NEED FOR LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH DDCI/IC VICE A D/DCI/IC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00957A000100100087-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2005
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: March 24, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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Referenc e is your telephone request of
23 March for backup material re the
need for legislation to establish a
Deputy DCI for the Intelligence Community.
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24 March 1976
SUBJECT Need or egis a i to tablish DDCI/IC vice
a D/DCI/IC
1. What follows are some ideas about the necessity for establishing
a Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for the Community (DDCI/IC)
vice a Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for the Intelligence
Community (D/DCI/IC). These are not listed in any priority.
a. The Congress does participate in the confirmation and
endorsement of the leadership of the Intelligence Community. It
does this by confirming the selection of the DCI and his agency
deputy; the ASD for Intelligence in the Department of Defense is
also similarly confirmed as is the Director of the FBI. It may
be that other intelligence community agency directors, i. e. , Director,
NSA will be confirmed by the Congress as a result of recent
Congressional investigations.
b. To give the community deputy's role a legitimacy it would
otherwise lack the Congress ought to confirm the person who is
appointed to that post. This is important not only from the Congres-
sional perspective but also from the Executives perspective, if
the symetric structure of the Intelligence Community envisenged by
E.O. 11905 is to be fully implemented.
c. The Executive Order very clearly outlines the duties and
responsibilities of the DCI and stipulates that the Director shall
"to the extent consistent with his statutory responsibilities,
delegate the day-to-day operation of the Central Intelligence Agency
to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. " The E. O. is
precise on the point that the DDCI shall act for, and exercise the
powers of the Director during his absence, in the supervision and
direction of the CIA. Since the day-to-day operation and
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supervision of the Agency is an important and full-time job,
the agency deputy could not be expected to discharge the responsi-
bilities for the supervision and direction of the Intelligence
Community. [Without a clear legislative provision, that will
separate and at the same time establish the Deputy for the
Community as a co-equal to the Deputy for the Agency, then
there will be confusion about the CIA chain-of-command and
certainly within the Community. ]
d. The position of Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
for the Community, established by law, will accomplish the
following:
(1)
More clearly define the DCI's Community Role.
(2) Will not disrupt the CIA chain-of-command.
(3) Ensures that the DC I's relationship with the DDCI
is clearly defined as related to CIA only.
(4) Recognizes institutionally the DCI's need to be
impartial in resource matters and through the Agency
Deputy his close link to CIA ci substantive matters.
(5) Can not be criticized as "CIA in disguise. "
(6) Offers a balance in responsibilities of deputies and
a clear separation of their roles.
e. To establish the position of Deputy to the DCI for the
Community by law would assist the DCI in supervising and directing
the Intelligence Community by:
(1) Allowing the C ommurnity Deputy to exercise the
powers of the DCI during his absence for the management
of the Intelligence Community in sharing and staffing all
Community boards and committees.
(2) Representing the DCI, in his absence, as the
Intelligence Community's spokesman to the Congress and
facilitating the use of foreign intelligence products by
Congress or on budget matters.
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(3) Lends credence to Community leadership on
providing guidance and technical assistance to other
Government departments and agencies performing foreign
intelligence activities,
f. The Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for the
Community (DDCI/IC) would head the Intelligence Community
Staff and will allow him to act for the DCI, in his absence, on
CFI matters.
g. The establishment of this position in law would create a
streamlined command structure for the Intelligence Community
leadership and make specifically designated individuals
accountable.
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