SESSION WITH TOM LATIMER, HPSCI, ON DCI ANNUAL REPORT (28 SEPTEMBER)

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• Publication Date: September 29, 1978
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DCI/IC 78-1189
29 September 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Director, Community and Legislative Liaison Office
Policy Guidance Office
SUBJECT: Session with Tom Latimer, HPSCI, on DCI Annual Report
(28 September)
1. Q We told Latimer that the guidance on the Annual Report in
Chairman Boland's 15 September 1978 letter to the DCI had been very
helpful and that an interim reply to Boland plus a draft concept of
this year's Annual Report were on their way to the DCI for his con-
sideration. Meanwhile we wanted to try the concept/outline out
on Latimer and his HPSCI colleagues for their reactions (understanding
that we did not yet know what the DCI's own reaction might be). Jim
Bush sat in on part of the session.
2. With respect to the six special subjects in Boland's
15 Septem er letter on which the HPSCI is requesting coverage, Latimer
had no problem with our proposing to treat them either entirely
within the body of the report or highlighted therein and treated
fully in responses appended to the HPSCI's copy of the Annual Report,
depending on length, complexity, etc. He questioned our reasoning
that #4, on agreements between US intelligence components and foreign
governments, was not really Annual Report subject matter, but it
developed that his real concern was whether the CIA component of
the intelligence community would finally agree to answer its part
of that question, not whether the DCI answers in an attachment to the
Annual Report or separately.
3. 0 Discussion revealed that #6, all unauthorized disclosures
of classified information, is meant to include media leaks, and
is wanted as ammunition to try to get the Congress to help assist
in preventing security leak problems, not just for information/oversight
purposes.
4. With respect to the draft outline for this year's Annual
Report, t e specific concerns and comments Latimer voiced were:
1fhat the HPSCI feels that the requirements problem under-
lies al of the issues nominated for Part II; the Committee continues
to be frustrated at the lack of a real way to correlate authoritative
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requirement priorities (the object of the intelligence exercise, what's
most needed and why) with proposed resource allocation (ZBB decision
units). (Comment: he's right, of course, and while this year's
Annual Report won't be able to chart a program under way to design
that correlation effectively, we can have the problem firmly in mind
in the way we address the Issues in Part II and various headings in
Part I, such as the PRC(I) evolution- and concerns.)
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-- (C) The DCI's relationship with Defense is fundamentally important
to the 1978 state of intelligence
outline.
indirectly in various places in the Annual Report and so be responsive
to the HPSCI's concern without driving new cleavage lines in the
Executive; anyway, we'll have that issue subliminally in mind and
try to convey a tactful yet forthcoming impression.) An alternative
that was mentioned was to include a subtopic: "Role of the DCI," that
could address dealings with DoD.
onveted the HPSCI
serious interest in the DCI's perception o how that relationship
generally is progressing. It may be possible to address this
Have we given any thought to an Unclassified version this
year ofie Annual Report? We said yes, and while we hadn't decided,
we were concerned whether it would be possible to say enough meaningful
to be worthwhile. Latimer thought it would and ticked off a number
of Part I topics that he thought could be treated wholly or partly
in an Unclassified version. (Comment: Boland's letter leaves the
matter of an Unclassified version to the DCI's judgment. We have
recommended against such to the DCI. One would no doubt be useful
to the Congress, but if it has to be done someone is going to have
to write a rather different and separate report using the Classified
one simply as a starting point.)
Latimer tipped us off to an emerging issue of concern to the
Committee having to do with "sensitive collection" activities referred
to in EO 12036 (Section 1-303) explaining that the HPSCI initially
thought that meant covert action, (comment: why they confused covert
action with collection was unclear,) but now realized the intelligence
community
e w! be doing
some looking into this in the coming year, and might well request
coverage on same in next year's Annual Report.
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