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XI -- ALLEGATIONS AND ANSWERS

March 1972

ALLEGATION:

In a variety of ways it has been alleged that CIA is working within the
United States, with particular attention to extremist groups. A recent
example was in the Quicksilver Times of 20 January 1972 (attached)*.

FACTS:

1. Section 102 of the National Security Act of 1947, subparagraph D3,
states, "The Agency shall have no police, subpoena, law-enforcement
powers, or internal security functions."

In his speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on 14 April
1971, the Director stated:

"I can assure you that except for the normal responsibilities
for protecting the physical security of our own personnel, our
facilities, and our classified information, we do not have any such
powers as the questions we have never sought any; we do not exercise
any. In short, we do not target on American citizens."

In the Director's "State of the Agency" Speech to employees on 17 September 1971, he said:

"I gave a talk to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
last winter, as you know, and I did it for only one purpose. That
was to set out in the record a few of these denials that we've
all wanted to see put in the public record for some time. And you
can rely on those denials. They're true, and you can use that as
any text that you may need to demonstrate that we're not in the drug
traffic, and that we're not trying to do espionage on American citizens in the United States, and we're not tapping telephone lines,
and that we're not doing a lot of other things which we're accused
of doing,. One of the things that tends to perpetuate some of these

*COMMENT: The two gentlemen cited are former CIA employees.
Neither they nor the organizations with which they are currently associated
have any operational connection with the Agency.

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