THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974

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• Publication Date: October 9, 1974
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Attached is a statement by Moorhead placed in
the Extension of Remarks in the Congressional
Record of 9 October. He includes the statement
by President Ford in which he strongly supports
the passage of H. R. 16373 and supports the goals
of S. 3418.
Also, Representative Drinan placed in the
Extension of Remarks a letter to President Ford
from some clergymen condemning CIA actions
in Chile.
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THE PRIVACY ACT OP 1974
1101)1 WILL AM S
MOOR
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HEAD
OF PENNSYLVANIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, October 9, 1974
Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Speaker, I would like to call attention to
a statement issued this morning by Presi-
dent Ford on privacy legislation we are
now considering in which he expresses
his "enthusiastic support" for H.R. 16373,
the Privacy Act of 1974. In the develop-
ment of this legislation, our government
ment of this legislation, our Government
Operations Committee has received ex-
cellent cooperation and technical assist-
ance from the staff of the Vice President's
Domestic Council Committee on the right
of Privacy-long before Mr. Ford became
President-and also from the Office of
Management and Budget.
The statement follows:
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Legislation to protect personal privacy is
making significant progress in the Congress.
I am delighted about the prospect of House
and Senate action at this session.
Renewed national efforts to strengthen
protections for personal privacy should be-
gin in Washington. We should start by en-
acting uniform fair Information practices
for the agencies of the Federal government.
This will give us invaluable operating ex-
perience as we continue to examine and rec-
ommend needed actions at the State and
local level and in the private sector.
The immediate objective should be to give
every citizen the right to inspect, challenge
and correct, if necessary, information about
hint contained in Federal agency records
and to assure him a remedy for illegal In- Members of 15 protestant and Roman
v lions of privacy by Federal agencies ac- Catholic missionary sending groups, at a
countable for safeguarding his records. Iii meeting at the Inter-Church Center in New
>11ting, the right of privacy, of course, York City on Oct. 3, attacked as "immoral
n + t i e balanced against equally valid pub and naive" President Ford's recent defense of
lic interests in freedom of information, nn- CIA intervention in Ch:+lle anti other foreign
tionai defense, foreign policy, law enforce- countries.
`it and in a high quality and tru *- P-e?ident "
-
o
es~lbi.lza the Constitu-
r as Vice President, of the Cabinot- t Dually elected government o.? ai:other s GNAT vats
i t 1 33shesric Council Committee on the co tritty, replies: "It is a recognized fact that Sr. Tere L Chain SC, SSt. Vn Coord:aa-
ht of Piracy, I asked the Office of ,Ian- Ii?s'orica.ll , as Well as resentl tot Sister., of yan,,,e icreSt. r'illceat.
ru ii to work Jointly ;~uth the best Interest Yofrthe ecOun~ Mr. JThe P rte:i, Secretary For ~merI 9lin-
orld
~re taken in t > Committee staff, the Executive agen- tries involved." istries, Madeline r ed Church in A^.herica. Sr. and Budget
-iid the Congress to work out realistic Monibers of several protestant denomina- nator, School `S ers Conway, of Not Darne, Pie on
h e ctive legislation at the earliest pos- tions inat with members of ten Rcman Cath- Province.
m S'iusbantiai progress has been olic orders of men and women. They termed Rev. William J. e.lull, S.I., National Direc-
t do by both the Senate and the House on
si in- - a:.~r e e e to ` Wi 052TR00&7001ity Ann Mr aheu n:S,tl?ih1e, AT, .
y inn il
o ?^ 3Member of Can-
of raft'.: n records contl.:ning per- stated that CLI covert activities are not Iii tralrGovernin Board, Zgai knoll Sisters.
rot
, when questioned at a re-
responsible efforts to nchia
;rorth Federal work force. rent press conference about the U.S. L ov-
i:rirn,:diately after I as.;umecl the hair- ernrnent's ri ,1
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d
Sucnstanthve amendments are needed to per-
fect the bill. I do not favor establishing a
separate Commission or Board bureaucracy
empowered to define privacy in its own terms
and to second guess citizens and agencies.
