FORWARDING OF COVERT ACTION INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT TO SSCI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002700110047-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2006
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: June 19, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Chief, Covert Action Staff
International Activities Division
SUBJECT: Forwarding of Covert Action Infrastructure
Report to SSCI
1. Action Requested. That you forward the attached
report on the covert action infrastructure to the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
2. Background. For the better part of a year the
SSCI has been dunning CIA for a comprehensive report on
the covert action infrastructure. We felt it appropriate
to defer providing this report until the Special Coordi-
nation Committee (SCC) had the opportunity to review the
infrastructure, and so advised the SSCI and its staffers,
formally and informally, on several occasions. The SCC
conducted its annual review of covert action activities
on 16 May 1978 and recommended that the President sign the
New Consolidated Finding. By so doing, the SCC put its
stamp of approval on the current funding and tasking of
the infrastructure, and it then became appropriate to
forward the report.
The requirements for the report which the SSCI
had sent us in past correspondence were unclear and appeared
somewhat excessive. For this reason, Chief, Covert Action
Staff met with Bill Miller and other SSCI staffers on
6 June and worked out an informal agreement as to what
issues should be considered, and facts provided, in the
report. The attached paper cnnfnrm-,, to this greement.
The passages on propriety o risk and
consequences of exposures, ee mmand and
control" are direct responses to SSCI Staff requests.
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You will note that the factual passages on the infrastructure
are not very detailed: Miller accepted. the "sources and
methods" argument in this regard. On the other hand, he
has requested in future that the SSCI receive a detailed
oral, executive session briefing on what he referred to
as a "slice" of the infrastructure, which would serve to
demonstrate how the entire propaganda network operated.
We presume he will be satisfied with an in depth view of
perhaps two stations, each with a variety of infrastructure
assets.
We are attaching to the report a copy of the un-
classified study on Soviet propaganda prepared for the
HPSCI.
3. Recommendation. It is recommended that you sign
the attached letter to Senator Bayh forwarding the infra-
structure report.
Attachments,
c tor tor Operations
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence l-
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