LETTER TO WILLIAM FRENCH SMITH FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R002304490010-2
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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 11, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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, William J. Casey
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William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Honorable William French Smith
Attorney General
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530
I 1 Rov 1983
Dear Bill:
I have been concerned about the problem of unauthorized
disclosures of sensitive intelligence information for some
time and I know that you share my concerns. I very much
appreciate the assistance you have provided in tackling this
problem, particularly your promulgation of the Willard report
and your support of NSDD-84. I think that it is now time for
us to focus on additional areas where productive efforts
might be undertaken. I would note, for example, the problems
which have been raised by General Faurer in his letter to me,
which I am enclosing. I am persuaded that a "brainstorming
session involving senior Department of Justice officials and
senior Intelligence Community attorneys would be most
helpful. If you identify for me a senior official in your
Department who would coordinate such a session, I will have
my General Counsel, Stan Sporkin, get in touch with that
individual to help plan the session's agenda.
One additional subject which I believe should be
discussed at this session is how to protect intelligence
information when that information is relevant to narcotics or
export control cases.
If this session is structured as a one-day conference/
seminar that includes senior Justice, FBI officials as well
as senior Intelligence Community legal personnel, I believe
it would be extremely productive. It would help to focus
thinking and perhaps might lead to a resolution of issues
which have been troubling us for some time.
Sincerely,
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