8  May  1973 
MEMORANDUM  FOR:    Director  of  Central  Intelligence 
FROM  :    Deputy  Director  for  Intelligence 
SUBJECT  :    Activities  Possibly  Outside  CIA's 
Legislative  Charter 
1.  This  memorandum  responds  to  your  instruction  to 
report  any  activities  which  might  be  considered  outside  CIA's 
legislative  charter. 
2.  All  Office  and  Staff  chiefs  in  the  Intelligence  Directorate 
have  reviewed  the  past  and  present  activities  of  their  components, 
I  have  received  responses  from  all  of  them,   and  none  reported  any 
activities  related  to  either  the  Watergate  affair  or  the  break  into 
the  offices  of  Ellsberg's  psychiatrist.    Although  contacts  with 
three  of  the  people  allegedly  implicated  in  these  incidents  were 
reported,  these  contacts  were  on  matters  other  than  the  two 
improper  activities: 
Hunt:  Col.  White,  Richard  Lehman,  and  I  talked 
to  Hunt  in  late  1970  regarding  his  preparation 
of  a  recommendation  in  support  of  the  Agency's 
nomination  of  R.  Jack  Smith  for  the  National 
Civil  Service  League  Award. 
Mitchell:       While  Mr.  Mitchell  was  Attorney  General, 
an  OCI  officer  was  assigned  the  task  of 
providing  him  with  daily  briefings  on 
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had  frequent  contacts  v/ith  Young  during  the 
summer  of  1972  in  connection  with  Executive 
Order  11652  and  the  implementing  NSC 
directive.    This  involved  visits  by  Young 
to  CIA  to  discuss  information  storage  and 
retrieval  and  several  meetings  of  an  inter- 
agency group  dealing  with  the  implementation 
of  the  Executive  Order  and  directive. 
3.     In  accordance  with  my  instructions,  several  Offices  reported 
domestic  activities  which  might  appear  questionable  to  outsiders. 
Their  responses  are  attached.     Most  of  these  activities  are  clearly 
within  the*Agency's  charter,  but  there  are  a  few  which  could  be 
viewed  as  borderline. 
DCS  collects  information  on  foreign  students  studying 
in  the  US. 
DCS  collects  information  on  physicians  practicing  in 
the  US  who  have  studied  abroad  (mostly  foreign 
nationals). 
DCS  accepts  information  on  possible  foreign 
involvement  in  US  dissident  groups  and  on  the 
narcotics  trade  when  sources  refuse  to  deal 
with  the  FBI  and  BNDD  directly. 
DCS  assesses  the  suitability  and  willingness  of 
US  citizens  to  cooperate  with  CIA. 
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NPIC  and  COMIREX  review  satellite  imagery 
from  NASA  programs  to  identify  photography 
too  "sensitive"  for  public  release. 
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NPIC  has  examined  domestic  coverage  for  special 
purposes  such  as  natural  catastrophles  and  civil 
disturbances. 
OCI,  in  1967  and  1968,  prepared  intelligence 
memoranda  on  possible  foreign  connections  with 
the  US  anti-war  movement  and  world-wide  student 
dissidence  (including  the  SDS)  at  the  request  of 
the  White  House. 
CRSJ 
FBIS  has  on  occasion  supplied  linguists  to  work 
directly  for  another  agency,  e.  g. ,  to  the  FBI  to 
translate  Arabic  in  Washington. 
FBIS  monitors  radio  press  dispatches  and  reports    ; 
covered  by  copyright.    These  are  circulated  within 
the  Government  and  stamped  "Official  Use  Only". 
This  has  gone  on  for  three  decades  without  problems. 
FBIS  has  monitored  and  reported  on  foreign  radio 
broadcasts  of  statements  and  speeches  of  US  citizens 
such  as  those  by  US  POWs  in  Hanoi,  Jane  Fonda, 
and  Ramsey  Clarke,  ..•_.•  "    • 
FBIS  has  run  the  Joint  Publication  Research  Service 
under  Department  of  Commerce  cover  since  1957.    . 
JPRS  is  a  facility  for  obtaining  translations  of 
unclassified  publications  in  foreign  languages 
and  contracts  v/ith  private  individuals  to  do  this 
work.    Most  of  these  individuals  are  not  witting 
of  the  CIA -JPRS  relationship. 
EDWARD  W.  PROCTOR 
Deputy  Director  for  Intelligence 
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