INTELLIGENCE CHARTER LEGISLATION HEARINGS

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25 April 1978
SUBJECT: Intelligence Charter Legislation Hearings
1. The Senate Select Committee on'Intelligence (SSCI) today held
its fourth public hearing on the intelligence charter legislation, S. 2525.
Senators Walter Huddleston (D., Ky.) and Charles Mathias (R., Md.), and
several staff members, were present for the Committee. Present on STAT
behalf of the Director of Central Intelligence were STAT
Assistant General Counsel, and the undersigned; Mr. Office
of Training, was present also as an observer. The witnesses were:
former Deputy Director for Operations Thomas Karamessines; former STAT
Deputy Director for Intelligence ; and former
Deputy Director for Science and ec o ogy Herbert Scoville, Jr.
2. Neither Senator Huddleston nor Senator Mathias made any substantive
opening remarks. Each of the three witnesses read into the record a
prepared statement. Mr.'Karamessines, in his prepared statement, discussed
a large number of points, some of the more interesting of which were:
the legislation has too many reporting procedures and requirements; .
the legislation should provide sanctions for the unauthorized disclosure
of intelligence sources and methods; the legislation should specifically
address the responsibility of Government agencies to provide cover for
intelligence officers; requiring by statute that intelligence liaison
arrangements must be reported to Congress is inappropriate and would have
a detrimental affect on such relationships; and if the Director of National
Intelligence (DNI) is separated from heading the CIA, then the Agency at
least should, by the terms of the statute, be headed by a separate Director STAT
rather than the Deputy or an Assistant DNI. In his remarks,
stressed that the DNI should not be separated from heading the CIA; the
legislation is crowded with too many obligatory reporting requirements;
the legislation should "eliminate covert political action altogether"; and
clandestine operational activities and human collection "should by and large
be diminished, if not eliminated." In his remarks, Mr. Scoville also expressed
the view that the IhNI must remain as head of the CIA in order to retain a
strong and independent intelligence collection and analysis capability.
Mr. Scoville also endorsed the notion that not only should the CIA not
be responsible for "special activities," but that the U.S. Government
should in fact no longer be authorized to conduct any special. activities.
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