RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGES IN THE AGENCY TO MEET CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: July 11, 1975
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OLC 75-1573
11 July 1975
M IORANDIJM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT . Recommendations for Changes in the Agency
to Meet Congressional Investigations
1. I have been around here at Headquarters only a
couple months and much of what I am about to say may not
make sense. Nonetheless, I submit the following to you for
your consideration as I feel that developments have outrun the
present method of dealing with Congressional investigations.
Furthermore, the tide has changed in our favor and I believe
we should stay ahead to prevent a possible reversal. As I
see it, the problem has been our history, although only a small
part of it. We will have to suffer the agony as they 6wr over
our past, but we should not let opportunities to shape our
future at this time be lost in the shuffle.
2. Since you have said many times that we have segregated.
our historical misdeeds for external?,review, let us do it in
fact and not just in words. This would be a tremendous organiza-
tional gain. As matters now stand, the material is spread out
throughout the Directorates and those of us who must support
you for meeting the demands of Congress must undertake virtually,
original research, and thereby, bother a lot of people unnecessarily.
Accordingly, I recommend that all the files of problem areas
under scrutiny or about to be reviewed be physically removed from
the present custodians and placed in one central location.
3. We are in for a long summer, and possibly an even longer
winter, so we must approach this in a more of a "task force"
manner than we have to date. We should detach from the various
Directorates, senior responsible personnel who could. deal effec-
tively in this area without recourse to clearances of every little
thing with the respective Deputy Directors. We should also detach
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a few lawyers to work on this matter exclusively. In other
words, we should have a Staff Director plus his staff as well
as a Chief Counsel who would deal with this matter unfettered
by other duties so that the Agency can be better served.
4. The foregoing would have the advantage of cutting out
the bureaucratic lines which impede the expeditious handling of
written materials and testimony. Since we are dealing with
history, particularly a part which should be public, the security
compartmentation now involved makes no sense at all. In fact,
I would recommend that we take this whole package of problems
and sanitize it now without waiting for specific requests since
it will all be in the public domain when this whole thing is
over, if not sooner.
5. Our friends and our critics are more interested in
what we are doing to police ourselves. Certainly, as an Agency
employee, I am likewise concerned. I believe we must go beyond
the August 1973 Directive and publish regulations on how we must
comport ourselves operationally and administratively in the
management of an American and modern intelligence organization.
We must now implement the organizational and staff changes
required for the present and the future. As a first, the IG
staff should be removed from the current Congressional investigation,
expanded as necessary to do its inspection job. In fact, all of
the Directorates and senior staff components should be divorced
from the Congressional investigations so that they can go ahead
and continue to be the best intelligence organization in the
world. The Congressional investigation should not be allowed to
remain the splashiest and only show in town.
STATINTL
Assistant Legislative Counse
Distribution:
Orig - Adse
1 - Mr. Cary
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