(Sanitized) CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION 20 FEBRUARY 1980

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003200050011-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2005
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 20, 1980
• Content Type: TRANS

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Certificate of Distinction
20 February 1980
- Close association w/CIA since 1960
- Intell resp. culminate w/appointment as
Asst. Dir., Intel Div., April 1978
- This award really only tells half the story
- Bill is the kind of individual who makes this
govt work
* First rate knowledge of job
US's leading expert in CI
Keep e,e or, what s `iimpor?tant for the U.S.
- Even in darkest days of CIA-FBI
relationship, Bill realized that
CI only works if CIA & FBI work
together
* Contribution uniquely important
- In last few years he has been
instrumental in developing strong
CIA-FBI team CI capability
Bill - you will be missed - you can take great
pride in the work you have done and its importance
to this nation.
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2 Feb '80
test r Pr vider
Look on Congress as one our important consumers
has Suppoirte Foreign Relations and
m Services Co ittees.. But, with expansion of
IC collectionJana ysis into economics as well as ter
narcotics, grain production, r.Pi.c., the potential exists
support. a i s t all the Congressional c ..i tta s .
turn, subject matter of lMst. every Congressional cc ittee
ions for international relations and can make use
TGC data
Support
Senate Budget - roundup
Senate. Energy ,- series of 8 hearings in which Agency
specialists will testify on -p'itics
Agriculture w Soy rain prospe4
All part of determined effort made to provide rise support to
Congressional consumers.
a. Number briefings annually &? bl since 1976
5 briefings to F C in 1979
oc ents quadrupled
c. Principal current intelI. publication goes to 8 c ..
each day
All unclassified publications go to 705 r ' ers of bath
we need to do
dwide briefings H some c ittees - same not need. rare than
Ike more effective mechanism for identifying Congress`
needs
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Several
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Congress rust keep in that the IC functions
.,onfidential advisor to the President.
=advice is non-1701 - hut are political sensitivities
as to how, when, what fora Irttell provided,
Pr?ivile e of exec to protect details of the
decision process need not in any way reduce the
level or quality of s
the Congress.
decision proces
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;ion we would reca end. evert eless, wI
exercise good judg.ment, the IC can come very
close to the boundar=y of pal iz,+ . IL-6 enhance
its service to policyrakerst For example:
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DCI
20 Feb 80
1. Major challenges
a. Anticipate areas of concern
30 yrs ago - Sov mil
Today in econ warfare, terrorism,
grain forecasting - .
Nuc prolif; pop; food; terrorism ?
b. Provide in-depth analytic support
Languages; specialty skills; area knowledge
On tap - never used ?
c. Select and utilize burgeoning tech systems
$ - better vs. need
Absorb quantity
d. Make HUMINT worth risks
Tasking
Tradecraft, cover
Risks in friendly nations
e. Integrate all sources -
Societal change
Two hats -
Advantages of splitting
Avoid conflict of interests
Disadvantages
No horses
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DCI
Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to be here today to lead off the
Administration's testimony with respect to the proposed Congressional
charters for the Intelligence Community. For the entire three years
that I have been the Director of Central Intelligence, I have been a
strong supporter of these charters.
The first reason for this is the fact that the guiding legislation
today is out of date. It is the National Security Act of 1947 as
amended. The evolution of the United States Intelligence Community in
the intervening years has not conformed with the image which the
constructers of that legislation had in' mind; clearly, we are not
doing anything illegal or in contradiction to those laws, but the
picture they portray of what the Intelligence Community is and how it
functions simply has not worked out in practice. I believe it is
important that the, Congress enunciate to us and to the American people
what kind of an Intelligence Community it expects and wants.
Secondly, intelligence is by its very nature a risk-taking business.
The intelligence professionals of our country are trained to take
those risks on behalf of the country. They deserve, I believe, as
express a description of what they are expected to do and not to do
as it is humanly possible to create. There are definite limitations
as to how such authorities and restrictions can be expressed, but we cwe
it to our intelligence officers to give them the best guidance we can.
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They will still necessarily have to assume considerable initiative
and risk on their own, but we should provide them all the support
that is possible.
Thirdly, in the last five or six years we have been moving to
an exciting and important new concept in the world of intelligence.
This is the concept of close Congressional oversight of the intelligence
process. It is the complement to the authorizations and the restrictions
which should be enunciated in a charter. In short, through oversight
the Congress can and should check on whether the authorizations are
being used to good advantage and whether the restrictions are, in fact,
being followed in their spirit and their letter. It is, under this
present concept of intelligence, impossible to have the authorizations
and the restrictions without the oversight, for if one legislates such
precise authorizations or restrictions as would be necessary without
oversight one is almost certain to hobble the intelligence operations
beyond usefulness. This new and important concept of the complementariness
of authorizations and controls on the one hand, and oversight on the other,
needs to be clearly enunciated by the Congress so that the citizens
of this country can readily understand how the Congress is exercising
its responsibilities in an area where the public cannot be adequately
informed to make its own judgment.
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