LETTER TO JAMES F. COLLINS (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M01264R000100050024-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: February 5, 1988
• Content Type: LETTER

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S February 1988
OCA 88-0369
Mr. James F. Collins
Director of Intelligence Policy
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Collins:
Enclosed for your information is a letter'that our General
Counsel recently sent to Mike O'Neil concerning which types of
activities require Presidential Findings under the Eughes/Ryan
Amendment, and which do not.
If you have any questions on the letter, please give me a
Sincerely,
Legislation Division
Office of Congressional Affairs
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5 February 1988
OCA 88-0370
Mr. Sven Holmes
Staff Director
Select Committee on intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, D.C, 20510
Dear Mr. Holmes:
Enclosed for your information is a letter that our General
Counsel recently sent to Mike O'Neil concerning which types of.
activities require Presidential Findings under the Hughes/Ryan
Amendment, and which do not.
If you have any questions on the letter, please give me a
Sincerely,
Legislation Division
Office of Congressional Affairs
Distribution:
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1 - OCA Registry
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5 February 1988
OCA 88-0371
Ms. Mary Lawton
Counsel for Office of Intelligence
Policy and Review
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530
Dear Ms. Lawton:
Enclosed for your information is a letter that our General
Counsel recently sent to Mike O'Neil concerning which types of
activities require Presidential Findings under the Hughes/Ryan
Amendment, and which do not.
If you have any questions on the letter, please give me a
Sincerely,
Legislation Division
Office of Congressional Affairs
Distribution:
Original - Addressee
1 - D/OCA
1 - OCA/Registry
DNI1?/Signer
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Michael J. O'Neil, Esq.
Chief Counsel
Perranent Select Committee on
Intelligence
House of representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
February 1, 198E
Dear Mike:
During a meeting on 25 January 1986 with Administration
officials, including a member of my staff, you requested further
inforrration about the CIA's interpretation of the Hughes-Ryan
Amendment, .22 U.S.C. ? 2422. Specifically, you asked for the
CIA's analysis concerning which types of activities require
Presidential Findings under the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, and which
do not.
As you know, the Hughes-Ryan Amendment provides:
No funds appropriated under the authority of
this or any other Act may be expended by or on
behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency for
operations in foreign countries, other than
activities intended solely for obtaining
necessary intelligence, unless and until the
President finds that each such operation is
important to the national security of the United
States. Each such operation shall be considered
a significant anticipated intelligence activity
for the purpose of section 501 of the rational
Security Act of 1947.
22 U.S.C. t 2422. Thus, the statute requires a
Presidential Finding for: (1) an "operation", (2) that
occurs in a foreign country, (3) that is conducted by the
Cu., (4) that expends funds during the process, and (5)
that is not intended solely for obtaining necessary
intel_licence.
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