INDEPENDENT LEGISLATIVE LIAISON FUNCTION FOR THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY STAFF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000700120012-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 27, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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27 July 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Mr. John Koehler
SUBJECT: Independent Legislative Liaison -Function
for the Intelligence Community Staff
1. As you are aware, at page 391 of the unclassified draft
House Appropriations Committee report on intelligence, the Committee
praises the decision of the Intelligence Community Staff to create
"an independent legislative liaison function" in its revised structure.
In an effort to determine just how "independent" this function was
designed to be by the framers of the report, I called Chuck Snodgrass
today. He provided the following guidance:
a. The Defense Subcomrrmittee of House
Appropriations, which handles our intelligence
budget has long wanted a legislative liaison contact
with total loyalty to the IC Staff to which the
Committee staff could speak in confidence about
IC Staff program and budget recommendations
without the clear knowledge that such confidences
would be reported back to one of the Community
entities, i. e., CIA. It had never been able to work
out such an arrangement with previous CIA
Legislative Counsels. As a consequence, the
Committee staff had discontinued speaking in a
systematic way to CIA/OLC.
b. Current report language according to
Snodgrass reflects a strongly held view by the
Committee that legislative liaison for the IC Staff
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