LETTER TO MR. THOMAS K. LATIMER (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R003000040004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 29, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

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Resource Management Staff
DCI/RM-78-4898
2 9 DEC ii s
Mr. Thomas K. Latimer, Staff Director -
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
The attached report is provided in response to the Committee's
request to the DCI, in its FY 1979 classified annex, for a report
on the Intelligence Community's experience under the Freedom of
Information Act.
It deals principally with the CIA where serious FOIA problems
exist. The CIA report reinforces the concerns expressed in
Admiral Turner's 13 March letter to Mr. Burlison, following his
appearance before the Subcommittee on Program and Budget Authoriza-
tion at the budget hearing of 7 March, and in other correspondence
with the Congress on this subject from the DCI and senior officials
of the CIA.
The current situation with respect to FOIA administration is of
concern because of the constraints on resources and manpower which
increasingly limit the Community's and the DCI's ability to respond
adequately to priority foreign intelligence tasks.
The DCI's FY 1980-National Foreign Intelligence Program submitted
to the President contained legislative and other recommendations for
alleviating the FOIA problem, and the subject is expected-to-be
addressed in the final budget provided to the Congress in January.
Ac-
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