LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT FROM HPSCI CHAIRMAN AND VICE CHAIRMAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G01116R001402530001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 13, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
ROUTING SLIP
ACTION
INFO
DATE
INITIAL
1
DCI
X
2
DDCI
X
3
EXDIR
X
4
D/ICS
5
DDI
X
6
DDA
X
7
DDO
X
8
DDSBT
X
9
Chm/NIC
to
Gc
X
11
IG
12
Compt
X
13
D/OLL
X
14
D/PAO
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D/PERS
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VC/NIC
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h/SECOM
X
18
ES
X
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STAT
E e utive ecretary
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January 13, 1986
TO:
FROM:
SUBJ:
Letter to the President from HPSCI
Chairman and Vice Chairman
I don't know if the DCI received a copy of
this letter or not. In the flurry of
correspondence we received from the two
oversight committees in December, this
wound up on the bottom of the pile.
We will be responding to it after
Admiral Poindexter sends it around to
the concerned Cabinet Officers for any
action they deem appropriate. This is
just a heads up to you.
Attachment
a/s
STAT
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LOUIS STOKES OHIO
DAVE M[CiJRD~ OK~ANOMA
AN*MOM' C BEILENSON CALFORNIA
ROGER' W KASTENMEIER WISCONSIN
DAA DANIE- VIRGINIA
ROBERT A ROE. NEW JERSEY
GEORGE E GROWN JR_ CALIFORNIA
MATTHEW f. MCNUGN. NEW YORK
BERNARD J DWYER. NEW JERSEY
eoe sTUMr. ARaoNA
ANDY IRELAND. FLORIDA
NENRV J. HYDE IWNOIS
DICK CNENEY. WYOMING
COB LMNGSTON. LOUISIANA
COB McEWEN. OHIO
THOMAS IL LATIMER. STAFF DIRECi011
MICHAEL J. Ol1EIL. CHIEF COUNSEL
STEVEN K. BERRY, ASSOCMTE COUNSEL
The President
G The hfiite House
Washington, D.C.
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE~~r
ON INTELLIGENCE
December 10, 1985
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From the very first day that the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence began operating, steps were taken with the unanimous agreement of
the Members to work cooperatively with the Director of Central Intelligence
and other responsible btecutive Branch officials to ensure that ail classified
material coming into the Committee's possession would be handled in a secure
fashion.
Zb treat end, the Committee established a Registry which receives all
classified material, controls access to that material while it is in the
Committee's possession and ensures that the material is either destroyed in
accordance with the DCI's standards or is returned to the originating office.
This system had worked well and, we believe, has helped develop confidence
within the ~cecutive Branch that this Committee is acting responsibly in
protecting classified material. We had thought that the Committee's
procedures were understood and approved by members of the E~cecutive Branch
with when we deal.
In recent months, however, several incidents have occurred where the
Committee's procedures for handling classified material have been bypassed by
elements of the bcecutive Branch who have delivered classified documments to a
Member's congressional office and turned them over to uncleared personnel or
have left the classified material with a Capitol Police officer outside the
Committee roaa