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[9]; ‘December 6, 1978
[11]MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
[12]SUBJECT: DCI Meeting with Chairman Boland of HPSCI, 5 Dec. 1978
[14]At the Director's request, he met with Chairman Boland accompanied
[15]by the Legislative Counsel in the HPSCI offices. He asked to brief the
[16]Chairman alone on two private matters.
[18]1. With respect to the first, the Kampiles Case, the DCI informed
[19]Chairman Boland of the sensitive source- information involved in the case
[20]after the Chairman indicated. that he was interested in this information.
[22]’The DCI reminded Chairman Boland that the DDCI had offered to brief him
[23]when the Kampiles Case first broke but that the Chairman had not deemed
[25]_ it necessary to receive the information at that time. After the commmi-
[26]cation, Chairman Boland agreed with the DCI that it might be best not to —
[27]brief Mr. Mazzoli or other Members of the Committee. The DCI informed
[28]‘the Chairman that he might have some personal difficulty with Mr. Mazzoli
[29]on the question during his first appearance in the New Year, but it was
[30]agreed that the DCI would be able to make his explanations. ( 5
[32]2. . The DCI briefed Chairman Boland on a personal matter and indicated
[33]that he had briefed Chairman Bayh on the same question. ( C )
[35]3. .Messrs Latimer and O'Neil joined the meeting at this point. The
[36]DCI discussed the Iranian situation, the alleged intelligence failure and
[37]the hand-written memo from the President. He indicated that the President's
[38]‘displeasure had not been directed at him personally, but at the subject of
[39]political reporting in general, both overt and covert, and Chairman Boland
[40]described the answer which he had given to ABC News a "week ago on this point.
[41]The Chairman had apparently stated that political reporting was an Embassy
[42]fimction and not one solely the responsibility of the Intelligence Commmity.
[44]( Cc)
[46]4. Charters: The DCI asked HPSCI to get involved in the Charters
[47]questions at an early stage and not wait for the Senate to finish its work.
[48]Because of the Church Committee legacy there are likely to remain some
[49]important differences between the Senate and the Administration on Charters
[50]questions on which the DCI stated it would be helpful to have the HPSCI
[51]view during the negotiation process. Tom Latimer then asked that we make
[52]sure we ‘keep him. supplied with all the position papers that have been developed
[53]by the Working Group which we agreed to do. ) ;
[55]5. Finally, the DCI discussed the Authorization Bill and our hope that —
[56]an FOIA repealer and a provision permitting our security people to carry guns
[57]be included. Mike O'Neill later called back to obtain our language on these ~
[58]questions which we have agreed to supply him.( C
[60]From the standpoint of the Committee, Chairman Boland asked
[61]whether we had had any extensive involvement with SAVAK during the reporting
[62]period on Iran. The answer was negative with respect to Iranian domestic
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[77]activity. Secondly, the Chairman brought up the question as to whether
[78]we had received any report from Guyana about the goings on at_Jonestown
[79]at_the time of the Ryan incident. The Director replied that four Chief
[80](of Station) had picked up some information on Jonestown subsequent to the -
[82]' Incident—and had passed it to the State Department since it involved U.S.
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[86]persons. Later Tom Latimer and Charlie Rose asked me for a full readout
[87]of our information from Guyana so that the Committee would be in a position
[88]to state clearly what the limitations on our knowledge in that area are.
[92]Frederick P. Hitz -
[94]Legislative Counsel
[96]DISTRIBUTION: DCI
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