'ISSUES' COLUMN OF THE STRATEGY CHART

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2001
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• Publication Date: October 11, 1975
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"ISSUES" Column of the Strategy Chart-,
I. Intelligence Community
A. Role and Functions of the DCI.
1. Should the DCI continue to manage the CIA-
while presiding over the intelligence community?
2. If not, should the future DCI be placed. in
the NSC or be an autonomous officer reporting directly
to the President?
3. A revision of the National Security Act of
1947 is likely. It will include provisions designed
to ensure protection of the constitutional rights of
American citizens against possible violations. What
other new provisions are needed to modernize the
National Security Act to fit the-future role of U.S.
intelligence?
B. Intelligence Community Budgetary Process.
1. What changes need to be made in the community
budgetary process to strengthen executive control over
American intelligence agencies? Should this include
a strengthened role for 0MB and NSCIC?
2. Should the DCI authority over the intelli-
gence community budgetary process and resources be
augmented to strengthen his command and control? What
other measures are necessary to make it possible for
the DCI to be held accountable for the performance of
the intelligence community?
3. Is intelligence production (estimates, current
intelligence, technical intelligence, etc.) worth the
enormous amounts of money being poured into this ac-
tivity?
4. What measures are needed to prevent dupli-
cation and financial waste, especially in regard to
the management of large technical collection projects?
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1.. Shou the Board of National Estimates be
reconstituted improve the quality, integrity and
independence. of national estimate production? How
do current national estimates compare to these pro-
duced under the BNE?
2. Can other measures be taken to shield
national estimates from undue influence of policy
makers and policy executors?
3. Degree of DCI versus intelligence community
authority over national intelligence production.
4. The record of the intelligence community for
predicting major international events is being studied
as a means of determining the real value of the intelli-
gence product to the U.S. Government and public. Is
it possible that there is insufficient analysis of
available intelligence and inadequate coordination
of the intelligence product? How do we assess the
value of the intelligence product? Recent HSC hear-
ings on intelligence postmortems of major events have
highlighted the predictability issue as a dominant.
theme of HSC hearings.
D. Improvements Needed in Intelligence Community
Security Procedures.
1. Strengthen legal basis for secrecy agreement;
need for sources and methods legislation.
2. Improvements in concept and definition of
secrecy (FOIA, Privacy Act, etc'.)!
3. Legislation to regulate the handling of
classified information. .
4.. Procedures for congressional declassification
and/or publication of classified information to avoid
repetition of confrontation with HSC. .
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E. Domestic Activities of the Intelligence Community.
1. Warrantless electronic surveillance within
the U.S.. Open hearings postponed for the time being. 25X1D
but the issue of domestic electronic surveillance..
3. Huston Plan. Open hearings underway designed
to demonstrate that the Nixon administration misused.
the intelligence community for domestic political ob-
jectives.
II. Central Intelligence Agency
A. Command and Control over CIA Administration,
Budget, Personnel and Operations.
1. Are management procedures and practices
adequate to ensure accountability and strict compli-
ance with policy directives?
2. Do internal budget controls and procedures
ensure proper oversight of expenditure of funds for
authorized activities only? Should the GAO be re-
quired to audit CIA expenditures?
3. The quality and responsiveness of CIA in-
telligence production to U.S. Government and con-
gressional requirements.
4. The quality and timeliness of foreign
clandestine intelligence collection and counter-
intelligence. How is management by objective applied
to human source collection requirements and with what
results?
5. Role, utility and future of covert. action..
Various covert action operations are being studied. in
depth by the SSC (Laos, Indonesia, Chile, Greece,
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Congo, and the impact of the Katzenbach report of
1967 on covert action) and the HSC (list of projects
not yet firm) as case studies to ascertain one or
more of the following:
(a) As examples of command and control
within the CIA and between the CIA and the
White House (NSC). Did CIA act as a "rogue
elephant rampaging out of control of both the
Congress and the President"?
(b) As examples of the misuse of the CIA
by various presidents for unauthorized or mis-
guided foreign policy adventures.
(c). As examples of lack of adequate Con-
gressional oversight and as a means of bypassing
the will of Congress on foreign policy and foreign
aid issues.
(d) As a means of stimulating debate and
resolving the issue as to whether covert action
is a morally acceptable instrument of foreign
policy.
