MURPHY COMMISSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01133A001000060023-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 33
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: October 4, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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4 October 1973
STWTI NTL MEMORANDUM FOR:
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SUBJECT: Murphy Commission
STAT
I had a meeting this morning with f the STATINTL j
staff of the Commission. Tom's account is the Intelligence
Community.
The Commission plans to hold meetings on intelligence in
November. Colby will be called. 0 is in the process of draft- STATINTL
ing a written request to Colby for information so that the
Commission will have some background when it takes testimony
from him.
The attached is 0 current draft. I think it will be
modified substantially before it is sent. Since the Commission's
charge is to study the organiza tion of the government for the
conduct of foreign policy, there will probably be some additional
questions on organization and management.
Dis new to this whole community business and does not
know quite which way to move. He wondered who should be invited
to testify besides Colby. I suggested Hall. They may also ask
Allen and de Poix.
The Commission will meet in Senator Mansfield's offices to
take testimony. Mansfield is all hot to get dollar figures for the
community exposed at least to the Commission--if not to the public.
He has entered some figures in the record already--indicating
STATINTL
Dept of State review(s) completed.
NSC Referral Not Required
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ST
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ATINTL
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I encouraged '0 to get permission to come out for a
generalized briefing on the community. When Colby met last
week with Francis Wilcox and Fisher Howe (Staff Director and
Deputy Staff Director), he made O/GC the official contact, and
offered every assistance. If II had more background, he
could probably formulate better questions.
STATINTL
S ATINTL F. S. I've asked to look over the attached to see
whether he has suggestions which might help orient
the letter to Colby.
STATINTL
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 in preparing for such a meeting, the Comidssion believes it would be
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advance and thus make the discussion more profitable. We hope that your
statement will touch upon the following questions, in addition to any other
matters which you regard as of major importance.
I. In your capacity as Director of Central Intelligence, how do
you define your responsibilities with regard to the entire intelligence
community? For instance:
-- To what extent do you now have the authority to determine
the budget and manpower needs of the various agencies?
-- How do you go about reducing duplication and ensuring coopera-
tion between the community components?
-- What are the positive and negative aspects of having several
agencies competing in the collection and analysis of certain subjects,
such as military-strategic matters?
--- In your current reorganization of the process by which National
Intelligence Estimates are written and coordinated, how do you propose
to ensure the continued objectivity of the an, sis? To deal with
institutional biases, dissents, and the drafting itself?
How is the Intelligence Community adjusting to the President's
directives on declassification and downgrading procedures? What problems
do you foresee in maintaining tight security and preventing unauthorized
leaks in the future?
II. With respect to the CIA, how do you see its mission changing in
the 1970s? For example,
. -?-- In the aftermath of the Cold War, is the CIA changing its basic
priorities and targets? How is the CIA adapting to new demands for
intelligence on such subjects as ecbnomic matters, energy problems,
the environment, the narcotics business, etc.?
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within the US, do you see a continuing need for covert action
operations? If so, should they be handled in the same agency as
intelligence collection and analysis? What criteria should be
established before the approval of covert action?
-- What is the extent of the CIA's domestic activities and
operations? Do you see a need for new procedures or limits on
such activities? How would you categorize the CIA's current re-
lationship with the FBI?
-- Is the CIA keeping up with the latest technological innova-
tions, including the use of computers? Are you confident that the
CIA can monitor the SALT Agreements, present and future?
-- How do the CIA's principal consumers levy requests on the
Agency? Is there sufficient communication back and forth with the
White House? Are you confident that key policy makers understand..
the role that exposure to intelligence can play in policy formulation?
To what: extent does the CIA have to sell its analytical products?
-- How does the CIA come up with collection requirements for
Stations overseas? Can this process be improved so that users are
obliged to state what they need, and field elements are persuaded
to take requirements more seriously? Does the CIA have any diffi-
culty in dealing with the masses of data it receives daily?
III. Within the government, what__sre the checks and balances
on CIA activities? For instance,
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activities will be submitted to it for approval?
-- How often are you called upon to discuss organizational matters with"
the Armed Serviced and Appropriations' Committees in the House and Senate?
How does the CIA keep the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board informed of its activities, and how responsive is the CIA to recommenda-
tions of the Board?
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 -- What kinds of activities of CIA stations overseas are subject
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to approval by the Ambassadors? Do some Ambassadors p)-efer to remain
ignorant of CIA initiatives?
-- To what extent do you think the CIA should be accountable to the
general public? Would it be useful to the Agency to make an effort to
improve its public image?
