PROGRESS ON ACTIONS RECOMMENDED IN YOUR 9 MARCH 2001 LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, WHICH STEMMED FROM COMMITTEE CONCERNS REGARDING THE DEUTCH CASE

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• Publication Date: November 27, 2001

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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
IG-2001-681
27 November 2001
The Honorable Bob Graham
Chairman
Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Inspector General
703-874-2555
(U//P0110) I am writing to inform you of our progress
on actions recommended in your 9 March 2001 letter to the
Director of Central Intelligence, which stemmed from
Committee concerns regarding the Deutch case. On 29 June,
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence McLaughlin
responded to you and included two tasks for my staff. The
inspection team tasked with this action met last week with
Don Stone, of the Committee Staff, to discuss what had been
accomplished to date and to ensure that the course of
action would address your concerns.
(u/4E,Que) As the Committee recommended, the DDCI
tasked me to update Agency Regulation to reflect
our expanded reporting responsibilities contained in the
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001. The
new regulation was published in October. It expands the
circumstances in which an immediate report to the
intelligence oversight committees is required, including
1) when an audit, investigation, or inspection focuses on a
current or former Agency official at the deputy director
level or above, or 2) when the matter requires a report by
the IG to Justice on possible criminal conduct by such an
official.
(U/APeiirtt In response to the Committee's
recommendation that the IG review Agency Accountability
Board procedures, the DDCI advised you that a new
regulation on Agency Accountability Boards had
been published since your letter and that OIG planned to
review the existing Employee Review Panel and Personnel
(b)(3)
(b)(3)
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The Honorable Bob Graham
Evaluation Board processes. The OIG team found that new
regulations on Discipline and Accountability and (b)(3)
on the Personnel Evaluation Board have been ODA
drafted and are about to be approved and promulgated.
Office of General Counsel has told our inspection team that
these regulations are intended to respond to all of the
recommendations from the 1996 OIG audit of disciplinary
boards.
(U//FOU0) After reviewing the new regulations, the
team believes that they appear to address the Committee's
concerns as well as the audit recommendations. I believe
any judgment about the fairness and effectiveness of
disciplinary and accountability processes should await some
period of implementation experience. We plan to conduct an
inspection of the new disciplinary board procedures when
the regulations have been in effect for a period sufficient
to allow them to be tested and provide cases that would
enable us to conduct an evaluation. I estimate that would
be at least 18 months from issuance. In the interim, we
will advise the Committee when the new regulations are
approved.
(U//FOU0) Inspection team members also discussed with
Mr. Stone the issuance of a regulation and Agency Notice
(AN) mentioned by the DDCI. These are on (b)(3)
requirements for control of CIA-owned computers outside
Agency facilities, and on missing or out-of- (b)(3)
control Agency classified information or equipment.
was reissued in October 2000 and is being (b)(3)
converted to an Agency regulation. Mr. Stone asked, and we
have agreed, to track the issuance of this regulation to
ensure that it takes effect before the notice expires.
(U//FOU0) Mr. Stone also asked us to look into one of
the concerns expressed in your letter: the Agency's
"authorities for immediately confiscating required
materials." In subsequent discussions between the legal
counsels of the OIG and the Office of Security (OS), the OS
Legal Counsel has informed the OIG that if, in the course
of a security investigation, information comes to their
attention that Agency equipment has been improperly used,
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The Honorable Bob Graham
they can take control of such government property as
appropriate.
(U//FOU0) Please let us know if the actions outlined
in this letter address the Committee's concerns. An
identical letter is being provided to Vice Chairman Shelby.
