ICS GUIDELINES FOR INTERFACE WITH THE STAFF OF THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2004
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• Publication Date: July 30, 1976
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DCI/IC-76-1387
3 0 JUL 197
MEMORANDUM.FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM
y to e DC1 or the Intelligence
Community
SUBJECT ICS Guidelines for Interface with the
Staff of the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence
1. The following is submitted for your approval as
operating guidance for the ICS concerning its interface
and relationships with the staff of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
2. These guidelines recognize that different prob-
lem areas will require somewhat different approaches and
they are geared essentially to the expected activities of
each of the four subcommittees that the SSCI has established.
3. Formal requests from the SSCI for written answers'.-
or documentation to be provided by the ICS are to be channeled
from the SSCI Staff Director to the Office of Legislative
Counsel, and ICS responses will be submitted to OLC and
passed to the SSCI subject to OLC controls. This is con-
sidered-important to assure no impression is created that
the SSCI is being treated differently from other Congressional
committees with which the DCI has important dealings.
4. will serve as the ICS point of contact
for the OLC as regards incoming requests from the SSCI and
outgoing responses. He also will be the single point of
contact for ICS with the SSCI staff concerning interviews,
conferences and the like in which ICS personnel are involved.
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5. The ICS will organize a Coordinating Committee, to
which all elements of the Community will be invited to provide
representation. This committee will enable all interested
organizations to be,aware of ongoing or pending SSCI activities,
and should provide a means of assuring similarity in guidelines
and responses throughout the Community. Situations in which
one agency makes a particular document available and another
agency withholds a similar document should be avoided.
will chair this committee.
6. SSCI Subcommittee on Rights of American Citizens
It is expected the informal Intelligence Coordination
Group will take the lead role in developing inputs for SSCI
use. On behalf of the DCI, however, the ICS will initiate
actions as necessary to organize and coordinate responses to
this subcommittee, as it did for the 30 June hearing on elec-
tronic surveillance legislation. will be the
primary ICS action officer.
7. SSCI Subcommittee on Charters
a. Community participation in the work of this sub-
committee is expected to involve SSCI staff consultations
with the various General Counsels and legal drafting
experts rather than the ICS. Much of the subcommittee
work will deal with draft legislation relating to individ
ual elements of the Community, such as the CIA and NSA.
b. If, as is now expected, the SSCI involves itself
in an examination of the overall structure of the Intelli-
gence Community, it probably will become necessary to
form working groups of Community representatives to con-
sult with the SSCI staff. As the need for such gr.oups_.-
emerges, the ICS will initiate action to assemble the
necessary experts. Because of the exhaustive effort
which went into study of alternative organizations both
in the Community last fall and more recently in the
Dep,artment of Defense, no need is seen to initiate
Community actions at this time in anticipation of ques-
tions which the SSCI might raise. As the trend of SSCI
activities is identified, it would appear appropriate to.
form a CFI Subcommittee to.participate in discussions and
draft position papers relating to legislation being
drafted,
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8. SSCI Subcommittee on Budget
a. Primary role of this subcommittee will be to
develop the authorization line for the National Foreign
Intelligence Program, and this is expected to involve
the CFI and the ICS closely with work of the subcommittee.
b. The ICS Office of Program and Budget Development
will have the leading role in Community support'for the
Budget Subcommittee. I I will be the primary
action officer.
C. It is important that the ICS be completely out-
going in its responses and provide budget and program
data to the SSCI in as much detail as is called for.
9. SSCI Subcommittee on Intelligence Collection,
Production and Quality
a. This is the subcommittee for which policy guidance
is of most immediate importance since the subcommittee
staff has started its individual conferences and inter-
views. The staff already has indicated it expects to be
provided a comprehensive catalog of intelligence products
and direct access to a large quantity of such products.
b. An initial important question is whether the ICS
should respond for the entire Community, directly arranging
for inputs from the separate organizations--as there is
indication the SSCI staff director would prefer--or whether
the subcommittee staff should deal directly with the
individual production-organizations--as the subcommittee
staff already has started to do with the CIA.
c. The recommended policy is that ICS limit its
involvement with this subcommittee to those activities
which the ICS conducts and papers which it produces,
and that for access to products and related materials
and interviews with personnel the subcommittee staff
deal directly with individual producing organizations.
d. Under this arrangement, the ICS would be respon-
sible for the release to the SSCI of USIB/NFIB documents
and DCI Committee documents which are not estimative in
nature, and for documents prepared within the ICS. The
D/DCI/NI would be responsible for release of NIBS and
other substantive interagency documents.
