Talk:Hughes-Ryan Act
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An amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, requiring the President to report any non-intelligence CIA operations (i.e. covert actions) to relevant Congressional committee (at the time this numbered around 8 committees) in a timely fashion.
This amendment addressed the question of CIA covert actions and prohibited the use of appropriated funds for their conduct unless and until the President "finds" that each such operation is important to the national security and submits this Finding to the appropriate Congressional committees--a total of six committees. (This grew to eight committees after the House and Senate intelligence committees were established.)
The objective of this act was to ensure that the responsible intelligence oversight committees within Congress were properly informed of covert actions in a reasonable period of time.
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- An amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974, requiring the President to report any non-intelligence CIA operations (i.e. covert actions) to relevant Congressional committee (at the time this numbered around 8 committees) in a timely fashion.
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By the early years of the 1970s, the unpopular war in Southeast Asia and the unfolding Watergate scandal brought the era of minimal oversight to a screeching halt. The Congress was determined to rein in the Nixon administration and to ascertain the extent to which the nation's intelligence agencies had been involved in questionable, if not outright illegal, activities.
A series of troubling revelations started to appear in the press concerning intelligence activities. The dam broke on 22 December 1974, when The New York Times published a lengthy article by Seymour Hersh detailing operations engaged in by the CIA over the years that had been dubbed the "family jewels." Covert action programs involving assassination attempts against foreign leaders and covert attempts to subvert foreign governments were reported for the first time. In addition, the article discussed efforts by intelligence agencies to collect information on the political activities of US citizens.
These revelations convinced many Senators and Representatives that the Congress itself had been too lax, trusting, and naive in carrying out its oversight responsibilities. (Many of the so-called family jewels had been briefed to some members on the existing oversight panels, but in the highly charged atmosphere of the Watergate period they tended to opt for selective amnesia when asked if they had known about these activities.)
The first legislative response was enactment in 1974 of the Hughes-Ryan Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
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- Information is from CIA site, Center for the Study of Intelligence, which is a US govermental organization. Therefore the original information compiled on this wikisite is free of copyright. See Copyright and U.S. Government worksTravb 21:08, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] abide by the ruling of the mediator
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- Co-sponsor Congressman Ryan was machine gunned with people he was trying to rescue from Jim Jones in Guyana, precipitating the Jonestown mass murder the same day in 1978.
Please reference your work, all contributions must be verifiable.Travb 21:39, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
