PROPOSED ISSUANCE OF NEW TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD (PFIAB)

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2002
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• Publication Date: October 1, 1965
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1 October 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
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Proposed Issuance of New Terms of
Reference for the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board (pruks)
1. Issuance of proposed new terms of reference for the
MS along the lines of the memoriadurn delivered by Bromley
lintith to Mr. Helms seems to me to pose somewhat of a dilemma.
On the one hand, it can be said that the new terms of reference
only carve to confirm the existing situation and reaffirm the
authority which already exists in Executive Order 10938. The
Agency has lived with this relationship for many years and has
never, as far as I know, actively sought to modify or limit the
authority OZ. reised by the Board or its members. On the other
hand, relations with the Board have been strained and a certain
antagonism between the Agency and the DCI on the one hand, and
the Board on the other, has developed largely, it seems to me,
became* of the way the affairs of the Board are administered and
conducted. The DCI does not attend meetings of the Board, except
insofar as they relate to the Central Intelligence Agency and is not
privy to any of their deliberations or discussions. His receives no
copies of minutes of meetings of the Board or any of its panels.
except insofar as memoranda for the record are written by repre-
sentatives of the Agency who attend these meetings. Reports of
ether components of the community are solicited, prepared.
submitted and considered by the Board without reference to the
DCI. Conclusion's and re commendations to the President are
formulated and submitted without any substantial opportunity on
the part of the DCI to review or comment upon the information
upon which many, at least, of these recommendations are based.
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Z. The foregoing appears to me to reflect a basically
aboaliby situation, given the expressed Presidential mandate
to the DC1 to serve as the principal intelligence officer of the
Government and exercise responsibility for the over-all coordi-
nation and ge.tidance of the intelligence effort as a whole. On the
one hand the Board has constantly pressed the DM to assert a
greater and more effective measure of authority over the affairs
of the community. On the other hand, the proposed letter of
authority to the board appears to degrade and erode the Das
position by making it apparent that it is the board and not the
DCI which has the ultimate authority for evaluating and determinirg
the relationships appropriate for the community and its over-all
level of effort. It would seem to me that soma redefinition of
the relationship between the board and the DCI would be desirable
as a prerequisite to concurrence in the issuance of the new terms
of reference.
3. Specifically, I would recommend that the DCI indicate
his concurrence in the issuance of a new letter of authority provided
there be agreement that:
a. The DCI attend all meetings of the board
at which representatives of any component of the com.
smaity testify concerning the affairs or activities of the
community.
b. AU reports from individual components of
the commrukity be submitted to the Board through he DCI
with the understanding that they will be forwarded
initially submitted but that the DCI reserves the right to
cerement.
c. A record of aU hearings
kept by the Executive Secretary of the
copy of these minutes be provided the
the board be
d and that a
or his retention.
DDC/
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Herewith are my thoughts on the
proposed new terms of reference for the
PFIAB.
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