LETTER TO (SANITIZED) FROM EDWARD BOLAND RE HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED COMMITTEE CORRESPONDENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R000700040110-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2007
• Sequence Number: 110
• Publication Date: January 29, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD
NFIB/NFIC-8.2/9
29 January 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD
NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL
FROM : Walter Elder
Executive Secretary
SUBJECT : Letter from Chairman Boland
The attached letter is for your information and guidance, as
appropriate.
Attachment
As Stated
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L. WARD P. GOLAND. MASS.. CHAIRMAN
CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI. WIS.
CHARLES ROSE. N.C.
ROMANO L. MA=OLI. KY.
NORMAN Y. MINETA. CALIF.
WYCHE FOWLER. JR., GA.
LEE H. HAMILTON. IND.
ALBERT GORE. JR., TONNI.
SOB STUMP. ARIZ.
J. KENNETH ROBINSON VA.
JOHN M. ASHSROOK. 04110
ROBERT MCCLORY. ILL.
0. WILLIAM WHITEHURST. VA.
C. W. SILL YOUNG. FLA.
THOMAS K. LATIMER. STAFF DIRECTOR
MICHAEL J. O'NEIL. CHIEF COUNSEL
PATRICK G. LONG. ASSOCIATE COUNSEL
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NFIB/NFIC-8.2/9
29 January 1982
Roots H-4OS. U.S. CAPITOL
[phone]
STAT
Director
Intelligence Community Staff
Community Headquarters Building
Washington, D. C. 20505
This is to inform you that henceforth, all classified Committee
correspondence will be stamped as follows:
"This document is the property of the Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
Representatives and is provided on temporary loan
to the addressee on the condition that it will
not be released or otherwise disseminated without
the permission of the Committee, except that it
may be provided to executive branch personnel
whose official duties are concerned with the
subject matter herein."
The purpose of this procedure is to make an effective, clear expression of
Congressional control with regard to each classified document sent to
executive branch addressees by the Committee. Such a clear expression appears
necessary in light of a 1980 decision by U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia, Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World
Christianity vs. Central Intelligence Agency, 636 F.2nd 838. It is the
Committee's intent in stamping each classified document as indicated above to
restrict access of such documents to those executive branch personnel whose
duties require its review. Further, it is to clearly state that no other
dissemination of such documents may be made without the express permission of
the Committee.
The Committee continues to leave to appropriate executive branch officials
the determination of who within the executive branch should receive access to
Committee documents. That is the responsibility of such officials. It is
important that all executive branch elements affected by Committee actions,
guidance or requests be cognizant thereof.
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE
ON INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20515
STAT
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in addition to future documents originated by the Committee, this letter
is also meant to make clear the Committee's intent with regard to any
classified documents provided to executive branch addressees since the
Committee's inception in 1977. The Committee always has considered such
documents to be Congressional documents. They were provided to executive
branch addressees for internal executive branch use only, so as to assist in
the Committee's exercise of its legislative and oversight responsibilities.
The Committee wishes all such addressees, the departments or agencies for
which they worked and any other executive branch officials to whom these
documents were provided to treat such documents as the property of the
Committee. They may not be further disseminated, aside from routine internal
use by those officials whose duties require their review, without the express
permission of the Committee.
Early in its existence, the Committee instituted a practice of prohibiting
the reproduction, by executive branch officials, of transcripts of executive
session Committee proceedings on loan to executive branch agencies. This was
accomplished by stamping a prohibition on reproduction of all such transcripts
and securing their return after a period of review. The Committee will
continue to observe this practice - permitting review, but not reproduction,
of such transcripts and requiring their return to the Committee within
specified time periods. The particular sensitivity of these proceedings
recommends the reaffirmation of this policy parallel with the new policy
described above relating to all other classified Committee documents.
It is my hope that the Committee's policy as explained above will
adequately insure the confidentiality of the Committee's dialogue about
classified matters with those intelligence agencies it oversees. It is
intended at the same time to facilitate good working relationships. Your
cooperation and assistance in implementing this policy will be greatly
appreciated.
(25 January 1982)
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