CONFERENCE REPORT

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• Publication Date: November 10, 1987
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100TH CONGRESS
1st Session
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
REPORT
100-432
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR
1988
NOVEMBER 10, 1987.?Ordered to be printed
Mr. STOKES, from the committee of conference,
submitted the following
CONFERENCE REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2112]
The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two
Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2112) to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1988 for intelligence and in-
telligence-related activities of the United States Government, for
the Intelligence Community Staff, for the Central Intelligence
Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes,
having met, after full and free conference, having agreed to recom-
mend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows:
That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment
of the Senate and agree to the same with an amendment as fol-
lows:
In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the Senate
amendment insert the following:
That this Act may be cited as the "Intelligence Authorization
Act, Fiscal Year 1988."
TITLE I?INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS
SEC. 101. Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for
fiscal year 1988 for the conduct of the intelligence and intelligence-
related activities of the following elements of the United States Gov-
ernment:
(1) The Central Intelligence Agency.
(2) The Department of Defense.
(3) The Defense Intelligence Agency.
(4) The National Security Agency.
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TI TLE VII?STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL
SYSTEMS
SEC. 701. (a) The Director of Central Intelligence shall undertake
to contract with the National Academy of Public Administration
(hereinafter referred to as the Academy) for an objective study
which shall be classified and which shall consist of a comprehen-
sive review and comparative analysis of all personnel management
and compensation systems affecting civilian personnel of agencies
and entities of the intelligence community.
(b) In conducting the study described in subsection (a), the Acade-
my shall determine the adequacy of existing personnel systems to
further the ability of intelligence agencies or entities to perform
their missions, and make such recommendations for legislative, reg-
ulative or other changes as the Academy determines advisable.
(c) The study described in subsection (a) shall be completed in
final form no later than January 20, 1.989 and such study, and any
interim report of such study, shall be transmitted upon receipt by
the Director of Central Intelligence to the Permanent Select Commit-
tee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
(d) Of the amount available to the Intelligence Community Staff
for fiscal year 1988 under Section 201, not more than $500,000 shall
be available for the study described in subsection (a).
(e) The Director of Central Intelligence, the Director of the Intelli-
gence Community Staff and the heads of the elements of the intelli-
gence community shall provide such support and appropriate access
to necessary information as the Academy may require to complete
the study described in subsection (a).
TITLE VIII?GENERAL PROVISIONS
RESTRICTION OF CONDUCT OF INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
SEc. 801. The authorization of appropriations by this Act shall
not be deemed to constitute authority for the conduct of any intelli-
gence activity which is not otherwise authorized by the Constitution
or laws of the United States.
INCREASES IN EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AUTHORIZED BY LAW
SEC. 802. Appropriations authorized by this Act for salary, pay, re-
tirement, and other benefits for Federal employees may be increased
by such additional or supplemental amounts as may be necessary
for increases in such benefits authorized by law.
TITLE IX?MOL1NT ALTO EMBASSY SITE
ASSESSMENT OF SOVIET ELECTRONIC ESPIONAGE CAPABILITY
SEC. 901. (a) REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT.?The Secretary of Defense
shall review and assess the present and potential capabilities of the
Government of the Soviet Union to intercept United States commu-
nications involving diplomatic, military, and intelligence matters
from facilities on Mount Alto in the District of Columbia. The Sec-
retary shall submit to Congress a report on such review and assess-
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ecutive branch reports, but unnecessary to exempt DIA from either
the Freedom of Information Act or the Privacy Act, since compli-
ance with those statutes has not been a problem for DIA and be-
cause both statutes provide adequate protection for classified infor-
mation.
TITLE VH?STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL SYSTEMS
SECTION 701
Section 701 of the conference report requires the Director of Cen-
tral Intelligence to contract with the National Academy of Public
Administration to perform an objective classified study of person-
nel management and compensation systems affecting civilian per-
sonnel of the United States intelligence community.
