LETTER TO PETER SHARFMAN FROM CHARLES A. BRIGGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01370R000200220009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 19, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

Approved For Release 2008/11/06 :CIA-RDP90B01370R000200220009-7
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Director, Of7ice of Legislative Liaison 19 December 1984
NOTE T0: EX DIR
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RLF: Office of Technology Assessment Request
o I think you both ought to weigh in on this
1SSUe.
o I }lave discovered several recent examples of
the absence of institutional memory here,
occasioned by reorganization and rapid
turnover- of personnel, being the cause of
distrust betT~~een the Agency and the Congress.
o In fact, Dand I have concluded that the
root cause of almost all of our current
diffiallties is distrust: us of them in
a secTlri.ty context; them of us in a
information dcni.al context.
o I ~IT1 asking, ~~~ith regard to the attached
exchange with OTA,whether this is the
smartest i