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...charter should make intelligence gathering easier
...much? Last week a Senate intelligence subcommittee answered that question by proposing a new charter that would free the CIA and the nation's four other major intelligence agencies from several onerous restrictions...
...proposed National Intelligence Act of 1980 has Jimmy Carter's strong backing. The charter's most important provision would allow the CIA to conduct covert operations if the President, after consulting with the Nation al Security Council, found them necessary to protect "important" U.S. interests overseas. Such operations have never been formally banned, but a 1974 law had the effect of requiring the President to notify eight congressional committees about them in "a timely fashion." The risks of a leak were so great that covert op erations were severely limited. The new bill would require prior notification...
PRESIDENT BOK offered Arnold C. Harberger the top position at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) without consulting HIID's Faculty Council, much less warning them that he was going to make the offer. The HIID charter explicitly states that "Corporation appointments in the Institute shall be within the purview of the Council...
After Congressional reports of the mid-'70s showed exhaustively how an unrestrained intelligence community not only repeatedly violated American and foreign freedoms but also failed to deliver good information to American leaders, no one could doubt the need to charter the various intelligence agencies. But in today's over-charged atmosphere, Carter has decided that "flexibility" must come first, accountability second. He is pressing senators to pass charters that would allow intelligence agencies to use journalists, academics, and clergymen as agents, and reduce the number of types of covert operations agencies that must report to oversight committees...