"DRUG TESTING" AMENDMENT TO FY-87 AUTHORIZATION BILL

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01390R000901120016-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 17, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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17 September 1986
oCA 86-3150
NOTE FOR: The Director
The Deputy Director
THROUGH: Dave Grie
FROM: E
SUBJECT: "Drug Testing" Amendment to FY-87 Authorization Bill
STAT
At noon today, we learned for the first time that
Representative Clay Shaw (R-Fla) had just drafted and was about to
offer on the House floor an amendment to the Intelligence
Authorization Bill that would require each agency in the
intelligence community to establish a program for drug testing of
its personnel. A copy of the amendment is attached.
In the 15 minutes we were given to comment on the proposal, we
contacted HPSCI Staff Director Latimer and Chief Counsel O'Neil on
the House floor and argued that we could not support the amendment
because we knew little or nothing about its scope, purpose, or the
means by which such a program will be funded. They, too,
professed total ignorance about the amendment, but indicated that
there was little they could do to stop it. Meanwhile, the
amendment passed by voice vote (there were only a handful of
members on the floor at the time, most of whom we were told were
Republicans who supported the measure).
However, it does not appear that the amendment will have an
adverse impact on us. According to Shaw's statement on the floor,
the amendment is intended to track with the President's recent
Executive Order. Thus, the head of each agency will have
considerable discretion in determining how to implement its own
drug testing program. Since we have such a program already in
place (with the polygraph as the key tool), it does not appear
that we will have to undertake any new or separate initiatives.
HPSCI staff has agreed to reaffirm this point in the legislative
history, and in any case the Shaw Amendment may not survive the
House/Senate Conference should one take place.
Attachment
as stated
STAT
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Page 33, insert after line 7 the following:
Title 7, Drug Testing: Controlled substance testing program:
Section 701(a), the head of each agency referred to in
section 101, shall implement a controlled substances testing
program for any employee of such agency for whose activities
funds are authorized by this act.
(b) the results of any test administered under subsection (a)
shall be reported--
(1) to the individual tested; and
(2) to the appropriate agency head or other authority
responsible for implementing the program under which the test
is administered.
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