I vastly prefer an approach which makes
Federal agencies fully and publicly account-
able for legally mandated privacy protec-
tions and which gives the individual ade-
quate legal remedies to enforce what he
deems to be his own best privacy interests.
The adequate protection of personal pri-
vacy requires legislative and executive ini-
tiatives In areas not addressed by HR
.
16373 and S. 3418. I have asked Executive
branch officials to continue to work with
the Congress to assure swift action on
measures to strengthen privacy and con-
fidentiality in income tax records, criminal
justice records and other areas identified as
needed privacy initiatives by the Domestic
Council Committee on the Right of Pri-
vacy.
CHURCH REPRESENTATIVES AT-
TACK PRESIDENT FORD FOR HIS
DEFENSE OF CIA INTERVENTION
IN CHILE
HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN
OF esASSACHUSETTS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, October 9, 1974
Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker
I know
,
that my colleagues will be interested in
the attached material sent to President
Ford concerning his recent defense of
CIA interevention in Chile.
This material has been sent to the
President .by 15 Christian missionary
sending groups.
I attach below a press release concern-
In., this material, and the full letter to
President Ford along with the names and
identification of the 15 individuals who
coauthored this letter:
CHURCH REPRESENTATIVES ATTACK FORD AND
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cerned or the U.S. They called for their dis-
continuance. They further strongly disassoci-
ated the churches and missionar
y groups
from any such covert activities.
The letter grew out of a consensus which
quickly developed at the meeting. Those
present were all mission superiors or mission
coordinators or officials within their groups,
but they were signing as individuals, not as,
official representatives of their organizations.
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GERALD R,?
FORD--OcrosER 7, 1974
ll/1l. PassrnzNT: While grateful to you for
publicly admitting the role the CIA played
in "destabilizing" the Allende government in
Chile, we are dismayed at your attempted
defense of such interventions. Seldom have
there been events se, blatantly incompati-
ble with the ideals we hold as Americans and
as Christians.
As members of fifteen distinct Protestant
and Roman Catholic missionary groups
who work in Third World countries, we see
such interventions as immoral and Inde-
fe _sible.
You tried to justify the U.S, intervention
in Chile by saying that communist nations
do the same. We flatly reject using the im-
morality of others as justification of our own
actions. Are we to imitate, the very evil
which we claim to be opposing?
You also implied that the CIA was merely
defending democracy, In Chile by supporting
opposition press and political parties, and
this was "in the best Interests of the people
of Chile." Aside from the arrogance of such
a claim, we and your statements far short
of the truth. CIA funds were alloc
t
d
a
e
to
bribe the Chilean Congress, to supportna-
tional strikes, and to foment civil disorders
which precipitated the coup. Furthermore,
where is the CIA support for freedom of the
press and democratic parties in Chile now
that they have indeed been suppressed-?
Contrary to what you would have us be-
lieve, CIA covert actions In the Third World
frequently support undemocratic govern-
ments which trample on the rights of their
own people. We missionaries have felt first-
hand the effects Of such interventions, which
are certainly not In "the best interest" of
the majority of the citizens of those coun-
tries. U.S. interventions serve the Interests
of their wealthy minorities and are-as our
critics often say-instruments of American
economic domination.
Nor do such actions, which are prohibited
by International law and by Article 6 of our
own Constiution, serve "our best interest."
as you stated. Gangster methods undermine
world order and promote widespread hatred.
of the United States. Watergate has shown
that such methods? once accepted, will event-
ually be turned against our own citizens,
In view of these facts, we hereby dissociate,
ourselves from our government's use of tike
CIA to intervene in the internal affairs of
other countries. W-a further demand: a dis-
closure of the CIA's cast and orssent covert
actions, the terlnination o all future CIA
covert actions; and the prosecution of any
who may lh;,, .e perjured the^hsaives regard-
ing CIA activities.
ve these goals.
