PROPOSED REPLACEMENT FOR EXECUTIVE ORDER 11905

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00988R000400110064-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: January 1, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Intelligence DD/~ Re~,istry
Deputy Director for Science & Technology 7
Acting Deputy Director for Administration
Deputy to the DCI for National Intelligence Officers
Inspector General
Comptroller
Legislative Counsel
General Counsel
FROM John F. Blake
Acting Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : Proposed Replacement for Executive Order 11905
1. Attached for your. review and comment is a DOD-CIA draft of an
executive order which is a proposed replacement for Executive Order
11905. Neither the Director of Central Intelligence, nor the Secretary
of Defense has yet officially approved the specific language or direction
of this draft and comments are only now being solicited from other entities
in the Intelligence Community, the Department of Justice, and appropriate
congressional staffs. The differences between this draft and the existing
executive order may be reduced roughly to five categories:
a. Format chang s have been suggested where deemea
desirable. The principal change of this nature is the incorporation
of the definitions presently included in Section 5 into the general
Definitions of Section 2 in order to avoid the existence of two defini-
tions sections in the order. Also the subsections of Section 5 have
been arranged in a more logical order.
b. The proposed order includes provisions deemed necessary
or appropriate to implement Presidential Dire ctive/NSC-].7 of 4 August
1977, which granted extended budgetary, requirements and tasking
authorities tothe DCI. These provisions are concentrated in Section
3 of the draft order which describes DCI authorities, the functions of
the Policy Review Committee and the Special Coordination Committee,
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and establish-the National Intelligence Task-it .;enter and the National
Foreign Intelligence Board as important entities in support of the DCI
responsibilities. Other more minor amendments have been made in
Sections 1 and 4 to conform to and acknowledge the expanded role of
the DCI.
c. The functions of the Special Coordination Committee are
described in Section 3(c). ese functions have been enlarged to
incorporate, in Section 3(c) (3), a role regarding foreign counter-
intelligence policy and coordination envisioned for that committee
by the recommendations of the PRM/NSC-11, Section 3 report.
d. Additional amendments to various sections may be traced
to recommendations that were made last spring by the PRM/NSC-11
(part I) working group and that were approved by the Special
Coordination Committee in May. These chances account for, among
other things, the inclusion of a definition of "International Terrorist
Activitiesthe inclusion of the rug Enforcement Administration
the e InteIligence Community in Section 2, and, with the exception of
one recently added point, the revision of the provisions of Section 5(d) ,
formerly Section 5(e), regarding Assistance to Law. Enforcement
Authorities. Other changes resulting from the PRM/NSC-11, part I,
exercise have themselves been revised in this draft. For instance,
the definition of "Foreign Counterintelligence" in Section 2 approved
by the Special Coordination Committec has been altered to omit any
reference to "activities" as well as information "relating to," etc
A further example is the retention of Section 7, the elimination of which
had been approved previously.
e. The final category of modification includes those changes
which the drafters of this proposed order believed, for one reason or
another, would increase he clarity and conciseness of the order
or would render the provisions of the order more compatible with
the needs and desires of the Intelligence Community organizations.
Included in this category, for example, is the deletion of the broad
definition of "collection" from Section 5, and the modification of
Section 4(b) (8), formerly Section 4(c) (5), concerning the reporting
of crimes.
2. The altered provisions of this draft have been underlined in order
that they may be more easily identified. Also attached is a copy of the existing
executive order with interlineations which indicate how the current order has
been altered.
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3. A meeting is scheduled for 3: 30 p.m. on Thursday, 18 August 1977,
at the Community Headquarters Building on F Street, to discuss the initial
reactions of the organizations of the Intelligence Community. Your responses
and comments would be appreciated at the 9: 00 a.m. staff meeting tomorrow
morning in order that the CIA position may be expressed, at least in prelim-
inary fashion. It is recognized, however, that a full analysis of the impact
of this revised order may require additional time and it is requested that iour
comments be forwarded as soon as possible in any event.
John F. Blake
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