Sincerely,
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The Honorable Bob Graham
(23 November 2001) (b)(3)
FILE:INS Teams/CI Scoping2001/ADMIN/A-SSCI Letter Graham.doc
Distribution:
Original - SSCI Chairman Graham
1 - DCI
1 - DDCI
1 - DAC (Response to DAC-01144-01)
1 - EXDIR
1 - A/GC
1 - OCA
1 - OPA
1 - IG Chrono
1 - AIG Chrono
1 - ADIG Chrono
1 - IG Subject File (CI Scoping 2001)
1 - CI Scoping 2001 Team File
1 - CI Scoping 2001 Team Leader
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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
IG-2001-681
27 November 2001
� The Honorable Richard C. Shelby
Vice Chairman
Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Mr. Vice Chairman:
Inspector General
703-874-2555
(U//FOU0) I am writing to inform you of our progress
on actions recommended in your 9 March 2001 letter to the
Director of Central Intelligence, which stemmed from
Committee concerns regarding the Deutch case. On 29 June,
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence McLaughlin
responded to you and included two tasks for my staff. The
inspection team tasked with this action met last week with
Don Stone, of the Committee Staff, to discuss what had been
accomplished to date and to ensure that the course of
action would address your concerns.
(U//FOU0) As the Committee recommended, the DDCI
tasked, me to update Agency Regulation to reflect
our expanded reporting responsibilities contained in the
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001. The
new regulation was published in October. It expands the
circumstances in which an immediate report to the
intelligence oversight committees is required, including
1) when an audit, investigation, or inspection focuses on a
current or former Agency official at the deputy director
level or above, or 2) when the natter requires a report by
the IG to Justice on possible criminal conduct by such an
official.
(U//FOU0) In response to the Committee's
recommendation that the IG review Agency Accountability
Board procedures, the DDCI advised you that a,new
regulation on Agency Accountability Boards had
been published since your letter and that OIG planned to
review the existing Employee Review Panel and Personnel
(b)(3)
(b)(3)
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Thejlonorable Richard C. Shelby
Evaluation Board processes. The OIG team found that new
regulations on Discipline and Accountability and (b)(3)
on the Personnel Evaluation Board have been ODO)
drafted and are about to be approved and promulgated.
Office of General Counsel has told our inspection team that
these regulations are intended to respond to all of the
recommendations from the 1996 OIG audit of disciplinary
boards.
(U//FOU0) After reviewing the new regulations, the
team believes that �they appear to address the Committee's
concerns as well as the audit recommendations. I believe
any judgment about the fairness and effectiveness of
disciplinary and accountability processes should await some
period of implementation experience. We plan to conduct an
inspection of the new disciplinary board procedures when
the regulations have been in effect for a period sufficient
to allow them to be tested and provide cases that would
enable us to conduct an evaluation. I estimate that would
be at least 18 months from issuance. In the interim, we
will advise the Committee when the new regulations are
approved.
(13//FOU0) Inspection team members also discussed with
Mr. Stone the issuance of a regulation and Agency Notice
(AN) mentioned by the DDCI. These are
on
requirements for control of CIA-owned computers outside
Agency facilities, and on missing or out-of-
control Agency classified information or equipment.
was reissued in October 2000 and is being
converted to an Agency regulation. Mr. Stone asked, and we
have agreed, to track the issuance of this regulation to
ensure that it takes effect before the notice expires.
(U//FOU0) Mr. Stone also asked us to look into one of
the concerns expressed in your letter: the Agency's
"authorities for immediately confiscating required
materials." In subsequent discussions between the legal
counsels of the OIG and the Office of Security (OS), the OS
Legal Counsel has informed the OIG that if, in the course
of a security investigation, information comes to their
attention that Agency equipment has been improperly used,
(b)(3)
(b)(3)
(b)(3)
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The Honorable Richard C. Shelby
they can take control of such government property as
appropriate.
(U//FOU0) Please let us know if the actions outlined
in this letter address the Committee's concerns. An
identical letter is being provided to Chairman Graham.
Sincerely
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The Honorable Richard C. Shelby
(20 November 2001)
FILE:INS Teams/CI Scoping2001/ADMIN/A-SSCI Letter Shelby.doc
Distribution:
Original - SSCI Vice Chairman Shelby
1 - DCI
1 - DDCI
1 - DAC (Response to DAC-01144-01)
1 - EXDIR
1 - A/GC
1 - OCA
1 - OPA
1 - IG Chrono
1 - AIG Chrono
1 - ADIG Chrono
1 - IG Subject File (CI Scoping 2001)
1 - CI Scoping 2001 Team File
1 - CI Scoping 2001 Team Leader_
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