EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1975

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000700180016-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 26, 1975
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT: Executive Council Meeting on 26 September 1975
Mr. Walsh chaired. Substituting were Messrs.
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2. A new Agency regulation will make it very easy for em-
ployees to gain access to their files.
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ments of DCID 1/7. He and have met with all the DDI production STAT
officers and have agreed to orma s to be used in printing the new con-
trols in DDI publications. plans to circulate a memo describ- STAT
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5. Mr. Walsh reported that the White House has established an
Intelligence Steering Group. In addition to Mr. Colby, there are
representatives from OMB, State and Defense. The Group is to identify
issues involved in the current investigations and is to recommend an
Executive Branch strategy on how to break the present impasse with
the House Committee.
6. Mr. Walsh reported that the excessive time spent on the
congressional investigations has required Mr. Colby to call two
"Morning Meetings" -- one at 0900, the other at 1730.
7. Mr. Walsh reported that the Justice Department has reversed
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8. Mr. Walsh listed key personnel chan es in DDS&T. Jim
Hirsch is the new Director of OEL with as his Deputy;
Don Haas is the new Director of ORD, with as his Deputy;
and is the new Deputy to
9. Mr. Walsh reported that CIA has spent an estimated 70,000
manhours responding to the congressional investigations. Including
the Rockefeller Committee, about 200,000 manhours have been devoted
to the investigations since the first of the year.
10. The Congressional Checklist (now called the Intelligence
Checklist) is a big success and now published five times a week.
The President reads it. I reports that graphics for the
Checklist are adding a burden to the Cartography Division
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than one man-year has been added to the workload, perhaps 30 percent
of it for overtime.
11. Mr. Walsh reported that
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Chief, DDI Executive Staff/
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