CIA PROPOSAL CHILLING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100050074-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: March 13, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sl Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09 :CIA-RDP91-005618000100050074-5
WEST -PALM BEACH POS"~ (FL)
13 ~~arch 1 X81
The Reagan administration is
=debating ,whether to issue a: pre-
;.aidential:orderto put the. Central
~;ir}telligence Agency . (CIA) back
~-ia -the .domestic spy business.
.its . citizens. and busuiesses and ening.. ,~
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. ?can -:aolerate.= a -aecret '~ pal:ce~R' ';That such-arr order even is be--~
force; secretly funded,'spying on ~ ing entertained is utterly fright- .,
;
': widespread '~ dissemination ., sug, fer the. FBI mandate to the CIA,
`-gestsatnalballoon:) ;1- ~? > `~q, which-b its charter is forbidden
Regardless; ~ no ~`?free ~ocietyY: ~.to engage'in domestic spying
h.
Secret police ;,~ '~_ ~ ?~
? ~ Ostensibly the White :Howse is
?~concerned about summer'terror-
ism> perhaps .more to the;point.
-' are ~ the reports-~ that the ~ White
-House-and 'CIA seek access to
-financial data :accumulated . by
'=multinational ~corporations.~ and
-.:want a{surefire:zneans of ttack-
,ng,,down;,,,embarrassing, news
-Ieaks, (We'd:";be tempted- to clas-
sify the Associated ljress4 story
' abocd: the?.proposedorder as+-such
':a= eak,`teacept 'than-the.. sto~'s
extracting.. official revenge for
whatever misdeeds it decides
have.been committed..
..... -. .
They corruption . of the CIA by
the Nixon administration for?its`.
own ~ political purposes fully .
=;~':;The~ administration is drafting . ; justified' congressional attempts
_'a~a order toilet the CIA put under. ` : to check the agency and- require
;: surueillancer -`burglarize and-or : some accountability. =from it.
-infiltrater~+'Americans and ? U:S = .Those -reins should %~. not be
;:corporations; fo gather whaEever~ ; loosened in~ re'sponse ?:ao phony
;nformation~~ it thinks might: be.t~~ charges- from the extreme right ~
useful: }'Neither. the .people ~nor~~;~>wing that the agency can't do its
.rthe~"companies:? targeted would ='job if forGgd to respect. the con-
.:I1ave to be ~ suspected of crimes ~ , stitutional.: rights of American
;' or `of being' foreign.. agents ` In :- citizens. - ~ -- ~?
Avery" plaini English,:the. United ~', The FBI =openly funded and
~-Staten. would have its very,`own._. restrained ,by the Constitution ~
-~
.and courts : -,legally is charged
with investigating domestic espi-
onage and coping with terrorism .
'if and when it occurs. If the FBI
needs.to be beefed up with addi-
tional manpower, that is a ~ prop-
. er budgetary exercise; if the CIA
should be tipping the FBI that
.foreign spies are enroute to or
have entered this country, that is
a proper subject of executive or-
der....;. -~ - .. _ .
It .is a totally improper execu-
tive order which
seeks to traps=
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09 :CIA-RDP91-005618000100050074-5