NFIP OVERVIEW FOR SENATE APPROPRIATIONS LIKELY AREAS OF QUESTIONING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R000700020001-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 26, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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26 April 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Director, Intelligence Community Staff
FROM:
Legislative Coordination Staff, ICS
SUBJECT: NFIP Overview for Senate Appropriations
Likely Areas of Questioning
1. The staff of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee is
working on a list of questions for Senators to raise at the NFIP Ovpr%riow
hearing on Thursday, 29 April 1982 (0900 Hrs, S-407). This morning
of Legislative Liaison Division and the undersigned met with Fred Rhodes and
Susan Shekmar of SAC to go over the hearing preparations and to elicit
indications of questions likely to be asked. The following are areas in which
staff showed particular interest:
e. a proposed classification of the Staff budget; and,
f. The organization of CBJBs in Targets/Topics format.
2. Another issue of importance to Subcommittee Chairman Ted Stevens is
the classification of intelligence information on the Soviet threat. You will
recall that in February of this year, after hearing a DIA threat briefing,
Senator Stevens stated publicly that he believed more intelligence information
should be declassified so that the American people would recognize the Soviet
threat and thus be more supportive of increased defense budgets, and he
proposed to hold open hearings on this issue. Working with staff, were able
to convince him that open hearings are not an appropriate forum for discussion
of classified information, but he reserved the topic for the NFIP Overview
session and can be expected to raise it on Thursday.
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3. The SAC staffers were most interested in the appointment of
Mr. McMahon to be DDCI, and urged several times that he be invited to the
hearing and there introduced to Senator Stevens and the Subcommittee
members. They pointed out that Senator Stevens has a strong idiosyncratic
dislike of the "courtesy call", and that Thursday's hearing would be an ideal
time to effect a "working introduction" which could, of course, be followed by
later calls on the more traditional Senators.
cc: ExDir/CIA
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SUBJECT: NFIP Overview for Senate Appropriations
Likely Areas of Questioning
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14 - D/NIEPS
15 - OCC/LCS Files
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