...Assistance Act of 1961 as amended. The same law defines covert operations subject to the requirement as "operations in foreign countries other than activities...intended solely for obtaining necessary intelligence." US House of Representatives, Compilation of Intelligence Laws, p. 212. 41. Stein, "Reagan's Plans for...

...implicitly authorized to conduct them. Presidents could henceforth point to statutory language permitting "operations in foreign countries, other than activities...intended solely for obtaining necessary intelligence" as conceding the legitimacy of the very type of activity that Congress was trying to control. The same...

...congressional review of covert actions. Instead, Hughes-Ryan provided that no appropriated funds could be "expended by or on behalf of the Central Intelligence...intended solely for obtaining necessary intelligence," 12 unless the president made "findings" that the activity was "important to the national security of...

...the CIA's accountability to the elected representatives of the people. It states that "No funds . . . may be expended by or on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency for operations in foreign countries . . . unless and until the President finds that each such operation is important to the national security...

...Assistance Act Amendment- of I974) states in purli "No funds appropriated under the authority of tliis or any other Act may be expended by or on behalf of...necessary intelligence, unless and until the President of the United States finds that each such operation is important to the national ..curtty of the United...

...the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 was enacted : Sec. 663. limitation on Intelligence Activities. (a) No funds appropriated under the authority of this or any other Act may be expended by or on lx>half of the Central Intelligence Agency for operations in foreign countries, other than activities...

...entity. •, ' -SNo fund* appropriated under the authority of this' ch.pt »r or any other Act m»r bo expended by or on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency for operations in foreign countries, otter thM activities Intended solely for obtaining necsssarvJLueiilgonce, unless and until the PresldantvXljMsDthat...

...(b) The President shall fully inform the intelligence committee, in a timely fashion of intelligence operations in foreign countries, other than activities intended solely for obtaining necessary intelli. gence, for which prior notice was not given under subsection (ai and shall provide a statement...