HOUSE PANEL TO SEEK STRINGENT CONTROLS ON C.I.A.

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 89
• Publication Date: June 13, 1984
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NEW YORK TIMES
13 June 1984
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House Panel to Seek Stringent CJ1iri~CIA.
By MARTIN TOLCHIN
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i! WASHINGTON, June 12 -Leaders
of the House Select Committee on Intel-
ligence said today that they planned to
press for stringent legislation that
would require the Central Intelligence
Agency to inform Congress of a broad
.range of covert activities.
The House Intelligence Committee
'staff has recommended a nine-point
-plan that far exceeds the agreement
,signed last week between William J.
tee leaders said they ofunde might also seek i` Representative Norman Y. Mineta,
such k memorandum rstanding, Democrat of California, who is also a
but one that exceeded the Senate-C.I.A. senior member of the committee, said,
agreement. - '
Under the current law,the agency is
required to keep "full y and
currently informed'. "significant an-
ticipated illjteIligeac a activities."
According to the staff report, "Clear-
ly, the committee's concept of what is
'significant' has not been shared by key
intelligence officials."
The Senate Intelligence Committee
complained recently about not being in-
formed of the agency's role in the min-
ing of the Nicaraguan harbors, and the
i House Intelligence Committee said
that the agency had failed to provide
notification of its role in the Salvadoran
elections.
Representative Lee H. Hamilton,
Democrat of Indiana, said in an inter-
view that he and Edward P. Boland,
Democrat of Massachusetts, planned
to offer a package of legislation in-
tended to place strict controls on the
agency.
Mr. Hamilton, a senior committee
member, has been desigrAted by Rep-
resentative Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., the
Speaker of the House, to succeed Mr.
Boland as chairman of the Intelligence
I Committee at the end of the current
session,
'A Certain Set of Mind'
"You have a certain set of mind in
the C.I.A. unlike any other I've encoun-
tered in the bureaucracy," Mr. Hamil-
ton said.
He said that although the legislation
was needed, "the problem is attitudi-
nal, not legal."
"If you have a spirit of consultation
and they look upon the Congress as
partners and not an adversary," he
said, "these problems won't arise."
The legislation was initially proposed
by Representative Wyche Fowler Jr.,
Democrat of Georgia, who said it en-
joyed some bipartisan support because
experience had shown "that the legal
I apparatus is inadequate."
some standardized, stricter reporting
requirements placed on the C.I.A."
The committee staff report, which
was classified until Monday, recom-
mended that the agency be required to
notify the committee of any activity ap-
proved by the President. This recom- ,
mendation was the crux of the agree-
ment between Mr. Casey and the Sen-
ate Intelligence Committee.
In addition, the House committee !
staff recommended that the committee
be notified on these matters:
Any transfer of United States mili-
tary equipment that could alter the na-
ture of American relations with the re-
cipient country.
'j i he use of any means, specincany
including but not limited to the employ-
ment of force, that departs from the
scope of the program putting into effect
a covert action finding.
Material changes in the objectives
of a covert action program.
9The use of United States military
personnel or equipment or other non-
C.I.A. personnel or equipment in cov-
ert action programs.
The staff also urged that the commit-
tee be notified of the use of C.I.A. staff
or contract employees or "unilaterally
controlled U.S. persons or foreign na-
tionals in the support or conduct of
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