i 40322-10104 cian ea GIA Fis 1On RELEASE “1599 uuC 78-3613 S-3VIS[2 ‘December 6, 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: DCI Meeting with Chairman Boland of HPSCI, 5 Dec. 1978 At the Director's request, he met with Chairman Boland accompanied by the Legislative Counsel in the HPSCI offices. He asked to brief the Chairman alone on two private matters. 1. With respect to the first, the Kampiles Case, the DCI informed Chairman Boland of the sensitive source-information involved in the case after the Chairman indicated. that he was interested in this information. 'The DCI reminded Chairman Boland that the DDCI had offered to brief him when the Kampiles Case first broke but that the Chairman had not deemed _ it necessary to receive the information at that time. After the commmi- cation, Chairman Boland agreed with the DCI that it might be best not to ~ brief Mr. Mazzoli or other Members of the Committee. The DCI informed the Chairman that he might have some personal difficulty with Mr. Mazzoli on the question during his first appearance in the New Year, but it was agreed that the DCI would be able to make his explanations. ( 5 ) 2. . The DCI briefed Chairman Boland on a personal matter and indicated that he had briefed Chairman Bayh on the same question. ( C ) 3. Messrs Latimer and O'Neil joined the meeting at this point. The DCI discussed the Iranian situation, the alleged intelligence failure and the hand-written memo from the President. He indicated that the President's ‘displeasure had not been directed at him personally, but at the subject of political reporting in general, both overt and covert, and Chairman Boland described the answer which he had given to ABC News a "week ago on this point. The Chairman had apparently stated that political reporting was an Embassy fimction and not one solely the responsibility of the Intelligence Commmity. ( Cc) _ 4. Charters: The DCI asked HPSCI to get involved in the Charters questions at an early stage and not wait for the Senate to finish its work. Because of the Church Committee legacy there are likely to remain some important differences between the Senate and the Administration on Charters questions on which the DCI stated it would be helpful to have the HPSCI view during the negotiation process. Tom Latimer then asked that we make sure we ‘keep him. supplied with all the position papers that have been developed by the Working Group which we agreed to do. ( C ) 5. Finally, the DCI discussed the Authorization Bill and our hope that _ an FOIA repealer and a provision permitting our security people to carry guns be included. Mike O'Neill later called back to obtain our language on these questions which we have agreed. to supply him.{( C ) From the standpoint of the Committee, Chairman Boland asked whether we had had any extensive involvement with SAVAK during the reporting period on Iran. The answer was negative with respect to Iranian domestic...
13-00000 4 bd Pe eo + activity. Secondly, the Chairman brought up the question as to whether | we had received any report from Guyana about the goings on at_Jo at_the time of the Ryan incident. The Director replied that /our had ‘picked up some information on Jonestown subsequent to the — ' Incident~and had passed it to the State Department since it involved U.S. persons. Later Tom Latimer and Charlie Rose asked me for a full readout of our information from Guyana so that the Committee would be in a position to state clearly what the limitations on our knowledge in that area are. CC) \ Frederick P. Hitz - Legislative Counsel DISTRIBUTION:  DE€I ee  BpCE . DpO "ER MP (OLC) OLC Record Copy FPH Chron | onmomarciay 2227112 : . CO DECL GPREVW ON _12 extpynneyassy 2527112 AEGON _SD3