CALIFORNIA TALK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003200230034-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: August 2, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

August 1978
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CALIFORNIA TALK
1. 10-15 years ago - this event not possible
- predecessor not accept invitation to talk
- you not invite him
- mutual acceptance - intelligence activities secret
- intelligence not big topic
Know you may be concerned - can intell be effective & more public?
2. Why changed?
No choice - Must have support of public - On faith until --
Started as far back as 1967 - disclosures of CIA involvement
with National Student Association
Disenchantment with Vietnam, including CIA's role
- Last straw - Sy Hersh article - 1974 - alleged CIA domestic activities
Then followed - great unravelling - allegations of improper CIA
involvement in Chile, Cuba, etc.
- Books by former intel officers
- Resulted in
? Pike Committee
? Church Committee
0 Rockefeller Commission
3. Realize
0 Must operate more in open than before
0 But if America wants its decision makers to have the kind
of information which - in a mostly closed world - only an
intelligence capability can provide - must not hobble IC;.
and must also be some secrets which can be protected
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4. Openness Policy
- Discussing intelligence - like today with you
- What we do
- Why
- Intelligence agencies performing vital function -
want you to know something about that contribution
- Sharing results with you
- 2x week
- Oil study
- Terrorism study
- Civil Defense Study (copies in back of hall)
- Forthright with press to extent possible
- How can do and continue to function?
? Not easy, but important - discuss product not means
Philosophy: reduce corpus of secrets; protect what's
left better; everyone benefits
5. Can't open everything - surrogates for public -
- Mechanisms
? Pres/VP/NSC
IOB
Attorney General
? Select Committees of Congress
- Advantages
? Know all sensitive/important IC activities
? Guidance to IC
? Share responsibility
? Reflect public sentiments
Ensure IC not operating in vacuum
Ensure no pressures. , for. illegal/improper activity
6. But openness/oversight not all that's going on - greater effectiveness
- E.O. 12036
- Policy Review Comfni ttee (NSC)
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DCI chairs
? State, Def, Treas, CJCS, Asst. for Nat Sec Affs
Strengthened DCI's authority as principal national
intelligence officer
- intended in Nat Sec Act 1947
- 1st time DCI exclusive auth to develop Nat Foreign Intel
Prog budget
1979 budget used this new process
- direct tasking all IC collection assets
? preclude duplication/gaps
? leaves mgmt to parent departments, e.g., NSA-DoD
- Can orchestrate best mix for each need
e.g., want to know what's happening in Africa - maybe need
0 photos
0 listen to radio/TV bdcsts
? observer on ground
Need to coordinate - use only to seek info most capable
of getting - not waste on info available
- DCI gains no auth to coordinate analysis
? still competitive
? State, DoD, CIA
7. Future - where go from here? Problems foreseen?
- Building good relationships with oversight bodies - still feeling way -
balance sought.
- E.O. big help. Now working on Charters with Congress
0 Need good guidelines but
0 Need freedom to function effectively
- Want to limit IC
- Don't want to hobble IC
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Big question: Secrecy vs openness
How much.of each? Where draw line? Need your knowledge;
understanding; help; confidence
Believe IC #1 in world today. Necessary if US to stay #1
Important days ahead for IC as critical relationships reach
appropriate balance and as public participates more through
better understanding of IC.
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SAN DIEGO TALK
Great to be back
4 sea tours
Dau - Moth - Cousins - Godson
Home
Know how int are nat sec off - of which intell cap is 1
Apprec invite
10 yrs ago
Bec int sure concerned whether can do job
Let say - can
Not in spite of
Because of
What is there openness - help?
Support of people
Essential
Had on faith
Serious questionings
Being more open re build
confid
What giving away -
Speeches
Publications
Product - when can be declass
Extent successful - better informed public
Country be stronger
Benefit
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Note: Not talking process collecting -
Must keep secret
Some exceptions relate privacy -
Not what public wants/needs kno
Still another plus -
Reducing secrets - helps keep them
Critical problem
Every reporter a Woodstein
Got to return sense bal
Wood/Bern great
But if every publ servant suspect -
every renegade whistle blower hero - chaos
How do cope w/secrets and w/areas of collection public can't know
Surrogate oversight
SSCI/HPSCI
Leaks
Micromanagement
Strengths
Checks are reassurance -
Were errors
Easier manage when held accountable
People have to know what doing
Be able explain to skeptics
Easy be blended by dedicated enthusiasm
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Lest you think openness and oversight are all we are doing to
maintain and improve our intell cap -- let talk about:
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