LETTER TO HONORABLE DAVID A. STOCKMAN FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R001900170032-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2007
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: November 16, 1981
• Content Type: LETTER

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16 Nov 19M
OGC 81-09675
Honorable David A. Stockman
Director
Office of Management and Budget
Washington, D.C. 20503
Dear Mr. Stockman:
Your office recently requested the views of the Central
Intelligence Agency on S. 1630, the "Criminal Code Reform
Act of 1981." We have just completed our initial review of
this Bill and its House companion measures, and we have
concluded that as currently drafted they pose some problems
for the Agency and the rest of the Intelligence Community.
The Bills appear, for example, to place an excessive
reliance on common law defenses in lieu of specific exceptions
for activities conducted by government personnel, and in a
number of instances no cognizance at all is taken of intelli-
gence equities. We will be formulating a detailed explanation
of our concerns with S. 1630 in a proposed report to the Chair-
man of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In the meantime, I
would ask that the Administration not commit itself to support
the specific language of any of the several Criminal Code Bills
now pending in the Congress, and that the Intelligence Community
be kept closely involved in the formulation of Administration
positions on Criminal Code issues.
Sincerely,
Big
William J. Casey
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The Director of Central Intelligence 7