COMMENTS ON CONGRESSIONAL PROPOSAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000500030014-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2005
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: November 5, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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5.November1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: Associate Deputy Director for
Intelligence
SUBJECT Comments on Congressional Proposal
1. We have reviewed the activities that would
impact on OSR by the proposed legislation recommended
by the Nedzi Special Subcommittee. With respect to
the specific activities listed in your 1 November
memorandum:
This record is such that the proposed legislation would
have little impact on OSR in these specific areas. We
would not, however, want our options foreclosed and
thus hope some safeguards will be included in the
legislation.
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2. In addition we offer the following comments:
a. In order to assure that the Agency does
not have to operate under more severe restric-
tions than other Federal Agencies in the domestic
arena, transactions with former CIA employees
elsewhere in government should be explicitly
excepted from the prohibited "transactions"
section of the proposed legislation. As drafted
the provisio could inhibit or prevent exchanges
with former CIA employees such as Bruce Clarke,
Bill Hyland, et al.
In the interests of develop-
ing a better public relations image, the Agency
has in recent years tended to be more open in
those relationships and associations where there
was no overriding necessity for secrecy. This is
an area where legislation might play a useful
role in providing guidelines for Agency activities
without inhibiting the open and fruitful contacts
the Agency maintains with former employees in
academia or in the business world.
c. Another question which poses itself is
how will this legislation affect the Agency's
present right to protect its secrets by pro-
secuting ex-employees who violate voluntary
oaths.
d. We in the DDI are particularly close to
employees who return to teaching positions at US
universities and very often undertake unclassified
research projects on behalf of the Agency. These
ex-employees provide a useful channel for the
Agency to keep in touch with the latest technolo-
gies and intellectual thought in the academic
world. This legislation could be interpreted to
prevent this kind of association.
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