PROCEDURES FOR CIA'S UNDISCLOSED PARTICIPATION IN DOMESTIC ORGANIZATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00988R000400110009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 17, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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17 February 1978
OGC REVIEW
COMPLETED
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Administration
Deputy Director for Science & Technology
Deputy to the DCI for National Intelligence
Inspector General
FR03\2: Anthony A. Lapham
General Counsel
SUBJECT: Procedures for CIA's Undisclosed Participation in
Domestic Organizations
I. Section 2-207 of Executive Order 12036 provides that no Agency employee
may join, or otherwise participate in, any organization within the United States
on behalf of the Agency without disclosing their intelligence affiliation to appro-
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ieztl. .:11.1L1:.. of UrgcLIiiZ.ri6~lOn, except as pP,Y'l,M."i:T(-;CC1 by procedures e5td!.);.ls1:::d
by the DCI and approved by the Attorney General. It further provides that:
Such procedures shall provide for disclosure of such affiliation
in all cases unless the agency head or a designee approved by
the Attorney General finds that non-disclos,ure is essential to
achieving lawful purposes, and that finding is subject to review
by the Attorney General. Those procedures shall further limit
undisclosed participation to cases where:
(a) The participation is undertaken on behalf of the FBI
in the course of a lawful investigation;
(b) The organization concerned is composed primarily of
individuals who are not United States persons and is-reasonably
believed to be acting on behalf of a foreign power; or
(c) The participation is strictly limited in its nature, scope
and duration to that necessary for other lawful purposes relating
to foreign intelligence and is a type of participation approved by
the Attorney General and set forth in a public document. No such
participation may be undertaken for the purpase of influencing the
activity of the organization or its members.
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2. This Officer vibe working with 'the- Departitle ri
OIL" Justice to develop-
the procedures required to implement Section 2--207. Under the agreed time-
table, we owe DOS a first draft of these procedures or 10 March. In producing;
that first draft, however, we need to have in front of us a full accounting. of
relevant CIA interests and activities. That is, we need a specification of the
circumstances in which Agency employee: do now, or in your view should in
the future be free to, participate in domestic organizations on an undisclosed
basis, meaning without disclosure of Agency affiliation to senior organization
officials. lVe need to know further the purposes of these activities, the reasons
why you believe they should be permitted, and any thoughts you may have con-
cerning the procedures to he recommended to the Attorney General for the
regulation of these activities.
3. By this memorandum I am asking each of you to let me have a paper,
by 24 February, outlining the interests and activities of your respective corn-
ponents that will be subject to control under Section 2-207 and the required
I implementing procedures. We will draw on these papers in producing a first
draft of these procedures, which we will then circulate for comment beforcSTATINTL
making any proposal to DOS.
Anthony A. Lapham
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