LETTER TO B. R. INMAN FROM EDWARD P. BOLAND

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• Publication Date: April 6, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE
ON INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
THOMAS K. LATIMER. STAFP.OIRECTOR
MICHAZ J. O'NEIL. CHIEF COUNSEL
PATR;CIC G. LONG. ASSOCIATE COUNSEL
April 6, 1982
Admiral B. R. Inman
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Admiral Inman:
Thank you for your recent letter concerning questions that have been asked
in the course of the Subcommittee on Program and Budget Authorization's
consideration of the FY 83 NFTP budget request.
I believe some misunderstanding may have arisen about this matter. Either
Mr. Robinson or I asked nearly every NFIP and TIARA program manager who
appeared before the Subcommittee this year the question to which you allude.
Every program manager who was asked responded to the question. I appreciate
your bringing this issue to my attention because I had been unaware that one
of those responses may not have been complete.
I appreciate your candor because I disagree that the information which the
-Subcommittee sought was of little value. In matters involving the public
purse, Presidential priorities are of the utmost importance. So, too, are
those which may have been developed in other fora. The Subcommittee's
responsibility - which I believe it has exercised fairly and thoroughly - is
to evaluate all such preferences and to make its own judgment of what is in
the nation's interest. I believe, in other words, that the Subcommittee is
capable of weighing the relevance of the subject matter in question.
Your.letter seems to distinguish between the Committee's staff and the
Committee. I receive the impression that you believe that the staff sometimes
.acts for a purpose of its own, not for that of the Committee. That is not the
case. Since the inception of the Committee, I have paid great attention to
the selection- of the staff of the Committee. I believe them to be perhaps the
finest in the Congress. Further, they act under close direction and are all
responsible to me. In matters such as the one you raise in your letter, they.
were not involved, but had they been, this would have been a request that came
from the Committee, not from some separate element, "the staff."
With every good.wish, I am
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