MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES TO OBTAIN APPROVAL FOR CIA ASSISTANCE TO OTHER GOVERNMENT COMPONENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R003300040044-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: April 19, 1976
• Content Type: REGULATION

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MANAGEMENT HR[::] ANNEX E
PROCEDURES TO OBTAIN APPROVAL FOR CIA ASSISTANCE
C TO OTHER GOVERNMENT COMPONENTS
(1) Each responsible official will report to his Deputy Director or Head of In-
dependent Office for approval every request for initiation or continuation of
assistance to other government components excluding requests:
(a) Concerning activities explicitly authorized by NSCIDs, DCIDs, or by para-
graphs lc(7)(b) through (h) of this regulation;
(b) For permission for third agency dissemination;
(c) For preparation-or. passage of information, analyses of information, or
reports concerning foreign phenomena, including foreign personalities;
(d) For security clearances and related information under Executive Order
10450 or Executive Order 10865;
(e) For employment references.
(2) Reports relating to requests for initiation or continuation of support or co-
operation as noted above will cover administrative, financial or logistical
assistance, as well as operational and intelligence support. Such reports will
include a description of the activity, relevant dates, organization(s) involved,
rationale for activity, financial and manpower requirements and name of
Agency employee to consult for additional information. Every such request
which includes a prospective financial commitment by the Agency or which
will entitle the Agency to an advance or reimbursement must be referred
to the Director of Finance for consideration before final commitment is made.
A copy of every request (including requests approved by the Inspector General
under the provisions of subparagraph (3) below) relating to an activity which
will involve either the receipt or expenditure of funds will be provided to
the Director of Finance.
(3) Deputy Directors and Heads of Independent Offices, in assuring the propriety
of all undertakings covered by this regulation, will exercise approval authority
on requests with which they concur for any new or continuing relationship
compatible with relationships for which legality and propriety have been
previously established, except requests for activities, undertakings or agree-
ments that will involve policy ' or resource implications such as:
(a) Undertakings that would establish significant new policy or raise ques-
tions that suggest the desirability of establishing an Agency-wide policy;
(b) Agreements that contain provisions that must be cleared with, or re-
ported to, the Offics of Management and Budget;
(c) Activities that appear to be in conflict, or overlap with, other existing
agreements or understandings with high level officials of other U.S. Gov-
ernment agencies;
(d) Arrangements of such complexity, sensitivity, or importance that the
Director of Central Intelligence should be informed of them;
(e) Undertakings of such magnitude that reprogramming or reallocation of
funds will be required;
(f) Arrangements which while technically appropriate may appear to conflict
with the spirit of existing law or policy.
Deputy Director and Heads of Independent Offices will forward to the In-
spector General any report with which they concur involving-an undertaking
of a character for which no precedent of legality or propriety has been estab-
lished or which involves policy or resource implications such as those identi-
fied above. The Inspector General, after requesting and receiving the written
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opinion of the General Counsel, will recommend initiation, continuation,
termination or modification of the activity as he may deem appropriate.
Where there is disagreement by the Deputy Director, the Inspector General
or the General Counsel, the report will be forwarded to the Director for
resolution.