IV. What do you see as the principal obstacles, initerms of organiza-
tion, procedures, and institutions, to the CIA's internal efficiency and
performance? For example:
-- How do you reconcile the need for compartmentation, for
security reasons, with the principle of corss-fertilization?
-- How would you characterize the quality of communication, both
upward and downward,,1thin the CIA? How could it be improved?
Do.you believe that the Agency has become increasingly bureaucratized
over the Years? How do you make sure that individual employees and offices
do not settle into rigid patterns of behavior?
-- Does the CIA have a problem these days in recruiting and retaining
the kinds of employees it needs?
-- What steps is the CIA taking to provide equal opportunity
employment for women and minority groups? How many women and Blacks
have reached the grade, GS-15?
-- What is the CIA policy on selection-out? On making sure that
its best young officers get ahead rapidly?
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 in preparing for such a meeting, the Comrdssion believes it would be
especialli -PPIQi"ied Finn Reiss w 2@.Q2A&$M: f AARMO id t3#A094AddO --7in
advance and thus make the discussion more profitable. We hope that your
statement will touch upon the following questions, in addition to any other
matters which you regard as of major importance.
1. In your capacity as Director of Central Intelligence, how do
you define your responsibilities with regard to the
community? For instance:
To what extent do you now have
entire intelligence
the authority to d
the budget and manpower needs of the various agencies?
-- How do you go about reducing duplication and ensuring coopera-
tion between the community components?
-- What are the positive and negative aspects of having several
agencies competing in the collection and analysis of certain subjects,
such as military-strategic matters?
-- In your current reorganization of the process by which National
Intelligence Estimates are written and coordinated, how do you propose
.to ensure the continued objectivity of the anallsis? To deal with
institutional biases, dissents, and the drafting itself?
-- How is the Intelligence Community adjusting to the President's
directives on declassification and downgrading procedures? What problems
do you foresee in maintaining tight security and preventing unauthorized
leaks in the future?
II. With respect to the CIA, how do you see its mission
7 the 1970s? For. example,
changing in
In the aftermath of the Cold War, is the CIA changing its basic
priorities and targets? How is the CIA adapting to new demands for
intelligence on such subjects as economic matters, energy problems,
the environment, the narcotics business, etc.?
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within the US, do you see a continuing nee` for covert action
operations? If so, should they be handled in the same agency as
intelligence collection and-analysis? What criteria should be
established before the approval of covert action?_'
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--'What is the extent of the CIA's domestic activities and
operations? Do you see a need for new procedures or limits on
such activities? How would you categorize the CIA's current re-
lationship with the FBI?
-- Is the CIA keeping up with the latest technological innova-
tions, including the use of computers? 0~
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-- Row do the CIA's principal consumers levy requests on the
Agency? Is there sufficient communication back and forth with the
White House? Are. you confident. at .key 'olicy_._m_ k~e_rs and
the role thatexp sure to intelligence can play in policy formulation?
To what extent does the CIA have to sell its analytical products?
-- How does the CIA come up with collection f/ requirements for
Stations overseas? Canthis-process
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obliged to-.state what they need,
and field elements,-?are. persuaded
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activities will bb submitted to it for approval?
-- How often are you called upon to discuss organizational matters with'
the Armed Serviced and Appropriations' Committees in the House and Senate?
-- How.does the CIA keep the President's Foreign. Intelligence Advisory
Board informed of its activities, and how responsive is the CIA to recommenda-
tions of the Board?
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 -- What kinds of activities of CIA stations overseas are sub'ect
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to approval by the Ambassadors? Do some Ambassadors p,-efer to remain
ignorant of CIA initiatives?
-- To what extent do you think the CIA should be accountable to the
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general public? the--Agency t make an--effort to
improve its public image?
IV. What do you see as the principal obstacles, initerms of organiza-
tion, procedures, and institutions, to the CIA's internal efficiency and
performance? For example:
How do you reco cile the need or compartmentation, for security reasons, with the principle of corss-fertilization?
-- How would you characterize the quality of communication, both
upward and downward, 4thin the CIA? How could it be improved?
-- Do you believe that the Agency has become increasingly bureaucratized
over the years? How do you make sure that individual employees and offices
do not settle into rigid patterns of behavior?
-- Does the CIA have a problem these days in recruiting and retaining
the kinds of employees it needs?
-- What steps is the CIA taking to provide equal opportunity
employment for women and minority groups? How many women and Blacks
have reached the grade, GS-15?
-- What is the CIA policy on selection-out? On making sure that
its best young officers get ahead rapidly?
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