LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM FOR THE FIRST SESSION OF THE 99TH CONGRESS

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• Document Release Date: January 29, 2009
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• Publication Date: September 14, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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OLL 84-2509/6
14 September 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: See Distribution
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Chief, Legislation Division
Office of Legislative Liaison
SUBJECT: Legislative Program for the First Session of
the 99th Congress
1. Attached is a compilation of legislative initiatives
which we would propose submitting to the office of Management
and Budget (OMB) as the Intelligence Community's legislative
program for the first session of the 99th Congress. Five new
proposals, numbered 99-1/13-17, have been added to the program
since its previous circulation and should be carefully reviewed.
2. In reviewing the attached proposals, it should be
emphasized that the inclusion of a proposal in the legislative
program does not constitute a commitment or otherwise require
the Agency to actively seek its enactment. At this stage in
the process, we are simply submitting proposal-s to OMB for
Administration clearance so that we may either seek their
enactment during the annual authorization process, pursue these
initiatives as separate free standing legislation, or decide
not to take any action whatsoever with respect to these various
proposals.
3. Given the short timeframe in which we have to respond
to OMB, I would appreciate receiving any comments you may have
by next Wednesday, 19 September 1984. The program will be
submitted on this 8 to the DCI for consideration and further
transmittal to OMB. Any comments which are received after
Wednesday, risk the possibility of not being considered prior
to the submission of the program to OMB for review.
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Distribution:
1 - SA/DCI
1 - SA/DDCI
1 - EXDIR
1 - DDO
1 - DDI
1 - DDS&T
1 - DDA
1 - IG
1 - Compt
1 - GC
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
AND
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM FOR THE FIRST SESSION
OF THE 99th CONGRESS
PART I -- PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM PROPOSALS
99/1 - 1: Freedom of Information Legislation
Relief for the Central Intelligence Agency from the
Freedom of Information Act is necessary to end the
wasteful and debilitating diversion of intelligence
resources and critically needed skills into FOIA
matters, to eliminate the danger of court-ordered
release of properly classified information, and to
maintain the confidence of human sources and foreign
intelligence services in the Agency's ability to
protect intelligence information provided to it.
Prompt consideration and passage by the 99th
Congress of legislation to provide effective relief
from the resource, operational, and security
problems currently besetting the Central
Intelligence Agency under the Freedom of Information
Act is urgently required. This proposal may become
law in the current session of-the 98th Congress, but
will be pursued in the first session of the 99th
Congress if it does not.
PART II -- OTHER PROPOSALS
99/1
- 2:
Fiscal Year 1986 Intelligence Authorization Act
99/1
- 3:
The Director of Central intelligence will submit to
the office of Management and Budget a proposed
Fiscal Year 1986 Intelligence Authorization Act for
transmittal to the Congress.
Intelligence Personnel Protection
The proposal to provide federal criminal penalties
for acts of violence against officers or employees
of the Intelligence Community was passed by both
Houses in the 97th Congress as part of a bill which
the President declined to approve, and again was
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passed by the Senate in the 98th Congress. The
President has stated his support for enactment of
this proposal and the-Director of Central
Intelligence will continue to pursue it in the first
session of the 99th Congress.
99/1 - 4: Overcoming Impediments to Naturalization of Certain
Persons Contributing to the National Intelligence
1-Mission
This proposal is designed to amend the Immigration
and Nationality Act to authorize the waiver of
general residency, physical presence and several
other technical requirements which currently impede
the naturalization of certain persons who have made
a substantial contribution to the national
intelligence mission.
99/1 - 5: Enhanced Personnel Management Authorities for the
Defense Intelligence Agency
The Director of Central Intelligence will support
legislation to afford the Defense Intelligence
Agency increased flexibility in the management of
its personnel system. This proposal may become law
as part of the Fiscal Year 1985 Intelligence
Authorization Act, but will be pursued in the first
session of the 99th Congress if it does not.
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99/1 - 6: Classified Information Procedur& Act Amendments
The Director of Central Intelligence may propose
amendments to the Classified Information Procedures
Act to ensure that classified information is
protected from all possibility of disclosure after
indictment in any criminal case.
