STAFF MEETING MINUTES OF 17 NOVEMBER 1980

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2007
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• Publication Date: November 17, 1980
• Content Type: REPORT

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17 November 1980
Staff Meeting Minutes of 17 November 1980
The Director chaired the meeting.
The Director asked about thel ladd-on for covert action. 25X1
said that the request reportedly was signed off on. Hitz said in 25X1
response to Mr. Carlucci's question, that the Congressional mark-up of the
budget has not been completed, but our submissions must be in today.
said he would call Saunders at 0MB to see if there were an roblems. 25X1
said the appeal letter is ready to be sent to the Hill. 25X1
said the exercise involving the transfer of the NITC to DoD
is over and that he would provide the Director with a critique later this
week.
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Hitz said that we may have the semi annual covert action wrap-up before
the SSCI on 20 November. He recommended that McMahon and ~attend.
Mr. Carlucci and the Director agreed.
Mr. Carlucci said that Mark Schneider of the transition team has
arrived and will be here full time. Mr. Carlucci stressed that all requests
from the transition team for written materials must be cleared through the
0/DDCI and 0/DCI. SA/DDCI will be the focal point. Requests to
senior officials for oral briefings can be accepted; however, they should be
scheduled far enough in advance so they can be reported to the Director and
Mr. Carlucci who will determine if there are any problems involved. The
Director said we should be cooperative with the transition team, but
we need to protect sources and methods and sensitive programs. The Director
said he did not see the need for the transition team to be briefed on any
sensitive operations. Hitz reiterated his concern about the possible
conflicts of the separation of power (see the Staff Meeting Minutes of
14 November). Mr. Carlucci said that a guideline to follow would be to
provide the transition team with the same information we would provide a
Congressional committee.
The Director said that following his discussions with Laurence Silberman
last week, he came away with the impression that the transition team would
be looking into the need for a reorganization of the Agency and the need for
changes in personnel. Mr. Carlucci said he was not sure that the transition
team was looking at personnel changes at this time and said he was assured
by Silberman there would be no "hit list." The Director added that he
decided not to engage in any dialogue with the transition team about the
qualifications of our senior officials.
The Director said that papers prepared for the transition team should
be concise, hit only important issues and be constructive. He said that
when he came on board he was struck with the verbosity and pleading tone of
the briefing books and that this left a bad impression with him. Mr.
Carlucci extended the deadline for submission of these papers to noon
21 November.
The Director will brief the President-Elect on 19 and 20 November and
the President-Elect's Foreign Policy Assessment Board on 21 November. The
Director commented that the most important thing we can do is to make sure
that the briefings are excellent since they will develop opportunities for
later briefings. The 19 November briefing will be for one and one-half
hours and will be attended by the President-Elect and Vice President-Elect,
Edward Meese, Laurence Silberman, Richard Allen, and Bill Casey. The
briefing will cover current topics and will be preceded by the Director's
presentation on the organization of CIA and the Community. The 20 November
briefing will be for one and one-half hours and will cover issues of long-term
interest such as the strategic balance, Warsaw Pact, and the Soviet economy.
At these briefings the Director will introduce the topic and state conclusions
and then the substantive analysts will provide details. The 21 November
briefing will be attended by former President Ford, George Schultz, Donald
Rumsfeld, and John McCloy and will last for 45 minutes. At this briefing
the Director will present the topics in bullet form but will make Agency
experts available later for elaboration.
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The Director said he was interested in the following issues this week:
o Hostages. He asked McMahon, Silver, and Clarke
for their impressions of the anticipated Iranian response
to the U.S. position regarding release. The Director said he
was going to try to see Dr. Brzezinski today to be brought up to
date on the situation.
o Jamaica. The Director said he will advise Dr. Brzezinski
that we should not allow the situation in Jamaica to become
unfavorable because of the transition and one should consider
whatever assistance is necessary to the new government. Mr.
Carlucci suggested that we get a reading from State regarding
their initiatives before we raise the issue with Dr. Brzezinski.
o Poland. The Director said we have to stay on top of
the situation. He said he saw problems for NFAC in that every
time a small Soviet unit moves we get alarms that this is
the build-up for a Soviet invasion. The Director told Clarke
we have to be calm but still be able to focus on the big
picture.
In response to the Director's query, Lehman said the PDB will be
delivered to the President-Elect and Vice Presidet-Elect beginning
18 November.
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