SESSION WITH TOM LATIMER, HPSCI, ON DCI ANNUAL REPORT (28 SEPTEMBER) (U)

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SUBJECT: Session with Tom Latimer, HPSCI, on DCI Annual Report
(28 September) (U)
1. (U) We told Latimer that the guidance on the Annual Report in
Chairman Boland's 15 September 1978 letter to the.DCI had been very
helpful and that an interim reply to Boland plus a draft.concept of
this year's Annual Report were on their way to the DCI for his con-
sideration. Meanwhile we wanted to try the concept/outline out
on Latimer and his HPSCI colleagues for their reactions (understanding
that we did not yet know what the DCI's own reaction might be). Jim
Bush sat in on part of the session.
2. (U) With respect to the six special subjects in Boland's
15 September. letter on which the HPSCI is requesting coverage, Latimer
had no problem with our proposing to treat them either entirely
within the body of the report.or highlighted- therein and treated
fully in responses appended to the HPSCI's copy of the Annual Report,
dependin on len th complexity, etc. He questioned our reasoning
that #4, 25X1
was not really Annual Report subject matter, but it 25X1
developed that his real concern was whether the CIA component of
the intelligence community would finally agree to answer its part
of that question, not whether the DCI answers in an attachment to,the
Annual Report or separately.
3. (U) Discussion revealed that #6, all unauthorized disclosures
of classified information, is meant to include media leaks, and
is wanted as ammunition to try to get the Congress to help assist
in preventing security leak problems, not just for information/oversight
purposes.
4. (U) With respect to the draft outline for this year's Annual
Report,'the specific concerns and comments Latimer voiced were:
-- (U) That the HPSCI feels that the requirements problem under-
lies all of the issues nominated for Part II; the Committee continues
to be frustrated at the lack of a real way to car
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SUBJECT: Session with Tom Latimer, HPSCI, on DCI Annual Report
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requirement priorities (the object of the intelligence exercise, what's
most needed and why) with proposed resource allocation (ZBB decision
units). (Comment: he's right, of course, and while this year's
Annual Report won't be able to chart a program under way to design
that correlation effectively, we can have the problem firmly in mind
in the way we address the Issues in Part II and various headings in
Part I, such as the PRC(I) evolutiorr and concerns.)
-- (U) Have we given any. thought to an Unclassified version this
year of the Annual Report? We said yes; and while we hadn't decided,
we were concerned whether it would be possible to say enough meaningful
to be worthwhile. Latimer thought it would and ticked off a number
of Part I topics that he thought could be treated wholly or partly
in an Unclassified version. (Comment: Boland's letter leaves the
-matter of an Unclassified version to the DCI's judgment. We have
recommended against such to the DCI. One would no doubt be useful
to the Congress, but if it has to be done soineone'is going to have
to write a rather different and separate report using the Classified
one simply as a starting point.)
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Subject: Session with Torn Latimer, HPSCI, on DCI Annual Report
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5. (U) We left a working copy of the draft outline with Latimer for
any additional comments he or the staff might have and -left with the
impression that Latimer found our draft approach in the right ball park.
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