CONVERSATION WITH REPRESENTATIVE LUCIEN NEDZI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000200020044-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: November 16, 1971
• Content Type: MFR

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JL ,
16 November 1971
SUBJECT: Conversation with Representative Lucien Nedzi
1. This afternoon I met with Chairman Lucien Nedzi, CIA
Subcommittee of House Armed Services, and provided him an
unclassified version of our paper on the changes in the intelligence
community. He found this of some value but inquired about documenta-
tion from official directives. He said he didn't intend a "swashbuckling"
approach to the problem and didn't want to create a confrontation
but felt he had to have authoritative details in order to discharge his
oversight responsibilities. He said he couldn't approve changes in,
or appropriations for, the intelligence community without knowing
what was going ono I said I appreciated his problem, that such
problems had come up before with out Subcommittees, and that
we had found ways of working them out, but the only documents I
knew of were highly classified White House documents issued by
or in the name of the President and we had no authority to release
them. I suggested that I would try to answer any questions he had
on the subject and we went over the old and new arrangements concerning
USIB and other National Security Council Committees or Subcommittees
and the Net Assessment Group.
2. Chairman Nedzi said one thing he wanted to be very clear
on were any changes in the senior personnel, or their responsibilities
in the intelligence structure. I said that so far as committee member-
ship was concerned a Treasury representative was added to USIB and
that the membership of the NSCIC would include Under Secretary of
State, Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, Dr. Kissinger, the Director of Central Intelligence and the
Attorney General; that the Intelligence Resources Advisory Committee
would include representatives from State, Defense, OMB and CIA; and
I didn't know about the composition of the Net Assessment Group, which
was actually not and never had been a part of the intelligence community.
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Mr. Nedzi said Secretary Laird had stated that it previously was a
part of the intelligence community, and suggested I check his testimony
which I said I would do, So far as the Director was concerned, I
assured Mr. Nedzi that he would continue his direction of the CIA
in all important respects, and there was no question of his delegating
ultimate authority over the Agency to anyone.
3. I suggested that his further questions could best be answered
by the Director himself. He said this would probably be a good idea
but in view of the fact that he "felt a little better" about the matter as
a result of our discussion, we might let things go for a week or two
until they settle down a bit. I said I was sure the Director would be
glad to meet with either him or with the Subcommittees at their
convenience. Mr. Nedzi said that in the meantime he had no further
requirements from us, except he might like some sort of a chart
making clear the old and new intelligence community organization and
relationships. I said I would see what we could do.
u, Legislative Counsel
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