LETTER TO ORRIN G. HATCH FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001404080035-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: May 25, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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Central Intelligence Agency
The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch, Chairman
Committee do Labor and Human'Resources
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Orrin,
Thank you for your letter of 11 May 1983 in which you ask that
Dr. Pillsbury be provided briefings on Soviet policy as it relates to
international labor issues. My Legislative Liaison Office will be in touch
with Dr. Pillsbury to arrange those briefings as you requested.
As you and Mr. Bob Searby of the Labor Department requested, we have
provided Dr. Pillsbury compartmented access at the SI/TK level so that
we could provide him sensitive information relative to your needs as
Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. However, this
information will necessarily be provided on a strict "need to know" principle.
For example, we,will be unable to provide Dr. Pillsbury a set of materials
on terrorism. The professional staffs of the Judiciary Committee and the
Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism have access to this information and
I am sure they can provide you excellent staff support.
course we can provide you with a private briefing as your need for this
information arises.
As to the daily periodicals available in the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence (SSCI), these are all-source documents of the most extreme
sensitivity, covering the range of the Intelligence Community's collection
and analysis efforts. They are provided to the professional staffs of the
SSCI for their daily oversight responsibilities, and are held there so that
any Senator who is interested can read them himself. I cannot agree to
Dr. Pillsbury's reviewing them on a daily basis; to do so would do injury to
the concept of "need to know," which is just as important as the level of a
person's clearances.
We will, of course, certify Dr. Pillsbury's clearances to other components
within the Intelligence Community, but I would expect them to apply the same
strict "need to know" standard to his requests for information and briefings.
ri' J. Casey
ntral Intelligence
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