l Ca ek gare SO Ee ELT wt fete SR es TM ESS Bea ar psy GSR TYAN AL CSR OP ired 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 te your instruction to report any activities which might be considered outside CIA's legislative charter. 2. All Office and Staff chiefs in the InteHigence 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 Elisberg'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 Sinith 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 foreign developments.
Ee DED eee CPT Ee oo es Young: Harry Eisenbeiss and Clarus Rice of CRS had frequent contacts with Young during the summer of 1972 in connection with Executive Order 11652 and the implementirg 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. pcs, | t pes\, | NPIC and COMIREX review satellite imagery from NASA programs to identify photography too “sensitive for public release. -2- COi8%
! CIA INTERNAL USE ONL _-  NPIC has examined dornestic coverage for special ° purposes such as natural catastropbies 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. - - cRs| --  FBIS hag on occasion supplied linguists to work . directly for another agency, e.g.,,to the FBI to» translate Arabic in Washington. me - 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. - BIS 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, oo '"-  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 lenguages _ - and contracts with private individuals te do this» work. Most of these individuals are not witting of the CIA-JPRS relationship. “enn htocte EDWARD W. PROCTOR Deputy Director for Intelligence Attachments ONnAO’)