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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00983A001500090013-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2005
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 29, 1976
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2005/05/23: CIA-RDP79M109R3 0?A 90013-0
I4EMORANDU FOR; Director of Central Intelligence
FROM . kiil.liar=i W. Wells
Deputy Director for Operations
VIA Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT Reconmended Procedures for -Reporting
Covert Action Pro ,rams to the Senate
Select Cotaziiaittco on Intelligence
1. Following. your briefing of the Senate Select
f.orIraitteo on lntelli c;~Ac>: (SSCI) on 20 July 1176 on
current CA programs, I saet w:itii -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 neetin,g S
with the Committee staff have further refined these
procedures, and have pointed up a few areas of potential
difficulty of which I t sink you should be aware. I am
recommending below, for your approval, suggest: d guidelines
for keeping the SSCI informed on CA programs.
2. The SSCI staff has singled out three categories
of reporting on CA programs beyond the "riotification"
provisions of the hughes-Ryan Amendment: reports on the
outcome of :aa jor CA progra,:rs, generally to be made shortly
after their termination; ser:;i-a'anual status reports on all
CA programs; and suppleru;e-ntary details on the major projects
mentioned in your 29 July briefing.
3. I recorurziend we adopt the folli wing procedures for
satisfying these SSCI requests for further information:
a. Ierjainztion/Evaluation, ize;aort : We Should S3X~1f
of fear oral reporting ur: e