ORGANIZATION OUTLINE FOR THE ACQUISITION AND USE OF VOLUNTARY LEGAL ASSISTANCE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00498A000300040015-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 6, 1975
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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Organization Outline for the Acquisition and Use of Voluntary
Legal Assistance
1. The need. to accomplish what is involved in the
title of this paper. is known to addressees and, accordingly,
does not have to be developed.
2.- It appears to me that the . minimal. ingredients neces-
sary to accomplish the objective areas follows. They are.
listed in probable order of sequence:and'I have added some.
commentary where it appears either appropriate or known:
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have.already starte ..some action in
this direction. I see names coming to us in at
least three different-fashions.% This involves
direct pitches to individual. lawyers, such as
Dick and Mitch are doing or may do. The enlistment of legal institutions such as the D.C. Bar
Association.. which, if agreeable, can be corporate-
ly responsiveand:furnish.names and individual
cooperating lawyers or law firms who themselves
will furnish .us additional names. I further see
activity restricted-to the Washington area, al-
though-a need may-exist elsewhere at'a later date.
(b) An Administrative Entit.- More is prob-
ably involved here t an we now envision. At the
minimum, however, if the recruitment mechanism
produces names, addresses, and telephone numbers
of cooperating lawyers, this information will have
to be recorded. Unfortunately,,here there is a
possibility for some embarrassment.. I believe we
will have to obtain some brief biographic data on
each cooperating attorney so that a minimal secu-
rity look-see can be accomplished.
In order to understand the problem of the
client, I think in most cases, the lawyer will need
some access to classified information. Records
will have to be kept, as well as assignments made,
of what cooperating lawyer is representing what
employee, possible conflicts of interest on
representing clients by lawyers will have to be'
monitored,'and the workload given to any individual
lawyer will have to be monitored.
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I have not completely thought this matter
through but, with the approval of the-Director
armed with legal advice, it is possible we can use
Agency employees to accomplish the work. If for
any reason this can't be done,. my next thought is
to turn to officers of the CIA Retirement Associa-
tion and enlist their help. No matter how it is
done, we must realize that working space, furniture,
office supplies, telephone service, etc. is involved.
(c) Communications Systems -.Depending on how
we implement . the "a ministra ive entity", communi.ca-
tions systems are going to have to be developed
between and among clients, lawyers, the administra-
tive entity, and the Agency.
(d) Legal Point of Reference in the Agency - I
believe, it essential that the employee seeking
legal assistance should first go to 0GC so that OGC,
on behalf of the Agency, is aware of the totality of
the potential problems as seen by the employee. I
believe this responsibility should not be dispersed
within OGC, but should be assigned to a lawyer, or
lawyers, by designation who would possess total
knowledge. That legal point. of reference could then.
establish contact with the administrative entity
which, in turn, would bring about the lawyer-client
relationship.
(e) Feedback to A enc -1 believe it important
that there exist a feedback mechanism from the
cooperating lawyer to the Agency, OGC or Special
Counsel as appropriate, so that we know at any given
time, generally expressed, what is going on. This
point may or. may not present a problem of legal
ethics, and. I bow to the lawyers on this one.
3. We are faced with some urgency in this matter'and,
I would like to use this paper as a point of departure for a
discussion by the end of the week of 8 September. I will he
in contact by telephone to establish.the meeting.
4. There are two other considerations we should 'bear
in mind as we consider this matter. It is my understanding
that there is some movement within the government that might
bring forth, in one fashion or another, that which I will
refer to as an official defense. The success of such a
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movement is not known and, in any event, there still couldd,
well remain a need for that discussed here.- Secondly, and
most importantly in the absence of an official defense
mechanism, it appears most likely that we are going to need
some kind of fund-raising activity.. You might crank that
into your thought processes because-, -once ie get this
volunteer defense organization somewhat in being, the need
for a- fund.-raising mechanism could well be right upon us.-
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Mr. Nelson
Mr. Proctor
Mr. Duckett
Mr. Carver
Mr. Cary "`IC1-
Mr. lams
Gen. Wilson
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