SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

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• Publication Date: June 10, 1976
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10 June 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Office of Legislative Counsel
ATTENTION
SUBJECT Senate Select Committee Recommendations
1. Rereading these recommendations lined u one after
the other demonstrates
They are overlapping and some almost contradictory. in general,
I would think the less legislation the better, but there are
some topics on which it would be useful to lock the Community
in by statute.
2. The following comments are numbered according to the
sequence in your list, although some have to be grouped in order
to comment on them.
1-3 & 22. Recommendation l actually sub-
sumes a great many others such as 7? 16, 17,
etc. I fear revision of the Act is inevitable,
especially if our request for a second statutory
deputy opens it up. Obviously, the more gen-
eral its provisions the better. One problem
that will surely arise is the wartime relation-
ship of the DCI and the DoD. See especially
the full text of l7e.
7, 16 & 17. Here is the place where a
statute could reinforce E.O. 11905. In regard
to 16, the Director's establishment of an Ad-
visory Panel meets the Committee's recommendation
for an outside board. White it is desirable to
give the DCI by statute the means to carry out
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his responsibilities, he should not be told
how to do it. A statutory requirement for a
board would do just that.
19. This was a recommendation of the
Taylor group that goes beyond E.O. 11905. It
is both legislatively complex and bureaucratically
tricky. "Consider" is the operative word. Our
position should probably be neutral, given the
sensitivities involved, but we should not oppose.
21, 29.& 41. These three approach from
various angles the organization of the office of
the DCI and of CIA under the DCI. In the battle
leading up to the issuance of E.O. 11905, the
OCT took the position that he needed direct
control over CIA as a bureaucratic base from
which to operate. He has shown no indication
of changing his mind and we should therefore
oppose any reorganization. The subsidiary
question, whether the DDI should somehow be
separated from the Agency, is really an effort
to ensure the independence of national intel-
ligence production, as is now provided by the
E.O. To my mind this is more dependent on the
people involved and their ability to work to-
gether than on organizational arrangements.
In fact, the DDI can report directly to the
DCI when he needs to, as can the NIOs, and
the close coupling among the Directorates and
between them and the NIOs provides a respon-
siveness which would be lost if any separation
took place. See the DCI's letter to Bill
Bundy.
25. I do not see how the Secretary of
State can chair a subcommittee of a CFI chaired
by the DCI, nor do I see how any Secretary of
State would be willing to give much time to
"HUMINT," whatever the hell that abominable term
means. The Human Resources Committee was made
a DCI Committee so that it could serve the CFI
and State is strongly represented on it. This
seems to me to meet the requirement.
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31-34. They result from
the weakness of the basic paper on production
and I suggest we ignore them. If the Committee
raises them, a briefing on what we are doing
already should take care of the problem.
66. This is simply unworkable.
67. This is the obverse of 17 and 19 and
would have to be done if changes in the DCI's
statutory resource authority are made.
68 & 69. These are subsumed in 2.
Deputy
RICHARD LEHMAN
othe DCI for National Intelligence
D/DCI/NI:RLehman:lm (10 June 76)
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