LETTER TO THE HONORABLE WARREN G. MAGNUSON, THE HONORABLE GEORGE H. MAHON FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R003200040013-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Content Type: LETTER

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The Honorable Warren G. Magnuson, Chairman
Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
1,-'The Honorable George H. Mahon, Chairman
Committee on Appropriations
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
In the process of acquiring critically needed leased space in the
Metropolitan Washington Area, an issue has been raised by the General
Services Administration (GSA), the resolution of which makes coordination
with your Committees appropriate.
During hearings on the Agency's FY 1977 budget requests, then
Director Bush explained to your Committees CIA's critical requirement
for additional office space in the Metropolitan Area. Much of this
requirement stems from the need to convert office space to machine
space for computer programs, such as SAFE, ADSTAR, and CA14S which have
been approved previously by your Committees. In fact, our needs are
more critical now than when first explained by Director Bush because-
of the incessant demands of the machine and the realignment of a
number of Agency functions dictated in part by the events of the past
two years. Due to an Executive moratorium imposed on acquisition
of space, this requirement has been carried over into each succeeding
fiscal year. GSA has recently acquiesced to repeated Agency requests
and has advised it is willing to proceed with the acquisition in
FY 1979, such acquisition, however, being subject to the prospectus
requirements established by the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as
amended. Thus, the question is raised whether this acquisition
should be specifically authorized by the Public Works Committees
in addition to being authorized as part of the National Foreign
Intelligence budget. My concern with the additional reviewing process
is that all evidence indicates that preparation of the prospectus
in coordination with GSA and the Office of Management and Budget,
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plus scheduling and completion of hearings, will delay occupancy of
the space until the 1981 time frame. This delay will of course have
a disastrous effect on implementation of the already approved computer
systems for intelligence targeting and dissemination.
It is my understanding that your Committees intend that the cited
funds for space acquisition included in the FY 1979 budget be available
for expenditure without need for further authorization. With your
concurrence, when such.funds become available, I intend to advise GSA
that the long-planned acquisition of approximately 85,000 square feet
of leased space may proceed without the necessity for further review
by the Public Works Committees.
Yours sincerely,
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