AS I MENTIONED THIS MORNING STATE'S EFFORTS TO AVOID AMENDING OUR AUTHORIZATION BILL TO INCLUDE A PROVISION

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• Publication Date: April 10, 1984
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10 April 1984
NOTE FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Deputy Director, Office of Legislative
Liaison
1. As I mentioned this morning, State's efforts to
avoid amending our Authorization Bill to include a
provision that would limit the numbers of Soviet and Bloc
personnel with diplomatic status in the U.S. to a like
number of Americans granted the same privileges there were
unavailing. Thus, an amendment reading approximately as
the attached draft will be introduced. (Please note that
Section D of the proposed bill has been altered to say in
effect that either the Director or Deputy Director of the
Office of Foreign Missions shall be a person with
counterintelligence experience.)
2. We have been informed that it is not likely
that you will be asked to comment on the amendment.
However, if you are asked, or wish to volunteer a comment,
you should point outs
(a) There is, as yet, no unanimity within
the Administration on this issue. State Department
adamantly opposes the legislation on the grounds
that it would violate agreements with the USSR.
Department of Defense and the FBI favor the
legislation as it would reduce the
counterintelligence threat in the U.S.
(b) You might wish to say that appropriate
legislation that will result in equality of
numbers of people granted diplomatic privileges
is indeed desirable to reduce the counter-
intelligence threat. Care should be taken,
however, that such legislation does not affect
existing agreements and the State Department
should have an opportunity to be heard on
that. in crafting legislation, care should also
be taken to avoid the possibility that this
legislation could result in the Soviets'
taking countermeasures that would seriously
harm our intelligence collection efforts in
the Bloc.
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