SENATE INQUIRIES OM REPORTING ON DRUGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00005R000800140015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 24, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Director,' Office of African & Latin American
Analysis/DI ,
Chief, International Narcotics Division/OGI
Chief, Latin America Division/DO
Chief, Legislative Group/EPS/DO
John L. Helgerson
Director of Congressional Affairs
SUBJECT: Senate Inquiries on Reporting on Drugs
1. On Tuesday, 22 March SSCI Staff Director Sven Holmes
underscored to me the importance of responding to inquiries from
Senators Kerry and Pell on narcotics reporting. Specifically,
Senator Boren has pledged to follow up promptly on two specific
questions raised by Senators Kerry and Pell as described in the
attached material.
2. Taken literally, the Senators and the SSCI staff want
CIA cable traffic (operational traffic and DO intelligence
reports) on:
-The Contras and drugs
-Noriega's involvement with drugs
-Narcotics traffic in Cuba and, in fact, the
whole Central American/Caribbean region.
3. At present our strategy boils down to the following:
of the DI is pulling together all finished STAT
paragraph 2. I plan to deliver that material to Sven
Holmes and negotiate to get rid of some of the
remaining tasking if possible.
intelligence on the subjects described in
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-Realistically, we are likely to have to respond
somehow--fairly quickly--to the Kerry and Pell requests
regarding when we knew what, without passing raw
reporting or operational traffic to the SSCI. The
DDCI has indicated he would consider a response that
involved an annotated chronology or memorandum.
Such a document would gist the information available
in Agency holdings regarding the two key subjects
of Noriega's involvement and Contra involvement. DO
should pull together this raw material, and draft a
memorandum or annotated chronology covering available
information on these two subjects so that the DDCI
and DDO can know what we are dealing with as we decide
what form a response should take.
4. I am planning to deliver the finished intelligence to
.the SSCI on Monday, 28 March. If possible, we should assemble
the DO material by Friday, 1 April so that we can review our
options with the DDCI.
5.I lof OCA, green will coordinate the
Agency's response. Thanks for your help.
Distribution: (typed by mlg on 3/24)
1 -- to each of the. addressees
1 - OCA Record (original & attachnents)
1 - JLH Chrono
1 -- Reader Library
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