LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM PATRICIA SCHROEDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00263R000100240008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 8
• Content Type: LETTER

DDO" ' v%;
DDS&T
rx::
ChWNIC_;
Comet - .
D/EE0
D/Pers
D/OEA:'
C/PAD/OEA
Approved For Release 2007/06/05: CIA-R DP85B00263R000100240008-3
.,DATE INITIAL
 Approved For Release 2007/06/05: CIA-RDP85B00263R0001
Congrems of the Nntteb 6tateis
3ouise of 1 epreicentatibeg
fngton, .QC. 20515
April 14, 1983
William J. Casey
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
Executive Registry
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional
Rights and the Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on
Civil Service are planning to hold joint hearings on the
Presidential directive on safeguarding national security in-
formation. Our focus will be on the provisions relating to
the use of polygraphs and pre-publication review.
We are writing to invite you or your representative to appear
and testify at our hearing on Thursday, April 28, 1983 at 9:30
a.m. in room 2237 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
In order to assist members of the Subcommittee in preparing for
this hearing, we ask that 50 copies of your statement be filed
by noon, Monday, April 25, 1983. In addition, we also ask that
you provide us, at the earliest possible date, with copies of
Agency regulations on the pre-publication review process and
polygraph examinations. Other documents or information regard-
ing the use of these two processes including any Agency studies,
reports, or memoranda on the use, reliability, validity or
effectiveness of polygraph tests and/or the pre-publication
review process.
Your earliest acceptance of this invitation would be appreciated.
If you have any questions regarding our hearings, please feel free
to contact Ms. Helen Gonzales, Assistant Counsel to the Judiciary
Subcommittee at 226-7680 or Andrew Feinsteim, Chief Counsel of the
Civil Service Subcommittee at 225-4025
Don Edwards
Chairman
Subcommittee on Civil and
Constitutional Rights
cc: Burton Hutchings
Legislative Liaison
Patricia Schroeder
Chairwoman
Subcommittee on
Civil Service
DCI
EXEC
RE /
Approved For Release 2007/06/05: CIA-RDP85B00263R000100240008-3
 Approved For Release 2007/06/05: CIA-RDP85B00263R000100240008-3
Dear Mr. Chairman/Dear Madam Chairwoman:
Thank you for your letter of 14 April 1983 inviting CIA
participation on 28 April, at which time your Subcommittee
and the Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Civil
Service (reverse for other letter) will hear from
Administration witnesses concerning government-wide use of
polygraphs and pre-publication review.
Pre-publication review and polygraph examinations and the
Agency's use thereof have been thoroughly examined in the
recent past by our Oversight Committees, the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence (RPSCI) and the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). The Agency
testified before the full HPSCI on 6 March 1980 and before
its Oversight Subcommittee on 1 May 1980 on our
pre-publication review process. HPSCI's Oversight
Subcommittee received testimony on use of the polygraph on 16
and 24 May, 1979. (SSCI dates to be inserted.)
As I understand it, the focus of your and Chairwoman
Schroeder's (reverse for other letter) joint hearings will
not be CIA's use of these tools. Instead, it will be on
Approved For Release 2007/06/05: CIA-RDP85B00263R000100240008-3
 Approved For Release 2007/06/05: CIA-RDP85B00263R000100240008-3
their prospective use on a government-wide basis. I do not
think it appropriate for an Agency witness to presume to
address issues of government-wide policy implemented by
Presidential directive. Moreover, I am reluctant to have an
Agency witness review CIA use of these tools before other
than our Oversight Committees.
I do wish, however, to cooperate with your Subcommittee
to every extent possible. Therefore, in lieu of sending an
Agency witness to address these matters, we are enclosing a
statement and supporting documents, including Agency
regulations on the pre-publication review process and
polygraph examinations. These materials will meet the
request in your letter for materials which address the
questions of use, reliability, validity and effectiveness of
polygraph tests and the pre-publication review process and
they, of course, may be included in the record of the
hearing. I trust that you will find them useful. In
addition, we are prepared to brief you and Chairwoman
Schroeder (Chairman Edwards) and your Minority counterparts
in private prior to the session on 28 April. A
representative of the Agency's Office of External Affairs
will be in touch with Subcommittee staff to arrange such a
briefing should you deem it beneficial. A similar letter is
being sent to Chairman Don Edwards, Subcommittee on Civil and
Constitutional Rights/Chairwoman Patricia Schroeder,
Subcommittee on Civil Service.
Sincerely,
William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Approved For Release 2007/06/05: CIA-RDP85B00263R000100240008-3