ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET EXEMPTION FROM PUBLIC AVAILABILITY ASPECTS OF FINANCIAL REPORTS REQUIRED BY THE ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT ACT OF 1978

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00156R000300020018-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: April 19, 1979
• Content Type: FORM

STAT Approved For Release 2004/01/29 : CIA-RDP83-00156R000300020018-4
Approved For Release 2004/01/29 : CIA-RDP83-00156R000300020018-4
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The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
I_ take this opportunity to bring to your attention and to ask for
your-support in solving a problem which I believe could leadwte the-most
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The problem has been created by the passage last year of the Ethics
in Government Act of 1978. As you know, that Act requires all senior
officials of the Government to file annually with their agency a detailed
personal financial report. The Act further provides that unless exempted
by your action copies of such reports, together with a copy of any offi-
cial position description related thereto, must be given to any person
on request anytime within six years from the date the report is filed.
While I understand and support the overall objective of the Act,
the portion requiring the public availability of such reports - and
descriptions can only lead to severe damage to our foreign intelligence
capabilities and perhaps even lead to the elimination of the Central
Intelligence Agency as a viable foreign operational arm of the Government.
My concerns stem basically from the impact public disclosure of such
reports would have in the areas of security, counterintelligence, cover,
and foreign relations. Beyond doubt, we will receive requests for these
reports as soon as they are filed. They will then be available for the
world to peruse including foreign embassies, international terrorist
groups and hostile intelligence services bent on rendering the Central
Intelligence Agency useless. Such reports and position descriptions
would with little effort allow anyone to create a blueprint of the
entire superstructure of the Agency. Such a blueprint in hostile hands
would inevitably lead to problems, the magnitude of which would eventually
destroy much of our foreign intelligence capabilities.
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