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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B01034R000200050013-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2005
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 10, 2000
• Content Type: LETTER

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Cenrr 11ntelfigcnceAgercy
.ihe Honorable David A. Stockman
Director, Office of Management and Budget
Washington, D.C. 20503
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19 February 1982
In response to the 5 February 1982 letter from your General Counsel,
Michael J. Horowitz, enclosed are the Agency's comments on the proposed
Executive Order entitled "National Security Information." These comments
are keyed to the section and page numbers of the proposed order.
In the comment relating to Section 4.2(a) of the proposed order, I am
recommending that the sentence concerning "special access programs pertaining
to cryptology" be deleted, in lieu of my previous suggestion that a limiting
definition of "cryptology" be added. This has been coordinated with the
National Security Agency, and I understand the Department of Defense is making
a similar recommendation.
13eyorid the deletion of this sentence, I am also recommending the deletion
of the newly added Attorney General authority prescribed in Section 4.1(d).
The question of when classified information may be used in court is settled by
long-standing practice and Executive Order 12333 and its implementing proced.r~-(s.
If the intent of this provision is to confer new authority on the Attorney Gin r,al
in this area, I strongly object to its inclusion in the proposed order.
I concur with the Department of Defense on a need to protect technological
data not now adequately protected. I have discussed with the Secretary of Defense
certain options for achieving this, such as: (a) amending the order to define
."damage to the national security" to include either a disadvantage to the
United States or an advantage to a foreign power, or (b) having the National
Security Council directive implementing the order provide limited waiver
provisions governing security and safeguarding requirements. There may be cat;-,r
options to achieve this purpose. I would hope that before putting the Executive
Order, in final form there will be an opportunity to assess the options which
Defense deems most effective for providing this additional protection for meeting
its needs in this respect.
Overall, the proposed order is a decided improvement over the current
Executive Order 12065. I endorse in particular the simplification of require-
ments in the new order, as well as the increased emphasis on safeguarding
national security information.
Encl osure.
Yours,
I C '^
William J a s ey
Director of Centr I Intelligence
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