NOTE TO GEORGE FROM E.H. KNOCHE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00957A000100100085-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2005
• Sequence Number: 85
• Publication Date: April 15, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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15 April 1976
NOTE FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
George
Per our conversation, this is a cut at the
two-deputy business which I mentioned at our
meeting this afternoon. I have given a copy
to Dick Lehman. It should be handled discreetly.
It would be our hope that something along this
line can eventually bear the signatures of both
deputies.
I hope that it is useful in framing the next
steps.
E. H. Knoche
AD/DCI/IC
c c : Mr. Lehman
Attachment:
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
1. Until the current laws governing the CIA, the DCI and the DDCI
are rewritten to accommodate the "two-?deputy1t concept, some special
authorities go to the DDCI appointed by the President and confirmed by
the Senate. The General Counsel can determine and stipulate what those
special authorities are.
2. We recognize that there are practical problems associated with
an initiative now to seek a legislative amendment to the Act of 1947 and
1949 to cover the two-deputy arrangement, but we believe such an initiative
should be taken as soon as possible in order to remove ambiguity and make
the arrangement clear. The President's Commission on CIA Activities
Within the United States and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
have recommended the two-deputy arrangement and it is a feature of the
President's Executive Order 11905 also. No additional rationale for fresh
legislation would seem required.
3. In the meantime, the duties of the two deputies (the Deputy to the
DCI for CIA and the Deputy to the DC1 or the Intelligence Community) can
be identified as follows:
The Deputy for :he Community
o shall be the principal Deputy to the DCI (a point ,
to be incorporated in new legislation) r,, .Z, '-Clt-ty-vt; O"LA,tiO'
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0 shall be the Vice Chairman and Executive Secretary
of the CFI and the ,.-FIB;
o shall direct the Intelligence Community Staff (which
is the staff of the CFI);
e shall make recommndca.ions on NFIP programs,
resources and issues to the CFI and shall maintain
data pertaining to YFIP;
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o shall monitor within the Intelligence Community the
implementation of intelligence policy and program
directives emanating from the President, \SC, CFI,
Intelligence Oversight Board and the Director of Central
Intelligence;
o shall evaluate programs and products of the NFIP;
o shall advise the DCI on Intelligence Community matters;
e shall coordinate the activities of and provide staff
support for all DCI Committees, except for the DCI Com-
mittee of Inspectors General which shall report directly
to the DCI;
o is responsible under the DCI for the following of the DCI"s.
responsibilities as listed in NSCID -l:
ensuring the development and submission of a budget
for the NF IP to the CFI;
assisting in the development of national intelligence
requirements and priorities;
establishing procedures to ensure the propriety of
requests to the Intelligence Community;
-- ensuring -hat a-oor Dpriate programs are developed
which Droi,eri;- protect intelligence sources, methods
and pro_ec.ures;
estabi_s_-_ `orous pro.--_ to downgrade and
declass foreign intelligent information, consistent
with 0.;
assisting the DCI in advising the President and others
on lute=_ :once Community matters;
ensuri _ :he esta-bLishment of common security standards
for hand"_ng foreign intelligence and for granting access.
thereto;
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establishing uniform criteria for transmission of
critical intelligence;
consulting with users and producers of intelligence
to ensure timeliness, relevancy and quality of the
intelligence product.
The Deputy for CIA
o shall manage and operate,, under the DCI, the Central
Intelligence Agency;
o is the CIA Member of NFI:B;
is the manager of the CIA Program, an element
of the- NFIP;
e shall provide production support to the DCI and
the national intelligence production authority;
o shall carry out, under the DCI, the functions assigned
to CIA under Executive Order 11905;
? is responsible, under the DCI, for the following of the
DCI's responsibilities under NSCID =l:
-- plan, review and evaluate all CIA activities and
allocate CIA intelligence resources among its
subordinate components;
-- contribute to the production of national intelligence;
provide CIA representation on Intelligence Community
advisory boards and committees;
assist in developing priorities for collection and
production of national intelligence and for undertaking,
as directed, other foreign intelligence activities,
e.g., covert action.;
-- formulate policies with respect to arrangements
with foreign governments on intelligence matters;
-- concert with the Deputy for the Community developing
standards relating to protection of sources and methods.
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4. Until the law is rewritten, and pending better understanding ---
through workaday experience -- of how the two deputies will operate and
inter-relate in practice, we believe this is far enough to go in defining
duties and distinctions. Vagaries exist; in the absence of the. DCI,
attendance at meetings of such bodies as the NSC, OAG, PFIAB; the
Intelligence Oversight Board is not clear-cut. Nor is it entirely clear
how some DCI correspondence not explicitly either Agency- or Community-
related is to be handled. Both of us realize, however, that intelligent
resolution of such vagaries depends on the consultation and collaboration
of us and our staffs. The issue may be vague but it is clear to us that
jointness of approach will insure the best possible handling of the DGI's
business in his absence.
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