RECOMMENDED PROCEDURES FOR REPORTING COVERT ACTION PROGRAMS TO THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00983A001500090005-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2005
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 20, 1976
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VIA: Deputy Director of Central Inteil.igeRce
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
I)eputy Director for _Opera.tions
William W. Wells
SUBJECT: . Recommended. Procedures for Reporting
Covert Action. Program to the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence
for keeping the SSCI informed on CA programs
procedures, and have pointed up a few area, of potential
difficulty of which I think you should be aware.. I am
recommending below, for your approval, suggested guidelines
with the Committee staff have further refined these
current CA programs, .1 met with Bill Miller of the SSCI
staff to work out procedures for regular reporting to the
Committee on such activities. A Memorandum for the Record
covering that discussion is attached. Subsequent meetings
1. Following your briefing of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) 6n 29 July 1976 on
2. The SSCI staff has singled out three- categories
of reporting on CA programs beyond the "notification"
mentioned in your 29 July briefing.
CA programs; and supplementary details on the major projects
after their termination; semi-annual status reports on all
.-outcome of major CA programs, generally to be made shortly
provisions of the Hughes-Ryan Amendment: reports on the .
3. 1 recommend we adopt the following procedures for
satisfying these SSCI requests for further in.forma_tion.:
a. T_ erm-nation/} valuation Reports : You offer
to provide reporting on each, major program, 25X1
similar to and shortly following our written after-
action reporting to OAG. (Tailored brio f:insa mater'i'als
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omnibus Presidential findings.
October. The briefing would follow our first report
to the NSC and be based upon it, but with the -subject
matter limited to CA activities including general and-
statistical reporting on CA operations covered. in,. the
. . recommended that you. orally brief the SSCI. in late
tabled The staff understands that we will not be
providing "'drop copies" of such reports....-..x
understands tlz t ire w ll be repixtiz~g twa.re a year
to the. NSC and has keyed its request to this time-
b. _Semi -Annual Status Reports. -The, SSCt..
the SSCI and other Committees in the past.
Otherwise, I see no particular difficulty in. meeting
requests for briefings which provide somewhat more
detail than the notifications which we have made to
(e.g., foreign government, Department of State, Ambassador,
internal CIA, -etc.) I recommend that we decline .to
provide such information on grounds that it is part of
the internal Executive branch. decision--making process.
specifically asked that, among other additional details,
we include a' statement as to the origin of each proposal
include key substantive elements of our presentations
to OAG on major programs. The Committee staff has
Re o_rtin. on Current CA Pro f e cts
c. Fol.low:j
I recommend we offer oral follow-up reporting to
. 4. It seems preferable that either you 'or. -thc--DDCI. do
these briefings. Either of you would be in the best position'
to discourage any tendency by the SSCI to move into Executive
prerosratives or expand these sessions into quarterbacking of
Attachment
APPROVED:
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SUBJECT: Recommended Procedures for Reporting
Covert Action Programs to the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence
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