(e) As a means of making a major contri-
bution to U.S. interests at relatively small
cost in funds and manpower.
B. Domestic Activities of CIA in Support of Foreign
Intelligence Operations.
What legislation is needed to prevent recurrences
of abuses revealed in the press, Rockefeller Commission
Report and the SSC and HSC investigations? Do these
alleged abuses indicate weaknesses in the command and
control chain of command? Illustrative of such issues
are:
1. The mail intercept program. The SSC has been
investigating this issue in depth and has interviewed
numerous present and former Agency employees who were
direct or indirect participants in the program. HSC
and the Abzug subcommittee have thus far dealt with
this issue on only a hit-and-run basis.
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2. Proprietaries. CIA proprietaries have be-
come big issues for the SSC and especially the HSC.
is receiving special attention. Elaborate
arrangements and much work have gone into providing
the committee staffs with the information they have
requested but without revealing the true identities
of the proprietaries and their personnel.. The HSC
appears determined to prove that the proprietaries.
are poorly run, financially mismanaged, and may even
be conduits for certain improper practices. I-ISC
hearings on this subject are likely.
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7. MHCHAOS and related activities. The SSC
is into this activity and is collecting documents
and conducting interviews.
8. Breaking and entering and surveillance con-
ducted in connection with press leaks and CIA personnel
security cases.- Main interest in this area seems to
be. in the Department of Justice, but SSC is also looking
into this subject.
9. Drug testing. The SSC has been into this
subject in great depth and has interviewed a number. of
employees and ex-employees. What makes this a hairy
public relations problem, of course, is the Olson case.
HSC has thus far shown little interest in this.
10. Toxins. Not much left to the imagination
after the SSC executive session. The hearings were
designed to show lax practices in CIA internal command
and control.
C. Miscellaneous Allegations of CIA Transgressions.
1. Assassination plotting. This subject has ac-
counted for a major portion of the SSC time and at-
tention over the past few months. A report of some
250-300 pages has been drafted but it appears to have
become enmeshed in back-'room partisan politics. It
is to be reviewed by representatives of the intelligence
community before publication.
2. Destruction of files related to drug testing.
The SSC has taken an active interest in the subject of
drug testing and is, of course, aware of the destruction
of certain files. Only the Department of Justice is at
this time pursuing the destruction of files ("destruction,
of U.S. property") as an issue. The FBI. has been in-
vestigating.
3. Possible perjury charges related to testi-
mony on Chile by senior Agency officials during con-
gressional hearings. The SSC is aware of this issue
but only the Department of Justice is actively pur-
suing.
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4.. Possible CIA "penetration" of the White
House and other executive agencies by detailees and
former Agency employees now employed by these agencies.
The suspected purpose is to spy on these agencies and
manipulate - government officials to the advantage of
CIA. Although it defies comprehension, this subject.
is being vigorously investigated by HSC staff pre-
sumably in the hope of vindicating themselves, when
the Prouty/Butterworth incident blew up in their faces.
Every CIA detailee and former detai.lee they can iden-
tify and locate.will be interviewed, including secre-
taries.
ITT. Congress
Congressional Oversight of CIA
A. How should CongressiaT_oversight of CIA be re-
structured to ensure a equate detailed knowledge of
CIA activities at.ho e and abroad? Select committees
of-each house or~ ~pp e joint committee for Congress are
being considerecby both the SSC and HSC. Unresolved
is whether the ~exi.sting oversight committees should be
abolished and their functions transferred to a newly
established joint committee or select committees.
B. What should be the Congressional role in intelli-
gence acquisitions, intelligence production and de-
cision making on covert action? If covert action is a
morally acceptable tool for the conduct of foreign
policy, should legislation be passed to require prior
consultation with Congress before covert action is
undertaken?
C. Should Congress receive the same service from
the CIA and other members of the intelligence community
as that accorded to the President and the National
Security Council? Specifically,-should Congress be a
customer for intelligence production on an equal basis
with the President and NSC members?
H. What specific legislative recommendation should be
made to correct the inadequacies and. abuses revealed
as a result of the SSC and the HSC investigations?
Can Congress establish effective controls over the in-
telligence community through the budgetary and appro-
priations process? Should the GAO have a role in
Congressional oversi ht?T -Should. there be an "open"
intelligence budget?
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