NEDZI SUBCOMMITTEE'S PROPOSAL TO PROHIBIT TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN THE AGENCY AND FORM CIA EMPLOYEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000800140022-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: November 12, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
office of the Legislative Counsel
SUBJECT . Nedzi Subcommittee`s Proposal to Prohibit
Transactions Between the Agency and
Former CIA Employees
1. A prohibition on contacts (of other than a routine
administrative nature) between the Agency and its former
employees would work a definite hardship on the newly
established National Intelligence Officer (NIO) mechanism.
We are planning in the NIO structure to make full use of
outside consultants from the academic and business
communities of the U.S., in order to make the intelligence
product as useful as possible to our principal consumers
in the white House. A number of former or retired CIA
employees are now part of the academic or business
community, and some of them -- precisely because of their
intelligence experience --- would make highly valuable
consultants.. The proposed prohibition on contacts would
make it impossible to tap the knowledge of such individuals
in ways which would be clearly beneficial to the U.S.
Government and which should not be constricted by statute.
2. The former Board of National Estimates of the
CIA did in fact utilize retired Agency employees as
consultants on several occasions. They Prov c.,.. to b
among the most valuable consultants of the Board, because
they combined experience in business or at a university
with insights into the intelligence community from their
former roles.
3. Two concrete examples (at dil"ferer.t levels)
illustrate the kind of problems that would be created by
an absolute ban on consulting relationships with former
Agency employees.
CRC, 3/13/2003
OGC HAS REVIEWED.
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an- experience could be of great
value to the newly created Deputy for National.
intelligence Officers, who has assumed (among
of ar thin_ j ) the res is sihU i of the Boa -d
and Office of National Estimates. That wisdom
and experience would be denied us by any arbitrary
prohibition. of all "transactions between former
CIA employees and the Agency above. and beyond.
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4. If legislation is- inevitable, a much better approach
to such contacts would be legislation which compelled the
Agency to establish tight administrative controls over
transactions between the Agency and former employees. We
now have such controls, and if the Congress wishes to put
them into a statute we should be able to work out statutory
language we can live with.) There might be Congressional
pressure to include in such legislation a requirement for
periodic reporting to the Congress on contacts with former
employees. A statutory regulation to this effect would
unquestionably pose difficulties, but, once again, it
would be vastly better than a flat prohibition on such
contacts.
Geor e A. Carver, Jr.
Deputy for National Intelligence Officers
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