HPSCI HEARING ON THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY STAFF REORGANIZATION AND BUDGET AMENDMENT

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18 MAY 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR; Director of Central Intelligence
Acting Legislative Counsel
SUBJECT: HPSCI Hearing on the Intelligence
Community Staff~Reorganization
and Budget Amendment
1? Action Requested: Approval of the attached
witness list for your appearance before the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence CHPSCr) on the Intelligence
Community Staff reorganization and budget amendment, There
are also a number of informational points contained in
Paragraph 2,
2. Background: You are to appear before the
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your principal supporting witnesses. The HPSCI staff
has been working hard this past week to become acquainted with
current Community activities concerning collection tasking,
systems evaluation, and overall management and have spent con-
siderable time interviewing senior officials of the Intelligence
Community Staff. It is clear that the emphasis krill be on why
you feel you need so many people at high grades in order to
perform the functions of'central management.. You will also be
pressed to relate these ,functions to other existing DOD functions.
There are a few specific points which you should focus on
before the hearing,
a. First, it appears that HPSCI, as well as
the other Congressional oversight committees, do
not have a problem with the general concept of
dividing the Intelligence Community Staff into
Collection Tasking and Resource Management. There-
fore, it does not appear that you need to concen-
trate on getting any further agreement to do this.
The HPSCI staff is under the impre~;sion that thy"
term "Intelligence Community Staff" will still
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remain as an overall covering designation for
the Collection Tasking Staff and the Resource
Management Staff and there is no need, there-
fore, to eliminate this term from Title II of
the currently introduced authorization bill
H.R 12240). I believe!
understand this, but you may want to
confirm it yourself.
b. Second, the HPSCI and other committees
all appear to need convincing on both the
numbers of additional positions you are seek-
ing and the requirement for the high number of
executive-level and supergrade positions. If
you can assure the committees that these posi-
tions are not additive to present NFIP totals,
this will go a long way toward relieving the
committees' concerns,
c. Third, in marking up the NFIP budget,
HPSCI has already recommended a 40.position
reduction in the CIA ceiling for 1979. They
did this before the budget amendment was sub-
mitted. Since the amendment recommends that
CIA give 50 positions to the Intelligence
Community Staff, you may wish to point this out
and to. ask the Committee to consider this trans-
fer_a.s an offset to the Committee's recommended
reduction, Otherwise, there is a risk that the
Agency may lose 40 positions in addition to the
two they are transferring to the Intelligence
Community Staff, This would also provide
protection against a 90-position CIA cut if the
committees refused to approve the reorganization,
It may require some skill to convince Chairman
Burlison that you are not trying to pull some-
thing on him by this maneuver, but the figures
are clear enough.
d. Finally, we understand that the Appropriations
Committees will not move on this reorganization
until the authorization committees have taken
clear action. This means that the authorization
committees need not only to make some positive
decisions but also to amend the authorization biljs
which contain the numbers of dollars and positions
regulating the Intelligence Community Staff. This
will have to be done by floor amendments to the
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Senate and House bills which have already
been reported out of committee. This should
not be a problem but will require constant
attention by the committees. We will watch
this closely.
3. 0 Recommendation: It is recommended that you approve
the attached witness list for attendance at the HPSCI hearing.
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Witness list
Briefing sheet
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Briefing of
SUBCOL'v',TTTEE ON PROGRAM AND BUDGET AUTHORIZATION
of the
HOUSE PERILANENT SELECT CO`,i1.1ITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
Monday - 22 May 1978
1:00 p.m..
H-405, The Capitol
(Intelligence Community Staff Reorganization)
Bill D. Burlison (I)., Mo.), Chairman
Norman Y. Mineta (D., Calif.) J. Kenneth Robinson (R., Va.)
"Staff Members
James
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Bush
Martin
C.
Faga
Annette
H.
Smiley
Duane P. Andrews
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Theodore G. Shackley
Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy to the DCI for the
Intelligence Community. (Designated
Deputy to the DCI for Resource
Management)
Special Assistant to the DCI
(Designated Deputy to the DCI
for Collection Tasking)
Chief, Support Staff, Intelligence
Community Staff
Budget and Fiscal Officer,
Intelligence Community Staff
Special Assistant tol
(Designated Associate Deputy to
the DCI for Collection Tasking)
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Special Assistant to
(Designated Director, Office of
Collection Evaluation)
Acting Legislative Counsel, Office
of the Director of Central Intelligence
Associate Legislative Counsel, Office
of the Director of Central Intelligence
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