MEMORANDUM FOR DEPUTY TO THE DCI FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

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18 July 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy to the DCI for Resource Management
FROM . Director of Central Intelligence
With reference to your letter of 5 July to Randy Jayne, I
would like to make sure that we are clear on the President's
position on classification of the National Foreign Intelligence
budget. The President has not interposed an objection to declassi-
fication of the budget but has stated the responsibility for doing
that must rest with the Congress. The point behind this is that
the President has also taken a position that if the budget is
unclassified, it must be a single figure only. Unless the Congress
were willing to disclose only a single figure and discipline itself
to that degree, the President would oppose a declassification.
Hence, it's up to the Congress to make the decision as to whether to
declassify a single figure.
STANSFIELD TURNER
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1n:eligence Community Staff OCi/IC 78-3877
(?,r. Edward R. Jayne, III
Associate Director for National Security
and International Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
Washington, D.C.- 20503
Dear Randy:
In recent letters to Chairmen Mahon, Giaimo, Magnuson and Muskie,
ONB provided additional mission-oriented R&D data with respect to the
FY 1979 Budget Authority Estimate- These data apparently were provided
by 0MB as supplementary efforts to meet requirements of Section 601
of
in your data submissions. STAT
Over the past few months, the Congress has actively considered the
question of keeping the intelligence budget classified. As you recall,
the President's guidance to Admiral Turner was that efforts to declassify
national intelligence budget data by the Congress would probably continue
and that we in the Executive Branch should hold the line on maintaining
a classified budget. Initiatives to declassify should come from the
Congress, not from us.
While I applaud your effort to provide better budget aggregates to
Congress for use in considering the Administratior.'s budget, I am con-
cerned that we exercise the proper degree of caution in protecting budgetary
information which should remain classified. I stand ready to assist you
and your staff in assigning the appropriate classification to intelligence
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data contained in future correspondence with the Congress.
that the DCI is in favor of using the lowest level of classification
consistent with the President's guidance and with protection of sources
and methods of intelligence activities.
Yours sincerely,
STAT
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