YOUR MEETING WITH SECRETARY VANCE ON 6 APRIL 1977

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: April 4, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
National Intelligence Officers
4 April 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : Richard Lehman
Associate Deputy to the DCI for National Intelligence
SUBJECT : Your Meeting with Secretary Vance on 6 April 1977
1. Action Requested: None. Attached are two proposals that you might
wish to discuss with Secretary Vance when you meet him on Wednesday, 6 April
at 1800 hours.
2. Background: Both suggestions are aimed at ensuring that representa-
tives of the Intelligence Community are more closely involved in working
groups discussing US foreign policy. In one case it is requested that an 25X1
intelligence officer participate in an interagency working group on China
which is handling sensitive US-Chinese issues
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DCI
SUBJECT : Your Meeting with Secretary Vance on 6 April 1977
Distribution:
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1 - DDCI
1 - ER
1 - D/DCI/NI
1 - AD/DCI/NI
1 - NIO/USSR
1 - NIO/CH
1 - EO/DCI/NI
1 - A/EO/DCI/NI
- DCI/NI Subject File
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1 - AD/DCI/NI Chrono
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4 April 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Acting, D/DCI/NI
FROM: James R. Lilley
National Intelligence Officer for China
SUBJECT: Intelligence Participation in Interagency
Working Group on China
1. Action Requested: Request you raise with Secretary
Vance at your next meeting with him the participation of an
intelligence officer in an Interagency Working Group on China.
2. Background:
-- It was announced in a Cabinet meeting on 28 March
that, in coordination with State, the NSC had been
meeting with an interagency group on China policy.
-- The Working Group will concern itself with
problems related to China which are not suitable to the
PRM process. This would include issues such as claims
and assets.
-- Currently this type of issue is being handled on
an ad hoc basis between State, Defense and. NSC without a
participant from the intelligence community. This was
the case in the previous Administration where a small
select group handled sensitive Chinese issues without
intelligence community involvement.
-- I believe that intelligence community participation
is essential because we need to make sure that the Group
is getting all the facts and getting them straight. Also
the intelligence community should be up to date on policy
developments and thus be producing relevant information.
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3. Staff Position: DDO and DDI concur that intelligence
participation is necessary.
4. Recommendation: I recommend that you raise this matter
with Secretary Vance in your meeting with him on 6 April. If
we do not raise this issue, the intelligence community may well
be excluded based on the past record.
James R. Lilley
National Intelligence Officer
for China
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These papers were turned back byl
I talked with him and what he wants is a two
papers combined into one folder with a short
c, overia_ _em~f~rom you explaining what the
suggest'ons and a short summary of each.
And thel he does not want the "approval/disapproval"
lines on--the last page. says he has instructed
the Executive Secretaria to send back work
that requires his writing notes or gisting papers
for Turner.
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Remarks. The O/DCI has asked that these two itemis
be combined into a single rri,emo for the DCI,
something like: Here are two items you may wish
to discuss in your meeting with Secy Vance schedu e
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