SENATE FLOOR DEBATE AND PASSAGE OF INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION BILL/DCI VIEWS LETTER

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• Publication Date: September 29, 1986
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29 September 1986
OCA 86-3276
MEMORANDUM FOR: (See Distribution)
Deputy Director for Legislation 25X1
Office of Congressional Affairs
SUBJECT: Senate Floor Debate and Passage of Intelligence
Authorization Bill/DCI Views Letter
1. Floor Debate and Passage. On September 24, 1986, the
Senate debated and passed S. 2477, the Senate version of the
Intelligence Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 1987. Attached
please find copies of pp. S13559 - 513580 from the
Congressional Record of that date which contain the Senate
floor action.
2. DCI Views Letter. Also attached is a copy of a views
letter from the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to the
House and Senate conferees on the Intelligence Authorization
Bill (identical letters were sent to the House and Senate
sides).
3. Helms Amendments. Your attention is directed to pp.
S13566 - S13580 of the debate which contain the proceedings on
the two amendments offered by Senator Helms and ultimately
adopted by the Senate: the first by voice vote and the second
by a party-line vote of 53-47. A brief description of both
amendments follows.
4. First Amendment - Classified Annex. The first Helms
Amendment added a new section to the bill, Section 104. This
new section, in turn, directs that the "Classified Schedule of
Authorizations" appended to the bill (usually referred to as
the "classified annex) be amended to incorporate a "classified
supplement" (hereinafter the "Helms supplement"). Section 104
states further that the Helms supplement incorporates
additional directions to the Intelligence Community on the
following subjects: "competitive analyses of key intelligence
topics, survivability of national technical means of
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intelligence collection, availability of the report of the
President's 1980 Transition Team study of intelligence;
training on combatting Marxism-Leninism; integration of
military, political and economic aspects of national estimates
on the Soviet Union; assessment of the effects of Soviet data
denial; Foreign Broadcast Information Service analyses;
reconnaissance capability; protection of polygraph information;
role of the Defense Intelligence Agency; and intelligence
policy regarding Panama."
5. In the debate on p. S13567, Senator Helms lists
thirty-two (32) topics which he states his first amendment will
mandate be addressed by "competitive analysis." In fact,
however, this thirty-two item list is not the "Helms
supplement". The actual Helms supplement is much smaller; it
contains only eleven items in total, the first of which
mandates that eight subjects be addressed by competitive
analysis. The attachment to the DCI's views letter is a
correct copy of the Helms supplement with the additions and
deletions which the DCI proposes to the conferees marked
thereon.
6. The thirty-two item list which Senator Helms read
appears to have come from a version of the list prepared
earlier by Senator Helms' staff for purposes of discussion with
the Agency and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
7. Second Amendment - DCI Study Of Panama. The second
Helms amendment appears on p. S13571. It added a new section
to the bill, Section 604. This new section mandates the DCI to
provide a report to the SSCI and the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence no later than March 1, 1984, as to
whether and to what extent the Defense Forces of the Governent
of Panama have violated the human rights of the Panamanian
people, are involved in international drug trafficking, arms
trafficking, or money laundering, or were involved in the death
of Dr. Hugo Spadafora. In effect, it repeats somewhat the
eleventh item in the "Helms supplement".
8. The conference on the authorization is almost concluded
and the report of the conferees is expected to be available
within the next few days.
Attachments:
as noted
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