INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS FOR FRESHMEN SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2008
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: February 8, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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8 February 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Director, Office of External Affairs
SUBJECT: Intelligence Briefings for Freshmen Senators and
Congressmen
1. With your approval, I will proceed to invite the five new Senators
and the 81 Freshmen Members of Congress to the Agency for briefings on the
Agency and on topical intelligence issues. I propose to invite the
81 Congressmen in groups of 15-20 for an hour and a half informal sessions
starting at 9:30 a.m. in the DCI Conference Room during February and March.
Your schedule permits sessions on the 23rd and 25th of February and
2 and 10 March. I propose to start with a breakfast briefing for the
five new Senators on 17 February. As Speaker O'Neill has suggested, we
will bus the Congressmen to Headquarters and back to the Capitol.
2. I believe the most profitable briefing would involve a general
Community overview by either you or the DDCI, a brief Agency overview
by the Executive Director, and briefings covering analysis, clandestine
collection and covert action, and programs 25X1
by the DDI, the DDO, and the DDS&T, respectively.
3. Proposed agenda are attached for the briefings and the breakfast
as are draft invitations. Please indicate your approval below and we will
move quickly to make the necessary arrangements.
STAT
7s7/ William J. Casey 10 FEB 1983
Director of Central Intelligence Date
DISAPPROVED:
Director of Central Intelligence Date
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AGENDA
Breakfast Session with Freshmen Senators
Thursday, 17 February 1983
0800 Hours
DCI Dining Room
0300 Intelligence Overview - DCI
0815 CIA Overview - EXDIR
0830 Clandestine Collection and Covert Action - DDO
0850 Science and Technology - DDS&T
0910 Intelligence Analysis - DDI
0930 Depart Headquarters
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Freshmen Congressmen Visit to Headquarters
23 & 25 February and 2 & 10 March
0930-1100 Hours
DCI Conference Room
0930 Intelligence Overview - DCI -
0945 CIA Overview - EXDIR
1000 Clandestine Collection and Covert Action - DDO
1020 Science and Technology - DDS&T
1040 Intelligence Analysis - DDI
1100 Depart Headquarters
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Proposed Invitation
(to the five new
Senators)
.Dear Senator
I am looking forward to working with you as a new Member of the
Senate in the coming.year on.matters of intelligence and national
security.
Although the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is charged
with oversight of the Intelligence Community, including the Central
Intelligence Agency, I would like personally to provide you with a
better understanding of the Agency and the work that it does. I
invite you, along with the other newly elected Senators, to join
me for a breakfast briefing at 0800 hours on Thursday, 17 February
at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. My Deputy Director and other
senior Agency officials will participate in this informal session.
will be pleased to receive your
response and to provide additional details on parking and other
arrangements. I look forward to seeing you on 17 February.
Sincerely,
William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
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Proposed Invitation
to the 81 Freshmen
Congressmen)
Dear Mr.
I look forward to working with you as a new Member of Congress
during the coming year on matters of intelligence and national security.
Although the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is charged
with oversight of the Intelligence Community, including the Central
Intelligence Agency, I would like personally to provide you an understanding
of the Central Intelligence Agency and the work it does at an informal
session here at Agency Headquarters in Langley, Virginia at 9:30 a.m. for
about an hour and a half on We wish to keep the
groups small enough for candid, informal exchanges on what we consider
some of the critical issues facing the U.S. Government. today. I look
forward to participating in such sessions as do my Deputy Director and
other senior Agency officials who will join me for the discussions.
