PROCEDURES FOR APPROVAL OF ASSISTANCE TO OTHER AGENCIES PURSUANT TO (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83T00573R000600030031-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: March 11, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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OGC Has Reviewed
DDA 77-1250
11 MAR 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Communications le 6
Director
of
Data Processing
Director
of
Finance
Director
of
Logistics
Director
of
Medical Services
Director
of
Personnel
Director
of
Security
Director
of
Training
Chief, Information and Privacy Staff
Chief, Information Systems and Analysis
Staff
FROM John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT Procedures for Approval of Assistance
to Other Agencies Pursuant to
1. Attached is a memorandum from the General Counsel
which, in effect, relaxes previously promulgated require-
ments for obtaining approval to provide assistance to other STATINTL
Government agencies. In essence, this latest memorandum
states that those procedures pertaining to this subject
STATINTL which are outlined in and that regulation's
will govern.
2. Office directors and staff chiefs are requested to
review in detail the provisions of ~to ensure that thd~TATINTL
are currently familiar with its requirements. As relates to
paragraph 3 of Mr. Lapham's memorandum, it is obvious that in
many cases we will be dealing with gray areas with imprecise
precedents or policy guidance. In any such case where there
may
be some doubt
as to the propriety or legality of provid-
ing
such support,
the matter should be promptly referred to
the
Office of the
DDA for my review and decision or for fur-
ther
processing as
may be required.
,(V/ qba , Blake
John F. Blake
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OGC 77-1160
22 February 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Inspector General
FROM : Anthony A. Lapham
General Counsel
SUBJECT : Procedures for Approval of Assistance to Other
Agencies Pursuant to-
STATI NTL
1. CIA procedures regarding relations with federal, state and local
agenri.s currently are set forth in :she
Director of Central Intelligence assured e airman of tl-~e Intelligence Over-
sight Board in correspondence of 24 April 1976 that Agency policy, at that
time expressed it required review of requests for assistance to such
agencies by the Office of General Counsel. This policy should be constru TWIdL~
t
o mandate OGC review of requests for assistance er procedures estab-
lished by Agency regulations, currently and TATINTL
which do not require OGC approval of each and every such request. Accord-
ingly, OGC 76-1.949, dated 27 July 1976, is rescinded and the procedures of
hereto as described in this memorandum are substituted
or the procedure followed to date.
2. According to these procedures, requests involving the following
types of activities may be approved by responsible officials without con-
sultation with a Deputy Director, head of independent office, the Inspector
General, or OGC:
a. Undertakings authorized by NSCID's or DCID's,
b. Narcotics intelligence pursuant to Executive Order
11905 and
c. Contacts authorized by statute and
O and (h) with the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. Secret
Service, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
d. Interagenc domestic intelligence discussions as
described in
e. Permission for third agency dissemination.
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f. Preparation or passage of information, analyses of
information, or reports concerning foreign phenomena, including
foreign personalities.
g. Security clearances and related information under
Executive Order 10450 or 10865.
Ii. Employment references.
3. Utilizing the guidelines established by the Deputy
Director or head of independent office may approve, without IG or OGC
concurrence, all requests for support to Department of Defense intelligence
STATINTL elements unde , and for initiation or continuation of assistance
when the proposed relationship is compatible with relationships previously
established as legal and pro er and no policy or resource implications of the
STATINTL type described in re involved.
4. The Deputy Director or head of independent office will forward a
request to the IG and OGC for approval when no precedent of legality or
propriety has been established, or such policy or resource implications are
involved. The IG, with the concurrence of OGC, will recommend initiation,
continuation, termination or modification of such activities. The. Director will
resolve disagreements between the Deputy Directors, the IG, or OGC.
5. The regulation does not require that each and every request for
assistance be approved by a Deputy Director, head of independent office,
the IG, or OGC. It should be noted that there is no prohibition as to contact
with other Government components to discuss the formulation of a request.
However, once the request is formulated, the appropriate procedure must he
followed to obtain approval for the desired assistance. STATINTL
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Asst to DDCI
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Comptroller
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