99/1 - 7: Domestic Relocation Allowances
Pending further study of the effects of statutory
amendments relating to domestic relocation of
federal employees contained in Public law 98-151,
the Director of Central Intelligence may propose
legislation to relieve any further inequities still
being experienced by Intelligence Community
personnel in connection with the allowances payable
as a result of permanent changes of station within
the United States.
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99/1 - 8: Legislation to Ameliorate the Adverse Impact of
Federal Retirement System Changes on the Central
Intelligence Agency's Ability to Recruit and
Maintain the Quality Work Force Essential to the
Effective Performance of the National Intelligence
Mission
The Director of Central Intelligence may propose,
either in connection with the supplemental
retirement system for new federal employees to be
considered by the Congress'in 1985, or as an
amendment to the Central Intelligence Agency
Retirement and Disability System, legislation to
deal with the impact of social security coverage and
federal retirement system changes, particularly with
respect to the adverse effect that indiscriminate
increases in retirement ages would have on
intelligence operations.
99/1 - 9: Avoidance of Penalty for Mandatory Retirement Prior
to Age 62
Pending further review of the effects of recent
legislation restoring full COLAs in January of 1986,
the Director of Central Intelligence may propose
legislation to amend the omnibus Reconciliation Act
of 1982 to-exclude individuals'-who retire prior to
age 62 under the mandatory retiYem-ent provisions of
the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and
Disability System from the COLA pen4lty provisions
provided by the omnibus Reconciliation Act for early
retirees.
99/1 - 10: Protection of Intelligence Information
There may be a need for legislation which clearly
provides criminal penalties for willful unauthorized
disclosures of classified information by federal
employees and others having authorized access to
classified information.
99/1 - 11: Signals Intelligence Protection Act
The Director of Central intelligence may support
legislation to amend the National Security Act of
1947 to better protect sensitive signals
intelligence by providing the United States with
certain civil remedies in cases involving the
intentional unauthorized disclosure of such
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information by individuals in circumstances where
the individual reasonably should know that this
disclosure is likely -to impair the signals
intelligence capability or activities of the United
States.
99/1 - 12: Compensation of Director and Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence
The Director of Central Intelligence will submit
legislation to amend title-5, United States Code, to
place the positions of Director of Central
Intelligence and Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence at Executive Schedule Levels I and II,
respectively. This proposal may become law as part
of the Fiscal Year 1985 Intelligence Authorization
Act, but will be pursued in the first session of the
99th Congress if it does not.
99/1 - 13: Department of Defense Proprietaries
The Director of Central Intelligence may support
legislation which would grant DOD authority to
establish and operate corporations or other business
entities in support of authorized and appropriately
coordinated intelligence activities.
99/1 - 14: Security Personnel at CIA Installations
The Director of Central Intelligence will submit
legislation which will authorize Agency personnel
within the United States to perform the same
functions as special policeman of the General
Services Administration perform under 40 U.S.C.
318. This proposal may become law as part of the
fiscal year 1985 Intelligence Authorization Act, but
will be pursued in the first session of the 99th
Congress if it does not.
99/1 - 15: Interlocutory Appeal Authority
The Director of Central Intelligence may submit a
proposal to amend the United States Code to permit
an interlocutory appeal by the United States from
any decision of a United States court or a judge
thereof on any evidentiary ruling or dispositive
motion when the Director of Central Intelligence
certifies that the decision being appealed would
have an adverse impact on the national security.
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99/1 - 16: Matters Committed to Agency Discretion
The Director of Central Intelligence may propose an
amendment to the National Security Act to make it
clear that all Agency personnel actions, including
decisions on hiring, firing, and security approvals,
shall be deemed committed to Agency discretion by
law and thus within a current exemption of the
Administrative Procedure Act.
99/1 - 17: Remedy for Actions Arising-Out of Security
Investigations
The Director of Central Intelligence may propose an
amendment to the United States Code to provide that
any cause of action a person may have for claims
arising out of security investigations or
determinations would be against the United States
exclusively.
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