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Rev. William McIntire, MM, Secretary Gen- grandchildren: Second was the discovg
his military induction physical standard housing, replacing it with liveable
oral, Maryknoll Fathers, during Dr. Lois Miller, Associate General secretary, that he had been stricken with glaucoma quarters.
Model Cities, according to the
World Division of the Board of Global Minis- and was fated to become totally blind. man, has brought in $9,479,000
tries, The United Methodist Church. It is characteristic of Jim as a feisty short life span which conclude
Rev. Milton J. Olson, Secretary for Latin and courageous Irish man that he did not next year. He explained that 41
ban Fathers USA.
Sr. Mary Reynold, OF, Secretary General,
Dominican Sisters Sparkill.
Rev. George Telford, Corporate Witness
and Public Affairs,, General Executive Board,
The Presbyterian Church U.S.
Dr. William Nottingham, Executive Secre-
tary of the Department of Latin America and
the Caribbean, The Christian Church (Dis-.
ciples of Christ).
Sr. Janet Wahl, RSM, Mission Coordinator,
Sisters of Mercy, Rochester.
Rev. William L. Wipfler, Latin: American
Working Group, National Council of
Churches.
Rev. James Zelinski, OFM Cap, Provincial
Councilor, St. Joseph. Province of Capuchin
Fathers.
Rev Benjamin Gutierrez, Liaison with
. Latin America and the Caribbean of the-
Program Agency, .United Presbyterian
Church in the USA.
TRIBUTE TO JIM BRAY
IN THE HOUS OF REPRESENTATIVES
I' ednesday, ctober 9, 1974
fornia and contrlbUtea to Lne war --lb ' Under the 1974 H ising Act, Stephens
by working in the shipyards. Even when noted that during t . next five years, Athens
he became totally blind in August 1955, will receive close G. $12 million through the
it did not prevent his starting a new busi- Community Dev9 pment Block Grant. Dur-
ness-the Mission Palm Restaurant- ing this fiscal ar alone, $3,446,000 will be
loans made possible through Con-`
and wry Irish humor so typical of Jim,
he says that he never regretted this
blindness, but admits that. it is "a bit
hard on the shins."
For Jim retirement has brought what
I think retirement should bring for
everyone-the time and the energy to
and, lam proud to state, a close p6
friend of mine.
Democratic party is all about, as the
party dedicated to hard work, fair play,
and equality of opportunity for all
through education and other humani-
ly s
rnent and LO t ite emocl a Flu t a+ port o
came at an early age. Life was hard for
_+ r- ~ and e r a 1 race Athens to
trop snort titer the ei lathe .u of the paper, and I i
support his widowed mother. It at Nuld like to insert as shows A re-,
during the last decal At
as
this time that he formed his rst of his article in the CONG SSIONAI. RECORD, cu rirable record of progress--an alnlCd At
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llciidin- trades. Although rohnbitlon t oxi ressman 1 b r __ ------
interrupted Jinl's career as a the featured tall at tlxe openin oY Athens
ntay 1 ='+'e l;a.'t?,.nder, he later beca e a lifelong History Village last week, took e oppor- G
a ber c2 the Culinary Yorkers and tunity to address himself to the, i pact of EMPLOYE; THEFT AND RISING
federal spending in Albans during to last HOSPITAL COSTS
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r ll s today. And, it mull not have occurred at a ore q~ i y ~`~ i~~ LENT
y
e since ii tli cue of i", J Bray Was also app 1F is tutpedcoil whattW SlU ban Renew 1 3317 OF NEW xoRxs
at .',ely' _,._nizing f r the Denloc':Ltic tin P IN THE HOUSE OF REPItc
I'1 t3 . Ai, 21 lie beta e a precinct Captain land, property that had Nitre value for til GFNTAT1V
alt: tided b h the 1932 and the city and county tax digests. Now a $3 million Wednesday, October 9, 1974
and he oject occupies the site.
Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, some inter t-'
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