LEGAL AND PROPER ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00498A000300040017-6
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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: March 10, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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10 March 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT Legal and Proper Activities
1. The Inspector General wrote you on 2 March
suggesting that you issue an Employee Bulletin in your
name establishing the general requirement for all
employees to report to you any questionable activities
that come to their attention. You approved this recom-
mendation.
2. The Inspector General asked that I prepare such
a notice for your signature. It is attached, and has
the concurrence of the Inspector General and the General
Counsel.
STATINTL
John F. Blake
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A "( M I'C?t ALL CIA
As Director of Central Intelligence. I am d+ter
tI Intelligence A,.,ft
adherenct to its legislative charter,
Executive Orders, and appropriate a
Directives. Only by such adherence b
t and letter of VIM law, can the A ei cy con'
to serve the people of the tnite4 States Toy properly
carrying out Its rnissiou to contribute to the _ational
r it y
A CIA
eguir tion requires that any erpioyee wlbo b
, current, or props. d CIA activities
strued to be illegal, improper, + uesti n-
CIA's le izlative charter, or who eii v
eiyed instructions that i, my way
proper, questionable, or outside CTA*s
or, i :for the Director or inspector
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ployce to comply with, t..-
You may report ai#y. Information ref
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Remarks:
In para. 9 of Ref memo, the IG suggest
to the DCI that it would be appropriate and
desirable for Mr. Bush to restate on his
own behalf the general requirement for all
em to ees to report questionable activities
has prepared the attached Memo
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Employees in that regard. Does
or all CIA
this look ok to you?
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As Director of 2ntral Intellig
that the Central Ip elligence Agene
in strict adhereryZe to its legisl
applicable laws. Only by such
and letter of the law can the
people of the United States
mission to contribute to t
A CIA regulation
knowledge of past, cur,
might be construed t
legislative charte
received instruct
improper,, or out
the Director or
e, I am determined
conduct its activities
ive charter, other
herence both to the spirit
gency continue to serve the
properly carrying out its
national security.
uires that any employee who has
ent, or proposed CIA activities that
be illegal, improper,=or outside CIA's
or who believes that he or she has
that in any way appear illegal,
ide CIA's legislative charter, inform
Inspector General immediately.
#,; ' I expec each employee to comply with the regulation.
?ou may rep rt any information relating to these matters
directly me or to the Inspector General at any time.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
George Bush
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director
FROM : Inspector General
SUBJECT : Are. CIA Employees Reporting Fully
to the DCI?
1. This memorandum is in response to your request for
background information concerning the question raised at the
27 February breakfast with Senator Bellm.on's group. The
question was how you would know if CIA is reporting to you the
things you should know. This . reviews the. origin of the present
reporting requirements, how they first became known publicly, .
and. where things now stand. There- is..& recommendation for
your?,considerati.on: in. paragraph 9.
2. On 9 May'.-.1.973 DCI Schlesinger issued instructions- to
alL,..employees that: they report any activities that appeared to
them as-being outside the Agency's legislative charter. On the
same date he appeared in open session before the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee on Intelligence, where he described
activities, which-was reported in the press at the time as well
as on a. recurring basis thereafter.
3. DCI Colby was asked a number of times if he was sure
that he knew what was going on in the Agency. His reply took
various forms, usually referring to the instructions to employees
that they report' any questionable activities--that there be "no
surprises".--and his confidence that he knew those things he should
know. He also referred to instructions issued by him in August
1973 setting new limits on Agency activity.
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4. In addition to the above, DCI Colby raised the matter
a number of times at our morning meetings, reiterating to his
Deputies the need to keep in mind the requirement for reporting.
The Employee Conduct Handbook.. required annual reading for
all employees---was. changed to include. the following statement:
"Any CIA. employee who believes that he has
received. instructions which in any way appear
inconsistent with the CIA legislative charter
will. inform the Director of. Central Intelligence
immediately. "
The continued p.ubl.i_city. .given past Agency activities and this
clear_.requ.ir.ement.-to report questionable activities has heightened
employee.: sensitivity to?.the question. There is reason for confidence
in the belief that past inhibitions for reporting such activities have
been overcome.
.5. In addition to the clear responsibility of employees to
report questionable activities, the Agencyis internal review
mechanism has- been reinforced to detect improprieties when
they exist. The Inspector General's staff is in the final phase of
increasing .from five to twenty inspectors, and a program of
reviewing all Agency activities for possible improprieties or
illegality is underway.
6. As the.question about knowledge can be expected again
it might be-useful.-to, review some of the incidents that have
iven- rise to it. The 9 May 1973 instructions by DCI Schlesinger
him with technical support in the summer of 1971. Although the
profile had been approved by -DCI Helms, its relationship to that
which became known as "Watergate" was not recognized until
May 1973.
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had no connection with any CIA assignment. This incident, however,
led to the resignation of the Director of Security. -Finally, the
Senate Select Committee inquiry into allegations of assassination
plotting revealedrthat.DCI McCone--a Director from outside the
Agency--had not been. told of the plotting against Castro. It doubt-
less is one or more of these incidents that prompts the continuing
questions about the possible lack of complete reporting to the DCI.
8. Present, policy appears to be well known and. understood,
that Agency employees are to report any questionable activities
known to them, either to the. DCI or the IG. Requirements for
OGC. review of new activities, and the augmented inspection
capability, reinforce the likelihood that activities not recognized
and reported by employees will be reviewed at their inception
or detected in the regular program o . inspections. The Audit
Staff's program audits should also assist in this regard.
9. We believe that it is appropriate and desirable that
you restate on your own behalf the general requirement for all
employees?-to report to you any questionable activities that come
to their attention, taking the form of a notice to all employees.
STATINTL
Donald F. Chamberlain
Inspector General
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