MINUTES OF SECOND MEETING COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE EAST BUILDING, AT 1500 HOURS, 25 FEBRUARY 1976

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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
Washington, D.C. 20505
CFI-M-2
25 February 1976
Minutes of Second Meeting
Committee on Foreign Intelligence
East Building, at 1500 Hours, 25 February 1976
Director of Central Intelligence
Mr. George Bush
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. Robert F. Ellsworth, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Mr. William G. Hyland, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security
Affair s
ALSO PRESENT
Mr. Thomas Latimer, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Intelligence)
Mr. E. H. Knoche, Acting Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence Community
Mr. Richard Lehman, Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence
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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
Washington, D.C. 20505
MEMORANDUM FOR THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT Draft Minutes of the 25 February 1976
Committee on Foreign Intelligence
Meeting
1, The minutes of the 18 February 1976 meeting were approved.
25X1 z? of the IC Staff gave a status report on current ICS-
DoD e orts to evelop a paper for CFI consideration next week defining the
National Foreign Intelligence Program (NFIP), the process and cycles to be
followed with regard tv CFI attention to NFIP budgets and programs, and re -
programming guidelines to be adopted by the CFI.
3. In regard to the national-tactical definition problem Mr, Ellsworth noted
that many differing points of view would be encountered. Distinctions between
national and tactical intelligence resources can hardly be expected to be agreed
by all but he would be supportive of the CFI's efforts to define the NFIP as
constructively as possible. The Chairman advised to prepare the
paper, complete with pros, cons, agreements and isagreements, in recognition
of general intent to give the CFI resource control over the intelligence budget,
less tactical intelligence.
4. The Chairman reported his favorable impression of NRP arrangements
and facilities and said he wants to insure that CFI machinery and processes
will not bog down program managers and rob them of flexibility and effectiveness.
5. Mr. Bush noted there have been some requests by the Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) and Committees for access to intelligence budgetary data.
He pointed to jurisdictional Congressional problems in this regard and said he
thought it best to hold off until the House and Senate have resolved current
approaches to intelligence oversight and until Appropriations Chairmen McClellan
and Mahon have conferred with Budget Committee counterparts. It was agreed
that the Director would talk to Senator McClellan and Representative Mahon
about this. Mr. Knoche noted that there have been CBO requests for substantive
briefings on Soviet and Warsaw Pact military capabilities and expenditures. It
was agreed that substantive briefings are a separate question and can be provided.
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25X16? of the IC Staff gave a brief description of
progress made to date, and remaining to be made, with regard to improving
awareness by tactical commanders of the nature of national collection
systems. It was pointed out that continuing attention to this problem could in
time lead to significant resource issues of concern to the CFI. The IC Staff
is willing to continue its work in this area but needs to know which parts of
DoD or JCS to work with. Mr. Ellsworth said he would advise.
25X1 7. of the IC Staff gave a brief status report on the study
of NSCIDs, DCIDs, et al and haw to revise or rescind them in accordance with
the Executive Oxder on intelligence. It was agreed:
-- That NSCIDs would be revised with appropxiate
classification to insure conformity with the E.O. ;
-- There will be no attempt now to devise and issue
an omnibus NSCID;
-- Some NSCIDs can be rescinded, where the subject
is over-taken by the E.O.
In answer to the Chairman's question, said he thought some
revised NSCIDs could be put before the CFI at its meeting next week. CFI
directives. and memoranda will be issued serially rather than by a numbering
system keyed to subject categories. Two draft CFI Memoranda (CFIM No. 1
and No. 2) were approved.
8. Discussion of this subject led to a question from Mr. Hyland as to how
to arrange for directives on intelligence topics that may be the DCI's responsi-
bility but that are beyond the scope of the CFI. For example, the CFIM on USIB
could imply CFI powers in an area of DCI concern. Mr. Ellsworth noted the
phrasing in the E. O. charging the CFI with setting "policy priorities for collec-
tion and production, "phrasing indicating the CFI will have some kind of role in
matters of previous concern to USLB. The discussion culminated in agreement
that the Staff should develop for next week's CFI meeting a paper defining and
delineating the distinctions between CFI, DCI and USIB -type concerns.
9. The proposed CFIM on IRAC's IR&D Council was not approved.
Mr. Ellsworth felt it more advisable to subordinate this body to a USIB follow-
on rather than to the CFI.
10. Mr. Knoche reported to the CFI on his conversations with two drafters
of the E. O. in connection with the CFI xesponsibility to set "management
policy" for national programs. The short of it is that it was intended to provide
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the CFI with guidance powers that could go beyond narrow resource matters.
The CFI, aver time, can define the extent to which it may want to issue
guidance on such matters, for example, as intelligence personnel develop-
ment or external contracting.
11. After a short executive session, the meeting adjourned at 1615 hours.
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Summary of Actions
a. Chairman to contact Senator McClellan and Representative Mahon
re Congressional Budget inquiries.
b. Joint ICS-DoD paper on NFIP definition, cycles, and reprogram-
ming to be ready for next CFI meeting.
c. Mr. Ellsworth to advise the IC Staff on DoD/JCS points of contact
for work on the "national-tactial problem. "
d. IC Staff to table a paper for the next CFI meeting defining distinctions
among CFI, DCI and USIB-type concerns and responsibilities.
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