394
18 September 1984
Ms. Deborah K. Owen
Majority General Counsel
Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate
2226 Senate Dirksen Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
As I indicated to you earlier, we have several important
intelligence concerns with respect to proposed legislation
establishing a new policy board to coordinate Federal efforts
to combat drug abuse. These concerns are reflected in the
enclosed letter of Chairman Boland of the HPSCI to
Representative Hughes. We have been in contact with Mark
Gitenstein and Scott Green with respect to our concerns, and
they have informally indicated that they would be willing to
consider an amendment that would accommodate intelligence
equities. We intend to meet with them shortly to work out
specific language, and I will keep you apprised as to our
efforts in this regard.
Sincerely,
Legislation Division
Office of Legislative Liaison
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Honorable William J. Hughes
Chairman, Subcommittee on Crime
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Washington, D. C. 20515
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H.R. 4028, which would establish a high level Office of Drug Abuse Policy
for coordination of all federal efforts to combat drug abuse, will be
considered by the House today. In light of its imminent passage and your
future conference discussions on resolving the differences between H.R. 4028
and its Senate counterpart, it is important that you be aware of several
intelligence concerns raised by that bill, S. 1787.
Unlike the coordinating and leadership role H.R. 4028 would give the
Director of a new Office of Drug Abuse Policy (ODAP), S. 1787 invests the
Chairman of a National Drug--Enforcement Policy .Board (NDEPB) with final
budgetary, personnel and other authorities over an`y trjencies, including
intelligence agencies, contributing to the national drug effort. Such
authority, in my view, is inappropriate and inevitably will intrude into
intelligence matters having no bearing on narcotics intelligence matters. It
could also involve the Chairman of the NDEPB unnecessarily in matters directly
affecting intelligence sources and methods.
Since H.R. 4028 avoids such concentration of power in the person of the
Director of the ODAP, I urge that in negotiations with the Senate, you insist
on the House approach to these matters. An explicit disclaimer that the
Director of Central Intelligence's authorities are not affected by any
House-Senate compromise bill would be one way to accomplish this. H.R. 4028
now contains such a disclaimer relating to the authorities of the Secretary of
Defense and the Administrator of the Veteran's Administration.
I or the Committee staff would be happy to expand on these concerns at
your convenience.
With every good wish, I am
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