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December 6, 1978

Frocutive Rogistry

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ME ORANDUM 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. (S )

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

function and not one solely the responsibility of the Intelligence Commnity.

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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 Conmittee 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 aske

whether we had had any extensive involvement with SAVAK during the reporting

period on Iran. The answer was negative with respect to Iranian domestic

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activity. Secondly, the Chairman brought up the question as to whether

we had received any report from Guyana about the goings on at Jonestown

at the time of the Ryan incident.

The Director replied that /our Chief

of Station) 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.

Frederick

Legislative Counsel

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