LETTER TO HONORABLE STANSFIELD TURNER FROM EDWARD P. BOLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001400090084-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: November 9, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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Honorable. Stansfield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence - 4~3 r
Washington, D.C. 20505 . .
Dear Admiral Turner: :. d? ?~? ,~~r.- cr>~
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On Noyeber 3a. 1977, this Con a.ttee met to discus
the most appropriate procedures to assure a thorough legislative review of. covert action and sensitive intelli-
gence collection operations. The. Committee approved a set.
of guuideli nes and I am writing to inform you about them, .
- and to ask your cooperation in helping the Committeer
meet it-5 obligations in this area.
The fY r t Juida11 nn ap araved by the Committee has
to do. with the operations which it believes -ought to be.
reported to the Cowaiittee. The Committee wishes to know;
of course, about covert actions (as required by.the Hughes
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Ryan 2 me: d itent) ; but it also wants to be informed about ' '
sensitive intelligence collection operations. which are. or _
might be directed against American citizens, carry a high
risk of poi iti cal damage to the United States if exposed,
are. large or costly, have. a high' risk of exposure, or are
particularly- irportant in their objectives. The .Committee
would" like you, as Director of the intelligence community
to. require the appropriate officials to report to the
.Coztmtittee on sensitive intelligence collection operations _-
which have these characteristics, and to -respond to, these
general reporting criteria in an inclusive manngr. 7(In .-. -~
addition to the many items that would naturally fall ? -
within these criteria, the Committee wants to receive -
detailed summaries of all intelli ence a reements---written
and oral--reached with other nations, including agreements
falling both inside and outside the usual reporting to
Congress under the Case-zablocki 7 t.)
In a re-aged set of guidelines, the Committee-approved
a recommendation requiring the DCI to repotk-_ to inc and to
r e Co ' at tee Staff Director, Thomas R. Latimer, within
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24 hours that a Presidential finding on covert action has
-:-been made, or that a highly sensitive intelligence collection
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Also, to keep itself continually informed on sensitive
intelligence activities,' the Committee wishes to receive
quarterly briefings on the status of covert actions and
important collection operations. We would like the final
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reviews, the. Committee wishes to be informed about th
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termination of any covert action or sensitive collection''
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,...getting into the names-of agents and assets
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we would like you to brief us in full on CIA activities;
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COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
For your information--
in response to your
suggestion that we should
get into the act between
the program managers and
the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence
with regard furnishing
49 lists .o fo eign liaison
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