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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00364R000600170016-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: July 1, 1966
• Content Type: REGULATION

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[COMMITTEE PRINT]
SOTII CONGRESS
2D SESSION
Creating a Conunittee on Intelligence
Operations.
By Mr. ------------
JULY , 1966
Reported without awenduwiit
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8CTU CONGRESS
2D SESSION
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Jur,Y , 1966
i12r. ------------, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the fol-
lowing resolution; which was
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Resolved, That there is hereby created, effective at the
beginning of the Ninetieth Congress, a committee to be
known as the Committee on Intelligence Operations to con-
sist of nine Senators, of whom three shall be appointed by
the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations from
among the members of that continlittee, three shall be ap-
pointed by the -chairman of the Committee on Armed Serv-
ices from among the members of that committee, and three
shall be appointed by the chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Relations from among the members of that com-
11 mittee. No more than two of the members appointed from
12 each such standing committee shall be from the same political
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1 party. The chairman of the committee shall be elected by
2 the members.
3 SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Intelli-
4 hence Operations to keep itself fully and currently informeri
5 of the activities of the (ventral intelligence Agency, the De
6 fense Intelligence Agency, the Bureau of Intelligence and
7 Research of the Department of State, and other agencies o
8 the Government insofar as the activities of such agencies relate
9 to foreign intelligence or counterintelligence. The corrullit-
tee's duties shall include, but not be limited to, review of in-
the Senate, to hold such hearings, to require by subpena or
16 ,times during the sessions, recesses, and adjourned periods of
ee eieo , is authorized to sit and act at such places and
13, various agencies concerned.
14 .. SEC. 3. The coirunittee, or any duly authorized subcom-
15 t th
telligence and counterintelligence activities and legislative
oversight of the coordination of such activities among the
18 otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the produc-
19 tion of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such
20, : oaths, and to take such testimony as it deems advisable.
SEC. 4. A majority of the members of the committee,
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or. allyttee thereor, snarl constitute a quorum for
23 the transaction of business, except that a lesser number, to be
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fixed by the. committee, shall constitute a quorum for the
20 purpose of taking sworn testimony.
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I SEC. 5. The committee Is authorized to utilize the serv-
2 ices, information, facilities, and personnel of the various de-
3. partments and agencies of the Government.
4 SEC. 6. The committee shall take special care to safe-
guard information' affecting the national security.
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