Section 601 of the House bill would have created a Commission
on Intelligence Personnel Systems to review personnel recruitment,
retention, management and compensation programs of the U.S. in-
telligence community. The commission would have been made up
of three members, one appointed by the President, another by the
Speaker of the House, and a third by the Majority Leader of the
Senate. The House felt the Commission was necessary to provide a
comprehensive review of current programs; assess the need for
changes, especially those required by the unique circumstances of
intelligence activities; and to present recommendations to the Con-
gress for necessary changes after considering the potential inequi-
ties the proposed changes would create either among intelligence
agencies or between the intelligence community and the Federal
Civil Service. The Senate amendment had no comparable provision.
The conference agreement provides for the conduct of the study
that would have been required by the House bill except that under
the conference agreement, the study shall be conducted by the Na-
tional Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), an independent
Federally-chartered institution with significant expertise in govern-
ment management issues and an excellent reputation for objective,
thorough study. The study will assessAhe,ability_of-intelligence,
com-munity.__.activities,to--perform-thei-r-current-and---f-uture_missions--,--_-,--_-
wrth=e-Ii:s-ti.rig,-or-proposed- personnel-and- compensation_systems.?_
The conference agreement directs the Director of Central Intelli-
gence to contract with NAPA to conduct the study of intelligence
personnel systems but it is the expectation of the conferees that
the Director will consult with the intelligence committees in his
negotiations to select a NAPA team to conduct the study and in
the development of essential parameters of that study. The lan-
guage of the conference agreement also provides that the Director
of Central Intelligence, the Director of the Intelligence Community
Staff, and all elements of the intelligence community must provide
necessary support, including personnel, to the NAPA panel as well
as access to all information relating to intelligence personnel and
management issues. The conferees further urge the Director of
Central Intelligence to ensure that members and staff of the NAPA
panel are given every measure of cooperation and that security in-
vestigations and review necessary to provide clearances for them
are given priority attention.
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The NAPA study panel should be tasked with producing interim
analytical reports before the required completion of the final
report by January 20, 1989. The conferees believe that such interim
reports, which should be provided on May 1 and August 1, 1988,
could be useful to the intelligence committees and to the intelli-
gence community. The conferees urge the Director to ensure that
such interim reports particularly address an analysis of existing or
proposed changes to personnel management and compensation sys-
tems aimed at recruiting or retaining individuals with skills criti-
cal to the various missions of the agencies and entities of the intel-
ligence community. Among the skills of critical importance to a
number of such intelligence entities are irriathatics,_computei
scienceTengine-ering,:mid:foreign-languages,.
The conferees are aware that some intelligence agencies may
seek to institute changes in their personnel management and com-
pensation programs during the period in which NAPA is conduct-
ing the intelligence personnel study. The conferees do not wish to
discourage personnel management and compensation improve-
ments implemented within the framework of current programs.
-However,the-purpose_of_the-stud-y-is-to--p_rDvid.ema,baseliner.rfora---
,cqmpre.he4sive-reyipw-by-the,int,eilig-exNe,-committees-.of.all,,peiort-_=,
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grArns-rshouleb-e iWiewed-very-carefullrb-eforemthey.mare:rimple
mented7.*
The conferees consider the authorized programs for fiscal year
1988 to include only those personnel management and compensa-
tion programs in effect at the time the budget was submitted and
justified7Significant-c-hanges,to,those,...prou-arns,:would7be,of:special=.
Congressional.interest.rand.would,_r-missiori-to4he:Mtetli
gence.i-corn-rn-itts=-for=con-sid-eration=under-=estab.)lis_hed,reprogram-
ming-or-transfer-rproceduresr-B ''"girnifica-ne,_-conferees_..,mean
departurefrom current gersonnrrranagewei -or--:--compensation
While the conferees do not intend to discourage needed
change, they emphasize that any.contemplatedrsignificant---progra
changerstrould---b-Z'slibr'nittFd-11=ifir--a-dvance -ofth-erdateTanticipatt
dor4mplementati-on. Unless submitted as part of the annual fiscal
year 1989 budget request, such proposals should be submitted at
least 30 days prior to proposed implementation.
TITLE VHI?GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 801
Section 801 of the conference report provides that the authoriza-
tion of appropriations by the conference report shall not be deemed
to constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity
which is not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of
the United States. Section 801 of the conference report is identical
to Section 701 of the House bill and of the Senate amendment.
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