CIA 'PENETRATION' OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND OTHER AGENCIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00261R000100050031-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: October 28, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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DCI/IC-75-3928
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT CIA "Penetration" of the White House
and Other Agencies
1. Problem
To respond to allegations that the detailing of
CIA personnel to other elements of the Federal Government is
an attempt to "penetrate" these organizations for improper
purposes.
2. Position of the Congressional Select Committees
To date, interest in this matter has been entirely
within the House Select Committee and developed primarily from
the concept of the HSC Staff Director that CIA willingness to
detail personnel to other organizations had. to have some kind
of an improper purpose. A considerable number of interviews
have been conducted with detailees by HSC staff personnel, and
it is understood that the open hearing which the HSC has scheduled
for 6 November on "personnel" will be devoted at least in part
to CIA detailees to the White House offices.
The Senate Select Committee has thus far evidenced no
intent to involve itself with the question of detailees.
3. Discussion
a. The issues raised to date have been whether the
CIA details personnel to other organizations "to penetrate
and collect information about them," and whether such
detailing of personnel is to enable the organizations to
which they are loaned to avoid imposed manpower ceilings.
b. The fact that CIA personnel are not detailed to
any other organization without the knowledge of appropriate
officials within that organization--and that a considerable
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number of these detailees are on a reimbursable to
basis--is a partial counter to the charge of "pe
Additional counters are the statements of the detailees
to por interviewers toy thwere not eir parent CIA office.
back"
"report
c. Whether the receiving organization seeks and
'accepts CIA detailees in order to avoid manpower ceilings
is not a matter on which the CIA is competent to judge.
As is indicated in the CIA Office of Personnel briefing
paper on detailees (at Tab A), there are a wide variety
of reasons for such detailing. In some instances the
sses requisite
fact that the CIA person already posse
secur3.ty.clearances is the basis for the detail., In other.
cases, ,the CI AA 'reeOgni es.? that' the background and -training
which the detailee will acquire will prove of value after
the detailee returns to the Agency--as in the case of
detailees to the National Security Council Staff, the
National War College faculty,
the -104 CIA per sgnhe1. present].y on'.detail to.
~. ni t; i-mil trf~nee
1' cletai ? 1 eesj fCIA are almost
e.... The - profebsa"ona
without exception in assignments for which their intell~_gence
experience and background gives them a specific qualification.
Most of the CIA professionals on detailed service are engaged
ams for which .anothcr el.emept
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in national .~nt.ell _~ger~cc pr
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liar frnm a Ong-Way Stref:t ,
other organizations to the U LP ariu liiiC ~. "
Community Staff in CIA Headquarters than there are CIA de,ta`il_ees
working in other organizations. The comparison is as follows:
. ,l,ne. m.auuui? ul u~u3 ?- ._
~, _ .. ;,,;,., !Aai,,1,hI v more detailees. "from,-
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No.. of Detallees No. of Detailees
to CIA from CIA
National Security Council.
PFIAB
Dept. of State
Dept. of Defense
OSD
JCS Joint Staff.'
Dept. of Army
Dept. of Navy
Dept. of Air Force
DIA
NSA
ARPA
Nat. Wa.r College
USIDYGMAIC,- .Cat? - Pentagon
Dept. of Treasury
CIA. details personr)el_ to. other agencies, and other organ_i,za--
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recommended that the DCI task the DDA to
.:prepare .,a. j ustifl.cat:i..on 'for 7the present system :urider ' r iich
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personnel.. 'J.'nC JUS1;:1 I1C LnLon cI:UU_LU ,' I_i1l C1.luc ix ~Ikj L, u.: ii
off" any ci-It-ICal. the IT C might Otherwise
b. This ju ;t.. f _t.cation, class.i.fii.e.c?_ as appropriate,
should be submitted fob the record to ,,he House Select
-Committee a1 ,the .open.. 1
"to the
'h igat1 oi_ ..
Trl r tie"'event the'. fISC l:> -untie 1 l;_n ; 'to al_.low t bLIn
of the CIA ,t:~.,E:.m nt ., -, the: DCI
il,oU.Ld h i. , _` r a ~??.r 1%Y)Cl tie 'tcal:fernent foi- public.
releas 'r,ould. be'r,; igned 'to
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