DISCUSSION WITH HARDY AND CARGILL REGARDING FEBRUARY EXECUTIVE ORDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00062A001200010005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 23, 1976
• Content Type: MFR

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23 February 1976
SUBJECT: Discussion with Hardy and Cargill Regarding
February Executive Order
1. I called Cargill and Hardy today.. Both work at the White House.
They had been members of the Rockefeller Commission Staff and had been
kept on to help with White House staffing of the Executive Order pertaining
to the Intelligence Community. I asked them for their understanding of
what was meant in the Executive Order in charging the CFI with the
responsibility to "establish policy for the management of the NFIP".
2. They explained that the language choice for this paragraph was
left very general so that the CFI over time could develop its own criteria
for this particular formulation. It was felt that the CFI should be endowed
with some kind of authority to issue policy guidance as it saw fit. Other-.
wise, the CFI would have authority only in a narrow field relating to
resources.
3. The formulation employed permits the CFI to issue budget guidance.
It permits the CFI to articulate priority needs for particular areas of con-
centration of intelligence activities and assets. It would permit the issuance
of advice and guidance aimed at personnel career development (for example,
amplifying the need to spend more on analysis) or such matters as how
much of the NFIP budget is available for -external contracting.
4. The whole idea flows from an earlier formulation which described
the CFI as the Community's "board of directors". That reference was
thought to be a particular jargonistic term and too general and thus replaced
with the phrasing in question.
II
E. H. Knoche
AD /DCI /IC
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