ADVISORY COMMITTEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000400150012-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2001
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 8, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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OGC HAS REVIEWED. 8 June 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Advisory Committees
1. This memorandum recommends Agency action on a proposed
Executive order and certain legislation concerning advisory committees.
The recommendations are in paragraph 6.
2. The proposed Executive order and legislation would raise a
number of problems by imposing certain reporting, disclosure and over-
sight requirements on the use of advisory committees within the Executive
Branch.
3. Proposed Executive Order. The proposed Executive order is
less troublesome from the standpoint of the intelligence community than
legislation, but could:
a. Give the Office of Management and Budget an enhanced
management role over all intelligence community and CIA
advisory committees;
b. Require that each committee be identified in the Federal
Register by name, indicating the agency to which it reports, the
name and business address of the chairman and the agency he
represents, and the person to be contacted for additional infor-
mation about the committee; and
c. Require that all meetings be public with due notice in the
Federal Register except for committees composed wholly of
Government officers or employees. (This requirement is
abrogated upon a determination by the agency head that the
committee activities involve matters which are exempt from
public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, e. g. ,
classified in the interest of national defense or foreign policy.
Presumably, the abrogating determination itself would be made
public as would an annual report summarizing the committee's
activities in a fashion that does not compromise security. )
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4. It appears that advisory committees of the Agency, as well as
those within the intelligence community and under the Director's jurisdiction,
would be exempt from the troublesome features of the Executive order, since
the order does not apply in situations in which it is "inconsistent with or in
conflict with any statutory provision''
5. Legislation., The House has passed H. R. 4383 and the Senate
Committee is considering S. 3529. The Senate bill, even though its applica-
tion is not as broad as the House bill, raises a number of problems due to its
reporting, disclosure, and oversight requirements, as detailed in the attached
proposed letter to Senator McClellan.
6. Recommendations.
a. Executive Order. It is recommended that the Office of
Planning, Programming and Budgeting inform the International Division,
Office of Management and Budget, of the Agency's conclusion that intelligence
committees serving the intelligence community would not be subject to the
disclosure requirements of the proposed Executive order, including the
requirement to publish in the Federal Register the names of committees and
annual public reports on committee activities.
b. Legislation. It is recommended that the Director sign the
attached letter to Senator McClellan requesting an appropriate exemption
for the Agency and the intelligence community from such legislation on
advisory committees as may be considered by the Senate Government
Operations Committee. Prior to transmittal to Senator McClellan, the
letter will be sent to the Office of Management and Budget for clearance. STATINTL
JOHN M. MAUR
Legislative Counsel
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SUBJECT: Advisory Committees
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Remarks: The attached recommends a course of
action to the Director concerning a proposed
Executive order and legislation affecting advisory
committees within the intelligence community and
the Agency.
The proposed letter from the Director to Senator
McClellan has been favorably reviewed by the key
committee staff personnel concerned with the legis
lation and it has been shown to both Braswell and
Woodruff. After the Director approves the letter,
we would send it to OMB for review before it is
transmitted to Senator McClellan.
STATINTL JOE
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