Speaker O'Neill has suggested that bus transportation would be a
convenient arrangement for getting the group to the Agency and back to
the Capitol. The bus would be at the House entrance to the Capitol at
9:00 a.m. and will be marked Langley.
will be pleased to receive your
response and to provide additional details on transportation and other
arrangements. I look forward to seeing you on
Sincerely,
William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
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FRESHMEN MEMBERS OF THE U.S. SENATE
98TH CONGRESS -- 1983 - 1984
Jeff BINGAMAN (D., NM)
Chic HECHT (R., NV)
Frank R. LAUTENBERG (D., NJ)
Paul S. TRIBLE, Jr. (R., VA)
Pete WILSON (R., CA)
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FRESHMEN MEMBERS OF THE
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
98TH CONGRESS -- 1983-1984
Michael A. ANDREWS (D., TX)
Steve BARTLETT (R., TX)
Herbert H. BATEMAN (R., VA)
Jimmy Duane BATES (D., CA)
Howard L. BERMAN (D., CA)
Michael BILIRAKIS (R., FL)
Sherwood L. BOEHLERT (R., NY)
Robert A. BORSKI, Jr. (D., PA)
Douglas H. BOSCO (D., CA)
Frederick C. BOUCHER (Rick) (D., VA)
Barbara BOXER (D., CA)
Charles Robin BRITT (D., NC)
John BRYANT (0., TX)
Danny L. BURTON (R., IN)
Thomas R. CARPER (D., DE, At Lge.)
M. Robert CARR (D., MI)
Rodney CHANDLER (R., WA)
James McClure CLARKE (D., NC)
Ronald COLEMAN (D., TX)
James H. COOPER (D., TN)
Michael DeWINE (R., OH)
Richard J. DURBIN (D., IL)
Ben ERDREICH (D. AL)
Lane EVANS (D., IL)
Edward F. FEIGHAN (D., OH)
William Webster FRANKLIN (R., MS)
George W. GEKAS (R., PA)
Katie HALL (P., IN)
Frank G. HARRISON (D., PA)
Nancy L. JOHNSON (R., CT)
Marcy KAPTUR (D., OH)
John R. KASICH (R., OH)
Joseph P. KOLTER (D., PA)
Peter H. KOSTMAYER (D., PA)
Richard LEHMAN (D., CA)
Sander LEVIN (D., MI)
Meldon E. LEVINE (D., CA)
Tom F. LEWIS (R., FL)
William 0. LIPINSKI (D., IL)
Kenneth H. MacKAY (Buddy) (D., FL)
John McCAIN (R., AZ)
Alfred A. McCANDLESS (R., CA)
Francis X. McCLOSKEY (D., IN)
John R. McKERNAN, Jr. (R., ME)
James F. McNULTY, Jr. (D., AZ)
Connie M..MACK, III (R., FL)
Alan B. MOLLOHAN (D., WV)
James P. MOODY (D., WI)
Bruce A. MORRISON (D., CT)
Robert J. MRAZEK (D., NY)
Howard C. NIELSON (R., UT)
James R. OLIN (Jim) (D., VA)
Solomon P. ORTIZ (D.,.TX)
Major R. OWENS (D., NY)
Ronald C. PACKARD (R., CA)
Timothy J. PENNY (Tim) (D., MN)
Richard RAY (D., GA).
Harry REID (D., NV)
William B. RICHARDSON (D., NM)
Thomas J. RIDGE (R., PA)
J. Roy ROWLAND (D.,. GA)
Gerry SIKORSKI (D., MN)
Norman SISISKY (D., VA)'
James C. SLATTERY (D., KS)
Lawrence J. SMITH (D., FL)
Robert F. SMITH (Bob) (R., OR)
John SPRATT (D., SC)
Harley 0. STAGGERS, Jr. (D., WV)
Donald K. SUNDQUIST (R., TN)
John L. SWIGERT, Jr. (R., CO)
Robin M. TALLON, Jr. (D., SC)
Lindsay THOMAS (D., GA)
Esteban Ed TORRES (D., CA)
Robert G. TORRICELLI (D., NJ)
Edolphus TOWNS (D., NY)
I.T. (Tim) VALENTINE, Jr. (D., NC)
Tom J. VANDERGRIFF (D., TX)
Barbara VUCANOVICH (R., NV)
Alan WHEAT (D., MO)
Robert E. WISE, Jr. (D.,WV)
Edwin V. W. ZSCHAU (R., CA)
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