Word: subpoenaed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Colby's report, the unit's investigation of dissidents led to domestic operations that may have skirted, if not violated, a charter provision specifying that the CIA "shall have no police, subpoena, law-enforcement powers or internal-security functions" in the U.S. Colby's revelations...
...other things going on of the same nature such as the Huston plan [to use break-ins, wiretaps and other illegal means to spy within the U.S.] and the Ellsberg breakin. Remember this: we had to show relevancy for every taped conversation that we obtained by subpoena. Were we so good that we got everything there was? Watergate goes back to the nature...
Connie Paige, a free-lance journalist, also has a motion before the court, to quash a subpoena ordering her to testify for the prosecution...
...Kenneth Edelin says he knew that prosecutors were "after" him when he walked into a grand jury room in Boston last February to testify under subpoena...
Such activity would clearly violate the National Security Act of 1947, which states that the CIA "shall have no police, subpoena, law-enforcement powers, or internal-security functions." The law limits the agency's espionage functions to foreign operations. When the CIA follows a target to the U.S. or uncovers a connection between a foreign operative and a domestic group, the case is supposed to be turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation...