NOTE FOR TONY LAPHAM FROM BURT WIDES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001900060045-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: April 4, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 4, 1978
NOTE FOR TONY LAPHAM, CIA
Here are the Board's proposed guidelines
which I discussed with you, for reporting
intelligence abuses to Congress under
Section 3-4 of the new Executive Order. It
was suggested that the President would
probably prefer to prescribe them in a letter
to the principals, rather than a more formal
promulgation. Accordingly, they are in
that form.
Please let me know the Agency's views on
this, unless the Director wants to communicate
them directly to Tom Farmer.
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IOB DRAFT April 3, 1978
Procedures for Implementing Section 3-4 of E.O. 12036
To Admiral Turner (similar letters will be sent to SECDEF & Director, FBI)
As I stated in my July 27, 1977 letter to Senator Inouye, I consider
intelligence abuses to be of such import that I intend to deal personally
with such matters, including the obligation of the Executive Branch to
inform the appropriate Congressional committees. Therefore, I am
writing to you and the other heads of intelligence agencies, pursuant to
Section 3-4 of Executive Order 12036, to indicate the appropriate
procedures for reporting to Congressional committees ". . . information
relating to intelligence activities that are illegal or improper and
corrective actions that are taken or planned. "
The CIA should continue to report to the Intelligence Oversight Board .
activities which raise questions of legality or propriety. The IOB will
review the matter and, if it raises a serious question, report it to me
with its recommendations. If you feel that the gravity of a matter is
such that it should be reported directly to me, the information also
should be provided at the same time to the IOB so that it can begin its
review promptly.
After considering the reports of the CIA and the IOB and, on questions
of legality, the judgment of the Attorney General, I will review any
determinations that an activity is illegal or improper, the proposed
corrective action, and the manner and timing of reporting to the Congress.
You will then make the appropriate report on the matter to the Congressional
committees, except when I communicate the matter to them directly.
In the case of questions of legality or propriety which you believe are so
minor that they clearly do not need to be brought to my attention, you
should continue directly to inform Congressional committees, as well
as the IOB, in a timely manner. You may, of course, at any time suspend
an activity which raises a serious question of legality or impropriety,
until a final determination is made whether the activity should be modified
or discontinued and what other corrective action is required.
(for President Carter's signature)
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