LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM DAVE DURENBERGER

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• Publication Date: October 22, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Bill:
The Select Committee on Intelligence will continue its
series of closed hearings on U.S. counterintelligence and
security programs on Wednesday, October 30, at 9:30 a.m. in
Room SH-219 of the Hart Senate Office Building. We have been
advised that the White House will designate you to represent
the Administration at these hearings.
This series of hearings began with a joint CIA-FBI
presentation of the hostile intelligence service threat on
July 18-. The Committee's objective is to develop a common
agenda with the Administration for immediate actions and
long-term decisions to improve U.S. counterintelligence and
security programs. To achieve this objective, the Committee
wishes to review all the proposals for improving counter-
intelligence and security that either are being implemented
or are under consideration within the Executive branch. At
the end of the hearings, we intend to report our findings and
recommendations to the Senate.
The Committee's interests encompass all aspects of
protection against hostile intelligence collection activities
and active measures. This includes information, personnel,
industrial, physical, communications, computer, technical,
and operational security, as well as counterintelligence
activities and diplomatic measures. Among our specific concerns
are reducing the size of the hostile intelligence presence,
finding new solutions to the longstanding problem of over-
classification, developing a long-term strategy for technical
and systems security, improving security management and
accountability, and strengthening counterintelligence capabilities.
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The Honorable William J. Casey
October 22, 1985
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The October 30 hearing will be devoted to an overview
of the Administration's actions, including recent decisions
and topics under review. We would like you to be the main
witness. We would appreciate it if you could also arrange
for appropriate representatives of the Intelligence Community
Staff, CIA, FBI, NSA, State Department, Defense Department
(including the Stilwell Commission), and the Information
Security Oversight office to be present at that hearing.
The Committee would appreciate your working with the
NSC Staff and the relevant departments and agencies to prepare
testimony that gives us a comprehensive survey of recent
initiatives and recommendations for improved protection
against hostile intelligence activities. Please include the
status of current studies such as the Stilwell Commission
and the Information Security Oversight Office Task Force, as
well as steps taken to implement recent decisions such as
NSDD-145 and the new limits on activities of certain foreign
governments in this country.
We look forward to this hearing, and to a continuation of
the close cooperation with the Executive branch that has
characterized our efforts in recent months. Together, we can
effect real improvements in a wide variety of counterintelligence
Patrick Leahy
Vi.te Chairman
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Senate Select Committee
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WILLIAM S. COHEN, MAINE SAM NUNN. GEORGIA
ORRIN HATCH. UTAH THOMAS F EAGLETON, MISSOURI
FRANK MURKOWSKI, ALASKA ERNEST F HOLLINGS, SOUTH CAROLINA
ARLEN SPECTER. PENNSYLVANIA DAVID L. SOREN. OKLAHOMA
CHIC HECHT, NEVADA SILL BRADLEY. NEW JERSEY
MITCH MCCONNELL, KENTUCKY
ROBERT DOLE. KANSAS. EX OFFICIO
ROBERT C. BYRD. WEST VIRGINIA, EX OFFICIO
BERNARD F MCMAHON, STAFF DIRECTOR
ERIC D. NEWSOM. MINORITY STAFF DIRECTOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: DAVE HOLLIDAY
October 22, 1985 [phone]
A PLAN FOR COUNTERINTELLIGENCE STRATEGY HEARINGS
The Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence announced today that the Committee
will soon hold hearings on the formulation of a national
counterintelligence strategy. In addition, they made four
specific recommendations to limit the hostile intelligence
presence in the United States.
.Senator Dave Durenberger (R-MN) and Senator Patrick
Leahy (D-VT), testifying before the Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations of the Governmental Affairs Committee,
said the Intelligence Committee has been reviewing counter-
intelligence capabilities of the United States since before
the Walker case came to public attention earlier this
year.
Stressing that the Committee work
is
being done in
close cooperation with the White House
and
appropriate
government agencies, the two senators
said
that a public
report to the Senate would be made at
the
end of the
Committee review.
"Although the Intelligence Committee does most of its
work in closed hearings, we believe it is vital for the
entire Senate and the public to be aware of the full dimension
of the espionage problem," they said.
The senators cited a number of actions already taken in
the counterintelligence field but added, "more needs to be done."
"Creating a less favorable environment for espionage
operations inside the United States should be the foundation
of a national strategy," they said.
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Durenberger and Leahy then made four recommendations
they said deserve. immediate attention. The recommendations
included equalizing U.S. and Soviet embassy and consular
personnel by both reducing the size of the Soviet dele-
gation in this country and increasing the number of Americans
working at U.S. facilities in the Soviet Union. They noted
the idea of achieving such a balance solely by an increase
in the number of Americans in the Soviet Union, "totally
misreads the intent of Congress and conflicts with the
President's policy."
Other recommendations included reducing the size of the
Soviet U.N. Mission, requiring certain foreign mission
travel controls for Warsaw Pact country representatives, and
regulating foreign-controlled commercial entities.
The senators said with the exception of regulating
foreign-controlled commercial entities, all the recom-
mendations could be put in place now without the need for
enabling legislation.
Senator Leahy noted that he, together with Senator
William Cohen, also a Member of the Intelligence Committee,
has introduced a bill to reduce the size of the Soviet
Mission in New York. In a floor statement on the bill,
S.1773, on October 18, Senator Leahy expressed the hope that
it would provide a focus for consideration of this important
and difficult issue, and offered to work closely with the
Administration in devising a reduction arrangement. "It may
be that this bill will stimulate the Executive Branch to
prepare their own plan to deal with the intelligence threat
posed by the Soviet Mission to the United Nations,"Senator
Leahy said in his October 18 statement.
Senator Durenberger said that another bill will be
introduced soon to provide the necessary legislative authori-
zation for regulating foreign-controlled commercial entities.
The senators also submitted a preliminary report on the
Intelligence Committee's review of U.S. counterintelligence
and security programs. The report describes both human and
electronic aspects of the espionage threat, as well as
countermeasures to enhance U.S. security.
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