DRAFT NOTE FOR THE DIRECTOR'S NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300090009-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 24, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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2 4 MAY .1977
Intelligence Community Reorag nization
There have been articles in the newspapers recently concerning
the intent of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to propose
some important organizational changes in the Intelligence Community.
As many of you know, there is also a study going on concurrently
in the Executive Branch of the Government to the same end. I would
like to assure all members of the Agency of two things::
1. No final decisions have been made by
either the President or the Congress.
2. In my view, the role of the CIA will
be just as essential to our intelligence
operations after any reorganization as
before.
There are several objectives in the reorganization proposals.
One is to ensure that the authority of the Director of Central
Intelligence is commensurate with his responsibilities. Another is
to codify the basic rules within which the CIA and the other intel_
ligence agencies must operate. I look on both of these as steps
which will strengthen both the Agency and the national intelligence
effort.
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The entire review process is indicative of the increased
attention which both the Executive and Legislative Branches of
our Government are giving to intelligence operations today.
In my view, this attention stemmed in part from the numerous
investigations of the past several years, but it is now the
result of an enhanced recognition of the importance of intelligence
to our country, which was a side benefit of those investigations.
I believe that we can only be strengthened by this increased
attention and interest.
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