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Mr. SPECTER submitted three amendments intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1352, supra, as follows:
It is the Sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Defense and Director of Central Intelligence shall report by September 1, 1989, to the Senate Committee on Armed Services, the House Committee on Armed Services, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on efforts to locate American hostages in Lebanon, the resources dedicated to locating these hostages and how additional resources, in terms of funds and personnel, can be effectively utilized to locate these hostages and obtain their release.
It is the Sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Defense shall report by September 1, 1989, to the Senate Committee on Armed Services, the House Committee on Armed Services, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on efforts to locate American hostages in Lebanon, the resources dedicated to locating these hostages and how additional resources, in terms of funds and personnel, can be effectively utilized to locate these hostages and obtain their release.
At the appropriate place insert the following:
The Senate finds:
(1.) The United States needs more HUMIN intelligence in the light of worldwide terrorist activities.
(2.) The need for more HUMIN intelligence is demonstrated by our failure to locate U.S. hostages including Colonel Higgins who was apparently murdered yesterday by terrorists.
(3.) The Department of Defense and the CIA have responsibilities for such HUMIN intelligence.
It is the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Defense and the Director of CIA report to the Congress by September 1, 1989, as to possible improvements in collection of HUMIN intelligence.
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