SUGGESTED TOPIC SENTENCE OUTLINE FOR DIRECTOR'S USE WITH HANLEY SUBCOMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00818R000100050043-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 43
• Content Type: LIST

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Suggested Topic Sentence Outline for Director's
Use with Hanley Subcommittee
1. Repository of all secrets the U. S. has on foreign governments.
2. Purpose of having secrets (ONE function).
3. Protection of intelligence sources and methods
a. Prevent drying up of friendly sources;
b. prevent identification and countermeasures by opposition
forces.
4. Agency employees, key to Agency success or failure, are the prime
target of opposition forces (access, isolation, training).
5. Agency procedures on employee standards developed over 25 years
are specifically designed to:
a. protect against vulnerability through employees
b. protect individual from employment or continued
employment for which he is not suited''because
of vulnerabilities.
6. It is also important to maintain employee morale.
7. The principal problems this legislation poses for the Agency are that:
a. it tends to undermine the personnel discipline we need and,
b. it imposes adversary procedures for remedying alleged greivances:
1. right to counsel
2. access to external appeals board
3. access to the courts.
These adversary procedures place the Agency in the untenable position
of either remaining silent in the face of unfounded allegations (with
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the alleged offending officer taking the consequences of the
factions embodied in the bill), or disclosing information which
it is obligated by statute to protect, and disclosure of which
might damage the national intelligence effort.
8. Col. White will review in detail our employee evaluation and processing
procedures and will answer any questions you may have.
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