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e. While a catalog of intelligence publications
already exists ("A Survey of the Intelligence Community
Periodicals," dated 13 April 1976 and prepared by ICS),
it is recommended that this catalog not be provided to
the SSCI. A large number of the periodicals listed are
not finished intelligence and are intended primarily for
use by intelligence analysts. Instead, it is recommended
each production organization be responsible for prepara-
tion of a listing of its products which it considers
will respond to the stated needs of the SSCI subcommittee.
The CIA already has done this. ?
f. It is recommended that each releasing organiza-
tion be responsible for obtaining such concurrences from
other organizations as are considered essential under
the Third Party rule.
g. For those'documents which are under the release
cognizance of the D/DCI/IC, it is recommended that the
D/DCI/IC be authorized to act for the DCI as final authority
for release of Community documents.
10. On the basis of experience during the period in which
the Senator Church and Congressman Pike committees were active,
several other problems which need to be addressed are these:
DCI Spokesman with the SSCI
1 Last year the DCI employed a Special Counsel.
to be his spokesman and negotiator
with the Church and Pike committees on matters in
which the DCI did not personally take part.
(2) It is recommended' that the DCI use the--
Legislative Counsel in this role as regards the
SSCI.
(1) During much of last year's investigations,
White House release approval was required before any
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document could be furnished to the committee staffs.
The political sensitivity of the investigations was
considered to call for such procedures. In some
instances this built in lengthy delays, but in the
end, with very few exceptions, requested documents
were released. In some instances, the White House
staff called for sanitization which went beyond
that proposed by the responsible intelligence
organization. During the latter stages of the
investigations, while there was no official change
in policy, only documents which were considered
particularly sensitive or which impinged do policy
considerations were passed to the White House for
clearance prior to release.
(2) It is suggested that the DCI advise the
White House Counsel that SSCI staff interface with
Intelligence Community organizations has reached
the stage in which documents are being requested
and interviews arranged. Considering that it is
intended that work with the SSCI not be on an
adversary basis, it is recommended that the DCI
advise appropriate White House personnel that he
considers his responsibilities extend to making
final determination as to releasability of documents
without referral to the White House unless in his
judgment matters of important political sensitivity
are involved.
c. Sanitization
(1) During last year's investigations consider-
able attention was devoted to the sanitization of
documents prior to their release to the committee
staffs. Primary attention was focused. on the pro-
tection of sources and methods--which became in-
creasingly important as it became apparent that
much of the material provided in classified form
was going to be publicly released.
(2) It is recommended that for documents being
provided to the SSCI, sanitization be limited to an
absolute minimum--the names of agents and other
sensitive personnel, sensitive liaison arrangements,
and material in current reports or studies, release
of which could have an adverse impact on current
international negotiations.
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11. It is recommended that the DCI approve the recommenda-
tions set forth in this memorandum as guidance for our working
relationships with the SSCI staff.
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I checked with George Cary and the attached
is okay by him, but he suggests I give the Director
a note as to whether this reflects your understanding
and interests growing out of the meeting with the
DCI.
Please phone me.
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CIA PRODUCT
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Time-sensitive initial analysis of foreign
political, military, scientific, and economic
developments produced on a daily, weekly, or
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A more detailed examination of a particular
problem which provides judgments on how that
problem may develop. Estimative production
is responsive to events (Jamaica at the Cross-
roads) or functions (Soviet Forces for Strategic
Attack). Estimates reflect a Community position
with provision for dissent.
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STAT I
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Secretary of State (shared with Assistant to the
President for National Security
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Directors: NSA, DIA, INR, ERDA, FBI
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nated more widely throughout the Intelligence Community
and the Executive Branch.
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ERDA
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